Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning. The Trump administration was racing to erect a second border wall across Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, southwest of Tucson. If the bulldozers came, she said, they were bound to disturb the final resting places of her family and Hia-Ced O’odham tribal ancestors. “People used to live here…
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Over the weekend, Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a press conference in Atlanta, where he confronted a good question about his boss.
Q: The president has been very active on the campaign trail saying he’s glad that Denmark gave Greenland to the US. That is being perceived differently in Denmark and Greenland. So h as the president misunderstood the agreement?MARCO RUBIO: I’m not sure what comments you are referring to — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-31T17:07:52.890Z
Donald Trump, the reporter noted, has been “very active on the campaign trail” in recent weeks, telling voters how glad he is that Denmark “gave Greenland” to the United States.
“Has the president misunderstood the agreement that was made?” the reporter asked.
“Yeah, I’m not sure what comments you’re referring to,” Rubio replied, adding that the president is “fully apprised of” the latest details.
It’s curious that Rubio, who recently became the first and only secretary of state ever to hit the campaign trail in support of a political party, claimed to have no idea what his boss has repeatedly said about the U.S. taking control of an arctic island. But making matters worse is the idea that Trump is “fully apprised of” the details surrounding U.S. policy toward Greenland — because if that’s true, it suggests his relationship with reality is irretrievably broken.
In fact, as Election Day got underway for American voters, the Republican president appeared via phone on Fox News, where he falsely declared that Europe “just gave” Greenland to the U.S., which most certainly did not happen. (Lawmakers in Greenland did vote on Tuesday to approve a recent trilateral security agreement with the U.S. and Denmark,
In 2024, Donald Trump won the presidency with the support of 44% of Hispanic voters, suggesting that a major realignment in party preferences might be underway. But just two years later, it appears much of that support has eroded. Sixty-one percent of Hispanic voters say they will now support Democrats in the midterms, including 11% who previously had voted for President Trump. We get a bird’…
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When Republicans won in 2024, they talked as if they had reshaped American politics for a generation, the way Franklin Roosevelt did in 1932 or Ronald Reagan in 1980.
On election night, President Donald Trump called his win “a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.”
Two years later, the promised land has turned out to be a mirage. Trump has lost ground with independents, Latino voters and young men, among other groups who were crucial to his 2024 win.
Republicans mistook voters’ anger for a mandate.
In the final days before the midterms, Republicans found themselves defending Senate seats in states Trump had carried comfortably in 2024, including Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Texas. Trump’s approval rating is among the lowest in modern polling, while the GOP’s image has taken a hit, with 59% of Americans saying the party is too extreme in a recent Gallup poll.
What went wrong? Trump and his Republican allies mistook voters’ anger with the status quo for a mandate to do whatever they wanted.
They sent immigration agents into courthouses, schools and churches with so few safeguards that they swept up hundreds of U.S. citizens and set a record for deaths in detention. They installed two billionaires to run the Education and Commerce departments and put the world’s richest man in charge of slashing the federal government with little transparency, accountability or regard for constitutional limits. They passed tax cuts tilted toward the wealthy while slashing healthcare subsidies, cutting SNAP benefits and Medicaid coverage, and weakening other programs that working families rely on.
Polls showed broad majorities of Americans disapproved of these policies. But