President Donald Trump’s “Patriot Games” drew comparisons to The Hunger Games from some high-profile Democrats on Thursday. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email.

Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.

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President Donald Trump is leaving the door open for the possibility of a war with Venezuela, according to an exclusive interview with NBC News released Friday. “I don’t rule it out, no,” he told the outlet in a phone call on Thursday.

A coalition of 24 Republican-led states is backing Trump’s migrant detentions, saying courts lack power to question his authority.

Workers at the Kennedy Center began adding Donald Trump’s name to the arts venue on Friday after a board he chairs voted to rename it, a move Democrats called illegal and John F. Kennedy’s family denounced as undermining the slain president's legacy.

The Trump administration moved quickly to add the president's name to signage for the newly branded Trump-Kennedy Center.

Rob Van Dam is thrilled with the “birthday present” that Donald Trump just gave him. RVD’s birthday is8. That also happens to be the same day that United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reclassified cannabis as a Schedule 3 controlled substance.

Maria Shriver is speaking out against Donald Trump once again after the Kenendy Center was renamed to honor the current president