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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.

"Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution," Patrick said....

Ben Carson was raked through the coals on social media after he introduced Donald Trump by thanking the former president for saving him from “the verge of death” after he contracted COVID-19.

"I almost died. I was on the verge of death,” Carson said Friday while introducing Trump at a Florida summit. “The only thing that saved me was I was able to get the monoclonal antibody before it was ok’d by the FDA because he signed the papers to allow me to be able to do that.”

“And he reminds me all the time,” Carson said, spurring laughter from the crowd. “He says, “You saved all those kids, but I saved you.”...

One of the moments of Thursday night's debate that went poorly for former President Donald Trump was when he proclaimed that Joe Biden is "allowing" migrants to come through the border and "they're taking Black jobs and they're taking Hispanic jobs" — a remark that swiftly generated outrage, as many Black commentators inferred he was saying Black people are better fit for menial, low-wage labor.

Even Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and right-wing commentator who served as one of the highest-ranking Black people in Trump's Cabinet, appeared to be somewhat uncomfortable as he tried to defend Trump's words to CNN's Phil Mattingly on Friday.

"There was also another comment that the former president made moves, asked what he'd say to Black voters who are disappointed with the progress so far, the campaign's clearly made this a focus. They believe they've made some inroads, polling seems to back that up," said Mattingly, playing the clip. "There are issues there in the sense that Black unemployment right now is the lowest that it's been in history. There are certainly economic concerns the Black community, while not a monolith, may have. But I guess my question for you is, do you know what a 'Black job' is?"...

Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, signaled he’s not in contention to be Trump’s running-mate in the 2024 presidential election.

“Hope not, I’m spending time with my grandchildren,” Flynn posted Thursday morning on X, in a reply to a Raw Story post.

Flynn’s response was prompted by a Raw Story article about a filing with the Federal Election Commission — confirmed to be fictitious — that indicated Donald Trump has selected Flynn as his vice presidential running mate. Trump campaign treasurer Bradley Crate told Raw Story the filing was a “fraud.”...

If Donald Trump is destined by a higher calling to return to the presidency, nobody can get in his path.

So says retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who served as Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development during Trump's term in the White House.

Carson claims that he's shared that precise pious sentiment with the 45th president. ...

President Joe Biden is too much of a "danger" to be allowed to remain in the office of the presidency.

That's according to former President Donald Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who talked about the race featuring his old boss on the far-right Newsmax network.

"We know the people around him know [he is in decline], we know his family knows," said Carson, a former neurosurgeon who is reportedly in contention to be Trump's running mate this year. "His wife knows it and yet they still push him forward, recognizing the danger that it puts us in as a nation."...