Donald Trump

Trump's political influence is referenced both in the context of a new play about McCarthyism and as the backdrop to the high-stakes CUSMA renegotiation due in July.

Trump signed an executive order tripling the pool of federal employees he can dismiss at will, while simultaneously bailing out rural agricultural supporters and nominating Todd Blanche as permanent attorney general.

Trump is announcing a $700 million coal industry support package using Cold War-era Defense Production Act authority, while simultaneously launching a DOJ probe into California's slow primary vote count and late mail-in ballot surge.

Trump called House members 'unpatriotic' after the chamber passed a resolution seeking to halt further military action against Iran without congressional authorization.

Trump announced the Blanche nomination at a dinner and faces a House War Powers rebuke over his Iran military engagement, exposing fractures in his congressional support.

Trump suffered multiple simultaneous setbacks: a House vote blocking his Iran war policy passed with four Republican defectors, a new funding bill dropped two of his key demands, and he faces eroding MAGA support over a $250 vanity currency proposal.

Trump's endorsed candidate in Iowa lost the GOP primary, and separately Trump expressed desire to meet Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei amid ongoing nuclear negotiations.

Trump's $1.8 billion fund to compensate people his administration deemed politically targeted has been shut down, reflecting Republican resistance to what critics called a legally and ethically indefensible use of public money.

Trump is facing simultaneous crises: the collapsed January 6 slush fund, growing job losses in swing states, reported unexplained disappearances raising health questions, and audit immunity shielding his finances from public scrutiny.