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.
Inside Trump’s Angry, Desperate Push to Silence MAGA on Epstein Fiasco
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President Trump is in a rage over his inability to get MAGA to stop talking about the Jeffrey Epstein files. He unleashed a furious Truth Social tirade on it, and then rambled bizarrely about it to reporters for a minute straight. Meanwhile, striking new p...
Trump’s Rage Erupts as Inflation Rises and His Pollster Openly Panics
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On Tuesday, we learned that inflation rose last month. The New York Times said inflation “accelerated,” ABC News noted it “surged,” and other reports observed that President Trump’s tariffs are starting to produce long-predicted price hikes....
Tucker Carlson’s Harsh Takedown of Trump on Epstein Ignites MAGA Fury
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The MAGA movement has been in full meltdown ever since President Trump’s Department of Justice concluded they have no evidence that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a client list or was murdered in jail. This contradicted a major MAGA conspiracy theory, and MAGA in...
Trump’s Threat to Jail Enemies Darkens amid Brutal New Poll Slide
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President Trump’s Justice Department is now criminally investigating James Comey and John Brennan, apparently in retaliation for their role in the Russia probe. Trump vowed that they may “pay a price”—a direct threat to try to jail them on no basis w...
Stephen Miller Rages Wildly at Low Arrests—and Wrecks a Big Trump Scam
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Stephen Miller recently erupted in rage in a private meeting with ICE officials, demanding that they hit supercharged new arrest quotas, reports The Atlantic. Yet in a surprise twist, the report also details that Miller’s demands for maximum arrests are driving mora...
Angry Trump Shocked to Discover Putin Has Humiliated Him: “Bullshit!”
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It appears to be dawning on President Trump that he will not be ending the Russia-Ukraine war in one day, as he promised during the campaign. Trump’s frustration at Vladimir Putin is rising: This week he accused Putin of hitting him with “bullshit,” and even admitte...
Trump Press Sec’s Fury at Media over Texas Flood Exposes Worst of MAGA
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At least 109 people have died amid devastating flooding in Texas. Distressingly, 27 deaths occurred at a summer camp for girls, and the toll continues to rise. This week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt angrily lashed out at the news media an...
Trump Accidentally Reveals a Big Weakness on ICE Fiasco, Angering MAGA
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At a rally, President Trump declared that he now may suspending deportations for farmworkers and other migrant workers. Trump openly admitted this will anger the “radical right,” by which he likely meant Stephen Miller and others who want every last undocumented imm...
"Shocking": Trump's Use of Secret Police Is About to Get Much Darker
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In today’s episode, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg makes a crucial point: During months of debate about President Trump’s now-signed budget bill, there was very little public debate about what its explosion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding will inflict on...
Trump’s Threat to Jail Foes Darkens, Prompting Epic Retort from Zohran
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This week, President Donald Trump issued many angry threats against Zohran Mamdani, the underdog winner of New York Democratic mayoral primary. Trump has been attacking Mamdani, a state Assemblyman, as a “Communist,” threatening to arrest h...
Angry JD Vance Accidentally Reveals How Trump Is Screwing MAGA Voters
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The Senate just passed President Trump’s big budget bill, which will cut $1 trillion from Medicaid to fund huge tax cuts for the rich. In a remarkable series of angry tweets, Vice President JD Vance downplayed the Medicaid cuts while saying what reall...
Trump’s Fury at Thom Tillis Backfires, Wrecking His Own Dumb MAGA Scam
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President Trump is raging at GOP Senator Thom Tillis for telling the truth about the Senate version of his budget bill, which could knock 10 million people off Medicaid. Trump threatened him with a primary—whereupon he announced his retirement. Tillis has since been...
“Mind-Boggling”: Trump Voters Suddenly Learn He’s Screwing Them Badly
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It’s becoming clearer that many of President Trump’s supporters are realizing how badly they’re getting shafted by his big budget bill and other leading initiatives. Senator Mitch McConnell just privately admitted that many Republicans are getting major blowback fro...
MAGA Rage Suddenly Takes Unnerving Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls
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President Trump’s big budget bill is in some trouble after the Senate parlimentarian ruled that big chunks of it can’t pass via a simple majority. That enraged MAGA: Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashed a furious rant demanding that Senate Majority Leader John...
MAGA Dope Pete Hegseth Accidentally Reveals the Trump Cult’s Dark Side
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President Donald Trump and his top advisers have worked themselves up into a fury about the leaked intelligence assessment casting doubt on the success of Trump’s bombing of Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unleashed a wild, angry rant about it during ...
Trump’s Anger at AOC Boils Over—and Reveals a New Way Forward for Dems
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez got into a major online battle over Trump’s bombing of Iran. AOC said Trump had committed impeachable offenses. Trump responded with a wild, lengthy, unhinged rant that dared Democra...
Trump Erupts in Fury at Journos over Iran—and Reveals a Big Weakness
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On Monday, President Donald Trump exploded in fury at reporters and news outlets for asking hard questions about whether the strikes really destroyed Iran’s nuclear program completely, as he has proclaimed. And the questions are indeed mounting: There was clearly a ...
Trump’s Threats to Unleash Troops in Cities Darken as Brutal Poll Hits
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Emboldened by a partial court victory over his use of troops amid immigration protests in Los Angeles, President Trump is now threatening to expand deployment to other cities. This is unnerving, given that his manufacturing of fake rationales for “emergency” decisio...
Trump Rages at Brutal New Polling as Press Sec Rushes to Calm Him Down
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President Trump is furious over a new poll from Fox News, and understandably so. It finds his approval upside down, with 54 percent disapproving. His standing is deeply underwater on many major issues, and remarkably, that includes immigration. So he erupted on...
MAGA Dimwit Pete Hegseth Accidentally Reveals a Dark Truth about Trump
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced striking questioning from Democratic Senator Elyssa Slotkin on Wednesday. She grilled him on whether he had given an order allowing members of the military to shoot unarmed protesters if necessary. She also pressed him on wh...
Did Fox News Just Scam Trump into Embracing War with Iran?
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President Trump appears dead set on joining Israel’s war with Iran. After a period of negotiations, Trump has now tweeted that he wants Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” The New York Times has a deep dive into his deliberations, and the findings are s...
“Sick”: Trump’s Violent Outbursts Worsen as Parade Fiasco Sinks In
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After the horrific assassination of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, President Trump at first correctly stressed that such violence is absolutely intolerable. But then he uncorked a long, vile, unhinged tirade on Truth Social, threatening to unleash ICE r...
Trump Erupts in Crazed Hard-Right Rant as MAGA Fury Takes Darker Turn
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In a little-noticed rant, President Donald Trump furiously vowed on Truth Social that he will now carry out something called “remigration.” This idea is widely prevalent among global white nationalists who see it as key to their vile goal of building white...
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Stephen Miller’s Ugly, Hateful Aims
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Stephen Miller had a shouting match Thursday with a GOP Senator over Miller’s demand for massive funds for deportations, which Republicans are debating right now. Yet at around the same time, President Donald Trump openly admitted that his deportation...
Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos as Harsh New Poll Shows Him Tanking
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News organizations have been credulously amplifying the White House’s spin that sending troops into Los Angeles is great politics for President Trump. But the evidence isn’t cooperating. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her temper amid tough ...
Trump’s Angry, Violent Outbursts Go Nuclear as Poll Delivers Bad News
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a direct promise to use “heavy force” on protesters who dare show up to his military parade this weekend. He made no distinction between peaceful and violent protesters, an extraordinary threat of violence that he didn’...
“Disturbing”: Trump’s Threat to Use Troops in Cities Just Got Darker
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered up the National Guard to deal with violence that broke out in Los Angeles amid protests of Trump’s immigration policies. This has angered California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is suing to stop it. But then Trump expre...
Fox News Suddenly Admits to Major Trump Failure amid Fresh DOGE Fiasco
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Fox News hosts have gotten very aggressive in pinning down Trump officials over the failures of Trump’s trade agenda. Stuart Varney sharply questioned a top official over the loss of manufacturing jobs in the latest jobs report, and Maria Bartiromo usefully pro...
Why Trump-Musk Feud Is Suddenly Driving White House into “Full Panic”
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As you’ve surely heard, the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has erupted, with the two men trading attacks on each other for hours. As of this recording, the last big things to happen are that Trump threatened to cut off all government contracts to Musk’s com...
Trump Turns Sharply on Musk as Harsh New Data Wrecks Case for GOP Bill
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President Donald Trump appears to have finally turned on Elon Musk over his scalding criticism of the “big, beautiful bill.” At a presser, House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that Trump told him he’s displeased with Musk, which almost certainly wouldn’t have happene...
