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President Donald Trump posted incomplete rankings of the greatest U.S. presidents, and the list is spurring online mockery, especially its omissions.

In a Thursday Truth Social post, Trump posted a graphic that showed presidential portraits put into different tiers like "great," "average," and "failures." The list only had 33 out of the 45 men who have served in the office, and Trump was at the top as "THE GREATEST."

Veteran political commentator Jonah Goldberg, who's also the editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, wrote, "This is so sad and pathetic," while others were confused by the placement of certain presidents and the omission of Ronald Reagan, among others....

Seismologists report that the chunks of granite falling from the Mount Rushmore National Memorial come from the laughter of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt after they read a recent email blast from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Donald Trump is “the greatest president in American history,” the NRSC’s fundraising missive declared.

The group, whose purpose is electing Republicans to the Senate, isn’t known for having a staff of eminent historians. But that didn’t stop the NRSC from making the claim about Trump in an email urging people to sign an online birthday card for the former president and current putative Republican president nominee. Trump turns 78 on Friday....

Former President Donald Trump has argued he should be immune from prosecution in the federal election conspiracy case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, claiming that he cannot be charged for actions carried out in his official capacity. His attorney even controversially argued to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that he couldn't be charged for assassinating an opponent unless he was impeached first.

But that was not his old attitude, noted the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Tuesday. In fact, they said, he used to regularly call for other presidents to be jailed for acts committed in office.

"In late 2018, Trump retweeted an image, later deleted, that showed former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama behind bars, with the caption that suggested they should be tried for treason," said the report. "Trump was referring to the unfounded claims that his 2016 campaign was spied on by the Obama administration as part of a larger 'deep state' initiative to undermine his presidential bid. It bears emphasizing that there is no evidence for what Trump was claiming, and even if it were true, it would not rise to the level of treason, which is a capital crime."...

WASHINGTON — Gray hair and a wrinkled brow beset most US presidents soon after they take office, but a study Tuesday said most live longer than average men due to their wealth and access to medical care.