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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
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum
The wildly popular president of Mexico is advancing industrial policies that resemble Joe Biden’s, but they’re premised on a totally different theory of politics.
May 5, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Erupts After Republican Guru Rips Him on Fox News
The president can’t handle criticism of his remarks about children’s dolls.
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
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
Edith Olmsted
Shock Poll: Core Part of Trump’s Base is Abandoning Him
Rural voters are rapidly souring on the president, thanks in large part to his decision to tank the economy for no reason.
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
Malcolm Ferguson
GM Pours Cold Water Over Trump’s Tariff Claims With New Prediction
General Motors predicts Trump’s tariffs will cost billions.
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
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Recession Has Begun
It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.
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.
April 30, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Team in Overdrive to Defend Him as Economy Officially Shrinks
Trump’s chief tariffs adviser now claims the impact of tariffs shouldn’t count when you measure the economy.
April 30, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has Insane Excuse for Why Economy Is So Terrible
Does Donald Trump realize it’s already Q2?
April 30, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
“He Was Pissed”: Trump’s Vile New Tariff Threats Take Unnerving Turn
As Trump bullies private companies to stop them from telling the truth about his tariffs, a public opinion researcher shares new data illustrating the depths of public revulsion over his dictatorial reign.
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