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President Donald Trump got his ass handed to him yes again after he lost yet another court battle to slap his own name in every nook, cranny, and crevice of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, prompting the Trump-led board to shutter the famous and beloved performing arts center altogether. As a result of that brutal ruling, the president is tailspinning into one of his worst temper tantrums to date. But if he thought he was going to take all his ire out on Joyce Beatty, he thought wrong. Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty -- who maintains her ex officio position on the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees through her congressional leadership role, making her one of the few members not hand-installed by Trump himself -- filed a lawsuit in December to stop the board-approved renaming of the Kennedy Center. Now that he's coming to the stark realization that his dream of turning the performing arts venue into a tacky interpretation of Mar-a-Lago will likely never come to fruition, the president has taken it upon himself to direct his rage and vitriol at the woman he believes is responsible for raining on his parade. Appearing on MS NOW's The Weeknight, Beatty publicly revealed the president's deeply unhinged behavior after the embarrassing court ruling. read more

Exasperated Senator Cory Booker let Kash Patel have it Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Booker lost patience with how Kash Patel runs the FBI. The New Jersey Senator was frustrated with the way the FBI Director has been using the agency's resources. > "He's an incompetent lackey. He's like an 18-year old-kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't qualify even to be an FBI agent." Sen. Cory Booker Was on Fire @Acyn, Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com, posted a video of another portion of Booker's takedown of the FBI Director for going after reporters for writing about his girlfriend and President Trump. @Acyn tweeted: > "You get upset when somebody writes a fair story about your girlfriend, but you're out there using the FBI to go after a reporter's mom. The president was secretly shuttled from the Qatari jet via an airport catering truck to a smaller Air Force jet on July 8th. The story ran the next day on July 9th. You demanded those reporters' phone records, but you didn't just go back to this period. As an act of further intimidation of reporters, you went back 6 months, all the way to January 1st, before there was even a story." > > read more

Donald J. Trump has spent months demanding that the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, but he may be in for another unpleasant surprise. The Fed is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday—the first increase in three years—as officials confront inflation that remains stubbornly above the central bank’s 2% target, the Associated Press reports. Rising oil prices have added even more pressure, making it harder for officials to justify the cuts Trump keeps demanding. That puts Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, Trump's own choice to lead the central bank, in an awkward position with the president. Trump has made no secret of his desire for cheaper borrowing costs, particularly with the midterm elections approaching. But Warsh has emphasized that inflation is still a problem and has signaled that the Fed may need to raise rates rather than lower them. In other words, the man Trump apparently expected to help deliver his preferred economic policies is instead presiding over a Fed that appears prepared to do precisely what Trump doesn't want. Very sad, indeed The expected hike comes as inflation continues to bite hard. Consumer prices rose 3.4% in August from a year earlier, while gasoline prices jumped sharply amid the conflict in the Middle East. Higher energy costs are also feeding into other parts of the economy, including transportation and services. read more