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'Is this the day?' Internet spirals over Trump's third hospital visit in 13 months

Reports of Donald Trump's scheduled visit to Walter Reed Medical Center sent social media into a frenzy on Monday, with reactions ranging from alarm to dismissal — and one popular influencer asking the question many were thinking but few were saying out loud.

"Is this the day?" wrote a liberal social media influencer and self-identified U.S. Air Force veteran responding to the Daily Mail's breaking news alert about Trump's third hospital visit in 13 months.

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Furious Trump names and shames three GOP lawmakers in sprawling early-morning rant

Donald Trump launched a sprawling early-morning attack on Republican critics of his Iran deal Sunday, singling out three GOP lawmakers by name and calling them losers, fools, and sleazebags in a 6am Truth Social post that underscored the growing tension between the president and members of his own party.

Trump took aim at Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who he declared would soon be "out of office." He went after Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who last week lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger. And he saved his sharpest words for Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, whom he called "a major sleazebag who lost in a landslide" after Massie was defeated in his own primary following a series of breaks with the president.

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Policy expert flags telling detail in Trump post: 'This clearly was not written by him'

On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced via social media that a negotiated settlement with Iran to end the war had “been largely negotiated," but on Sunday, a foreign policy expert raised doubts about whether the president himself authored the post, and what that may reveal about the ongoing negotiations.

“First of all, there's no misspellings, there [are] no grammatical errors, there are no attempts at humiliating any side. He's got the titles and the names of each of these different world leaders correct,” said Trita Parsi, an Iranian-Swedish writer, political analyst and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, during an appearance on “Breaking Points.”

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Trump inches toward 'terrifying' decision amid 'extreme internal pressure': academic

President Donald Trump has remained defiant amid a wave of criticism from right-wing figures urging him to resume hostilities with Iran and walk away from peace negotiations, but according to Israeli-American academic and podcast host Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, that pressure may be gaining traction.

“I am currently talking to two sources I really respect. They are both telling me that Trump is backing away from the deal with Iran, likely under extreme internal pressure (i.e. Israel and its domestic allies in the US),” Ben-Ephraim wrote in a social media post Sunday on X. “This is a terrifying turn of events.”

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Dems laughed at a once-dismissed theory — now it's their secret weapon for midterms: Axios

When Rep. Ro Khanna began pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his own party thought he was wasting everyone's time.

"The establishment class thought I was crazy," Khanna told Axios. "They said nobody would care. Nobody would vote based on it."

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Lawmaker predicts trigger for new GOP crack-up: 'More will start to break away from Trump'

A senior House Democrat predicted this weekend that Republican members of Congress will increasingly distance themselves from Donald Trump once they return home during recess and face their constituents — and he says the signs are already there.

"I think that as Republicans come back home after this recess and hear from their constituents, and as they get past their primaries, more and more will start to break away from Trump and some of his draconian and criminal behavior," Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told MS NOW on Saturday.

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​​Trump uses deadly shooting to push for controversial ballroom in midnight tirade

Hours after a deadly shooting incident outside the White House, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social just after midnight to thank the Secret Service and, in the same post, push for the construction of his controversial White House ballroom.

In a post published shortly after 12 a.m. Eastern, Trump opened with praise for the agents who killed the gunman near the White House gates earlier in the evening. He described the suspect as a man with "a violent history and possible obsession with our Country's most cherished structure."

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Emergency room doctor names worrying Trump behavior: 'Something just seems not right'

The physician who administered the same cognitive screening that President Donald Trump keeps publicly bragging about says he sees something that should worry the country.

Dr. Rob Davidson, head of the Committee to Protect Healthcare, walked former CNN reporter Jim Acosta through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on Acosta's show this week. Davidson used the appearance to deliver a pointed message about Trump's repeated public claims that he has aced the screening multiple times.

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Multiple gunshots heard outside White House: reports

Gunshots were heard ringing out just outside the White House, multiple journalists are reporting on Saturday.

"Many gunshots were heard when we were at the White House," wrote ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang. "We were told to run into the press briefing room."

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Rumors fly as Vance makes 'unplanned' U-turn to White House: 'Something massive'

Vice President JD Vance reportedly made an unplanned return to Washington DC on Saturday, with his motorcade racing back toward the White House as President Donald Trump pulled his national security team in for an apparent emergency meeting on Iran. The sudden reversal set off a wave of online speculation about what is unfolding behind closed doors.

Conservative commentator Nick Sortor was among the first to flag the apparent emergency in real time.

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Trump reaches critical juncture – and looks to be walking into ‘biggest trap yet’: expert

As President Donald Trump appears to inch closer toward authorizing a major U.S. military operation this weekend, renowned international security expert Robert Pape warned the president on Saturday that he may very well be walking directly into what he called “the biggest trap yet.”

Reporting suggests that the Trump administration is actively preparing to launch a new wave of strikes against Iran, and officially end the ongoing but weak U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The president teased a full U.S.-takeover of Iran Saturday morning, and later said there was a “solid” chance he decides to blow Iran “to kingdom come” by Sunday.

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‘Likely decide by Sunday’: Trump gives ‘50/50’ odds that he blows Iran ‘to kingdom come’

Amid growing speculation that the Trump administration is preparing to resume hostilities with Iran this weekend, President Donald Trump revealed Saturday that a final decision would likely be made by Sunday, with there being a “solid” chance that the United States would “blow [Iran] to kingdom come,” according to Axios.

Axios reporter Barak Ravid revealed Trump’s remarks after claiming to have had a phone call with the president Saturday morning, the details of which he expanded on in the outlet’s exclusive report.

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Piers Morgan pleads with Trump as ‘all signs’ point to admin launching ‘huge’ operation

British media personality Piers Morgan pleaded with President Donald Trump Saturday morning amid growing speculation that his administration was preparing to launch a massive operation overseas this weekend, one that Morgan said, if carried out, would unleash “mayhem.”

“All the signs are pointing to the U.S. and Israel launching another huge attack on Iran,” Morgan wrote Saturday morning in a social media post on X. “I urge President Donald Trump not to do it. This war’s been damaging enough without yet more mayhem being unleashed.”

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