Eagle-Eyed Trump Critics Have Spotted Some Very Weird Details In Photos Of Him ‘Working’“If Obama or Biden EVER did this, it would have launched 100,000 investigations,” one social media user wrote.
Jaqueline Benitez, who depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, California, on Feb. 13, 2023. AP Photo/Allison Dinner, FileThe text was from the Illinois Department of Human Services, saying SNAP benefits for November would not be distributed because of the government shutdown. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementOur regular SNAP allotment doesn’t cover everything, but it provides most of what ends up on our table. I rely on SNAP to feed my kids because my disability check runs out before the month does. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementRight now, millions of families are facing hunger as SNAP benefits are delayed during the government shutdown.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON ― The late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein suggested to confidants that President Donald Trump knew about his criminal activity, according to email messages made public Wednesday. Trump “knew about the girls,” Epstein wrote in one of the three emails released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. In a statement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails were “selectively leaked” by Democrats to smear Trump. “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre.”AdvertisementEpstein's 2011 email mentioning Donald Trump to Ghislaine Maxwell. AdvertisementIn another email, in 2015, Wolff told Epstein that Trump would be asked about their relationship during a presidential debate that year.
The president went ahead and posted a graphic of himself next to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, comparing 50-year mortgages with the Roosevelt administration’s 30-year mortgages. “I mean, you go from 40 to 50 years, and what it means is you pay something less. “The ‘savings’ from 50-year mortgages may be totally negated by rising home prices.”AdvertisementWhat a 50-year mortgage could look like, by the numbers. On a 50-year mortgage, it’s closer to $980,000,” Urquhart continued. For the first 20 years of a 50-year mortgage, almost nothing goes to principal.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full SNAP payments, amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume. Jackson signed the initial order temporarily freezing the payments. AdvertisementBeneficiaries in some states have received their full monthly allocations while in others they have received nothing. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to pause that order. An appeals court said Monday that full funding should resume, and that requirement was set to kick in Tuesday night before the top court extended the order blocking full SNAP payments.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump is defending his plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Chinese students into the country after facing backlash from prominent MAGA voices. The conversation kicked off after Ingraham told Trump that “a lot of MAGA folks are not thrilled” about his plans for the international students. Advertisement“We do have a lot of people coming in from China, and we always have,” Trump replied. “We’ve had a lot of problems with the French where we get taxed very unfairly on our technology,” Trump said. The decision, which sparked criticism from his MAGA supporters, also came amid his administration’s controversial sweeping mass deportations of immigrants.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGPolitics wasn’t meant to be the focus of the latest seasons of “South Park” but President Donald Trump’s seemingly boundless influence on America made it impossible to avoid. AdvertisementTackling all things Trump has been a boon for “South Park” ratings, with viewership doubling from its 2023 numbers, according to Nielsen. Though White House representatives called the show’s Trump pivot a “desperate attempt for attention,” the creators said “South Park” doesn’t need chaos in the capital to keep itself relevant. We’re becoming: ‘Tune in to see what we’re going to say about Trump,’” Stone said he remembered thinking. By the 2024 election, Parker told Vanity Fair he thought they’d squeezed all the comedic material they could from then-candidate Trump.
“Working through the weekend with President Donald J. Trump,” Mullin wrote. “It’s always an honor to be in the Oval Office — I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted. It’s always an honor to be in the Oval Office— I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) posted photos on Saturday of President Donald Trump "working through the weekend." Sen. Markwayne Mullin via XFirst off, the paperwork on Trump’s desk seems to just be large printouts of his social media posts.
For the past four years, the 24-year-old Silver Springs, Maryland, resident worked as a market research analyst for the Department of Commerce. “My uncle is a government employee, and I just saw how much pride that he took in his job. And I was like, ‘I want a job that’s like that,’” Kerksick said. But since the October government shutdown, Kerksick has been furloughed, which means she’s one of the estimated 750,000 federal workers across the United States who are on an indefinite unpaid leave of absence. “At first I thought this was just going to be a week,” Kerksick said, so she took a week of paid time off.
In both cases, my family donated more than usual, given that President Donald Trump had ordered federal food aid for the poor, elderly and disabled stopped due to the government shutdown. Without these subsidies, ACA monthly insurance premium payments would “more than double,” according to KFF, a health policy organization. To disabled Americans, particularly those who live with incurable, chronic illnesses, it was more than that. But we can donate food and cash to those whose federal food aid was cruelly cut or whose government paychecks are withheld during a government shutdown. Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t.
Pete Hegseth posted video footage of the most recent strikes on X. Pete Hegseth/XThe UK has stopped sharing some intelligence with the US amid fears military strikes ordered by Donald Trump on boats allegedly carrying drugs are illegal, it has been reported. America has carried out more than a dozen strikes since September on vessels near the Venezuelan coast and the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing more than 70 people. AdvertisementTwo more boats were blown up on Sunday, killing six people, according to US defence secretary Pete Hegseth. Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief, has said that the strikes violate international law and amount to “extrajudicial killing”. AdvertisementHe said: “Decisions on this are a matter for the US and I’m not going to get into intelligence and security matters.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGAmong the onslaught of judicial rulings issued by courts in response to the Trump administration’s attempts to expand the president’s powers, a singular theme is emerging: Judges are pissed off. Whether on the page or from the bench, judges nationwide — including those President Donald Trump appointed — are expressing increased exasperation with the administration’s obfuscations and seeming reliance on plausible deniability as a primary or sole legal strategy. At the circuit court level, challengers to the Trump administration have a 59% win rate, with Republican-appointed circuit judges giving their votes to Trump 85% of the time and Democratic-appointed circuit judges voting against Trump 85% of the time. At the district court level, Trump’s challengers have won 60% of the cases brought, with Republican-appointed district judges ruling against Trump 55% of the time and Democratic-appointed judges ruling against the administration 63% of the time. MATHIEU LEWIS-ROLLAND via Getty ImagesA lack of credibility by the Trump administration and its lawyers was recognized by U.S. District Judge April Perry in Chicago, too.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in power since 2013, says Trump is seeking to oust him and that Venezuelan citizens and the military will resist any such attempt. The U.S. military dwarfs Venezuela’s, which is debilitated by a lack of training, low wages and deteriorating equipment, six sources familiar with Venezuela’s military capabilities said. That reality has led Maduro’s government to bet on two potential strategies - including a guerrilla-style response referenced publicly, though without details, by high-ranking officials, and another which officials have not acknowledged. Venezuelan troops, however, have to deal with poor working conditions and there could be desertions in the event of an attack, the sources said. Venezuelan opposition groups, NGOs, Washington and some Latin American governments have accused Maduro’s administration and the Venezuelan military of ties to drug trafficking, especially in the country’s west, where Colombian guerrilla groups like the National Liberation Army operate and coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, is widely cultivated.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — In the end, some Democrats just didn’t have the stomach for a drawn-out fight with Donald Trump. They underestimated his apathy and ruthlessness in denying health care and food aid to millions of Americans, including his own voters. This included a last-minute intervention by Democrats on the Senate floor on the eve of the shutdown, without which the fight would have been over before it even began. Advertisement“They were skeptical of the strategy and that it was worth the fight,” one Senate Democratic aide told HuffPost. But they were wrong that Trump and Senate Republicans were the ones more likely to cave in the end.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump took his usual lies and political attacks to Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, making his Veterans Day remarks sound more like a rally speech. AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump salutes at the conclusion of a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 11, 2025. I watched U.K., I watched Russia; they were selling ― celebrating — Victory Day, World War II, and I said, ‘We got to have a Victory Day.’ Nobody even talked about it in our country. And remember, we won World War I, we won World War II. Congress named it the Department of Defense after World War II, and only Congress can rename it.
