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'Just can't help himself': Internet erupts over Trump's strange Christmas Eve call

President Donald Trump made some strange comments as he took phone calls from his southern Florida abode, Mar-a-Lago, during a Christmas celebration on Wednesday.

Trump participated in the NORAD Santa Tracker phone calls on Christmas Eve from Mar-a-Lago, taking calls from children across the country. The president's comments during one interaction raised the eyebrows of several political analysts and observers.

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'End of the era': Trump just created the 'kryptonite' that could bring down his presidency

President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report.

Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign. The administration has sought to withhold files from the public, and the Justice Department has said it "needs more time" to comply with a discharge petition that required it to release all of the files by December 19.

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Republican says new Epstein files release proves Trump and his Cabinet were lying

President Donald Trump maintained that he "was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island." However, this week's release of thousands of documents pertaining to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein show that the president had not been forthcoming with the American public.

In a Wednesday essay, the Atlantic's Sarah Fitzpatrick observed that Trump had indeed been on Epstein's jet more than half a dozen times according to the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest tranche of documents from Epstein's two federal criminal investigations. And Trump's name came up more than 100 times in this week's release – including one FBI tip in which an unnamed person claimed that the eventual 45th and 47th president of the United States assaulted an underaged girl along with Epstein in the 1990s.

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'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over

"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event.

"According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers," Programming Insider reported on Wednesday. "To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million."

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Legendary filmmaker reveals 'most disturbing' part of Trump admin on CNN

A legendary filmmaker revealed what America's Founding Fathers would likely consider the "most disturbing" part of President Donald Trump's second administration in an interview with CNN.

Trump's second administration has been marked by his swift efforts to amass executive power. Trump has attacked independent agencies, fired multiple independent watchdogs, and sought to take control of the federal purse.

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CBS boss doubles down on blocking immigrant torture story in email to staff

CBS News' newly-appointed right-wing chief, Bari Weiss, doubled down in an email to staff on her decision to delay a "60 Minutes" investigation into the way migrants President Donald Trump has sent to the Salvadoran CECOT megaprison are being tortured, some without having any criminal record or violation of the law whatsoever.

Weiss, who founded The Free Press, was given control of CBS as part of a Trump administration-approved merger between the network's parent company, Paramount, and Skydance.

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'Deeply concerning': Dems sound off on Trump's latest turn toward China

Top Democrats on the foreign affairs and armed services committees sounded off against President Donald Trump's latest turn toward China in a recent letter, according to a new report.

Fox News reported on Wednesday that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) sent a letter to Under Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler on Monday regarding Trump's decision to allow Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China.

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'Nothing nuttier': Joe Rogan agrees Trump 'losing it' after his Presidential Walk of Fame

Podcast host Joe Rogan blasted President Donald Trump for distorting history with his so-called Presidential Walk of Fame.

During his Tuesday podcast, Rogan and comedian Tom Segura discussed recent changes at the White House.

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MAGA influencer turns on Trump after 'Christmas disaster of the Epstein files'

MS NOW senior enterprise editor Andy Campbell says a Jeffrey Epstein-based rift is growing between the MAGA old guard and younger, more rebellious influencers and podcasters who are not so aligned with President Donald Trump.

“Suspicions of a Trump administration cover-up have sent some sectors of MAGA world into a tailspin,” said Campbell. “A younger, more reactionary contingent of far-right influencers have been singularly obsessed with the public release of the Epstein files since Trump promised to release them amid his re-election campaign last year. And they have not been impressed by what has emerged from the DOJ since Dec. 19.”

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Elise Stefanik snubbed Trump's pleas not to drop out of the NY governor race: report

When it became clear that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was going to drop out of the race to challenge Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, allies of President Donald Trump privately reached out begging her to change her mind, but to no avail.

Stefanik, a former moderate Republican lawmaker turned hard MAGA loyalist in the Trump era, announced her campaign to great fanfare and a few widely-mocked stumbles in early November, vowing to defeat Democrats in a staunchly liberal bastion state. But after just a few weeks, she announced she is ending her campaign and retiring from Congress to spend more time with her family.

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DOJ announces 'a million more documents' related to Jeffrey Epstein on Christmas Eve

The Department of Justice announced what could be "a million more documents" related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a Christmas Eve post on X, the DOJ said that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI located the documents.

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Photographer reveals how White House Epstein panic scrambled now-infamous photo shoot

The photographer who illustrated last week's bombshell Vanity Fair profile of President Donald Trump's inner circle revealed that his photo shoot was scrambled by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The West Wing profile featured remarkably candid quotes from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and unvarnished portraits by Christopher Anderson, and he gave the magazine a behind-the-lens account of his tightly choreographed day at the White House, reported The Daily Beast.

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Top Republicans worry GOP will 'be cooked' if Mike Lindell wins nomination for governor

President Donald Trump's rhetoric and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's campaign for governor in Minnesota are testing Republicans' optimism in the state.

"We should be able to beat Tim Walz with a dog," House GOP Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Politico recently.

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