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"I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever," Trump told reporters, referring to recent polls that he claims show his popularity. (In reality, the average poll shows Trump with a -6.8 approval rating.)

Now, true to form, he's made good on that promise in ways both alarming and absurd. Using the Justice Department as his personal retribution regiment, going after perceived enemies like John Bolton, James Comey, and Letitia James, all under the grotesque guise of "justice." He even posted publicly what was clearly meant to be a private message to Attorney General , telling her to "get on the ball."

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg privately met with Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice earlier this year, according to a new book. In "Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America," ABC reporter Jonathan Karl reports that Zuckerberg asked Bondi for "advice on how to effectively speak" with President Donald Trump about "Meta's concerns." The previously unreported meeting took place on March 12, during one of Zuckerberg's several trips to Washington, DC, in 2025.

In the normal course of history, the president of the United States is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, and political inevitability-the sense that he, and only he, can rescue the nation from looming peril. Since his second inauguration, Donald Trump has seized authoritarian control over the federal government and demanded the obedience of the other powerful institutions of American society-universities, law firms, media companies.

Many of them are people I have known to be cautious, sober, and not prone to hyperbole. Yet they used words like nightmare and warned that Americans need to be ready for 'really wild stuff.' They described a system under attack and reaching a breaking point. They enumerated a long list of concerns about next year's midterms, but they largely declined to make predictions about the 2028 presidential election.

OK, now let me tell you how bad I think this is, though... If you're Christian, I want you to get into Revelation 13:3 and I want you to read that verse. Yeah, about the antichrist,

The most infamous example of his experimentation with AI-generated videos came ahead of the No Kings protests earlier this month. In the clip, the president is decked out in full Top Gun gear, piloting a fighter jet bearing "KING TRUMP" on its side. Instead of a traditional pilot's helmet, however, the president is wearing a literal crown, just in case the rest of the visuals were too subtle.

South Park continued roasting of President Donald Trump and his administration with a special Halloween episode that once again featured the president with a micropenis, but also introduced Attorney General Pam Bondi with increasing amounts of feces on her face in a running gag. In the Friday episode of South Park, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took on the crypto industry, Trump's reconstruction of the White House East Wing, and more.

The book, titled Retribution, cites Pence's notes from the 6 January 2021 phone call with Trump, who was purportedly trying to shame his vice-president into refusing to certify Joe Biden's victory weeks earlier. If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago, Trump is said to have told Pence, who was his running mate when he won his first presidency in 2016. You'll go down as a wimp.

If you don't support yourself, who will? That appeared to be President Donald Trump's motto on Sunday night, with the commander-in-chief posting a picture of himself to Truth Social that included an Instagram-like caption that sang his praises for working like a dog for no money in order to save a Country that doesn't appreciate his sacrifice! The picture was of Trump walking, looking a bit tired and glum, on the White House lawn.

I'd be allowed to do that, Trump said, in an exchange with reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, the latest leg of a five-day trip to Asia which he hopes to cap with an agreement on a trade war truce with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. But he added: I wouldn't do that. I think it's too cute. Yeah, I would rule that out because it's too cute.

I do not like the guy at all. The first thing for me was he didn't release the Epstein files. They're even acting like they didn't exist. And, of course, they're sending Israel and Ukraine all of our tax dollars just like the numb-nuts before him did. Putting America last, and now he's blaming the beef farmers for the price of beef. Hey, I'm not biased, man. He talked a good game, he tricked me. I was fooled. I admit it.

Jonathan Karl has spent more than a decade at the center of America's political storm, chronicling Donald Trump's rise, presidency, and return to office. As ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and co-anchor of This Week, Karl has reported on every major turn of the Trump era. In his latest book, Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America, Karl captures what he describes on Tuesday's episode of Mediaite's Press Club as the greatest comeback in the history of American politics.

In fact, we here at The Late Show were able to acquire a copy of Trump's MRI, Colbert said, sharing a mock scan of the president. And it looks it looks perfect. He paused before another graphic appeared, zoomed in on Trump's abdomen: Wait a second, what's that in his stomach? It's the Epstein files! That's where they were! I knew it, Colbert said, riffing on the suspicions the administration and Republican lawmakers were deliberately stalling on their release.

If Mamdani wins, you are going to see Trump come in here and take over New York City. You mark my words, Stephen A., Cuomo said. What do you mean by that? What does that mean that Trump is going to take over New York City? How? How can he do that? Smith asked. Forget sending the National first they'll send the National Guard, but the federal government controls everything. They can close your airports. They control your health money, your housing money.

I have my highest poll numbers that I've ever had. And, you know, based on what I read, I guess I'm not allowed to run. So we'll see what happens. It's a very interesting thing. I have the best numbers for any president in many years, any president. And I would say that if you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run.

THE CHOICE IS CLEAR INITIATE THE NUCLEAR OPTION,' GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER, Trump said in a late-night social media post Thursday. Trump's sudden decision to assert himself in the now 31-day-long shutdown with his highly charged demand to end the filibuster is certain to set the Senate on edge. It could spur senators towards their own compromise or send the chamber spiralling towards a new sense of crisis. Or, it might be ignored.

President Donald Trump shot down reports that he has made the decision to attack Venezuela on Friday. Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while en route to Florida on Friday, said he had not come to a decision regarding military action in Venezuela, Bloomberg State Department reporter Eric Martin posted on X, citing the outlet's White House reporter, Hadriana Lowenkron.

Every year is election year in the US, but the contests of 2025, which reach their climax on Tuesday, will be especially revealing. These off-year battles a smattering of governors' races, statewide referendums and the election of a new mayor in the country's biggest city will tell us much about the national mood 12 months after Americans returned Donald Trump to the White House and one year before midterm contests that could reshape the US political landscape.

He has argued that the House, which under the Constitution has the sole power to initiate spending legislation, has no reason to meet as long as Senate Democrats are blocking a bill to reopen the government. He has refused to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won election a month ago and has sued in federal court to be allowed to take her seat, claiming he lacks the power to do so.

Here is something from the You Wouldn't Have Bet on It file: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) passionately sticking up for President Donald Trump (R) to European politicians while traveling abroad. But that is exactly what happened, according to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who shocked businessman and political commentator Patrick Bet-David by telling him the story on his PBD Podcast on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Thailand and Cambodia signed an expanded ceasefire agreement on Sunday during a ceremony attended by U.S. President Donald Trump, whose threats of economic pressure prodded the two nations to halt skirmishes along their disputed border earlier this year. Thailand will release Cambodian prisoners and Cambodia will begin withdrawing heavy artillery as part of the first phase of the deal. Regional observers will monitor the situation to ensure fighting doesn't restart.

And it reminded me of kind of a, in a different way, the way that those, that Republican text thread in New York, you know, making jokes about watermelon and making jokes about the Holocaust and making jokes about Hitler and making jokes about women and making jokes about gay people and just the vile, vile vile. By the way, if people haven't read it, I mean, be careful reading it,

Epstein, a former investment banker, sexually abused and trafficked young and underage women for years, as well as "passing them on" to friends and business partners. The Epstein scandal had a huge impact on high society in the US, where many elite politicians, businesspeople and power brokers socialized with Epstein. In 2019, Epstein died by hanging off the side of his cell bed, while awaiting trial.