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A pair of arcade game cabinets appeared Monday morning at the D.C. War Memorial titled “Operation Epic Furious: Straight to Hell,” a satirical jab at President Donald Trump and his wildly unpopular war against Iran – and on Tuesday, MeidasTouch reporter and attorney Aaron Parnas shared a photograph appearing to show National Guard members playing the game.

The art installation was set up by Secret Handshake, an anonymous art group also responsible for such exhibits as the golden throne toilet and statues depicting Trump alongside convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine faced off with protesters over the war in Iran.

Before Senate testimony on Tuesday, members of the Code Pink anti-war group could be heard yelling at Caine.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to follow the law when it comes to briefing members of Congress.

As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying before a House budget committee on Tuesday, the Rhode Island senator spoke to reporters about the Pentagon's refusal to brief both Democrats and Republicans on military operations.

President Donald Trump went on a multi-hour social media frenzy Monday night into Tuesday morning – posting on average roughly once every three minutes for three hours – and buried within his online posts was a sharp critique of his own acting attorney general and former personal attorney.

On Monday, AMG News – a website described by the media watchdog group Media Bias/Fact Check as a “conspiracy and pseudoscience news source based in Romania” – published a report with unsubstantiated claims about former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Medeea Greere, the founder of AMG News, made the unsubstantiated claim that the report exposed Clinton for leaking classified information, that Obama “ordered” a “cover-up,” and that police officers “died trying to expose the truth.”

Donald Trump's trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping comes as the leadership of China is buoyed by an internal report that their country has seen its profile in the world rise above the US in large part due to American president.

With Reuters reporting that Trump needs some “wins” due to his horrific approval numbers at home, the New York Times is reporting that a “Beijing think tank affiliated with Renmin University published a triumphant report about Mr. Trump’s first year back in office. The report argued that his tariffs, attacks on allies, anti-immigration policies and assaults on the American political establishment had inadvertently strengthened China while weakening the United States. Its title: ‘Thank Trump.’”

Nicholas Tartaglione, once the cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, revealed new details recently about a “pressure” campaign Epstein had been subjected to in the final days before his 2019 death, a campaign that Tartaglione claimed left the disgraced financier “visibly shaken,” and involved President Donald Trump.

The revelations were detailed on Sunday by writers Jessica Reed Kraus and Jay Beecher, who claimed to have spoken with Tartaglione directly.

President Donald Trump lashed out early Tuesday morning at a New York Times journalist over their reporting that tied him directly to the contractor the Trump administration had selected to handle renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, denying that he even knew the contractor – despite having praised them weeks earlier.

The Trump administration has sought to renovate the reflecting pool for a cost of $1.8 million, a cost that recently ballooned to $13.1 million. The contractor selected for the project was Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which received a controversial no-bid contract that New York Times journalist David Fahrenthold recently told PBS News bypassed the normal competitive bidding process.

The co-hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” piled on Donald Trump for repeatedly nodding off during an Oval Office appearance on Monday afternoon and contrasted that with comments he made in 2024 where he ridiculed “Sleepy Joe” Biden.

To make their case, they ran the Monday video of Trump with his eyes closed for an extended period of time with audio from his interview with podcaster Andrew Schulz.

President Donald Trump attacked the New York Times for coverage of the Reflecting Pool renovation, claiming his administration achieved dramatic cost and time savings compared to previous administrations' efforts.

The Times published a piece called, "Reflecting Pool Repairs to Cost $13.1 Million. Trump Had Promised $1.8 Million." That seemed to trigger the president.

President Donald Trump may send the wrong signals to Chinese President Xi Jinping when he travels to China later this week, and that could ignite a new round of global chaos, according to one analyst.

Trump is scheduled to visit China between May 13 and 15, where he will meet with Xi and perform what is known as the "great kowtow," according to political columnist David Rothkopf of The Daily Beast. He noted during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that it will be the first time in American history that the President of the United States visits China while not being the most powerful leader in the world.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was brutally mocked by political analysts and observers after he made an inadvertent admission during an interview onFox News.

Cruz joined Fox News host Sean Hannity for an interview on Monday, where the two discussed the potential impact of the upcoming midterm elections. Cruz pointed out that Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) want to pass policies that could stifle entrepreneurial growth in America. However, Cruz may have told too much of the truth in making that point, according to some analysts.

A conservative columnist warned on Monday that her Republican colleagues just made a "tacit admission" about the 2026 midterms that could blow up in their face.

S.E. Cupp, a columnist for CNN, said during a segment on "The Source" with host Kaitlan Collins that Republicans have all but admitted that they don't stand a chance during the midterms with their push for mid-cycle redistricting. While those efforts seem to have paid off so far, Cupp warned that they could energize the Democratic base in a way that thwarts all the time Republicans spent trying to rig the election in their favor.