Trump Sends Musk ‘Back Home to His Cars’ After DOGE Failures

Eric Trump attended a ceremony in Vietnam to herald the construction of a new $1.5 billion luxury resort from the Trump Organization, as the country desperately seeks to avoid the potentially crippling tariffs proposed by his father. President Donald Trump’s second eldest son took part in a ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday in Hung Yen province, just outside Hanoi, to launch the major real estate project. The development will include golf courses, five-star hotels, and a luxury residential complex, according to Bloomberg. The Vietnamese complex is reported to cover around 2,500 acres, and is due for completion by 2029. The development is a partnership between the Trump Organization and several of its local partners and investors. Read more at The Daily Beast.

President Donald Trump is set to “disgrace” everyone in his orbit—from Vice President J.D. Vance to Secretary of State Marco Rubio—until there’s no one left to succeed him, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci predicts. “Nobody in Trump’s cabinet is going to be Trump’s successor,” Scaramucci declared on The Daily Beast Podcast . “He’s going to put them all in the wood chipper. He’s going to disgrace every one of them.” Case in point: Vance, who was publicly humiliated in February when Trump flatly refused to name him as a potential successor. Read more at The Daily Beast.

A defensive Elon Musk shut down an interviewer by saying “it’s like talking to a computer,” because she dared ask about his DOGE failure. The billionaire excitedly proclaimed at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in October that his task force would save “at least $2 trillion.” By early January, he had walked back on this figure, telling political strategist Mark Penn in an interview on X that $1 trillion was the new goal. Musk has now “ gone back home to his cars ,” as President Trump put it. With the curtain coming down on his DOGE tenure, the Tesla CEO and his goons have only saved the government an estimated $160 billion , a fraction of his original forecast. New analysis from the Financial Times, however , claims that the amount of savings that can be verified is actually much less than the figure touted by Musk. Read more at The Daily Beast.

MAGA hardliner Steve Bannon has a bone to pick with President Donald Trump over his “big beautiful” budget bill. Former Trump chief strategist turned MAGA livestream and War Room podcast host, Bannon said he is “very upset” with key provisions in the budget package that passed the House by a razor-thin margin on Thursday, suggesting that it could “be a lot better.” “I’m very concerned about the deficits in the short term, but given the totality of President Trump’s program, it’s the best you’re going to get for right now. And I’m very upset,” Bannon said on his podcast. “I think defense spending is too much. I think that the Social Security taxes are not, you know, not acceptable.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

President Donald Trump’s border czar was left stunned by MSNBC host Ari Melber after being schooled on an immigration case that swept the courts. Melber pressed Tom Homan on Wednesday night moments after Newark Mayor Ras Baraka had been a guest on the same episode. Baraka had just had a trespassing charge against him dismissed by a federal judge, arising from the mayor’s visit to an ICE facility earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Andre Espinosa, who dismissed the case without prejudice on Wednesday, labeled the incident an “embarrassing retraction of charges.” The judge told the government lawyer, “Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is giving “very serious consideration” to a plan that would upend the the U.S. mortgage market. “I am giving very serious consideration to bringing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. He said he would be speaking to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, William Pulte, among others, “and will be making a decision in the near future.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

Melania Trump is charging fans $25 to buy her new audiobook, which is narrated by an artificial intelligence version of her voice. The release, touted as a “new frontier” in publishing by the first lady, is a seven-hour narration of her New York Times best-selling memoir, Melania . Trump, 55, stated on X that the production is “narrated entirely using artificial intelligence in my own voice,” and boasted that the release marks the “future of publishing.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.

For Rae Vermeal, the experience of one Pima County senior illustrates the complexity of the housing struggle for older people in the region. The woman owns her home and gets $967 through Social Security.

The Danish dad of four detained at his interview to become a U.S. citizen has spent the last month in an ICE facility infamous for reports of a cockroach-filled kitchen and abuse by its guards. Kasper Juul Eriksen, 32, was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, last month because he missed a paperwork deadline a decade ago. His wife was left to drive three hours back to their Mississippi home alone, while he was taken to the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, Louisiana, about 140 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. An immigration attorney told the Daily Beast on Thursday that the rural facility is infamous even by ICE standards, its location making it ideal for holding migrants whom the agency wants to keep from visitors. Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained since March for organizing demonstrations regarding the Israeli-Hamas war, is also being held there . Read more at The Daily Beast.

A judge has rejected efforts by former Gov. Matt Bevin and his ex-wife Glenna Bevin to keep their divorce settlement confidential, ruling in favor of their adopted son Jonah Bevin, 18, who had asked it be public.

A new warning from Brazilian pulp exporter Suzano SA has raised concerns about the potential for toilet paper shortages and price hikes in the United States. While store shelves currently remain well stocked, the company reports that ongoing supply chain disruptions and new U.S. tariffs are already affecting shipments.

Jon Stewart has a prediction for who will emerge as a successful leader of the Democratic Party post-Trump: Anyone who refused to participate in what Jake Tapper has deemed the Joe Biden “cover-up.” Just as the fallout from the Iraq War disaster “paved the way” for Donald Trump to take over the Republican Party, Stewart said Democratic leaders lining up behind Biden in 2024 ”will have a similar effect” on his party. “It has sown the seeds for a real—and it’s an opportunity for an interesting reinvention of what this Democratic Party can be,” the Daily Show host argued during a discussion with Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett on his Weekly Show podcast Thursday. “I actually think there should be excitement, not trepidation around what this is, but it’s going to come from someone outside of it. I think anybody that has any of that stink on them is not going to be particularly successful.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

The View slammed President Donald Trump for his meeting with South Africa’s president a day after a Daily Beast report revealed Disney executives wanted the panel to curb its criticism. The opinion show’s co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin tore into the Wednesday meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, where Trump repeatedly claimed there was a “genocide” of white farmers in the nation with unverified videos. Goldberg shot down Trump’s claims about a “genocide,” highlighting her visits to the nation as an actor—before appearing to let out an bleeped-out expletive. Read more at The Daily Beast.

In the years since his (short) tenure in Donald Trump’s first White House, Anthony Scaramucci has become a vocal advocate against the “dangerous” President and his agenda. But he’s not just holding a grudge. The financier feels uneasy about Trump’s rise to power—and the creeping authoritarianism he now embodies—and sees many better alternatives out there, across the political landscape. The long-time registered Republican voiced support for former President Joe Biden’s campaign and did so again in 2024. And he has his eyes on at least one Democrat widely expected to enter the 2028 presidential race. “I like Pete Buttigieg,” Scaramucci said on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast . “I think he’s their most talented person, and I would vote for him tonight.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his bonkers theory that measles jabs contain aborted fetuses. Speaking to NBC News’ Tom Llamas on Thursday night, President Donald Trump‘s secretary of health and human services stood by his debunked claim just days after sparking alarm for linking a deadly measles outbreak to vaccine hesitancy fueled by what he bizarrely called “aborted fetus debris.” His remarks come as the U.S. faces its largest measles outbreak in around 25 years, and two young girls have died. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Getty Images A star on And Just Like That... has revealed that he once lit up a joint with former President George W. Bush’s daughters in the early 2000s. Armin Amiri, who plays Ravi Gordi on the Sex and the City reboot, was a doorman at the since-shuttered Manhattan nightclub Bungalow 8. He told the hosts of Page Six’s radio show that he didn’t know who Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush were when they showed up one night—so he didn’t let them in. “I got a tap on my shoulder, and it was the Secret Service,” Amiri recalled. “And he goes, ‘These are the first daughters.’ I said, ‘First daughters of whom?’” Once he understood, Amiri let the girls in and struck up a conversation. “I remember I needed my green card. So, we smoked a joint together and I was just like, ‘Listen, I’m having a green card problem,” he said. Though the Bush sisters said they would try to help him out, nothing ever came of it, Amiri recalled, laughing. The twin sisters, now 43, had a widely publicized party era during their father’s tenure as president. A representative for Bush Hager did not return the Beast’s

Michael Loccisano / WireImage “Lots” of industry players quietly voted for Donald Trump but are too “afraid” to say so publicly, Zachary Levi told Variety in a new interview. Levi endorsed Trump in the 2024 election after his preferred candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out. He called the move “career suicide” at the time because “Hollywood is a very, very liberal town.” Levi told the site Thursday that he’s far from the only recognizable celebrity that voted for Trump. “I know it to be true because I’ve gotten messages from lots of people who I won’t name but who were very grateful to me for taking the stand that I took,” he said. “And also they would tell me, ‘I want to do that, but I’m so afraid.’” The actor previously pushed back on Bill Maher’s assumption that he was “canceled” for endorsing Trump, telling the host, “I have yet to see what the ultimate effects of all that are gonna be.” Levi also gave Variety a response to Snow White star Rachel Zegler ‘s social media wish that Trump supporters “never know peace,” saying, “I am one of those people, obviously.” He added, “Should I hate her because

Facebook Eighteen soldiers have been temporarily suspended after video emerged of them firing blank rounds on a crowded Florida beach during a local pirate festival. Troops had been given permission to fire off some shots as part of a festival activity in which they staged a mock sea battle to “capture” fictional pirate Billy Bowlegs. But bizarre footage recorded after the fact shows uniformed troops in small boats firing off additional unauthorized rounds while festivalgoers waded in the shallow waters beside them. “Is this real?” a panicked woman can be heard shouting in one of the clips, while several other terrified beachgoers were reported ducking for cover. “This is unacceptable because there are so many real mass shootings going on in America each year,” a boat captain at the scene told Task & Purpose. “You can’t be joking about it.” “What happened at Crab Island was NOT part of the Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival, NOR was it approved by either the City of Fort Walton Beach or the Billy Bowlegs organization,” city officials wrote in a Facebook post following the incident. An Army spokesman later said: “The Army is aware of the incident that occurred at Crab Island,” T&P reports.

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Mexican Cartel drones were detected crossing the border into Texas 1,216 times between April 2024 and April 2025 by sensors installed by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Even more alarming, DPS Texas Rangers Captain Troy Wilson told a US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, the drone-detection network Texas has in place covers just 14% of its 1,254-mile border with Mexico. So the actual number of cartel drone incursions is likely much higher than they know.

The Elk Mountain ranch owner at the center of Wyoming’s closely watched corner crossing case is preparing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, new filings show. Lawyers for Fred Eshelman asked the nation’s highest court Wednesday for a 30-day extension to file a petition seeking Supreme Court review of the case. At stake, they wrote, is “one of the broadest abrogations of private property rights in American history.”

FRESNO, Calif. — A chaotic brawl in southwest Fresno took a horrifying turn earlier this month when a woman allegedly shouted for a teenager to “shoot the girls,” leading to gunfire that injured three females, police stated.

The future of a Wyoming-focused science team that helped understand and popularize the phenomenon of wildlife migration is uncertain after a series of moves by the Trump administration’s U.S. Geological Survey to hollow out or even end its 43 cooperative research units.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A former executive at a Newport Beach company specializing in classic car acquisitions has been arrested on federal charges for allegedly embezzling $7 million while living in the U.S. illegally, authorities said.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — After nearly three decades of investigation and heartbreak, justice has arrived for the family of Monica Leech, a Camarillo mother of four killed during a 1997 bank robbery in Thousand Oaks, county prosecutors announced.

The good news is that the GOP’s budget bill is a political suicide pact. And more power to them. Oblivion could not happen to a more odious bunch of people. The tragically bad news, however, is that it is not just a suicide pact. It is a murder-suicide pact. It may end Republican careers, but it will also end tens of thousands of American lives. Many more will suffer. The bill is, in fact, proof that we no longer live in a functioning democracy. Because if we did, Republican office holders would be concerned about the well-being and reaction of their constituents when proposing or passing legislation. But they don’t care about voters. Instead, they care far more about the dark money donors and power players who fund their campaigns—people who, thanks to the Supreme Court (also purchased with dark money), hold hugely disproportionate power in our elections. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Another Trump promise bites the dust. Remember when the former reality TV host-turned-president swore—SWORE on his stack of golden toilet paper—that he’d end the Russia-Ukraine war before he even walked into the White House? Like, poof, war over. All he needed was a chair, a Diet Coke, and maybe a few compliments for Putin’s abs.

Ahwar Sultan, a second-year graduate student in comparative studies, speaks at a Thursday press conference organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, alongside other Ohio State student organizations. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor.

The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries’ monthly payments to claw back money the government had allegedly overpaid them.