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'Pumpkin spice' Trump: The View host cracks up over latest make-up fail

"The View" used several segments of its Monday show to discuss the ongoing concerns about Donald Trump's mental and physical health and the lack of transparency around it from his campaign.

But Ana Navarro came prepared with photos illustrating just how different Trump's public face is from his actual one.

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'America is better than this': Ex-Pence aide hits out as 'armed militias' threaten FEMA

Olivia Troye, a former national security adviser to Mike Pence, spoke out about threats against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by armed militias.

In a social media post on Monday, Troye pointed to reports that FEMA agents were forced to relocate due to threats while providing hurricane relief in North Carolina.

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'No, no, no!' CNN's Jim Acosta shuts down Republican's minimizing of Trump's latest threat

A Republican strategist's attempt to minimize former President Donald Trump's threat of "enemies within" spurred a swift fact-check and heated debate on CNN Monday morning.

Conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton was checked by CNN anchor Jim Acosta as he tried to claim Trump's threat to sic the military on political enemies was limited only to those who live in the U.S. without citizenship status.

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Republican accused of 'deceiving' Black voters with ad showing wrong election date

A Michigan Republican is being accused of misleading Black voters in a print ad that shows the wrong election date.

State Sen. Tom Barrett, who's running against Democrat Curtis Hertel for the seat left vacant by Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) as she runs for U.S. Senate, took out a full-page ad in the Oct. 2 issue of the Michigan Bulletin — a Lansing-based, Black-owned alternative weekly publication — that lists Election Day as Nov. 6, a day later than the correct date, reported the Washington Post.

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‘Violently authoritarian’: Alarm over Trump’s threat to use military against Americans

Donald Trump over the weekend repeatedly said he wants to use the U.S. military against Americans who oppose him, called his critics “the enemy from within,” and declared they are more dangerous than America’s greatest foreign adversaries, including Russia, China and North Korea.

“I always say we have the outside enemy, so you can say China, you can say Russia, you can say, Kim Jung-Un,” Trump told supporters at an Aurora, Colorado rally on Friday.

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Official who tried to kick Trump off ballot gets death threat while giving birth: report

Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold says she has received more than 1,000 violent threats since last year after backing an effort to keep Donald Trump off her state's ballot for his role in the Jan.6 insurrection.

Griswold has been targeted with phone calls and other menacing communications for at least a year and, in August, her security detail was suddenly "doubled" while she was in a hospital giving birth to her first child as state and federal law enforcement prepared to arrest 45-year-old Teak Brockbank for threatening to "execute" her, reported Rolling Stone.

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GOP outcast urges young anti-Trumpers to fight from inside Republican Party

David Brooks, a longtime conservative commentator who first grew queasy with the GOP during the Tea Party years and kicked up his criticism under former President Donald Trump, outlined in The Atlantic one of the core reasons he feels abandoned by the GOP — and left "politically homeless."

In essence, he wrote, he has long championed a value that was once held sacred by the Whigs, a proto-conservative political party in the early 19th century that famously fractured over the slavery question in the 1850s. That value, he wrote, is opportunity.

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Harris accuses Trump's staff of hiding him over fears that he's increasingly 'unstable'

Kamala Harris claimed Monday that Donald Trump's team is hiding him from the public because they're worried about his mental decline.

The vice president was speaking on Roland Martin Unfiltered, a daily politics broadcast.

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MAGA fan drenches Nazi as Swastika-adorned vessel tries to join Trump boat parade

A boat displaying swastikas and Donald Trump flags was prevented from joining a parade honoring the former president over the weekend in Florida.

Social media users posted photos of the boat attempting to take part in the parade Sunday in Jupiter, not far from the Republican nominee's residence at Mar-a-Lago, and videos show Trump supporters on another boat using their engine to splash the vessel with the swastika flags, reported Newsweek.

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Harris under 'massive pressure' to take lead amid Trump's 'deepening extremism': analysis

Former President Donald Trump's increasingly extremist rhetoric has upped the stakes for Vice President Kamala Harris to convince independents she can be trusted with their vote, Stephen Collinson wrote in an analysis for CNN.

"The Republican nominee is escalating the most toxic anti-immigrant rhetoric in modern US history, warning outsiders with 'bad genes' have 'invaded' the country after falsely claiming that Haitian migrants here legally were eating pets in Ohio," wrote Collinson.

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'Face of greedflation': Ex-aide schooled over huge cost of Trump Bibles and MAGA burgers

Former President Donald Trump's reputation as the more fiscally responsible candidate doesn't stand up to the high prices he charges for burgers, Bibles and kicks, a frustrated Democrat told a former Trump White House adviser Monday.

Political commentator Paul Begala on Monday schooled former White House associate counsel May Mailman on one of the leading campaign issues defining the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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'Baffling': Trump's strategy for campaign endgame has analyst bewildered

Trump's campaign strategy in the final weeks of the election is "incoherent" and "baffling," Zeeshan Aleem wrote in an analysis for MSNBC Monday — and it's impossible to figure out what he's even trying to accomplish.

Campaigns do not have unlimited resources, Aleem wrote. That's why, especially in the home stretch, they "are forced to make excruciating decisions about which battleground states to put most of their time, money and energy into as they seek decisive edges over their opponents."

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'His base is coming home': Morning Joe panel warns Trump's plan 'might be working'

Donald Trump has been spreading hateful lies about immigrants throughout his political career, but he has intensified those bogus attacks in the final weeks of his 2024 campaign — and analysts see evidence that his message is hitting home.

The former president has falsely claimed at his rallies that Venezuela and other Latin American nations have been emptying their prisons and sending criminals into the United States, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said there's simply no evidence to support those allegations.

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