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'Uh': Onlookers stunned after Trump makes 'bizarrely monstrous' comment about youngest son

Political observers were shocked late on Thursday night when Donald Trump made a comment about his son, Barron, that some deemed to be "weird."

At an event, the president said of his wife Melania's most recent project, "I just heard about that for the first time. The only thing I can tell you, I know one thing for sure, it's going to be great for children. I don't know what it is she's doing. She loves children. She's got a wonderful boy. And she's very proud of her boy."

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'All bets are off': Abysmal vision shows what happens if Dems squander midterms

Intelligencer writer Ed Kilgore says Friday thaat four years under President Donald Trump felt "like 40” during his first administration — but that was nothing "compared to his second."

In just a year, Kilgore wrote, the nation saw the appointment “of some of the most controversial appointees in living memory, a blizzard of executive orders, and then the passage of the most sweeping single package of legislation in the history of Congress. Toss in the occasional military strike or domestic National Guard deployment, regular raids by masked ICE and border-control agents, and serial disfigurement of the White House, and you’ve got the show that never ends.

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White House denies congresswoman's suggestion that Trump's taking Alzheimer drug

A Democratic lawmaker's "curious" theory about President Donald Trump's health forced an official White House denial.

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) tweeted last week that the 79-year-old president is showing signs he’s taking the Alzheimer’s disease drug Leqembi, and The Daily Beast's Farrah Tomazin asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to comment on the congresswoman's evidence.

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Former Trump appointee raises red flag over 'elderly' president dragging the GOP down

During an appearance on MS NOW on Friday morning, a former Donald Trump appointee to the State Department expressed alarm at the president’s collapse when it comes to addressing voters' concerns and suggested age maybe taking it’s toll.

Speaking with “Way Too Early” host Ali Vitali, Matthew Bartlett, now a GOP strategist, called the atmosphere for the GOP dangerous with the midterms right around the corner while suggesting the party should have anticipated the president’s decline.

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Trump voter bashes president's 'tone deaf' new move as a 'public relations spectacle'

A conservative Texas mom who voted for President Donald Trump slammed his effort to address the affordability crisis as an insulting "public relations spectacle."

The president's economic approval rating dropped to his worst ever, at 31 percent, as he hit the road this week for the first stop in his affordability tour to reassure anxious Americans about higher costs of living, but USA Today columnist Nicole Russell gave his performance a big thumbs-down.

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New emails suggest Trump made 'insulting' bid to fund Epstein-linked modeling 'project'

A new batch of more than 20,000 emails reveals that President Donald Trump may have offered to help fund a proposed modeling company spearheaded by Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, a proposal that was described in an email as “ridiculous and insulting.”

The new batch of emails was obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a nonprofit whistleblower group that shared them selectively with news outlets, including Raw Story. They differ from the document dump of 20,000 pages of files from Epstein’s estate, released by the House Oversight Committee last month.

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'This is crazy': GOP speechwriter calls out MAGA star's remarks about Charlie Kirk killer

Former GOP speechwriter Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," on Thursday roasted a MAGA star's recent remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder in September.

Tucker Carlson, a MAGA media personality, appeared on a recent episode of "This Past Weekend," a podcast hosted by comedian Theo Von. During the episode, Carlson told the audience that they shouldn't trust the FBI's investigation, and floated theories suggesting a foreign government may have been involved.

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'Draw a red circle': Author predicts this cabinet official will be 'first to go'

An author who has written four books about Donald Trump predicted on Thursday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be the first of Trump's cabinet officials to depart the administration because he broke a cardinal rule of Trump World.

Michael Wolff, who most recently authored "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America," discussed Trump's cabinet secretaries on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with The Daily Beast's Joanna Coles. Wolff remarked that it was noteworthy that Trump had not had a cabinet secretary depart yet, and said that was likely because Trump finally learned how to hire "total lackeys."

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'An inflection point': Analyst warns Trump's moves could 'turn America into Venezuela'

President Donald Trump's habit of "bullying the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates could be one of the most damaging of his second term, one analyst warned on Thursday.

Trump has repeatedly attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over holding interest rates too high. The president has also launched a mortgage fraud investigation into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, even though officials in the Trump administration have purchased properties using similar methods as Cook. Trump's goal seems to be bringing the Federal Reserve into his sphere of influence, and if left unchecked, the move could set the U.S. back "years, if not decades," according to Catherine Rampell, economics editor at The Bulwark.

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Trump mulls major reclassification of marijuana

President Donald Trump is considering an executive order to downgrade the classification of marijuana, reported The Washington Post on Thursday evening.

"Trump discussed the plan with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) in a Wednesday phone call from the Oval Office, said four of the people, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly," said the report. "The president is expected to seek to ease access to the drug through an upcoming executive order that directs federal agencies to pursue reclassification, the people said."

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Analyst 'blown away' as Trump finds out how 'little juice he has' in deep red state

Sam Stein, managing editor of The Bulwark, said on Thursday that he was "blown away" after Indiana Republicans rebuffed President Donald Trump's pressure campaign to change their election map ahead of the 2026 midterm.

Indiana's Senate voted down a bill on Thursday to change the state's election map by a 31-19 majority, despite Republicans having a 40-10 majority in the Upper Chamber. The new map would have made the state's two Democratic-held Congressional seats more favorable for Republicans.

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Trump snubs Cabinet secretaries at Congressional ball fearing they won't get applause

President Donald Trump took the time to shout out certain Republican lawmakers at the Congressional Ball on Thursday night, but passed up the chance to tout some of his Cabinet secretaries, fearing they'd face jeers.

Trump was delivering remarks at the annual White House Congressional Ball, in which the president hosts for members of the House and Senate.

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'Can't laugh him off': Analyst warns of MAGA's resurgent 'minor character'

A "minor character" in the MAGA movement is staging a comeback by running for Minnesota governor, and one analyst warned on Thursday that Americans can't simply laugh him off this time around.

Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of MyPillow, announced on Thursday that he is running for Minnesota's governor. If he wins the primary, he will face off against Democratic incumbent Gov. Tim Walz.

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