So, I decided to go to Iraq, and I flew to Iraq, Trump said. And I was extremely brave. In fact, so brave, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor. I said to my people, Am I allowed to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor? The Medal of Honor, which is presented on behalf of Congress, is typically awarded by the president to service members who have displayed acts of valor.
By a two-to-one margin, more Americans believe that President Donald Trump is racist than think he is not, even as Trump and his White House protest what they call false accusations of racism. While never far away, the subject of Trump and racism was top of mind when the president issued a denial of racism as he commented on the death of Reverend Jesse Jackson, and that denial was blown up in a White House briefing exchange.
One of the ironies is that, you know, they b**ch and moan about equal time, but I can tell you that I am sure all of these programs that Trump hates have invited Trump and his vice president and his cabinet and a bunch of Republicans to come on, and they choose not to come on because they like to go to the safety bubble of Fox News.
Trump's endless flip-flopping on the Chagos Islands shows why Starmer's approach is doomed to fail. Britain can't rely on the US while Trump is in the White House. It's time to strengthen our ties with allies we can depend on, starting with our neighbours in Europe.
Americans, broadly speaking from all the polls, are happy for people who are in the country illegally, who then commit crimes unconnected to their status, to be deported, it's the behavior of ICE on the streets of American cities and towns in going way too far with people who may have been in the country for ten years, raised kids, got jobs, paid taxes, and so on, that is not supported by the American people.
BILL MAHER: Okay. Trump, this is Trump this week. As everyone knows, the country of Canada, also known as Canada Has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. How? Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. Prime Minister Carney, well, that's inappropriate when he's called him Governor Carney before, wants to make a deal with China, which will eat Canada alive. We'll just get the leftovers. I don't think so.
Trump, we're told, reads major newspapers in hard copy, toggles across cable networks throughout the day, marks up stories with a Sharpie, and calls Cabinet officials when front-page articles catch his attention. Aides understand that television appearances affect their standing. Lawmakers text him stories directly. Coverage prompts calls and scrutiny. Trump is described as a ravenous reader, a description that may be true, but also conveys discipline and command.
Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account at 11:44 PM on Thursday night that contains an image depicting President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes: This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.
It seems that few people on X believe the White House's claim that an unnamed staffer has access to President Donald Trump's social media accounts and is the real culprit behind a racist video he shared Thursday night. The video about rigged elections included a clip showing former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obamas faces superimposed onto the bodies of apes.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) posted a rare critique of President Donald Trump on Friday after the president shared a video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Thursday evening, Trump posted a video with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that included a short clip of the Obamas' faces superimposed on apes' bodies. The video was furiously criticized by Democrats, anti-Trump Republicans, members of the media, and other political commentators as racist.
Abraham Lincoln first earned national attention by calling out President James K. Polk's lies about the lead-up to the conflict, which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848, on the floor of Congress. Ulysses S. Grant called the war "one of the most unjust ever waged." Henry David Thoreau's famous essay "Resistance to Civil Government" was written partly in response to the Mexican-American War, which he decried as "the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool." Other American paragons of virtue who were publicly opposed at the time: William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass.
You are so bad, you know? Trump replied. You are the worst reporter. No wonder. CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile on your face.
The president took a break from overseeing a domestic occupation, issuing threats to Iran, and pretending he's not deeply implicated in the latest Epstein file dump. Speaking of dumps, Trump finds himself so overburdened these days that he's taken his capacity for multitasking to extreme levels. And yet he still has time for his passion project: authoring a real-time record of his sundowning through his vanity social media outlet.