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President Donald Trump is plotting yet another overhaul of the White House grounds — this time digging up the storied South Lawn to install a permanent helipad, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Sunday night.

The helipad would mark the latest in a dizzying string of renovations Trump has imposed on the people's house since returning to power. He's already paved over the Rose Garden, slapped a black granite walkway along the West Wing Colonnade, redesigned the Oval Office, planted two massive flagpoles on the grounds, and demolished the entire East Wing to clear room for his 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

The First Amendment explicitly prohibits Congress from establishing an official state religion – a cornerstone of what Thomas Jefferson called the "wall of separation between church and state" – and yet on Sunday, Trump appeared to take direct aim at that wall, seeking to "blow it to bits," Zeteo's Martin Pengelly argued in an analysis published Monday.

“On Jan. 1, 1802, in his letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, President Thomas Jefferson described ‘a wall of separation between Church & State,’ erected by the founders,” the analysis reads.

President Donald Trump sparked concern among onlookers Sunday night into Monday morning after sharing what appears to be an image created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) depicting him launching a "nuclear strike.”

Trump has shared controversial images that appear to have been created with GenAI in the past, including last year when he shared a threatening image of Chicago, Illinois, consumed by flames, or last month when he shared an image depicting himself as a Jesus Christ-like figure. Sunday night, Trump appeared to share yet another GenAI-generated image, only this one, depicting himself hitting a large red button as a colossal explosion with a large mushroom cloud is seen hitting earth.

President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of suspending federal taxes on gasoline in an effort to combat skyrocketing gas prices sparked by his unpopular war against Iran, but CNN’s Matt Egan, looking at a new analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, broke down on Monday exactly why the president’s idea was nothing more than a “gimmick.”

“It's already been such a financial nightmare for Main Street, and a political nightmare for the White House, but other than the obvious – getting the Strait of Hormuz re-opened – they're really kind of running out of options to prevent gasoline from blowing past those Biden-era records above $5,” Egan said.

The Justice Department (DOJ) faced heavy scrutiny after its botched release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files earlier this year, largely for failing to properly redact victim-identifying information – but on Sunday, veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez flagged one redaction in particular that suggested, she argued, something more troubling than incompetence.

In its release of millions of Epstein-related files, the DOJ made some redactions that went beyond the scope of what was permitted, while in other instances, failed to make redactions that were required by law, such as when they revealed the identity of one prominent Epstein survivor who claimed to have been named “500 times,” exposing her once anonymous identity to the world.

While President Donald Trump has frequently quarreled with members of his own party, he’s increasingly lashed out at GOP lawmakers known as being among his strongest supporters, and to such an extent that prominent Democratic strategist Mike Nellis was left stunned Sunday night over what he called the president’s “crash out.”

Among Trump’s biggest targets has been Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who, despite long being a diehard supporter of the president, has drawn the president’s ire after co-sponsoring last year the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), a bill designed to force the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump appears to be trying to bite the hand attempting to feed his Department of Defense more money to continue the war in Iran, according to two analysts.

Eliot Cohen, professor emeritus of strategy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Eric Edelman, a contributor to The Bulwark, discussed Trump's recent social media tirade against Robert Karem, a senior aide to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), during a new episode of "The Shield of the Republic" podcast.

President Donald Trump appears to have set a "five-alarm fire" ahead of the upcoming midterm election, and it ought to give Democrats the reality check they need, according to one expert.

Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney, warned on a new episode of the "Democracy Watch" podcast, co-hosted by Brian Tyler Cohen, that Trump's recent claim that he will "do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections" should be a hair-raising alarm for anyone concerned about democracy. Not only does it signal that Trump will challenge the midterm election results if Republicans suffer losses, but it also reveals that Democrats need a new strategy to counter Trump, Elias argued.

There has been a lot of speculation about which of President Donald Trump's cabinet members will depart the administration next, and one analyst predicts the answer may be lurking behind the Vice President's door.

JD Vance has been widely considered as the heir apparent to Trump's Make America Great Again movement, even though Trump has yet to officially endorse Vance's takeover. But liberal political commentator David Pakman noted in a new reaction video on Sunday that Vance's chances of ascending to the MAGA throne appear to be sinking as prediction markets sour on the vice president.

Republicans in Congress have a contentious couple of weeks coming up as infighting over a new spending bill heats up, according to a new report.

The Hill reported on Sunday that Republicans are trying to pass a new funding bill for the Department of Defense as a third GOP-only bill through reconciliation, the same process they used to pass President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act" last year. But the move is putting Republicans at odds with one another, and is being further complicated by Trump's shifting priorities, the report added.

A recent interview of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a long-time GOP pollster into a tailspin on Sunday.

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, reacted to Graham's interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, where he claimed that Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-LA) primary loss was a good thing for the Republican Party, during a new episode of the "Bulwark Takes" podcast with Sam Stein, The Bulwark's managing editor. Longwell claimed the interview was "revolting" and showed something truly disturbing about Graham's personality.