Top Stories Daily Listen Now
RawStory

Trump News

Trump's MAGA movement flounders as GOP kingmaker sits out crucial race: report

A conservative kingmaker appears to be sitting idly by as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) continues to battle MAGA firebrand Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, in the state's heated primary runoff, a sign that President Donald Trump's signature movement is on the fritz, according to a new report.

Leonard Leo has a deep history within Republican politics and the Trump administration. Leo built the Federalist Society into the conservative legal movement's premier organization, which has sent Trump all three of his Supreme Court nominees. Leo also has a roughly $1 billion fund available to support Republican candidates across the country, but has chosen to sit on the sidelines as Paxton and Cornyn compete for a Senate seat, the Washington Examiner reported.

Keep reading... Show less

MAGA rep loses his cool and accuses rebel Republican of 'stumping with Nazis'

A Florida congressman went on Real America's Voice on Monday and unleashed a kitchen-sink attack on fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — the latest GOP lawmaker to fall in line behind President Donald Trump's all-out campaign to oust the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian in Tuesday's primary.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), appearing with host Eric Bolling, hurled allegations ranging from ties to Iran to sexual misconduct involving an ex-girlfriend — and didn't stop there.

Keep reading... Show less

Turning Point USA leaders deliver a stinging warning to Trump as young MAGA voters turn

The leader of Turning Point USA in a key battleground state called President Donald Trump's Iran war "distasteful" as young MAGA voters who helped elect the president have started to show signs of frustration, according to a Politico report on Monday.

Some of the youngest members among the MAGA coalition have cited skyrocketing gas prices, concerns about another long-term Middle East conflict and an overall sense of betrayal after a promise from Trump that he would refrain from those conflicts. And in interviews with six different leaders from Turning Point USA chapters, Politico found that "many of them said the president’s approach to Iran has undercut one of the central promises that animated younger right-wing voters in 2024: no new wars."

Keep reading... Show less

Ex-GOP gov loses faith his party will ever 'get back to sanity'

The former Republican governor of Maryland warned on Monday that the antidote to his party's loss of sanity is getting further away as President Donald Trump's grip on the party tightens.

Larry Hogan told the Washington Post that he has left Trump's Republican Party behind as he enters what he calls his "Zen era." That comes after Hogan was unable to parlay his record-high bipartisan approval ratings into a national job, which he chalked up to Trump's efforts to remake the Republican Party in his image.

Keep reading... Show less

Ex-GOP lawmaker goes off as US finds itself in 'worst-case scenario' due to Trump blunders

A former lawmaker and critic of President Donald Trump slammed the president's Iran war decisions following his announcement on Monday to stop a planned military attack amid "serious negotiations" and telling the military to be ready "on a moment's notice."

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told CNN that Trump's Truth Social post announcement stating alleged negotiations underway and that an attack had been stopped by allies was putting the United States in a bad position.

Keep reading... Show less

Trump’s massive J6 'slush fund' takes Jeanine Pirro by surprise: 'I don't know anything'

Jeanine Pirro was in the middle of a tough-on-crime press conference Monday when a reporter blindsided her with a question about a nearly $1.8 billion fund that could send taxpayer money to the same kind of rioters she'd spent the morning condemning.

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia had just finished threatening to prosecute the parents of DC teens involved in violent "takeovers" — including a chair-throwing brawl that tore through a Navy Yard Chipotle Saturday night — when a reporter pivoted to the Justice Department's newly announced "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

Keep reading... Show less

JD Vance's flopped joke sparks instant mockery: 'Charm of a rattlesnake'

Vice President JD Vance laughed about President Donald Trump's particular taste over which socks and jackets his cabinet members wear — prompting the internet to mock the attempted joke.

Vance was speaking to a crowd at a manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri, to address the rising cost of living ahead of midterm elections, when he tried to get a few laughs about Trump, who has reportedly gifted $145 Florsheim men's dress shoes to his male cabinet members with the expectation that they wear them in his presence, regardless of whether they fit or not.

Keep reading... Show less

'What is going on?' JD Vance's socks get under Trump's skin

Vice President JD Vance has a fashion confession — and it involves a pair of shamrock socks, the Irish prime minister, and a very unamused Donald Trump.

Speaking in Kansas City on Monday, Vance regaled the crowd with a cautionary tale about dressing for the boss after complimenting Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on his blazer.

Keep reading... Show less

'Creepy and weird': Missing Republican's curiously chipper newsletter draws fire

A consultant for Rep. Tom Kean Jr. — the New Jersey Republican who has been missing from Congress for 74 days — decided Monday that the real scandal isn't his boss's 2 1/2-month disappearance, it's the journalist asking about it.

Kean last cast a vote in the House on March 5 and has since missed 68 votes, been out of the public eye, skipped the campaign trail in one of the most competitive districts in the country, and his office has only offered vague references to a "personal health matter."

Keep reading... Show less

Pete Hegseth being tested as Trump replacement with new 'campaign debut': expert

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unusual stop along the campaign trail in the Kentucky congressional race might signal he could be considering a run for president in 2028, an analyst reported on Monday.

Associated Press White House reporter Michelle Price told CNN anchor Dana Bash and a panel of political experts that Hegseth's speech supporting President Donald Trump-endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL challenging Trump's foe Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), could reveal more about Hegseth's political future.

Keep reading... Show less

CNBC's Jim Cramer reduced to 'stuttering speechlessness' by suspicious Trump stock trade

One of Wall Street’s most recognizable gurus, Jim Cramer, became notably tongue-tied on Monday after President Donald Trump’s recent stock-trading spree entered into a televised conversation with his colleagues on CNBC.

Disclosures published by the US Office of Government Ethics last week revealed that Trump, in the first quarter of 2026, carried out over 3,700 stock transactions, including over 30 stock purchases worth $1 million or more.

Keep reading... Show less

Ex-Republican operative pinpoints GOP's most crushing weakness: 'Terminal blind spot'

Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson described a major shortcoming that Republicans have missed — and have been ignoring — since President Donald Trump entered the White House.

The co-founder of The Lincoln Project wrote in his Substack on Monday how Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-LA) "original sin" against Trump in his vote to impeach the president during his first administration was what drove Trump's revenge campaign to unseat Cassidy in his race for re-election.

Keep reading... Show less

World-scale calamity looms as oil experts warn Trump 'we're living on borrowed time'

With no end in sight to the Strait of Hormuz crisis caused by President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran, the head of the International Energy Agency warned Monday that global energy supplies are running dangerously low.

IEA executive director Faith Birol told reporters in Paris that the world only has weeks’ worth of oil reserves left, raising the likelihood that energy prices will soar even higher in the near future.

Keep reading... Show less