JFK's nieces SLAM 'small-minded' Trump

The building that bears John F. Kennedy's name is now closed because Donald Trump couldn't put his own name on it.

A federal judge blocked Trump from plastering his name on the Kennedy Center's facade, so Trump's handpicked board — which includes Usha Vance, Susie Wiles, and MAGA musician Lee Greenwood — voted to close the performing arts center for two years, citing "recently exacerbated structural emergencies.”

Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex officio board member, described a call in which Trump "threw a tantrum," called her "dumb" and "incompetent."

JFK's nieces went on CNN and called it "hostage taking" and "small-minded." The judge called it "games."

The Supreme Court blocked Trump's last-ditch effort to restrict mail-in voting before the 2026 midterms, and Trump responded the only way he knows how: a unhinged Truth Social spiral attacking the three justices he personally appointed.

Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch — Trump's own picks — sided against him, with Kavanaugh writing that implementing the new postal rule before the elections would be "arbitrary and capricious."

Trump called them "a shell of their original selves," saying they were “not the people I interviewed,” and accused his handpicked justices of being "petrified" of Democrats and "cajoled by the Radical Left."

This is the same court that handed him the presidential immunity ruling. The same court that gutted federal agency power on his behalf. Now that they've ruled against voter suppression twice in a month — on tariffs and birthright citizenship too — suddenly they're radical leftists.

The midterms just got a little harder to steal.

A ProPublica investigation found that Don Jr.'s Bahamas wedding was bankrolled by Umar Kremlev — a Russian oligarch with direct ties to Vladimir Putin — who allegedly shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the May nuptials to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson.

Melania's response was to sprint to the Daily Mail and make clear she had nothing to do with any of it.

"Mrs. Trump does not, and has never had, a relationship with Mr. Kremlev," her spokesperson said. "Mrs. Trump played no role whatsoever in organizing the wedding event and was not privy to any aspect of its financial planning."

Every word of that statement is a knife in Don Jr.'s back — and she knew exactly what she was doing.

Government documents obtained by the Guardian show ICE recorded 18 miscarriages in the first nine months of the Trump administration — and then simply stopped counting after October 3, 2025.

The agency is detaining pregnant women and teenagers at record levels, placing them in facilities where basic prenatal care is nearly impossible to access. One woman miscarried chained to a hospital bed. Another is in her third trimester with persistent bleeding and hasn't been allowed to see an OB-GYN. A third woke up to large amounts of fluid and was told by detention medical staff the miscarriage "wasn't her fault" — as if that was the care she needed.

Physicians for Human Rights warned that women who miscarry without proper follow-up, including ultrasounds to confirm tissue clearance, face serious infection risks. ICE isn't tracking it. They're not required to explain why.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office just handed Republicans a grenade: the Iran war has cost the US at least $38bn, and the bill is growing by $3bn every month.

The Pentagon's own inspector general dropped its first war review a day earlier, putting total spending at $33.4bn through June 30 — including $22.3bn on munitions alone — and found the fighting had "resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply."

Translation: the US missile stockpile is so depleted it could take five years to rebuild.

All of this lands less than two months before midterms, where the war and a cost-of-living crisis are already battering Republicans in the polls. Forty-eight months of missile resupply is a hard thing to spin.

Thomas Massie — the Republican congressman Trump and Hegseth personally campaigned to destroy in a primary — just proposed impeaching Pete Hegseth over the defense secretary's handling of the Iran war, citing repeated constitutional violations and civilian deaths.

The timing is brutal: House Republicans are weeks out from November midterms, defending their majority, and now one of their own is forcing a vote on whether their defense secretary is a war criminal.

Massie lost his primary because Trump and Hegseth told Kentucky Republicans to dump him.

He has absolutely nothing left to lose — and House leadership knows it.