48+ min ago (312+ words) One of the most frustrating things about Donald Trump's physical and mental decline is that it is fairly obvious to the American people who watch this president for any length of time, but much of the media and the Republican Party try to gaslight the country daily by normalizing what is happening in front of our eyes. What appears to be happening to Trump is not a big secret. It is also not anything to be ashamed of. This president is aging rapidly. If we are lucky enough to live long lives, it happens. The questions about Trump have nothing to do with his age itself. It is the refusal of this administration to release any information about the president's health, with which much of the mainstream media cooperates and doesn't push back, that lends the impression that everything is…...

19+ hour, 17+ min ago (195+ words) Republicans are hanging on to their majority in the House by a thread. Marjorie Taylor Greene's abrupt resignation means that a reliable red House seat will remain unfilled for months. However, it is what is happening in a special House election in Tennessee that should be terrifying Republicans. Tennessee's Seventh US House district is not a race that, in a normal year, anyone would consider to be ripe for flipping. Republicans have heavily gerrymandered the district. Trump carried it in 2024 by 22 points. Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats have been consistently widening their map of potential 2026 pickups. The Democrats have been telling anyone who would listen for months that districts Republicans carried by 20 points or more are in play for 2026. Experts and Republicans scoffed because if seats that Republicans carried by more than twenty points were in play, it could result…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago (162+ words) The person responsible for the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC is the shooter himself. I have a policy of never naming shooters, so he will not be given by name in this story, but the conditions that created the opportunity for the person who carried out this act of senseless violence, were put in place by the Trump administration. One Day Only: Get 20% A Full Year Of PoliticusUSA. Click Below To Subscribe Get 20% Off PoliticusUSA The shooter had worked with the CIA during the war in Afghanistan and was let into the United States in 2021. However, it was the Trump administration that granted him asylum this year. When Donald Trump was asked by a reporter about how this person was vetted by his administration and granted asylum, the president blew a gasket. Keep reading this story…...

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4+ day, 17+ hour ago (309+ words) There were reports that the Trump White House was ready to announce a proposal to extend Obamacare subsidies for two years. On Monday, the White House postponed the announcement of its healthcare proposal. Speaker Mike Johnson was the reason why. The Wall Street Journal reported: Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) cautioned the White House that most House Republicans don't have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, according to people familiar with the matter, showing how hard it will be politically to stave off sharp increases in healthcare costs next year for many Americans. The message from Johnson, in a phone call with administration officials, came as President Trump's advisers were drafting a healthcare plan that extended the subsidies for two years. The only problem is that there seem to be enough moderate Republican votes to pass an extension…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago (267+ words) The presidential turkey pardon is one of the biggest softball events that a president takes part in. It is meant to be a lighthearted ceremonial opening of the Thanksgiving holiday. During Barack Obama's time in the White House, the nation got eight years of really corny dad jokes that Obama seemed to delight in, because they were completely terrible, even as his daughters would stand off to the side and roll their eyes. George W. Bush also made bad jokes, but it was lighthearted. The nation has not seen anything quite like an angry and failing Donald Trump, who is mentally declining, and used the presidential turkey pardon as a mean-spirited grievance fest. Into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. He used an auto pen last year for the turkeys. Pardon? So I have the official…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago (175+ words) Prices are skyrocketing. Inflation is high. The American people are angry. Polling shows that the vast majority of Americans are blaming Trump for the declining economy. At this moment, any smart president would be focused on the crisis at hand. Instead, Donald Trump has found a new group of enemies to fixate on. A group of House and Senate Democrats who served in the military have provoked Trump's rage by reminding the troops that they should put the Constitution first and not follow any illegal orders that are issued by the president. The fact that some members of Congress have checked Trump's delusions of unlimited power has set the president off. It wasn't enough for the Department of Defense to open an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). Trump has ordered the FBI Counterterrorism Division to investigate the other Democratic…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago (207+ words) The Department of Defense, which is the legal name of the department, announced via a statement that they were investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for misconduct related to his participation in a video where he and other veterans in Congress urged members of the military not to follow illegal orders. The Pentagon announced in a statement: Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels. All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember's personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order. Sen. Kelly responded with a statement saying that he will not be intimidated: In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago (236+ words) Marjorie Taylor Greene might be the tip of the iceberg. Greene's abrupt resignation from the House was intentional. She didn't inform Donald Trump or Mike Johnson ahead of time because she wanted to make the slim Republican House majority even smaller. Republicans are already facing the prospect of having a zero-vote governing majority in the House. There is a special election in Tennessee for a House seat in a (+22) Trump district that is a lot closer than anyone expected set for early December. Democrats will win special elections in blue districts in Texas and New Jersey in January and April. By not resigning until January 2026, Greene knew that the election to fill her seat likely wouldn't be held until the Georgia primary election in May. The tiny 3 Republican majority could be gone before the election for Greene's seat. At best,…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago (227+ words) The Trump administration has been backtracking from the Putin-drafted list of demands that Donald Trump repackaged as a peace plan. Trump's own Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got very dodgy on Meet The Press when asked if Russia wrote the peace plan. I have no information on that, Kristen. But I can tell you, I am the highest ranking U.S. official to have visited Ukraine. I went last February. And when I went last February, I went with an economic cooperation agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine. President Zelenskyy pushed back against it. The same people you're just talking about, they pushed against it. Mainstream media pushed back against it. You know what? We did it three months later, and now it is the centerpiece for the Ukrainian economy. That this agreement is even funding military plants for the very innovative military sector…...