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Trump barreling toward disaster with just '30 days to turn this ship': GOP strategists

With President Donald Trump’s favorability at historically low levels as his policies continue to economically ravage Americans, GOP strategist Brad Todd issued the president a tight deadline to turn things around, or risk a devastating collapse of power.

Trump’s tariffs and his decision to launch a war against Iran have sent prices for a number of goods skyrocketing, leading to a considerable backlash from voters that has led analysts to predict a historically poor midterm election performance from the GOP.

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Doctor raises prospect of 'underlying condition' as Trump faces non-routine cognitive test

A physician who appeared on MS NOW Sunday morning pushed back on Donald Trump's early morning boast about acing a cognitive screening test, warning that the frequency with which Trump appears to be taking the exam raises questions rather than answering them — because the test is typically administered when doctors are already concerned about something.

Dr. Vin Gupta was responding to Trump's 12:35 a.m. Truth Social post in which the president claimed to have scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, calling it an "approved high difficulty cognitive test" that no other president has taken and describing the result as evidence of "extreme intelligence."

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'This is so cringe': GOP lawmaker meets MAGA rage after 'thirsty' post about Trump

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace responded to being snubbed by President Donald Trump by posting a public declaration of loyalty on Saturday, touting a "100% lifetime voting record supporting Trump" — a move that drew immediate ridicule from critics on the left and the right, including some of Trump's most devoted online supporters.

Mace, who is running for governor of South Carolina and had been seeking Trump's endorsement, appeared to be auditioning for his support with the post despite Trump already formally endorsing her opponent. Even MAGA world wasn't buying it.

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'Layer of green murk' could plague Reflecting Pool due to Trump admin oversight: report

The ongoing renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool being carried out by the Trump administration have yet to address a major “underlying problem,” according to documents obtained and reported on by The New York Times, a problem that if not addressed, could leave the floor of the iconic pool “invisible under a layer of green murk.”

“Twelve-inch pipes under the surrounding parkland are responsible for moving large volumes of water from the pool to [a] treatment plant and back again. When it works, that system is supposed to filter all of the pool’s four million gallons every three days or so,” reads the Times’ report.

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GOP White House doc questions Trump medical scan that only happens if 'we are concerned'

Jonathan Reiner, the cardiologist who served as Vice President Dick Cheney's physician and has become one of the most prominent medical voices scrutinizing presidential health disclosures, raised several pointed questions over the weekend about President Donald Trump's latest physical, starting with why the president received a second coronary artery CT scan just six months after his last one.

"We don't typically scan patients 6 months later unless we are concerned about a finding on the initial scan," Reiner wrote on X. "What prompted the repeat CT?"

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Trump may have just doomed his own nominees for remainder of term: analysis

President Donald Trump’s “pursuit of retribution” has led to the ousting of several GOP lawmakers he’d perceived as inefficiently loyal, but in doing so, may very well have doomed his future nominees for the remainder of his term, health care reporter Joseph Choi argued Sunday in an analysis published in The Hill.

Earlier this month, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was defeated in his GOP primary race by his Trump-backed challenger, Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA). Cassidy was among the few Republican lawmakers to vote to convict the president for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and would go on to call for Trump to drop out of the 2024 race.

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'Time is up': Ex-prosecutor says Trump's 'past is catching up with him' on classified docs

Donald Trump may be close to a legal reckoning on the classified documents case, according to a legal expert.

Joyce Vance, the former United States attorney who has become one of the most widely read legal analysts of the Trump era, says a key appeals court is signaling it has lost patience with the judge who has spent more than a year blocking the release of the classified documents portion of Jack Smith's special counsel report — and that Trump's strategy of rigging legal proceedings in his favor by eliminating genuine opposition is running out of time.

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Trump suffers two huge court losses in one day as his legal nemesis hails 'landmark day'

Norman Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who has been coordinating legal challenges against the Trump administration, declared Friday a landmark day for democracy after courts handed him back-to-back wins on two of the most high-profile cases in his portfolio.

In a Substack post titled "Contrarians Strike Two Mighty Blows Against Trump," Eisen described the victories as among the biggest in his organization's more than 300 active legal cases and matters.

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Graham Platner's wife breaks silence about 'gossip' in video response to sexting scandal

The wife of embattled Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner fired back at headlines swirling around her husband's newly revealed sexting scandal.

In a video posted by Platner's campaign, Amy Gertner said she's feeling "angry" and "disappointed." According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, Gertner told the campaign last August about sexually explicit texts she found on Platner's phone.

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'Such a baby': Trump ridiculed after 'crash out' over Kennedy Center 'narcissistic injury'

Donald Trump's Saturday Truth Social spiral drew swift mockery from critics across the political spectrum, with a prominent journalist declaring the president was "really crashing out" and a former Republican congressman summing it up in three words.

Trump said Saturday:

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Trump 'dementia' claims fly amid 'completely insane' posting spree: 'Nonstop nuttery'

Donald Trump lit up Truth Social on Saturday afternoon with a stream of posts that left onlookers across the political spectrum questioning his state of mind, ranging from a drone port rendering on top of the White House to an AI image of himself appearing to blow his nose on an American flag.

The spree drew immediate reaction from all corners of social media sites. "Trump's Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely bats--- insane," independent journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X. "Get a load of this nonstop nuttery."

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Trump threatens 'Kennedy Center will collapse' after his name was stripped from building

Donald Trump threatened on Saturday that the Kennedy Center faces inevitable ruin after a federal judge ordered his name removed from the iconic Washington venue, declaring in a lengthy Truth Social post that the building "will collapse, both structurally and financially" without his involvement.

Trump announced he was walking away from the project entirely and attacked Judge Christopher Cooper, who blocked the Kennedy Center from temporarily closing during proposed renovations and ordered Trump's name stripped from the building and its official title.

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Fury spurred by Trump's call for 'charges' against judge who ruled against him

Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the federal judiciary this week, calling for a judge who ruled against him to face criminal charges and attacking the judge's wife in the process, prompting condemnation from legal observers and journalists who called the posts the work of "a lunatic."

Trump targeted Judge Cooper after a ruling that ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center, lashing out in a lengthy Truth Social rant that also included a declaration that he now has "no interest" in renovating the historic venue.

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