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'Wow': Journalist stunned by epic reach of Senator's speech on Trump admin corruption

Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane expressed astonishment on Sunday at the viral reach of a Senate floor speech by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) cataloging alleged corruption across the first 500 days of President Donald Trump's second term.

"Wow," MacFarlane wrote, noting that Murphy's floor speech on Trump administration corruption "has now received 1 million views."

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'Stupid' Trump mocked by conservatives for revealing his ignorance on US passport basics

President Donald Trump's unveiling of a redesigned U.S. passport — complete with a "welcome" message and an image of himself — drew ridicule this week, with critics arguing the greeting makes no sense on a document meant for Americans traveling abroad.

Trump had posted an image of what he called the new commemorative passport, marking the country's 250th anniversary, writing: "The U.S.A.'s New Passport, which says, 'Welcome, but be good!' President DJT." The design featured a photo of the president alongside patriotic imagery.

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Trump's overnight rant accidentally boosted his enemy in yet 'another self-own': critics

President Donald Trump's late-night tirade against journalist Maggie Haberman over her new book backfired in real time this week, as critics — including a fellow conservative — seized on the attack to mock the president and, in at least one case, boost sales of the very book he was trashing.

Trump had unloaded on Haberman in an all-caps Truth Social post, dismissing the book as "mostly made up" and deriding the New York Times reporter as a "third rate writer," while repeatedly mangling her name as "Magot Hagerman."

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Trump failures spark global 'shift' — and his irrelevancy in 'only a few months': expert

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch his unpopular war against Iran earlier this year has already sparked a global “shift,” renowned economic professor Richard Wolff argued recently, one that also set the president on an imminent path toward total irrelevancy in “only a few months.”

A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former professor at Yale, Wolff pointed to the recent progressive sweep last week in New York as evidence of his theory, and compared it directly with the civil unrest sparked during the Vietnam War that ultimately helped – at least, in part – bring about the U.S. withdrawal.

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Trump's war backfires as Iran now declares it must 'obtain the atomic bomb': MAGA expert

Iranian state media has reportedly declared that the country now has "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb," according to a post circulating online — a statement that, if accurate, would mark a dramatic escalation amid the ongoing exchange of strikes between the U.S. and Iran.

The claim was relayed by the account The Hormuz Letter, which posted what it described as a breaking statement from Iranian state media. According to that post, Iranian state media argued the country must "absolutely reach nuclear deterrence" before current negotiations can be conducted, framing the pursuit of a weapon as necessary to remove what it called "the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran" from the table.

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'Presidents don't do this': Trump ridiculed for tour of remodeling projects amid turmoil

President Donald Trump spent more than an hour and a half on a rainy Sunday morning inspecting renovation plans for a federal golf course in Washington, D.C. — a side project that drew mockery online, particularly given that it came just days after he blocked a housing relief bill.

The outing was documented in real time by White House pool reporters and amplified by critics who saw the priorities on display as telling.

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Trump 'on the brink' of receiving historic shellacking from Supreme Court: law professor

The Supreme Court is “on the brink” of ruling on major cases regarding President Donald Trump’s “most audacious gambits,” Bloomberg reported Sunday, and one law professor is predicting the outcome may bode poorly for the commander in chief.

The Supreme Court is set to rule this week on two cases that will determine whether Trump can eliminate birthright citizenship and remove leaders from independent federal agencies — as he attempted with Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook.

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'That wasn't true': CNN catches Trump in lie about his crowd size

President Donald Trump's claim that "everybody" stayed until the end of his State Fair kickoff speech was false — and it revived a boast he has been making, and getting wrong, for years, according to a CNN fact-check by Daniel Dale.

Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the address he had delivered the previous day to launch the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Trump's weekend golf outing draws jabs from his critics: 'Costing taxpayers millions'

President Donald Trump's trip to his Virginia golf course on Saturday generated a wave of online commentary, with critics seizing on everything from the cost of his travel to the device in his hand.

Several accounts documented the president's return to the White House after lunch at the club. Freelance photographer Andrew Leyden, posting under the handle @PenguinSix, shared a series of photos of Trump in a white "USA" cap waving as he arrived back, writing simply that the president "has returned to the White House following a lunch at his golf course."

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Mike Johnson floats permanently branding own skin in honor of Trump: 'On my shoulder'

House Speaker Mike Johnson floated the idea of getting a tattoo Sunday in honor of President Donald Trump and his agenda, telling Fox News exactly what it would say and where he would get it.

Speaking with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Johnson was asked about Trump’s controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, which Trump has furiously insisted Republicans instead refer to as the “SAVE America Act,” despite the bill officially being called the “SAVE Act.”

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GOP is finally 'coming to understand' threat Trump poses — but may be 'too late': analysis

President Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks sparking chaos for Senate Republicans, who only now, according to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, are “coming to understand” the threat the president poses, though the realization may be “a bit too late.”

Trump has aggressively pushed Senate Republicans to advance his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, despite Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s insistence that the bill lacks adequate support in the GOP caucus. Trump also derailed the Senate GOP’s entire agenda with a surprise cancellation of a Senate confirmation hearing, and caused further chaos by refusing to sign a bi-partisan bill on affordable housing.

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'Like a thunderbolt': Trump admin busted for 'seismic' secret plan to gut watchdog board

The Trump White House waged a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on the obscure federal board responsible for shielding government workers from unfair firings, ultimately securing a ruling that could hand the president sweeping power to purge the civil service and install loyalists throughout the government, according to a New York Times investigation.

The report centers on the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency whose job is to act as a neutral arbiter between federal agencies and dismissed workers. In a March ruling the Times described as landing "like a thunderbolt" in legal circles, the board broke with decades of precedent and embraced the White House's argument that Article II of the Constitution gives President Donald Trump the power to fire officials without due process.

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'Something has changed': Reporter reveals Trump's fear — and the celeb weaponizing it

President Donald Trump has successfully thwarted one of his greatest fears, journalist Molly Jong-Fast argued in an op-ed published in The New York Times Sunday, but one celebrity appeared to stand alone in weaponizing that fear against him.

That fear, Jong-Fast argued, was that of celebrities undermining his messaging through fierce public condemnations. However, as she observed earlier this month while covering the Tony Awards in New York City, many celebrities remain paralyzed with “fear” of retribution from the president.

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