Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News

Advertisement

Advertisement

 
Sunday, April 19, 2026

President Donald Trump's job approval rating has sunk to a new low as Americans express growing concerns about rising costs and the war with Iran, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. Overall, 37% of adults approve of Trump's performance as president, while 63% disapprove -- including 50% who said they disapprove strongly -- putting his job rating at the lowest point of his second term in NBC News Decision Desk polling.


President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukraine believed Russia was making preparations that showed that it would once again try to involve its ally Belarus in the four-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. read more


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wreaking havoc on Israel's standing with Americans ... read more


Event organizers told The New York Times that Trump recorded his segment of the reading from the Oval Office. read more


Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency ... read more


Saturday, April 18, 2026

When Keith Czika learned the brass-instrument factory where he had worked for nearly 18 years was closing and his job was headed to China, the 62-year-old Ohioan focused on what he saw as a source of leverage: the plant's ultimate owner, billionaire investor John Paulson, a close ally of President Donald Trump. read more


Fifa has hit back at criticism from New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, saying vastly inflated train fares at the 2026 World Cup will create problems far beyond just hitting fans in the pocket. read more


A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant's anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing read more


Spirit Airlines asked the Trump administration for hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funding to offset skyrocketing fuel prices ... read more


"I have no comment on whether she is in the hospital or what her medical treatments are," her rep said. "She's had a long history of complicated medical conditions that she has been refreshingly open about, as evidenced in her memoir and on her podcast," the rep added. read more


The Iran war is risking America's global security ties and damaging its reputation, especially among the world's Muslims, according to a set of State Department cables obtained by POLITICO. read more


Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought to roll back longstanding vaccine policy, testified that the measles vaccine is safe and effective "for most people" and agreed it was safer than getting measles. read more


"I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this. I'm fighting wars and other things," Trump said before extensively detailing plans for "the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world." read more


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was challenged over whether he would work to remove Donald Trump from office if the president were found unfit to serve amid questions about his mental health. read more


Vice President JD Vance appeared to warn Pope Leo XIV to "be careful" when speaking about theology and U.S.'s war: "For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war," Auxiliary Bishop James Massa of Brooklyn, New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, said in a statement released April 15. read more


Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf asserted that the US "did not win the war with these lies," adding that "they will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either." read more


Advertisement

Advertisement

 

Drudge Retort

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy