French European Commissioner Thierry Breton claims that Donald Trump once said that America would not come to the aid of Eurpoean allies if they were attacked militarily, Politico reported.
"'You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,'" Trump told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in 2020, according to Breton.
Breton recounted the story at an event in the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday. He says the EU's then-trade chief Phil Hogan was also present for Trump's comments.
"'By the way, NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO,'" Trump also said, according to Breton. "And he added, ‘And by the way, you owe me $400 billion, because you didn’t pay, you Germans, what you had to pay for defense,'" Breton said.
"That was a big wake-up call and he may come back," Breton said about Trump. "So now more than ever, we know that we are on our own, of course. We are a member of NATO, almost all of us, of course we have allies, but we have no other options but to increase drastically this pillar in order to be ready [for] whatever happens.”
President Donald Trump turned heads Saturday after a photograph of him stepping off Air Force One went viral online, an image that appeared to show the president with a drastically different look.
“What in the world is going on with Trump’s hair?” asked independent journalist Aaron Rupar Saturday in a social media post on X.
The photograph in question was taken by photojournalist Jim Watson of Agence France Presse (AFP) on Friday, and shows Trump waving to reporters as he steps off of Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey. What caught onlookers’ attention almost immediately was the shade of Trump’s hair, which appeared brown with hints of gray as opposed to its typical blonde sheen.
“Trump is now a brunette!” declared journalist Molly Jong-Fast in a social media post on X to her nearly 1 million followers.
HuffPost White House correspondent Shirish V. Dáte joked about Trump’s new hair color with a question, asking if the White House was able to “certify that no animals were harmed in this process,” and George Conway, a prominent lawyer and political commentator, quipped that “something needs to be done about [Trump’s] hair under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.”
The Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols admitted that, while “not the most important thing in the world,” Trump’s apparent hair color change was odd, and comedian Samantha Ruddy submitted her own theory for the apparent hair change.
“He’s going through it. It was time for a change,” Ruddy wrote in a social media post on X to her more than 43,000 followers.
Speculation about Trump's hair has circulated for decades, largely tied to reporting on an alleged 1989 scalp reduction surgery detailed in Harry Hurt III's 1993 biography, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. According to that reporting, Trump's then-wife Ivana Trump testified in a 1990 divorce deposition that Trump was in significant pain following the procedure.
The transmission line will power new critical mineral mines near the Alaskan border — which Hodgson was reportedly quick to point out.
"Nothing would make me happier than just saying, ‘You know what, we’re going to use all our electricity here,'" he said. "We’re going to build new mines, new processing facilities."
Meanwhile, Trump has been mounting threats against Canada, claiming Friday he could cut trade off entirely and cause Canada's economy to collapse.
"Canada would be in a heap of trouble," said Trump. "If I say, 'We're not going to trade,' that means 95 percent of their trade gets wiped out."
His comment was subjected to multiple fact checks from critics who argued Trump didn't understand trade deficits and noted Mexico does not provide the U.S. with Hot Tamales, a candy produced in Pennsylvania.
Politico accused Trump of a similar misrepresentation.
"Although Trump keeps insisting otherwise, the U.S. relies heavily on Canadian resources," the news outlet reported. "Washington views Canada’s stockpiles as a bulwark against Chinese dominance of the global market in critical minerals essential to defense, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and virtually every piece of tech."
President Donald Trump exhibited several “concerning” behaviors during a White House meeting earlier this week, behaviors that could point to a number of health-related issues, forensic psychologist John Paul Garrison suggested Friday.
Trump met with some of his top officials on Monday in the Oval Office to publicly discuss his administration’s health care policies, and during the meeting, appeared to doze off several times, as covered by countless media outlets.
Doing a deep analysis of footage of the meeting on Friday, Garrison said one moment involving Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood out to him.
“As RFK Jr. is trying to say, 'you're the greatest ever, nobody could have done this but you,' President Trump isn't reacting at all,” Garrison said. “Typically, he's gonna smile, he's gonna nod, he's gonna let people know, 'I love people talking about me' — usually, there's a reaction to that. This really does show how out of it he is right now.”
Trump appeared to doze off again following RFK Jr.’s remarks, and exhibited a telling sign, Garrison argued.
“As he's getting tired again, you're noticing this side of his mouth was starting to droop down,” Garrison said. “He's falling asleep a few more times.”
In their negotiations with the Trump administration amid the U.S. war against Iran, Tehran has taken to enlisting “senior psychologists” to help navigate talks believing Trump to be “legitimately mentally ill” and “operating in an impaired mental state,” according to Drop Site News’ Jeremy Scahill.
“So the big question is why is he falling asleep? Is it related to distinct health issues, neurological issues, is it related to medication?” Garrison said.
“If he's potentially having a seizure, he could be on anti-seizure medication and that can have sedating effects, so it's possible, if he's being treated for seizures, that could result in something like this. On the other hand, it's also possible that medical issues are causing the sleepiness. A wide variety of neurological conditions can cause daytime sleepiness like this.”
Garrison added, “I know I've shown videos of him falling asleep before, but I think the fact that this is happening in the middle of the day, in a bright room full of people, is so, so concerning.”
