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Attempts by Donald Trump to put out the firestorm he created by posting a meme picture of himself as Jesus on Truth Social seems to be flopping, MS NOW is reporting.

On Monday the president defended the picture, which had been taken down, claiming that he was being portrayed as a doctor, but in interviews on the street, self-identified Christians and Catholics uniformly criticized the president when shown a printout of the picture, with one Trump voter claiming he was “ashamed.”

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the Department of Justice has released all files on Jeffrey Epstein after First Lady Melania Trump made a surprise announcement calling for men who conspired with the sex offender to face consequences.

"The First Lady dropped a bomb at the White House," Fox News host Bill Hemmer told Blanche on Tuesday. "A number of questions that come off of this. Did you know she was going to make that statement? Did you have information prior? Will you act on her request before Congress?"

President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for its reporting on a lewd birthday card the president allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein was tossed out by a judge on Monday, who in their ruling, made a telling citation that one ex-prosecutor and legal expert said “speaks volumes.”

Last year, the Journal got its hands on a lewd birthday card that Trump had allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003 for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday, and its subsequent report on the letter drew outrage from the president, who denied having written the letter. Trump would later sue the Journal over its report, which he called “defamatory” and “false.”

A three-judge composed mostly of jurists appointed by Donald Trump blocked ongoing criminal contempt hearings as U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg was considering sanctions after government attorneys violated his order to halt deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

Last year, Boasberg found there was "probable cause" to find the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defying him by sending a Venezuelan man to the CECOT prison in El Salvador.

Onetime presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is seemingly plotting a political reboot as he nears the end of his term as Florida governor and repositioning himself for the post-Donald Trump era, according to a new analysis.

The Republican governor established himself as a MAGA favorite due to his laissez faire handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, but his national profile evaporated after Trump vanquished him in the 2024 primary and he lost most of his clout back home, but Slate's Luke Winkie noticed that DeSantis is attempting to reinvent himself in a restaurant tour posted online.

"Then Stephen Miller goes up next, and he chastises our director," the former senior executive added. "He dresses him down in front of us. And I’m like, This is so unprofessional. A field office director says: We’re working through the list, but we’re having some challenges with the list. We’re going to get it done. We’re trying our hardest."

Miller then looked at Lyons and demanded to know how he was issuing the command.

A U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went into effect Monday at 10 a.m. EST at the direction of President Donald Trump, but in a matter of hours, the blockade was breached without incident by at least four Iran-linked vessels, BBC reported Tuesday.

On Monday, Trump said that he had instructed the U.S. Navy to “seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran,” and the U.S. military later said that the “blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas.”

Despite being entangled in the ongoing U.S. war against Iran, President Donald Trump is actively considering an operation to abduct another world leader, much like his administration had in January with the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, three insiders revealed to Zeteo in its report Tuesday.

“In recent days, according to two sources familiar with the situation and another person briefed on it, officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the US government were quietly given a new directive that came straight from the Trump White House,” Zeteo’s report reads. “The message: ramp up your preparations for possible military operations against Cuba.”

JD Vance’s less than impressive performance as vice president, combined with Donald Trump needling him in his comments to the press, led longtime Financial Times columnist Ed Luce to claim the veep’s star has faded to the point where he is becoming irrelevant.

And because of that, he no longer can be considered Trump’s successor.

President Donald Trump lavished praise Tuesday on Alan Dershowitz – a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein and lawyer who helped secure Epstein’s unprecedentedly lenient plea deal in 2008 for child abuse – after Dershowitz floated a plan to help Trump expunge his 2019 impeachment.

“Alan, one of the greats, should do it!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social in reference to Dershowitz's proposal on how to expunge the president’s 2019 impeachment.

President Donald Trump responded to a request for comment on supernatural experiences claimed by a high-ranking official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Gregg Phillips, the third-ranking official at FEMA, has been quietly sidelined from key operations following public reports that he claims to have teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Georgia, and CNN's KFILE reported that he has made other bizarre claims about personal experiences with the supernatural.