4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (211+ words) Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of angry, unhinged threats over the last few days. He posted a map of all of North America—including Canada and Mexico—under conquest by the United States. He angrily threatened to cut off all…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (158+ words) Donald Trump’s tailspinning continues. A CNN analysis finds that Trump has a lower approval rating than any of his predecessors going into midterms in this millennium. That’s worse than Joe Biden in 2022, Barack Obama in 2014 and 2010, and even George W....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1418+ words) On this cusp of Labor Day, when election campaigns kick into fourth gear, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I have to say it: The voters are going to barber-strap Donald Trump in the November midterms. The first is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (903+ words) President Donald Trump admitted that he’s just building monuments to himself. In a sprawling dispatch Friday, New York Magazine’s Ben Terris asked Trump what he made of a viral barb from Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator from Georgia who suggested…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (641+ words) It isn’t every day that Republicans admit that Donald Trump is harming their midterm hopes. After all, that would require an admission of Trumpian fallibility, which is unacceptable to MAGA. But on Thursday, Kentucky Representative James Comer dropped a revealing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1034+ words) At least two Republicans in Congress are now calling for Pete Hegesth’s ouster as secretary of defense. Following Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation on Wednesday, Senator Thom Tillis called for President Trump to fire Hegseth, saying that he has “never…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1423+ words) An internet troll on the Pentagon’s payroll has made a database to track Americans based on their political affiliation. Jennica Pounds, the Utah woman behind the prominent right-wing account DataRepublican, launched a public tool Friday called DSA Explorer, which she…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (606+ words) Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents. They both passed away fairly suddenly—her mother of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and her father of a heart…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1275+ words) Stephen Miller has figured out a way to use President Donald Trump’s new favorite aide to push his own agenda. Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has realized that he can use Harp’s role to his advantage. Two…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1411+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. So here’s the question: Could what Trump is doing here make a difference and hurt Republicans in the midterms? We…...