February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM EST
'Stay home': MAGA world 'heartbroken' as US athletes turn on Trump

Conservative website Townhall and the MAGA community are exploding over American athletes "going viral" for "choosing to diss the country that they were sent to represent at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games." The MAGA community and its entertainers take as fact that President Donald Trump and America are one and the same, despite one being a 250-year-old nation and the other being a 79-year-old man in declining health.

February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM EST
Trump 'the laughingstock' of polite society: NYT editorial

New York Times Columnist Jamelle Bouie says the easiest way to read the motivations of an insincere person like President Donald Trump is to see him "at his most unfiltered." That involves his late-night posts on social media, far away from the eyes of handlers.

February 7, 2026 at 12:49 PM EST
Gabbard blocked reports of Trump aide's foreign intel contact: whistleblower

A whistleblower tells the Gurdian that National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard blocked the publication of an intelligence report concerning an "unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump." The details of the communication are not known, but the Wall Street Journal reported it could cause "grave damage to national security" if it becomes public, according to an official. The information also "implicates another federal agency" and reportedly includes "claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House."

February 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM EST
Trump is persecuting Christians -- thanks to the media

In Washington this week, at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president actually took credit for the Bible being a bestseller. "In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years," Donald Trump said.

February 7, 2026 at 12:08 PM EST
Kid Rock is two decades past his peak -- and his fame pales compared to Bad Bunny

Forbes Magazine reports Turning Point USA's choice of country-rapper Kid Rock to perform at an alternative halftime show during the Super Bowl was two decades too late. Conservative organization Turning Point is looking to build a halftime home for frustrated Trump voters riled at the idea of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizen Bad Bunny headlining the NFL show. But Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, isn't likely to hit with many people under the age of 40.

February 7, 2026 at 11:52 AM EST
Trump isn't the real threat -- the 'MAGA apparatus' is: analysis

Aging President Donald Trump with his cankles, slurred speech, drooping face and reports of a collapsing circulatory system is not the threat to democracy it once was, say a panel of New York Times columnist. The real threat, they say, is the power structure that put him in place -- and could soon install another Trumpy president. During a panel discussion, columnist David French admitted that the MAGA movement is already "wanting to have a life after Donald Trump."

February 7, 2026 at 9:59 AM EST
More Republicans 'running for the hills' as midterm beatdown looms

Bulwark White House Correspondent Andrew Egger admits the U.S. Capitol is "starting to see some Republicans run for the hills" as mounting frustration under the rule of President Donald Trump mingles with the likelihood of an encroaching midterm bushwhacking by Democrats. "Republican Congressman Mark Amadai announced he'd be retiring from Congress at the end of this term," said Egger, while adding that the retirement should be puzzling because the congressman "just won reelection in 2024 by a lot, almost 19 points."

February 7, 2026 at 9:04 AM EST
'Hilarious decline' as Trump retreats from public view: analysis

New Republic Senior Editor Alex Shephard says President Donald Trump regularly flies across the world "on a taxpayer-funded plane that solely exists to take him wherever he wants, whenever he wants." But now he's claiming the Super Bowl is just "too far away," to attend. Of course it's not about inconvenience, said Shephard, who penned the "Hilarious Decline of MAGA's Brief Cultural Relevance. It's about fear of what was once Trump's beloved public.

February 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM EST
The obvious reason Republicans won't let the Clintons testify in public

Under Republican control, the aims of the House Oversight Committee are to promote partisan narratives rather than to reveal facts and advance public understanding of national issues. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), its chairman, has displayed that routinely self-serving approach in the committee's "investigation" of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal -- and especially in his zeal to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton. Comer was never among the tiny handful of Republicans who demanded that the Trump administration release the government's files on the deceased sex predator. Instead, the leaden Comer dutifully followed President Donald Trump's lead in defecting public anger over the case. Focusing on the Clintons, who know little (Bill) or nothing (Hillary) about this matter, is exactly how Trump has handled his own troubling connections with Epstein for the past several years.

February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM EST
Trump official bought business with Epstein years after claiming to cut ties: report

Before he joined President Donald Trump's Cabinet, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick jointly owned a business with convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News reported Friday on new revelations contained in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest release of documents from Epstein's two federal investigations showing Lutnick and Epstein acquiring a company in 2012. One document shows both Lutnick's and Epstein's signatures on a document purchasing stakes in the now-defunct digital advertising company Adfin. Epstein signed on behalf of his entity, Southern Trust Company, while Lutnick signed on behalf of a limited liability company named CVAFH I.

February 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM EST
Trump handed major loss in court over 'senseless' decision

The Gothamist reports a Manhattan federal judge may have ended President Donald Trump's attempted extortion of New York and New Jersey residents. Judge Jeannette Vargas' ordered the Trump administration to "unfreeze funding for the sprawling Gateway project on Friday, paving the way for work to resume on a new set of Hudson River tunnels," the Gothamist reports.

February 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM EST
Conservative slams Trump as a 'shakedown artist' over latest 'egocentric' demand

National Review writer Jeffrey Blehar says he's certain President Donald Trump did indeed demand his name be slammed onto blue state airports in exchange for previously appropriated federal transportation money. "The president is a proud shakedown artist and is completely shameless about it -- just ask Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Machado," said Blehar. "So, I don't doubt for a moment that Trump floated this quid pro quo, knowing what I already do about the man's character and governing philosophy."