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'Holy projection': Internet erupts after Trump's Christmas Day screed

Political analysts and observers on Thursday chided President Donald Trump's dark screed against "sleazebags" and "losers."

Trump posted a holiday message on his Truth Social platform, where he decried how the recently released Jeffrey Epstein files have impacted his presidency, and attacked political enemies like the Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for forcing the administration to release the files. Trump also threatened that this year may be "the last Christmas" because of how he's been treated.

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'A major defeat': Legal expert surprised by Supreme Court's latest 'rebuke' of Trump

A legal expert said on Thursday that he was surprised by a recent Supreme Court ruling that could make it more difficult for President Donald Trump to achieve a key policy goal.

This week, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump cannot deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, arguing that he has not proven that appropriate conditions exist.

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'No line he can cross': Trump's niece reveals his 'obsession' has infected GOP

Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, revealed during a recent podcast interview that the president is driven by an "obsession" that appears to have infected the GOP.

President Trump has displayed some "completely indecent" behavior recently, according to his niece, including the mind-boggling statement he issued after director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, were murdered in their Los Angeles home. Trump blamed Reiner's killing on "Trump Derangement Syndrome," a made-up disease Trump uses to demean his critics.

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'Enjoy what may be your last Christmas!' Trump attacks 'sleazebags' in dark holiday screed

President Donald Trump attacked people he described as "losers" and "sleazebags" in a dark screed on social media on Christmas night.

In the post, Trump attempted to distance himself from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, someone he has previously referred to as a close friend. This comes at a time when new revelations from recently released Epstein files show Trump rode on Epstein's private plane, dubbed the "Lolita Express," at least eight times. Other documents indicate Trump spent time at Epstein's home in New York City, and that the two men exchanged birthday pleasantries.

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Trump announces Christmas night strikes against ISIS in Nigeria

President Donald Trump announced on social media that the U.S. conducted a strike against ISIS in Nigeria on Christmas night.

"Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was."

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'Give us about three years': Jimmy Kimmel skewers Trump in Christmas plea to US allies

Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel skewered President Donald Trump in his alternate Christmas address this year, a speech that read like a plea to U.S. allies.

Kimmel was invited to give a Christmas Day speech billed as an alternative to the Monarch's annual address in the United Kingdom. During the speech, he acknowledged the problems Trump has created in the U.S. and across the globe, and implored American allies not to give up on the U.S. The address aired on Channel 4 on Christmas Day.

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'Blatant abuse of power': Lawyers sound off against RFK Jr.'s latest attack on health care

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest attack on transgender health care faced a wall of resistance on Wednesday after 19 states sued the Department of Health and Human Services.

Last week, Kennedy announced that HHS would stop funding health care providers that provide gender-affirming care to minors, a move that caused 19 states to sue the agency, Axios reported. The lawsuit claims the move exceeds Kennedy's authority as HHS Secretary and substantially violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal lawmaking procedures.

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Republicans are 'anxious' about having an unpopular Trump campaign for them in midterms

New York Times White House Correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs says Republicans are facing a tough decision and probably a delicate dance around how much to include an unpopular president in their re-election campaigns in 2026.

“We're talking about eight Republican seats, two Democrats, that … people are focused on and on the senate side of the capitol, we have battlegrounds … from the middle of the country going east: Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Iowa, Texas, Minnesota,” said CNN “Inside Politics” anchor Dana Bash.

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'Un-American': Trump's 'soulless goons' accused of major violation with 'savior' statement

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in the hot seat on Christmas after her department released a statement that numerous observers flagged as a violation of the Constitution.

Homeland Security alarmed some critics when, on Christmas Eve, the department took to social media and wrote, "Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior."

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'Pathetic loser': Trump spends his Christmas posting over 100 times to social media

On Christmas Eve 2025, President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform and posted: "Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women's Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement."

Trump continued, " What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and yesterday, a 4.3 GDP, two points better than expected. Tariffs have given us Trillions of Dollars in Growth and Prosperity, and the strongest National Security we have ever had. We are respected again, perhaps like never before. God Bless America!!! President DJT."

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'Unfathomably cruel' Kristi Noem is rapidly 'falling out of favor with Trump': report

Author Melissa Gira Grant argues President Donald Trump appears to be tiring of United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Before Trump’s second term, the idea that somebody like Noem would head the Department of Homeland Security seemed “beyond unlikely,” Grant writes in The New Republic. “But her cruelty once handed this power was foreseeable. If Noem’s name rang any bells for most people before the Senate confirmed her to head DHS this January (to their enduring shame), it was because she shot her 14-month-old dog to death in a gravel pit and included the grisly scene in her election-year memoir.”

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'I will break you!' Gloves come off as two major anti-Trump ex-insiders fight each other

Two former Trump insiders who are now activists against the president turned against one another in the run-up to Christmas.

Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration and was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info on Hunter Biden, has gone to war against former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen was previously convicted for campaign finance violations.

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'Something's rotten': Conspiracy theories fly as new DOJ Epstein note burned by both sides

Conservative and liberal powerhouses united around Christmas in their condemnation of a new statement about the Epstein files made by the Department of Justice, with some already notifying the investigative authorities.

The Justice Department on Christmas Eve made a surprising announcement, writing, "The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case."

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