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 Rages at GOP to Hurry Up and Rig Midterms as Awful Fox Poll Hits
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Donald Trump exploded at Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday, demanding that he hurry up and pass the SAVE Act, the horrific voter suppression that Trump thinks will save the GOP. This comes as the House is passing funding to reward states that ...
GOPers Quietly Admit the Unthinkable: It’s All Falling Apart for Trump
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Politico reports that Republicans now think they’re seriously doomed in the midterms. One GOP operative offers this truly astonishing quote about Donald Trump’s effect on the party: “We’re preparing for the bottom to fall out.” Republicans are fretting that Democrat...
The Daily Blast: Trump Rages at Fresh Iran Setbacks as GOP Midterm Panic Grows: “Bleak”
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Donald Trump lost his temper with a reporter on Tuesday after she pressed him on why Iran is continuing to fight. In barely-concealed anger, he ripped her organization as “fake” and insisted Iran “desperately” wants to make a deal. But of course, that only revealed ...
Trump Hits Record-Breaking Low in Polls, Shocking Analyst: “Horrible!”
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Donald Trump is cratering in several new polls: They have his approval at an average of 22 points underwater. That’s just abysmal. Indeed, as CNN’s Harry Enten notes in a striking on-air analysis, it’s a “record” and “the worst this century,” worse than both Ge...
Trump’s Plot to Rig Midterms Gets So Unhinged that Even Fox Is Rattled
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During his prime-time speech dissembling endlessly about our elections, Donald Trump raged at news organizations for refusing to carry him live. Then his Homeland Security secretary also smeared the media, a sign Trump’s fury continues to deepen....
Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury after Harvard Humiliates Him Very Badly
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Original air date: February 2, 2026
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After The New York Times reported that President Trump has backtracked on a major demand he’d made on Harvard University, he s...
Best of the Daily Blast: Why Trump Will Be Removed from Office Sooner Than You Think
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Original air date: April 17, 2026
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In today’s episode, George Conway argues that as improbable as it might seem right now, congressional Republicans will ultimately decide they h...
Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Epstein Mess Worsens as MAGA Cracks Up: “He Lame-Ducked Himself”
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Original air date: June 1, 2026
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Former attorney general Pam Bondi testified behind closed doors Friday about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. She effectively let it be known&...
Best of the Daily Blast: Krugman: Trump’s Unnerving Mental Breakdown Signals Nation in Decline
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Original air date: June 22, 2026
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Donald Trump’s war with Iran is making it clear this presidency could have much worse long-term consequences than we expected. Yet Trump is spen...
Texas ICE Killing Takes Damning Turn as Even MAGA Judges Abandon Trump
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Big developments on the immigration front: First, ICE killed a 52-year-old undocumented immigrant in Texas this week. ICE’s account was already suspect. But now a representative for the man’s family says that the three other men driving with him—who are likely ...
A Danish Journo’s Viral Takedown of Trump Caps Off Epic NATO Meltdown
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At the NATO summit on Wednesday, Donald Trump lashed out wildly at, well, everyone in sight. He threatened more war with Iran. He angrily vowed to cut off all trade with Spain. He hinted again at stealing Greenland. There were many other pratfalls. Amid all thi...
Trump’s Rage over Midterm Woes Badly Unnerves GOPers: “He’s a Bully”
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For weeks, Donald Trump’s fury has been growing at Republicans for failing to pass voter suppression legislation, demanding that they end the filibuster to do so. In a late-night tirade, he urged them to attach the SAVE Act to a must-pass defense spending bill,...
Trump Wrecks His Own 250 Crowd Size Claims in Final, Epic Humiliation
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Donald Trump ended the tortured saga around his gala for America’s 250th anniversary in typical fashion. Trump claimed 150,000 people attended his final speech, which was humiliatingly contradicted by videos of the event. Then Trump made it worse. During the speech ...
MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports
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Ever since the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in June, MAGA personalities have really gone off the rails. Many angrily started saying it’s time for the U.S. to find new ways to bar women from coming to this country and having babies. Some are talking about&n...
Trump Blurts Out Vile Scheme to Rig Midterms as Polls Take Brutal Turn
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In today’s episode, MS NOW’s Steve Benen makes a strong case that Donald Trump has corrupted the process of awarding disaster aid to states. Trump has been rejecting aid requests from blue states at a lopsided rate. But this week, Trump announced that he’s awarding ...
MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly
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After the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump and MAGA lost it. Trump threatened to get Congress to end the guarantee, which he can’t do, and he lamely claimed it was a “WIN” for China: The sheer haplessness o...
Trump Rages Wildly at SCOTUS Losses as Plot to Rig Midterms Collapses
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Donald Trump lost three big cases at the Supreme Court on Monday. His appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s verdict failed. He was blocked from firing a Federal reserve official. And most important, the court upheld the counting of late-arriving mail ballots. H...
Trump Reflecting Pool Arrests Take Unnerving Turn—and Officials Go Mum
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Donald Trump has insisted six people have been arrested and many more have been given citations for vandalizing the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. This allegedly includes carving a 350-foot gash in the pool’s sealant, and in a dark and angr...
Trump 250 Gala Grows More Humiliating as Fox Grapples with Low Turnout
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After Donald Trump kicked off his personalized celebration of America’s 250th birthday with a rally on the National Mall on Wednesday night, news accounts described the event as very sparsely attended. Trump himself practically begged for more people to sh...
Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms So Vile It Even Shocks GOPers
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Donald Trump was all set to sign a bill passed by Congress that’s designed to reduce housing costs for the American people. But an angry Trump abruptly canceled the signing and blurted out a demand that Republicans pass voter suppression legislation instead. This&nb...
Angry Trump Snaps at Media over Iran as Fox Hits Him with Brutal Poll
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Donald Trump’s anger at the media over his Iran fiasco is mounting. He snapped at a reporter for noting that Americans might not support spending $80 billion more on the war, as the Pentagon has requested. Trump even dubiously claimed the public would gladly support...
Trump Rages over Reflecting Pool Fiasco as Arrests over it Grow Darker
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Donald Trump’s renovation of the Reflecting Pool is a major fiasco, and it’s getting him angrier. In Truth Social posts, he raged at a journalist for covering the story. He fulminated that vandals had cut at 250-foot gash in the facade (which is entir...
Krugman: Trump’s Unnerving Mental Breakdown Signals Nation in Decline
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Donald Trump’s war with Iran is making it clear this presidency could have much worse long-term consequences than we expected. Yet Trump is spending his nights indulging his crazed obsessions. In one early-morning tirade, he raged about “fools” who criticize his Iran fia...
Angry and Rattled, Trump’s Fox Allies Blurt It Out on Live TV: He Lost
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Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran has now been released, and it confirms what we all expected: He got nothing of any significance. A surprising number of his allies agree. Fox News figures, visibly angry and rattled, are saying the deal “doesn’t feel like...
Sources tell Axios that U.S. intelligence agencies seriously doubt that Iran will make the concessions on its nuclear program that Donald Trump expects it to once talks on it progress in earnest. The leaks are striking: They reflect badly on Trump’s ceasefire with I...
Trump’s Dimwitted Tirade on Iran Deal Accidentally Reveals It’s a Sham
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Now that Donald Trump has reached a ceasefire with Iran, the scrutiny of it has been brutal, making it obvious that he got nothing of significance. In a rambling monologue to reporters, Trump excoriated Barack Obama’s Iran deal for making billions in funding av...
Trump Rages at Jamie Raskin—and Accidentally Hands Dems Midterm Weapon
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Donald Trump erupted in fury at Representative Jamie Raskin in a long, rambling Truth Social post. Trump called him a “loser” who suffers from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But the tirade was unintentionally revealing. Trump raged that if Raskin and Democrats win the Hou...
Trump Hits Record-Breaking Low in Polls as Aides Leak: He’s “Furious”
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Donald Trump’s polling just crashed to new lows. He’s hit a net approval on inflation of negative 50 points in numerous surveys, something no other president has done—ever. Trump also is at 80 percent disapproval on gas prices. And this is the first time Democr...
Trump Iran Tirades Get So Unhinged that His Own Aide Visibly Cringes
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Donald Trump is all over the place on Iran. After insisting a deal was imminent, he’s now threatening more full-scale bombing. He just claimed that “I love the inflation” caused by the war. And in several rants, he insisted that the United States has secre...
Fox in Meltdown over Booing of Trump as Polls Take Truly Brutal Turn
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Donald Trump faced merciless booing at the Knicks game Monday night, and Fox News figures quickly recognized how perilous this is. As Media Matters details, Fox personalities and on-air chyrons spun madly in response. They absurdly portrayed the reception as mu...
