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No sooner did the Supreme Court strike down President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, than MAGA politicians and pundits suddenly developed a fixation with "birth tourism" — the idea, grossly exaggerated, that there are thousands of women coming to America eight or nine months pregnant, intending to give birth and get American citizenship for their child.

But there's a cynical logic at the heart of why they suddenly pivoted to this issue, MS NOW's Chris Hayes pointed out on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump and his family got a barbed tongue-lashing from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday, as they slammed the scope and scale of their self-enrichment schemes at the expense of the taxpayer.

The new financial disclosures from 2025, released this week, show Trump and his family are "cashing in on the Presidency in big and sketchy ways," the board wrote — so as to "demean the office" with their "graft" schemes.

A prominent presidential historian flagged a striking irony behind President Donald Trump's first trip in his Qatari jet on Wednesday.

Last year, Trump was gifted a jet worth more than $400 million by the Qataris, which was subsequently renovated from tip to tail using American taxpayer money. Trump took the plane out for a spin on Wednesday, flying to North Dakota for the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, a move that raised several red flags for historian Douglas Brinkley.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has fired two members of his state clemency board after they spoke out against his decision to go over their heads to commute the prison sentence of pro-Trump election denier Tina Peters.

According to The New York Times, Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi "had objected to Mr. Polis’s decision in May" to release former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on parole, "saying it came after pressure from President Trump" — and had disclosed that the clemency board voted twice to reject the clemency.

President Donald Trump and his family's self-enrichment schemes, which stand to net them $1.4 billion in crypto profits alone, are more than a moral issue, Nobel Prize-winning economist-turned-political pundit Paul Krugman told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Wednesday — they're an active threat to the U.S. economy.

"We talked earlier in the program about what is wrong with Trump's corruption, how it also violates his own claims and past vows," said Melber. "I thought I would start by asking you in plain English, as an economist, what is the cost to the rest of us, the public, if the government is corrupt or captured, separate from the morality?"

Things got a little uncomfortable for a GOP strategist during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Lead" with Jake Tapper on CNN.

Tapper was joined by Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod and GOP strategist Shermichael Singleton during one segment, where the three discussed recent comments by some Republicans about affordability, the issue voters care about most as the midterm elections approach. When Tapper started playing clips of the Republicans' comments, Singleton looked like he wanted to bury his head in the sand.

President Donald Trump's family has been profiting big-time from controversial cryptocurrency deals, to the tune of $1.4 billion. And MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace and Vaughn Hillyard were floored on Wednesday, reviewing the president's son Eric's recent speech on why he's so keen to get into the crypto space.

"Let me show you all of the on-camera confessions," said Wallace, playing a clip of Eric Trump that, she noted, features him saying that "I went to crypto basically because I had to" and not just to grift off his association with the White House.