Susie Wiles, described by President Donald Trump as the most powerful woman in the world, has hit back at a series of Vanity Fair articles in which she made several unflattering comments about members of the administration, including her boss.

Wiles, the first-ever female White House chief of staff, referred to the pieces, published Tuesday morning, as a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”

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TRUMP’S JOB IS TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE ECONOMY. If you want to see why President Donald Trump is visiting Pennsylvania to talk about affordability, and why he is planning rallies on the topic around the country in the coming weeks, just look at the simple question asked in the new Harvard CAPS Harris poll: “What would you say are the most important issues facing the country today?”

The question was open-ended, and respondents could name more than one issue. The top concern, named by 36% of those surveyed, was price increases, inflation, and affordability. The No. 2 issue, named by 29%, was the economy and jobs. Put them together, and economic issues were by far the most important issue named by the voters in the poll.

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A fishy reek is emanating from the latest scandal about President Donald Trump’s military campaign against drug runners in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. forces have so far attacked more than a dozen fast boats on known drug routes, destroying them and their cargo and killing some 80 members of their crews.

One might assume the fishy thing is the lack of full video of the first attack on Sept 2 that triggered the latest controversy. One might jump to this conclusion because the Pentagon has proudly distributed other videos of successful operations in which boats are seen on grainy video in the crosshairs of missile guidance systems and are suddenly incinerated in a flash of sophisticated ordnance.

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Washington Examiner editor-in-chief Hugo Gurdon joins chief political correspondent Byron York to discuss the six Democratic Senators that released a video for service members from the US military to not follow unlawful orders. The Pentagon has threatened Sen. Mark Kelly for a court martial. Any movement in the Russia and Ukraine peace deal and what it would take.

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In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear.

The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds gathering hours early amid music and pageantry. Local heroes, union leaders, elected officials, and retired military officers cycled through as warm-up speakers, firing up the audience between tracks like Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Village People’s “YMCA,” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” Trump’s walk-out anthem.

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Democrats are about to learn the same lesson Republicans have several times before them: like a nuclear war, nobody wins a government shutdown.

That’s not for lack of trying. The federal government has been shut down for more than 40 days, as it took 15 Senate votes for Democrats to relent and allow a short-term funding bill to pass.

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Politicians tend to be somewhat triumphalist in moments of triumph. So Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani could have been forgiven for a little exaltation as he spoke to his electrified supporters after winning the New York City mayoral election.

But his oration was more than that. He was downright sinister, glorying not just in his achievement but in having laid low his vanquished enemies and stuck it to others besides. He took off his smiling campaign mask and revealed his venomous self.

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President Donald Trump’s tearing down of the White House East Wing’s facade has faced criticism, but the renovation is only the latest of over a century of redesigns.

Several of these involved tearing down or gutting significant parts of the White House, to a greater extent than the most recent ballroom renovation. The White House itself was quick to respond to outrage over pictures of the East Wing facade being torn down by a backhoe, arguing it was the continuation of a “proud presidential legacy.”

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