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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.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board reviewed President Donald Trump's new package of ideas for reducing cost of living as voters call for blood over the issue in the midterms — and found serious problems with some of them.

Ultimately, the board concluded, some of the ideas have merit, like pausing tariffs on beef. But one other particular idea would be a massive dud.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist blasted President Donald Trump's hidden machine for ripping off American consumers in a new Substack essay on Monday.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on trade theory, argued in the essay that Trump has effectively hidden the disastrous impact of his tariff regime behind the headlines about the war in Iran. That has allowed him to continue taking money from American consumers and handing it to his billionaire buddies, even though several courts have ruled that his tariffs are illegal, Krugman argued.

President Donald Trump befuddled political analysts and observers on Monday during his speech in the Rose Garden.

Trump gave a short speech during a dinner event at the White House that was attended by several cabinet officials, like Vice President JD Vance, as well as fans of his MAGA movement. During the speech, Trump seemed to make a staggering admission that left some observers' jaws on the floor.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) originally slammed a proposal by his Democratic challenger, Presbyterian seminarian and state legislator James Talarico, to lift the federal gas tax in response to Iran-driven fuel inflation, claiming it was "short-sighted," unsustainable, and would blow a hole in the federal budget.

But now President Donald Trump has endorsed that idea himself — leaving Cornyn, who is still an underdog for renomination in the runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and desperate for a Trump endorsement, in an awkward spot.

Medical experts recently told a reporter with The Daily Beast that they are becoming increasingly alarmed at President Donald Trump's accelerating deterioration.

Sarah Ewall-Rice, a reporter at the outlet, told Nico Hines, the Daily Beast's global editorial director, during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that medical experts released a new statement expressing deep concerns about Trump's mental and physical health. They cited episodes such as Trump's threat to wipe out the Iranian civilization and his seemingly erratic behavior around the White House.

The GOP plan to slip $1 billion in funding for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project into a Homeland Security reconciliation bill is already on life support, as a number of Republicans are either opposing it outright or expressing concerns.

Trump has long claimed his ballroom project, which has already seen the East Wing torn down for a new structure that will be larger than the main White House building itself, will be funded entirely with private donor money.

FBI Director Kash Patel just killed any remaining hope of earning the loyalty of his colleagues at the bureau, according to one expert.

Glenn Kirschner, a former DOJ prosecutor, said during a new episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters," on Monday, that Patel's latest effort to force his FBI colleagues to take polygraph exams about leaks from the agency is almost guaranteed to backfire. Kirschner argued that the move shows Patel is becoming increasingly paranoid and that his leadership is eroding the FBI's mission.

Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), already one of the GOP's most vulnerable incumbents even after state courts struck down efforts to redraw her district to favor Democrats, landed in hot water on Monday after a clip went viral of her agreeing with a right-wing talk radio host telling Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to "get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia" — a common colloquial phrase, but one with a deeply charged double meaning given that Jeffries is Black.

The moment immediately brought her under fire on social media, including from some fellow members of Congress.