The early field of GOP presidential candidates is laughably bad " and they're going to be dealing with the same problems that killed the party in last week's elections.
Whatever you can say about this cast of characters, no one is going to call them "hunks." If you discount physical attractiveness, it gets even more dire.
This is an astonishingly bleak list of potential Trump successors. There is obviously a lot that can happen between now and 2028, but if you want to feel good about the future, just take a look at this roster.
President Donald Trump on Monday questioned the legitimacy of the midterm election results, resurrecting his pattern of raising doubts about electoral losses for himself and other Republicans. Trump's social media post raising questions about the election came six days after his fellow Republicans suffered historic defeats at the polls nationwide, including in several GOP strongholds like Texas and South Carolina. "Does anybody really believe that this Election' was honest," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting dumps' were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote," the president said.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.
Why GOP lost the midterms, what went wrong on immigration and more
Days after Republicans faced a series of bruising midterm election losses, President Trump stood by his handling of the economy and the Iran war " but he acknowledged some "bad messaging" on economic issues and said his immigration crackdown was "too tough" at times.
In a sitdown with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat, the president also suggested some top administration officials could be on their way out. One hour later, he announced White House chief of staff Susie Wiles would depart her role and be replaced by Stephen Miller.
Here are the biggest takeaways from the interview:
President Donald Trump has admitted his federal crackdown on illegal immigrants went too far and may have alienated voters at last week's midterms, which saw Democrats take back control of Congress. Speaking to correspondent Ross Douthat for Sunday night's instalment of 60 Minutes on CBS News " his first major interview since Tuesday's crushing defeat for Republicans " Trump said of the crackdown: "I think it was too tough." "I think it might be too tough, yeah," he continued. "And a lot of people would say that it's great. But a lot of people think it's too tough."
You probably haven't fully absorbed it yet, as you wander aimlessly through the wreckage of your glorious new East Wing, and lash out at Susie Wiles as therapy, but you were just fired by the American people. Yep. Fired. That 13 percent margin of victory for the not-exactly popular Democrats? That's a once-in-a-century margin. That's the biggest public repudiation of any party since the 1974 Watergate election. You have to go back to 1926 to find a margin that's bigger. That makes you a once-in-a-century loser, sir. I've seen this for a decade now, Mr President, but you don't read, of course, so let me reprise what so many of your voters now finally, finally see. You're a liar and a conman who preys on the weak and the poor. You've made the GOP toxic for an entire generation, and divided it into warring factions that are just kicking into internecine gear. The gains you and your party made with Hispanics, blacks, and other minorities in 2024 have been wiped clean.
The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump's elder sons invested in its parent company, according to records and interviews. The contracts, one to screen for Ebola in several U.S. airports and the other to respond to disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are seven times the total value of government contracts the company had directly received before. The company, XpresTest, has years of experience monitoring for COVID-19 and other diseases for the government at U.S. airports. That makes its parent, XWELL, an unusual hybrid, selling both spa treatments and biosecurity services. Last year, it made most of its money from waxing salons and airport spas that offer manicures, massages and "chakra beds."
Can you progressives please make up your mind? Many Hurricanes in a season, yall scream it's due to climate change. Then there's no hurricanes and I guess that's also due to climate change, right? Idiots. Read more
Can you progressives please make up your mind? Many Hurricanes in a season, yall scream it's due to climate change. Then there's no hurricanes and I guess that's also due to climate change, right? Idiots. Read more
This past Saturday Melanoma Trumpf was painfully humiliated when thousands of people attending Louisiana State University's football game against Alabama in Baton Rouge raucously booed her. Organizers feebly responded by piping music over the speakers in what appeared to be a futile effort to smother the seismically loud torrent of jeers vollied against the deeply unpopular wife of the pedophilic president defiling the White House.
"Jeffrey who?"
US Senator-elect Adam Hamilton (D-KS) doesn't plan to support US Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-Israel) bid to be majority leader. The man who flipped deep-red Kansas for Democrats said he has "no disrespect for Chuck Schumer," but "I just really don't [want him as majority leader], and I've told him that as well ... [Schumer's] somebody who's a divisive figure." The victorious Mr. Hamilton is Kansas' first Democratic senator since 1932 and he took no money from AIPAC or JICPAC.
Israeli taxpayers are more important to Chuck Schumer than American taxpayers"FUNNY"
Republican state Rep. Megan Weinberger (R-FL) " nicknamed "MAGA Meg" and one of the idiots behind renaming Palm Beach county's airport after Dummkopf Trumpf " lost by less than two points to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Holmes. Also in southern Florida, AIPAC darlings Jared Moskowitz (D), Randy Fine (R), and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D) kept their congressional districts secure for Israel.
Gerrymandering helps AIPAC politicians and hurts People of Color in Florida"FUNNY"
White Christian Republicans (MAGAts) didn't seem to mind when D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod "Vindaloo Chicken" Patel took his oath of office on the Indaghadadavida, but they will certainly have tantrums when Dr. Abdul-El-Sayed (D-MI) takes his oath of office on the Quran this coming Jan 2027. No doubt ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu will suffer a conniption fit as well, whether he is still in power or not. When the pastoral James Talarico (D-TX) takes his oath of office on the Bible at the same time, phony Christians will assail this young man; but he will forgive them for their blasphemies. James Talarico's favorite musical might just be Godspell.
This is one mad panda"FUNNY"
They've only gone 0-8 twice: 2000 and 1975.
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