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7 months into Iran War, Trump accuses communists of ‘INHUMAN ideology that has led to DEATH and DESTRUCTION around the World!’

“I’m not sure what they’re doing," said Suzan DelBene, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "They don’t have a message."

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Polarized America united around one issue: the data centers powering the stock market and the biggest tech boom in decades

“I don’t think that enough people understand that this is going to create really good jobs,” said Heather McKenzie, a labor expert based in Nebraska.

26.08.2026 8

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Trump ripped Obama for flying long distances to play golf. Now he’s flying to the Irish Open

“They talked about the carbon footprint and then Obama hops onto a 747, Air Force One, and flies to Hawaii to play a round of golf and comes...

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Trump embraces a political strategy of being in charge of everything but responsible for nothing when things go badly

His unwillingness to accept blame sometimes leads him to deny that there are problems at all.

15.08.2026 7

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Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says he got advice from Barack Obama and had a ‘really warm and inspiring’ conversation

Asked if he would like to see Obama come to Michigan to drum up support for Democrats before the midterm elections in November, El-Sayed said he...

09.08.2026 10

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Trump’s grass obsession leads to White House summit with Scotts Miracle-Gro: ‘An amazing dialogue, talking grass for half an hour’

From Davos to a TikTok signing, Trump brings up lawn care once every 12 days — and says his own golf club "looks better" than Augusta.

07.08.2026 8

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‘Kryptonite to November voters’: Trump’s Michigan visit puts the GOP’s dilemma on display

Trump is visiting a GM facility in Milford, with early voting underway for Michigan's Aug. 4 primary.

27.07.2026 8

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Dodgers give Trump what looks like a World Series ring: ‘Wow. Do I have to report this? I don’t want to report this’

The president also hailed the best team in baseball as "truly a great — when you talk about a brand — it's one of the great brands anywhere in the...

24.07.2026 10

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Trump, Iran and Jimmy Carter — experts think it’s ‘dawning on him’ that he should have paid closer attention to history

Trump’s sentiments on the 39th president have become more wistful as his once-favorite punching bag is seeming more understandable these days.

18.07.2026 7

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Trump insists ‘Iran is unhappy right now’ while venting about ‘electric catapults that don’t work’ at defense tech summit

After a long aside about the use of magnets to improve catapults on vessels, Trump finally offered, “I hope I'm not boring anybody.”

16.07.2026 8

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Trump hints at a ‘dead man’s switch’ if Iran assassinates him. But Vice President JD Vance would make the call

If Trump were killed, the transfer of power to his successor is governed by the 25th Amendment and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.

11.07.2026 9

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Trump once suggested his Reflecting Pool renovations would last a century. It’s now being drained again after an algae bloom and peeling paint

Trump has blamed the peeling on vandals, though critics allege it's from shoddy repair work.

11.07.2026 10

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‘It’s a very strong deal. Nobody knows what it is’: Trump completes transformation from Master of the Deal to Great Equivocator

Ronald Reagan called himself the “Great Communicator” and George W. Bush declared himself “The Decider." Trump is different.

02.07.2026 10

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Trump’s 80th birthday present is a UFC cage on the South Lawn of the White House

The South Lawn is sometimes called America’s backyard.

09.06.2026 10

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Dr. Oz on why Trump appointed a real-estate heir as acting intelligence chief: ‘I think Bill’s a great guy. I know him socially’

The White House sent its most camera-ready CMS chief to the podium — and reporters asked him about things he'd never heard of. "That's out of my...

03.06.2026 10

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Trump on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: ‘Do your own thing’ but don’t lose your way like Jerome Powell did

"Honestly, I really mean this," Trump insisted after hounding the Fed for years. "I want Kevin to be totally independent."

23.05.2026 10

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Trump tells Xi, ‘It’s an honor to be your friend.’ Xi responds by talking about Taiwan

Xi asked “whether the two countries can transcend the ‘Thucydides Trap’ and forge a new model for relations between major powers.”

14.05.2026 10

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Trump and Xi may meet 4 times in the next 8 months as Air Force One heads to Beijing

"Xi has a much better understanding of Trump" than their first meeting," said the Crisis Group's Ali Wyne, senior U.S.-China research and advocacy...

11.05.2026 10

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China may not offer breakthroughs when Trump meets Xi because Beijing is ‘working backward from our midterm elections’

Trump could meet with China's leader four times in eight months.

10.05.2026 10

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Trump tips $100 to DoorDash driver who dropped off 2 McDonald’s bags at White House

President Donald Trump had two bags of McDonald’s delivered to the Oval Office on Monday by a DoorDash driver he tipped $100, using his favorite...

14.04.2026 20

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Trump refuses to apologize to the Pope, offers implausible explanation for tweeting himself as Jesus

“I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and it had to do with the Red Cross,” Trump said about the image of him as Jesus.

13.04.2026 20

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Under attack from Trump, Pope says the president doesn’t understand ‘the message of the Gospel’

Trump delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo X, calling him "a very liberal person" who was "catering to the Radical Left.”

13.04.2026 20

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The cease-fire that wasn’t: Here’s why Trump and Iran never really agreed to the same terms

Hours after Pete Hegseth said the strait was open, Iran announced that the strait was closing again in response to Israel's strikes in Lebanon.

09.04.2026 10

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As Iran war knocks Trump back on his political heels, he lashes out a news coverage while taking flak from top MAGA figures

Meanwhile, Moscow is getting a boost from the war's early days after Trump eased sanctions on some Russian oil shipments.

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Trump says Cuba has ‘no money’ and ‘maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover’

"The Cuban government is talking with us,” the president said to reporters outside the White House.

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Days after his biggest defeat, Trump tells America ‘we’re winning so much’

President Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an...

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Trump limits DHS intervention during protests in Democratic cities, but ICE and Border Patrol will be ‘very forceful’ protecting federal property

“If they want help, they have to ask for it. Because if we go in, all they do is complain,” Trump said.

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This is the next Trump construction project, joining the White House ballroom, Rose Garden replacement and others

The Courses at Andrews — inside the secure confines of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland — are known as the “president's golf course."

03.01.2026 20

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Trump warns U.S. will ‘knock the hell out of’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities if it’s rebuilding them amid Israeli concerns about long-range missiles

"We'll knock them down. We'll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully that’s not happening.”

30.12.2025 20

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Trump says Ukraine and Russia are ‘closer than ever’ to peace after talking to Zelenskyy and Putin

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed,” Trump said during a late afternoon news conference following a meeting with Zelenskyy, whom he repeatedly...

29.12.2025 20

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Ahead of meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy says ‘Ukraine is willing to do whatever it takes to stop this war’

Zelenskyy said the two planned to discuss security and economic agreements and he will raise “territorial issues.”

28.12.2025 10

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U.S. launches strikes against Islamic State group in Nigeria after attacks target Christians

A Defense Department official said the U.S. worked with Nigeria to carry out the strikes and that they'd been approved by Abuja.

26.12.2025 30

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Trump finally meets Claudia Sheinbaum face to face at the FIFA World Cup draw

A senior White House official said Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney met privately after participating in the draw.

06.12.2025 10

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Bescarfed Trump tells reporters that Jack Nicklaus will ‘do some work’ on longtime presidential golf course

“We’re doing some fix-up of the base, which it needs. We’re gonna try and reinstitute the golf courses. I’m meeting with the greatest Jack Nicklaus."

23.11.2025 20

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Trump enlists Jack Nicklaus to help revamp the ‘president’s golf course’ — raising questions about who will pay the golf legend and how much

Nicklaus “will be the architect" and "design it,” Trump told reporters.

23.11.2025 20

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Trump isn’t canceling travel, golf, or his ballroom, even with the government shuttered and 750,000 furloughed federal employees

Only 32% of the staff in the Executive Office of the President were set to be furloughed during the current shutdown, according to data from the White...

30.10.2025 10

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Ontario quickly caves to Trump and promises to pull the offending Reagan ad that killed Canada trade talks

Days before he called the ad fraudulent, Trump told a group of Republican senators that he'd take out the same ad if he were Canadian.

24.10.2025 20

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Trump says he’ll meet Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss Ukraine war’s end and predicts ‘some swapping of territories’

Prior to his announcing the meeting with Putin, Trump’s efforts to pressure Russia into stopping the fighting have so far delivered no progress.

09.08.2025 20

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Are college athletes employees of their schools? Trump signs executive order asking labor authorities to figure it out

Trump directed the secretary of labor and the National Labor Relations Board to clarify the status of collegiate athletes through guidance or rules.

25.07.2025 20

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Coke tight-lipped on Trump’s promise to make American Coke with real sugar again

In 2012, Trump suggested diet soda might be connected to weight gain before writing, “The Coca Cola company is not happy with me — that’s okay,...

17.07.2025 10

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Trump holds court on presidential portraits, pretty picture frames and FDR, ‘an amazing man’

Of his time in "the vaults," Trump says, “sometimes I like frames more than I like the pictures." He's a fan of Polk, "sort of a real-estate guy."

10.07.2025 20

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