Trump BETRAYS one of our closest allies

House Democratic “Leader” Hakeem Jeffries said yesterday he does not support Medicare for All — on the same day a CBS News poll found 90 percent of Democratic voters support the idea — and 72 hours after a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every single year.

Jeffries raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign cash from healthcare PACs in the 2026 election cycle and didn't face any primary challenge despite him being in a deep blue NYC district.

He also said yesterday that he does not back the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), even as democratic socialists and left-leaning candidates racked up primary wins in the last few months.

This is why Democratic voters are so angry with their “leadership.”

Democrats are in a good position to take back the House this November, but it won’t be because of anything this man has done.

Hours before joint military drills with South Korea were set to begin Monday, Trump ordered them scaled back — citing his "very good" relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

In a post on his failing social media platform, he called the 75-year-old alliance exercise "costly" and "hostile" toward a country that's been "unthreatening and respectful."

Trump also says he asked South Korea to help with denuclearizing Iran. They said no.

The catch: Kim hasn't warmed up to Trump at all since their 2019 summit fell apart. North Korea spent the weekend threatening "stern steps" over the drills, and has been deepening its military ties with Russia and China.

Experts warn scaling back damages alliance coordination and weakens deterrence. Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, put it bluntly: "hollowing out these joint exercises is shortsighted and a mistake."

A president who campaigned on strength just downgraded a decades-old alliance for a dictator who won't even call him back.

Sen. Jon Ossoff took the gloves off Sunday, calling out Trump by name for "lying a nation into war, treating citizens as fools, and those who serve as pawns."

The Georgia Democrat landed a sharp one on Trump's attachment to 35-year-old White House aide Natalie Harp — dubbed his "human binkie" for being seemingly inseparable from the 80-year-old president — while contrasting Trump's nap schedule with sailors who have spent nearly nine months at sea aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Ossoff has been one of the loudest Democratic voices willing to go directly at Trump, and this rally showed why — he's not softening the message for anyone. He’s in a competitive state, running against a president who still has real support there, and he is not playing it safe.

"There's constant and building dismay about the increasingly appalling record of the court," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse told the Washington Post — and Democratic lawmakers are done just stewing about it.

They're now actively targeting the Supreme Court's rightward grip, pushing proposals to add justices and limit terms after years of watching the court gut the Voting Rights Act, erase abortion rights, loosen campaign finance rules, and hand the executive branch more unchecked power.

The court didn't become this way by accident. It was a decades-long, donor-class power grab, and Democrats are finally treating it like one.

Gas prices just hit $4.07 a gallon — the highest August average on record, according to AAA — and Americans are making their feelings known. CNN data analyst Harry Enten ran the numbers and says the polling on it is unlike anything he's ever seen.

79 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump on gas prices, the worst rating of any president in modern history on the issue — topping Bush at 75%, Biden at 72%, and Obama at 68%.

The kicker: it's not just Democrats. Enten called it a "rare trifecta" — 96% of Democrats disapprove, 85% of independents, and 52% of Republicans.

The base that stuck with Trump through two impeachments and a felony conviction may be drawing the line at the gas pump.

Prices are climbing because of uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz — a direct consequence of Trump's war of choice with Iran. Four in five Americans are now unhappy with the man who promised to drill, baby, drill on day one.

Brent Jindra, 48, voted for Trump three times because of his tough immigration promises. In April, he petitioned to sponsor his Russian-born wife, Galina Bobreneva, for a marriage-based green card — she'd already been fingerprinted, her application accepted. Then ICE agents took her at Burbank Airport anyway.

Jindra told the Times his wife "did not jump a wall, she did not swim a river" — she came through what he called "Trump's beautiful, big front door." Bobreneva described the Adelanto ICE Processing Facility as making her feel "like a piece of meat," with lights on 24 hours and women packed in together.

She was released July 29 on a $35,000 bond with an ankle monitor. ICE is now tracking tens of thousands of people with ankle monitors. Thirty-two detainees died in ICE custody in 2025 — the agency's deadliest year in over two decades.

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