Trump calls Republicans "LOSERS" to their faces (we agree)

Trump stormed into a closed-door GOP lunch Wednesday and called Republican senators "losers" for voting to limit his war powers in Iran — and it worked. Less than 24 hours after the Senate passed a war powers resolution reining in his Iran war, Republicans appeased him. They held a late-night do-over vote and killed it, 50-47.

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy — who Trump called a "lunatic" in a shouting match at the lunch — flipped after getting a personal White House briefing from JD Vance and was thanking the vice president on Twitter within hours. Rand Paul voted "present" to "give the President more space," which is one way to put it.

Trump called the outcome a message to Iran. Senate Majority Leader John Thune called Trump after the vote to report that he was "pleased."

The Senate then left for a two-week recess.

This after the White House formally requested $87.6 billion from Congress to replenish the Pentagon post-Iran. Fewer than one in four Americans think the war was worth it. Soldiers and their families are now accusing Hegseth of covering up the true scale of injuries sustained during the conflict. The Republican Party's spine, already a rumor, is now just a myth.

A federal judge permanently blocked Trump's executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote on Wednesday — ruling the president has no constitutional authority over elections — and within hours, Trump proved exactly why that ruling matters by holding a bipartisan housing bill hostage until Congress does it for him.

U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston converted a year-old preliminary injunction into a permanent ban, writing that the Constitution "does not grant the President any specific powers over elections."

So Trump turned to Congress. He abruptly canceled the signing of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act — one of the biggest housing affordability efforts in decades.

Republicans were hoping to be able to tout this as an affordability win during the midterms, which is shaping up to be a historic wipeout. Trump said he won't sign it until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act, which would mandate proof of citizenship at voter registration and gut mail-in voting.

The court says you can't do it by executive order. So you ram it through Congress by ransoming a housing bill millions of Americans are desperate for. That's the play.

Here's why the proof-of-citizenship requirement is voter suppression: a 2025 University of Maryland study found 21.3 million eligible voters lack easy access to the required documents. Only about half of Americans have a passport, which costs $165 and takes weeks. Married women who changed their names need additional documentation. When Kansas tried this 15 years ago, it blocked over 31,000 eligible citizens from registering before courts shut it down.

Voting by noncitizens — the supposed crisis justifying all of this — is already a felony punishable by prison or deportation, and it's vanishingly rare.

The SAVE Act has passed the House but stalled in the Senate, where Trump is now pushing to eliminate the filibuster to force it through.

Tuesday's New York primaries sent a shockwave through Democratic politics that is still reverberating this morning. Zohran Mamdani-backed candidates ousted House incumbents.

Hakeem Jeffries, visibly sour, told CNN that Mamdani is going to have to "patch things up" with congressional Democrats — which is the establishment's way of saying it got beaten and wants an apology for it.

Even AG Tish James suggested Mamdani was "blowing up” the party.

Trump, rattled enough to rant about a "communist takeover" when asked a housing question, tried to claim credit for 16 wins of his own. Republicans called it a "Bolshevik Revolution."

The real question now: can Mamdani-ism go national?

Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status Wednesday when plunging Tesla and SpaceX shares dropped his net worth to $970.2 billion, per Forbes.

Musk only hit the trillion mark on June 12, after SpaceX's record-breaking IPO — the largest in history — raised $75 billion and briefly made him the first person on earth worth more than $1 trillion.

He's still the world's richest person by a laughable margin — the second-wealthiest human, Google co-founder Larry Page, is worth $284 billion, a sum Musk has already lapped this year alone, having added $338 billion to his net worth since January.

Meanwhile, he’s complaining about taxes. Be so for real.

The event billed as America's 250th birthday celebration became, in practice, a Trump rally on the National Mall — and CNN's live cameras caught the crowd visibly emptying as he spoke. Trump praised an all-male crowd at an earlier White House UFC event, remarking "no women in the crowd, which is nice." The Leonard Cohen estate objected to Trump's planned use of "Hallelujah" at the festivities.

Kash Patel's girlfriend performed on the National Mall after nearly every other artist dropped out — a detail that raises federal ethics questions one X user asked about directly, and which Patel's girlfriend did not enjoy being asked.

The nation's 250th birthday deserved better than a half-empty rally headlined by the FBI director's girlfriend.