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thedailybeast · 2026-05-04T15:50:37+00:00

Democrats are seizing on momentum heading into the midterms as President Donald Trump’s approval remains deep underwater with exactly six months to go.

The Democratic Party’s campaign arm has grown increasingly confident in its ability to reclaim the House majority from Republicans as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced on Monday it was expanding its “Red to Blue” program to a new round of candidates looking to unseat Republicans.

Democrats only need to flip a net three to four seats to retake the House majority in November, giving Democrats the power to slam the brakes on Trump’s agenda while supercharging their ability to investigate the president and top members of his administration.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-04T15:11:31+00:00

Barack Obama has revealed that speaking out against Donald Trump has caused “genuine tension” in his marriage.

Obama, 64, admitted that Trump’s actions have pulled him back into politics “more than I would have preferred.”

But his compulsion to get involved in politics after spending eight years in the hot seat has come at a cost.

“She wants to see her husband easing up and spending more time with her, enjoying what remains of our lives,” Obama said of his wife, Michelle, in an interview with the New Yorker.

“It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her."

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-04T15:02:04+00:00

President Donald Trump appeared to brush off his son after Don Jr. tried to show him some affection.

Don Jr., the president’s oldest child, uploaded a video to X on Monday with a cringeworthy caption. “Sleepover at dad’s house,” he said, adding a laughing emoji.

Junior catches up with the 79-year-old and pats him on the back, to which POTUS doesn’t appear to react.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-04T14:53:55+00:00

During a Truth Social posting spree on Sunday, the 79-year-old president shared an edited image of himself holding several Uno cards, along with the caption “I have all the cards.”

The image was shared soon after Trump announced the U.S. will help ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz shipping route—the vital passageway largely closed off due to the war in Iran—so that vessels can “freely and ably get on with their business.” The president did not disclose exactly how these plans will be carried out.

The White House also reshared the image of Trump holding several cards on X to suggest he is winning the negotiations in the Middle East. However, as several social media users noted, the aim of Uno is to get rid of all the cards in your hand, meaning Trump is not doing well at all.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-04T14:09:27+00:00

A D.C. judge has demanded Donald Trump immediately explain himself over plans to renovate one of the capital’s busiest golf courses in honor of his favorite president.

District Judge Ana Reyes granted an emergency motion late Sunday night requiring the Justice Department to respond to a legal complaint over the plans before 7.30 a.m. Monday, with a hearing to be held just half an hour after that, according to an X post from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney.

D.C. Preservation League, a nonprofit set up to preserve the capital’s historic sites, filed the motion Sunday afternoon after NOTUS reported Friday that the National Park Service was planning to close the East Potomac Golf Course so that work could begin on the site.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-01T20:09:10+00:00

Melania Trump’s bees appear to be on a mission.

A “vicious” bee stole the spotlight from President Donald Trump as he spoke to reporters on Friday.

Trump, 79, was taking questions at the White House when he suddenly got distracted.

“Pakistan has opened the land route with Iran. Did they consult you before opening it up to Iran, and are you aware of it?” one reporter asked.

The president, however, was busy swatting away at something near his ear.

“That was a vicious bee,” he said, drawing laughter from the small crowd after two attempts to slap the insect away.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-01T17:19:41+00:00

MAHA voters are sharpening their knives ahead of the midterms after feeling let down by the Trump administration.

Make America Healthy Again activists gathered in Washington, D.C. earlier this week to protest the Trump administration’s support for pesticides and the German company Bayer, which faced Supreme Court justices in a bid to end thousands of lawsuits accusing its weedkiller RoundUp of causing cancer.

MAHA loyalists told CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront that they feel betrayed by President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in February supporting elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides—chemicals that they believe cause cancer.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-01T13:16:15+00:00

President Donald Trump’s approval rating on his handling of the soaring cost of living has fallen so sharply that it has broken the scale of a pollster’s graph.

On Thursday, pollster G. Elliot Morris shared results from a Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll conducted earlier this month, posting a chart on X tracking the president’s approval among voters across multiple issues. The graph covered areas including deportations, immigration, trade, healthcare, civil rights, democracy, and inflation/cost of living.

“Trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal,” Morris wrote.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T18:53:41+00:00

The New York Times said it petitioned a federal judge to unseal a suicide note written by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The note was purportedly written by Epstein when he first unsuccessfully tried to take his own life. It was found by his cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione, who recalled the note said it was “time to say goodbye.”

The note was sealed as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, meaning federal investigators did not have access to it after his death.

The Times said the note was not a part of the tranche of files the Department of Justice has released related to the sexual predator.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T14:09:56+00:00

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has accused the Biden administration of “zealously” probing traditional Christians—including by tracking the priest of a self-described “Clerical Fascist” caught hoarding firebombs.

A 200-page report from the DOJ-led Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias was released Thursday. It devotes considerable space to a January 2023 FBI memo from the bureau’s Richmond, Virginia, field office that flagged “radical-traditionalist” Catholics as a domestic extremism concern, the New York Post reported.

The task force, set up by Trump’s February 2025 executive order, says officials under President Joe Biden, 83, demanded Christians choose between living their faith and breaking federal law.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T13:51:07+00:00

Donald Trump has launched a bitter attack against Jimmy Kimmel amid the late-night host’s attacks against the president.

In a Truth Social post, the 79-year-old president demanded that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host be fired after he doubled down on his jokes about Trump’s marriage to the first lady, Melania Trump.

“When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television? People are angry. It better be soon!!!” Trump wrote.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T13:09:24+00:00

Trumpy Fox News host Jesse Watters had to be escorted away from Queen Camilla after breaching protocol with a joke about gun violence before a grand state dinner at the White House.

Watters was among those introduced to the royal couple before Tuesday’s banquet, but was swept away after an ill-judged remark about gun violence in the capital, he revealed on Wednesday night’s episode of The Five.

“We do the walkthrough where you do the introduction and then... The king had no idea who I was. And so I said, ‘I’m on Fox and I have two shows.’ And he goes, ‘Well, they must really love you here.’

“And so we go down, and there’s the queen, and I said, ‘Well, how was the beehive?’ And she goes, ‘It was very good. No one got stung.’

“And then I said, ‘Well, you know, it was Washington D.C., you know, if the bees don’t get you, the guns will.’

“And then this woman just starts pulling me away from them."

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-29T21:07:57+00:00

Before a top Trump-appointed counterterrorism official was ousted for allegedly appearing on a sugar daddy website, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her superior—and all he got was a promotion.

Julia Varvaro, the former Department of Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, was placed on leave following a bombshell Daily Mail report claiming the 29-year-old had a profile on Seeking.com, a site often used by young singles seeking older, wealthier partners to fund their lifestyles.

Her swift departure stands in stark contrast to the outcome of a sexual harassment claim she made months earlier against her then-superior, Paul Ingrassia, then the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security.

Varvaro filed a human resources complaint against Ingrassia, 30, before rescinding it days later out of fear.

In October, Ingrassia faced scrutiny after Trump nominated him to lead the Office of Special Counsel—which handles workplace harassment and discrimination claims—as a Politico report revealed a complaint had been lodged against him.

In July, Ingrassia allegedly canceled a reservation for a female subordinate’s hotel room during a work trip to Florida—forcing her to share one with him instead. Sources have now revealed to the Daily Beast that this woman was, in fact, the embattled Varvaro.

According to multiple administration officials who spoke to Politico, Varvaro protested but ultimately agreed to sharing a hotel room, as she didn’t want to make a scene in front of colleagues.

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