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In the middle of his almost hour-long commencement speech to graduates at West Point, Donald Trump went off on a rambling discussion of "trophy wives" to a mostly silent crowd.

Wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat, the president decided to discuss pioneering real-estate developer William Levitt, as he recalled meeting him at a New York party.

During his tale, which led to him using Levitt's life as an example of "momentum," he brought up Levitt's divorce at which point he seemed to go off-script before getting to his curious point about "momentum."

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"He sold this company and he had nothing to do," he told the future military leaders. "He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't –– and that doesn't work out too well, I must tell you."

"A lot of trophy wives doesn't work out. But it made them happy for a little while at least," he continued. "But he found a new wife, he sold his little boat and he got a big yacht; he had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world. He moved for a time to Monte Carlo, and he led the good life. and time went by and he got bored and 15 years later, the company that he sold to called him and they said, 'The housing business is not for us.'"

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A discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" about Donald Trump's ambush of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office this week led one conservative contributor to note the president biggest problem with world leaders.

With CNN's Sara Sidner filling in for regular host Abby Phillip, conservative S.E. Cupp stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers himself lucky that his adversary is Trump.

"Donald Trump, just to psychologize this a little bit, Donald Trump desperately wants the respect of world leaders," she told the panel. "He doesn't have it, that is so obvious."

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"Putin can't believe his luck that he got such a gullible counterpart in America," she continued. "He [Trump] has not been able to end that war on day one, he has not been able to push for peace in Gaza. the EU countries are ignoring his tariff threat because they're like, 'Well, we'll just wait, we'll just wait him out.'"

"He desperately wants the respect, and I think that's why he resorts to some of these bullying antics in the Oval Office, because the only way he can get it is through strong-arming," she added. "They don't respect him, they think he's a joke. They think he is the embodiment of America's ugliest stereotypes."

"So I think there's an insecurity and a chip on his shoulder there when he's meeting with his counterparts," she remarked. "He wants something he knows he doesn't have. He won't get it, so he'll do what he can to strong-arm it."

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Politico legal analyst Ankush Khandori had the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend' laughing on Saturday morning when he ridiculed the legal skill of Donald Trump appointee Ed Martin.

After co-host Jonathan Capehart shared a clip of Martin describing his new job at the Department of Justice after his nomination to be the U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. was yanked because even Republicans senators found him unpalatable, Khandori pounced.

In the clip, Martin, who now describes himself as the "captain" of the DOJ's “weaponization” group, told reporters, "There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we'll charge them. But if they can't be charged we will name them and we will name them. And in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are shamed and that's a fact."

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Following that Khandori joked that anyone indicted by Martin should feel lucky because he is a legal lightweight.

After pointing to interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's plan to take Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver (NJ) to trial for assault outside of an ICE detention center, and calling the charges unsupportable, the legal analyst veered back to Martin,

"That is going to a problem for Ed Martin too," he told the panel. "Such as it is, the silver lining for the people in his crosshairs is that it's Ed Martin."

As the panel laughed, he added, "And we've seen over the last few months that he's not particularly good at his job, and he's not particularly good at being a lawyer," which led to more laughter.

"So, honestly, if someone were coming after you, you'd want it to be him," he pointed out.

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President Donald Trump has signed more than 150 executive orders, often with cameras rolling and staff looking on. The ritual rarely varies: seated at the desk in the Oval Office, the President listens as someone—typically the White House Staff Secretary—reads a brief summary of the order. On occasion, Trump interjects with a question, prompting speculation that he may not be fully familiar with the contents. He is seldom seen fully reading the orders themselves, which can span anywhere from a few pages to nearly 70.

On Friday, President Trump signed several executive orders, but according to The Daily Beast, one particularly revealing moment suggested he may not have known what he was signing—describing it as “a telling moment” that implied the president hadn’t read the order.

Yet another Republican broke with President Donald Trump on Friday over a private dinner he held this week with top investors of his meme coin.

David Urban, former Trump campaign adviser, joined "OutFront" to discuss the dinner, in which 225 of the top investors in Trump's personal $TRUMP meme coin got to dine with the president at an exclusive, high-profile dinner on Thursday night at his private golf club in Sterling, Virginia. The event rewarded the largest investors in his cryptocurrency venture.

President Donald Trump has no chance of getting Apple to make iPhones in the United States, even if he deploys supernatural powers.

NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Friday that one analyst told her even Trump's threats of a tariff wouldn't result in new Apple manufacturing in the U.S.

President Donald Trump's efforts to push cryptocurrency as an asset for the U.S. government to hold smells rotten, Trump-favoring CNN commentator Doug Heye conceded in a CNN panel on Friday evening.

This comes as Trump hosts a dinner for the top people holding a meme coin from which he personally profits — and as the Senate considers a "stablecoin" bill known as the GENIUS Act that stands to potentially benefit a crypto company partially held by Trump's family.

A federal judge accused the president of enacting an executive order he declared an "unconstitutional abuse of Donald Trump's power." One of the lawyers targeted in the order is celebrating the ruling, saying he "loves" the judge's smackdown.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday as the news broke, former partner Andrew Weissmann smiled as he spoke about the judge's decision to stop the Trump order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block. Weissmann worked for the firm until 2011. More recently, Weissmann worked as one of the prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

Farmers are starting to turn on President Donald Trump, one reporter from rural Wisconsin warned Friday.

Speaking to MSNBC, The Nation's national affairs correspondent, John Nichols, said that most of the folks he grew up with were farmers or in a business related to farming.

As part of his ongoing attack on Harvard University, President Donald Trump attacked students admitted to the Ivy League school, saying that students there "can't add."

While signing an executive order on an unrelated matter, Trump criticized "billions of dollars" given to Harvard by the government. The U.S. funds medical research and more. Last week, the U.S. National Science Foundation listed 193 grants worth nearly $150 million that were being terminated. There are also 56 grants from the U.S. Department of Defense worth $105 million that were canceled.

President Donald Trump went after Apple on Friday in a Truth Social post, threatening to impose a 25% tariff on its iPhones if they don't relocate manufacturing to the United States. One former GOP lawmaker called it "incoherent."

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) agreed that making an iPhone more expensive to nearly half of Americans who use them is both an economic and political problem.

On Friday morning, longtime Washington D.C. reporters Jonathan Lemire and Peter Baker of the New York Times, as well as conservative columnist Matt Lewis, admitted they were stunned that Republicans turned a blind eye to Donald Trump's crypto dinner.

During a segment on the president's much-criticized dinner at his golf club in northern Virginia that took place Thursday night, Lemire prompted guest Baker with, "I mean, you've covered the White House for a long time. I mean, I'm almost speechless at this. Could you imagine if Barack Obama or Joe Biden did anything like it?"

Longtime conservative columnist Matt Lewis took a dim view of the budget deal that passed this week with a one-vote margin, lamenting it will explode the national debt to historic levels.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the columnist and MSNBC contributor was asked by host Jonathan Lemire to weigh in on the bill that was barely approved by the GOP caucus with a bullying assist from Donald Trump.