Henry Gomez

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Henry Gomez

As the percussion of Israeli munitions rattled Tehran on Thursday night, President Donald Trump's MAGA movement observed a rare silence - a sign, influential Republicans say, of the divide within their own party when it comes to the prospect of a war between Israel and Iran. It took Trump, who comments publicly more often than any president in recent memory, about 10 hours to put out a statement on his Truth Social platform, in which he urged Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Henry Gomez

LANSING, Mich. - As she spoke Friday night in the high school gymnasium where Magic Johnson starred as a prep basketball player, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., reached for a football analogy while wrestling with the existential questions facing the Democratic Party. "We know the Lions are going to the Super Bowl this year because they have a good defense and a good offense, right?" Slotkin, referring to Detroit's NFL team, told an audience of roughly 400 people at a town hall forum.

4 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Henry Gomez

US Vice President JD Vance attends a meeting of the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026, in the East Room of the White house in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2025. The soccer world championship will take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026, and will be hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Henry Gomez |Abigail Williams

May 28, 2025, 6:44 PM EDTPresident Donald Trump’s administration has emerged as a staunch defender of Alternative for Germany, a political party with Nazi echoes that has risen in popularity — and that German intelligence officials recently classified as a “proven right-wing extremist organization.”The party is known by its German initialism, AfD, and it has included leaders who have embraced old Nazi slogans and minimized the atrocities of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Peter Nicholas |Megan Shannon |Megan Lebowitz |Henry Gomez

May 21, 2025, 8:45 PM EDTWASHINGTON — The White House has removed official transcripts of President Donald Trump’s public remarks from its government website, replacing them with selected videos of his public appearances. As recently as Sunday, transcripts of Trump’s speeches and comments were still showing up in the “Remarks” section of WhiteHouse.gov. The next day, they were gone, snapshots of the site from an internet archive show.