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President Donald Trump raised alarms with a social media post about South Korea's impeached former president hours before his meeting with the U.S. ally's current leader.

South Korea President Lee Jae-myung arrived Monday in Washington, D.C., for a meeting with Trump to offer a $150 billion package called "Make America Shipbuilding Great Again," but the U.S. president commented on the country's recent political instability in a social media post.

Labelling the controversy over the branding change by Cracker Barrel restaurants as “monumentally stupid,” a Monday morning MSNBC panel ridiculed the ginned-up outrage that has included calling the popular chain “woke.”

“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski brought up the rebranding, which led her partner Joe Scarborough to blurt, “What a monumentally stupid story."

A White House spokesperson declined to tell Fox News what kind of gold President Donald Trump used to decorate the Oval Office.

In a recent report, Fox News praised Trump's "golden touch" after he gave the Oval Office a gilded makeover.

Outgoing Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who led the hard-right House Freedom Caucus as its chairman from 2019 to 2022, took a parting swipe at his congressional colleagues in a break that could spell trouble for Republicans in Congress next year.

“Congress really is, in its own weird way, irredeemable,” said Biggs, speaking with NOTUS in a report published on Monday.

Vice President JD Vance's recent comments about the Russian invasion of Ukraine prove he is just as captured by Vladimir Putin's propaganda as his boss, according to former Republican strategist-turned-Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson's scathing analysis.

Wilson, one of the most outspoken former Republicans fighting against Trump, on Monday compared Vance to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who infamously tried to prevent World War II by making a preemptive peace deal with Adolf Hitler.

President Donald Trump vigorously defended his administration’s multi-billion-dollar deal with the technology company Intel on Monday in a fiery social media post, claiming he “paid zero for Intel,” despite the agreement including the United States government investing nearly $9 billion into the company.

“I paid zero for Intel, it is worth approximately $11 billion,” Trump wrote Monday on his Truth Social platform. “All goes to the USA. Why are ‘stupid’ people unhappy with that? I will make deals like that for our country all day long.”

Reacting to new comments coming from Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov that Russia has no interest in engaging with Ukraine on stopping the war they initiated, Politico’s Jonathan Martin said this is another blow to Donald Trump’s reputation as a deal maker.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” the Politico columnist suggested that Trump, and by extension the United States, is being humiliated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the days since the Alaska summit, saying that not only was no progress made, but efforts to negotiate a ceasefire were abandoned.

President Donald Trump's approval numbers are falling off a cliff with a voting bloc that will be essential to decide control of the midterms in 2026, according to polling expert Larry Sabato.

Sabato, a frequent critic of the president who heads the Crystal Ball political forecasting model, offered his analysis to CNN's Jessica Dean at a moment amid widespread media speculation about the precipitous decline in Democratic voter registrations — although this data showing this decline took place over the last few years of Joe Biden's presidency, making it unclear whether the trend has continued beyond President Donald Trump's victory.