Nvidia wins Trump’s approval to sell H200 AI chips in China
The company sells the more advanced Blackwell generation in the US and is preparing to shift to an even speedier family of chips called Rubin US President Donald Trump granted Nvidia…
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China’s trade surplus tops $1 trillion for the first time—even with Trump’s tariffs
China’s exports rebounded in November after an unexpected contraction the previous month, pushing its trade surplus past $1 trillion for the first time, according to data released Monday.…
MAGA Senator Says Didn’t See Proof of Trump’s Main Claim on Drug Boats
“They have talent. They have talent. The great Gary Player, he hits shots. He’s 90 years old. He still plays good. Shot a 70 with me the other day. He’s 90. We’re playing pretty far back…
Trump’s Mortgages Reek of Fraud Under His Own Definition
President and former slumlord Donald Trump appears to have spent years committing the same kind of mortgage fraud that he’s been accusing his political enemies of. ProPublica has reported…
GOP Senator Makes Pathetic Excuse for Trump’s Anti-Somali Hate
Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah on Sunday offered a mealymouthed excuse for President Donald Trump’s xenophobic attacks on the Somali community. “We don’t want ’em in our country,”…
Trump’s Unhinged Statement About Bathroom Renovation Reveals a Lot
On Truth Social, the president called Schiff a “Trump hating loser” and questioned the integrity of the Fox News program—of which he is, famously, an avid viewer—for having given him a…
Video: The Impact of Trump’s Slipping Approval Rating
new video loaded: The Impact of Trump’s Slipping Approval Rating After months of holding steady, President Trump‘s approval rating has dipped over the past several weeks, according to a…
The Internet Schools Trump’s Treasury Department on Economics
Social media users are skewering the U.S. Treasury Department for bragging about something eminently non-bragworthy. On Friday, the Treasury Department’s official X account shared a chart…
Hey, Does Anyone Want to Talk About Donald Trump’s Infirmities?
It’s been something of a bleak period, watching the press make startling departures from telling the straight story about the Trump administration. TNR contributor Parker Molloy noted…
Trump’s DHS Uses Spotify Tradition to Try to Joke About Deportations
The Department of Homeland Security has innovated a cringey new way to spread its blatantly made-up statistics documenting its ethnic cleansing campaign: introducing DHS Wrapped! In the…
National Parks Now Free on Trump’s Birthday, but Not on Black Holidays
The Trump administration removed free national park access on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, while adding it for President Trump’s birthday. Now, two federal holidays that…
D.C. Pipe Bombing Suspect Believed Trump’s Big Lie on 2020 Election
The man who planted pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the day before January 6 seems to have been motivated by MAGA election denialism. Virginia…
Trump’s U-turn on fuel economy rules lifts European carmakers' shares
The Trump administration cast the change, aimed at making it easier for automakers to sell petrol-powered cars Shares of European carmakers jumped between 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent in…
Trump’s Crackdown on Afghan Refugees Will Have Dire Consequences
Not only are Afghans themselves confused about their legal status, the organizations that assist them as they navigate the process of resettling are working off of statements from…
Minneapolis Will Prove It’s Better than Trump’s Sick Somali Smear
The caricature of Jews as crooks coexisted for such bigots with the stereotypes of Jews as both rapacious capitalists and violent revolutionaries. The irreconcilables somehow reconciled in…
Trump Official Panics as Brutal Jobs Report Blames Trump’s Tariffs
The order banned citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from traveling to the U.S. It also…
Hegseth’s 2016 Warning to Military Nukes Trump’s Attack on Democrats
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to court-martial Democratic Senator and military veteran Mark Kelly for saying—nearly verbatim—the same thing he himself said about soldiers not…
Trump’s Excuse for Getting Random MRI Has Major Issues, Doctor Says
A prominent cardiologist is calling bullshit on President Donald Trump’s MRI story. Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper Tuesday, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as a cardiologist for the late…
Trump’s Travel Ban Gets More Extreme—Hitting Citizenship Applicants
The order banned citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from traveling to the U.S. It also…
The Radical Honesty of Trump’s Racist New Immigration Policy
If you press even a little on any of these claims by Noem, like a blazer that only holds up on camera, they come apart. This asylee, said Noem, was not yet “radicalized” when he entered…
Costco is suing the U.S. government over Trump’s tariffs. Here’s why
Costco has sued the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s bid for sweeping authority to impose tariffs. In a complaint…
Trump’s Hold on the GOP Has Never Been Weaker
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Is President Trump a lame duck? Maybe. The…
Transcript: Trump’s Hold on the GOP Has Never Been Weaker
Bacon: Right. They don’t care about high prices. They care about helping their elite friends. Donegan: For you means he’s going to lower your grocery bill—he’s not going to do this…
How Sovereign Wealth Funds Grease Trump’s Kleptocracy
Neither Dmitriev nor the RDIF has much of a reputation in the United States. As recently as October Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed Dmitriev as “a Russian propagandist.” A 2022…