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Former Republican Party Campaign consultant and full-time Donald Trump antagonist Rick Wilson used an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday to rail at the president for doing everything within his power to personally cash in on his second stint in the Oval Office.

Appearing with host Ali Velshi and MSNBC analyst Hayes Brown, Wilson had a few things to say about Trump's trip to the Middle East where his family has growing business interests that call into question his friendliness with the despots who rule the region.

With the controversy of Qatar wanting to give Trump a $400 million gift in the form of a so-called "palace in the sky" jet, host Velshi prompted his guest with, "I remember when Al Gore got in trouble for taking a campaign phone call in his office, and I'm not justifying it, but there should be rules, and elected officials should abide by the rules."

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"It's so weird that we're not arguing with the courts about breaking these rules. we're just ––they're gone, we just don't we just don't. This administration just doesn't even think about it anymore<" he added.

"That's right," Wilson agreed, "This is an administration where if the most ludicrously illegal transaction takes place and the Department of Justice doesn't see it. Does the tree make a sound when it falls in the forest? Of course not."

"None of this will ever be investigated by this administration," he predicted. "The corruption is wired in from the start and what Trump wants is money and adoration. But what he's getting is, he's changing what America is viewed as and I think that the pyramid scheme Nutralife argument is brilliant and I think it's a great way to think about this, because they are selling things of no value to people who are credulously, accepting that they think they're going to get something amazing from it, something bigger than their investment."

"Right now we don't have a White House or an administration, we have a whorehouse at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that's that's a fact," he added as the MSNBC host laughed.

Donald Trump's decision to take the lead in negotiating business deals while making bold announcements about how he is turning around a faltering economy could end up blowing up in his face.

That is according to the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid who wrote on Sunday that Trump is going where few presidents have gone before — and he's playing a risky game because it could lead to becoming the poster-child for failure, particularly in a volatile economic climate he had a major hand in creating.

As the Post report highlights, Trump is no more than dabbling in attempts to control drug prices, pressuring the Fed — sometimes with insults — to bring down interest rates and "touting" foreign investment deals that may or may not pan out.

A Mexican Navy ship smashed into the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night — and MAGA world descended into a race-tinged joke fest.

The crash killed two crew members, injured many more and damaged the iconic New York City landmark as the sailing ship's tall masts smashed against it.

Bruce Springsteen hit out at Donald Trump again Saturday as a war of words between the rocker and the president escalated.

Speaking just a day after Trump took to Truth Social to call him a “dried out prune,” Springsteen took to the stage in Manchester, England — and blasted his country’s leader.

Pope Leo XIV issued a Donald Trump putdown while two of the president’s key allies sat watching from the pews.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both made the trip to the Vatican to witness the new pontiff’s inaugural mass Sunday.

A Republican senator came out swinging for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Sunday, complaining that it slashed workers and funds without showing compassion.

Utah Sen. John Curtis told CNN’s Manu Raju that much of the work DOGE has done to cut government spending was needed.

The honeymoon appears to be over for President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Multiple insiders told CNN that ‘splinters’ were beginning to show between traditional Trump backers and the renegades Kennedy has brought into his department.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the former ambassador to South Africa blistered Donald Trump for speeding up the immigration status of Afrikaners by claiming they are fleeing "genocide" in their home country.

In short, Ambassador Patrick Gaspard bluntly stated the president is a liar.

Speaking with "The Weekend" host Elise Jordan, the former diplomat began by stating for the record, "You know, I'll say a couple of things. First, you know, when I come on shows like this, I'm trained to kind of retain my anger. It's hard to do that on this. On this issue, I'm absolutely furious."

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"One, Trump is playing to a domestic U.S. fringe political audience which I'll talk about in a second,' he explained. "There's a geopolitical impact, because there's an attempt to punish South Africa for the posture that it's taken internationally on the war in Gaza and its claims against Israel."

"And Trump is very clear about the need to punish South Africa in that regard," he added before continuing, "But there's a third thing that's happening. Donald Trump is the master of distraction and he knows that while we're having this conversation we're not talking about the prices that are going up for average Americans in Walmart and he loves that."

Addressing Trump's claim about the mass seizure of land aimed solely at the Afrikaners, he later stated, "It's just not happening. It is a fiction from Donald Trump, from Elon Musk and so many of their friends in the fringe, right, like Tucker Carlson."

"So now you have a president who is overturning the long-term asylum procedures that we have here in the U.S. for people who are fleeing violence, real political violence from countries like Afghanistan," he elaborated. "But he's throwing it open to a group of people who are political pawns right now; Afrikaners from South Africa who may or may not feel physically threatened in some way."

A plan reportedly under consideration by the Trump administration to send up to one million Gazans to the divided country of Libya was met with criticism on Friday and Saturday, with several observers calling it part of a plan to carry out ethnic cleansing.

On Friday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration has broached the plan with Libya's leadership, though no final agreement has been reached. NBC News' reporting relied on several unnamed sources "with knowledge of the effort."

A former Department of Justice lawyer who was unceremoniously fired by the Donald Trump administration absolutely stunned one of the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" when she revealed the contents of a memo she had received from Attorney General Pam Bondi before she was ousted.

According to Liz Oyer, who advised on pardons at the DOJ, Bondi buried employees with a flood of memos that began with one explaining that their mission going forward was to work for Trump.

They then proceeded to grow more detailed.

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"If I could just share a quick anecdote," she began. "You know, when I was at the department before I was fired, we were getting bombarded daily with these orders from the attorney general."

"Pam Bondi signing memos to the workforce that are giving us our marching orders, telling us you are all the president's lawyers, carry out his his mission," she elaborated. "And it got down so far into the minutiae that we got a memo to the 115,000 employees of the department saying the Department of Justice is abolishing paper straws because the president doesn't like paper straws so it is our obligation as attorneys in the Department of Justice to eradicate the scourge of of paper straws and replace them with plastic."

She then added, "That is loony tunes."

"Liz, there are real things happening in this country," co-host Eugene Daniels interjected. "Serious things that people are dealing with, doesn't matter what side of the spectrum you're on politically. And so, I mean, I'm gobsmacked that the people who are, who spend their lives thinking about the rule of law, defending and protecting the rule of law, the Constitution are being asked to do things just because, you know, Donald Trump doesn't want to do them."

Waving his hands, he added, "I guess i probably shouldn't be as shocked as I am because of where we are politically, but ... what?"

Donald Trump posted a bizarre video of himself playing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” on a stage before devoted fans.

The clip, which was produced by artificial intelligence, shows the president sitting on a stage in front of a piano festooned with an American flag.