For years, hostile regimes have tested the limits of American resolve, calculating that the United States would avoid confrontation even when its security interests were directly threatened. President Donald Trump has now upended that calculation. The recent U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, followed by tough diplomacy, combined with Trump’s clear warnings to […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday his GOP colleagues in Congress “finally showed some backbone” in pushing back against a video President Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday evening portraying former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. “It was a disgusting video. And the president was rightly and appropriately...

President Trump ripped Hunter Hess on Sunday after the U.S. skier spoke out against the political climate in his home country at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan earlier this week. "U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics," Trump wrote on Truth Social....

That is not a series of bad individual choices. It is a system producing a revolving door.