Fox News political analyst Brit Hume was hit with outrage on Saturday after appearing to reject the premise of the "No Kings" protests this weekend. Hume took to social media to defend the president. He wrote, "The 'No Kings' rallies are mostly a protest against a man who sought power 3 times through democratic elections and enacted his major agenda item by majority vote of democratically elected members of Congress." "Some king," he then added. But he was quickly corrected. Ex-GOP lawmaker Adam Kinzinger replied directly to Hume, writing, "Come on. You know what this means." "Of course he’s not a literal king because we won’t let him be. But our nation was founded on anti-corruption, disseminating power to the people, holding all equal under the law," he wrote Saturday. "Trump tried to overthrow a free election, pardoned 1000 criminals, and has placed congress on their knees. Oh not to mention the Epstein files, and his 400 million dollar free jet that we will pay 1 billion to upgrade and give to him. Gold palaces and ballrooms and massive arches are not the works of someone who seeks humble power." Political scientist Norman Ornstein had a list of his own: "Executive actions, illegal acts, including 'pocket' rescissions, firing people and eliminating agencies, bragging about killing fisherman in violation of international law. Weaponized DOJ and FBI in an open campaign of retribution," he wrote. "Masked thugs without identification assaulting children and American citizens, throwing them into detention without their constitutional rights being respected. Federal judges nominated by every modern president trying to block imperial actions. Brit, you used to be a conservative." He continued: "Let’s talk about selling pardons, violating emoluments clauses by enriching himself and his family through his office, including a $400 million jet bribe from Qatar, and Trump resorts in various countries, not done out of largesse but knowing they can extract something in return." Ornstein concluded, "If you don’t see something troubling in all of this, Brit, you have replaced your integrity with fealty to the cult. Which is very, very sad."Executive actions, illegal acts, including “pocket” rescissions, firing people and eliminating agencies, bragging about killing fisherman in violation of international law. Weaponized DOJ and FBI in an open campaign of retribution. 1 https://t.co/k5cFzdX3Ib — Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 18, 2025

Donald Trump just made a huge mistake in releasing a Republican from prison, according to former George W. Bush administration White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. Fleischer, a Fox News contributor who served as press secretary under then-President George W. Bush from January 2001 to July 2003, chimed in over the weekend after learning that Trump commuted the sentence of disgraced ex-GOP representative George Santos. Santos not only was found to have lied to voters about his background, but also to have committed wire fraud and other felonies. "Why? This is a mistake," Fleischer wrote on social media over the weekend. "Wire fraud and identity theft are serious crimes." Fleischer then added, "There is nothing about Santos that suggests he deserves this, especially after serving only three months."Why? This is a mistake. Wire fraud and identity theft are serious crimes. There is nothing about Santos that suggests he deserves this, especially after serving only three months. George Santos released from prison after Trump commutes sentence https://t.co/h1TLcLUwzI — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) October 18, 2025

Multiple MAGA commentators noted an abundance of older people protesting Donald Trump at "No Kings" protests across the country, leading one ex-MSNBC host to call them out. Tony Ortiz (Current Revolt) posted a video on X on Saturday, writing, "Currently at the No Kings protest in Carrollton, TX and it’s almost exclusively old white people." That led to Sen. Ted Cruz sharing the video along with laughing emojis and the words, "Boomers gotta boom…." Democratic activist Michelle Kinney replied to Cruz, writing, "You ok pumpkin? MAGA commentator Benny Johnson separately posted video of the protests, writing, "I’ve seen dozens of videos and I’m convinced there’s not a single person under 50 at these 'No Kings' protests." Brian Mistrot, a "politically homeless conservative," replied to Johnson, writing, "At least 80% here are under 50. But keep telling yourself that." Ex-MSNBC voice Mehdi Hasan noticed the pattern, writing on X, "Republicans are now complaining about old white people." "Now I’ve seen everything lol," he added on Saturday.

Donald Trump's administration just stepped in it with its latest military strike, according to a Yale professor. Margaret M. Donovan, Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Trump's latest attack on a foreign boat, purportedly carrying fentanyl. Donovan noted that the Trump admin returned the two survivors of the strike to their home countries, which she said was likely to avoid going before a judge on the topic of war powers. "The Trump administration stumbled into the last place they want to be," she said, "which is before an Article III judge." By sending "these people back to their apparent countries," Donovan added, the Trump admin was implying they aren't Venezuelan and they are "apparently not that dangerous." The host cut in to say it was "an admission that either they haven't thought it through... or these people aren't who they claimed them to be." Donovan agreed, saying it's possible that the federal government has been "killing not who they've been telling us." She went on to note a "blaring alarm bell" and "a bright red flag" as a top military official reportedly resigned amid tension over the military strikes. "That is very unusual," the professor added. "That's a sign. That's a clue." Of the Trump admin's actions today, Donovan said, "None of that holds up." "Their actions today undermined all of their legal justifications," she said this weekend.

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More than 20 million Americans are expected to see their health insurance premiums more than double next year after Republicans refused to extend a tax credit for those who purchase health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. And as the GOP remains firm in its stance that it will not vote to extend the credits in order to end the government shutdown entering its third week and the open enrollment period for ACA insurance fast approaching, Americans in some states are already getting a glimpse into how the price of their insurance will skyrocket in 2026. On Wednesday, ACA health insurance marketplaces in six states—California, Maine, Minnesota, Vermont, Oregon, and Kentucky—launched "window shopping" tools that allow residents to compare their current insurance premiums with the ones they can expect to pay next year. Increases would be the most drastic for customers making over 400% of the poverty line, which is around a million people. They would have to cover the entire cost of premiums — and grapple with an 18% jump in overall premium costs. pic.twitter.com/hrMQ9s4IPm — More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) October 14, 2025 read more

Rep Randy Fine was speaking to a group of home-schooled children - apparently the only group of people that won't look at him in absolute disgust - when one of the little kids asked him who the coolest person in his phone was. It went downhill from there: “Who's the coolest person in your phone?” asked a home-school student in a video Fine shared on social media Friday. “Donald Trump!” Fine exclaimed, eliciting laughter from the students. “There’s a cool person… and both my sons.” That's actually a double fail of biblical proportions. First of all, there is no fricking way anyone in their right mind would thing Trump is "cool." He's a fascist, a fraud, an adjudicated rapist and that's just for starters. Secondly, Republicans are supposed to be so pro-family, but he's putting his own sons after the demented orange sphincter. Then again, it's no secret that Fine is a pretty messed up individual himself, so it does make sense, even though it's still very wrong. read more

Besides his astounding ignorance and laziness, the 79-year-old Trump is missing several screws holding what grasp he ever had on reality. The New Republic caught another shocking example: Apparently speaking about Senator Mazie Hirono, Trump said Friday, “She wanted a tunnel from the mainland to Hawaii. Then she said, ‘Well, we can’t do that, so we’re gonna build a railroad to Hawaii.’ Do you remember? She’s a current, sitting senator, a Democrat. She wants a railroad to go to Hawaii. You know who that is, right?” You probably won’t be surprised to learn that Sen. Hirono never said anything close to such a thing. TNR called Trump’s statement “a nesting doll of inaccuracies.” Basically, it seems to have come from a joke Hirono made six years ago about right-wing attacks on the Green New Deal. Whether Trump pulled that fake rabbit out of his elderly brain or whether he recently ate up the misinformation from some sycophant, anyone even halfway in control of their mental faculties would have recognized the ridiculousness of the allegation. read more

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Conservative anti-Trump attorney George Conway has three words for the president who might try to indict him one day: "Let him try." Conway, a frequent critic of Trump, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss the recent indictment of former Trump adviser John Bolton. According to Conway, Bolton's defense has a tough case on their hands, but, at the same time, it might be possible to show that he was retributively targeted. After giving his analysis of the Bolton case, one of the hosts asks Conway a simple yes or no question. "Yes or no answer. Are you worried that you're next on the enemies list?" she asked. Conway simply laughed and replied with, "No. Okay. Let them try. Let them try."

A Los Angeles "No Kings" protester told MSNBC on Saturday that she and her parents were discriminated against by Donald Trump's family when they tried to rent property in New York years ago. Trump was accused of bias in renting to Black people in connection with the rentals from his father, Fred Trump, in the 1960s, according to the New York Times. That old story got new life over the weekend, when a MSNBC reporter attended a "No Kings" protest in L.A. The subject was only identified as Jamie from Rancho Cucamonga, and, when asked why she was there, she said, "Because my daughter's future depends on me coming out here like my mother walked for Martin Luther King. She marched, she walked. And I'm here in honor of her. And in honor of my daughter." When asked about potential parallels to the past, Jamie said, "My parents and I came out of Jim Crow." "While I was at the end of it, we were the result of what happened in Jim Crow, because my parents, who came up from the south, they went into New York and we were discriminated against [by] Trump," she said. "He would not allow us as being Black people to live in his properties." When asked how she feels about recent ICE raids, Jamie said, "It makes me feel like we're going back and going back and going back, and we will not go back. We fought too hard. My mother, god bless her soul, she marched on Washington. And I cannot stand by while she marched on Washington and me not come out here and stand firm for her. God bless us all."

The official X account for the New York Police Department announced on Saturday that authorities made "zero protest-related arrests" at the local "No Kings" protests. Some analysts have hailed this weekend's pro-democracy protests as the largest on record, but others, such as political dynasty Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late GOP presidential candidate John McCain, do not understand the point. One big fear was that in big cities, such protests could result in arrests or even violence. But in New York that wasn't a problem, according to NYPD News. "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted," the account wrote. "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests."

Meghan McCain came under fire on Saturday after she made an unpopular comment about the "No Kings" protests. Some analysts have hailed this weekend's pro-democracy protests as the largest on record, but political dynasty McCain, the daughter of the late GOP presidential candidate John McCain, does not understand the point. "I don’t understand how Trump is a King when he won every single swing state, the electoral college and popular vote in a democratic election," McCain wrote on X Saturday. That led to immediate responses from various high-profile political insiders. Atlantic writer Jonathan Chait asked the commentator, "Is it your view that literally nothing a freely elected president does in office can be anti democratic?" GOP pollster Mike Madrid said, "Your father had the courage to speak out against this." The popular Nerds for Humanity account told McCain that "winning fair and square doesn't make overreach okay." The account added, "Critics aren't calling him king for the vote, they're worried about power grabs like these: -Issuing an EO to end birthright citizenship, defying the 14th Amendment. -Firing 17+ inspectors general without the required 30-day notice to Congress, gutting independent oversight. -Invoking the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations, a wartime power twisted for peacetime crackdowns. -Freezing congressionally approved federal funds, usurping lawmakers' purse strings. -Directing agencies to rewrite election rules with voter barriers, invading Congress's turf. Make sense?" Former GOP staffer Drew McDowell said, "Meghan McCain is doing her best to blow up her father’s legacy." "John McCain would be speaking at a No Kings rally today," he added on Saturday. One attorney, Christine Jones, pushed back on those bringing up Meghan McCain's father. "Why does every Meghan post bring out the 'your dad would have…' crowd, mostly people who never even met him?" she asked Saturday. "I knew John McCain fairly well, and I’d never presume to know how he’d react to any of Meghan’s posts. The compulsion to drag him into every conversation is just bizarre."

The movement against Trump is growing as No Kings organizers estimate that 7 million people participated in the protest against Trump, which is the biggest ever single-day protest against a president.

The No Kings protests across the nation are still ongoing, but some of the nation's largest cities are putting up massive turnout numbers.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded Washington, D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Mall, and the vast expanse between the Capitol and the White House on Saturday for the No Kings Rally, a peaceful nationwide protest opposing President Donald Trump’s authoritarian takeover of the United States. More than 2,500 rallies have been planned today across the country.

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After first doubling-down on the vile crap that came out of her mouth the day before, Trump spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt tossed out this race-baiting nonsense on Sean Hannity's show on Fox. We already discussed her comments calling Democrats Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals during another Fox interview on Thursday. Leavitt continued with the flame-throwing while lying about the government shutdown, claiming that Democrats want to give "taxpayer-funded benefits" to "illegal aliens," which is not allowed since undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid or ACA subsidies, and not what the Democrats are asking for. Levitt then proceeded to toss this stink bomb out there after attacking AOC for calling out their lies during her town hall with Bernie Sanders on CNN this week. LEAVITT: And you hear AOC, who is apparently the new leader of the Democrat party in that CNN town hall, say to a concerned American when that American asked, do you want my taxpayer-funded benefits going to illegals? She said, that's a Republican talking point. Those aren't the real issues Americans are facing. read more

You’d think even President Pawpaw would know that instigating a war with a country that poses no threat to the U.S. is not a resumé booster for a Nobel Peace Prize. That’s not counting the fact that Trump seems hellbent on starting a civil war by sending troops to invade American cities and the U.S. is well into a government shutdown with no end in sight. But for some reason, Commander Bone Spurs thinks Americans will be glad to put aside their concerns about inflation, tariffs and soaring health insurance, as well as abuse of power, for the sake of starting a war with Venezuela. Not that his perfect-age-to-serve-in-the-military son will likely spend a second in harm’s way. Yet Trump is obviously working toward some kind of military conflict with Venezuela. Trump isn’t hiding his war-mongering, either. On October 15, The New York Times reported that, in addition to his killing spree of civilians in boats near Venezuela (without providing evidence to justify the attacks), President Peace Prize has authorized the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela. read more

During the last march, I think the only coverage I could find was on CSPAN. It's very different today -- it's all #NoKings, or football. #NoKings is everywhere! Fox affiliates are doing the live feed! Whoa. Leave your pictures in the comments: The frogs have spawned! Dublin represent! #NoKings — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T11:17:25.876Z https://bsky.app/profile/victinibcn.bsky.social/post/3m3hjnytz3k22 read more

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Donald Trump's administration on Saturday shocked observers with a decision not to arrest two suspected peddlers of fentanyl. Trump over the weekend took the time to brag about a military strike, saying it was an "honor" while announcing that two were killed in the strike on a submarine. The New York Times also released a report focusing on the two survivors of the strike on the purported drug vessel, who were not arrested and were instead reportedly returned to their home countries. It's that report that baffled political and international law experts. Conservative attorney and anti-Trump activist George Conway said Saturday, "This is essentially a confession by administration that it committed murder." Immigration policy expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick chimed in: "So the people on these boats are 'terrorists' who can be killed without any due process, but if they don’t die in the initial strike, they just get released and go home with a warning? Seriously?" Former Obama staffer Tommy Vietor said, "So the administration's argument is that these men are dangerous narco-terrorists waging war against the US and thus deserved to be executed, but also that the US should send them home rather than to try prosecute them in court. Makes sense." Political science professor Christopher Clary also added, "Enough evidence to try and kill them but not enough evidence to prosecute… what are we doing here exactly?" Political attorney Robert Kelner also weighed in, saying, "This makes no sense, if we are supposed to believe this was a drug trafficking ship and the attack on the ship was legal." "If that were so, why wouldn’t we detain the evil drug traffickers and prosecute them?" Kelner asked. "Congress needs to exercise its oversight authority. And reporters need to dig into this story."

Donald Trump's administration took a "sharp break" from its typical handling of military strike cases by choosing not to prosecute two survivors of an attack on a foreign suspected drug smuggling boat, according to the New York Times. Trump over the weekend took the time to brag about the military strike, saying it was an "honor" while announcing that two were killed in the strike. The Times also released a report focusing on the two survivors, who were not arrested. "The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday," according to the report. "The men who survived were being returned to their home countries, Colombia and Ecuador, the people with knowledge of the matter said. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational and diplomatic matters. It was not clear if the government of either nation would prosecute the men upon their return, or simply release them." The report continues: "President Trump has previously described people aboard suspected drug-smuggling boats, which the United States has targeted in several deadly airstrikes since early September, as 'unlawful combatants.' He has claimed the authority, widely disputed by legal experts, to summarily kill such suspects in military strikes as if they were enemy soldiers in a war." According to the Times report, the move "was a sharp break from the traditional handling of maritime smuggling, in which the Coast Guard would intercept boats and arrest people if suspicions proved accurate." Read the article here.

Donald Trump bragged on Saturday about a mission in which he says the government destroyed "a very large drug-carrying submarine." The president took to Truth Social over the weekend to celebrate the mission. "It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route. U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics," Trump claimed. "There were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel. Two of the terrorists were killed." Trump went on to proclaim, without providing evidence, that, "At least 25,000 Americans would die if I allowed this submarine to come ashore." "The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their Countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike," he then added. "Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrorists trafficking illegal drugs, by land or by sea. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Read it here.