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'Trying to hide': Kennedy Center refuses to take tarps off where Trump's name was removed

President Donald Trump suffered a severe humiliation this month when the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was finally ordered by a federal court to remove Trump's name from the side of the building, clarifying that Congress only allowed Kennedy's name to be on the facility.

Now, days later, tarps are still covering the spot where Trump's name was, and, according to The New York Times, it's starting to arouse suspicion. Some are even questioning whether the name was in fact fully removed at all.

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Trump hemorrhaging support from key business community as 'buyer's remorse' settles in

President Donald Trump is hemorrhaging support from a key business community as they express "buyer's remorse," according to a new report.

NBC News reported on Friday that support for Trump from Latino business owners has seemingly fallen off a cliff during his second term. Latino voters were one group that swung heavily in favor of Trump during the 2024 election, and some business owners interviewed by NBC said they supported Trump because of his economic agenda.

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Trump DOJ's 'verboten' mistakes in Broadview Six case raise red flags for expert

The recently released Broadview Six transcripts revealed a stunning pattern of behavior by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, raising multiple red flags for a legal expert.

Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor, said during a new interview on "All Rise News" with Adam Klasfeld on Friday that the federal prosecutors who brought the Broadview Six case broke some verboten rules in the legal profession. They include trying to sway a grand jury, trying to cover up prosecutorial misdeeds, and bringing weak evidence to support their case.

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'Huge gamble': Expert shares sobering prediction after Trump ruptures alliance with insult

Republican strategist Doug Heye is alarmed by the rift between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a right-wing leader who was initially close with Trump but is now on the outs with him.

Tensions came to a head on Friday as Meloni posted a public video raging about Trump's false claim that she had "begged" to get a photo with him at the G7 summit.

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Trump's $100 million stock trading rally fueled by favorable court ruling: analysis

President Donald Trump has talked a lot about the strength of the stock market recently, and a new analysis suggests that his recent surge in trading activity may be a motivating factor.

The New York Times published an analysis of Trump's stock trading activity on Friday that found the president's brokerage account has placed about 3,600 trades in thousands of stocks and bonds worth roughly $100 million during his second term. The activity largely stems from an appellate court ruling that threw out the $500 million judgment secured against Trump arising from a civil fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. That ruling freed up more than $175 million in liquid assets for the president, and most of it has gone into the stock market, according to the analysis.

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Ex-ambassador shocked by 'major concession' in Trump's Iran deal: 'Trump is giving up'

A former U.S. ambassador to Russia was shocked to read some of the proposals included in President Donald Trump's recent deal with the Iranian regime, according to a new essay.

Michael McFaul, who was the ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, wrote in a new Substack essay that Trump's 14-point memorandum of understanding, signed this week at the Palace of Versailles in France, included language that precludes the U.S. from meddling in Iran's internal affairs. McFaul argued that the clause could allow Iran to continue funding terrorist groups in the region, and continue to suppress democracy activists in the country, which were two issues the Trump administration claimed as the war's raison d'être.

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RFK Jr. sparks mockery with 'absolutely insane' claim about 'most consequential crime'

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparked mockery on Friday after he uncorked what some analysts described as an "absolutely insane" claim about what Kennedy referred to as the "most consequential crime" in American history.

On Thursday, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on her professional X account that claimed to expose evidence that Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the President, had committed crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kennedy retweeted the video and thanked Gabbard for "documenting Dr. Fauci's central role in causing the COVID-19 pandemic — among the most consequential crimes in human history."

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'Gold plating throughout': Reporters dazed by tour of Trump's 'five-star' Air Force One

Reporters received exclusive tours of the new Air Force One, a former Qatari jet reported to have "gold plating throughout" to match the design requests of President Donald Trump.

The tours offered the public their first look inside the plane.

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Trump jokingly jabs Air Force pilots as they get louder applause: 'End of your job!'

President Donald Trump seemed mildly taken aback when a pair of Air Force officers got a bigger round of applause than he did, while speaking about the unveiling of the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Friday.

"That's pretty good. That's the best hand. You got a bigger hand than I did," said Trump. "That's the end of your job. I don't like that. I'm not happy about it."

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Liberal host's humiliation of JD Vance during 'unfortunate stop' on Fox News stuns analyst

Fox News's seemingly lone liberal host, Jessica Tarlov, stunned a political analyst after she humiliated Vice President JD Vance during a recent appearance on "The Five."

David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, described Vance's recent appearance on Fox News during a new episode as an "unfortunate stop" on his book tour because Tarlov "had the facts" to counter Vance's narratives about the Iran deal the Trump administration agreed to.

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'Who was he?' Trump struggled to remember people he promised to retaliate against

Following his 2024 win, President Donald Trump required help from aides because he couldn't remember the names of the people he promised to retaliate against.

That's the scene described in "Regime Change," a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

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GOP strategist flabbergasted by Trump's 'odd' insult to his European 'poster child'

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wasted no time swiping back at President Donald Trump on Friday after he said that she "begged' him to take a photograph together, a spat that left one GOP strategist completely flabbergasted.

Brad Todd, a veteran GOP operative, discussed Meloni's sharp rebuke of Trump during a segment on CNN's "The Arena." Meloni released a video statement in which she said Trump's comments were "completely made up." She also canceled an upcoming trip to meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Miami, Florida.

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Todd Blanche just sabotaged himself in upcoming Senate hearings: analyst

With Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refusing to commit to a federal court in writing that the Trump "Anti-Weaponization Fund" will be canceled, he has a new problem, analyst Scott MacFarlane told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Friday: backlash from the Senate Republicans reviewing his nomination to serve as attorney general permanently.

"So the question I had earlier ... is how Republicans are going to react to this," asked Tur. "Are they still going to be content to take Todd Blanche's word for it?"

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