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Not content to con people with a vaporware smartphone or get investors involved in a complicated scammy crypto thing or start a shady fintech company , the Trump family has a great new idea: Let the Trump family geniuses—none of whom have ever held an actual job that wasn’t thanks to Daddy— open a bank . And even better, let Trump’s regulators oversee it—or, well, not oversee it. But wait for the…

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Melania Trump’s multimillion-dollar documentary is premiering Thursday night for the second time , and while the red carpet launch at the Kennedy Center might have all the glamorous trappings, the nationwide premiere is projected to be much less impressive. People across the country have been sharing screenshots of their local theaters’ seat availability, and it looks like showtimes for “Melania”…

During President Donald Trump's Thursday Cabinet meeting , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lavished praise on Dear Leader. Describing the raid in Venezuela to kidnap Nicolás Maduro , Hegseth said that it was “the most sophisticated, powerful raid—not just in American history, I would say in world history.” YouTube Video Trump’s Cabinet meetings have long served as a forum for his loyalists to prop…

During a predictably uninformative Cabinet meeting Thursday, President Donald Trump offered up some monumentally worthless remarks about the cost of housing in the United States. “Existing housing, people that own their homes, we're going to keep them wealthy. We're going to keep those prices up,” Trump said. “We're not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn't work v…

The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms. By Doug Bock Clark and Jen Fifield for ProPublica When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County,…

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana appeared on Fox News to offer up the stalest defense of President Donald Trump’s lethal immigration policy. “I mean, I'd like to go and ask those same Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or they want their streets safe,” Landry said during the Thursday interview. “Do they want their children to be able to walk to school, or do they wan…

Don’t worry, Fox News is still keeping busy pretending that President Donald Trump isn’t royally screwing up everything he touches. On Thursday, the right-wing propaganda network minimized a recent poll showing widespread dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the economy, with contributor Charles Payne arguing that the public simply doesn’t understand Trump’s brilliant work thus far. President…

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky admitted his eyesight is good enough to see that Immigration and Customs Enforcements agents’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti was not justified. During a Thursday appearance on Newsmax, he criticized the Trump administration’s characterization of the slain intensive-care nurse as an “ assassin ” and a “domestic terrorist,” saying it made the situation worse. “A…

A new government report explodes one of the key promises in President Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Last April, Trump announced a slew of tariffs that would hit nearly every country on earth—a move he said would stop companies from importing goods, bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, and lower the trade deficit. But the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday released its mon…