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Trump boasts about paying for woman's surgery in odd exchange: 'I gave her a lot of money'

President Donald Trump got sidelined Monday during a solemn event to boast about having given “a lot of money” to a woman for eye surgery — a woman that the president singled out from the crowd.

Held at the White House, the event saw Trump officially declare Monday to be “Angel Family Day” in honor of the families of victims of crimes by undocumented migrants. Trump spoke at length about his immigration policy before spotting a woman in the crowd, prompting him to engage in the bizarre exchange.

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'Dude, what are you doing?' Trump called out for ignoring court's political lifeline

President Donald Trump continues to rage against the U.S. Supreme Court for ruling against his global tariffs and threatened to impose them anyway — and CNN's Harry Enten warned him he was backing a real political loser.

The 79-year-old president threatened new "obnoxious" tariffs in his global trade war after the court struck down his "liberation day" duties as unlawful, but Enten told "CNN News Central" that most voters agreed with the ruling against him.

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Supreme Court ruling won't stop Trump's 'evangelical' belief in tariff plan: analyst

Donald Trump may press on with his tariff policy irrespective of the Supreme Court's ruling, a political analyst has warned.

The president has made it clear he believes he has a right to carry out the economic policies of his administration, even after a 6-3 ruling against him. Following the court's ruling on February 20, Trump must now seek Congressional approval to raise and lower tariffs.

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Trump suggests he wants to send Americans 'that don't work' to other countries

President Donald Trump suggested he would like to load up Americans "that don't work" in caravans and send them to other countries.

At an event with so-called Angel Families on Monday, Trump claimed other countries had done exactly that to the U.S. — rounding up their unemployed and undesirable residents and sending them to the U.S.

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MAGA lawmaker shamed into deleting post after own words turned against him: report

Several Democratic lawmakers appeared to have successfully shamed Rep. Mike Lee (R-UT) into deleting an online post Sunday night after the MAGA lawmakers’ own words were used against him.

Amid ongoing chaos in Mexico sparked by the killing of a high-profile cartel leader, Lee took to social media in an effort to defend the use of masks by U.S. federal immigration enforcement officers, sharing a photo of masked Mexican cartel members to illustrate his point, according to screenshots shared by NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur.

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'Look at this drop!' Data guru gasps at 'eye-popping' Trump numbers

CNN's Harry Enten presented new polling that shows President Donald Trump's standing among one crucial voter group has cratered — and his colleague reacted to those "eye-popping" numbers.

The 79-year-old will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night, and Enten said the occasion finds Trump deep underwater in public approval.

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Judge Cannon permanently blocks Jack Smith report on classified docs at Mar-a-Lago

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon issued a ruling blocking the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith's report, which centered on President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago following his first term in office.

Under Cannon's Monday order, the Department of Justice is prevented from "releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in Volume II or in drafts thereof."

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Trump advisors manipulating president by ‘playing’ on fears he’s inferior to Obama: report

As President Donald Trump appears poised to “pull the trigger” on launching a full-scale war with Iran at any moment, some of his top officials have been working behind the scenes to push the president into launching an attack by drawing comparisons to former President Barack Obama, Zeteo reported Monday.

The Trump administration has mobilized a colossal military force near Iran, the largest since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, all in the hopes of pressuring its leaders into making a deal on reducing its weapon capabilities. According to Vice President JD Vance, however, peace talks have reached an impasse over Iranian leadership’s refusal to "acknowledge" some of Trump’s “red lines.”

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Trump issues new threat to countries that abide by 'ridiculous Supreme Court' ruling

President Donald Trump issued a warning to "any country" that tried to use the Supreme Court's recent decision to buck his tariffs.

"Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court [sic] decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to," Trump wrote Monday morning on Truth Social.

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'Sick': Morning Joe flabbergasted as guest drops 'grotesque' DHS budget bombshell

During a discussion of blowback aimed at the Department of Homeland Security over chaos being created by out-of-control agents, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) stunned the hosts of “Morning Joe” when he pointed out Secretary Kristi Noem has a bigger budget than the U.S. Marine Corp.

That led to a meltdown by co-host Joe Scarborough, who pointed out that US military veterans and active personnel are already getting shortchanged by Donald Trump’s administration.

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'You ruined our life': Trump superfans furious after husband locked up by ICE

A New Jersey woman expressed regret for her support of President Donald Trump after immigration agents picked up her husband and detained him for months.

Abdellatif Hafraoui was taken into custody in August at Newark airport, where he had his wife had planned to depart for a two-week vacation to Fort Myers, Florida, and three men in plain clothes and a woman who identified herself as an ICE agent hustled the handcuffed man to an unmarked van without telling his wife where they were headed, reported NJ.com.

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Hotel guest cheats death as ICE agent's bullet rips through wall: report

A retired federal agent rehired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deployed to Minnesota has been involved in a hotel shooting.

The incident, which led to no deaths or injuries, led to police rushing to a Hampton Inn in December. Agent Bradley Shaver, 53, reportedly misfired his gun after changing the handle of his Glock 19. A police report seen by the Sahan Journal states the bullet travelled through into the adjacent room, where a hotel guest had checked in.

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Republicans 'in for a world of hurt' after 'killer' Trump poll: conservative analyst

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” conservative journalist David Drucker suggested that, unless the Donald Trump White House makes a radical U-turn on some of his least popular policies, the Republican caucus can expect an apocalypse in November when voters go to the polls.

After co-host Jonathan Lemire reported the GOP lawmakers are likely “slamming their heads on their desks” after the president insisted he will bring back his unpopular tariffs after Friday’s Supreme Court 6-3 smack-down, Drucker agreed and cited a new Washington Post/ABC News/ IPSOS poll that shows the president’s approval numbers are in a death spiral.

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