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President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) have consistently tried to blame Democrats for the federal government shutdown that has now dragged on for weeks — but Trump also keeps uttering contradictions that throw Johnson un under the bus, strategist said Monday.

"Trump both wants to pretend that he is being magnanimous and he’s governing for all of America, while at the same time, he obviously just wants to govern by fiat," Fair Share America strategist Maura Quint told Greg Sargent with The New Republic.

President Donald Trump's policies are actively hurting his own base, according to MSNBC's Claire McCaskill, but he's oblivious to their suffering.

The president's trade wars and threats against oil-producing foreign nations, along with his sweeping budget cuts and the ongoing government shutdown, are putting pressure on red states that swept him back into office for a second term, the former Democratic senator told "Morning Joe."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) heaped praise onto President Donald Trump over the weekend while speaking at the the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, — plaudits that quickly derailed into celebrating the administration’s recent wave of state-sanctioned killings.

“I feel good about the Republican Party and where we're going as a nation,” Graham said to an energetic crowd. “We're killing all the right people and we're cutting your taxes! Trump is my favorite president. We've run out of bombs. We didn't run out of bombs in World War II!”

President Donald Trump's efforts to distract from, or deflect blame on, the federal government shutdown have been an utter failure, Axios' Sara Fischer told CNN's Audie Cornish on Monday morning.

The shutdown, which has lasted for weeks with no indications of an end in sight, began over the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies for millions of people. Democrats are refusing to provide Republicans with the votes to reopen the government until they negotiate over extending those subsides, and there are also demands for a guarantee that Trump's budget director cannot unilaterally cancel the money.

President Donald Trump’s decision Sunday to reverse course on attending a landmark Supreme Court case hearing could very well be due to the president hoping to avoid an "awkward environment” that could end up jeopardizing his trade policy, The New York Times reported Monday.

In mid-October, Trump floated the idea of attending the Supreme Court’s hearing scheduled for Wednesday where justices will rule on the president’s authority to impose tariffs, a case he’s called “one of the most important in the history of the country.” He ultimately decided against it, however, writing Sunday that he did “not want to distract” the court.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took a jab at President Donald Trump early Monday morning over what he called the president’s “unhinged” interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, issuing a threat similar to one the president had made last year to file a complaint against the network.

“Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview,” Schumer wrote in a social media post on X early Monday morning.

President Donald Trump's apparent "self-dealing" is becoming a political issue for the Republican Party, according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.

The president and his family have raked in up to $1 billion since he returned to office in January, according to some estimates, and Trump's sons have reportedly used their father's position for their own benefit in business ventures. But the "Morning Joe" host said this weekend's "Great Gatsby"-themed party at Mar-a-Lago exemplified a growing problem for Republicans.

President Donald Trump got snippy as he was pressed about a suspicious pardon for a cryptocurrency billionaire linked to his own family at the end of his latest "60 Minutes" interview — but that question got slashed out of the broadcast, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.

The question, asked by CBS News' Norah O'Donnell, related to clemency for Binance cryptocurrency exchange founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who pleaded guilty to money laundering violations before being let out of jail, at the same time the Trump family was expanding its business ventures into cryptocurrency and after they made a deal with C.Z. himself.

Sam Stein, managing editor of "The Bulwark," bashed President Donald Trump's Gatsby-themed Halloween party, saying it was an example of the "incredible and sad dichotomy" of the impact of the Trump administration.

On Friday, Trump held a Gilded Age party at his estate in southern Florida, Mar-a-Lago. Reports indicate the event was attended by administration officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as high-profile Republican donors and other wealthy individuals.

A prominent political analyst revealed the "unprecedented features" of President Donald Trump's strikes on alleged drug boats in international waters in a new essay published on Sunday.

Richard Galant, executive producer of Now It's History on Substack and a Senior Fellow at New America, argued in a new essay that Trump seems to be drawing from the authority other presidents have used during America's War on Drugs. He compared the strikes to operations conducted under the Hoover and Nixon administrations.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s neighbors sent him a "pointed message" by organizing a protest on his front lawn, according to a new report.

The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that Kennedy's neighbors placed a skeleton sitting in a chair on his lawn, holding a sign that says "I wish I took my vaccine!" There is also a small bottle of Tylenol at the skeleton's feet, alluding to Kennedy's comments about links between Tylenol usage during pregnancy and autism. They also put a headstone in his yard that reads "I did my own research," according to the report.

Prominent political analyst Ezra Klein of the New York Times argued in a new essay published on Sunday that Democrats need to adopt a new "spirit" if they want to defeat Trumpism.

Klein argued in the essay that the Democrats have undergone a culture change over the last several elections, one that has left them more room to grow on the political left than it does on the right. He added that this presents an opportunity for the party to grow into areas that are otherwise leaning toward supporting President Donald Trump.

The top drug regulator at the Food and Drug Administration resigned on Sunday after it was revealed he undertook a "revenge campaign" against a former colleague, according to a new report.

Dr. George Tidmarsh, who was appointed to lead the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, or CDER, in June 2025, was accused of accepting bribes and defaming a former colleague in a lawsuit from a Canadian pharmaceutical company in Maryland on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported.