April 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM EDT
Southern Republican torn apart for 'abject' Trump bootlicking

A hometown columnist in deep-red Louisiana is showing no mercy to a Republican U.S. Representative who appears to be "the new leader in the contest for which U.S. Senate candidate in Louisiana's Republican primary can show the most abject toadyism to President Donald Trump." "Sometimes Trump is right, but when he is wrong, he can be spectacularly wrong," reports Baton Rouge Advocate columnist Quin Hillyer. "It takes a special level of toadyism to campaign as if it's a virtue to support one of Trump's most spectacularly wrong choices.

April 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM EDT
Conservative burns 'rage-addled dimwit' president in pitiless take-down

Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people "not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump." "He's a simple man whose actions are " described as the ordinary daily application of his vices: laziness, vindictiveness, greed, vanity, arrogance, cowardice, and, above all, stupidity," said Williamson in the Dispatch. "He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable: Vladimir Putin, J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, even one or two of his idiot children."

April 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM EDT
MAGA influencers appear 'excited to jail' each other as civil war intensifies

The world of MAGA has always been quick shout "lock her up" but Bulwark politics reporter Will Sommer says now that the community has turned upon itself over the Iran war and other issues individual members are now demanding MAGA members with opposing views get similar treatment. "This all started when there was sort of a rumor online that the justice department was going to investigate MAGA influencers for being paid, whether it's by Israel or Qatar or whatever you imagine," Sommer told MS NOW. "Now it seems like this investigation is not real, but it's still prompted a lot of people on the right, people like Benny Johnson, to start saying, 'oh my gosh, this is great. Finally, someone's going to get to the bottom of all this division.' So, you can see that they they're almost excited to jail their own ideological allies because of disagreements over this war."

April 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM EDT
MS NOW drops stinging supercut of Republican hypocrisy on gas prices

MS NOW assembled a devastating montage showing Republicans raging at high gas prices under former president Biden, but then contorting themselves to justify gas hikes after President Donald Trump's arbitrary invasion and subsequent ceasefire deal with Iran. "Think of that. Would you like to have $1.84 a gallon instead of $4," Trump told a crowd at an October 2024 rally in the middle of his campaign.

April 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM EDT
Trump official has 'weird obsession with death': former Special Forces officer

Since his appointment as Secretary of Defense at the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth has posed himself as a relentless advocate of what he calls "warrior ethos," in which the "woke" military has no place and "maximum lethality" will prevail. But according to over a dozen Pentagon officials who spoke with Rolling Stone, Hegseth's penchant for violence is not only a "weird obsession," but could lead the United States into another military quagmire.

April 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM EDT
Trump promising mass White House pardons: report

President Donald Trump is promising mass pardons to White House staff, and has done so repeatedly, the Wall Street Journal reports. "I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval," Trump said in a recent meeting, to laughs, the Journal reported, citing people familiar.

April 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM EDT
White House explodes after president's doctor asked to prove Trump's mental fitness

The White House is fighting back after a prominent House Democrat demanded that the Physician to the President test Donald Trump's mental fitness, citing the president's recent remarks. "At a time when our country is at war -- especially when the war was initiated by the President without congressional declaration or consent -- the American people must be able to trust that the Commander-in-Chief has the mental capacity to discharge the essential duties of his office," Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin wrote to the President's Physician, Captain Sean P. Barbabella, D.O., in a letter published by Punchbowl News.

April 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM EDT
Defense analyst says Trump is dishonoring the military

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have "debased" the U.S. military one analyst wrote in a blistering column. The New Republic's Brynn Tannehill, a former naval aviator and defense analyst, warns that the volatility of the Iran war mixed with "Trump's temperament, means [the U.S.] may be back to hostilities next week or tomorrow."

April 10, 2026 at 12:02 PM EDT
George Will rips Trump's 'grotesque use of the pardon power'

After returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump was quick to pardon the rioters who had violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building four years earlier. The pardons drew scathing condemnation from a combination of Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, but they didn't come as a surprise: Trump campaigned on pardoning the January 6 rioters in 2024. And his hardcore MAGA supporters applauded the pardons as "promises made, promises kept."

April 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM EDT
Former top Melania aide torches Trump's claim about bombshell statement

President Donald Trump this week tried to claim that he was unaware of his wife Melania Trump's bombshell Jeffrey Epstein comments and was met with widespread scrutiny, including from the first lady's former top aide, who torched his claim as "BS." On Thursday, Melania Trump gave an address in which she claimed to have only ever met deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, a few times at parties she attended with her husband, and denied any other connections to them and their crimes. The address, in which she also called for Congress to take testimony from Epstein survivors, caused confusion, as she appeared to be responding to allegations or reports that had not yet gone public.

April 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM EDT
'Insulting': How Trump tried and failed to kick GOP candidate out of Indiana race

Over the course of President Donald Trump's two terms, he has endeavored to assert himself as the final say across GOP electoral races large and small. While he has often been successful at forcing his party's candidates to bend to his will, in a race for the Indiana state Senate, Trump's efforts to push one Republican out in favor of another have one conservative candidate accusing the White House of "threatening" behavior. The Indiana state elections drew Trump's attention after several sitting lawmakers opposed his redistricting plan last year. As a result, the White House has now thrown its support behind candidate Brenda Wilson in hopes of unseating state Senator Greg Goode, who voted against redistricting.

April 10, 2026 at 10:59 AM EDT
Melania 'ushering Trump to the exit' and trying 'not to go down with' his sinking ship

Conservative Bill Kristol is equating Melania Trump to a rat fleeing a sinking ship. Speculation continues to spread about why the first lady made a public statement on Thursday disputing that she knew trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Some wonder if there's a report about to drop about her, others wonder if it was an extremely delayed reaction to her email to Ghislaine Maxwell being exposed in the files and another group wonders if she'd finally had it with photos of her and Epstein circulating on social media.