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At least one Republican senator is dismayed to see President Donald Trump begin construction on his controversial new White House ballroom: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC).

Speaking to HuffPost's Igor Bobic, Tillis said that the "timing is bad" for Trump to do something so lavish.

President Donald Trump vowed to "do something nice" if the Department of Justice agreed to demands that he be paid for purported violations of his rights during investigations into Russian election interference and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

After The New York Times reported that Trump was demanding that his Justice Department pay him $230 million in a settlement, the president was asked about the claim at the White House on Tuesday.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann slammed President Donald Trump for the proposal that the Justice Department give him $230 million to make up for the investigations into the 2016 Russia matter, the classified documents case, and the investigation into Trump's role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday after the story broke from the New York Times, Weissmann said, "essentially the president of the United States is now the extortionist in chief. We saw it with ABC. We saw it with CBS. We saw it with the law firms. And now, he might as well just go ahead and rob Fort Knox and take the gold out."

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted President Donald Trump's most recent AI-generated meme that depicts him flying a fighter jet and defecating on people participating in the "No Kings" protest last weekend.

Trump posted the meme on Truth Social ahead of the protest, which about 7 million Americans attended, according to estimates. In the meme, Trump was depicted wearing a crown, and the jet he flew was named "King Trump."

President Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department give him $230 million to cover his legal fees for the investigations into him over the Russia probe, for stealing classified documents, and for the Jan. 6 attack and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

While the Times cited experts who say there's no ambiguity when it comes to the ethics of the matter, others fear the U.S. Supreme Court's decision giving Trump complete control over his branch of government could give him a pass here, too.

As President Donald Trump's nominee for the Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, looks headed for failure, his mother has jumped into the trenches to help him by storming the offices of Democratic lawmakers and demanding a meeting with them.

According to The Daily Beast, "Donna Gallo Ingrassia, a New York-based real estate agent, attempted to intervene on her 30-year-old son’s behalf by personally visiting the offices of Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, the top Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight Committees."

President Donald Trump has failed to deliver on one of his splashiest campaign promises, according to a new analysis.

The president promised to make in vitro fertilization free for all Americans – "because we want more babies, to put it nicely," he said – and issued an impotent executive order pledging action on the issue. But the plan he finally rolled out is "a bit of a dud," wrote Slate columnist Jill Filipovic.

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Donald Trump will not attend a meeting in Hungary with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Speaking about the report on MSNBC, international affairs reporter Elise Labott is hopeful that this will influence Trump's decision about sending more weapons to Ukraine. It hasn't in the past, however.

Eleven House Republicans signed onto a letter Tuesday calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to make a deal on the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, saying that their districts will suffer without them.

Reporting on the letter, MSNBC's Kevin Fry explained, "Quite frankly, they seem to see the writing on the wall, which Democrats are really hitting Republicans on for quite some time, that if these premiums start to skyrocket, which is what we're expecting them to do in the next couple of weeks, people get those notices in the mail."

Far-right podcasters are being handed an opportunity to gain whatever credibility a Golden Globe award carries with it via a five-figure package designed to go straight to the selected voters, comprised of journalists representing over 76 nations.

According to a report from Oliver Darcy’s "Status," Penske Media Corporation founder Jay Penske has given the go-ahead for “Best Podcast” award at the next Globe ceremony, with his company announcing 25 podcasts eligible to be considered.