Michael McDonald

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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If not obvious:

- this was not the first time Signal was used to conduct government business
- likely not the first time used to conduct sensitive government business
- this violates the Presidential Records Act

New Kennedy Center schedule just announced! Weekly Miss Teen USA competitions with special dressing room inspections by the Kennedy Center chairman

Who are the Sunday talk shows going to have on weekly to lie now?

The United States is the world's number one bullshit producer and consumer

I’d like to report that the White House looks like a war zone. Rubble everywhere. Time to send in the National Guard to restore order

Citizens United has come home to roost, build a nest, and sh*t all over democracy

Could America please be known for something else?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."

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My quick read of Callais decision is that the majority says if a racial community votes consistently with a party, then it is okay to deny them representation because that's just partisan gerrymandering

Today is the day we learn from Fox that the Supreme Court is packed with seven radical socialist liberals

Huh. The president thought this was of such significant importance as to hold a national televised address

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

REPORTER: Was there an agreement on election interference during your talk with the Chinese foreign minister? MARCO RUBIO: We didn't discuss that topic

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Never forget who Trump appointed to be the head of our domestic anti-terrorism people.com/trump-admin-...

Trump Admin Taps 22-Year-Old Who Is One Year Out of College for Terrorism Prevention Role at Homeland Security

Donald Trump's White House has appointed 22-year-old Thomas Fugate to help lead a counterterrorism division at the Department of Homeland Security

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Ted Cruz: "As we sit here right now tonight, the threat of terrorist attack is higher now than it has been for decades. There's two causes of it. Number one, Joe Biden ... "

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Have they yet produced a single person over 150 years old receiving social security?

Today’s firehose of lies wash away yesterday’s lies

Hunter Biden says wtf

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

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My personal government data was stolen by DOGE. Where is my $10 billion?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you respond to people who say it's a conflict of interest for the president to be seeking funds from those who he's administering? BLANCHE: We're looking at how to handle that. He's not wrong that what happened there was horrible, the fact his tax returns were leaked.

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The media’s inability to state facts when it comes to Republicans (and Trump) is partially how we got here. The plane is a corrupt violation of the U.S. constitution (not to mention a security risk). This is a fact. Full stop. It’s not up for debate with weasel words like “raises concerns”

Trump says he’s destroyed Iran’s military while Trump says we’ve left their military alone. Hard to know who to believe

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump claims his strikes haven't really hurt the Iranian military: "We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that."

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Nothing to see here. Just a president placing pressure on a private business to provide more favorable political optics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

ROBERTS: I understand there might've been a phone call from the president to Jeff Bezos on this this morning STEPHEN MILLER: I have no news to add on it. All I can say is things worked out exactly as they should.

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If Trump wanted to keep people away from the reflecting pool he would have held the American State Fair there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆

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Who else indeed would be this much of an asshole?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Q: Do you have a comment on the six service members who passed? TRUMP: *ignoring question* Go ahead. Who else?

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In the Free Country of America you are free to ask any question Dear Leader approves

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

"You're not supposed to be asking that question ... that's enough" -- Trump gets mad at and shuts down a reporter who tries to ask him about reported clashes between Musk and Rubio

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If you were one of the millions of people at No Kings who has a subscription to the NYT that diminishes your number to thousands. Now would be a good time to cancel your subscription

When my students ask how we got here I say the laws are not self-executing. Our contract with our government only works when we elect people of good faith into office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...