Every weekday, The New Republic’s Greg Sargent brings you a fresh way of thinking about the biggest political stories of the moment, offered up in an entertaining, information-packed conversation with a leading lawmaker, journalist, or newsmaker. We go deep into the stories behind the headlines leading TNR and other news outlets—while making it fun and fast.
Trump’s Fury at NYT Explodes amid Fresh Concerns about Mental Decline
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President Trump dreads being seen as weak. He exploded in a long, crazed rant about a harsh new piece in The New York Times about his ongoing decline. Though the piece documented his deterioration in careful detail, Trump insisted in al...
Trump Erupts in Frantic Tirade over 2026 as GOP Slips into Fresh Panic
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This week, the White House leaked plans to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies for some of the millions of people who stand to lose out from their expiration. But that’s on ice after Republicans declared it a nonstarter. That could hurt them in the midterms, a...
Raging Trump Spirals Further as Push to Jail Enemies Backfires Badly
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This weekend, President Trump raged over a video from Democrats that warned against carrying out “illegal orders.” That led him to get his Defense Secretary to launch an investigation of one of those Democrats, Senator and former Navy captain Mar...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
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Suddenly, media outlets seem to have figured out that President Donald Trump is really, really unpopular. There’s been a palpable shift in the discourse: The New York Times reports that Republicans are quietly looking beyond Trump, suggesting he’s losing his gr...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
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On Thursday, President Trump called for the execution of a number of members of the opposition party. This came after Democratic lawmakers released a powerful video informing military and intelligence officials that they are not obliged to carry out illegal orders f...
Trump’s Anger over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
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President Trump is cratering in two new polls. A Marist survey has his overall approval rating at 39 percent, and a Marquette poll has his approval plunging on the economy (36-64), tariffs (37-63), and inflation (28-72). Yet Trump and his advisers don...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
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Suddenly, President Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymanders appears in trouble. A panel of judges just blocked the GOP gerrymander in Texas, which had added five seats. In Indiana, Republicans currently lack the votes to redr...
Trump Accidentally Stabs Vance in the Back as MAGA Erupts in Civil War
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A civil war is unfolding inside the MAGA movement over Nick Fuentes, the neo-Nazi and white supremacist, and President Donald Trump just made it worse. In an interview, Trump defended Fuentes in a way that will boost his standing inside MAGA in a big way. ...
Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic
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Anxiety is rising among President Trump’s staunchest allies that he’s politically lost his way. The New York Times reports that his advisers fear he’s alienating key voters in his own coalition. And CNN reports that some Republicans are openly wa...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fresh Epstein Bombshell Should Terrify Trump
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President Trump is angrily urging Republicans not to join Democrats in pushing for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. But all of a sudden, with the discharge petition set to force a House vote, things are rapidly going in the wrong direction for Trump. In a surpr...
Trump Press Sec’s Epstein Spin Implodes as New Info Rattles Him Deeply
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Suddenly, the Jeffrey Epstein files are back. Democrats released new emails raising fresh questions about the relationship between the sex trafficker and President Trump. It’s gotten so bad that the White House is now privately pressuring Republicans to st...
Trump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires
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Signs are mounting that the Supreme Court might invalidate President Trump’s tariffs, and he’s clearly on edge about it. Trump just vented wildly about the case on Truth Social, but he made a mess of it: In one rant, he claimed his tariffs have pulled in $2 trillion in r...
Trump’s Rage over Shutdown Boils Over in Rant that Should Wake Up Dems
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Eight Senate Democrats are now providing the votes to move forward with funding the government, but without getting the Democrats’ principal demand: A continuation of expanded Obamacare subsidies. On Monday, President Trump exploded in a deranged Truth Social rant, ...
Angry Trump Snaps at Media as Brutal New Data Shows Size of GOP Losses
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Under questioning from reporters about last week’s GOP losses, President Trump seethed that worsening inflation on his watch—a driver of the outcome—is nothing but a Democratic “con.” To buttress this, he floated a ludicrous distortion about Walmart’s Than...
Unraveling Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Secret Plan to Rig 2026
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President Trump’s excuses for his party’s losses are getting stranger. He’s now claiming it’s all because Republicans didn’t talk about his accomplishments enough, even though the results dramatically repudiated them. But he knows there’s a problem. Sounding we...
Angry Trump Snaps at GOPers as Scale of Losses Sinks In: “Dead Party”
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In Tuesday’s elections, Democrats scored crushing victories everywhere. They won the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races by double digits, made big inroads with working class voters, handily won the California referendum, which could result in five more Demo...
Angry Trump Tirade Forces Press Sec to Undercut Him in New SNAP Fiasco
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On Tuesday, President Trump unleashed an angry tirade in which he threatened to stop doling out food stamp payments until Democrats capitulate in the government shutdown. He seethed over “crooked Joe Biden” and made up stuff about food stamp fraud. Coming after a ju...
MAGA Rages at Tucker Carlson after “Nazi” Shocker Reveals Too Much
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MAGA personalities are suddenly raging at Tucker Carlson, who just conducted a shocker of an online interview with white nationalist and open antisemite Nick Fuentes. They’re attacking Carlson for hosting a “Nazi-sympathizer” who espouses the “foundation of Nazism,”...
Trump’s Angry New Tirades Push Mike Johnson into Awkward Clean-Up Mode
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In recent days, President Trump issued two furious tirades demanding that Republicans end the Senate filibuster to reopen the government. He ranted at great length in demanding this “NOW” and exploded in all-caps while urging the “NUCLEAR OPTION.” As&...
Trump ICE Raids Take Awful Turn as Dem Gov Drops Alarming New Warning
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President Trump’s militarized raids in Chicago just took another horrific turn when agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade, triggering mayhem. Agents deployed tear gas on locals and tackled several of them, including U.S. citizens. One resident screamed: “Yo...
Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Bad New Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal
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The economic news is getting worse. Major companies are announcing mass layoffs, and it’s dominating the headlines, including in the Rust Belt. Food stamps are about to expire for millions. And new info shows how Obamacare premiums will...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrecks Trump’s Shutdown Strategy in Savage Rant
20:44
Surprisingly, Marjorie Taylor Greene has emerged as a forceful critic of the GOP stance in the government shutdown fight. Greene just unleashed an angry rant at House Speaker Mike Johnson, pointedly accusing him of having no answer or millions of people who will los...
Trump’s Angry, Crazed Eruption over Cognitive Test Backfires on Itself
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On Air Force One, President Donald Trump unleashed a bizarre, angry, rambling rant about the cognitive test he supposedly aced this weekend. Worse, he compared himself cognitively to two Democrats who both happen to be nonwhite women. This rant backfired on itself: ...
Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters
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In recent days, President Trump has approved federal disaster aid for the red states of Nebraska, North Dakota, Missouri and Alaska while denying it to the blue states of Maryland, Vermont, and Illinois. The White House has not offered meaningful explanati...
Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Exposes MAGA’s Darkest Aim
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In a shockingly brazen move, President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million stemming from certain federal actions against him. Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a scaldin...
Trump Press Sec’s Flattery of Him Goes Awry as Ballroom Fiasco Worsens
20:44
We’re seeing a confluence of events that suggest President Trump’s corruption has crossed over to an ugly new place. Trump is destroying a White House building to create a ballroom for him and his rich friends. He’s demanding that the Justice Department ha...
Trump Is Screwing His Voters So Badly that It Shocked this MAGA Farmer
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Not long after President Trump floated a $20 billion financial bailout for Argentina, he proposed importing beef from Argentina to bring prices down in the United States. This angered American beef producers and produced a backlash ...
Deep in Texas Trump Country, a “No Kings” Display Brutally Shames MAGA
25:44
In the leadup to the “No Kings” protests, Trump and Republicans widely derided the protesters as extremists, criminals, and terrorists. Then the protests actually happened. They were a wild success: Peaceful, enormous, and representative of a very wide swath of American socie...
Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits
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President Trump’s fury at Democrats over the government shutdown is escalating. First he angrily announced that he’s “terminated” the big tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey, basically saying he’d done this to punish Chuck Schumer, an extraordinarily d...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns
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The other day, President Trump announced that he has bombed yet another boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean sea. He has now struck six boats, with 27 people dead, and the bombings have been widely denounced as illegal. Now, in a strange tur...
