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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Extended legal losing streak hits Trump where it hurts

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki reviews the fresh string of legal failures Donald Trump has suffered, including a federal judge dropping the hammer on Trump's sketchy IRS "settlement" trick to give himself a $1.8 billion slush fund.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, a big part of the story of the last year, and we've talked about this a lot, and a lot of my colleagues have as well.

0:07.0

And I would say of the first year and a half of the presidency, actually, is all of the efforts at pushback.

0:14.5

All of the people out there who are pushing back against the Trump administration, people in the streets, people in courts, people filing

0:21.8

lawsuits, so many people participating in the pushback. And because Trump seems to throw something new

0:28.2

at the wall every day, sometimes crazier than others, it can feel at times like those efforts

0:33.6

aren't working. Like they aren't keeping up with the pace of Trump's destruction. But the

0:39.5

truth is, Trump is actually on a pretty big losing streak right now in a particularly big one on

0:46.2

this Friday. I mean, take, for instance, Donald Trump's decision to slap his name on DC's

0:50.8

iconic Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Late last year, I'm sure you remember, Trump just decided to rename the building after himself,

0:58.0

slapping gold-goddy letters on the building above John F. Kennedy's name

1:03.3

before eventually ordering the iconic cultural institution to close for two years

1:07.7

so he could make his own renovations to the building.

1:10.6

Well, today a federal

1:12.1

judge ordered the Trump administration to remove his name from the building within two weeks,

1:16.7

and he also blocked the administration taking any steps to close the institution. And that

1:22.5

lawsuit against Trump's Kennedy Center takeover had been in the works. It wasn't last week.

1:27.0

It's been in works for five months. But it took until now to see some tangible results. And Trump, for his part,

1:35.2

took that news about as well as you would expect. Today, in a lengthy screed essay-like on

1:41.7

truth social, he lashed out of the judge who made the ruling and said he would now

1:45.8

try to transfer control of the Kennedy Center to Congress, basically suggesting he has given up

1:51.5

on his battle to take it over, which there are a lot of things to be concerned about right now.

1:55.7

That's frankly a bit of a relief. That is far from the only battle the Trump administration is

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