The Endymion Edition

Edward Endymion is back to round up the news from the weekend. First, we stop in DC where Trump seems to have parsed back some of Elon's power over at DOGE. We give lurid details of the cabinet meeting where the torch was passed back to the cabinet secretaries, and examine what it could mean for budding friendship between Trump and Musk. Then we're giving background on the recent outbreak of viole...

We're recapping what happened last night as Trump addressed a joint session of Congress at his fifth State of the Union address (mind the 4 year gap) - what worked, what was missing, and how the other side of the aisle coped with having to pretend to be adults for a full hour and a half. I had to listen to the whole speech and the Democratic response so now you'll have to suffer my opinions. With...

What was meant to be a peaceful, friendly press conference turned into a rerun of Real Housewives as President Trump and Vice President Vance went toe to toe with President Zelensky of Ukraine over what they felt was his disrepectful attitude (and his refusal to wear a suit). With the Minerals Deal dead in the water - for now - recriminations are flying over who disrespected who first. We sidestep...

Edward Endymion is back from vacation to try to explain the complicated web of missteps that lead to the opening salvos in a war of words between President Trump of the United States of President Zelensky of Ukraine. Our saga begins in the humble German city of Munich, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dealt his cards hands up by taking Ukraine's ambitions to reclaim it's territory off the tabl...

Today, we here at the Endymion Edition are taking advantage of a slow news day to talk about Trump's Shock and Awe political tactics. Has flooding the zone been a carefully designed strategy to keep the Democrats on their toes and off balance - or is he trying to induce apathy so the American people won't notice what he's up to? Maybe he's just popping off because that's what he does. Probably the...

Trump interrupted what was otherwise a nice, quiet news day on Monday with a bombshell proclamation - the United States will be taking control of the Gaza Strip in a "long term ownership position". With the endorsement of Israel's Netanyahu, he painted an image of a Gaza strip revitalized as the Riviera of the Middle East and under American ownership. What does this mean for Trump, America, MAGA,...

Just as mysteriously as they began, Trump's North American Trade Wars have ended. Following announcements that Mexico and Canada were taking measures to step up border security, the White House retracted their proclimation of tariffs despite earlier claims that there was nothing either country could do to avoid them. Masterful negotiating from Mr. Art of the Deal, or did Trump blink twice in two w...

President Trump shocked the nation and the world on Friday by launching an opening salvo in a trade war against Canada, Mexico, and China, levying a 25% tariff on all goods from the first two countries (save Canadian oil, which will have a 10% tariff) and a similar 10% tariff on all goods from the third. Pointing towards a national security emergency spurred by the ongoing fentanyl crisis, he invo...

News comes fast in Washington these days, and Edward Endymion is here to break it all down. First, we examine the ghoulish instinct on both right and left to politicize tragedy while families remain freshly in mourning in the aftermath of the disasterous collision over Reagan National Airport before checking in on new headwinds faced by RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard in their battles to make it out of...

In a rare reversal, Trump issues a memo rescinding his earlier executive order pausing federal spending until reviews of said spending could be conducted. The bureaucracy snapped into chaos and Democrats pushed back hard, notching their first win of the new Trump presidency. But is Trump's revocation a retreat or just a retrenchment; and could Democratic overreach snatch defeat from the jaws of vi...

Trump stuns the federal buearocracy with a memo ordering a spending pause until reviews are conducted in line with his raft of executive orders. Is it a constititutional overreach, as Democrats are saying, or is it necessary in order to bring the federal government in line with his priorities? Edward Endymion's bringing you the angles you haven't heard. Next, China's Deepsink AI challenges America...

Edward Endymion's back and covering all the breaking news from this weekend - first reporting on Trump's firing of 18 insepector generals late Friday night, explaining what IGs are meant to do, why Trump wanted them gone, and why he may have run afoul of Congress in the progress. Next, a story from Sunday where Colombia blocked a deportation flight before Trump clapped backed with the threat of he...

On today's episode, Edward Endymion examines the feuds that highlighted cracks between Steve Bannon's old MAGA and Elon Musk's DOGE after Vivek Ramaswamy's comments in praise of H1B visas ingnited a firestorm between the two camps. Which faction has Trump's ear at the end of his first week in office, and what does it mean for how MAGA will end? Next, he recaps the fall of the mainstream media and...