56+ min ago (327+ words) Entertaining that those who lied so convincingly about the fact that Joe Biden was a veritable incoherent vegetable when he was president now insist Trump, who I saw only days ago and who is no different than he has been in the 50 years I have known him, is slipping and near death," Stone wrote. Stone's claims that Trump is no different" now than at any other point in their longstanding relationship come amid widespread alarm over the state of the president's mental health. Recent incidents'like calling a female reporter piggy" and branding Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker a big fat slob'are hardly departures for a leader whose unfiltered ramblings and appetite for controversy have reshaped the political landscape over the past decade. But his recent antics'including nodding off in official meetings, frequent memory lapses, and bouts of verbal confusion'have fueled growing…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago (533+ words) Kristi Noem stammered when confronted on air Sunday with the fact that the suspected National Guard shooter's asylum request was approved under the Trump administration. The Homeland Security secretary, dubbed "ICE Barbie" over her penchant for cosplaying as an immigration official, deflected when asked on NBC's Meet the Press whether the Trump administration vetted Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, before approving his request for asylum from Afghanistan earlier this year. Lakanwal is accused of firing on two members of the National Guard near the White House on Wednesday. One of the victims, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, has since died of her injuries. Widely reported to have worked as part of a CIA-backed unit during the war in Afghanistan, the 29-year-old arrived in the U.S. after the embattled Central Asian country fell to the Taliban in 2021. But his asylum application was granted earlier in April, three…...

11+ hour, 35+ min ago (640+ words) President Donald Trump's love of golf is costing U.S. taxpayers an eye-watering amount that far exceeds his first-term spending. New analysis by HuffPost found that Trump's beloved hobby has already cost American taxpayers nearly $71 million since his return to the Oval Office in January, and is expected to total more than $300 million by the time his second term ends. If that figure turns out to be accurate, it would be nearly double the $151.5 million Trump spent on similar sporting outings while in office between 2017 and 2021. "I really wish I could tell you that it would make anyone in America change their mind about him, but the corruption is so baked in, so endemic, and so ludicrous that it feels like the collective reaction will be a shrug," conservative political consultant Rick Wilson told HuffPost. "It's one more example of Trump defining…...

15+ hour, 7+ min ago (422+ words) The White House has launched a new web page aimed at tracking what it deems "media bias" and inaccuracies'which itself contained inaccuracies. The new "Media Bias" page went live on Friday, with the White House claiming it would help to expose "fake news." "Tired of the Fake News? We've got the place for you," the official White House X account wrote. "Get the FACTS. Track the worst offenders. See the Fake News EXPOSED." However, the site was briefly taken down before reappearing with alterations. In the update, Fox News was removed as an "offender" after the White House incorrectly attributed questions asked in a press conference to a Fox News reporter. "Fox News asked the White House to correct it and now there's a 404 error where the page once was," Washington Post media reporter Scott Nover wrote on X. The site,…...

19+ hour, 6+ min ago (422+ words) House Speaker Mike Johnson may have been looking for pity while lamenting his busy work schedule, but he became the butt of a joke instead. "I haven't had a vacation day in two years. I haven't been off in two years, literally," he told Katie Miller on her podcast this week. Johnson and his wife Kelly spent much of their podcast appearance grumbling that they were constantly in "survival mode'ordering food in rather than cookingand MS NOW's The Weekend Saturday panel was quick to jokingly "bless his heart" over the complaints. The MS NOW panel began with a clip from the podcast, during which Johnson moaned: "Last Christmas, I was taking calls from members with their drama. It takes everything out of whomever serves in the position, and by extension, their family." The speaker added: "You're sort of like a…...

1+ day, 51+ min ago (580+ words) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's alleged order to "kill" everyone aboard a suspected Venezuelan drug boat is slated to face intense oversight by the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee. SASC chair Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and SASC member Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, released a joint statement Friday promising "vigorous oversight" into the facts regarding a Sept. 2 drug boat strike in which the U.S. killed everyone aboard a suspected narcotics vessel, then killed the two survivors of its first attack with another missile. "The committee is aware of recent news reports'and the Department of Defense's initial response'regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility," reads the statement. "The Committee has directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances." On…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago (585+ words) Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old National Guard member who was fatally shot while on patrol in Washington D.C. this week, had mixed feelings about her deployment to the nation's capital, according to her former boyfriend. Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe were shot while on patrol on Thanksgiving Eve; Beckstrom died as a result, while Wolfe is still in critical condition. Both were members of the West Virginia National Guard. CNN interviewed Adam Carr, who dated Beckstrom for six years before breaking up last month, and asked how she felt about her deployment to D.C., a controversial move made by President Donald Trump in August. "Did she believe in the mission of being there? Did she think it was important, or did she think they didn't belong there, the West Virginia National Guard?" CNN correspondent Gabe Cohen asked Carr. "It was mixed,…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago (838+ words) Donald Trump used a late-night Thanksgiving message to make an offensive slur against a political rival before announcing he wants to pause migration from all "Third World Countries." Trump began his epic post with a happy Thanksgiving greeting, but it quickly evolved into an anti-immigration rage-post, blaming "American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up." Trump said he would "permanently pause migration" from "all Third World Countries" in the wake of the fatal shooting in Washington D.C, with the suspect being an Afghan national. The 79-year-old was also fuming about a familiar talking point'Somalia'when he used the slur against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Complaining on Truth Social about America being "Politically Correct" over immigration policies, the president then circled back on his plans to terminate the temporary protected status…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago (624+ words) Donald Trump Jr. bashed The Wall Street Journal's editorial board as "RINOs" for condemning his father's "collective punishment" of Afghans after one refugee ambushed two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C. "Give me a f---ing break," wrote the president's 47-year-old son on X Friday morning. "The RINOs at the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board want us to be flooded with millions of America hating migrants who don't share our values." "This is a good reminder that it's not just Democrats responsible for this - It's the globalist RINOs too," he added. "RINO," which stands for "Republican In Name Only," is a favorite insult of President Donald Trump, who has hurled it at Republicans who oppose some aspects of his agenda, including Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Thomas Massie, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. In the editorial that drew the first son's ire, the…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago (461+ words) President Donald Trump's elusive youngest son, Barron Trump, attended Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago, marking the first time in nearly a year that the 19-year-old has been seen with his father in public. The New York University student attended Trump's inauguration in January but has kept a low profile ever since. He spent the summer holding nebulous business meetings and then bailed on NYU's Manhattan campus, despite being scheduled to return for his sophomore year in the fall. On Thursday, he finally resurfaced at a lavish Thanksgiving dinner at Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Florida. Video of the event showed Trump, 79, entering Mar-a-Lago's chandeliered ballroom, followed closely by first lady Melania Trump, 55, and then Barron, who towers over his parents at six feet, nine inches tall. The crowd could be seen standing and cheering as the first family entered and…...