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President Donald Trump admitted on Friday that he wouldn’t be attending the wedding of his son, Donald Trump Jr., and offered his nearly 13 million followers on Truth Social an explanation as to why, one that involved his “love for the United States of America.”

“While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important period of time. Congratulations to Don and Bettina!”

President Donald Trump has finished purging his Republican enemies — and his top political aide says it's time to go to war with Democrats.

James Blair, the man who helped orchestrate Trump's 2024 comeback and is now running his 2026 operation, told the Washington Examiner this week that the GOP's bloody primary season is effectively done.

Military experts and Pentagon officials are pushing back at proposals from within Donald Trump’s administration that will cripple their ability to prepare for a possible war with China and other adversarial nations.

According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration's five-year energy leasing plan would allow oil platforms in areas that currently serve as vital military operations zones. Florida's entire 30-member congressional delegation and the Pentagon, along with retired military leaders and armed forces advocacy groups, are scrambling to overhaul the plan before its October finalization.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) dismissed the Epstein files as a "nothing burger," mocked concerns about healthcare affordability, and compared a nurse killed by ICE to Kyle Rittenhouse — all in private texts to staffers, according to a bombshell New York Magazine investigation published Thursday.

The texts, obtained by reporter Alex Shultz, paint a portrait of a senator who, his own staff says, has been "acting like a Republican" in private — even as his approval among Pennsylvania Democrats has collapsed.

A social media boast by Donald Trump about a booming stock market early Friday morning was greeted with both alarm and anger by some of his supporters over the faltering value of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (NASDAQ: DJT) stock.

The Wall Street Journal reported, “Investors around the world are in good spirits this morning, setting the S&P 500 on track to rise for its eighth straight week,” prompting the president to boast on Truth Social: “NEW STOCK MARKET RECORD!”

President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to complain about the “absolute fortune” he allegedly forewent by dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded settlement designed to compensate those claiming to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department.

“I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has a new item on his holiday wish list: the firing of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico Magazine published Friday, the retiring North Carolina Republican made clear he wants Hegseth gone before he leaves the Senate at the end of the year — and he didn't mince words about why.