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President Donald Trump shared a bizarre image Sunday that depicts himself walking alongside an alien figure – and without explanation or additional context – sparking widespread speculation Monday that the president may be hinting at something to come.

“Something is coming because this level [of] trolling and distraction is off the hook,” wrote journalist Ann Vandersteel, a popular figure within conservative and pro-Trump circles.

President Donald Trump is plotting yet another overhaul of the White House grounds — this time digging up the storied South Lawn to install a permanent helipad, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Sunday night.

The helipad would mark the latest in a dizzying string of renovations Trump has imposed on the people's house since returning to power. He's already paved over the Rose Garden, slapped a black granite walkway along the West Wing Colonnade, redesigned the Oval Office, planted two massive flagpoles on the grounds, and demolished the entire East Wing to clear room for his 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

President Donald Trump on Monday concocted a cartoonishly unrealistic Iran surrender scenario to complain about media coverage of his war.

The 79-year-old president had accused reporters of treason for their unfavorable coverage of the war he launched Feb. 28 and has imperiled the global economy after Iran shut down the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and Trump imagined the media coverage of the Middle Eastern nation's leadership literally waving white flags of surrender.

A Republican congressman was accused of trying to bait his estranged wife's attorney into a fight earlier this month during a courthouse confrontation.

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is embroiled in a bitter divorce proceeding, and ex-wife Emily Moreno's legal team alleged that he approached her attorney Andrew Zashin following a May 7 pretrial hearing as his own legal team attempted to calm him down, reported the New York Post.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) thought he had a slam dunk. He posted a photo collage of the only four Black Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and declared, "This is NOT the party of Jim Crow."

There's just one problem: every single one of them is leaving.

The First Amendment explicitly prohibits Congress from establishing an official state religion – a cornerstone of what Thomas Jefferson called the "wall of separation between church and state" – and yet on Sunday, Trump appeared to take direct aim at that wall, seeking to "blow it to bits," Zeteo's Martin Pengelly argued in an analysis published Monday.

“On Jan. 1, 1802, in his letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, President Thomas Jefferson described ‘a wall of separation between Church & State,’ erected by the founders,” the analysis reads.

A former MAGA congresswoman slammed Vice President JD Vance for his public criticism of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).

Massie is fighting for his political life in Tuesday's historically expensive Republican primary against President Donald Trump-endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein, and Vance criticized the Kentucky congressman as disloyal to the GOP.

President Donald Trump sparked concern among onlookers Sunday night into Monday morning after sharing what appears to be an image created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) depicting him launching a "nuclear strike.”

Trump has shared controversial images that appear to have been created with GenAI in the past, including last year when he shared a threatening image of Chicago, Illinois, consumed by flames, or last month when he shared an image depicting himself as a Jesus Christ-like figure. Sunday night, Trump appeared to share yet another GenAI-generated image, only this one, depicting himself hitting a large red button as a colossal explosion with a large mushroom cloud is seen hitting earth.

A federal agency faced criticism for sharing an explicitly Christian social media post.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted a Bible verse Sunday afternoon as thousands gathered on the National Mall for an evangelical-style worship service called "Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving" and endorsed by President Donald Trump.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has fundamentally transformed the role of the nation's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, according to a longtime court correspondent, abandoning the traditional norms of the office to embrace a confrontational, MAGA-aligned advocacy style that has proven remarkably effective with the court's conservative supermajority.

Unlike predecessors who balanced partisan interests with broader federal government concerns, Sauer has locked arms with conservative justices to advance Trump's executive power agenda, wrote CNN's Joan Biskupic. His arguments have been notably more politically charged than those of prior solicitors general, echoing Trump's rhetoric directly in Supreme Court briefs and oral arguments.

President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of suspending federal taxes on gasoline in an effort to combat skyrocketing gas prices sparked by his unpopular war against Iran, but CNN’s Matt Egan, looking at a new analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, broke down on Monday exactly why the president’s idea was nothing more than a “gimmick.”

“It's already been such a financial nightmare for Main Street, and a political nightmare for the White House, but other than the obvious – getting the Strait of Hormuz re-opened – they're really kind of running out of options to prevent gasoline from blowing past those Biden-era records above $5,” Egan said.