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Trump said to be 'not well' after self-serving D-Day posts: 'Not a word about heroes'

President Donald Trump enraged onlookers by spending the 82nd anniversary of D-Day flooding Truth Social with AI-generated videos glorifying himself — riding a camel through a desert, skydiving with a red parachute, walking through cheering crowds in New York — while posting nothing about the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

The backlash from analysts was swift.

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'Brilliant' move to control Trump flagged by ex-insider

Anthony Scaramucci, who served as White House Communications Director for 11 days in 2017 before being fired, is back with unsolicited but specific advice for anyone who has to deal with his former boss — and he has a case study.

In a video clip posted to X this week, Scaramucci laid out three rules: never take Trump's call on his terms, don't respond when he comes at you, and tell people you're ready for a fight. "Elbows up," he said. "When you do that with him, he comes towards you. My advice is you gotta push and shove with Trump. If you're overly kowtowing to him and laying down, forget it — never gonna work."

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Trump's name erased from online logo for Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center continued its court-ordered purge of Trump's name by removing his name from the online logo.

"The Trump Administration has changed the logo of the Kennedy Center's LinkedIn page," Aaron Parnas, an attorney and legal writer, pointed out the change in a post on X. "The new logo no longer includes the President's name."

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Trump attacks GOP judge and Emmy-winning comedian in wild new AI posting spree

President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of AI-generated images on Truth Social Saturday, targeting a federal judge blocking his White House construction plans, mocking Rosie O'Donnell with a transphobic jab, and taking a shot at Barack Obama's presidential library.

The most substantive post concerned U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who has blocked Trump's proposed White House rooftop drone base — part of the broader $400 million White House renovation project that also includes a ballroom. Trump posted an AI rendering of military drones parked on the White House roof under the label "Drone Port," writing: "This will someday save Washington. Judge Leon has to get out of the way, and FAST. He is putting our Country in danger!"

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Trump officials' cell phone habits made them vulnerable to 'unhinged' spying campaign: NYT

The New York Times on Saturday added significant new detail to a bombshell report first published by NBC News — and covered by Raw Story — revealing that the Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to "critical," its highest level.

The most striking addition: a senior U.S. official's characterization of what Israel has been doing. The aggressiveness of Israeli intelligence collection on top Trump administration officials, the official told the Times, has been "unhinged."

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Trump thanks himself in post about his takeover of part of Lincoln Memorial

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to announce the completion of work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — and used the occasion to both thank himself by name and note that a stretch of the historic monument's grounds would henceforth bear his name.

"Thank you President Trump, thank you Department of the Interior," Trump wrote, crediting his own administration in the third person before pivoting to the news buried in the post: the forthcoming "Trump Promenade at The Lincoln Memorial."

The pool, Trump claimed, was originally opened in 1922 but had "never functioned properly" — a claim that may surprise the tens of millions of visitors who have gazed into its waters over the past century, including the hundreds of thousands who gathered there for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

Trump described the pool's surface as "very complex, but powerful, Dark Blue" before workers submerged it in what he called "CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL WATER" — a standard feature of reflecting pools.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum was on hand for the inspection, riding alongside workers in what appeared to be an off-road utility vehicle flying an American flag, with the Washington Monument visible in the background.

The announcement did not stop at the promenade. Trump also teased the "Triumphal Arch" and his "White House Ballroom," claiming that when completed, these projects would constitute "the Greatest Structure in Washington" — a city that already contains, among other things, the Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial itself.

The renaming of public lands and federal monuments after Trump has accelerated in his second term. The administration has already moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," among many other proposals.

The Lincoln Memorial, completed in 1922, is administered by the National Park Service and was dedicated to the 16th president. It is unclear what congressional or regulatory process, if any, was used to authorize naming a portion of it after the 47th.

'Who is their press person?' GOP insider stumped by Ivanka Trump interview

An amused Democratic strategist and an appalled Republican Party strategist agreed on MS NOW that Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, hurt both her own image and damaged the Trump administration with a decision to boast about the purchase of an island when Americans can’t fill their gas tanks.

In a clip from the David Senora podcast earlier in the week, the woman known as the first daughter expressed her joy at discovering the 1,400-acre luxury Mediterranean island off the coast of Albania where she and her husband Jared Kushner hope to build a resort.

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'She just goes a little haywire': Nancy Mace's past catches up with her primary bid

Rep. Nancy Mace’s attempt to leap from the House of Representatives to the governor’s mansion in South Carolina has more difficulties than Donald Trump ignoring her and endorsing opponent Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.

As part of a Politico interview with the controversial lawmaker, who still considers herself “MAGA” despite the president turning his back on her, one South Carolina GOP insider claimed she has enough personal baggage to give conservative voters pause.

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Federal officials accused of 'strange secrecy' as court cases fast-tracked

Lawyers representing immigrants being swept up by the Department of Homeland Security are raising the alarm that federal authorities are deploying new tactics to fast-track deportations.

According to New York Times reporting, federal officials have begun pushing dozens of additional cases onto court dockets on specific days to rapidly process asylum and other immigration claims. The secret acceleration started without any public notification from the administration.

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Rubio ‘inadvertently’ makes stunning admission on Trump’s ‘cognitive challenges’: analysis

Independent journalist Justin Glawe flagged a telling remark from Secretary of State Marco Rubio made this week, one seemingly made to compliment President Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities – but ended up making “the opposite point,” Glawe wrote in an analysis published Saturday on his Substack.

Testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio was pressed on whether he’d ever witnessed Trump falling asleep during a Cabinet meeting. Rubio said he had never seen the president doze off, and that “on the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep, which is a big problem.”

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GOP leadership's hopes dashed as RFK Jr's MAHA 'juggernaut' ducks key races

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is facing criticism for strategic incompetence and playing it safe by concentrating its political resources on Republican primary races already destined for victory while ignoring endangered GOP candidates in crucial battleground contests.

According to a Politico analysis by Amanda Chu, the movement's political organizations—MAHA Action and MAHA Institute—have largely ducked the races that will determine congressional control, despite Kennedy's fervent supporters representing a boost in turnout that endangered Republicans desperately need.

The report singles out Tony Lyons, publisher of Kennedy's books and a lead organizer for the movement's political groups, for having failed to make use of Kennedy's appeal and turn it into the "electoral juggernaut" Republicans had hoped for.

"The majority of those candidates that got that endorsement were going to win anyway," John McCarthy, founder of McCarthy Strategic Solutions, a Republican political strategy firm in Kentucky, told Politico.

The numbers tell the story of missed opportunity. MAHA groups have endorsed just one Republican—freshman Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett—in a competitive House district, while ignoring the rest of the battleground races that will determine chamber control.

In the Senate, where Republicans must defend vulnerable seats in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, MAHA has backed no one, with no financial support or grassroots mobilization in these critical races.

Of the 20 candidates MAHA endorsed in primary races this spring, most were establishment figures in state races already aligned with MAHA's messaging on vaccine optionality and food regulation. Few received any financial backing from the movement's organizations.

According to Politico, Kennedy's actual impact has been limited to state-level politics. He has traveled extensively to state capitals promoting his agenda, and a Politico analysis found that state lawmakers introduced hundreds of bills with bipartisan support echoing his priorities—some of which have passed.

But the movement's impact on electoral politics remains an open question. State primary races have been dominated by economic concerns, with MAHA-backed candidates who won primaries focusing overwhelmingly on issues that defined the 2024 presidential election rather than Kennedy's signature health and food policy priorities.

More than two-thirds of MAHA-endorsed candidates emphasized affordability and tax cuts on their campaign websites, while nearly half focused on immigration. Less than one-third mentioned vaccine safety or food system policies central to Kennedy and his supporters, Chu elaborated.

‘He can’t access the nukes, right?’ Onlookers taken aback by ‘deranged’ Trump music video

President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to share a music video celebrating himself and the global 'love' he inspires – a video that one journalist called "deranged" and prompted onlookers to wonder aloud how such behavior from a sitting U.S. president had ever become “normalized.”

The song featured in the music video is simply titled “Trump,” and was written and performed by GOP congressional candidate Anthony Constantino, who scored Trump’s endorsement in April. The video, which appears to have been created using generative artificial intelligence, depicts Trump globe trotting, and the lyrics insist that people the world over “love” Trump.

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CNN panel spirals into shouting match with claim Trump 'hates Black people'

A CNN panel discussion on the dilemma Democrats are facing with the candidacy of Graham Platner, who is running to oppose Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), turned into a shouting match that led to charges that Donald Trump is a racist.

On CNN’s “Table for Five,” host Abby Phillip noted there is a growing debate about “purity tests” within the Democratic Party as more revelations about Platner’s past drop prior to Tuesday’s primary.

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