MAGA wants to cancel Jimmy Kimmel over a joke—again
MAGA influencers are renewing President Donald Trump’s crusade to get comedian Jimmy Kimmel removed from his broadcast, this time referencing an out-of-context joke about Trump ally and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani is reportedly hospitalized in critical condition, which was first disclosed on May 3. More than five days before Giuliani’s status was known…
Trump riffs about mass slaughter to audience of kids
In the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump ruminated about vicious deaths in Iran—while surrounded by a group of children he was hosting. “They should do the smart thing, because we don’t want to go in and kill people,” Trump said about Iran, adding, “I have so many Iranian friends from New York and from other places over the years. They’re great people. I don’t wanna—I don’t want…
The Trump team will pay you to take one of their lousy jobs
How much money would it take for you to go work for the Trump administration in one of the really bad places? You know what I mean—the Justice Department, Customs and Border Patrol, you get the picture. $10,000? $20,000? More? Well, you’re in luck if you’re an unemployed, inexperienced, amoral lawyer, as the DOJ is so desperate to fix its understaffing issue that it’s now offering a…
10 years ago: Trump declared ‘I love Hispanics!’ over a taco bowl
Today marks 10 years since President Donald Trump “celebrated” Cinco de Mayo with his infamous social media post in which he declared, “I love Hispanics!” “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill,” he wrote alongside a photo of himself with a taco bowl on his desk in Trump Tower. Trump’s white supremacist rhetoric and anti-immigrant bigotry began with…
Hear ye, hear ye
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | How Democrats plan to fight the Supreme Court’s racist ruling…
Musk gets slap on wrist from Trump administration
The Securities and Exchange Commission is letting Elon Musk off easy, despite allegations that he violated federal securities law. President Donald Trump’s SEC announced on Tuesday that it had settled with Musk for $1.5 million over a lawsuit filed in 2025 alleging that he broke the law during his acquisition of Twitter, now known as X. The sum is far less than the $200 million Musk’s lawyers…
Man with worm in brain thinks he can fix your brain
Consider Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a sort of Renaissance Man, if the Renaissance was a public health catastrophe helmed by the worst people imaginable. Not content to compromise our physical safety with his attacks on vaccines, he’s now taking aim at antidepressants. To be perfectly clear: Kennedy is as qualified to go after SSRIs as he is to go after vaccines…
House Republican: Saying numbers can ‘incite people to go kill’
On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and a Fox News host clutched their pearls as they discussed Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu’s use of the numbers “86 47” in social media posts. In the posts, Lieu was criticizing the Justice Department’s bad-faith prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey for posting a photo of seashells arranged to spell those same numbers. “It’s disgusting,”…
Par for the course: Trump tries to snatch another DC landmark
In case it wasn’t bad enough that the Justice Department is filing Truth Social posts as legal briefs to defend President Donald Trump’s ballroom, and in case it wasn’t bad enough that Trump arbitrarily decided to paint the reflecting pool blue, the president has found a public golf course to ruin too. It’s no secret that Trump wants to take over all three of the public golf courses in…
Democracy’s carcass
A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | Democrats vow to fight back after Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act…
Hegseth: What war?
Nearly a month after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that America had achieved victory against Iran, the two nations continue to fire on each other. And during a Tuesday press conference, he insisted that ongoing warfare is not war. On April 8, Hegseth declared the conflict “a historic and overwhelming victory,” claiming that Iran’s navy, missile production capabilities…
Wait, Senate GOP wants to give Trump how much for his dumb ballroom?
So much for that privately funded White House ballroom. Senate Republicans on Monday evening unveiled their immigration enforcement funding bill, which aside from providing tens of billions for President Donald Trump’s immigration goons also includes a whopping $1 billion in taxpayer funds for Trump’s pet ballroom project. The funding bill, introduced by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley…
DK6 Early Week 4: Logout Issues, Continued
The Current Work List The Fix List Getting Logged Out, Continued We released a fix this morning for some users getting logged out. What we need to know, is, did that make a difference? Are you still getting logged out? Let us know below. Thank you!
DC gala shooter and Jan. 6 rioters get markedly different treatment
Honestly, it’s not at all surprising that Cole Allen, the alleged shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner, is being wildly mistreated while in jail. The Trump administration is bringing the full weight of the government down on the man they accuse of trying to assassinate the president, and there is no way they would pass up an opportunity to harm him. After being booked into the…
HHS’ healthy food agenda puts hospitals on notice about patients’ meals
By Stephanie Armour for KFF Complaints about hospital food are certainly not new, and Jell-O and fruit juice are often the butt of related jokes. But the Trump administration has recently upped the ante. It is urging the public to report hospitals and nursing homes that serve sugary drinks, nutrition shakes, or meals that it says don’t meet dietary guidelines established last year…
MAGA malaise
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related | Pain at the pump? Republicans have a scapegoat for that.
Trump’s got beef with abortion, federal workers, and ‘Biden vegans’
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Conservatives force abortion rights back into spotlight Republicans apparently wanted to remind voters who killed Roe v. Wade ahead of the midterms. Trump regime isn’t done tormenting federal workers Even when there’s adequate staffing, there’s not adequate staffing.
California debate recap
A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | In California’s governor race, an afterthought surges to the top…
Trump acing cognitive tests is not the flex he thinks it is
It seems like President Donald Trump may have recently taken one of his favorite cognitive tests. Speaking at a White House event on Monday, he bragged about being the only president to ever take a cognitive test and have the tenacity to distinguish between an alligator and a squirrel. “No president has ever taken one, except me,” Trump said. “I’ve taken three of them, and I’ve aced each one.
Man shot by Secret Service near Washington Monument
A man spotted carrying a gun in the vicinity of the White House by plainclothes officers and agents was shot by law enforcement Monday after he opened fire on them near the Washington Monument, the Secret Service said. Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn said plainclothes agents spotted the man around 3:30 PM in the area near the White House complex and saw the imprint of the weapon on…