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May 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Treasury Sec. Says Kids Need to Suck it up for Greater Good
Scott Bessent defended Donald Trump’s doll comments, saying it would be for the greater good.
May 7, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rants About Young Girls’ Dolls Just Got Weirder and Darker
Who actually wants to work at a Barbie doll factory in America, anyway?
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Accidentally Admits He Hasn’t Made Any Trade Deals
Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Canada PM Gives Trump Middle Finger on Wild In-Person Statehood Pitch
Donald Trump pitched statehood to the man who was just elected by campaigning on rejecting statehood.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Trashes Canada Just Minutes Before Prime Minister Visits
Donald Trump continues to insist that Canada needs the United States.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Treasury Secretary Crashes When Asked Easy Question on Tariffs
Scott Bessent glitched as he tried to answer a question about the real costs of tariffs.
May 6, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Movie Tariffs Won’t Save Hollywood
American movies are dying, but not in the way Trump imagines.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Remember That Wild Photoshoot of Young Barron Trump and His Many Toys?
As Donald Trump preaches about buying kids fewer dolls, the internet has resurfaced photos of some of the toys Barron Trump grew up with.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies
Someone close to Donald Trump planted the idea in his head that the United States should tariff foreign movies (whatever that means).
May 5, 2025
Grace Segers
The Republican Budget Plan Could Kick Millions Off Medicaid
As GOP lawmakers mull how to slash federal spending, health care for low-income Americans could be first on the chopping block.
May 5, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump’s Biggest, Dumbest Lie Is …
Really
Big and
Really
Dumb
The president is peddling hot nonsense on what tariffs can do for America—and the person he’s conned the most seems to be himself.
May 5, 2025
David S. Abraham
How the United States Lost the Rare Earth Materials War to China
Chinese dominance in this critical sector of the economy did not happen by accident—it was a policy choice.
May 2, 2025
Jason Linkins
Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.
Welcome to the summer of scarcity and the full-blown Trump recession.
May 1, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Even Trump Officials Are Hoarding Supplies Thanks to His Tariffs
People connected to Trump are afraid of the consequences of his trade wars.
May 1, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Stephen Miller Crashes Out Defending Trump’s Weird Dolls Comment
Donald Trump told parents to offset tariff-induced cost increases by not buying so many toys for their kids.
May 1, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Trump’s Fury Erupts in Crazed Rants over Shrinking Economy
As the worsening economy triggers Trump's anger and leads him to blame Joe Biden, the author of a piece on Trump's sliding approval explains why his aides are doing him no favors with their abject sycophancy.
May 1, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Recession Has Begun
It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.
May 1, 2025
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Trump Rages Wildly Over Humiliating GDP Data as Aides Soothe His Fury
As Trump seethes over the embarrassing news that the economy contracted, the author of a piece about his worsening popularity explains why his aides’ penchant for abject sycophancy is working against him.
April 30, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s New MAGA Slogan: Kids Will Get Two Dolls and Not 30
Donald Trump gave an outrageous lecture to Americans to just buy fewer toys for their kids as his tariffs take effect.
April 30, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Fumbles When Asked Why He Blamed Biden for Bad Economy
And yet Donald Trump took credit for the economy while Joe Biden was still in office.
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