Transcript: MAGA Senator Shockingly Admits GOP Screwing Trump Voters
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump Has Bonkers Excuse for Why Putin Is Skipping Ukraine Peace Talks
The U.S. president is still caught in an awkward political dance with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.The world leaders engaged in a strange “will they, won’t they” on Wednesday, apparently goading one...
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A Wisconsin judge who was indicted for allegedly helping an immigrant evade authorities is using the Supreme Court ruling granting Donald Trump presidential immunity to argue that she also shouldn’t be...
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Donald Trump went off the rails in a hateful rant Thursday as the Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments over his blatantly unconstitutional executive order ending birthright citizenship. “Birthright...
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Early Thursday morning, Donald Trump took aim at how ugly he thinks some military planes look.Speaking in Doha, Qatar, the president went off on one of his signature tangents at a press conference,...
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Elon Musk is so concerned with pushing false claims of white genocide in South Africa that he seems to have broken his Grok AI chatbot, which is now bringing it up in completely unrelated inquiries. In...
View ArticleMissouri Voters Overturned an Abortion Ban. Republicans Ignored Them.
Missouri Senate Republicans have decided to work against their electorate.The state’s conservative lawmakers shut down a Democrat-led filibuster Wednesday by leveraging a rarely utilized procedural...
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MAGA Republican Drags “Jewish Space Lady” MTG in Messy Public Fight
MAGA Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lawler are trading verbal jabs over a funding disagreement on Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill.This began when Lawler, along with...
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Walmart’s Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey warned Thursday that shoppers could begin to feel price increases on consumer goods as soon as next month as a result of Donald Trump’s tariffs....
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View ArticleTrump’s Corruption Is a Huge Problem. But It’s a Hard Sell to Voters.
President Donald Trump’s plan to accept from Qatar a luxury 747 jumbo jet worth $400 million to use as Air Force One—and then transfer it to his presidential library foundation upon leaving office—has...
View ArticleGeorgia Is Using a Brain-Dead Woman as an Incubator
Georgia’s LIFE Act is killing at least one family, as it keeps a brain-dead woman on life support against the wishes of her family—all because she was nine weeks pregnant at the time of her death....
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View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Rips Into Trump DOJ: “Assume You’re Dead Wrong”
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View ArticlePam Bondi Picked Quite the Day to Dump Trump Media Stock
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President Donald Trump has been growing angry over the criticism of his decision to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. He snapped at a reporter who questioned him about it, and erupted over...
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View ArticleTranscript: Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Criticism Worsens
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump Freaks After SCOTUS Trashes His Birthright Citizenship Arguments
Supreme Court justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum dismantled the Trump administration’s birthright citizenship arguments, so the president, in turn, accused the nation’s highest...
View ArticleKristi Noem Wants to Turn Immigration Into a Twisted Game Show
The Department of Homeland Security is considering a barbaric pitch for a television show where immigrants compete for U.S. citizenship. The Daily Mail reported Thursday that it had obtained a 35-page...
View ArticleMTG Snaps Over Embarrassing Report Trump Forced Her Out of Senate Race
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wants everyone to know that the president absolutely did not, under any circumstances, tell her not to run in Georgia’s Senate race.The MAGA acolyte was rumored to...
View ArticleTrump’s Approval Rating Plummets in Just About Every Category
Once again, new polling has President Trump’s approval rating underwater on nearly every single issue.Just weeks after multiple polls showed him tanking with Americans everywhere—and young people in...
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MAGA Loses Its Mind Over James Comey’s “8647” Instagram Post on Trump
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View ArticleTrump’s Tax Bill Falls Apart as He Spirals in Wild Online Rant
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View ArticleLet’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers
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