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'He just couldn't utter the words!' Trump rages at Republican legend for not praising him

President Donald Trump fired off at former White House official and GOP lobbyist Karl Rove Wednesday after Rove, appearing on Fox News, stopped short of attributing the country's “tremendous success” to the president.

Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump labeled Rove a “RINO,” or ‘Republican in name only,’ and raged at the former senior advisor to the Bush administration for being “unable” to “utter” his name.

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Karl Rove warns of ‘major crimp’ ahead for Trump’s second term

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove forecasted a tough road for Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections – and a potential “major crimp” in the final two years of President Donald Trump’s second term.

The prediction came Wednesday in a Wall Street Journal editorial, where Rove, a onetime senior advisor to former President George W. Bush, wrote that “Democrats are likelier than not to take the House majority,” citing historical trends and the current slim GOP House majority.

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'Rue the day': Karl Rove says Trump paving way for Dems to pursue their own 'retribution'

Legendary Republican strategist Karl Rove says America is “already exhausted” of President Donald Trump only 100 days into his second term.

Rove, one of the architects of the $3 trillion Iraq War, observed in a recent Wall Street Journal essay that Trump won last year on a stated goal of lowering prices and improving the economy, but what he’s delivered is trade war, international and domestic market instability, along with a litany of unrequested objectives. Some of these unwanted ideas “concocted on the fly” include the “Department of Government Efficiency and removing fluoride from drinking water.”

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Karl Rove sends Trump a warning: 'No president has infinite sway'

Chaos and controversy created by President-elect Donald Trump’s unconventional picks to head high-profile government positions will come with a price, according to prominent Republican strategist Karl Rove.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rove, a onetime senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, said that price could cost Trump the political capital he needs to push through his second term agenda and win over public support.

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'Some people just can’t help themselves': Karl Rove's jab at Vance irks Trump adviser

A senior advisor to former President George W. Bush ruffled the Trump campaign's feathers on Thursday evening when he flippantly commented that the outgoing head of the top super PAC for Senate Republicans "dragged" Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) "across the finish line."

Steven J. Law, who served as Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) chief of staff, is leaving his position as CEO of the Senate Leadership Fund, The New York Times reported. His move coincides with McConnell's exit as the Republican leader in the Senate and will allow incoming chamber leader Sen. John Thune (R-SD) to pick his own ally for the organization.

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'Trump's life will get a lot more complicated': GOP election guru warns as MAGA splinters

Donald Trump is learning the hard way how fostering conspiracies can come back to bite you — and now his political future is uncertain.

That is the opinion of conservative polling guru Karl Rove, who wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the Jeffrey Epstein files imbroglio that is swamping his administration will likely have no happy ending in store for the president.

Written before the Journal dropped the bombshell that the president was told in May his name appears in the files on the accused pedophile, Rove wrote that the Trump rode to victory in 2024 in large part by promising to expose the clients of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

Now Trump is scrambling as a substantial number within the MAGA mob aren't taking it well and, in their anger and disappointment, may decide to give up on politics altogether.

Writing, "Team Trump is now in damage control mode. They’ve also fought among themselves. That will leave scars," Rove suggested, "One possibility is the Trump administration unleashes not facts, but fresh unsupported claims to 'prove' what they’ve said is true. Another possibility is that Team Trump makes no definitive statements. Neither would be enough and the outcome might cause conspiracy backers to view Mr. Trump and his administration as tools of the Deep State, in on it from the beginning."

Pointing out that an adherence to reality is not one of Trump's strong points, he noted, "What should trouble him is that recent events may well reduce the number of his supporters who vote in the midterms and beyond."

"Told their passionately held beliefs are wrong or forced to watch the White House fail to jail their common enemies, many might become discouraged, tune out and drop out of politics," he added before predicting, "That could lead to a Democratic win in the 2026 midterms and beyond. If that happens, Mr. Trump’s life will get a whole lot more complicated."

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Lindsey Graham: Harvard's DEI programs allow people to 'spit on Jewish kids'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that programs at Harvard University promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) allow students to "spit on Jewish kids."

"I know that [President Donald Trump] is sort of declaring war on Harvard because they're such an anti-Semitic place," Graham told ABC News host Jonathan Karl on Sunday. "They're allowing people to run around and spit on Jewish kids. This DEI stuff, you know, they get federal dollars."

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Mike Johnson on Marines in city streets: 'I don't think that's heavy-handed'

House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted that sending Marines into the streets of American cities would not be a "heavy-handed" move by President Donald Trump.

Johnson spoke to ABC's Jonathan Karl on Sunday after anti-ICE protests broke out in Los Angeles.

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