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Donald Trump's physical appearance at this week's G7 summit disconcerted a panelist on MS NOW — who was lightly scolded by the host for pointing out the president's apparent decline.

Joel Payne, the chief communications officer for MoveOn, appeared Friday morning on "Money, Power, Politics," where he commented on the 80-year-old president's appearance at the global leadership event as his administration negotiated an end to the war in Iran.

Vice President JD Vance’s new book was released this week to reviews from professional critics that did not hold back – with The Wall Street Journal arguing it was filled with “egregious sloppiness.”

The amateur critics took it even further, flooding the book’s page on the Barnes & Noble website with one-star reviews.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is just hours away from violating a judge's order on President Donald Trump's January 6 slush fund after thumbing his nose at it for weeks.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent until Friday afternoon to file sworn declarations confirming the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is dead.

Iran issued the Trump administration a fierce ultimatum that could collapse the tentative peace deal just a day after it was signed, Drop Site News reported Friday.

The demand was related to Lebanon, which Israel invaded in March and has since killed nearly 4,000 Lebanese and sparked a humanitarian crisis affecting millions. Included in the memorandum of understanding agreed to by Washington and Tehran was a provision that Israel terminate its military operations in Lebanon.

President Donald Trump turned his back on Vice President JD Vance in anger last summer after he suggested softening parts of a speech about U.S. strikes on Iran, according to a book from New York Times reporters.

In "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," obtained by Politico, New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that Vance, an Iraq War veteran and longtime skeptic of foreign interventions, appeared "anxious" to aides the night Operation Midnight Hammer commenced.

Multiple residents of Washington, D.C. told CNN Friday their unfiltered thoughts on President Donald Trump’s $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool – and the feedback was scathing.

“It looks bad!” one D.C. resident told CNN’s Tom Foreman. “I just see green – green slime.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sounded the alarm recently when meeting with Senate Republicans over the Pentagon’s dwindling supply of funding for weapons — and the details were shared Friday by a GOP senator spurned by President Donald Trump.

“[The Pentagon is] running short on funding they need in order to acquire the weapons and missiles and things like that that they need to protect the nation,” Hegseth reportedly told Senate Republicans, as paraphrased by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and relayed to the New York Times.

President Donald Trump has reportedly told associates and at least one foreign leader that he isn't worried about the political cost of his decisions ahead of November's midterms.

The 80-year-old president's comments confirm what many Republicans have feared for months — that Trump is willing to let the party absorb the fallout from his choices, regardless of the consequences, reported the Wall Street Journal.

President Donald Trump's maneuver to install a conspiracist atop the nation's intelligence apparatus may have dire consequences for November's midterm elections, a new report warns.

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency with no known intelligence experience, takes over this month as acting director of national intelligence.

New details are coming into focus about a longtime Donald Trump donor whose company landed a no-bid federal contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in what has turned out to be an over-budget, ongoing debacle.

The National Park Service awarded the $1.7 million contract to what has turned out to be the ironically named Greenwater Services, bypassing the competitive bidding process normally required for federal work. The New York Times reported the company is led by Republican donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John J. Cafaro, whom Trump once called a "fantastic man."

President Donald Trump fired off a social media attack Friday morning as he was buried under an onslaught of criticism hurled his direction regarding the tentative peace deal he reached with Iran.

According to the 14-point memorandum of understanding reached between Washington and Tehran, the United States would help Iran gain access to a $300 billion redevelopment fund, lift all sanctions, and unfreeze billions of dollars of restricted Iranian funds. The tentative deal has received criticism – particularly from hawkish conservatives – that Iran would be better positioned from the deal than they were prior to the war.

British media personality Piers Morgan and countless others reacted with shock Friday morning over a top Israeli official’s call for all of Lebanon to “burn,” a threat that stands at odds with Iranian demands and risks blowing up the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran.

“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!” wrote Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Friday in a statement published on social media according to an automatic English translation of the Hebrew-language statement.