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President Donald Trump told Walmart executives that they must be the ones responsible for the tariffs on foreign goods coming into the United States, reports revealed Monday. Now, Trump is being compared to the former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who was accused of ignoring the suffering of her people.

Lucy Caldwell, the campaign manager for former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh's (IL) presidential campaign, joined with "The Weeknight" hosts as Alecia Menendez walked through the report.

President Donald Trump's interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba, announced on Monday that she would dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka — but that she would instead file more serious charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ).

Baraka, who is running for governor of the state, had been charged after he joined in a protest with McIver and several other lawmakers at Delaney Hall, a private, for-profit detention facility that has become Immigration and Customs Enforcement's biggest lockup center in the Northeast, despite state laws prohibiting such a facility from operating there.

A federal judge dealt Donald Trump another legal blow on Monday, giving his administration a deadline of Wednesday afternoon to facilitate contact between a Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador and his lawyers, according to a report.

Judge Keith Ellison in Texas gave the federal government 24 hours to confirm the location of Widmer Josneyder Agelviz Sanguino, 24, and 48 hours to “restore and help maintain attorney-client communication” with him, NBC News reported.

After an initial embarrassing defeat, Republicans on the House Budget Committee managed to move forward President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security through the House Budget Committee, and they are expected to debate it in the dead of morning on Wednesday in the House Rules Committee, with an eye for getting it passed out of the House by Memorial Day.

But while the MAGA hardliners allowed it through the Budget Committee after some commitments from leadership to make Medicaid work requirements and the phaseout of alternative energy subsidies stricter, much remains up in the air. And one of the bigger hardliners, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), is still unconvinced he will vote for the end product.

President Donald Trump's administration has finally stopped "lying," at least when it comes to tariffs, remarked an MSNBC host on Monday.

At the top of their show, "The Weeknight," co-host Symone Sanders Townsend responded to recent reports about a key confession from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly characterized the $400 million luxury Boeing 747 the government of Qatar offered him as a "gift" — but according to CNN, it turns out the Trump administration asked them for the plane first.

Specifically, reported Alex Marquardt, Kristen Holmes, and Natasha Bertrand, administration officials "first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.

A gun that's known to discharge on its own is being resold by multiple police departments, according to a Mother Jones report published in partnership with The Trace.

Police records and lawsuits have recorded at least 120 reports of the P320 discharging a bullet without the trigger being pulled, as of April 23, 2025. “Those shootings resulted in more than 110 injuries and at least one death,” Mother Jones wrote.

When asked about former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, current President Donald Trump said that his predecessor clearly knew about it years ago because he is at "stage nine."

After citing Biden as "stage nine," Trump attacked his cognition, prompting attacks and ridicule.

Many Republicans offered their sympathy and put politics aside at the news of former President Joe Biden's diagnosis of an aggressive, metastasizing form of prostate cancer over the weekend. But far-right commentator Eric Bolling had other ideas.

On his Real America's Voice show, Bolling used the moment to push the unsubstantiated narrative that there was a cover-up and the former president's cancer was known all along — and buried for nefarious purposes.

President Donald Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission began going after the media deemed "unfriendly" to the president straight away. Now he's picking "norm-busting fights with the mainstream media," according to Politico.

In a Monday report about Brendan Carr, Politico noted that the first investigations began into NPR, PBS and Comcast on Jan. 20. Since then, Carr has taken the agency from "an independent regulator in favor of an openly personal embrace of Trump."

President Donald Trump is “dismantling domestic violence nonprofits,” according to a report from Slate.

The sentiment from writer Matt Watkins comes after “the Department of Justice quietly released a revised set of guidelines for the Office on Violence Against Women grants.”

President Donald Trump has set up an endless series of showdowns and confrontations with federal courts, walking right up to the line of ignoring court orders and, in some cases, being accused of actually doing so. But there is a "centuries-old" mechanism courts can use to fight back, Loyola Law School constitutional law professor Justin Levitt wrote in an analysis for The Washington Post published Monday.

"Though Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the 'least dangerous' branch, the courts’ centuries-old civil contempt authority makes it plenty mighty when it wants to be," wrote Levitt.

President Donald Trump was asked about President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis at the White House on Monday and took a swipe at the former president's doctor.

"I think it's very sad, actually. I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago," Trump said. "Again, because to get to stage nine, that's a long time."