Trump News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a five-word tribute to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on Saturday. Plenty of people took it as a jab at President Donald Trump.

“Thank you for everything, Lindsey!” Zelenskyy wrote on X, in English and Ukrainian. He attached a photo of himself shaking hands with Graham, who is giving a thumbs-up.

Zelenskyy didn’t mention Trump. But the timing stood out. The post went up hours after Trump put on hold the sweeping Russia sanctions law named for Graham, a South Carolina Republican and longtime Russia hawk who died in July....

Stephen A. Smith, the ESPN host, spent about four hours at the White House with President Donald Trump this week. He says he came away thinking Trump knows Republicans could lose the House.

Smith had dinner with Trump, comedian Bill Maher and musician Kid Rock. He described the evening Friday night on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live.”

“He’s hearing all the noise about how the Dems are going to win back the House, how they’re probably, the Republicans will probably hold on to the Senate,” Smith said....

Some of the right's best-known critics of President Donald Trump are throwing their weight behind a nationwide push that organizers hope will shatter early-voting records.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Never-Trump conservative Bill Kristol cheered on Saturday's No Kings "Vote Early" events, as the anti-Trump coalition traded its mass street protests for a drive to bank ballots ahead of the November 3 midterms.

More than 3,000 marches, cookouts, block parties and other gatherings were planned nationwide, according to reporting by NPR, with volunteers helping people confirm their registration, map out when and how they'll vote and learn their rights at the polls....

A legal expert predicts the elite law firms that cut deals with President Donald Trump are heading toward a humiliating public reckoning.

Writing in a piece for her Substack newsletter on Saturday, lawyer and journalist Katie Phang said leaders of the nine Big Law firms that caved to Trump would "face plant on national television" if Democrats retake the House in November and haul them before cameras under oath.

In spring 2025, Trump signed a series of executive orders targeting major law firms over their clients and attorneys. Four firms, Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale and Susman Godfrey, challenged the orders in court and won. Nine others, starting with Paul Weiss, instead struck agreements promising about $940 million in pro bono work for causes the Trump administration favors....

Texas farmers have long been a sure thing for Republicans. With the midterms just over two weeks away, some of them say that loyalty is being tested.

High fuel and fertilizer prices driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran are hitting farmers hard across the state, the Houston Chronicle reported on Saturday.

“We’ve had our ups and downs, but this (economy) ranks with the worst ones I’ve seen,” said Russell Boening, president of the Texas Farm Bureau. “I know that people aren’t happy with everything but, maybe looking at the big picture, they’ll stay true to how they normally vote. Or maybe they stay home.”...

The Trump administration is scrambling to dump a federal judge days before its top officials must answer her questions under oath.

In a motion filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department asked that Judge Ana C. Reyes be disqualified from a lawsuit over the National Park Service's removal of trees at East Potomac Park, home to the East Potomac Golf Links that the Trump administration is renovating.

The motion, signed by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, claims "no reasonable observer could consider Judge Reyes sufficiently impartial to adjudicate this case." It also asks the court to release audio of an October 12 hearing "to allow the American people to fully appreciate Judge Reyes's animosity for the Trump administration."...

In a bid to navigate the “biggest single mistake” of President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the president has sparked a new “complete catastrophe,” a panel of journalists argued Monday on MS NOW.

“This war with Iran is going to prove to be the biggest single mistake of Donald Trump's two terms in office,” said David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter. “The Saudi Arabian government could fall there — it's a disaster for this country and it's extraordinary what's happening, just the stakes here every day.”

A cascade of attacks has erupted across the Middle East in recent days amid Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, a conflict that has kept U.S. fuel prices elevated. However, Trump has increasingly blamed the Russo-Ukrainian war for elevated fuel prices....

President Donald Trump delivered his rally speech in Tennessee Saturday to entire sections of empty seats at the F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, new video and photos of the rally revealed.

“President Trump’s crowd on a Saturday afternoon in Clarksville, Tennessee, near the Kentucky border, deep in the heart of Trump country,” wrote New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh in a social media post on X, alongside a video showing entire seating sections devoid of attendees.

Reuters photographer Seth Herald also captured a photo featuring “a section of empty seats” at the arena while Trump delivered his rally speech, which was disrupted within minutes by a heckler....

President Donald Trump said “Too bad!” when asked about Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, his son’s former fiancée, whom his own administration’s watchdog is now investigating.

Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House on Friday as he prepared to depart on Marine One with boxer Mike Tyson.

The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General, the department’s internal watchdog, is investigating Guilfoyle and the U.S. Embassy in Greece, two people familiar with the decision told NBC News....