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There's a peculiar dialect spoken only at Donald Trump rallies, one where "winning" and being "loved" mean roughly the same thing, observed a new column.

The Bulwark's Andrew Eggers pointed out how the 80-year-old president, greeting supporters this week at a factory in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, declared “I won this place so much," attacked "Dumocrats" and murmured "there’s so much love in the room." His followers lapped it all up – and the president's spirits got a much-needed boost, according to the analyst.

One of President Donald Trump's nominees, who was up for the federal job of funding police departments across the country, refused Wednesday to apologize for calling cops "dumb as dirt."

Konstantinos Ligris, Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs, faced a barrage of questions at his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the committee's ranking member.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was put on the spot on Wednesday afternoon when Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a highly anticipated signing ceremony for a housing bill that Republicans were counting on to stop their slide in the polls.

As workers were setting up chairs and GOP lawmakers began showing up for the signing of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the president pulled the plug on the ceremony by writing on Truth Social, “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) arrived at Statuary Hall expecting to watch the president sign a landmark housing bill and found workers dismantling the stage instead.

President Donald Trump pulled the plug Wednesday morning without warning, posting on Truth Social that the signing was "hereby cancelled" until Congress passes the SAVE America Act. Nobody told the lawmakers who had already shown up.

Postmaster General David Steiner admitted Wednesday that he wants a rule allowing his agency to block mail-in ballots from states that refuse to hand over their voter rolls.

The concession came under questioning from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing — one ostensibly about the U.S. Postal Service's finances but quickly consumed by a bigger question: whether President Donald Trump has turned the mail service into a weapon against democracy.

In an unprecedented move, President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to block an affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, sparking panic and shock from onlookers across the political spectrum.

“We saw glimpses of this during Trump’s first administration, but never in my lifetime have I seen a president so deliberately attempt to lose majorities for his own party,” a senior Senate GOP staffer told Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

A last-minute Donald Trump decision to cancel the signing ceremony for a popular housing bill that sailed through both chambers of Congress with unusual bipartisan support is yet another blow to Republicans who have been looking for any good news as they face a midterm blowout.

Mid-Wednesday morning, the president took to his Truth Social platform and wrote, “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”

A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade.

U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump's illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cooper ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing "the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center."

A former Trump administration official says the president's allies are no longer absorbing his bullying in silence — but that carries new risks of antagonism.

President Donald Trump publicly declared British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation this week a full day before Downing Street confirmed it, and former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor published a column for The i Paper on the new tone foreign leaders have taken toward his boorishness.