New Poll Delivers Bad News for Trump The warning lights flashing around President Donald Trump no longer come from political opponents alone. Polling data now delivers its own verdict, carrying numbers few presidents welcome as the midterm campaign accelerates. A new CNN poll places Trump's job approval at 34 percent, matching the lowest rating of his political career. The same survey finds 73 percent of Americans believe he focuses on the wrong priorities. Among Republicans,

Donald Trump sold his immigration crackdown with a familiar economic promise: remove undocumented workers from the labor market and American workers will have more opportunities. The economics have proved considerably less cooperative. A 2026 working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research examined communities exposed to increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity during Trump’s second term. Researchers found that as likely undocumented men di

The World Cup Had One Champion But Someone Else Tried to Win the Spotlight Spain spent years earning the right to lift the 2026 FIFA World Cup trophy. President Donald Trump apparently thought he had earned a spot in the victory photo. If you've followed Trump over the years, none of this came as a surprise. He has long demonstrated a remarkable ability to turn virtually any event, whether it belongs to him or not, into a stage where the spotlight somehow drifts in his direct

Tourists arrive on Hollywood Boulevard looking for celebrities, and the first place they head is the yellow brick road of stars stretching down the sidewalk. The first stop is usually Marilyn Monroe's star at 6774 Hollywood Blvd, the most visited on the Walk. James Dean, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Walt Disney, and Muhammad Ali come next. But in Hollywood, foot traffic drawn by notoriety and vandalism counts as 'popular' by the same metric. Few pieces of real estate in Am

Everyone knows about the raids, but fewer people are tracking the paperwork behind them. Wednesday morning, unmarked vehicles circled unsuspecting subjects, carrying them away in handcuffs. The raids that people see on the news are now happening in Starr County. Residents believed this would never reach them. What's landing in Starr County didn't start there. It started with a plan built in Washington, long before any vehicle circled a parking lot in Rio Grande City looking f

The Trump administration filed its first application with the Alien Terrorist Removal Court on July 15. Congress created this tribunal in 1996 and no administration used it until now. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act established the court and authorizes the chief justice to appoint five district judges from five different circuits to decide whether noncitizens accused of terrorism-related activity should be removed from the country. The mechanism sat untouche

Professor Daniel Z. Epstein joins a list of Trump lawyers who have lost their standing for representing him. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams barred him from practicing in the Southern District of Florida for one year. She also referred a second Trump attorney, Alejandro Brito, to the Florida Bar for possible discipline. Both sanctions come from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, a case filed by a sitting president against agencies led by his own app

President Trump flew home from the NATO summit in Ankara on two different planes on July 8. He left Turkey on an old Boeing VC-25A, the same baby-blue jet that has ferried presidents since 1990. The new Qatari-gifted jet flew ahead to Britain, where Trump switched back for the final leg to Washington. Trump attributed the choice to sentiment. "For old time's sake, we'll be taking the former Air Force One, from Turkey," he posted on Truth Social. The New York Times reported th

Trump's 2008 Standard for Impeachment Applies Directly to His Own Presidency In October 2008, Donald Trump sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and said something most Republican politicians wouldn't dare put on record. According to Trump, Bush had earned impeachment not through partisan grievance, but through deliberate deception that dragged the country into war. Trump praised Nancy Pelosi in the same breath, describing her as "a very impressive person," before pivoting to a wi

Trump's PAC Sells Access Using Fallen Soldiers' Coffins On March 7, 2026, six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait came home to Dover Air Force Base in flag-draped transfer cases. President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer. Before walking onto the tarmac, he put on a white baseball cap, gold-embroidered with "USA" on the front and "45-47" on the side, available for $55 on his merchandise website. He did not remove it. Five days later, his PA

The Man Who Can't Read From a Teleprompter Has Concerns About Dyslexia President Donald Trump has a new talking point, and he is committing to it with the kind of fervor usually reserved for grievances about crowd sizes and election returns. Over the course of a single week in March 2026, Trump told anyone within earshot, at least four separate times, that California Governor Gavin Newsom is unfit for the presidency because he has dyslexia. Speaking to reporters in the Oval O