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'Oh my God!' MSNBC hosts laugh at sad support for Trump's 'Marie Antoinette Ballroom'

Reacting to polling that shows Americans overwhelmingly oppose Donald Trump tearing down the East Wing to build a gaudy 90,000 square foot ballroom that will dwarf the White House, an MSNBC panel could not control its glee about the presidential misstep.

On ”Morning Joe,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough kicked off the pile-on over Trump’s folly after co-host Willie Geist reported that a Ipsos/Washington Post poll showed only 28 percent of those polled supported the construction of the oversized edifice.

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'Sort of like war': Rift exposed as Supreme Court liberals clash on how to face Trump

A philosophical divide is tearing a rift between two liberal Supreme Court justices opposed to the right-wing slide of the institution, according to a report Friday.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan has long navigated the Supreme Court's ideological divide with strategic restraint, carefully managing her approach to confronting the court's rightward shift. Her internal struggle was most revealing two years ago when she drafted a scathing dissent against Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. during the student loan forgiveness case, only to delete the most heated passages before publication.

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'Truly shocking': Kennedy Center insider stunned by extent of sales collapse due to Trump

Under the stewardship of Donald Trump, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is seeing a ticket sales collapse not experienced since the year following the Covid pandemic.

In fact, current numbers are worse.

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MSNBC debate comes to screeching halt as Morning Joe panics over Epstein allegation

An accusation by a member of the House that Donald Trump “took advantage of young girls” brought an MSNBC panel discussing the government shutdown to a screeching halt on Friday morning.

Invited on “Morning Joe” to discuss the prospect of the shutdown coming to an end, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) managed to bring up the prospect of the House reconvening, which would set in motion a vote on releasing the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files.

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'Not even close': Trump gets reality check as CNN rides roughshod over popularity brag

President Donald Trump's claims about his own popularity got hit by a brutal CNN fact check Friday.

The 79-year-old president lamented this week that he is constitutionally prohibited from running for a third term, which is indeed correct, but CNN fact checker Daniel Dale ran roughshod over his assertions about his poll numbers, saying he "said two things about his popularity that are not even close to true."

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'Terrified': Jasmine Crockett believes she has Trump on the ropes — and he's panicking

President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reflect his growing fear of the Democratic lawmaker – at least according to Crockett whose clashes with right-wing media and lawmakers have helped propel her onto the national stage.

“I process [attacks from Trump and right-wing media] as they believe that I’m a threat,” Crockett told Politico. “Listen, you’re not talking about anybody who’s not relevant. That’s just the reality. No one is wasting capital on anyone that is not relevant.”

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'Now we are in power': Trump mulls 'nuclear option' in threatening midnight rant

In a rambling late-night attack, Donald Trump first urged Republicans to use the “nuclear option” to end the government shutdown in a short Truth Social Post and then expanded upon it in a rambling screed where he declared, “We are in power.”

With polling showing that Republicans who control the White House and both chambers in Congress are being hit with the blame for the government shutdown that is two days away from being the longest in history, Trump wrote on Truth Social that it’s time for the GOP to ignore the Democrats and force the issue despite possible fallout.

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White House not grand enough for Trump — but he has huge plans to change that: biographer

President Donald Trump has even larger ambitions for his White House renovation project than he has revealed publicly, according to his biographer.

Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, discussed the president's ambitions for the ballroom renovation project, that involves demolishing the East Wing, on a new episode of the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast on The Daily Beast.

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'Completes the corruption': Trump DOJ's 'utterly appalling' move stuns legal expert

Legal expert and MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance penned a searing essay on Thursday, accusing the Department of Justice of becoming completely corrupted by President Donald Trump's attempts to rewrite history.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice fired two prosecutors who described January 6 as a "riot" in a sentencing memo that also mentioned Trump's name, according to reports. The sentencing memo was filed in a case against Taylor Taranto, a MAGA fan who was arrested outside of President Barack Obama's residence in Washington, D.C., after saying, "I gotta get the shot," reports indicate.

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Big-name CBS journalist expected to leave after Trump attack

Gayle King, a high-profile journalist at CBS News, is planning to depart as the anchor of "CBS Mornings" next year after a spate of attacks from President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

Variety reported on Thursday that King may shift to a new role at CBS News, which is now under the ownership of Paramount Skydance and the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. CBS told the outlet that it would prefer for King to stay with the network and produce her own show, according to the report.

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Ex-Republican makes stunning claim behind GOP's big 'freak out' over phone records

A prominent former Republican strategist made a stunning claim on Thursday about the party's latest "freak out" over subpoenaed phone records.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice recently revealed that former special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed the phone records of several prominent Republicans. One lawmaker who was targeted, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), said in a statement on X that theinvestigation was an attempt to "dismantle the Republican Party, destroy me and other elected members of Congress, and take down President Trump."

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'Biggest pain point': MSNBC's Chris Hayes tears into Trump's massive broken promise

President Donald Trump has failed in his promises to deliver lower grocery costs, MSNBC's Chris Hayes said on Thursday's edition of "All In" — whatever he might say to the contrary.

This comes as Trump, who has put pressure on prices with a series of draconian tariffs, moves forward with a plan to import large amounts of beef from Argentina to try to control prices, which has proven highly controversial among Republican lawmakers representing areas dependent on ranching, which would suffer from the competition.

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'Are you kidding me?' Kamala Harris furiously bashes Trump in expletive-laden rant

Former Vice President Kamala Harris furiously bashed President Donald Trump during a new podcast interview, according to a report.

HuffPost reported on Thursday that Harris discussed the Trump administration's use of food stamps as political leverage on a new episode of comedian Jon Stewart's "The Weekly Show" podcast. She described his tactics as a "grand gesture" of destruction.

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