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MAGA fumes at 'terrible person' Trump for dumping on MTG after resignation announcement

Donald Trump’s decision to go after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in an early Saturday morning attack is not sitting well with MAGA fans who took to Truth Social to express their displeasure with the president with one complaining, “Ohhh My God! The government looks like a kindergarten.”

Reacting to MTG’s surprise resignation announcement in a video posted to X, Friday night, Trump wrote, “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits.’ Her relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her. For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD.”

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'Marjorie went bad': Trump launches ugly attack on MTG after surprise resignation

Early Saturday morning, Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who stunned Washington, DC, late Friday night with her plan to resign her seat in the House of Representatives in early January.

According to the controversial lawmaker who had been one of the president’s most ardent backers, “I’m going back to the people that I love to live my life to the fullest as I always have and I look forward to a new path ahead. I’ll be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026, and I look forward to seeing many of you again sometime in the future.”

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily restores GOP-backed Texas map: report

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas’s GOP-favored congressional map, a move that delivers a significant advantage to Republicans as the midterm election filing deadline in the Lone Star State approaches, according to media reports.

The decision from the George W. Bush-appointed justice allows Texas to use the new district boundaries for the upcoming election while the legal challenge continues, Axios reported. The injunction, initially imposed by a three-judge federal panel earlier this week, had halted the use of the map. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials quickly appealed the injunction to the Supreme Court.

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'He is acting cornered': Analyst says this Trump outburst is 'different' — and more 'dire'

Former U.S. Naval War College professor and Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols warned that President Donald Trump’s social media eruptions this week reflect something more alarming than routine presidential tirades: a loss of control over himself.

Presidents often lose control over policy, legislation, or even their parties, Nichols wrote in his Friday opinion piece. “But Donald Trump seems to have lost control over the one thing every person, and especially those with immense power, should always maintain control over: himself.”

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'Political vampire': Analyst says Trump is embracing Dem foe out of self-preservation

In their first meeting today at the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani struck a surprisingly cordial tone, sparking a Daily Beast analyst to wonder if there is “a method behind the niceness.”

In a new analysis on Friday, Daily Beast chief national correspondent David Gardner described the encounter as a calculated move by Trump, who saw the moment as “an opportunity.” Gardner told readers that the meeting allowed the MAGA leader to position himself beside a rising political figure who embodies qualities he lacks.

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'It's over!' Trump links Dem leader to 'money laundering activity' in new rant

Donald Trump on Friday evening linked one of his political opponents to "fraudulent money laundering activity" in a bizarre rant on social media.

The president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to attack Governor Tim Walz, misspelling the Democrat's name.

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'You let us down!' Trump fans rebel against president over comments that 'betray the base'

Donald Trump on Friday met with the man who was elected mayor of New York City, and concluded that despite previous attacks from both parties, Zohran Mamdani is a "rational person." That provoked outrage with Trump's biggest fans.

After the meeting, Trump took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to offer a glowing review of the GOP bogeyman.

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'No one believes you': MAGA diehards accuse FBI head Kash Patel of another huge 'cover up'

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino faced a wave of online backlash Friday after giving an exclusive interview to Fox News Digital about the 2024 near assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

According to the report, the FBI concluded that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone, following what officials described as an unprecedented global investigation that included interviews with thousands of domestic and foreign individuals. The hourlong briefing with the Fox News reporter, conducted Thursday at FBI headquarters, walked through every aspect of the case, according to Patel.

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'Big trouble': Legal expert says Trump DOJ's effort to fix 'screw up' just 'made it worse'

Donald Trump-appointed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan tried to fix a big court "screw up" but ended up making things much worse, according to a legal analyst.

Halligan's team recently admitted to a grand jury error in the criminal case of Trump foe James Comey, only to later walk back that admission in a second filing that suggested the grand jury was properly made aware of the operative indictment in the case. That second filing will actually "hang" the prosecutors, according to Michael Popok, a national trial lawyer and strategist, and host of the Legal AF podcast.

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'Complete disaster': MAGA rages after Trump delivers 'devastating blow' to ally's campaign

The political world erupted Friday after President Donald Trump publicly rejected GOP claims that New York mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani is a “jihadist” – a moment that immediately blew up Rep. Elise Stefanik’s central campaign message in the New York governor’s race.

And Washington insiders, journalists, and even Stefanik herself quickly chimed in online, as the New York Republican doubled down on her claim just minutes after the Oval Office exchange went viral.

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'Very rational person': Trump dismisses MAGA ally's claim Mamdani is a 'jihadist'

President Donald Trump on Friday distanced himself from Republican attacks portraying New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as a “jihadist,” brushing aside the smear during the pair’s first-ever meeting in the Oval Office.

The moment unfolded when a reporter asked Trump directly whether he believed he was “standing next to a jihadist right now,” a reference to repeated claims made by GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Elise Stefanik that Mamdani – a Democratic Socialist – is a threat to public safety.

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'Disquieting horror': NYT analyst exposes how ICE has 'shattered' lives of legal residents

People who are here legally have had their lives "shattered" by ICE, too, according to interviews conducted by an analyst with the New York Times.

Sarah Wildman, a staff writer and editor in Opinion for the NYT, spoke "to a half-dozen people and their families who have been taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention." According to Wildman, "Each was re-entering, or was already in the country legally. No one was smuggled across the border."

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DOGE staffers lament 'mistakes' that 'turned into fear and revulsion and hatred': report

Some DOGE staffers lamented "mistakes" the agency made while it tried to slash federal spending, which caused the department to become hated by its colleagues, according to a new report.

One of President Donald Trump's first actions in his second term was to create the Department of Government Efficiency, which was led by SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk. The purpose of DOGE was to decrease federal spending by up to $2 trillion, according to the agency, although the amount of money the department saved the government is still unknown.

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