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'Oh my god': Eyebrows rise as Trump admits saying 'horrible thing' out loud

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows on Monday after he admitted to saying a "horrible thing" about California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Last week, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that Newsom showed he is a "cognitive mess" during a recent interview. "While we all want to be politically correct, having a mental disorder is not a positive campaign event," Trump wrote in the post, adding that Newsom had disqualified himself from running for President during the interview.

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'Can we wrap this up?' Fox News catches Trump off guard on his own war

President Donald Trump got more than he bargained for during an exchange with a Fox News reporter in the Oval Office on Monday.

Trump and multiple administration officials gathered in the Oval Office to commemorate his formalization of a new federal anti-fraud task force, which he announced during his State of the Union address in February. During a question-and-answer segment, Trump was asked by Fox News' Peter Doocy whether the U.S. can wrap up the war in Iran this week.

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Trump rages at 'independent' Supreme Court judges: 'I just want smart decisions'

President Donald Trump raged at "independent" Supreme Court judges on Monday during a bill signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

Trump and several administration officials held a ceremony in the Oval Office commemorating the signing of an executive order to establish a federal anti-fraud task force. During the question and answer portion, Trump was asked about the prospects of Congress approving the SAVE Act, which Trump said was "imperative" for lawmakers to pass. Trump seemed noncommittal about the bill passing, but he quickly digressed into a diatribe about the Supreme Court.

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'Did you follow that?' CNN anchor skewers Trump as he 'waffles by the minute'

President Donald Trump appears to be having a hard time getting his story straight about whether the U.S. needs international help reopening the Strait of Hormuz, according to one CNN host.

During a press conference on Monday, Trump made several contradictory claims about the Strait of Hormuz, which is the key shipping corridor that Iran has effectively shut off to U.S. and Israeli vessels following the coordinated bombing campaign by both countries.

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Trump demands new fraud czar investigate House lawmaker: 'She's bad news'

President Donald Trump on Monday asked his new federal fraud task force to investigate a Democratic lawmaker.

Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump told Vice President JD Vance and Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to ensure the new fraud task force they are leading will investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Republicans have routinely accused Omar of marrying her brother as a way of skirting U.S. immigration law. Omar has denied the accusation, and Snopes has said the rumor "lacks evidence."

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Oath Keepers founder 'no longer MAGA' after Iran war: 'If I lose my pardon, so be it'

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced he was "no longer MAGA," even though he was headed to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask President Donald Trump for a pardon.

While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday, Rhodes revealed that he had broken with Trump over the war in Iran.

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'Not acceptable!' GOP senator loses it as Dem crashes his TSA press conference

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) confronted Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) after crashing his press conference on funding the Transportation Security Administration amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Before Cornyn could begin his press conference at the airport in Austin, Casar began speaking to members of the media. The incident was caught on video by Texas Tribune correspondent Kayla Guo.

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'Lindsey Graham is going down': Charlie Kirk Show declares war on 'Lady Graham'

Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet pressed for the defeat of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), an ally of President Donald Trump, by hosting his two opponents, Paul Davis and Mark Lynch.

"I have been very loud about my criticisms of Sen. Lindsey Graham, the neocon warmonger from South Carolina, who has just seemed to stay in office for a very long time," Kolvet said on Monday's broadcast. "Charlie Kirk — Charlie always called him Lady Graham, as he called it... I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people call him."

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Trump whines it's 'unfair' that Iran closed Strait of Hormuz after he 'wins war'

President Donald Trump announced that he had "essentially" won the war against Iran and complained that it was "unfair" for the country to close its Strait of Hormuz after the so-called victory.

During a press conference on Monday, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump why he could not immediately open the Strait.

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Trump cut off mid-ramble as MS NOW's Chris Jansing despairs over claims

MS NOW host Chris Jansing was irritated during a live broadcast on Monday as President Donald Trump spoke to press, cutting him off and initiating a fact-check on the commander-in-chief's comments.

Trump was at a Kennedy Center board meeting with his cabinet and congressional leaders discussing a variety of subjects, including the Iran war, when he started rambling — and Jansing wasn't having it. She cut away from the president and responded to what he said.

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Crowd gasps as Trump blurts out GOP rep given weeks to live: 'That wasn't public'

President Donald Trump drew audible gasps while speaking at the Kennedy Center on Monday after apparently revealing that a GOP lawmaker had received a “terminal” diagnosis and was expected to be “dead by June.”

Sitting beside House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Trump was discussing the Republican Party’s slim majority in the House and how the deaths of several GOP members in recent years have made it harder for Republican speakers to advance the president’s agenda.

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Ex-Congress member scrambles after suggestion she threw JD Vance under the bus

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) may have accidentally thrown Vice President JD Vance under the bus on Monday.

Greene was speaking with CNN anchor Pamela Brown about the war in Iran and describing how some senior members of the Trump administration had cast doubt over the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran. Brown suggested that MTG's source was Vance — and asked her directly.

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MTG accuses president of lying on campaign trail: 'Trump did not mean it'

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) criticized President Donald Trump for backtracking on campaign promises to end foreign wars.

During a Monday interview on CNN, host Pamela Brown asked Greene if she regretted campaigning for Trump following the launch of Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

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