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President Donald Trump seems likely to stage a major showdown with the U.S. Supreme Court that a legal expert believes is an intentional effort to gather up authoritarian powers.

The president has been attacking judges who rule against him in legal challenges to his executive orders, and Stanford Law School's Matthew Seligman told The New Republic's Greg Sargent that Vice President JD Vance and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller were even more eager than Trump to break the courts.

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon argued that former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis was 10 times "bigger than Watergate."

During an interview with MAGA ally Laura Loomer, Bannon suggested that aides had revealed Biden's cancer diagnosis to distract from recently released interview tapes from former special counsel Robert Hur.

Filmmaker Wes Anderson spoke about President Donald Trump at the annual Cannes Film Festival, expressing his disdain for the new tariffs on the film industry.

It followed an announcement by Trump earlier this month that, he wanted “MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) echoed President Donald Trump's recent attacks on Walmart during an interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on Monday, warning the mega-retailer to keep the president happy and not pass on the costs of tariff increases to consumers.

"If Walmart decides that they have to raise prices, do you think that's un-American?" asked Sorkin.

MAGA television host Gina Loudon chuckled as she kicked off a report on former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis with a conspiracy theory.

During a Monday segment on Real America's Voice, Loudon gave her audience the bad news.

Two of the president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are making miliions by investing in a tiny bank hidden on a high floor of the Trump Tower, according to a Bloomberg report.

The bank, Dominari Holdings Inc., is headquartered on the 22nd floor of the New York City building. Three years ago, it was developing cancer therapies — today, however, they have pivoted to finance and are “stockpiling Bitcoin.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified what President Donald Trump meant when he attacked singer Taylor Swift's looks last week.

"What does President Trump mean when he says that Taylor Swift is no longer hot?" Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt at a Monday briefing.

President Donald Trump escalated his threats to prosecute megastar performer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter in a Monday morning rant on his Truth Social platform.

"According to news reports, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to walk onto a stage, quickly ENDORSE KAMALA, and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, NOT EVEN ONE SONG!" Trump wrote. "Remember, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her millions of Dollars for doing nothing other than giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT."

President Donald Trump has the Supreme Court to thank for his ability to accept a $400 million luxury jet from the government of Qatar at the same time he's inking diplomatic and business agreements in the Middle East, legal analyst Leah Litman wrote for Salon.

Trump has always faced allegations of violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which prohibits leaders from accepting foreign gifts to shield them from corrupt influence. And he was deluged in lawsuits the first time around, alleging he took cash from foreign dignitaries who stayed at his D.C. hotel.

President Donald Trump went on a reposting spree over the weekend on his Truth Social platform, endorsing a series of AI-generated QAnon conspiracy theory propaganda images — as well as a call to arrest former President Barack Obama for a military trial.

It began on Sunday morning, reported the Daily Beast, when Trump "retruthed" an image of himself standing next to Obama, with the caption, “All roads lead to Obama. Retruth if you want public military tribunals.”

Nearly three-quarters of the attorneys working for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are leaving in protest of President Donald Trump's policies.

Around 250 attorneys — 70 percent of the division's total — have already left since Trump returned to office or will have left the DOJ by the end of this month after the administration radically reshaped its mission to fight discrimination, and focused instead on enforcing the president's executive orders, reported NPR.

Vice President JD Vance called off a visit to Israel after its expansion of military operations in Gaza.

A senior U.S. official told Axios that Vance made the decision because he did not want his visit to give the impression that the Trump administration endorsed Israel's decision to launch a massive attack while the White House was pushing for a ceasefire and hostage deal.