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On September 5, 2024 during a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Donald Trump said, “Energy is going to bring us back. That means we’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs.” Enough voters believed these

Republicans increasingly know that they are heading for a complete thumping in the midterm election, so they are starting to turn on each other. Trump is trying to save the few burning embers of his presidency that he hasn’t already destroyed by urging Republicans in Congress to pass his election-rigging bill, the SAVE America Act.

During his press conference at the NATO summit, Trump was asked why he wasn’t flying home on his new Qatari gift, Bribe Force One. The president answered, “It’s flying to Europe to one of the big bases, two or three of the big bases where we can show it to the people, and we’ll be

Everyone knows the lengths that Trump went to when he tried to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. It would be foolish for Democrats not to plan for Trump to try to do the same thing after he loses the 2026 midterm election and gets turned into a lame duck president. PoliticusUSA is 100%

Trump rarely does rally-style speeches anymore, with good reason. A decade ago, Trump used to breeze through these events, rambling, babbling, and lying for minutes and hours on end, but in 2026, Trump is showing his age and decline. PoliticusUSA’s news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber. The president is

The problem with starting a war of choice in the Middle East that has no clear objectives or goals is that without an achievable objective or a goal, the war becomes an endless loop. Donald Trump has had the United States trapped in an endless loop of war with Iran for months. Trump tries to

Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth is appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee and asking for more taxpayer money to pay for Trump’s war with Iran. Hegseth wants an additional $88 billion for the war, even though Trump and Hegseth have constantly stated that the war is over and the United States has won. Democratic Senators

The Trump administration has launched nine straight days of new strikes against Iran. Three US troops were killed over the weekend in Iranian attacks. Trump has continued to threaten Iran, but Iranians have not blinked in the face of the president’s threats, and there is a good reason for the failure of Trump’s bluster. While

Canada is dealing with hundreds of wildfires, but so is the United States. In fact, the number of wildfires currently burning in the US is more than twice the number in Canada (467 to 200), but this has not stopped Donald Trump and Republicans from blaming Canada. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support

As soon as Trump started speaking on Thursday night, the networks that decided not to air his primetime speech on election security looked really smart. CBS was the only network that didn’t air Biden’s speech on elections and democracy in 2022 but did air Trump’s speech in 2026. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) was asked by

Donald Trump getting booed at any public event where he shows his face never gets old. Trump has to hang out at UFC events to get applause. Trump was booed when he attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals, where the president later fell asleep during the game. Trump has been hyping the World Cup

At his big White House speech, where he tried to undermine the midterm election, Trump said something that has now taken on a whole different meaning. The president said:  This cannot be allowed to continue. Every American, whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, independent, or otherwise, should be able to agree that we deserve the most

In a court ruling that won’t get splashed across cable news or generate front-page headlines but is vital to limiting Trump’s power, a federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s claim that the Executive Branch has the power to cancel congressionally appropriated grants. A coalition of 20 states New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado,

Political prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket try to get around gambling bans by claiming that their users wager against each other about event outcomes, but they are not gambling. Even though the mechanics of prediction markets function like sports gambling, there is one key difference. The prediction markets are an open door for insider