Trump is a president with an approval rating below 40 percent. There is little evidence to suggest it will ever rebound much. There may now be a lower floor than in the first term. The Trump administration's savagery in Minneapolis destroyed the popularity he had enjoyed on the issue of immigration. His advantages on the economy are gone, too, as Americans confront a K-shaped recovery that has thrilled the rich while leaving much of the rest of the country with higher costs and a meager job market.
The unjust and brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good-a middle-class white woman-by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis in early January occurred less than a mile away from where George Floyd-a poor black man-was unjustly and brutally murdered by a local police officer five years earlier. I wonder if the horrible parallel that connects them, in terms of geography and civic violence, is just a coincidence
Cheney, who died Monday at 84 years old from complications of pneumonia and heart disease, embodied the pre-Trump GOP establishment before emerging in his final years as a fierce critic of the president. What they're saying: "The president is aware of the former vice president's passing, and as you saw, flags have been lowered to half staff in accordance with statutory law," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Tuesday news conference.
Sometimes presidents are press averse; Trump embraced the media, Collins said. He did it for decades as like this New York mogul, and so he just had a different approach to the press, and always has. Collins also said that, because Trump likes to take questions from the media, events that were once considered bland are now must-attend spectacles for the press.
As a and lifelong political junkie, and for the last six years as a journalist, I've seen my party stumble before. I've watched us weather humiliating losses, recover, and reinvent ourselves. But rarely have I felt as demoralized as I do now. These past eight months under Trump's second (failed) attempt to be president, with his reckless presidency, a far-right and compliant , and a rubber-stamping Supreme Court all against us, have been among the darkest periods in modern Democratic history.
Donald Trump has never conceded his 2020 election defeat. But after lobbying hard for Los Angeles to host the 2028 summer Olympic Games during his first term, the US president has found at least one silver lining to what he calls his circuitous route back to the White House. I didn't think I'd be here for the games in this capacity, Trump mused, as he signed an executive order naming himself the chair of the White House's LA Olympics taskforce.
The world during Donald Trump's second presidency has entered a period of danger with certain similarities to the 30s, according to Mitch McConnell, the veteran Republican former Senate leader. McConnell made the comments primarily in reference to tariffs and foreign affairs, in a wide-ranging interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader published on Wednesday as he prepares to enter his final year in office.
I've solved six wars in six months. That was U.S. President Donald Trump's response to criticism of his role as mediator between Russia and Ukraine, just hours before receiving Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a delegation of European heads of state on Monday at the White House. It is also a claim that has become increasingly common in the Republican's messages from the Oval Office, in statements to the press, and in his posts on Truth Social, his social network.
Lara Trump characterized her father-in-law's first six months in office as historic, claiming he had more success than many presidents across their entire terms, linking it to his resilience after adversities during his absence from the White House.
Bill Ackman aims to fund a centrist campaign targeting the left in New York City, following the Democratic primary victory of Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
President Trump’s recent week, described as one full of "tremendous victories," marks a potential turning point in his administration, invoking doubts about its future direction.
"Mamdani received less than 44%, and Cuomo, less than 34%. But the final tabulation will be a mere formality at this point: Cuomo conceded defeat less than two hours after the polls closed Tuesday night..."
