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'Traitor': Trump's nemesis reveals MAGA insider briefly dumped president after 2016 win

President Donald Trump's nemesis Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) this week dropped a scathing advertisement calling out his opponent Ed Gallrein, who was endorsed by the president, accusing him of having wavering loyalty to Trump.

The vocal Trump critic released the attack ad on Thursday ahead of Kentucky's primary election on May 19, The Bulwark reported. Massie has remained "Congress’s biggest remaining Republican thorn in the president’s side" and worked to release the Epstein Files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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Trump's war is just days away from causing economic chaos in US: business experts

Economists have warned that the U.S. will stagger economically into the next month as the war with Iran causes ongoing financial trouble.

It is not just consumers queuing up at gas stations set to be affected by the economic crunch, but businesses that are trying to keep their margins as thin as possible. Oil price rises as a result of the blockage in the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing war with Iran will affect shipping and logistics for many companies, experts have warned. These costs will likely be passed onto the consumer.

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Japan rejects Trump on Strait of Hormuz after Pearl Harbor joke

President Donald Trump said that Japan was declining to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a day after he made a joke about Pearl Harbor.

Following his Thursday meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Trump told Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Friday that the country would not assist with the fallout from the war in Iran because of "constitutional constraints."

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Throwaway Trump remark flagged as hugely 'ominous': 'It doesn't take a genius to parse'

While President Donald Trump’s striking reference to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor dominated headlines after Thursday’s Oval Office meeting, one journalist highlighted a lesser-noticed remark they warned was far more “ominous.”

During his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Trump issued what Zeteo journalist Andrew Perez described as a “vague, ominous threat that doesn’t necessarily require a genius to parse.”

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Trump ally used ICE to deport mother of his child during custody battle: NY Times

Former modeling agent and longtime ally to President Donald Trump, Paolo Zampolli asked a top ICE official for help "to settle a personal score" and have the mother of his child deported during a custody battle, according to The New York Times.

Zampolli, a now presidential special envoy, introduced Trump to the president's now wife Melania.

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Netflix series airs video that puts Trump's striking decline on full display

A new documentary focused on billionaire news mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family has also revealed the stunning mental and physical decline of President Donald Trump as questions over his health escalate, according to a report from The i Paper on Friday.

Netflix's "Dynasty: The Murdochs" takes a close look at the Murdochs and Trump — his ascendance from a TV celebrity and real estate magnate to the Republican Party's leader. But shocking footage in the series revealed just how much the president has changed, with a comparison of video footage from 10 years ago compared to recent clips of the 79-year-old, according to the report.

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'Boo! Boo!' Trump gripes about being heckled at football games

President Donald Trump complained that people had become famous for booing him at football games.

During a Friday presentation of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the Navy Midshipmen football team, Trump found a way to make the group's victory about himself.

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Trump baffles with 'stunning reversal' as he endorses candidate he'd slammed as 'RINO'

President Donald Trump left at least one reporter baffled Friday after re-endorsing a candidate he previously abandoned and derided as a “RINO,” or “Republican in Name Only.”

That candidate is Rep. Jeffrey Hurd (R-CO), who last October received a glowing endorsement from Trump in his re-election bid. After Hurd came out against Trump’s tariff policy last month, however, Trump angrily withdrew that endorsement, labeling Hurd as a “RINO” who was “more interested in protecting foreign countries” than in the United States.

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'Behind closed doors': Analyst claims 'most Republicans' are privately finished with Trump

The Republican Party is starting to shift against Donald Trump as prominent party representatives show signs of tiring of the president, an analyst claimed Friday.

Some outspoken GOP members are not hiding disagreements with Trump, with Rep. Thomas Massie an outspoken critic. But now even staunch allies, particularly Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, are showing signs of strain and could break from him in the near future, Brian Karem wrote in Salon.

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DOJ moves to prosecute president of Colombia — a vocal Trump critic

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into Colombian President Gustavo Petro, purportedly over his alleged ties to drug traffickers, The New York Times reported on Friday.

The U.S. attorney's offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn are investigating Petro, an adversary of President Donald Trump, and have included agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Investigations, three sources told The Times. The prosecutors leading the investigation have previously worked on international narcotics trafficking cases.

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'We will remember!' Trump continues multi-day rage at 'cowards' of NATO

President Donald Trump continued his multi-day rampage Friday against NATO countries for rejecting his pleas for assistance with his administration’s war against Iran, calling them “cowards” and a “paper tiger.”

Trump has tried, unsuccessfully, to have NATO countries assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows, as well as more than 20% of the world’s fertilizer sea trade. In response to the U.S. attack last month, Iran vowed to attack any sea vessels aligned with the United States or its allies attempting to pass through the strait.

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Trump's latest foray condemned for heaping even more pain on rural America

Farmers across the country warned they cannot survive for much longer as the Iran war worsens the fuel and fertilizer stocks.

Industry experts said that already tight profit margins are being eaten into as a result of Donald Trump's strikes on the Middle Eastern country, and there does not appear to be a reprieve in sight for the agricultural industry.

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'Obscenity': Trump hammered in Congress for risking US with 'non-stop screwing around'

Democratic Party representatives are calling out Donald Trump and his administration for their flippant style of dealing with the war in Iran.

Trump's admin approved strikes on the Middle Eastern country as part of a joint operation with Israel on February 28. Since then, the president has threatened further strikes and carried out such actions, but he and his cabinet have offered a multitude of different excuses for waging the war.

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