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  • Fact-checking Trump’s plaques for past presidents at the White House 'Walk of Fame'

    Fact-checking Trump’s plaques for past presidents at the White House 'Walk of Fame'

    Dec 21, 2025 07:06 PM EST

    ... were written in a style echoing Trump’s Truth Social posts, with misleading or false descriptions of recent Democratic presidents. Former President Joe Biden, who Trump calls "Sleepy Joe," is represented not by a portrait but by a photograph of an autopen, the use of which Trump has falsely said ...

  • WATCH: Johnson, Trump Jr., Erika Kirk and Vance speak at Turning Point USA conference

    WATCH: Johnson, Trump Jr., Erika Kirk and Vance speak at Turning Point USA conference

    Dec 21, 2025 05:10 PM EST

    ... m not allowed to run," he told reporters during a trip to Asia in October. "It’s too bad.” The president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is close to Vance and advocated for him to get the vice presidential nomination in 2024. Trump Jr. echoed Vance’s vision for ...

  • At least 16 files disappear from DOJ site for Epstein documents, including Trump photo

    At least 16 files disappear from DOJ site for Epstein documents, including Trump photo

    Dec 20, 2025 11:55 PM EST

    Trump’s Republican allies seized on the Clinton images, including photos of the Democrat with singers Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. There were also photos of Epstein with actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey, and even Epstein with TV newscaster Walter Cronkite. But none of the photos had captions and ...

  • U.S. forces stop 2nd oil tanker off Venezuelan coast as Trump follows up on 'blockade' promise

    U.S. forces stop 2nd oil tanker off Venezuelan coast as Trump follows up on 'blockade' promise

    Dec 20, 2025 11:48 PM EST

    And the president this week demanded that Venezuela return assets that it seized from U.S. oil companies years ago, justifying anew his announcement of a “blockade” against oil tankers traveling to or from the South American country that face American sanctions. Trump cited the lost U.S. investments in ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Trump's approval ratings and mental acuity

    Brooks and Capehart on Trump's approval ratings and mental acuity

    Dec 19, 2025 11:30 PM EST

    ... him being crazy. This is him being a flat-out, full borne narcissist. He's already done it before. It's now the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. He's got an Arc de Triomphe-like thing that's going to go on the other side of the Memorial ...

  • PHOTOS: Kennedy Center adds Trump's name to memorial Congress created for JFK

    PHOTOS: Kennedy Center adds Trump's name to memorial Congress created for JFK

    Dec 19, 2025 10:39 PM EST

    ... had a new name: The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. The board of trustees, handpicked by Trump, voted unanimously Thursday to add his name to what was enshrined as a living memorial to the Democratic president. Trump, a Republican, also is ...

  • Federal judge weighs Trump's claim of immunity from civil litigation over Capitol attack

    Federal judge weighs Trump's claim of immunity from civil litigation over Capitol attack

    Dec 19, 2025 08:07 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. U.S ...

  • WATCH: Trump announces 9 pharmaceutical companies will lower drug prices

    WATCH: Trump announces 9 pharmaceutical companies will lower drug prices

    Dec 19, 2025 06:58 PM EST

    ... s clearly influential but will all this add up to a major effect? Nothing really matters here unless our health gets better as a country.” Trump administration officials said the drugmakers will also sell pharmacy-ready medicines on the TrumpRx platform, which is set to launch in January and will ...

  • Trump's blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil raises new questions about legality

    Trump's blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil raises new questions about legality

    Dec 19, 2025 06:42 PM EST

    Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said he was unsure of the legality of Trump's blockade. “They’re blockading apparently the oil industry, not the entire country,” said Smith, who represents parts of western Washington state. “How does that change things? I got ...

  • Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into U.S.

    Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into U.S.

    Dec 19, 2025 03:29 PM EST

    President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering ...

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