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New York Times opinion writer Frank Bruni offered an unorthodox solution Monday to what he described as President Donald Trump’s compulsion to “assert his dominance,” proposing a way to exploit what he said was the president’s endless “need for validation.”

“If we keep him busy with award ceremonies and bury him in gleaming trophies, glittering medallions and gaudily framed certificates, he might not be so free or feel so compelled to assert his dominance in other ways, such as stripping poor people of their health insurance, immigrants of their humanity, the judiciary of its integrity, academia of its autonomy, Democrats of winnable congressional districts and America of democracy,” Bruni wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times.

A number of former Justice Department officials serving under Republican administrations are privately “troubled to appalled” with what they described as Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “ferociously sycophantic” tenure leading the DOJ, The New Yorker reported Monday.

“Bondi’s performance has produced almost universal outrage from Democrats and, in private at least, the unhappiness crosses party lines,” wrote The New Yorker reporter Ruth Marcus, who left The Washington Post earlier this year over the publication’s alleged capitulation to its owner, Jeff Bezos.

President Donald Trump began his Monday with a series of short rants on Truth Social ahead of a scheduled White House meeting with European leaders. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale responded by highlighting some of the most egregious falsehoods they contained.

The top false claim Trump repeated Monday was what he alleged Russian President Vladimir Putin told him — that no other country in the world uses mail-in voting.

President Donald Trump's administration denied assisting an Israeli official who was reportedly charged with child sex crimes in Nevada.

In a statement last week, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that eight individuals had been arrested in a sting targeting child sex predators. Israeli government cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, was charged as part of the operations, Las Vegas officials said.

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire flagged some new reporting that could be an ominous sign for President Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The last time Zelensky met with Trump at the White House, back in February, the president and Vice President JD Vance bashed him for wearing his standard military-style clothing instead of a suit. The "Morning Joe" co-host noted that administration officials had pushed him to dress more formally when the two meet again on Monday.

A few hours ahead of a scheduled White House meeting between President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and European leaders, the former took to his social media to reassure critics: "I know what I 'm doing."

Posting to Truth Social on Monday morning, Trump claimed, "I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don’t have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong on the Russia/Ukraine MESS," Trump ranted.

President Donald Trump proclaimed Monday that Washington, D.C. had gone from the “most unsafe city in the United States, and perhaps the world” to “perhaps the safest” in just four days following his federal takeover of the nation’s capital, and despite critics ridiculing the takeover’s paltry arrest numbers.

“Now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour!" Trump wrote Monday in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social. "People are flocking to D.C. again, and soon, the beautification will begin!”

President Donald Trump's hardcore supporters have a bizarre obsession with calling him "Daddy" — and it reveals something deep and broken about how they view the world, columnist Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon Monday.

"In their mission to gross out normal people, Donald Trump‘s followers, much to his delight, like to call him 'Daddy,'" wrote Marcotte, a frequent critic of the president. A big origin for this appears to have been last October, "when Tucker Carlson gave his 'Daddy’s home' speech at a Georgia campaign rally. He likened Trump to an abusive father, and compared America to his teenaged victim, all in an unsubtly sexualized way.

President Donald Trump declared war on mail-in ballots and voting machines in an early morning rant ahead of next year's midterm elections — and social media users reacted with suspicion and concern.

The president posted a nearly 300-word tirade Monday morning on Truth Social, vowing to end mail-in voting through an executive order after claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin had told him that it had cost him the 2020 election.

Marco Rubio once wrote a tightly argued defense of a constitutional right to birthright citizenship that President Donald Trump is now seeking to undo through an executive order.

Now secretary of state, Rubio was a senator running for president in 2016 when he made the case that the Constitution bestowed citizenship on basically all children born in the United States after a fringe candidate for president challenged his ability to seek the White House, reported the New York Times.

President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate mail-in ballots and “controversial voting machines” via an executive order ahead of the 2026 midterm elections Monday in an early-morning rant on social media.

“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, and also, while we’re at it, highly ‘inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines, which cost ten times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark paper,” Trump wrote in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social. “The mail-in ballot hoax, using voting machines that are a complete and total disaster, must end now!”

American farmers are growing disillusioned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, according to a new analysis.

President Donald Trump won the support of small farmers in 2024 with his promises to improve wages and lower inflation, and many were optimistic about Kennedy's messaging around improving diet and nutrition. But he has instead cast doubt on established industrial farming practices as Health and Human Services secretary, reported the New York Times.

President Donald Trump’s impending meeting with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy has some geopolitical experts fearing the worst — and the White House exploded Monday at one critic in particular who it called "deranged."

Fiona Hill, who served as Trump’s senior director for European and Russian affairs during his first term, gave a grim outlook on Trump’s ongoing efforts to end the war in Ukraine, telling Politico Monday that Trump had “completely ceded narrative control to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.”