Over the course of Donald Trump’s second term, the president has repeatedly floated the possibility of sending checks to Americans. The Republican has talked about $5,000 dividend checks from the failed DOGE initiative, $2,000 checks related to
Over the course of Donald Trump’s second term, the president has repeatedly floated the possibility of sending checks to Americans. The Republican has talked about $5,000 dividend checks from the failed DOGE initiative, $2,000 checks related to
MaddowBlog Pressed on his latest tale, the president said, “Everything I said was exactly accurate.” But he hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of the doubt. Sept. 9, 2026, 8:48 AM EDT A quarter of a century later,
MaddowBlog A White House Cabinet secretary launched a reality series. Then another did the same thing. Now there’s a third, which is as outlandish as it seems. Sept. 2, 2026, 10:16 AM EDT You know American politics
MaddowBlog “These fake ‘settlements’ were already an insane waste of taxpayer funds,” one congressman said. “This now adds the stench of corruption.” Aug. 28, 2026, 11:33 AM EDT There’s no shortage of lessons to be learned from
As last week got underway, the Senate Republican majority had a lengthy list of things to do before the chamber broke for its lengthy summer recess. By and large, GOP senators got through some of their to-do
Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been shy in his recent condemnations of Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “Murkowski’s terrible, terrible to us, terrible to the country,” the president said in early June. A couple weeks later, Trump goaded a
By any objective measure, the Qatari-donated Air Force One was already a legal, political and ethical mess, which grew vastly worse last month. In early July, Donald Trump took the new plane to Turkey for a NATO
Amid new allegations that China and Russia are helping Iran in its ongoing war with the United States, Donald Trump apparently decided to set the record straight — or at least try to. In a Friday morning
During a brief Q&A with reporters on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump was reminded that most Americans oppose the war in Iran. The president immediately pushed back against the assertion. “Well, Americans aren’t against the war,” he said.
Donald Trump has earned a reputation as a president who loves to file outlandish lawsuits against major news organizations, but his gambit late last year against the BBC was bizarre even for him. The week before Christmas,