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New Trump photo sparks internet frenzy: 'Seems to be aging by a year every week'

A photograph taken of President Donald Trump over the weekend has sparked an internet frenzy as critics note what they describe as the president’s aged and tired appearance.

“Is it just me, or does Trump seem to be aging by a year for every week that goes by?” asked X user “Dr. Dave,” a college professor and media commentator.

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'It will end in ruin': Ex-GOP insider makes grim prediction for Pete Hegseth's next plan

Pete Hegseth just admitted to murder and is heading toward executing a massive mission that one ex-GOP insider says will "end in ruin."

Steve Schmidt, an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign, on Sunday published a piece called, "Kill them all" is a confession to murder under American law, in which he discusses how the "United States of America stands at the edge of war against Venezuela."

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Shock as Trump polls sink in 'only number he cares about': 'Erosion we've never seen'

A news host on Sunday was shocked to see Donald Trump's polling dropping significantly when it comes to the "only number" the president actually cares about.

On MS NOW over the weekend, host Jonathan Capehart was stunned to see Trump drop substantially when it comes to his support among Republicans, as opposed to his overall approval numbers.

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MAGA senator says Trump can't be racist because of senator's 'Cherokee Indian' heritage

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) offered a unique pitch as to why President Donald Trump couldn’t be “racist,” arguing that because of his friendship with the president – and being a “Cherokee Indian” himself – there was no way Trump could be racially prejudiced.

Mullin’s comments were made during an appearance Sunday on CNN with Dana Bash, and were in response to attacks from his Senate colleague, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who criticized Trump for not wanting “brown people coming” into the country.

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'Really screwed up': Trump points finger at Dems in the wake of 'terrorism on his watch'

Donald Trump on Sunday pointed the finger at former President Joe Biden, saying he "screwed up," presumably in connection with a recent shooting of National Guard members that is being investigated as terrorism.

Without announcing what he was talking about, Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend and lobbed the following attack:

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Supreme Court poised to either make Trump 'king' or 'lame-duck' in 'coming weeks': report

With the Supreme Court poised to make rulings in several major cases testing the president’s authority, the nation’s highest court will ultimately decide “in the coming weeks and months” whether President Donald Trump ends his second term as a “king,” or as a “lame-duck president facing obstacles to his reign,” the Intelligencer reported Sunday.

“In a very real sense, the Supreme Court will determine in the coming weeks and months whether a president determined to act outside traditional executive boundaries can or cannot be meaningfully restrained by Congress or the judiciary,” writes Intelligencer columnist Ed Kilgore. “As Christian Farias put it in New York, if the Court acts quickly and decisively in Trump’s favor, it could in just three months effectively make him king.”

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Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder

Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted by two of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century, Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. No one is around to see them. They are on the walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Building in Washington, DC, one of forty-five federal properties currently earmarked for sale. The staff who worked in the building have been mostly fired, furloughed, or relocated. Only the murals remain—and perhaps not for long.

The Cohen Building has been called the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” for its ambitious mural cycles. Shahn and Guston, as well as Seymour Fogel and Ethel and Jenne Magafan, gave indelible form to New Deal tenets: the dignity of labor, the benefit of public works, and the need for a social safety net. A detail of Fogel’s Wealth of the Nation, painted for the lobby, is on the cover of my survey of New Deal art: it crystallizes the period belief in the mutual power of mind and muscle to secure a prosperous future. If the Cohen building is sold, these masterpieces of public art will be in peril. As Timothy Noah has reported, a private developer is unlikely to bear the cost of renovating and maintaining the building, much less the murals. It would be cheaper to tear the whole thing down.

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'Don't let it slip by': Lawyer flags bipartisan 'thumb in the eye to Trump administration'

A national security attorney said a minor detail included in an announcement of a bipartisan investigation of the Trump administration represents a "thumb in the eye" to the president.

In an article called "Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors," the Washington Post reported, "In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack."

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'It's a confession': Conservative lawyers call new Hegseth comment an 'admission of guilt'

Pete Hegseth was put on notice over the weekend by two conservative lawyers, including a former prosecutor, who said the Defense Secretary's defense to a major new scandal "makes no legal sense" and is not really "a defense."

Observers' eyebrows were raised after it was reported by the Washington Post in a bombshell story that Hegseth ordered the killing of two survivors of one of controversial drug vessel bombings. Some analysts questioned whether it was murder, or even a war crime.

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'Tech bros are out of control!' Trump's crypto czar is driving a wedge into MAGA

President Donald Trump’s crypto czar, South African venture capitalist David Sacks, has pushed the Trump administration to enact several policies that have enriched his Silicon Valley friends – and potentially himself – driving a wedge in MAGA and “alarming” White House officials, The New York Times reported Sunday.

“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House chief of staff and MAGA influencer, The Times reported. “They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy.”

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'Wow': Onlookers stunned by GOP congressman's '100% correct' Trump admin criticism

Political observers and experts pounced on Saturday as a Republican lawmaker offered a stinging rejection of reported conduct by Donald Trump's administration.

The Wall Street Journal's piece ahead of the weekend, Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine, claims that, "The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board." It caught the attention of Rep. Don Bacon, who recently issued an unrelated warning to Trump.

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Far-right figure posts photo with Trump to prove president isn't 'slipping and near death'

Trump is not "slipping and near death" and one photo proves it, according to a controversial far-right activist.

Roger Stone, a longtime political figure and friend/adviser to Trump, sought over the weekend to push back against claims that Trump has been slipping, both physically and in his mind. Recently, a member of Trump's own family tied the president's failing mental health to his purportedly weakening grip on the Republican Party.

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'Rare split with Trump admin': GOP-led panels expand probe of Pete Hegseth killing moves

New reporting about a September military attack involving Pete Hegseth and a purported drug vessel has led to an enhanced probe.

Observers' eyebrows were raised after it was reported that Hegseth ordered the killing of survivors of one of the controversial drug vessel bombings. Some analysts questioned whether it was murder, or even a war crime.

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