Trump rages at NYT survey, says ‘fake’ polling should be criminal offense?

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This week, The New York Times and Siena University released a poll showing a majority of Americans disapprove of how President Trump is handling the economy, immigration, foreign policy and affordability. A full 51 percent say his policies have made life less affordable. Nearly half of voters — 49 percent — believe the country is worse off than a year ago.  

But instead of addressing the substance of the concerns, Trump took to Truth Social to attack the poll itself.  

Trump argues Republicans are fixing an economy damaged by President Biden. But Americans don’t live in talking points, they live in monthly bills. Inflation is up 2.7 percent year-over-year. The typical household is spending $184 more per month than last year, and $590 more each month than they did three years ago, according to Moody’s Analytics. Grocery prices haven’t meaningfully come down. Energy, medical care, coffee and ground beef all cost more.  

Suing pollsters and attacking the press won’t lower grocery prices, won’t stabilize energy costs, and won’t make life more affordable. Governing will. And right now, voters are saying — clearly  — they want less outrage and more results

Spiral! Mental decline, losing Nobel, "Iceland" debacle: Trump slumps amid Epstein, ICE revolt

Americans grow more OUTRAGED as Trump's ICE grows more outrageous

Polling Trump's Popularity

Trump Backs Down on Greenland After Global Defiance, Claims NATO “Deal” Is “Infinite”

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Trump sparks anger over claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line

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Donald Trump has sparked fresh outrage in the UK after saying Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan.

Labour MP Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs committee, called it an "absolute insult" to the 457 British service personnel killed in the conflict, while Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: "How dare he question their sacrifice?"

Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty, who served in Afghanistan, said it was "sad to see our nation's sacrifice, and that of our Nato partners, held so cheaply".

The US president told Fox News on Thursday that he was "not sure" the military alliance would be there for America "if we ever needed them".

"We've never needed them," he said, adding: "We have never really asked anything of them."

"They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan," he said, "and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines".

He said the US had "been very good to Europe and to many other countries", adding: "It has to be a two-way street."

What’s Going on With the Epstein Files? A Month After Deadline, the Vast Majority of Materials Remain Unreleased

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More than a month has passed since the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while the department has publicly shared thousands of documents since that date, those releases account for only a fraction of the materials it has in its possession—leaving the vast majority of the so-called “Epstein files” still unreleased.

In a letter to Comer, the Clintons’ lawyers said that the subpoenas they received “are invalid and legally unenforceable, untethered to a valid legislative purpose, unwarranted because they do not seek pertinent information, and an unprecedented infringement on the separation of powers.” Their lawyers said that the couple has “already provided the limited information they possess about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to the committee.”

Trump makes a FOOL of himself on world stage; pretends to solve crisis of his own making

'How do I know you’re a US citizen?' ICE agent confronted by protest after questioning man in MN

ICE Memo: Agents can enter homes without a judge’s warrant

How Trump Outfoxed Himself

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President Donald Trump kicked off the new year with a cacophony of policy decisions which have diverted attention from his disastrous 2025. 

The first year of Trump 2.0 has been soundly rated a failure in all major national polls and in each dimension of national and international priorities. Gallup found that only 36% of Americans approve of the President’s job performance. And according to a CNN poll, just 37% of Americans say that Trump places the good of the country above his personal gain and 32% say that he’s in touch with the problems ordinary Americans face in their daily lives.

Faced with high levels of unemployment, an affordability crisis, and being named in the Epstein files multiple times, Trump has unleashed a blizzard of divisive actions. He has attempted to change public discourse to focus on an alarmist hunt for enemies abroad, through his aggressions against Venezuela and Greenland, and at home, through his unpopular and violent ICE raids and attacks against Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell.

Some have concluded that Trump’s frenzy is the arbitrary approach of a deranged demagogue. “Trump does not appear to have control of his mental faculties,” asserts historian Heather Cox Richardson. “When people talk about that ‘Oh he shouldn’t do this?  He can’t do this? Why is he doing this?’ and so on—you don’t make those arguments about people who don’t have any logical reason for anything they are doing excerpt perhaps, ‘I wanna feel good about myself and make lots of money.”

But this perspective misses an important point: Trump keeps getting what he wants. 

The philosopher Abraham Kaplan referred to this as “the law of instrument.” Using the same hammer with increasing fevered frenzy is not going to address the challenge when a different approach, like perhaps a saw or a wrench, is needed. Trump needs to adopt new unfamiliar leadership tools which he has no experience using and which are unknown to his current sycophantic advisors.

Trump’s Greenland offramp

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At Davos, the president defuses a crisis he created.

The only good thing to say about the great Greenland crisis of 2026 is that it’s probably over. Anyone looking for any benefits associated with this exercise is wasting their time.

The retreat from confrontation came in response to backlash from global financial markets, especially bond futures. European leaders even showed some backbone. (Take note, congressional Republicans.)

The biggest risk of the Greenland kerfuffle is that Trump signaled to NATO’s adversaries that the U.S. is not fully committed to defending all member states if they come under attack in the future. On Denmark selling Greenland, for example, Trump said: “You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no, and we will remember.”

Ty Cobb: ‘Significant decline’ in Trump mental faculties

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Former White House attorney Ty Cobb claimed President Trump is experiencing a “significant decline” in his mental faculties, pointing to the commander in chief’s Tuesday appearance at a White House press briefing to mark the anniversary of his return to the Oval Office.

“I think there’s been a significant decline. He’s always been driven by narcissism. But I think the dementia and the cognitive decline are, you know, palpable, as do many experts, including many physicians,” Cobb told MS NOW’s Ari Melber on “The Beat,” in comments highlighted by

Progress toward peace in Ukraine was unlikely before Trump’s Davos rant. Now it looks all but impossible

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There were hopes Davos would bring Trump together with Europe’s key leaders and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky around an $800bn “prosperity” deal for a peacetime Ukraine, and the cementing of US security guarantees for Kyiv. It did not. In a rambling speech that lasted more than an hour, Trump referenced both Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron being in the audience when in fact both had stayed away, believing little progress toward peace was likely.

What will greet Zelensky on arrival is more concerning: a hostile and unpredictable US president who seems to flippantly eviscerate his country’s longest-standing allies, mock their leaders, and then find he has loathing to spare for windmills. Trump repeated his claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted a deal on Ukraine – despite little public evidence to support it – and that Zelensky did too. Steve Witkoff, the presidential envoy to the war, is once again due to meet Putin Thursday, possibly after a Trump and Zelensky meeting in Davos. The mayhem of the past week radically decreases the already slim chance of a genuine peace deal.