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President Donald Trump's recent excuse that vandals were at fault for the peeling paint at the bottom of the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool raised red flags for his niece.

During a press conference on Monday, Trump denied that the contractors who undertook the roughly $15 million renovation project were responsible for the poor conditions and algae that spread throughout the pool. Instead, Trump claimed people were vandalizing the pool and threatened to imprison anyone caught vandalizing it for up to 10 years.

President Donald Trump's base of supporters is furious with the administration over the deal it is negotiating with the Iranian regime, as illustrated by a devastating supercut that aired on MS NOW's "The Beat" on Monday.

Last weekend, the Trump administration and the Iranian regime agreed to a deal that would immediately open the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that has choked the global economy, and promised to eliminate sanctions on Iranian oil. That deal appeared to fall apart on Saturday and Sunday as Vice President JD Vance suffered what some described as a "humiliation" during peace talks with the Iranians after the country's foreign minister refused to shake Vance's hand.

New data from The Washington Post is painting a dire electoral picture for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday that Democrats aren't just riding a wave; they're building one.

The Post's analysis of more than 990 House primary races across 25 states found that 12.6 million ballots were cast in Democratic primaries so far this year, compared to just 8.6 million in Republican contests. In 2022, when Republicans flipped the House, the enthusiasm advantage ran the other way.

Iran appears to have identified and systematically exploited President Donald Trump's rapidly decaying cognitive abilities.

That's according to Atlantic staff writer and national security scholar Tom Nichols, who joined MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" on Monday. Wallace argued that Trump is operating inside an "artificial reality" constructed by aides who feed him selectively curated social media posts to shield him from negative information about the economy and the war. The arrangement, Wallace said, explains moments like Trump's repeated insistence that the country is "hot."

Several intelligence professionals were reassigned on Monday, in what CNN reporter Kristen Holmes described as a "pretty stunning" start to the reign of Bill Pulte, the new acting intelligence chief.

Holmes reported, citing sources who spoke to CNN, that Pulte had begun firing intelligence professionals on Monday, one of his first acts as acting director of national intelligence, a job he inherited from the agency's former director, Tulsi Gabbard. Holmes said she did not have information about how many people were let go or from which departments within the agency, but said that a source familiar with the firings said the "deep state firings had begun."

President Donald Trump's executive order signing ceremony on Monday left some observers wide-eyed.

Trump signed a pair of executive orders to boost America's quantum computing industry during a ceremony in the Oval Office. However, Trump stumbled over a section of one of the orders while reading it to the press, leaving some onlookers genuinely baffled.

House Republican appropriators are publicly breaking with the Trump White House over what they call a "risky and uncoordinated" strategy to fund the U.S. military, warning that the administration is trying to push critical defense spending through a party-line reconciliation bill that may never reach the president's desk.

In an official addendum to the chamber's defense funding bill obtained by Politico, House appropriators warned that the White House is attempting to fund critical efforts, including weapons and military equipment, through the reconciliation process rather than using it to supplement regular government funding bills. The two vehicles operate on "entirely separate tracks, with different timelines, committees of jurisdiction, and approval processes," appropriators noted.

Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump's top White House aides, melted down on Monday after the administration suffered a series of stinging defeats.

On Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security had illegally created a new voter verification database using the private information of millions of Americans to facilitate voter surveillance. Another federal judge in Minnesota squashed the Trump administration's efforts to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, and several top state officials over social benefits fraud. The Minnesota judge found that the investigation arose in retaliation for the officials not going along with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda.

President Donald Trump appeared angered by a reporter's suggestion on Monday that his negotiation tactics with Iran may be giving the regime leverage over him.

Trump held a press gaggle in the Oval Office after he signed an executive order to support America's quantum computing industry. While he was taking questions, one reporter asked Trump if he was willing to cause economic mayhem by striking Iran again, which Trump said was an option that he's considering. The back-and-forth escalated from there.