A new poll spells disaster for President Donald Trump — with even much of his own party turning on him.
According to the poll, conducted for the Associated Press and NORC, voters disapprove of Trump's job performance 67-33, with near-unanimous Democratic disapproval at 97 percent and independents opposing Trump by a three-to-one margin.
The real warning sign, however, is the approval rating among just Republicans.
GOP voters still approve of Trump, but only by a margin of 68-31. Put another way, nearly one in three Republicans disapproves of the job Trump is doing.
The poll further broke down that Trump is trailing in approval on every issue voters were asked about, including immigration, the economy, cost of living, and the war in Iran.
The AP/NORC survey follows a number of other surveys from various analysts that all show similar trends, with Trump's numbers collapsing among independents and weakening among even the GOP.
President Donald Trump once again threatened to obliterate the Iranian civilization in a Truth Social post on Tuesday as war negotiations seem to be faltering.
CNN reported on Tuesday that Trump's administration has had a hard time identifying a negotiator with decision-making authority inside Iran as it evaluates multiple proposals it has received. Those negotiations have also slowed the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that has been blockaded for multiple weeks due to the ongoing war in Iran.
Trump again lashed out at his Iranian counterparts in a new post.
"Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!)," Trump wrote. "They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to “save face.” People approached me four days ago, saying, 'Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.' But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!"
A Democratic analyst caught a slip-up by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a press conference on Tuesday.
Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration had indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud for its efforts to infiltrate extremist groups. The indictment was announced just days after The Atlantic published a bombshell report that alleged Patel has been drinking excessively on the job and was chronically absent from the office, which Patel denies.
At one point during the press conference, Blanche was asked whether he had read The Atlantic's report. Blanche denied, but Democratic analyst Adam Mockler noted that Blanche later let slip some details that suggested he had read the report.
"I have a lot of concerns, and my concerns are completely around the anonymous reporting that comes forth constantly, that you know, reporters have an obligation to report, and they have due diligence that they're supposed to do," Blanche said. "And when an entire article is based on anonymous sources, and there are things in the article suggesting, for example, that senior DOJ personnel were informed of something. That's me. I wasn't informed. No one called me about that. So like, listen, I did not read that article."
Mockler discussed the press conference in a new reaction video on YouTube.
"That has nothing to do with the article at hand. Meaning ... Wait a minute!? So you have read the article?" Mockler said.
Patel has denied the allegations contained in The Atlantic's report and sued the outlet for $250 million in damages. The Atlantic has said it stands by its reporting.
Donald Trump melted down on Truth Social Tuesday in a sprawling tirade that started as an attack on Democratic strategist James Carville and ended with the president torching his own Supreme Court picks as traitors who "totally misrepresented who they were."
The post began with Trump dismissing Carville as a "wacko" and "Country Destroying Sleazebag" for floating the idea of expanding the Supreme Court and adding Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico as states.
His rant quickly turned inward.
Trump complained that his own Republican-appointed justices were letting Democrats "push them around" and accused them of caring more about being "popular" and "politically correct" than staying loyal to the man who put them on the bench.
"I put certain people on the United States Supreme Court who totally misrepresented who they were, and the true ideology for which they stand," Trump fumed.
He complained about Republican justices' questioning in the birthright citizenship case, predicting he would lose, and pointed to a near-miss on tariffs where a Brett Kavanaugh dissent came agonizingly close to saving American taxpayers $159 billion.
Trump reserved his warmest words for the Democratic justices he was attacking, praising them for sticking "together like glue" and saying "I respect that, a lot."
"They are an immovable force, and there is nothing that can be done to change that," he wrote.
The meltdown comes after the same justices Trump is calling disloyal handed his administration numerous victories last year, with the LA Times reporting the court "broadly expanded Trump's power" throughout 2025.
President Donald Trump raged at one of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board writers on Tuesday in a new Truth Social post.
Trump directly addressed Elliot Kaufman of the WSJ's editorial board in the post and a recent op-ed he wrote titled "The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker." He argued that the war in Iran has been effectively won because the U.S. has decimated Iran's political and military leadership.
Kaufman argued in the editorial that the Iranians had "swindled" Trump three times by promising to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and then closing it again to extract more concessions from the U.S.
"An IDIOT on The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board, named Elliot Kaufman, just wrote an Op Ed entitled, 'The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker,'" Trump wrote. "Really? For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me — And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters!"
"Other Presidents did nothing to stop them, a BLIGHT on the Office of the Presidency! But despite all of this, I have a MORON on the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal writing about me being taken for a 'sucker,'" Trump added. "Iran certainly doesn’t think so! Neither does anyone else. I guess Rupert Murdoch told him to write it this way, because The Wall Street Journal has lost its way, no longer required reading, just another failing political 'RAG!'"
CNN's Kristen Holmes reported on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration is wading through chaos in its efforts to end the war in Iran because it is struggling to identify who is leading the talks for the Iranian regime.
Trump and the Iranians have been negotiating a settlement to the war since agreeing to a ceasefire earlier this month. Last week, Trump dispatched a delegation led by Vice President JD Vance to Pakistan to negotiate an end to the war, but the delegation came back empty-handed.
Holmes reported that it seemed likely the U.S. delegation could meet the same fate this week if they can't identify Iran's lead negotiator.
"We're hearing there were varied proposals coming back from the Iranians, and there was a lot of confusionas to who is actually in chargeand if the delegation that theywere working with had anyauthority to make a deal," Holmes told Erin Burnett on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
"Now,this has been an ongoing issue," she added. "I'll remind you, we reported onthis before they even went tothe first round of negotiations.And then, after the second round of negotiations, Vice President JD Vance said they didn't knowthat the people they weretalking to actually had thatauthority. It seems pretty clearnow that the White House issaying they're just not sure whois in charge in Iran."
President Donald Trump's latest "scam" shows his administration is being run like a "going out of business sale," according to one lawyer.
Trump is reportedly in talks with the IRS to secure a large settlement after the agency released part of his tax returns to a Congressional committee during his first administration. Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of the "Legal AF" podcast, argued during a new episode that the "scam" revealed that Trump appears to be acknowledging that his "lame duck" status is approaching faster than he imagined.
"Are we okay with that as a presidency?" Popok said. "Donald Trump doesn't care because he's already in the midst of a going-out-of-business sale. He knows he's a lame duck. He knows he's dead politically in another six or seven months. So, until that happens, we're renaming buildings, we're taking money, we're cutting off funding, we're cutting taxes, and now we're paying ourselves from the Internal Revenue Service."
The IRS settlement is one of multiple settlements Trump has sought during his second administration. Trump has also sought to secure $230 million from his Department of Justice for costs related to the investigation into his 2016 campaign's ties to the Russian government.
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice sent chills down the spines of political analysts and observers on Tuesday after it indicted a prominent advocacy group.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the Trump DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud related to the group's efforts to infiltrate extremist operations across the country. The investigation was announced just days after a bombshell report from The Atlantic revealed that Patel is frequently absent from his job and often drinks to excess.
“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair told The Associated Press that the organization "will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.”
Political analysts and observers reacted to the news on social media.
"Chilling and outrageous," Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) posted on X. "This is all part of their ongoing project to silence dissent through intimidation. We will not let them get away with it."
"If this is true, right-wing organizations like Project Veritas & O'Keefe Media Group best be concerned. What's good for the goose is good for the gander," lawyer Mark S. Zaid posted on X.
"Oh for God's sake," Timothy McBride, a professor at Washington University, posted on Bluesky.
"Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment," journalist Melissa Ryan posted on Bluesky. "Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc."
A Republican strategist urged another of President Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries to resign during a CNN segment on Tuesday.
Shermichael Singleton, who hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, said during a segment on "The Lead" with CNN's Jake Tapper that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should resign from the administration for being too much of a distraction. Lutnick is facing scrutiny over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and for allegedly profiting from Trump's tariff policies.
"I don't know ifhe did anything illegal, butI'll say this as a strategist:you never want any person aroundthe principal to bring theirbaggage, particularly withmidterms coming up," Singleton told Tapper. "We have awar in Iran, which we're trying tobring a resolution to. You havethe economy that is, quitefrankly, unstable for half ofthe country, and you have apresident and a party that wantsto keep power."
"And so, for me,with all due respect to Mr. Lutnick and anyone else thatmay be a deal-breaker for President Trump, I would say yougotta go!" he added. "You're too big adistraction, and the presidentjust, frankly, doesn't need it."
CNN anchor Jake Tapper pushed Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) to answer his questions, with the longtime journalist pressing the Trump administration's claims over its objectives in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
As President Donald Trump announced an extended ceasefire as the current deadline was set to end, Flood told Tapper during a live broadcast on Tuesday that congressional leaders had been receiving classified briefings surrounding the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
But Tapper didn't stop his line of questioning — multiple times — saying he wanted Flood to answer direct questions about the Iranian regime, its nuclear capabilities and what the plan was for America's military operations.
"I guess I'm just confusedbecause President Trump has beensaying for weeks that that thathe won the war, the U.S.won the war, and [Pete] Hegseth andothers have said that the Iranian Navy is at the bottom ofthe sea and they don't have thecapability of doing the missileconstruction that they did, theballistic missiles and thenuclear material is underground," Tapper said. "I'm just I'm trying tounderstand what the metric isother than opening the Strait of Hormuz for this to be over for.You say nobody wants to cut andrun. OK. But what still needsto be done?"
Flood had a quick response.
"Making sure that there is nomore nuclear weapons that comesout of Iran," Flood said.
Tapper wasn't satisfied with that.
"But what's the metricfor that? I mean, because itsounds as though they're prettyclose to having achieved that," Tapper said. "If the missiles are destroyedthe way President Trump and Pete Hegseth say they are."
But Flood said that wasn't good enough.
"Nuclear pretty close isn'tachieved — and by the way, a lotof this is handled in aclassified setting with actualmetrics and actual updates," Flood explained.
"Andthat is not something that canbe shared on CNN or any othernetwork right now," he added. "You know, weare into this now. We have amission to rid ourselves of, ofa nuclear prepared Iran. Thepeople of America have checksand balances and that there'sgoing to be a request forsupplemental. There are certainlimitations on how long thepresident can engage in thisway. There's going to have tobe an opportunity for the White Houseto share with Congress wherethey're at. And I know that theguys behind me that are 100% fornot only the cattle industry,but national security and safetyfrom a terrorism sponsor. Wewant it all. We want all of the above. And I think we can haveit, but it doesn't happen on a24-hour news cycle. It happensover time. And it happens whenour military leaders can go tobed at night knowing that wedon't have to worry about adirty bomb or a nuclear bomblanding somewhere in Israel orin the United States."
A former Capitol Police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection sued a MAGA media outlet on Tuesday, alleging that she was defamed during one of their "nonsense" investigations.
Shauni Kerkhoff, who now works in the CIA, sued Blaze Media over a theory the outlet concocted about her being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber and for refusing to retract the report after Brian Cole Jr. confessed, according to the lawsuit. The 127-page document does not list a specific amount of damages claimed because damage "continues to accrue," it reads.
"They simply made it up," Kerkhoff's lawyers argued in the lawsuit. "Ms. Kerkhoff was not the January 6 pipe bomber. She was a normal, private person—with a family, career, and hobbies—who was at home with her boyfriend and their dog at the exact time a hooded suspect was captured on CCTV placing pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. Defendants disregarded these facts—and Ms. Kerkhoff’s humanity—when they plucked her from obscurity to satisfy the whims of their conspiracy theory."
According to the document, two Blaze Media reporters accused Kerkhoff of being the suspected pipe bomber after conducting a "gait analysis" of security footage from that day. Kerkhoff's lawyers called the methodology "nonsense."
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice submitted — and then quickly rescinded — a subpoena for one of the president's perceived political foes, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that U.S. prosecutors working to determine whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress rescinded a recent subpoena to have Brennan testify before a grand jury. The rescission occurred when Trump removed his former attorney general, Pam Bondi, from her post after she failed to indict several of the president's perceived enemies, such as former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump had also recently installed another one of his personal attorneys to oversee the so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation to determine whether officials in the former Biden administration broke the law when they investigated Trump.
Joseph diGenova, who previously represented Trump during his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, was appointed on Monday, but the report says it remains unclear whether he played a role in rescinding Brennan's subpoena.
"The withdrawal on Monday night of the subpoenas, which the Justice Department had issued over the weekend, was a shaky start for a new phase of the investigation," according to the report. "The department last week removed a career prosecutor who had been overseeing the matter, Maria Medetis Long, who was said to have objected to moving forward with it."
Kennedy joined CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena" on Tuesday, where the two discussed the recent departure of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer following allegations of impropriety by DeRemer and her husband. DeRemer is the third cabinet secretary to leave the Trump administration this year. The other two are former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Kennedy told Hunt that DeRemer's departure is unlikely to be the last.
"In terms of the Labor Secretary, I think what she did was wise. I think she read the room. I think she should go home and have a very serious conversation with her husband based on the reporting that I've seen," Kennedy said of DeRemer's decision to step down.
"Will there be others? I don't know. My guess is that after the midterms — win, lose, or draw — there will be some more changes," he added. But that's up to the president."
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