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A CNN fact-checker on Tuesday called out President Donald Trump's rambling speech for its 'litany of lies."

Daniel Dale described how several points that Trump made during his nearly two-hour-long press conference on the first anniversary of the inauguration of his second term were hard to keep up with — and that each topic the president attempted to hit was full of confusing comments and misinformation.

"There are just so many. I'm struggling to keep track of it," Dale said. "You know, $18 trillion in investment in the U.S., that's a fictional figure, 600% reduction in prescription drug prices. That's a fictional figure. 'I ended eight unknowable wars.' Eight is a fictional figure. 'We inherited inflation at a historic high.' No. He inherited a 3% inflation just a little bit above where it is now, although it did hit about a 40-year high in June 2022, more than two years before he returned to office."...

President Donald Trump's bizarre and rambling speech Tuesday, marking the one-year anniversary of his inauguration and return to the White House, triggered fresh calls for his removal.

The nearly two-hour-long press conference centered on what he called accomplishments in his second term and focused mainly on immigration and foreign affairs.

People online urged lawmakers to consider invoking the 25th Amendment and shared their concerns over Trump's health. ...

President Donald Trump fawned over a violent outlaw motorcycle gang while simultaneously blasting criminal immigrants during an unusual and rambling press conference on Tuesday marking the anniversary of his second inauguration.

Trump spoke for more than 70 minutes, claiming during a bizarre speech and unusual slideshow presentation featuring placards of suspected criminal immigrants, that the immigrants ICE wants to apprehend were more dangerous than the notorious gang Hells Angels — dubbed a criminal enterprise by the Department of Justice.

"People that came in illegally. Many cases, they're criminals in many, many cases," Trump said. "Remember when they used to say that the people that come into our country as immigrants are very nice people? They're wonderful people. They don't commit crime. No. They make our criminals look like babies. They make our Hells Angels look like the sweetest people on earth. The Hells Angels are now considered a nice, high quality person. I like the Hells Angels. They voted for me. They protected me. Actually, believe it or not. But they make our criminals look like babies."...

The internet was stunned Tuesday as President Donald Trump delivered a bizarre speech at a press conference marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration.

Trump walked up to the podium at the White House press briefing room with a large stack of bound papers labeled "accomplishments" and started blaming former President Joe Biden, giving an unusual slideshow presentation show placards of alleged suspects wanted by ICE.

After about 40 minutes into the rambling speech, CNN cut away, with anchor Brianna Keilar calling it "pretty winding even by Trumpian standards." She pointed to the unusual demeanor of the president, reacting to the unusual moment. ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lost his cool during a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Hegseth was taking questions from the press when he fired off a defensive response over the Sept. 2 lethal strikes on a boat in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, where survivors were reportedly targeted following the first attack.

A reporter asked if Hegseth saw any survivors before the second strike. ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) poked fun at Defense secretary Pete Hegseth for his animated performance at Thursday's news conference on destruction caused by the airstrikes on Iran.

Hegseth unleashed on the media for "spinning" the news against Trump and the U.S. military because they wouldn't take Donald Trump's word that Iran's nuclear sites were "obliterated."

"It's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad," Hegseth said. "You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective. Maybe the way the Trump administration is representing them isn't true. So let's take half-truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it. Spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."...