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President Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks sparking chaos for Senate Republicans, who only now, according to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, are “coming to understand” the threat the president poses, though the realization may be “a bit too late.”

Trump has aggressively pushed Senate Republicans to advance his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, despite Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s insistence that the bill lacks adequate support in the GOP caucus. Trump also derailed the Senate GOP’s entire agenda with a surprise cancellation of a Senate confirmation hearing, and caused further chaos by refusing to sign a bi-partisan bill on affordable housing.

The conservative New York Post was mobbed by critics on Sunday for its critical report on a rising star within the Democratic Party, the headline of which was labeled by some as perhaps the “most ridiculous” smear of a Democratic figure “of all time.”

Published on Saturday, the report in question was about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who the tabloid newspaper had covered negatively for months, including with an editorial titled “20 reasons to vote against Mamdani” published last year in the lead up to the New York City mayoral election.

The Trump White House waged a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on the obscure federal board responsible for shielding government workers from unfair firings, ultimately securing a ruling that could hand the president sweeping power to purge the civil service and install loyalists throughout the government, according to a New York Times investigation.

The report centers on the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency whose job is to act as a neutral arbiter between federal agencies and dismissed workers. In a March ruling the Times described as landing "like a thunderbolt" in legal circles, the board broke with decades of precedent and embraced the White House's argument that Article II of the Constitution gives President Donald Trump the power to fire officials without due process.

President Donald Trump has successfully thwarted one of his greatest fears, journalist Molly Jong-Fast argued in an op-ed published in The New York Times Sunday, but one celebrity appeared to stand alone in weaponizing that fear against him.

That fear, Jong-Fast argued, was that of celebrities undermining his messaging through fierce public condemnations. However, as she observed earlier this month while covering the Tony Awards in New York City, many celebrities remain paralyzed with “fear” of retribution from the president.

A handful of GOP lawmakers made their way to Washington, D.C. recently to attend and promote the Great American State Fair, organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250, but in doing so, “accidentally” exposed the event for its numerous shortcomings, The Daily Beast reported.

Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), for instance, took to social media to attack his own state’s government for not participating in the fair, posting a photograph online of himself standing on the National Mall lawn. The “awkward post,” the Beast noted, depicted Baumgartner standing in front of “only a handful of people visible behind him.”

President Donald Trump has worked over the past several months on a bizarre “side project” aimed at honoring himself at one of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic public parks, two insiders revealed to The Washington Post.

As revealed by the Post in its report published on Sunday, the project would be to ensure that Lafayette Square – which sits less than 400 feet north of the White House – has exactly 47 trees in honor of Trump being the 47th president, with the trees all being maple trees, the president’s favorite.

Fox News issued an unusual on-air apology this week following claims made by "Shark Tank" star and prominent Trump supporter Kevin O'Leary during an appearance on the network, walking back comments he made about opponents of his controversial data center project in Utah.

The apology was flagged by media journalist Brian Stelter, who described it as "a rare on-air apology by Fox News" that appeared to come in response to legal threats from people O'Leary had attacked during his appearance.

The sons of both President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to financially benefit from a secretive and lucrative deal between the Trump administration and the Kazakhstanian government, The New York Times reported Sunday, one that the outlet described as having “few precedents in American history.”

Signed last year on Nov. 6 but “not publicly disclosed at the time,” the deal grants Kaz Resources – a small American mining company owned by Pini Althaus, a rabbi who moved to the United States from Australia – access to Kazakhstan’s tungsten reserves, among the largest reserves of the rare earth metals on earth. Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration also approved “as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing” for Kaz Resources.