Trump latest: President ramps up threats against Democrats

I’m not sure how practical this is for most people but Scott Bessent pitched it nevertheless on Meet the Press yesterday.

In addition to getting in his excuses early over the tariffs as Americans face up to a costly Thanksgiving under his leadership, the president also uses his most recent post to apply pressure to the U.S. Supreme Court over its upcoming decision on whether or not he has the right to impose them in the first place.

This is what Slotkin, Kelly and Crow had to say in answer to the president’s threats against them on the Sunday shows:

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who did not appear in the video, was also asked about Trump and said it raises questions about his own mental health, not the actions of the lawmakers:

The president has been attempting to keep the pressure on the Democratic lawmakers, including Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly and Jason Crow, who posted a video last week urging U.S. military leaders to disobey any orders from the administration they believe to be illegal.

Trump has largely been waging that war on social media, posting a series of memes to his Truth Social followers to stoke the flames, a representatives selection of which follows:

But even Trump’s fellow Republicans have urged him to cool it.

“If you take at face value the idea that calling your opponents traitors and then specifically saying that it warrants the death penalty is reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday.

“It’s not something that is helping the country heal wounds. I think it stirs things up, and really, I think we can do better.”

“I would tone down the rhetoric and tone down the theme here. I would emphasize more what I discussed, and that is, these orders are not illegal,” agreed Texas Rep. Mike McCaul on ABC’s This Week.

Here’s more from John Bowden.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene refuted a Time magazine report claiming the Republican lawmaker privately told her allies she was considering running for president in 2028.

“I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it,” Greene wrote Sunday on X.

Time cited two unnamed sources who spoke directly with Greene, and three unnamed sources who were familiar with her thinking.

Greene announced Friday she’s resigning from the House at the start of next year amid her growing feud with President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that Chicago residents have been chanting “bring in Trump” as a series of shootings in the Windy City this weekend prompted him to raise the prospect of sending troops into the city.

FBI Director Kash Patel was pictured in a pink Lego Cadillac ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, amidst growing criticism over his personal trips and spending of taxpayer dollars.

President Donald Trump addressed his ongoing feud with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday.

The incoming leader of the nation’s largest city was on Meet the Press on Sunday after a Friday meeting with Trump at the White House. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, represents part of his party’s emerging left flank as the greater Democratic coalition shifts and reorganizes itself following the devastating 2024 elections, which saw them lose key seats in the Senate as well as the presidency.

Mamdani reiterated that he thought he could work with Trump, a prospect that seemed fairly obvious to most people watching Friday’s meeting between the mayor-elect and a beaming, happy president who seemed almost enamored with his guest and his calls to reinvigorate the city of New York as the cameras rolled. Trump, for his part, denied racist accusations from members of his own party who claim that Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, was a “jihadist”.