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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) suggested former President Joe Biden was to blame for President Donald Trump's poor approval rating on ending the war in Ukraine.

"There are brand new polling numbers that we've got out today that the American people do not think President Trump is handling this well," Fox News host Shannon Bream told Kennedy on Sunday. "His job approval on handling Russia and Ukraine is at 36 and 39 percent, respectively."

The U.S. Department of Justice dubiously invoked a centuries-old law in directing immigration agents to carry out home invasion searches without warrants, an internal memo revealed.

USA Today—which obtained a copy of the March 14 memo issued by the office of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi—reported Friday that the Trump administration ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pursue suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua into homes, sometimes without warrants, under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy claimed that President Donald Trump "upstaged" Pope Francis at his funeral over the weekend by meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"I think this is the takeaway from yesterday's funeral," Campos-Duffy said on Sunday. "Donald Trump upstaged the Pope at the funeral."

Reacting to new polling that shows Donald Trump's approval ratings are cratering, a longtime GOP insider claimed the embattled president's slide with voters will continue unless he makes major changes.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," GOP strategist Brendan Buck took issue with co-host Michael Steele who told the panel to slow down their enthusiasm over the president's growing unpopularity.

"Obviously it's just a snapshot, but I certainly don't think it's going to get better for him anytime soon," Buck countered.

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"I mean, this is a president who absolutely believes in what he's doing and they throw around this word mandate a lot; they think they had a mandate to come and I'm, no actually –– I don't know that they actually did have a mandate to do that and every president says that they have a mandate," he added with a grin. "If he had a mandate to do anything, it was to address the cost of living and he's certainly not doing that."

"I think what's amazing in all of this polling is how much he has undermined the advantages he had going in," he elaborated. "He had a real advantage on the issue of immigration–– now he's underwater on immigration. That's remarkable and, of course, on the economy, this economy was ready to get going, it was going to be roaring if he had just gotten out of the way a little bit."

"Just keep things humming, especially in contrast to what we had been through under Joe Biden," he added. "Just stay out of the way, you would have been fine, and he's totally blown it."

'To your point, tariffs are just getting started. this is only going to get worse," he predicted. "You know, if anything is going to sort of check him, the guardrails are public opinion. So maybe he'll see some of this and realize that it shouldn't, he shouldn't go forward. But he's not shown himself to be somebody who, you know, recalibrates."

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A decision by billionaire Elon Musk to restrict his involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that he created so that he can tend to his ailing Tesla automobile company does not mean that the damage being done by the DOGE staffers will be coming to an end.

According to Guardian journalist David Smith, their work is not done and, with Musk out of the picture as the face of DOGE, things could get a lot worse.

Author J.K. Rowling on Saturday got into a very public spat with singer/songwriter Boy George.

Boy George responded to an anonymous social media user, saying, "Stop this nonsense that if you don't agree with [J.K. Rowling] you hate women."

A medical expert says a man Donald Trump appointed to his White House Cabinet once tormented him and his family for several years.

Baylor College of Medicine Prof. Peter Hotez, who made headlines when he experienced online harassment, told his story on social media Saturday.

Donald Trump is freezing out future GOP presidential hopefuls as he goes full force in his efforts to be elected to an unconstitutional third term, MSNBC pundits said on Saturday.

Former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo (FL) appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, and was asked about Trump's website selling "Trump 2028" merchandise.

Despite the fact that Donald "Trump does not want to be seen giving up to pressure" this early in his second term, one Cabinet official is on the chopping block and another has been diminished in an unprecedented way, according to a former Trump adviser.

Trump's former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, appeared on CNN on Saturday to discuss the inner workings of Trump's second stint in the White House.

Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out against the court system, complaining about what it won't "allow" the President to do.

Trump over the weekend took to Truth Social, his own social media site, to air his grievances about judges who have been blocking or pausing some of his most controversial political orders.

A key Donald Trump adviser is reportedly seeking a war that begins with China and extends all the way to members of the President's own cabinet.

Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro has been in the news in recent weeks because of his influence on Trump's tariff policies, which have led to massive market uncertainty. Navarro also had a public feud with billionaire Elon Musk.

Donald Trump made a physically impossible claim about his tariff negotiations with China, and one reporter is sounding the alarm.

Politico's Washington-based China correspondent Phelim Kine appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where he was asked about the President's claim that he has already sealed 200 tariff deals with various nations.