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How Donald Trump tried to court the Atlantic – and why the liberal magazine landed an interview
Hell hath frozen over: At the White House the other day, Donald Trump «was launching a charm offensive, directed mainly at Goldberg,» as in Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief. «There was none of the name-calling or hostility he regularly levels at our magazine.»
That’s according to Atlantic reporters Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, who wrote the magazine’s cover story, which was posted yesterday.
For all the insights gleaned from the interview, nothing is more fascinating than how it came about.
They called the president on his cell phone. (Wha? Who do I have to court to get that? The reporters ain’t saying.)
Trump says he did the initial phone interview to see if the liberal magazine could be fair.
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So I’m here to pronounce that the entire, seemingly endless piece is fair. The president hasn’t taken a shot at it on Truth Social, at least so far.
He has, however, ripped new polls from the «Failing New York Times» and «ABC/Washington Post» as «FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS,» saying they should be «investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the Fox News Pollster while you’re at it.» His lowest approval rating, in the Post-ABC survey, was 39 percent.
Meanwhile, we may now look back on Trump’s 2024 victory as inevitable, but after Jan. 6 it was anything but. On the cell call, «The president seemed exhilarated by everything he had managed to do in the first two months of his second term.»
President Trump recently gave an interview to The Atlantic. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
And then came the transaction: «As ever, Trump was on the hunt for a deal. If he liked the story we wrote, he said, he might even speak with us again.»
Goldberg describes the session: «What I found in this particular meeting was a Trump who was low-key, attentive, and eager to convince us that he is good at his job and good for the country. It isn’t easy to escape the tractor beam of his charisma, but somehow we managed, and we asked him what needed to be asked.
«But squaring Trump the Charmer with the Orcish Trump we more frequently see is difficult…Trump posted on the social-media platform he owns that Ashley is a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ (she is not) and that Michael ‘has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES’ (also false). It is our task at the Atlantic not to be bullied by these sorts of attacks.»
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The most interesting Trump sound bite is his comparison of the two terms:
«The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world.»
Parker and Scherer did many other interviews, such as with Steve Bannon. «Our reality is that we won,» and he cited the conspiracy theory that the FBI had incited the crowd on Jan. 6. The reporters said that was simply untrue.
«Now, here’s the interesting thing,» Bannon said. «Who’s won that argument? I think we have…
«This time it’s ‘Hey, f**k you, Greenland’s ours…When you’ve come back from such long odds, you clearly feel, ‘I can do anything.’ »
What about the four criminal investigations, including the conviction on the weakest one – Alvin Bragg’s hush money case? Trump says his numbers kept going up.
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«Shockingly, yes,» Trump said. «Normally, it would knock you out. You wouldn’t even live for the next day. You know, you’d announce your resignation, and you’d go back and ‘fight for your name,’ like everybody says—you know, ‘fight for your name, go back to your family.’ …Yeah, it made me stronger, made me a lot stronger.»
He also said in the phone interview: «I got indicted five different times by five different scumbags, and they’re all looking for jobs now, so it’s one of those things. Who would have thought, right? It’s been pretty amazing.»
After the 2016 election, Trump told oil executives at Mar-a-Lago:
If I’m not president, you’re f***ed. Look at your profit-and-loss statements. You realize what would have happened to you if she was president? What’s wrong with you?») She was Kamala Harris, of course.
Referring to the criminal cases against him – including the charges brought forth by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Trump said «it made [him] stronger.» (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP / Trump-Vance Transition Team)
One turning point: When he went to East Palestine, Ohio after the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals, while Joe Biden didn’t do squat.
On the Kennedy Center: «I didn’t really get to go the first time, because I was always getting impeached or some bulls**t, and I could never enjoy a show.» So he fired the Democrats and made himself chairman.
All right, enough quotes. Wait, one more that captures the tone of the piece:
«I got 38 percent of the male Black vote. Nobody knew that was possible. That’s a lot. I got 56 percent of Hispanics. How about that one? Every county along the Texas border is Hispanic. I won every one of them.» Though every single number he cited was wrong, the general thrust of his observation was correct.»
The reporters chronicled how things have gone south for the president, especially on tariffs and the economy, and how he pressured Hill Republicans into backing his nominees with primary threats.
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After the March phone interview, the reporters tried Trump’s cellphone again. Just got voice mail. But at 1:38 am, he tried them back. No message.
Trump believes he can win over even his worst enemies. In 2015 or 2016, I watched him make a beeline in the New York green room for Karl Rove, who was very rough on him. At worst, he thinks, he can neutralize the person. Or soften him or her up for the next time. He enjoys the challenge.
The mainstream media almost uniformly can’t stand Donald Trump. He does invite some of his own negative headlines, while providing unprecedented access, but much of the press is back in Resistance mode.
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Still, the Atlantic’s original pitch is undeniable, that he’s «The Most Consequential President of the 21st Century.»
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NJ school district’s secretive transgender policy faces legal threat for bucking Supreme Court ruling
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A New Jersey school district is being threatened with legal action unless it repeals a policy that lets schools withhold students’ gender-identity information from parents, setting up what could become an early test of the Supreme Court’s recent intervention in the fight over parental rights and school disclosure rules.
The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal group, accused the Westwood Regional School District in a demand letter of wrongfully maintaining the policy, which also allows the schools, in some cases, to aid K-12 students’ «social transition» to becoming transgender without their parents’ knowledge.
The move comes weeks after the Supreme Court dealt a major victory to conservative parents in Mirabelli v. Bonta by upholding an injunction against a similar policy in California.
«I had hoped this would end the practice of secret gender transitions, but what’s becoming clear to us is this is just the beginning,» Peter Breen, Thomas More Society executive vice president, told Fox News Digital. «This is not an end, but a beginning, our big win in the Supreme Court. We are already fielding requests from other parents across the country, and we anticipate sending a lot more demand letters, unfortunately.»
CATHOLIC GROUP ASKS SCOTUS TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA LAW AGAINST REVEALING STUDENTS’ GENDER IDENTITIES TO PARENTS
Protesters wave transgender pride flags outside the Supreme Court as it hears arguments over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Fox News Digital reached out to the school district board members who received the letter, as well as the district’s superintendent, for comment but did not receive responses. The school board told local media earlier in March that members were consulting with district counsel and reviewing policies.
The letter requires the New Jersey school district to repeal its policy, called Policy 5756, within 20 days. Otherwise, Breen said, the Thomas More Society would follow the same path it did in California and begin litigation.
«When the Supreme Court decides a case, the logic of the decision is binding on every other court in the country, federal or state,» Breen said. «And so, the Supreme Court has said that parents have a fundamental right to control the upbringing and education of their children … and so a school official who defies that right could be subject individually to a lawsuit, not just the school district.»
In Mirabelli, California parents and teachers argued that the state’s transgender policy violated their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The policy prevented school administrators from telling parents about their child’s potential efforts to transition their gender unless the child consented to it. It also required school staff to use students’ preferred names and pronouns regardless of the parents’ wishes.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta taking questions on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta in the case, leading the parents and teachers to turn to the Supreme Court. The high court vacated the 9th Circuit’s order 6-3 on an expedited and temporary basis while the case proceeds through the lower courts. The three liberal justices dissented.
FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN ‘GENDER SECRECY’ POLICIES IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
«The State argues that its policies advance a compelling interest in student safety and privacy,» the high court’s majority wrote in the unsigned opinion. «But those policies cut out the primary protectors of children’s best interests: their parents.»
Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, observed to Fox News Digital at the time that the Supreme Court’s decision was the latest in a string of victories for conservatives seeking to tighten policies surrounding transgender people. DeAngelis noted it only applied to California, despite its anticipated impact on other states.
«This precedent is surely a sign of good things to come,» DeAngelis said. «If there’s a lawsuit that arises in another state, you can be pretty sure that the Supreme Court is going to rule on the side of families.»
A protester holds signs in support of an opt-out option for school lessons. (Courtesy of Becket)
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The Supreme Court has weighed in recently on several key gender identity disputes through full opinions and emergency orders, and the decisions have broken along ideological lines. Outside Mirabelli, the high court in United States v. Skrmetti affirmed 6-3 a state’s authority to ban certain transgender medical treatment for minors under the equal protection clause. In a 6-3 emergency ruling last year, the justices temporarily greenlit President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members serving in the military.
The high court is also weighing two relevant and closely watched cases, one on a religious-based therapist offering alternative counseling to transgender youths and one on transgender athletes. Decisions on those are expected by the summer.
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Secretaría de Inteligencia de Uruguay estudia opciones para imitar el modelo de Estados Unidos
El presidente de Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, quiere que la Secretaría de Inteligencia Estratégica del Estado (SIEE) se transforme en una agencia con mayor protagonismo y mayor capacidad de acción. La misión es que sea algo similar, salvando las distancias, a la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA, por su sigla en inglés) de Estados Unidos.
El objetivo quedó planteado en la memoria anual de 2025 de la SIEE, informó días atrás el semanario uruguayo Búsqueda. “En consonancia con los lineamientos generales anunciados por el señor presidente de la República, durante el año 2026 se trabajará en la identificación y análisis de los elementos necesarios, así como en la evaluación de su viabilidad, para avanzar hacia la creación de una Agencia de Inteligencia del Estado”, dice este documento.
El trabajo fue iniciado y tiene como primer paso elevar a Presidencia posibles sistemas que puedan implementarse en Uruguay, consignó el medio uruguayo. “La secretaría contribuirá, desde su rol técnico y estratégico, al estudio de alternativas institucionales y buenas prácticas comparadas, sin perjuicio de las competencias que correspondan a los ámbitos político y parlamentario”, señaló la secretaría de inteligencia.
Lo que está haciendo esta secretaría es diseñar una agencia con mayores capacidades operativas y ejecutivas, que luego serán puestas a consideración del Poder Ejecutivo y del Parlamento para que pueda ser aprobada durante este período de gobierno.
La intención del gobierno es avanzar a un organismo con capacidad de producir inteligencia propia en el terreno y ejecutar operaciones, algo que debe incluir las tareas de inteligencia y contrainteligencia frente a amenazas concretas. Aunque con matices, la lógica que está detrás es la de la CIA, de la Agencia Brasileña de Inteligencia (Abin) o de la Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DNI) de Colombia.
Para lograrlo tiene algunas dificultades. La más evidente son las restricciones presupuestales, que no le permiten contratar personal, tener un mejor el equipamiento y acceso a fuentes abiertas de información como la que requeriría.
Otra dificultad se da a la hora de compartir datos y generar vínculos de confianzas con otros organismos clave del sistema, como la Policía Nacional. Pero son varios los organismos relacionados a la inteligencia, algo que complejiza la coordinación y lograr un flujo eficaz de información.
En diciembre, el mismo medio había informado que el gobierno ya estaba trabajando en crear una agencia de inteligencia. Lo señaló explícitamente el presidente en un discurso ante la Asociación de Dirigentes de Marketing: “Dije y sostengo que Uruguay debe caminar decididamente hacia la creación de una agencia nacional de inteligencia”.
En una línea similar, se había expresado en una entrevista con Búsqueda. “Uruguay no tiene una agencia de inteligencia. Tiene una Secretaría de Inteligencia y tiene divisiones de Inteligencia medio separadas. Pero hablás con cualquier país y tiene una agencia. Entonces, yo quiero dar la discusión”, expresó el presidente.”Capaz que nosotros no necesitamos una agencia porque somos distintos… ¡Es raro!”, ironizó luego.
El argumento que ha utilizado el presidente Orsi para argumentar esta necesidad es el avance del crimen organizado en el país. Considera que su combate debe darse con información, con cooperación internacional, con un servicio de inteligencia más profesional y con un trabajo más coordinado entre los distintos organismos relacionados a la seguridad.
El mandatario considera que la transformación del actual servicio de inteligencia uruguayo debe darse con la incorporación de herramientas tecnológicas.
Una de las alternativas que analiza el gobierno es que la actual SIEE se transforme en un organismo híbrido que incorpore ciertas capacidades operativas, como la inteligencia y la contrainteligencia, pero que no abandone su rol estratégico. Además, tendría áreas vinculadas a la detección y la neutralización de amenazas dirigidas contra el proyecto Estado o contra el sistema de inteligencia.
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St. Paul, MINN. – From Times Square to here in Minnesota’s state capital, communist and socialist activists at the nationwide «No Kings» protests escalated their anti-America campaign and openly called for a nationwide economic strike on May 1, an international communist holiday known as May Day, as key Democratic activists joined their call.
At the rally here in St. Paul, organizers, speakers and activists distributed communist literature, waved flags from socialist governments and revolutionary movements, and urged demonstrators to transform the day’s protests into a nationwide shutdown of work, school and commerce.
By early Sunday, Press TV, the propaganda arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran, leveraged news of the protests to tell readers, «Regime change begins at home’: No Kings, No War protests held across US.»
As Fox News Digital reported, about 500 organizations with an estimated combined annual revenue of about $3 billion sponsored and organized the demonstrations, creating a centralized protest apparatus even while organizers tried to market the activists as «grassroots.»
The network included traditional Democratic advocacy organizations, like Indivisible, MoveOn and the American Federation of Teachers, alongside openly socialist and communist groups such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization and local chapters of the Communist Party USA, including the Twin Cities Communist Party USA club, which endorsed the St. Paul rally.
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Kevin Dwire, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the Socialist Workers Party, holds «The Militant» newspaper during the «No Kings» protest in St. Paul, Minn., on March 29, 2026. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Offstage at the celebrity-filled «No Kings» protest in St. Paul, activists with the Party for Socialism and Liberation sold a manifesto, «Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States,» filled with Marxist teachings.
Yards away, near the main stage, Kevin Dwire a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the Socialist Workers Party, sold copies of the «Communist Manifesto» by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the 1847 work that would transform the next century’s global politics. The group says it is «part of the continuity of revolutionary Marxism,» tracing back to Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
In the middle of the lawn, flags for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba flew next to a flag of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist group.
In the back of the lawn, a young man who identified himself only as «Mason» championed the teachings of the Revolutionary Communists of America. A young woman nearby sold copies of Socialist Alternative, which describes itself as a «revolutionary organization working to build a movement for a democratic, socialist society.»
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Across the country, from Los Angeles to New York City, pro-communist Americans marched alongside traditional center-left Democrats in an alliance that many mainstream media outlets largely portrayed simply as anti-Trump protests.
The ideological adherents themselves, however, were not shy about their beliefs.
In Times Square, members of the Revolutionary Communists of America chanted: «There is only one solution — communist revolution,» while waving red flags bearing the hammer and sickle.
The common refrain from these groups was a call for a nationwide strike on May 1, the traditional May Day holiday long embraced by communist and socialist movements as a day of mass political action.
At the St. Paul rally, that call received support from the stage.
Ezra Levin, the co-founder of Indivisible, the protest’s key organizer, joined the communist call for a national strike and urged protesters to prepare for economic disruption on May Day, similar to a shutdown that saw limited success in Minneapolis during protests on Jan. 23 against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
«I want everyone here to put this on their calendar… It is a tactical goal, an escalation… It is an economic show of force, inspired by Minnesota’s own day of truth and action,» Levin told the crowd.
Levin continued: «On May 1, on May Day, we are saying, ‘No business as usual.’ No work, no school, no shopping. We’re going to show up and say, ‘We’re putting workers over billionaires and kings.’»
While Indivisible has participated in May Day coalitions before, the prominence of socialist organizations in the protest ecosystem illustrates the growing influence of the far left within networks that overlap with mainstream Democratic political organizing.
Indivisible Project, a nonprofit whose work is often marketed with just the first word of the group’s name, has received $5 million in recent years from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society philanthropy arm.
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Members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a Marxist group, raise their flag over the «No Kings» protest at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn,, on March 28, 2026. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Meanwhile, some of the openly pro-communist groups marching alongside Democratic activists are connected to a global activist network funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon now based in Shanghai, promoting messaging critical of U.S. democracy and sympathetic to China’s political model.
That network includes media and organizing hubs such as the People’s Forum, BreakThrough BT Media Inc.’s BreakThrough News, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which have received funding and support through the Singham network.
Over the years, Singham, who sold his tech company for approximately $800 million in 2017, has provided $22.4 million to People’s Forum, $1.3 million to CodePink and $1.1 million to BreakThrough BT Media Inc. The ANSWER Coalition and Party for Socialism and Liberation have received support through their relationships with the People’s Forum.
The network has funded conferences, media outlets and activist organizations promoting narratives that portray the United States as a «fascist» and «hyper-imperialist» power while defending the authoritarian governments of China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Socialist and communist political literature sits on a table during a No Kings protest in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 29, 2026. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
The theme echoed throughout the protests, where demonstrators warned of rising «fascism» in the United States.
In the hours after the protests ended, the activist networks celebrated the demonstrations online. In Los Angeles, CodePink posted video showing its banner in the middle of a protest where demonstrators chanted: «Hey, hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go.»
BreakThrough News shared videos from protests in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Houston and Gainesville, Florida, declaring: «Massive demonstrations took place as part of the ‘No Kings Day.’»
The outlet blasted what it described as Trump’s «right-wing agenda of endless wars and deportations.»
The ANSWER Coalition circulated video showing Indivisible, CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation marching together in Chicago, writing that the «people of Chicago take the streets to stand against Trump’s agenda.»
Indivisible Chicago responded with three fire emojis, revealing the emerging synchronicity between traditionally Democratic groups and openly pro-communist organizations.
The ANSWER Coalition operates out of the People’s Forum in New York City, which also celebrated the demonstrations online with the caption, putting its stamp on the day: «No Kings Day NYC.»
Leaders tied to some of these activist groups, including CodePink co-founders Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, have participated in delegations to Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and China, strengthening relationships with governments frequently at odds with U.S. foreign policy. Evans married Singham in 2017, as he started funding this network in the U.S.
A demonstrator leaned a Party for Socialism and Liberation sign against the porta-toilet at the end of the «No Kings» protest in St. Paul, Minn. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
Back in St. Paul, even some socialist activists expressed skepticism about those alliances.
Dwire, the Socialist Workers Party leader selling copies of Marx’s manifesto, shook his head when discussing China’s political system. «China socialism is capitalism,» he said.
The young activist from the Revolutionary Communists of America also distanced himself from China’s government, describing it as a betrayal of communist ideals, while he openly embraced communist ideology. «We are against imperialism,» he told Fox News Digital.
Protester organizers dump American flags in the trash after the «No Kings» demonstration in St. Paul. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
As the rally wound down and crews dismantled stage equipment, the protest grounds began to empty.
A demonstrator propped a Party for Socialism and Liberation sign against a porta-toilet.
Nearby, two American flags lay discarded in the grass beside a heap of garbage bags, an emptied bag of Cheez-It visible among the trash.
Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.
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