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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lavished praise Thursday on President Donald Trump in what columnist Greg Sargent called “one of her most obsequious, fawning tirades yet” – flattery, he argued, that is backfiring as Trump’s poll numbers plummet.

“We can always tell when Trump is in a shaky situation when press secretary Karoline Leavitt rushes in to praise him with absurdly over-the-top obsequious flattery – and boy, did she not disappoint this time,” Sargent said in the latest episode of his podcast The Daily Blast.

A rambling story Donald Trump told to an audience in Pennsylvania on July 15 has raised a red flag with an attorney who served in the late Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008.

In a column for The Hill, California attorney Chris Truax, who has previously acknowledged he has not supported Trump since his first run for the White House, pointed out that the president has spiraled into bouts of "confabulation," which is more concerning than the president's habit of off-the-cuff lying.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the American nonprofit organization that provides funding to National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, announced it would be shutting down Friday following President Donald Trump’s budget cuts to public broadcasting.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison in a statement.

President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Scotland was soured, according to Salon reporter Brian Karem, after he spotted a headline in a Scottish newspaper that dubbed him a “convicted U.S. felon.”

“He’s done so much for the world and Scotland in particular,” said a member of Trump’s staff, speaking with Salon on the condition of anonymity. “They should be grateful!”

The shockingly weak July jobs report sent the country reeling Friday, with Democratic lawmakers sounding the alarm that the economy is about to suffer even more under the "big, beautiful bill" that the GOP just passed.

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal reported that the only two major job sectors that experienced growth in the latest economic numbers were health care and social assistance. Jobs overall saw growth of 73,000, way below the 115,000 expected. And updated numbers for June were even more brutal, with only 14,000 jobs added.

U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot use "summary deportation" for anyone who had previously been paroled into the United States.

Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney posted the ruling on Bluesky in which the judge shames the administration for using tactics many of those immigrants saw in the countries from which they fled.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted accomplice, has been quietly transferred from a Florida federal prison to the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas, sparking fresh speculation about a potential Donald Trump pardon, according to a report.

The British socialite, serving 20 years for helping Epstein recruit and abuse young girls, was moved via a brief stop at an Oakdale, Louisiana facility before landing in Texas, according to The New York Sun.

With Donald Trump having six months under his belt in his second term, some independent voters who decided to give him a second shot at the Oval Office have mixed feelings about what has transpired, according to a report from NBC News.

According to the Friday report, several of those who voted for the president are grossly unhappy that he has yet to keep some of his promises.

President Donald Trump's administration revealed Friday that the last few jobs reports don't demonstrate the economic success that he's been touting — and it sent the market tumbling.

As of mid-morning, the Dow Jones had dropped 542.70 points, which is 1.23%.

The latest jobs report that showed a “striking” slowdown of economic growth left even Fox News Host Bill Hemmer questioning the economic optimism of a guest on his show, India Index's CEO Samir Kapadia.

Kapadia, who heads the business-to-business platform company, suggested that President Donald Trump’s newly-imposed tariffs, some of which came with pledges from several countries to invest in the United States, would largely offset the economic slump indicated in the new jobs report, which saw July post just 73,000 new jobs — and job number from June revised from 147,000 to just 14,000.