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An obsession with dressing up among Donald Trump’s most senior Cabinet members is reminiscent of a 6-year-old kid desperate to be a spy, an Atlantic columnist wrote Saturday.

And it’s covering up a grossly disturbing ineptitude for their jobs, she added.

Following a report that Donald Trump is claiming he is making headway in negotiations with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after they met in Rome where they are both attending the burial of Pope Francis, former RNC chair Michael Steele wasn't having it.

On MSNBC's "The Weekend," Steele, as co-host, noted the report that Trump "expressed optimism about ending the war in Ukraine. Posting online that negotiations are, quote, 'going smoothly and that success seems to be in the future,'" before adding, "Color me skeptical."

"You know, Trump doesn't engage in diplomacy, alright?" he exclaimed, "So can we stop pretending he does? He doesn't. This, you know, the social media posts on all of that is just because –– the bottom line is his design has been drawn up by Russia. The plan he's pushing is a Russian plan."

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"The reality of it is, and I appreciate President Zelenskyy's optimism of a good meeting, what what else is he going to say? It sucked?" he added. "But the reality of it is that you're dealing with someone who's not a good faith partner and someone who does not want to see you survive this."

"So why are we sitting down and pretending that this is all now going to shift in a direction in which a fair deal, in which the sovereignty of Ukraine remains intact and Russia backs the hell up and gets out," he asked.

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The bloc of Donald Trump voters that was vital to getting him over the election line in first place last November were asked just four months after his inauguration for their reactions.

Their answer was far from exuberant. “Ummmm,” said one.

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor is facing fresh scrutiny after newly surfaced videos and podcasts appear to contradict his public apology for praising a Capitol riot defendant with known Nazi sympathies, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin has apologized this week for defending Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a white supremacist who once photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler and has a documented history of anti-Semitic statements. Martin claimed he was unaware of Hale-Cussanelli’s extremist views when he publicly praised him.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Friday, who she accused of turning his back on a life-saving drug that the host said has spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

“It's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible,” Maddow said in the opening minutes of her show. “And it is terrible,” she added as she laid into the litany of federal programs Trump has axed in his first three months after returning to the White House.

The Education Department on Friday opened a probe into New York state education officials for threatening to cut funding to a local school district over its decades-old Native American mascot – an image depicting a man in a feathered headdress, according to a report in Politico.

The new investigation came days after Donald Trump used the power of the presidency to weigh in on the mascot feud embroiling the small Long Island community, and asked his education secretary to look into the matter he called “very important.”

Former Department of Defense special counsel Ryan Goodman was taken aback by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public comments about the new criminal case involving Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan.

Bondi on Friday sparked a firestorm of criticism from Democrats when she suggested the judge arrested by the FBI on charges of obstructing justice is “deranged” and implied she is “above the law.”

One of the top medical journals in the world is now directly condemning President Donald Trump's administration over its continued attacks on the scientific community.

In a recent editorial, the Lancet — a highly regarded, peer-reviewed medical journal based in the United Kingdom — tore into the Trump administration over its threatening letters sent to editors of various journals and scientific publications. The Lancet specifically derided a letter that the CHEST medical journal (for medical professionals in the pulmonary field) got earlier this month from Ed Martin, who Trump appointed as the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia following his prior career as a Republican activist.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed members of several Pentagon advisory boards focused on defense policy and military technology, further shaking up the department during the former Fox News host’s time at the Pentagon, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In a memo outlining the removals from the Defense Policy Board, the Defense Science Board and other advisory panels, Hegseth said the Pentagon needs “fresh thinking to drive bold changes."

President Donald Trump is trying to walk back his promise to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine on "day one" by passing it off as a joke — but that's simply not true, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale wrote in an analysis published Friday.

Trump attempted the walkback in his wide-ranging interview with Time Magazine conducted this week.