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'So laughable': Uproar as White House touts Trump's 'excellent' MRI results

The internet had a quick response on Monday following news that President Donald Trump's MRI was apparently "preventative" and that the president remains in "excellent health."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced during a press briefing that Trump's cardiovascular imaging is “perfectly normal" after the president said Sunday night that he would release the results of the test.

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Trump's MRI dodges are getting 'weirder' after 2-month news blackout: analyst

Almost two months after Donald Trump visited Walter Reed Army Hospital for a presidential physical, with the White House later disclosing he underwent “advanced imaging,” questions have been raised over whether he underwent an MRI and, if so, why.

The president has talked openly about having an MRI, but has been cagey about what part of his body was imaged and why, which answered the overriding question, but deepened the mystery.

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MAGA country grandmas protest right-wing sheriff's pact with ICE: 'I'm angry!'

Dozens of grandmothers in a deep-red area of Ohio have been protesting their county's agreement to help President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.

The group of Butler County residents has been showing up to county commission meetings for weeks to speak out against an agreement reached by conservative Sheriff Richard Jones with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain people facing deportation in the county jail, reported The Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Karoline Leavitt cites 'Trump's age' to explain mysterious MRI of his 'organs'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to put to rest questions about President Donald Trump's recent MRI after a physical.

Following Trump's admission that he had "no idea" which body parts were scanned, Leavitt provided additional information at Monday's White House press briefing.

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'Signs everywhere' suggest America’s MAGA 'nightmare' is almost over: writer

Former pastor and author John Pavlovitz wrote Monday that "all brutal empires fall," and the MAGA movement is no different — and signs of its inevitable demise are "everywhere."

"Every time the pendulum has swung wildly toward barbarism in a society, it has invariably come back with even greater opposite force to bend the arc of the moral universe back toward justice again," he wrote on his Substack.

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Trump official downplays Epstein redaction email: 'Glad these are available'

Dan Bongino once made a name for himself as a MAGA-aligned commentator and podcaster, one who was outspoken about the need to disclose files related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Now, as deputy director of the FBI, he is under fire over his knowledge of he massive effort to redact the files, the Daily Beast reported.

Bongino joined the FBI as deputy director under Kash Patel back in May. At the time, he claimed that the Trump administration's slow-walk of the Epstein files was part of an effort to protect the victims of the deceased financier and underage sex trafficker. Since then, the Daily Beast noted, he had gone silent on the subject.

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Woman posing as 'harmless church girl' identified as spearhead for MAGA's 'war on empathy'

An analyst Monday called a MAGA influencer's weaponization of her gender and crusade against empathy "especially dangerous."

Salon's Amanda Marcotte wrote in an opinion piece about far-right Christian pundit Allie Beth Stuckey and how "the right’s modern war on empathy really began with a woman."

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Alarm raised as experts suspect 'sloppy code' used to overhaul sensitive govt websites

Attempting to meet Donald Trump’s July 2026 deadline to refashion government websites where private information is shared, the National Design Studio is creating websites that have all the appearances of leaving gaping security holes, experts warned Monday.

According to a report from NOTUS, the president demanded in an executive order for the websites to be “usable and beautiful," but the early results are raising alarms among security experts.

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Why Trump’s 'very evident' decline is so 'devastating' for MAGA: analysis

During former President Joe Biden's four years in the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked "Sleepy Joe" as being in both physical and mental decline. But now that the 79-year-old President Trump is back in the White House, he becomes furious when similar things are said about him.

Trump is especially angry over a New York Times article that was published on November 25 and found reporters Katie Rogers and Dylan Freedman questioning the president's physical and mental health.

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Pam Bondi hit with sex discrimination lawsuit

Former Department of Justice immigration judge Tania Nemer sued Attorney General Pam Bondi after the government said she was fired because President Donald Trump had the right to discriminate against her sex.

In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Nemer said that Trump had ordered her fired just 15 days after taking office, even though she "received the highest possible performance rating."

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Conservative winces as he's forced to admit Dems 'on a roll' — and GOP a 'rudderless ship'

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin boasted last week that the “Democratic Party is back” following the party’s sweeping victories in last month’s elections, and conservative commentator Joe Concha, when pressed Monday on Fox Business to respond, winced before conceding to the claim.

Democrats had a strong showing last month after winning two contested gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, expanding their House majority in the Virginia legislature, winning races in Virginia for lieutenant governor and attorney general, and fending off independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo with Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City.

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Trump order ignored by Venezuela's leader — and he shut down airspace in response: report

President Donald Trump presented Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with an ultimatum during their recent phone call, according to sources, but he instead responded with demands of his own.

The U.S. president confirmed the call had taken place but declined to offer specifics – “I wouldn’t say it went well or badly, it was a phone call," is all Trump would say about it — but sources told the Miami Herald that he sent a "blunt message" to Maduro as part of a months-long pressure campaign.

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Republican targeted by pipe bomb threat for refusing Trump's demand

Indiana state Sen. Jean Leising (R) said she was the newest victim of threats after refusing a demand from President Donald Trump to redistrict the state ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

In a Sunday post on X, Leising revealed that her home "was the target of a pipe bomb threat on Saturday evening."

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