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‘Womp womp’: Trump’s ‘obsession’ with crowd sizes rubbed in his face over low CPAC turnout

MS NOW host Catherine Rampell took a sharp jab at President Donald Trump on Sunday for skipping the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention for the first time in nearly a decade, suggesting he did so to avoid embarrassing optics tied to his “obsession” with crowd sizes.

“If we know anything about Donald Trump, it is his obsession with a handful of fairly specific things: gold plating, the Village People, and of course, crowd sizes. So you can only imagine how he must feel seeing this split screen,” Rampell said on MS NOW’s “The Weekend Primetime,” queuing up a split-screen video of the massive No Kings rallies and the CPAC event in Texas.

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Trump rips Senate GOP for ‘playing it too soft’ in shutdown fight: ‘It’s a shame’

President Donald Trump criticized Republican Senate leadership Sunday for having supported a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without funding for two key immigration enforcement agencies, calling their actions “a shame.”

“It's a shame. They should really just go to a filibuster, they should terminate the filibuster and they should vote, that's what I think,” Trump told a reporter aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

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‘Unreal’: Trump directly called out for alleged market manipulation by unlikely source

President Donald Trump has faced repeated accusations of market manipulation amid his administration’s ongoing war against Iran, but on Sunday, a new critic emerged, and one whose observations stunned onlookers.

Trump has made a number of well-timed social media posts regarding updates on the Iran war that have significantly shifted markets. Coupled with reports of "mysterious trading patterns,” critics have increasingly alleged Trump to be “using the war” to enrich his inner circle.

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Tom Cotton rants Dems want to sic their 'street militias' on ICE wives and kids

During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, far-right Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) accused Democrats of conspiring to put the lives of ICE agents’ families at risk as part of their strategy to dial back funding for the Department of Homeland Security.


Speaking with host Shannon Bream about the competing funding bills that have Republicans in the House and the Senate at each other's throats, the Arkansas Republican tried to shift the blame to Democrats.

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GOP falls into disarray as some reps already regret newly proposed DHS shutdown bill

The Republican Party has been left in disarray over a recently proposed bill to finally end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has warned that some GOP Senate lawmakers are unhappy with the recently proposed bill, outlining what could be a future regret for the party. Speaking on ABC's This Week, Scalise said, "Well we actually read their bill and, frankly, a number of senators have expressed buyer’s remorse with what they did at 3 in the morning.

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Trump 'has never been more toxic' to the Supreme Court as ruling looms: analysis

Donald Trump and the Supreme Court's relationship has worsened again as the president wades in on the birthright citizenship case, an analyst has claimed.

The president had signed an executive order on January 20, 2025, that would strip certain babies born in the United States of their citizenship. This executive order has been challenged by the Supreme Court and is set to be assessed on Wednesday. The relationship between Trump and the Supreme Court is already frosty, with a ruling on the administration's tariff policy not concluding in favor of Trump.

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Voters in Vance's hometown furious at Trump admin siding with 'horrible' polluter

The Donald Trump- JD Vance administration has sentenced Middletown, OhioVice President JD Vance's hometown — to decades of environmental devastation by canceling a $500 million federal grant that would have transformed a major steel plant into the world's cleanest industrial facility.

Instead, Cleveland-Cliffs is now planning to reline its aging blast furnace with coal and coke, locking the region into at least 15 to 18 more years of toxic pollution and the health consequences that come with it.

According to The Guardian's Stephen Starr, new permitting documents filed with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency show the steel company is moving forward with a several-hundred-million-dollar investment to keep the fossil-fuel burning operation running indefinitely.

CEO Lourenco Goncalves has embraced the decision with Trump's own rhetoric. "Beautiful coal, beautiful coke," he announced to investors last summer, echoing the president's signature phrasing.

The No. 3 blast furnace, installed in the 1950s, consumes hundreds of thousands of tons of coke annually to produce around 3 million tons of raw steel per year.

The damage to the region will be catastrophic. Research from Industrious Labs estimates that over the 18 years following the furnace relining, the Middletown steel mill and its coke supplier, SunCoke Energy, will result in 810 to 1,476 premature deaths, 132,300 lost school days, and numerous other serious health ailments.

The facility is already the 11th worst carbon monoxide emitter in the United States, according to EPA data from 2020.

Local residents are already suffering. Vivian Adams, who moved to Middletown from Louisville just four years ago, has watched her six-year-old daughter's health collapse.

"My daughter was born prematurely so she already had lung issues, but it's gotten worse. She stays sick and coughing and can't breathe. She's had to go on everyday medication for her asthma, plus she has a rescue inhaler," Adams said.

The environmental contamination is inescapable. "The smell some days is absolutely awful," Adams said. "We sit on our chairs and there's a bunch of black stuff on them, on our vehicle, it's soot. It's on their toys, so you can't leave them outside."

The Biden administration had attempted to modernize the facility. The $500 million grant would have replaced the coke-burning infrastructure with a hydrogen-powered furnace that, according to some analyses, would have made Middletown the lowest greenhouse gas-emitting steel plant in the world.

Instead, Trump and Vance have prioritized fossil fuels over clean energy and human health in the vice president's own backyard.

Investigation of Noem's FEMA hits snag over hunt for missing million dollar contract

An ongoing investigation into the Department of Homeland Security has hit a snag as a crucial contract has gone missing.

A Federal Emergency Management Agency appointment made by "chief of staff" Corey Lewandowski under DHS head Kristi Noem has sparked a wider search. It was revealed in a report that outsider Kara Voorhies had been allegedly paid $19,000 a week for her role within the department. Documentation of this is yet to surface, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Nancy Mace embarrassed on CNN for ignoring details in GOP's own DHS funding bill

Rep. Nancy Mace’s attempt on CNN to gloss over a Senate funding bill aimed at getting most of the Department of Homeland Security paid ended badly when one of her Democratic colleagues explained it contained far more than she stated.

The South Carolina Republican was sitting on a “State of the Union” panel with host Jake Tapper and Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) when the CNN host asked her about the competing funding bills between the House and the Senate.

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Trump's newly acquired 'strange habit' will hinder Iran war goals: analysis

A habit Donald Trump has picked up during his second term in the Oval Office will hinder his administration's war in Iran, a political analyst claimed.

The United States joined Israel in striking Iran earlier this month, and with constantly changing reasons for attacking the Middle Eastern country, the president is coming across as unfocused, according to Simon Tisdall. The political analyst, writing in The Guardian, suggested that Trump's lack of focus and inability to understand the weight of the war at hand will affect how he can end the war.

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'Look, I don't understand': Tom Homan unable to defend why Trump stalled on TSA pay

Donald Trump’s border czar, who oversaw the president's demands to deploy ICE agents to the nation’s overwhelmed airports, was at a loss for words on CNN on Sunday morning as to why the president just didn’t pay TSA agents from the start when funding ran out.

With the country’s airports in chaos due to TSA no-showing at their jobs since they were not being paid, Tom Homan filled in the gaps to a slight degree with ICE agents pulled from their jobs, rounding up immigrants off the streets to help out overwhelmed TSA agents and harried travelers.

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Jared Kushner has turned into a roadblock for Trump stuck in Iran quagmire: expert

Donald Trump's Iran war trouble is getting worse in the hands of Jared Kushner, according to a political analyst, noting the Trump's son-in-law's objectionable connections elsewhere.

Kushner was drafted into peace talks with Iran alongside United States Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. It appears Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump, is causing more trouble than it is worth for the president, as the potential peace agreement with Iran could be at risk, analyst Hussein Ibish claimed in a column for MS NOW..

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Imminent Trump move will subject US to 'trauma for decades to come': analyst

An understated move from Donald Trump will leave its mark on the United States for decades to come, according to a political analyst.

The president's constant renovations, monument building, and recent currency update are a sign he wants to be remembered as one of the all-time greats, Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton claimed. The changes themselves do not guarantee that but, Parton argues, will affect the US all the same.

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