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President Donald Trump boasted Thursday that he earned a "perfect score" on a recent cognitive exam, a remark that observers slammed on social media.

Trump made the comments during a press conference in the Oval Office. He claimed that the test was "risky" and said other presidents like Barack Obama and George Bush refused to do it.

A conservative analyst urged observers to be cautiously optimistic about a peace deal brokered between Israel and Hamas that some reports indicate could be signed on Thursday.

President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had accepted the "first phase" of a peace deal that would end the more-than two-year war that has decimated Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to think the deal is insubstantial. A U.S. official told Axios that the Israeli leader told Trump that the deal "is nothing to celebrate, and that it doesn't mean anything."

President Donald Trump casually suggested that Spain should be thrown out of the NATO alliance while speaking with the President of Finland at the White House on Thursday.

The remark came while Trump was boasting about how he made most other NATO member states commit to paying 5 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, with Spain being an exception.

Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman was animated, speaking to MSNBC on Thursday about Republican members of the U.S. House being missing in action during the government shutdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has argued that there's no reason for the House to be on hand to negotiate on healthcare subsidies because the House already passed its portion of the measure that would continue to fund the government.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggested that Muslims did not have the right to pray outdoors in the United States.

During a Thursday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Tuberville expressed outrage at Muslims expressing their faith.

Observers ripped The Washington Post's editorial board on Wednesday for publishing an editorial that they said tried to recast key parts of Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In the editorial, the outlet's editors argued that Jack Smith was playing "hardball" with Senators by requesting their phone records. They also claimed that Smith "should not have used" the tactic to surveil the communications of Senators, some of whom were ensnarled by his sprawling investigation.