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President Donald Trump’s continued rejection of calls to shed light on Jeffrey Epstein and any co-conspirators exposes his “entire project” to be an outright “con to his base,” journalist and political analyst Anand Giridharadas said Thursday on MSNBC.

“This is revealing, the fact that he won't simply release these files, bring transparency [and] honor these survivors,” Giridharadas said, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It reveals his entire project to be a con to his base!”

President Donald Trump has never been shy about promoting far-right conspiracy theories, but during Labor Day Weekend 2025, Trump himself became the subject of a conspiracy theory. Trump, for a few days, had been keeping a relatively low profile — and conspiracy theorists claimed that the 79-year-old president had died. Those false claims were refuted when new photos of Trump were posted online and showed that he was very much alive.

Nonetheless, Trump's health is receiving a lot of discussion. And Salon's Chauncey DeVega, in an article published on September 4, emphasizes that Trump's response to health concerns is clearly aimed at his evangelical Christian fundamentalist supporters.

Rosie O'Donnell ridiculed President Donald Trump for threatening again to revoke her U.S. citizenship.

The actress and former "View" panelist moved to Ireland at the start of this year in response to Trump's return to the White House, and the president attacked her again in a Wednesday night posting spree on his Truth Social after lawmakers and sex abuse survivors pushed for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

A White House official made a startling admission on the implications of President Donald Trump’s policy on designating drug traffickers as terrorists, an admission made in the wake of the deadly U.S. precision strike on a supposed drug vessel in the Caribbean on Tuesday.

Speaking with Axios in a report published Thursday, a senior official championed Trump’s executive order that designated drug cartels as terrorists, permitting the administration to carry out execution-style strikes on suspected drug traffickers, strikes that have been widely condemned as amounting to murder.

President Donald Trump and his administration officials have been lobbing outrageous claims of economic ruin to essentially blackmail the U.S. Supreme Court into salvaging his beleaguered tariff regime, according to a legal analyst.

The president and his aides have resorted to what Politico senior writer Ankush Khardori called "The Chicken Little Defense," warning that striking down his tariffs as unconstitutional would "be a total disaster" that "would literally destroy the United States," while also making what he called a "transparently ridiculous" claims that the U.S. would take in $17 trillion from the tariffs and usher in "peace and unprecedented economic prosperity."

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski warned congressional Republicans they were staking their political futures against a group of sex abuse survivors who have "nothing to lose."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) pledged to help Jeffrey Epstein's survivors reveal the names of others involved in his sex trafficking ring if the House did not sign on to a discharge petition forcing the release of the Epstein files, and the "Morning Joe" host said that was an another escalation of the lingering scandal.

President Donald Trump's response to a meeting of global leaders that he admires made him look like a "little high school kid," according to one analyst.

David Rothkopf, a national security expert and columnist for The Daily Beast, discussed Trump's response to the meeting between India's Narendra Modi, Russia's Vladimir Putin, North Korea's Kim Jong Un, and China's Xi Jinping outside of Beijing this week on a new episode of The Daily Beast's podcast released on Wednesday.