Enten reported numbers last week showing that favorability for voter ID requirements is more aligned with the administration than with Democrats today. According to Pew Research Center numbers, support for voter ID requirements has gone from 76% in 2018 to 83% in 2025. Those 2025 numbers also show that more than 70% of Democrats support voter ID laws.
Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the post in a statement: This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public. But after 12 hours or so, the post was deleted, with an unnamed White House official claiming A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.
The article, based on 11 on-the-record and recorded interviews with Wiles, prompted a sharp escalation. Senator Mike Lee accused accused Vanity Fair of defaming Wiles. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the reporting as ideological warfare, writing, This is what the Left does. Trash & smear our best & most effective people. Vice President JD Vance went further, suggesting the lesson was that the administration should stop giving interviews to mainstream or legacy media outlets.
After all, the Hungarian capital was the site of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Ukraine gave up the thousands of nuclear weapons it had inherited upon the breakup of the Soviet Union in return for assurances that Russia would respect Ukraine's territorial integrity. Putin broke that promise with his 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea, with his decade-long military offensive in the Donbas region, and then with his all-out invasion in 2022.
After all, the Hungarian capital was the site of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Ukraine gave up the thousands of nuclear weapons it had inherited upon the breakup of the Soviet Union in return for assurances that Russia would respect Ukraine's territorial integrity. Putin broke that promise with his 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea, with his decade-long military offensive in the Donbas region, and then with his all-out invasion in 2022.
Democrats know what the right thing to do is here they just lack the courage to do it, Leavitt told hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino, adding that the shutdown has presented critical consequences and it's the Democrats' fault. Leavitt's appearance came hours after her boss revealed that he would be meeting with his OMB director, Russell Vought, to look into what SCAM Democrat agencies can be nixed as the shutdown goes on.
Grande shared a post Sunday from liberal activist Matt Bernstein that included a paragraph that said, It's been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all has your life gotten better? Entertainment Weekly received a statement from the White House on the Wicked star's political statement online.
The other day, Axios posted a ridiculous column (with Mike Allen as the first byline) beginning to lay the groundwork for Trump to repackage imminent failure on Ukraine. It starts by allowing senior White House officials anonymously and vaguely blame Europeans for Trump's failure to craft a deal. Frustrated Trump aides contend the blame should fall on European allies, not on Trump or even Russian President Vladimir Putin. All three bases for that blame in the column are ridiculous:
