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Trump dozes in Oval Office as MAGA ally makes jaw-dropping false claim: 'One long blink!'

The internet mocked President Donald Trump after he was caught sleeping — again — during a White House press conference on Friday.

Trump appeared to doze off while sitting in the Oval Office while Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stood behind the president with television personality Dr. Phil and Dr. Ben Carson, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first Trump administration. Patrick claimed there was no such thing as separation of church and state in the United States.

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States' 'most powerful' weapon against Trump is 'now in play': legal expert

A former prosecutor flagged that the "most powerful" legal weapon that states have against President Donald Trump is "now in play."

Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman wrote in a Friday piece for his Talking Feds Substack that a judge's recent rebuke against the Trump administration has opened the door for states to rely on the "anti-commandeering principle," a 10th Amendment doctrine.

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US conducts air strikes on Iran after Trump signs ceasefire deal

The United States launched airstrikes on Iran on Friday, just over a week after President Donald Trump signed a ceasefire deal meant to end the war.

U.S. Central Command said its forces hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar stations. It called the strikes a response to an Iranian attack on a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Pete Buttigieg reveals 'terrifying' attack on family: 'I am beyond furious'

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Friday that his family was targeted in a "terrifying" swatting incident — but this involved Child Protective Services.

Buttigieg described what happened in a Substack post and said a CPS worker showed up at his home and asked to speak with him after someone filed a false report about him and his young children. He said his family was safe after the incident, adding "I am beyond furious."

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Jim Jordan humiliated on Fox News after botching basic sports: 'I love World Cup Hockey!'

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) confused World Cup soccer and hockey during a live broadcast Friday on Fox News — and the internet didn't miss it.

Jordan apparently mixed up the current FIFA World Cup with MMA and hockey, confusing the sports events in the interview. He was asked about the upcoming match between Team USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 1.

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Trump insider blows up after Mike Johnson's 'unmitigated' midterms 'disaster'

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon declared House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) an "unmitigated disaster" on Thursday, warning his MAGA base that Republicans have already lost the Senate ahead of the midterms.

Bannon unloaded on his War Room podcast on Real America's Voice after President Donald Trump blew up a rare Republican win — a popular bipartisan housing bill — to demand Congress first pass his sweeping election overhaul.

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DC lawmaker takes hilarious tour of Trump's fair: 'Um, they ain't got it'

A Washington, D.C. lawmaker captured a tour of the Great American State Fair in Washington D.C. on Friday — showing a mostly empty fairgrounds.

At-Large D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson shared the Instagram video and spoke about checking out the booths for states, with some passing out brochures and others hosting interactive experiences.

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Trump caught red-handed using tax dollars for renovations he claimed he paid for: report

Back in March, President Donald Trump claimed that an expensive renovation to a White House pathway was paid for by himself personally, but on Friday, The Atlantic’s Michael Scherer revealed that the bill was actually footed by taxpayers.

The pathway in question connects the Oval Office to the White House’s central complex, a commute that takes all of 45 seconds to make, according to Scherer. Originally paved with Tennessee flagstone, a flat sedimentary rock, Trump instead wanted the pathway to be redone using “polished African granite, carved in Italy.”

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'Suffer and die?' CNN struggles to make it through Trump's 'alarmist' post

CNN reporter Kristen Holmes and anchor Brianna Keilar struggled to take President Donald Trump's social media rant seriously on Friday after the MAGA leader uncorked a 400-word screed on his Truth Social platform.

Holmes, CNN's White House correspondent, reported that a political adviser had told her the Republican pitch heading into the midterms "wasn't going to be alarmist," built around the idea that things would improve under Trump but worsen if Democrats won. Then Trump posted to Truth Social moments before taking the stage at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference in Washington.

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Vance channels Nixon playbook as he positions himself for 2028: analysis

Vice President JD Vance drew scrutiny this week after praising Richard Nixon and downplaying the severity of Watergate during an appearance at his presidential library in California — but an analyst argued that historical revisionism was aimed at the present political moment.

CNN's Aaron Blake called out Vance's comments – "if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story, like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy" – as historically inaccurate and revealing more about President Donald Trump's political vulnerabilities than admiration for Nixon himself.

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Man in 'Uncle Sam costume' busted for lewd acts at Trump's State Fair: report

A Baltimore man in what witnesses called an "Uncle Sam costume" was arrested on opening day of President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair for allegedly performing lewd acts in front of a circus audience.

Gian Rachtelli, 54, was taken into custody Thursday on the National Mall, where President Donald Trump's Freedom250 nonprofit had launched its 16-day patriotic celebration just hours before.

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'They're animals!' Trump rants about 'godless Communists' closing your churches

President Donald Trump ranted against "godless communists" across more than 400 words as he prepared to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

The 80-year-old president issued sharp warnings about what he described as the rise of "Communists" in American politics after this week's election wins by candidates backed by New York's democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but his comments strayed off into lengthy boasts.

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