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MSNBC host Katy Tur mocked President Donald Trump on Monday as he backed off peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.

Speaking in the White House garden for an event about artificial intelligence, Trump told the gathering a little about his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Donald Trump revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin respects First Lady Melania Trump more than her husband.

At a signing ceremony for the Take It Down Act — a bill to fight revenge porn — the U.S. president said he had recently spoken to Putin about ending the war in Ukraine.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asserted that "globalists" were to blame after former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.

"Definitely, they knew he had this cancer and they didn't treat it," Jones said on his Monday broadcast. "And then obviously they wanted him to die because they were early on wanting him to step down and had the, quote, first woman president."

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon argued that former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis was 10 times "bigger than Watergate."

During an interview with MAGA ally Laura Loomer, Bannon suggested that aides had revealed Biden's cancer diagnosis to distract from recently released interview tapes from former special counsel Robert Hur.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) echoed President Donald Trump's recent attacks on Walmart during an interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on Monday, warning the mega-retailer to keep the president happy and not pass on the costs of tariff increases to consumers.

"If Walmart decides that they have to raise prices, do you think that's un-American?" asked Sorkin.

MAGA television host Gina Loudon chuckled as she kicked off a report on former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis with a conspiracy theory.

During a Monday segment on Real America's Voice, Loudon gave her audience the bad news.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified what President Donald Trump meant when he attacked singer Taylor Swift's looks last week.

"What does President Trump mean when he says that Taylor Swift is no longer hot?" Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt at a Monday briefing.

Joe Biden announced over the weekend that he has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer, but a physician told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the former president had almost certainly had the disease for a decade.

His personal office announced Sunday that Biden was examined after experiencing urinary symptoms and was diagnosed with a high-grade, aggressive cancer that had spread to his bones. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel expressed strong confidence that the former president had been ill for years and quite likely had known long before he announced the diagnosis.

A Fox Morning Futures interview with Donald Trump's two top appointees to the FBI created new problems for the administration after they both stated unequivocally that accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial.

"You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don't believe it," host Maria Bartiromo pressed FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

Former Republican Party Campaign consultant and full-time Donald Trump antagonist Rick Wilson used an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday to rail at the president for doing everything within his power to personally cash in on his second stint in the Oval Office.

Appearing with host Ali Velshi and MSNBC analyst Hayes Brown, Wilson had a few things to say about Trump's trip to the Middle East where his family has growing business interests that call into question his friendliness with the despots who rule the region.

With the controversy of Qatar wanting to give Trump a $400 million gift in the form of a so-called "palace in the sky" jet, host Velshi prompted his guest with, "I remember when Al Gore got in trouble for taking a campaign phone call in his office, and I'm not justifying it, but there should be rules, and elected officials should abide by the rules."

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"It's so weird that we're not arguing with the courts about breaking these rules. we're just ––they're gone, we just don't we just don't. This administration just doesn't even think about it anymore<" he added.

"That's right," Wilson agreed, "This is an administration where if the most ludicrously illegal transaction takes place and the Department of Justice doesn't see it. Does the tree make a sound when it falls in the forest? Of course not."

"None of this will ever be investigated by this administration," he predicted. "The corruption is wired in from the start and what Trump wants is money and adoration. But what he's getting is, he's changing what America is viewed as and I think that the pyramid scheme Nutralife argument is brilliant and I think it's a great way to think about this, because they are selling things of no value to people who are credulously, accepting that they think they're going to get something amazing from it, something bigger than their investment."

"Right now we don't have a White House or an administration, we have a whorehouse at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that's that's a fact," he added as the MSNBC host laughed.

Donald Trump's decision to take the lead in negotiating business deals while making bold announcements about how he is turning around a faltering economy could end up blowing up in his face.

That is according to the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid who wrote on Sunday that Trump is going where few presidents have gone before — and he's playing a risky game because it could lead to becoming the poster-child for failure, particularly in a volatile economic climate he had a major hand in creating.

As the Post report highlights, Trump is no more than dabbling in attempts to control drug prices, pressuring the Fed — sometimes with insults — to bring down interest rates and "touting" foreign investment deals that may or may not pan out.

A Republican senator came out swinging for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Sunday, complaining that it slashed workers and funds without showing compassion.

Utah Sen. John Curtis told CNN’s Manu Raju that much of the work DOGE has done to cut government spending was needed.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the former ambassador to South Africa blistered Donald Trump for speeding up the immigration status of Afrikaners by claiming they are fleeing "genocide" in their home country.

In short, Ambassador Patrick Gaspard bluntly stated the president is a liar.

Speaking with "The Weekend" host Elise Jordan, the former diplomat began by stating for the record, "You know, I'll say a couple of things. First, you know, when I come on shows like this, I'm trained to kind of retain my anger. It's hard to do that on this. On this issue, I'm absolutely furious."

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"One, Trump is playing to a domestic U.S. fringe political audience which I'll talk about in a second,' he explained. "There's a geopolitical impact, because there's an attempt to punish South Africa for the posture that it's taken internationally on the war in Gaza and its claims against Israel."

"And Trump is very clear about the need to punish South Africa in that regard," he added before continuing, "But there's a third thing that's happening. Donald Trump is the master of distraction and he knows that while we're having this conversation we're not talking about the prices that are going up for average Americans in Walmart and he loves that."

Addressing Trump's claim about the mass seizure of land aimed solely at the Afrikaners, he later stated, "It's just not happening. It is a fiction from Donald Trump, from Elon Musk and so many of their friends in the fringe, right, like Tucker Carlson."

"So now you have a president who is overturning the long-term asylum procedures that we have here in the U.S. for people who are fleeing violence, real political violence from countries like Afghanistan," he elaborated. "But he's throwing it open to a group of people who are political pawns right now; Afrikaners from South Africa who may or may not feel physically threatened in some way."