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Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the federal judiciary this week, calling for a judge who ruled against him to face criminal charges and attacking the judge's wife in the process, prompting condemnation from legal observers and journalists who called the posts the work of "a lunatic."

Trump targeted Judge Cooper after a ruling that ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center, lashing out in a lengthy Truth Social rant that also included a declaration that he now has "no interest" in renovating the historic venue.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend to attack Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson while Johnson was at the Vatican meeting with Pope Leo XIV, calling the Democratic mayor "useless" and urging someone to inform the pontiff of that fact.

"Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon!" Trump wrote, signing the post with his full name and title: "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Some of Donald Trump's most reliable supporters are pushing back after the White House announced the president would deliver a speech as the replacement for artists who pulled out of the America 250 celebration, with critics on the right calling the move self-aggrandizing and tone-deaf.

The White House promoted the event as an "AMERICA IS BACK Rally!" but prominent conservative voices were not impressed.

President Donald Trump made the unorthodox proposal Saturday to replace the shrinking number of artists for the Great American State Fair concert with himself – claiming to have drawn audiences larger than “Elvis in his prime” – and in doing so, left several onlookers floored, including CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“Didn’t think this was a real post at first,” Tapper wrote Saturday in a social media post on X after seeing Trump’s online post floating the proposal.

A Saturday afternoon MS NOW interview with blunt-talking Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) ended with host Alex Witt quickly issuing a response to the lawmaker calling the president a rapist.

Brought on to talk about former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance before members of the House Oversight Committee on Friday, where the fired former Trump official was described as “combative” and unwilling to talk about the president, the New Mexico Democrat also weighed in on reports that Trump’s DOJ is looking at investigating Trump sexual abuse victim E. Jean Carroll.

Donald Trump may or may not have done NY Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart any favors with a post on Truth Social on Saturday morning.

The NFL rookie who appeared in 14 games in his first year in the league on a team that finished 4-13 -- leaving them in last place in the NFC East but with one more win than the hapless NY Jets -- has drawn fire for introducing Trump at an event in New York last week.

President Donald Trump reached an unprecedented agreement with his own Justice Department last week in which he, his family and his businesses would be granted broad tax immunity, but some experts say the agreement would be effectively worthless the moment Trump loses power, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, kicking off a potential tax reckoning.

“[Acting Attorney General Todd] Blanche signed an agreement that is not worth the paper it’s written on – except that government personnel at present will not challenge it,” said Stuart Bassin, a former Justice Department tax litigator, speaking with the Journal.

CNN contributor John Avlon called out former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) on Saturday morning during a conversation about the Republican attempts to paint rising Democratic star James Talarico as a wild-eyed extremist.

According to Meijer, whose own star crashed to the ground after one term, the moderate Texas lawmaker running for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has yet to assure voters he is not aligned with Middle Eastern terrorists.

Artists have been pulling out of the Great American State Fair en masse after discovering the event’s ties to President Donald Trump, and as the Trump administration scrambles to replace the bailing performers, the president floated on Saturday a potential replacement – himself.

“I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump erupted Saturday in a 720-plus-word social media post over a judge’s ruling ordering him to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and halt a renovation project, a rant that culminated with the president demanding the judge be criminally charged.

U.S. District Judge Casey Cooper recently ruled that Trump’s Kennedy Center renovations were unlawful, citing Congress’ authority to rename the iconic performing arts center. In his lengthy social media post, Trump attacked Cooper’s wife – Amy Jeffress, former Justice Department prosecutor under the Clinton administration and former President Joe Biden’s personal attorney – as a “radical left Democrat,” and accused Cooper of having a “conflict of interest” for not "revealing" his wife’s work history.

On Saturday morning, CNN host Abby Phillip was forced to call out a New York Post journalist who went on an extended rant attacking E. Jean Carroll while justifying a possible DOJ investigation of the Donald Trump adversary.

On “Table for Five,” the conversation moved from Trump’s “lawfare” slush fund, to the accusations from the Trump administration that Carroll might have perjured herself during one of her winning lawsuits filed against the president.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi's attempt to deflect responsibility for the Justice Department's mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files has been soundly rejected by a former DOJ official, who emphasized that Bondi was a documented participant in the obstruction from day one — not a passive bystander.

In a column for MS NOW, former director of the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs Anthony Coley dismantled Bondi's Friday testimony before the House Oversight Committee, where she attempted to shift blame to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel.

Reacting to an MS NOW report that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been counseling panicky staffers who want Donald Trump to get back to issues that concern voters because of his cratering approval numbers, “The Weekend” co-host Jonathan Capehart claimed the trusted presidential advisor is fighting a losing battle.

According to the report, Wiles tried to assuage concerns and advised them to “let Trump be Trump.”