The Supreme Court decisively rejected a Republican-backed redistricting plan in Missouri, preserving existing district boundaries and ending a prolonged legal battle aimed at giving Republicans an unfair advantage in the midterms. This decision, upheld by a conservative court with no dissents, ensures stability in voting districts during an ongoing election and signals a major democratic victory. Simultaneously, a damning report revealed that eight Navy sailors attempted suicide aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln—a ship on a record-breaking deployment—contradicting Donald Trump’s claims of perfect conditions and dismissing concerns as "fake news." Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted, with 50% of Americans now strongly disapproving of his job performance, a record high, and his strongly favorable approval rate has fallen to just 18%, below average and his own past levels. This growing unpopularity has led to a visible political backlash within the Republican Party, with candidates like Jay Feely removing Trump from their campaign materials. These developments collectively reflect a significant loss of public trust in Trump’s leadership and a broader trend of institutional resistance to his administration’s actions, ultimately benefiting American democracy and political integrity.
Alright folks, so Donald Trump had a pretty terrible day today and I've said this before on the show and I'll say it again, when Donald Trump and his administration have a bad day, usually the United States of America has a pretty great one and today that's exactly what happened. Donald Trump is furious, maggot is panicking, and the United States is benefiting because of it. I want to break all of this down for you right now in a quick, timely manner. Before I do that though, please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about all this stuff and we have to start here. This is a major win for democracy. It's a major win because the midterms are really not that far away. Republicans in Missouri have lost. This is part of Donald Trump's scheme to steal the midterm elections to try to rig them in a way where even if Democrats vote, we can't win. The Supreme Court has rejected a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time, not the first, not the second, the third time that they're trying to gerrymandere these maps, remove a democratic seat to give the Republicans a better chance and they lost. They lost in front of a conservative Supreme Court. Very conservative. There's like three friends of Donald Trump on that court, if not more, if you're looking at all of them and here's the breakdown. The Supreme Court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by Donald Trump putting an end finally to this long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is underway in the midterm elections. Isn't that crazy that people have already started voting and Republicans are still trying to change these maps, throwing our democracy in complete chaos and disarray? Like we have candidates already getting votes. What happens if their district changes, what happens if they're no longer representing the people who voted for them? Republicans say, "I don't care," Donald Trump wants an extra seat, so we'll embarrass ourselves and hurt the country trying to get him an extra seat. Thankfully they lost. The justices halted a federal appeals court ruling that would have revived the Republican friendly map for the November elections, which will determine the control of Congress. There were no noted dissents, which is very rare with this court, especially from the conservatives who love to note their dissent when something doesn't go right for Donald Trump. The Supreme Court instead let's stand a decision by the Missouri Supreme Court, which ruled earlier this month, that a citizen petition prevents the new map from being used unless first approved by voters in a November referendum. The decision means Missouri residents will vote under the same Congressional Districts use in 2024 and 2022. At this later date, ordering revisions to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos, which is correct that district court and court of appeals should not enjoy or otherwise prohibit the use of the 2022 map in the 2026 Congressional elections in Missouri. Republicans, of course, had hoped that the new map, which was already used in the August primary, could help them with an additional seat as part of this redistricting battle pushed by Trump, but they lost. The saga is over, thankfully it's done with, it's over, finito, and Republicans are not happy about it. Donald Trump is not happy about it yet another major loss for them, but it doesn't stop there. This is a story that is just coming out, and it is incredibly disturbing and very reflective of Donald Trump and his administration. Remember the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group, that strike group that Donald Trump essentially abandoned in the Middle East around Iran, they set a record for how long they were out on the open water. The conditions were terrible. People were trying to take their own lives. Donald Trump and his administration, however, dismissed those concerns and said, no, no, they're doing fine. There's nothing to worry about. Well, turns out they weren't doing fine, and this is according to Donald Trump's own administration, a letter that was written to Congress. Navy says eight, eight Navy service members tried to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln. A very serious story, genuinely, a total of eight sailors attempted to take their own lives during the USS Abraham Lincoln's extended deployment according to a Tuesday letter from acting Navy Secretary Heng Chao. The letter addressed to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and dated Tuesday, answered congressional concerns over the well-being of sailors after concerns emerged over the aircraft carrier's group's conditions amid its record breaking deployment of more than nine months. That length of time represents the longest such deployment since the Cold War. The conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln gained attention after family members shared reports from sailors of disruptions and shortages of food, hygiene items, and mail, which we've seen a lot of photos of. This just slop on a plate, which I don't even think you could categorize as food, was being served to our service members on a daily basis. Central command head Admiral Brad Cooper previously reported the Abraham Lincoln as having the lowest rate of mental health issues among the Navy's 11 aircraft carriers, and now that has dramatically changed, and I would like to remind everybody that when Donald Trump was approached with these concerns, he called it fake. He said that the deployment hadn't gone on long enough and nobody was actually concerned. A few weeks ago, Trump called the reported issues with the USS Lincoln a quote, "CNN fake report," saying he spoke to a retired admiral with acquaintances on the Lincoln who told him it is beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of. This is what Trump said in the Oval Office. "Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs." Meet new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible, all-day-gum fee grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plum, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. "It's Mavily" is a quiet, quiet, quiet. You've heard this respectful and front of this young man, okay? Don't you find her disrespectful? He understands, quiet. Who are you with? I'm with the air now. Fake news. You're a loud, you're a loud boy stress person. You're fake news. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter and you report fake news. Mr. President, is there enough food on the USS Lincoln? Yeah, that was a CNN fake report. The Lincoln has been out there for a period of time, good period of time, but over the years we've had them out there much longer. I was at a group meeting and an admiral came up to see me over the weekend and it was at a big group and he happened to be an admiral retired. He said, "I've been on chips there out there much longer than that sir and I know people on the Lincoln." They say it's beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of and other people went out and they found out to be true. It was fake news reporting from CNN. Fake news. So not only did he have that little outburst where he was telling another woman to be quiet, notice how he never does this with men. Like I don't think I've seen a clip of him snapping in a male reporter in this way where he's telling him to be quiet, quiet, quiet, you're disruptive. He only does that with women. But aside from that little outburst, he says, "No, no, no, things are great and we obviously know that to not be the truth." Eight, eight. I mean that is insane and tragic that eight service members tried to kill themselves aboard this ship that Donald Trump said was great and of course he's getting rightly called out for it. For example, Senator Markelli, Democrat from Arizona and a former service member himself, former astronaut. It was clear from the beginning that the situation on the USS Lincoln needed to be taken seriously instead of being honest about it and supporting our service members, Trump and Hegseth denied and minimized what was happening failed leadership, which is exactly right and a great way to put it. Now, one of the final pieces of bad news I want to highlight for you that Donald Trump got today is this, his favorite pollster let him down in May of 2026 while standing in front of the ballroom. He said CNN did a poll that said that Trump is at 100% Harry Enten. I like Harry Enten. He's the chief data guru at CNN and of course what Trump is citing is incorrect. Like, he was not at 100% in any poll. He was like in the high 80s among mega voters for approval of Donald Trump. So a very specific subset of Americans. But he said, "I love Harry Enten." Well, I imagine that Donald Trump is not going to be happy when he sees this. The fact that Harry Enten poured cold water on Donald Trump's approval numbers and the numbers around him generally with some new polling today. But we have been talking about how President Trump has historic unpopularity going into a midterm election. But I'm not quite sure that goes far enough when looking at the data because when we break it down the approval ratings by how strongly people feel, President Trump has the highest strongly disapproved rating going into a midterm election on record. Look at this. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly, strongly disapprove of the job that President Trump is doing. They don't just dislike him. There's record hatred for the President of the United States going into a midterm. The previous record holder was Trump going into the 2018 midterm, but then he was only at 45%. Before that, it was George W. Bush going into the '06 midterm at 41%. So right now what we're seeing is President Trump with record hatred towards him going into this midterm election. No wonder Republicans, at least some of them, are running away from it. Okay. Is there a converse of this? Are we seeing any changes among those who say they really, really approve of him politically? Now, President Trump has been historically polarizing, right? Yes, they're those people who really don't like him, dare I say, hate him. But there've also been those people who really love him, right? And those two counteracting forces have sometimes worked with the President's benefit. But not anymore. Why is that? Because take a look here. Okay. The strongly approved rating here, strongly approved of the President of the United States, where apparently something doesn't want me to say it, sure, anyway, strongly approved of the President of the United States. Someone is clicking through here. Here we go. Now, please stop, if you are playing with his wall right now on the internal computer, stop. You could do it after we're done with that. Thank you very much. Okay, strongly approved of the President at this point in the midterm election. What you see here is Trump.
Look at this. Just 18% strongly approve of the job that President Trump is in. That's actually less than the average president going into a midterm at 27%. It's less than Trump had going into the 2018 midterm at 27%. So Trump actually has fewer people loving him than what we see with the average president. So what's going on here is normally Trump is able to counteract that strong hatred with strong love, but not anymore as that strongly approved number has actually dip below what we normally see for a president going into a midterm election. He is breaking his own records that were already crap. His crappy records like go back to the Bush one before they had the glitches with the wall. Bush was at 41, then Trump in the first term, which Republicans got wiped out in that midterm election as well, was sitting at 45% strongly disapproved. He is now beating himself. He is breaking his own bad records. Man, oh man, that's bad news for Donald Trump. And this one, especially the strongly approved. And you're only at 18% of strongly approved among the United States, essentially 10 points down via average presidents versus average presidents. Man, oh man, you are not in a good spot going into an election. That is less than a month and a half away from this point right now. That is devastating for Trump. And that's why so many Republicans are literally running away from him. The Arizona First Congressional District GOP nominee, Jay Feely, no longer has a photo of Trump on the homepage of his campaign site. This is the before and after. This was his website before, a big photo of Donald Trump. The photo of Donald Trump is bigger than his photo. And it has a big statement endorsed by Donald Trump right on the side. Trump is named everywhere, right, in this guy's website. And now this is what it looks like, isn't that so interesting? There is no mention of Donald Trump anywhere. There's no big photo of Trump. It's a big photo of him now because he doesn't want the association. These Republicans can run. They can pretend that they weren't associated with Donald Trump. Jay Feely can pretend that he didn't have Donald Trump's big ugly mug on his website, but we saw it and the internet is forever. So look, I will leave the video there. There are so many bad things happening to Donald Trump, which is great for America. I just wanted to cover some of them with you right now. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about this story, and everything we just talked about. Have an amazing rest of your day. Out of Miss technology, locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all-day comfy grip. No tightness. No stickiness. No residue. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Mavily, New York. Maybe it's Mavily. And we will talk soon.
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Key Points:
The Supreme Court rejected a Trump-backed Missouri congressional redistricting map for the third time, upholding a voter-approved map and preventing electoral chaos during the midterms.
Missouri residents will continue using the 2022 congressional district boundaries, with a referendum required to revise the map in 2025, ending Republican efforts to gain seats through gerrymandering.
Eight Navy personnel attempted suicide aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a record-breaking deployment, contradicting Trump’s claim that conditions were “beautifully maintained” and dismissing reports as “fake news.”
Trump’s approval ratings have hit a record low, with 50% of Americans strongly disapproving of his performance—exceeding previous highs and surpassing George W. Bush’s 2006 and Trump’s 2018 records.
Strongly favorable approval of Trump has dropped to just 18%, below the average president’s level and his own 2018 benchmark, indicating deepening political alienation.
Republican candidates like Jay Feely are distancing themselves from Trump, removing his image from campaign websites, signaling a growing internal retreat from his leadership.
The combination of legal setbacks, deteriorating military conditions, and declining public approval reflects a major erosion of trust in Trump’s administration.
These developments represent a significant democratic win, showing that opposition to Trump’s policies is gaining traction and that accountability is emerging in key institutions.
Summary:
The Supreme Court decisively rejected a Republican-backed redistricting plan in Missouri, preserving existing district boundaries and ending a prolonged legal battle aimed at giving Republicans an unfair advantage in the midterms. This decision, upheld by a conservative court with no dissents, ensures stability in voting districts during an ongoing election and signals a major democratic victory. " Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted, with 50% of Americans now strongly disapproving of his job performance, a record high, and his strongly favorable approval rate has fallen to just 18%, below average and his own past levels.
This growing unpopularity has led to a visible political backlash within the Republican Party, with candidates like Jay Feely removing Trump from their campaign materials. These developments collectively reflect a significant loss of public trust in Trump’s leadership and a broader trend of institutional resistance to his administration’s actions, ultimately benefiting American democracy and political integrity.
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The Supreme Court rejected a Republican-backed redistricting map in Missouri that would have diluted Democratic votes and given Republicans an extra seat. The ruling upheld a citizen petition requiring voter approval before the map could be used, preventing electoral chaos and protecting fair representation.
Eight Navy service members attempted suicide during the ship's nine-month deployment, the longest in over 40 years. The administration initially dismissed the situation, calling reports of poor conditions 'fake news,' contradicting official Navy statements.
Trump dismissed concerns about the ship's conditions and mental health of sailors, claiming they were 'fake news' and asserting the deployment was well-managed. This contradicted Navy reports and personal accounts from service members and retired officers.
50% of Americans now strongly disapprove of Trump's job performance, the highest level in midterm history. This exceeds previous records, showing deep unpopularity and widespread opposition to his leadership.
Trump now has only 18% of Americans who strongly approve of his performance—below the average for a president entering a midterm. This marks a decline from his past levels and indicates growing polarization against him.
Republican candidates like Jay Feely are distancing themselves from Trump due to his worsening approval ratings and negative public perception, signaling a growing political backlash among GOP figures.
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