Images of President Donald Trump at one of his golf clubs over the weekend shocked a political analyst and raised fresh health concerns.

Trump was photographed at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league held its LIV Golf New York event last weekend. Several photographs showed Trump with bruising on his hand, and at one point, he seemed to labor as he went from one golf cart to another.

David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, reacted to the images in a new video on Monday.

"As disgusting and dilapidated as these images are, and they're very disgusting ... These images are nothing compared to what they represent about Trump's presidency," Pakman said.

What surprised Pakman most about the image wasn't that it showed Trump's awkwardly bowed legs, or that the president seemed to have a hard time getting around. Instead, the most disturbing part was that it was another day that Trump spent golfing while the country underwent significant economic turmoil because of his war against Iran.

According to the Trump Golf Tracker, the president has spent about 22% of his second administration on the golf course, which has cost taxpayers around $175 million.

Pakman pointed to the latest job numbers that showed the U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs last month, and that a growing number of people are leaving the workforce altogether. Credit card balances have also increased because consumers are buying necessities with debt, which only exacerbates the cost-of-living crisis many households are facing, Pakman argued.

"So, now I'm paying interest on multiple months, and I got to stay in a job I hate because there might not be another good job available, or I'll lose health care if I leave, and Trump is golfing," Pakman said.

President Donald Trump appears to be in the midst of a "slow decline" that could end with a surprising figure ascending to power, according to one expert.

Questions have swirled about the president's health throughout his second administration. He's been spotted with bruising on his hands on several occasions, and has been photographed with swollen ankles, which some experts have said are signs of a heart condition. Trump's mental health has also been called into question as the president has admitted to taking multiple cognitive exams.

David Rothkopf, global affairs columnist for The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that Trump's decline could end with Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff, gaining power rather than Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as many have predicted.

“Power flows from the president, from the people closest to the president, from the people who control his schedule, from the people who send out his statements,” Rothkopf said, noting that Vance has been conspicuously absent during many such events.

Rothkopf also noted that there are historical precedents for a president handing off their duties to aides. He pointed to former President Dwight Eisenhower's heart attacks and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's heart condition.

“And I’ve got to tell you, you look at Donald Trump, you look at the bruises, you look at his behavior, you look at his age, you look at his family history, and we could be heading for one of these periods where somebody other than Trump is actually, behind the scenes, the acting president," Rothkopf said.

President Donald Trump's obsession with Greenland has inspired a new harebrained business venture, Rachel Maddow told her viewers on MS NOW Monday night — and it already appears to be falling apart.

But before that, she said with some bemusement, the venture actually tried to get her to promote it.

Several weeks ago, she said, her office got "a totally unsolicited, totally over-the-top PR pitch offering me an embargoed, confidential sneak peek at a new project from Dr. Phil," announcing he was going to Greenland to do a TV show and asking if she'd be interested in covering it.

The "footage" they offered Maddow continued, "turned out to be footage in Greenland of an American guy talking about his plans to drill for oil in Greenland, which he apparently believed he had a right to do." She put the video on.

"That's why we're here, to reposition the road-building equipment," said a man in the clip, adding that "for a fact" they have all the authorizations to move forward with the work.

"The guy they're explaining this to appears to say, 'This is unlawful,'" Maddow noted. "It's kind of hard to hear, but it sounds like that's what he says."

Nonetheless, "some PR firm, in its infinite wisdom, believed that I would find it an exciting opportunity to help promote a new Dr. Phil TV show about how exciting it would be to drill for oil in Greenland."

Since that PR pitch, she said, things haven't gone so well for this enterprise.

"First of all, you should know that in 2021, Greenland passed a national moratorium, a national ban on all future oil exploration," said Maddow.

Despite this, once Trump resumed his public obsession with annexing Greenland, "for some reason, a new company formed in Texas called Greenland Energy," who "said they were going to drill for oil in Greenland."

Then, in June, they visited a remote part of Eastern Greenland with no roads, and "announced to the villagers there that this company, this Texas company, had permission ... to start bringing their equipment, their oil drilling equipment to this untouched Arctic area of Greenland."

Sadly for them, said Maddow, "the company later apologized and said, actually, they didn't have permits to do that. They put out a statement sort of correcting the record, saying, quote, our enthusiasm for the project led us to communicate in a way that created confusion."

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