Kevin Manahan, NJ.com Journalist Profile

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Trump takes another smackdown - this time by Mexican president

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Then again, what would you expect from an American president who has no clue about history or foreign affair norms or territorial sovereignty? Who embraces enemies and insults and alienates allies? Donald Trump, who has all but signaled to Russia to take what it wants in Ukraine while threatening Canada, Greenland and Panama with occupation, wanted to send American armed forces into Mexico — you know, to help those inept Mexican officials. No thanks, said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Who won Kentucky Derby 2025? Results, payouts, complete order of finish

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Here’s mud in your eye, Sovereignty!That’s a fitting mint julep toast for the thoroughbred who won Saturday’s Kentucky Derby on a sloppy track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., winning in a field of 19 3-year-old colts who chased the $3.1 million prize and a blanket of roses. Journalism — trained by Michael McCarthy and ridden by Umberto Rispoli — was the favorite virtually from the minute the odds were first posted but couldn’t reward bettor’s faith on a sloppy track.
JD Vance proves nothing is sacred in MAGA world - as long Trump is doing the desecrating

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

As Catholics across the world object to Donald Trump’s trolling image of himself as the next pope, vice president JD Vance — who has used Catholicism when it’s been politically expedient — wants to know: What’s the big deal? Turns out, nothing is sacred in the world of MAGA — as long as it’s Trump doing the desecrating.
Imagine that! Trump MAGA senator caught in a nagging voting scandal of his own

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville, who’s been called the dumbest senator (and more than just a few times, mind you) and then basically proves it with nearly every Fox News appearance, is revealing he’s also not very at hiding his voting tracks while he’s being trailed by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.
Here’s the absolute best one-liner about Trump and Marco Rubio

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Let’s face it, Marco Rubio is a busy man — what with his jobs as Secretary of State, interim National Security Adviser, U.S. Archivist and Head of USAID.
Dems already plotting how to make Trump’s latest goof hurt even more

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

If Donald Trump believes he’s getting rid of a headache, he should be advised: Democrats likely already are lining up with their Wack-A-Mole mallets to turn this into a five-alarm migraine that Tylenol, Advil and Motrin might ask to bid on. The president, in attempt to quiet the ongoing media firestorm created by Signalgate, has fired National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Part of the problem eliminated, right? (Because there’s still Pete Hegseth, of course.)Wrong.
Humiliated Trump loyalist takes yet another slap in the face

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Can someone perform a wellness check on Elise Stefanik? Because the MAGA congresswoman from New York, who already suffered the cringing embarrassment of having Donald Trump renege on a promise to make her Ambassador to the United Nations, now must stand by and watch Trump promote fired and disgraced National Security Advisor Michael Waltz for the job.
MSNBC host has a hilarious new nickname for Trump

1 week ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

There’s a scene in the iconic animation holiday special, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” when grouchy Santa tells the elves and the residents of the North Pole that Christmas isn’t coming, thanks to a raging (and very rare) worldwide blizzard.
President Donald Trump takes credit for Columbus Day revival, unaware the federal holiday never went away

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Kevin Manahan

The New York City Columbus Day Parade has been celebrated since 1929, so it’s about to mark its 96th year. In fact, the parade marches up Fifth Avenue, and it passes right in front of Trump Tower. Donald Trump, apparently, has never looked out of his windows, because he insisted on Truth Social that he’s bringing the holiday back from the dead. “I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes,” Trump wrote his social media platform.
Trump Transportation Secretary predicts a lot of trucks ‘immobilized’ by side of road soon

2 weeks ago | nj.com | Kevin Manahan

Just in case Donald Trump’s trade wars won’t sideline enough truckers, his administration has a plan to cripple the industry even more. Trump is demanding that U.S. commercial truck drivers speak English, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy insists he’ll execute that strategy, even if it means pulling trucks off the road. It’s the new English-speaking tariff.