It is official. Senate Democrats scored two huge wins in the Republican reconciliation bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol. Republicans put themselves in a position to have to fund ICE and Border Patrol themselves because Trump refused to negotiate reforms to ICE and Border Patrol.

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However, the president also attempted to use a simple reconciliation bill to raid the public treasury and give himself more goodies.

Trump wanted $1 billion for the construction of his White House ballroom, and $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to pay his criminal allies who tried to help him overthrow the government.

There was enough Republican opposition in the Senate to join with Democrats that might have sunk the whole bill, so Republicans removed the ballroom cash and weaponization fund from the legislation.

Senate Judiciary Democrats posted on X:

BREAKING: Funding for Trump’s ballroom and weaponized Trump-Blanche Justice Department officially REMOVED from reconciliation bill, in win for Democrats.

Democrats just secured a huge win in Republicans’ partisan funding bill. NO ballroom funding. NO weaponized Trump-Blanche Justice Department funding.

The Senate is going to kill the weaponization fund. They aren’t going to take Trump and Blanche’s word for it. The Senate is going to codify the ban on a weapons-funding fund and ensure that zero dollars can be used for it.

This wasn’t the end of Trump’s defeats for the day because he then lost in the House on his war in Iran.

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Imagine committing perjury and giving false testimony to protect your boss’s ego. That is exactly what Secretary of State Marco Rubio did on Wednesday when he refused to admit what was happening before his eyes while under oath and delivering congressional testimony.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said, “ You have been at multiple meetings with President Trump. In a moment, I'm gonna show you a video of one of these meetings. It is from last December. It's a cabinet meeting. I'm gonna ask you to focus on President Trump, and you will see that he is sleeping while you are talking.”

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Rubio responded, “Oh my God. Are you- “

Lieu continued, “Please show the video.”

Video of Rubio speaking, “Products they make and, and what American farmers grow and produce has a fair shot to be sold around the world. On i- issue after issue, that's been the case. You talk about foreign aid reforms. This is not our money. This is taxpayer money. “

Trump: ZZZZ.

Lieu asked, “Secretary Rubio-have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep?”

At this moment, Marco Rubio had to choose between keeping what little credibility that he has left and protecting Donald Trump.

I think it is pretty easy to guess what Rubio chose.

Rubio launched into a defense of Trump that was jaw-droppingly bad.

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The Trump administration seems to operate on two principles. The administration seems to believe that the American people are not paying attention and are stupid.

Acting AG Todd Blanche confirmed during congressional testimony that they aren’t going forward with the weaponization fund, but Trump and his family will still have lifetime immunity from any tax crimes prosecution.

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CNBC reported:

The Department of Justice will end a planned $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization compensation fund that was created to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump against the Internal Revenue Service, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified to a House panel on Tuesday.

But Trump, his family members, and related business entities remain protected from tax audits and enforcement actions in connection with tax returns filed before last month’s out-of-court settlement of his lawsuit, Blanche said.

The behavior of the administration is just like when they promised to release all of the Epstein files, supported legislation mandating the release of the files, and then released 2% of the files.

The Trump White House has pulled this stunt over and over again. There is nothing new about it, and absolutely no reason for the American people and Congress to trust the administration to keep its word this time.

Democrats aren’t falling for it, and are going to force a vote to kill the whole plot.

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Three days before Christmas in 2025, when the American people were busy with the holidays, the president announced that he was seeking money from Congress to build a new class of battleships that would, to no one’s surprise, be named after Donald Trump.

Here is how the official press release described these ships:

These new battleships will stand as the centerpiece of the Navy’s Golden Fleet initiative and will be the first of its kind providing dominant firepower and a decisive advantage over adversaries by integrating the most advanced deep-strike weapons of today with the revolutionary systems of the years ahead.

Engineered to outmatch any foreign adversary, the new battleship class will be the centerpiece of naval power. At triple the size of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, its massive frame provides superior firepower, larger missile magazines, and the capability to launch Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles and the Surface Launch Cruise Missile-Nuclear.

The Trump class will be capable of operating in a traditional Integrated Air and Missile Defense role with a Carrier Strike Group or commanding its own Surface Action Group for Surface and Anti-Submarine Warfare efforts in addition to delivering long range hypersonic strategic fires and quarterbacking the operations of an entire fleet as the central command control node.

A few months later, Trump launched a war with Iran that demonstrated how much the United States military was not prepared for drone warfare. The US has not released an official estimate of the cost of the war, but Americans spent billions on expensive traditional military equipment while Iran has inflicted damage with much cheaper drones.

The new ships are another Trump vanity project that could have been funded if the president had not enraged Senate Republicans by jeopardizing their majority with his corruption and revenge tour that has ousted three of their members.

It is getting ugly for Trump, and now Republicans in the House and Senate who are trying to save their jobs are looking at not funding his Trump class of ships.

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Trump’s slush fund to pay off those who committed crimes while trying to help him overturn an election that he lost is dead.

After having the implementation of the fund blocked by a federal court on Friday, the DOJ announced:

The Department of Justice disagrees strongly with the decision on the Anti-Weaponization Fund put forth by the United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, wherein the Court stated that, under no circumstances, may the Department of Justice proceed with the Anti-Weaponization Fund recently established in order to make up for the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so many people.

This Fund was open to anybody who was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent, or otherwise. The Department will abide by the Court’s ruling.

The DOJ is still defending Trump’s slush fund, which raises alarm bells, because the pause, as the Justice Department called it, looks more like a temporary move than permanent cancellation.

Democrats aren’t buying the pause.

In fact, they are pressing ahead with plans to pass legislation to kill the fund.

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The recent court order temporarily blocking Trump’s DOJ weaponization of government funds that are intended to pay off those who committed crimes to help Trump in his effort to overturn the 2020 election was an even bigger deal than first reported.

The temporary order blocking the fund gave members of Congress from both parties who oppose it time to work together to kill it.

While it is true that Congress can’t shut down the already authorized DOJ settlement fund that has been hijacked for Trump’s purposes, there is something else that Congress can do.

Congress can leave the fund in place, but use its power of the purse and budgetary authority to change how much is in the fund and attach conditions on how the money is used.

The idea of attaching conditions to who can receive a payout was the first area of focus, and that still remains a popular option. It could also be the path of least legislative resistance.

The partner to putting restrictions on the fund is to change the amount of funds available.

Trump thinks that he is an all-powerful president, but since his revenge tour has cooked his Senate majority and liberated four Republican senators who can now do whatever they want for the rest of the year, the president’s influence over the Senate is gone.

This all sets up a potentially wild week of rebellion in the Senate.

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The only thing plunging faster than the economy is Trump’s approval ratings. Donald Trump has been falling asleep on camera consistently during White House events, and his latest physical raised more questions than it provided answers, as the document that the White House released that Trump approved made several absurd claims.

The oddest claim was that AI found that Trump’s heart is functioning at a level that is 14 years younger than his age.

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The president has been sporting strange bruises on the back of both of his hands, and the White House is sticking with an unbelievable excuse:

Examination of the dorsal hands revealed ecchymosis (bruising), consistent with minor soft tissue irritation related to frequent handshaking in the setting of aspirin use for cardiovascular prevention. This represents a common and benign effect of aspirin therapy. No suspicious lesions or concerning growths identified.

The White House seems to know that Trump’s physical is a problem, especially as observed by the American people: cognitive decline, which is why the president tried to turn a dementia test into proof of “extreme intelligence.”

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The confusion over the past week that led to the majority of the musical acts withdrawing from the Great American State Fair can be traced back to an organization that is being run out of the White House called Freedom 250.

Freedom 250 emerged after Trump returned to the presidency and is not the same as the official organization created by Congress, America 250.

The difference between the two organizations could be confusing to someone casually looking at each website. Both websites greet visitors with fireworks. Both are (.org) web domains, but that is where the similarities end.

The official America 250 website features a list of board members with their pictures, which includes lots of members of the House and Senate Democrats and Republicans. The official website also features a list of sponsors, donors, and organizations. You may not like all of the corporate involvement, but you can see who is involved. It is transparent.

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Trump’s Freedom 250 has no transparency. There is no list of donors and sponsors. The website looks sketchy.

It is this sketchiness that has caused people to ask questions about who is funding Freedom 250 and where the money is going.

After the musical performers dropped out, Trump named himself the headliner of “The Great American State Fair.”

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum was asked where the money is coming from, and his answer was to admit that Freedom 250 is essentially a Trump grift.

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It is okay for people to get older. In fact, staying alive is a good thing, but when an administration that lies pathologically mixes with a person who is ever to return to the presidency, who is showing signs of decline, a physical goes from being a standard release of information to a wild document that denies reality.

All presidents have final approval over what goes into their medical reports. Regular people don’t have editorial over their doctors, but the President Of The United States does.

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Keep this in mind while looking at the results of Trump’s latest physical.

There are three parts of this report that raise eyebrows.

Let’s look at what the report says about Trump’s cardiac health:

Cardiac: Coronary CT angiography demonstrated no arterial obstruction or structural abnormalities of the heart or major vessels. In addition, AI-enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis estimated his cardiac age, an established measure of cardiovascular vitality, to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. Additional testing, including an echocardiogram, showed no abnormalities. Cardiac chambers and valves are normal with a preserved ejection fraction. Cardiac examination revealed a regular rate and rhythm with normal heart sounds. Overall, cardiac function is normal, and circulation to the extremities remains intact.

Trump believes that exercise is bad for your health because he thinks the body has a finite amount of energy and exercise wastes it. This is also a president who loves fast food.

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All three of the federal rulings are certain to upset Trump, but the one that, for my two cents, will bother him the most involved the Kennedy Center.

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Trump was ordered:

ORDERED that Defendants, together with their employees, agents, and anyone acting in concert with them, are hereby preliminarily ENJOINED from enforcing or implementing the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Board of Trustees’ March 16, 2026 decision to “wind-down” programming activities and “close” the Center’s “doors entirely effective July 5, 2026, for such time as is required to complete the repair and restoration funded by Section 60025 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” See ECF No. 34-5 at 8.

The Defendants may not take steps to further effectuate the March 16 decision for the pendency of this action, or until the Board approves any closure consistent with the Court’s Memorandum Opinion, and the Court issues a further Order dissolving or modifying this preliminary injunction.

The administration is not allowed to close the Kennedy Center or implement its plan to rename it after Trump.

The president’s bad Friday contained even more bad news.

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Senate Republicans were forced to pass a reconciliation bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol because Trump refused to make a deal with Democrats that reformed ICE and Border Patrol after American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed in Minneapolis, MN, by Trump’s immigration officers.

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The original Senate Republican idea for the reconciliation bill was a simple bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol. They called this a skinny bill and thought that it could be quickly passed because the Department of Homeland Security has been burning through the funding that it received in last year’s Republican reconciliation bill to make up for the funds it has not received this year.

It should have been a simple process that would have forced them to own the actions of ICE and Border Patrol or come to the table and negotiate reforms.

Trump got involved and saw the reconciliation bill as a vehicle for massive corruption. First, Trump demanded a billion dollars for his supposedly privately funded ballroom. Then Trump launched a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that was actually a taxpayer-funded slush fund for individuals who committed crimes trying to help the president overturn the 2020 election.

Senate Republicans rebelled against the ‘weaponization fund,’ so Democrats pounced and announced amendments to the reconciliation bill to basically kill the fund, and now, because of Trump, the entire agenda is on the verge of collapse in the Senate.

Republicans really want to go back to just funding ICE and Border Patrol, but the White House is refusing.

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Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello has announced a powerhouse one-day music festival in the Washington, DC, area that is designed to protest Donald Trump and gear up America for the midterm election.

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According to the statement announcing the festival:

The one-day festival will feature special performances from an extraordinary lineup of artists and activists including Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Brittany Howard, Dropkick Murphys, Jack Black (featuring Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma and Hugo Weiss), Serj Tankian, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, grandson, The Neighborhood Kids, Taylor Momsen, Matt Cameron, The Linda Lindas, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Tom Morello, alongside artwork and a DJ set by legendary artist Shepard Fairey.

Curated by Tom Morello, The Power To The People Festival brings together artists, fans, activists, organizations and community leaders for an unforgettable day celebrating the power of music and collective action to inspire change.

Interestingly, the festival will happen one month before the midterm election during a time when Republicans in Congress will be out of session and back home campaigning.

The festival will take place at a perfect time to draw national attention to the midterm election.

The event will also get maximum media attention and potentially get even more people out to vote.

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There is a scenario where Republicans are in a much different place right now. Imagine a United States where Donald Trump doesn’t sabotage the US economy with tariffs, healthcare cuts, and a war in the Middle East.

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It is estimated that inflation could have been falling currently, and US growth would have been 5% if Trump had done nothing.

The president wasn’t satisfied with creating an economic crisis out of thin air.

He has also created a political crisis for his own party.

The economic crisis has opened the door for Democrats to flip control of the US Senate in November, and Trump added gasoline to that fire when he gift-wrapped the Texas Republican Senate nomination and handed it to scandal-plagued loyalist state attorney general Ken Paxton.

In electoral politics, there is a ripple effect when a political party is forced to defend a nominee in a state that has been reliably supportive.

One of the arguments that Republicans in Texas and nationally had been making for months against Paxton's nomination was that nominating such a weak candidate in a red state would cause the party to spend less on supporting candidates in other Senate battlegrounds.

The Republican nightmare scenario looks set to come true.

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Trump held a Wednesday cabinet meeting that was apparently designed to continue his manipulation of the stock market. Trump was also trying to sell his apparently fake Iran deal and needed an ego boost from his Dear Leader-style cabinet.

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The issue was that even though the Trump approved physical proclaimed himself to be in perfect health, evidence of his decline was all over the meeting

For example, here is a series of pictures of Trump sleeping during the meeting.

The White House claims that Trump isn’t sleeping, but that the president is blinking with his eyes closed.

Here are the pictures:

When Trump was awake, he threatened to blow up a US ally in the Middle East.

Trump said when asked about Oman, “ It's international waters, and, Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we'll have to blow 'em up. They understand that. They'll be fine.”

So far, we have Trump falling asleep and threatening US allies.

There was also the moment where Trump said the obvious part out loud when he declared that he doesn’t care about the midterms, “ They thought they were gonna outwait me, you know? We'll outwait him. He's got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was the prelude to the midterms.

Trump doesn’t care about the finances of the American people or their economic concerns, and he doesn’t care about how Republicans do in the midterms.

Trump’s big moment came when he started talking about the Lincoln Memorial.

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Doesn’t every president endlessly ramble about ballrooms in between falling asleep in public?

That’s what Donald Trump wants the American people to believe.

A president who has never released his full medical records or even disclosed the reason for many of his visits to see doctors posted on his social media platform:

Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY. Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff! Heading back to the White House.

The media assumed, because the White House allowed them to do so, that Trump was going in for his annual physical, but according to Trump, he is apparently having physicals every six months, and that is not the norm for fit and healthy presidents.

Since the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, presidents have undergone an annual physical and been declared to be fit for duty. Some of these announcements of fitness have been dubious, as it is hard to believe that Ronald Reagan, during his second term in office, was “fit for duty.”

Then there is Donald Trump, who exists in his own special category. Not since 1967 has a president hidden so much about his health as Donald Trump.

As president, Trump has been screened for dementia three more times than anyone else who has held the office before him. (No other president has been screened for dementia.)

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Donald Trump could be trying to manipulate the stock market, now that we know that he has done more insider stock trading than all of Congress combined since returning to office.

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Something else appears to be happening. It is my suspicion that Trump isn’t trying to manipulate the price of stocks as much as he is trying to lie to lower the price of oil.

The president’s broken mind is still operating under the mistaken belief that gasoline prices will fall immediately if oil prices drop.

After touting a deal with Iran that the White House claimed could be coming at any time, Trump spent Memorial Day spewing a sea of nonsense that is apparently designed to distract people from the fact that no deal has been announced.

Trump posted on his social media platform (bold is mine):

Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that! During my discussions on Saturday with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords.

Wait a minute. Weren’t we just told there was a deal coming any moment now?

Republicans have been ripping the deal as bad, and the White House asked Republicans to post support for the deal, which they were dreading doing.

Now, it is maybe there is a deal.

Trump went on to get totally delusional in the rest of his message.

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The deal that the Trump administration is floating as almost done to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war is being criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for failing to meet the objectives that the Trump administration laid out when it started the war three months ago.

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On CNN’s State Of The Union, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) was asked:

Let's talk about Iran and this potential memorandum of understanding with Iran. Your colleague Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker said -- quote -- "The rumored 60-day cease-fire with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith would be a disaster" -- unquote.

I know that the details are vague at this point, but, from what you have heard about this deal, would you support it?

Tillis pointed out all of the holes in the deal:

It doesn't make sense to me. I'm not too far away from where Pompeo is, to be honest with you, and I support what Chairman Wicker says.

Look, we were told about 11 weeks ago by Hegseth and the Department of Defense that they had obliterated Iran's defenses and it was just a matter of time before we had the nuclear material. Now we're talking about a posture where we may accept the nuclear material remaining in Iran? How does that make sense at all?

Also, a 60-day cease-fire and expecting that they're going to clear the Strait of Hormuz before the terms of the deal are established also seems questionable to me. There are a lot of things that need to be explained. And, as I have said before, any agreement with Iran that isn't subject to ratification, ratification by Congress, is going -- I think going to be doomed to fail, just like the agreement we're trying to replace, which was the failed agreement by Obama.

The Obama agreement wasn’t a failed deal. It was working until Trump trashed it for something that looks weak.

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Tillis was far from alone. The right and the left are hating this deal.

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It is rare for senators to yell at any US attorney general during a meeting. Senators yelling during closed-door meetings is not an accepted behavior.

When the Senate abruptly closed up and left town without passing the reconciliation bill to fund ICE and the border patrol, it was clear that something very big had happened to derail the whole process.

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Senate Democrats immediately held a press conference and pounced on the reported Senate Republican divide and asked Republicans to join with them to stop Trump’s corruption by blocking taxpayer funding for his ballroom and putting restrictions on the DOJ slush fund.

The rift between Trump and Senate Republicans shows no signs of mending, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) offered some insight into what it was like in the room on his podcast.

NBC News reported:

“Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said. “My guess is there’re probably 45 senators in the room, at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”

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“There were multiple senators yelling at the attorney general, saying this feels like self-dealing,” Cruz said.

“I got to tell you, the Republican senators were pissed — people were the entire meeting. They were screaming at the acting attorney general, and he was trying to lay out the legal basis,” Cruz said, adding “the legal basis is quite sound.”

Trump’s slush fund is an example of: just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done.

Cruz laid out the number of Senate Republicans who were willing to vote with Democrats.

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The corporate media dismisses the evidence of Trump’s cognitive decline by claiming that it is only something that Democrats talk about on social media, which is an extremely inaccurate statement because I am not a Democrat, but I have chosen to dedicate space in this newsletter to discussing the president’s cognitive decline because the corporate media refuse to do their jobs and keep the American people informed on this issue.

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Under the pretext of campaigning for House Republicans in New York on Friday, Donald Trump was removed from his heavily managed White House environment, where he could not resist talking about his cognitive decline.

Trump is still holding a grudge against Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) so he began by attacking the intelligence of the governor.

Trump said:

He can't read a speech. So I don't read too many speeches either. I'd be better off if I did. But he can't read a speech, but he called himself a dumb person. And when you do that, I say it ends. But a friend of mine, very good at politics, say, "Don't worry, people forget about it." I don't know. I don't think you can forget. I thought it was the worst... He did this during an interview. I thought it was the worst interview by a professional politician in the history of our country. Because Gavin, I think, is, is... When he says he's stupid. He said he's stupid.

But remember, but he said he's smarter than the people in the room, and then he got sued for being a racist, okay? And I guess he probably is a racist, but he said he was a stupid person. You'll never hear me call myself a... I'm the smartest guy you're ever gonna meet. It's true. And don't you wanna have a smart person as president? Yeah, you wanna have a smart person. In fact, I took the cognitive test. I'm the only one.

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Trump doesn’t understand that people being so concerned about his brain failing that a cognitive test was administered is not a good thing.

This headed straight into Trump showing the world how broken his brain has become.

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Donald Trump has spent nearly one-third of his presidency at his clubs and playing golf. Trump is barely in the White House three to four days a week. The current president is constantly not at work, which is what makes his excuse for why he could not attend Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding even more absurd.

Trump posted on his social media platform:

While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so. I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important period of time. Congratulations to Don and Bettina! President DONALD J. TRUMP

It is even better that Donald Trump signed his statement announcing that he is blowing off his son’s wedding with his full name. He doesn’t say that he loves his son or refer to himself as dad.

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