Trump administration
July 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
My colleague David Zimmer dug into the data to assess the success of President Trump’s immigration policies. He found them to be very successful, indeed: There has been a concerted effort by “open immigration” advocates, “anti-Trumpers,” and a supportive legacy media, to portray the immigration enforcement efforts of the Trump administration in the poorest light possible. Many detractors have virtually ignored the success the Trump administration has had at securing
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July 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The U.S. government spends more than $900 billion annually on Medicaid. How much of that money is stolen by criminals? HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. pegs the theft total at $100 billion. I am going to embed the entire quote in the tweet below: RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft. He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient
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July 17, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I would like to know the answer to that question! In his speech last night, President Trump said that the Communist Chinese had tried to pay American journalists to write negative articles about him. As I told Rowan Dean, I always assumed they did it for free. But seriously: is there evidence that American journalists are paid by the Chinese Communist Party? Not really. I believe the just-declassified document that
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July 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
RealClearPolitics has posted the text and video of President Trump’s prime time speech last night. The White House has posted the Election Integrity documents cited in the speech. They can be downloaded at the linked page. Looking for an accessible summary with some analysis of the speech, I found Politico’s story to be of use. John previewed Trump’s speech and anticipated that Trump would focus on election security with a
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July 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker
President Trump will address the nation this evening at 9 pm Eastern. He may cover several topics, but reportedly the main focus will be elections. News outlets are preemptively assuring readers that our elections are wonderful. CNN: “The upcoming speech is just the latest example of his election obsession.” Reuters: “The Republican president could use his televised speech … to again press his false claim that he lost his 2020
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July 7, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The White House’s Domestic Policy Council has produced a report on the takeover of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History by the anti-American Left. This X account summarizes some of the high (or low) points: A museum supposedly for families and children displayed: — A sadomasochistic "crotch harness" — A "trans nonbinary" person's "chest binder" — Pages from a 6yo girl's diary in which she prays "every night
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June 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Temporary Protected Status conferred on immigrants from designated countries provides yet another example of the meaning of “temporary” government programs. The meaning of “temporary” must be subsumed under a broader category of Newspeak that includes government programs adopted under the banner of “emergency.” Bruce Springsteen captured the spirit of the thing in “For You” on his first album: “Your life was one long emergency.” Governors including Minnesota’s ineffable Tim
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June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I am at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis awaiting a press conference with United States Attorney Dan Rosen and the Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Michael McCarthy. We have been advised that they will announce charges against several defendants for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers and related charges arising from the efforts of members from two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups in violent oppostion to immigration
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June 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Democrats are outraged over the news that the administration is considering issuing a $250 bill in commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, with President Trump’s picture on it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent displayed a mockup of the hypothetical bill: I think this is a marvelous troll on the part of President Trump. Trump has a sense of humor, and his critics generally don’t. Thus, they often fail to understand when
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May 30, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is one of the heroes of President Trump’s remarkable cabinet. Yesterday he delivered a speech at the Reagan National Economic Forum that everyone should watch or read. Here is the speech, which consists of the first 16:32 of the video. The rest is conversation with Larry Kudlow: The complete text is here. Bessent diagnoses the problems that have been caused by the delinking of economic policy
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May 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is justifiable, but perhaps the most radical idea the Trump administration has floated so far: 🚨 HUGE DEVELOPMENT: Sec. Markwayne Mullin announces DHS is drawing up plans to BLOCK ALL international flights into sanctuary cities by ending Customs screening there This would DEVASTATE those cities. Mullin is doing it as a direct result of sanctuaries refusing to cooperate… pic.twitter.com/GRHOWtdipv — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 27, 2026 As I understand
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May 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The Trump administration is taking the position that federal law does not just permit the government to detain illegal immigrants, it requires such detention. This position has inspired outrage on the left, and circuits that have addressed the issue have split. So it is on to the Supreme Court. The question is a tricky one, involving interpretation of a law that is not particularly well drafted. That is probably due,
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April 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times looks into what has happened to USAID employees since that agency was shuttered, and gets out the violin: [Amy Uccello] was fired by email while on maternity leave, given 24 hours to clear out her desk and left with three days of health insurance and no severance pay. She had worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development or related groups for more than two decades.
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April 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Democrats howled when President Trump marshaled federal law enforcement and the National Guard to get crime under control in Washington, D.C. But Trump’s efforts, and those of his United States Attorney, have paid off: Washington DC is on pace for roughly 42 murders this year — the lowest since at least 1930. Two years ago it had 274. Carjackings are also down (by 44%). What changed: 1) New U.S. Attorney
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April 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune is the dominant media organ in Minnesota. It serves the interests of the left in the fashion of the New York Times in the national press, acting as the public relations arm of the Democratic Party and its aligned interest groups. The Star Tribune, however, is something of a joke. It adamantly supports illegal immigration and opposes the enforcement of immigration law, though it doesn’t say so
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April 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has shut down Judge James Boasberg’s endless contempt proceedings against the Trump administration. D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao wrote the majority opinion. D.C. Circuit Judge Justin Walker concurred in full with Judge Rao’s opinion and separately added a few licks. Both Judge Rao and Judge Walker are Trump appointees. They have had it with Judge Boasberg’s “law is politics by
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April 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
One of the extraordinary features of the first year of President Trump’s second term has been the attempted judicial coup by Democratic Party district court judges who have, in effect, tried to take over the operation of the Executive Branch. Rogue district judges have issued one ill-founded order after another, most of which have been reversed on appeal. Perhaps the worst offender has been James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the
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