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President Donald Trump's approach to the upcoming elections is lacking the bluster of previous fights — and insiders suggest he thinks Republicans have already lost, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

The president has kept a strategic distance from candidates in races, including in Virginia and New Jersey — and has refused to pour the millions of dollars into contests that he has in the past.

As 42 million Americans missed their first food assistance payment Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown, President Trump attended a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago resort — sparking outrage from critics who described the event as ‘tone deaf.”

“Trump and Rubio at the Mar-a-Lago Halloween Party, on day 31 of the shutdown,” wrote Danny Kemp, the White House correspondent for AFP, in a social media post on X Friday night. “Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody,’ we’re told.”

In a landmark immunity case last year, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts argued that sweeping presidential immunity was necessary to prevent an executive branch that "cannibalizes" itself. Roberts claimed that without such protection, a president would be "free to prosecute his predecessors, yet unable to boldly and fearlessly carry out his duties for fear that he may be next."

But that sweeping protection might have just been thrown away by President Donald Trump, two experienced federal law experts warned Saturday.

The White House confidently predicted a swift resolution to the government shutdown as it started last month — with White House officials believing Democrats would quickly capitulate.

The fact that it's still going has left President Donald Trump dumbfounded — and furious, insiders told Politico.

As the shutdown enters its second month, the administration's miscalculation has become increasingly apparent, the report stated. "Trump, he's had it with these people, because he knows they're playing politics," said an anonymous White House source. "Nobody thought it was going to last this long."

As millions of families across the U.S. face loss of food aid over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Friday decided to show off photos of a White House bathroom that he boasted had been refurbished in “highly polished, statuary marble.”

Trump posted photos of the bathroom on his Truth Social platform, and explained that he decided to remodel it because he was dissatisfied with the “art deco green tile style” that had been implemented during a previous renovation — which he described as “totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era.”

On Tuesday, Slate writer Shirin Ali reports nearly half the country will head to the polls to cast ballots on a range of major questions and offices. However, “President Donald Trump just made a not-so-subtle power grab” to complicate that vote in some blue states.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that federal monitors will be sent to California and New Jersey to ensure "ballot security," said Ali, adding that the move has “sparked fear on social media."

A federal judge on Friday gave a thumbs-down to President Donald Trump's directive requiring federal voter registration forms to include a requirement to provide proof-of-citizenship paperwork.

According to PBS News, "U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S. elections," determining that this order would violate the constitutional separation of powers because the executive branch doesn't have power over election administration.

A "friendly pool" by officials in the Trump administration shows just how much they "miscalculated" how long Democrats would be able to dig in on their demands on shutting down the government, according to a new report.

Politico reported Friday evening that several officials in the administration entered a friendly wager on the length of the shutdown.

President Donald Trump posted a lengthy manifesto to Truth Social on Friday, refusing to accept responsibility for the imminent end of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and potential hunger for millions of low-income Americans — and telling affected people to call Democrats and demand they cave to him in the shutdown fight instead.

Despite two federal courts instructing Trump to release emergency SNAP funding for the task, he continued to insist he didn't have the power to do so.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department just got caught lying in court — and it certainly wasn't the first time, according to a new analysis.

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern pointed out Friday that prosecutors "keep lying brazenly" to the judge and, when given the opportunity, don't correct the record.

MSNBC producer Steve Benen noticed President Donald Trump posting an exclamation point-laden demand on Truth Social for Democrats to “do something” about the state of U.S. healthcare.

“As I have said for years, [Obamacare is a disaster]! Rates are going through the roof for really bad healthcare!" Trump wrote.