Steve Benen December 11, 2025 0 Comments

About a month into his second term, Donald Trump unveiled plans for a visa program — at the time, it was billed as the president’s “gold cards” — which he said would be similar to green cards

Steve Benen December 11, 2025 0 Comments

Donald Trump’s approach to the freedom of the press has never been especially healthy (we are talking about a president who’s echoed Joseph Stalin while attacking journalists), but his campaign against the media has gotten especially aggressive

Steve Benen December 11, 2025 0 Comments

After Donald Trump lost his reelection bid five years ago, he immediately launched an effort not only to overturn the results, but also to convince the public that he secretly won, reality be damned. There was, however,

Steve Benen November 14, 2025 0 Comments

Senate Republicans have spent months effectively rubber-stamping Donald Trump’s most outlandish and unqualified nominees, but Paul Ingrassia was a bridge too far, even for GOP senators. There was no great mystery as to why.The president tapped the

Steve Benen November 5, 2025 0 Comments

After having spent the year saying effectively nothing about conditions in Nigeria, Donald Trump expressed sudden and dramatic interest in the African country late last week. The president, pointing to alleged attacks against the nation’s Christian population,

Steve Benen November 5, 2025 0 Comments

In late September, Donald Trump took his broader offensive against the First Amendment to a new level, arguing that journalists who “take a great story and ... make it bad” are doing something “really illegal.” Two days

Steve Benen November 4, 2025 0 Comments

Just seven weeks into his second term, Donald Trump was asked about the possibility of his economic agenda creating a downturn, at least in the short term. “Are you expecting a recession this year?” Fox News’ Maria

Steve Benen October 27, 2025 0 Comments

With time running out before the government shutdown began nearly four weeks ago, Donald Trump half-heartedly hosted a meeting in the Oval Office with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders from the House and Senate. To the surprise

Steve Benen October 27, 2025 0 Comments

Months of trade talks between the United States and Canada came to an abrupt halt last week for the dumbest of reasons: Officials in a Canadian province aired a television ad that hurt Donald Trump’s feelings.The commercial

Steve Benen October 27, 2025 0 Comments

A month ago, Donald Trump targeted his former handpicked FBI director, Christopher Wray, in a new and creative way. As part of a weird and discredited conspiracy theory, the president spun a ridiculous tale about Wray having