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“This is dangerous. What are you doing?” was one of the responses to Donald Trump after he agreed to nominate former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to be his Department of Homeland Security director.

That is according to excerpts from a new book by journalist Jonathan Karl titled, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America,” and published by The Guardian.

House Republicans’ faith in House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) winning the battle for public opinion in the government shutdown is looking more and more misplaced, reported the Washington Post.

According to a Thursday report, Johnson sent his caucus home after sending their budget bill to the GOP-majority Senate in the belief the Senate Democrats would fold under pressure from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) – but that has turned into a big bust.

Real America's Voice host Emily Finn said she did not believe the White House "looks destroyed" after President Donald Trump demolished the building's East Wing to make room for his $250 million gilded ballroom project.

"President Trump is having some renovations done at the White House," the pro-MAGA host told reporter Brian Glenn on Thursday. "Many on the left claim it's unprecedented. Earlier this week, even Hillary Clinton posted on X, saying it's not his house, it's your house, and he's destroying it."

A Republican congressman was fact-checked for suggesting that former President Barack Obama had demolished parts of the White House to build a basketball court.

President Donald Trump has provoked outrage by ordering the demolition of the East Wing to build a $250 million gilded ballroom that would dwarf the main White House, and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) raced to his defense to suggest that other presidents had carried out similar destruction of the historic building.

Should the conservative majority Supreme Court hand Donald Trump the freedom to deploy the National Guard whenever and wherever he chooses, the president’s “power grab’ will be complete and nothing will ever stop him again.

That is according to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who wrote on her Substack platform, that two cases coming before the court are part of his “drive to make the executive more powerful and to have that power come at the expense of the courts, Congress, and the people.”

Reacting to a NBC News report that the rush to put more masked ICE agents on the streets is resulting in a flood of applicants who have violent histories and possible criminal backgrounds, the panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” warned chaos on U.S. cities is about to take a turn for the worse.

As co-host Mike Brzezinski reported, “ICE officials later discovered that some recruits had criminal backgrounds, failed drug tests, or did not meet physical or academic standards. What's more, some recruits had not submitted fingerprints for background checks, which is a violation of ICE hiring policy. In fact, one recruit had prior charges for strong-armed robbery and battery related to domestic violence.”