Dementia

Raw Story reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claimed on Wednesday that he will pay $5 million to anyone who attends his cyber symposium and can prove that data in his possession did not come from the 2020 election. During an appearance on Real America’s Voice, Lindell presented strict rules for winning the $5 million bounty. He said that participants would …

The Washington Post reports: Since Jan. 6, every day has dumped more bad news on the president, including his historic second impeachment. But one person close to the president said it can be hard to predict what will bother him most and that even with all that was going on, he was particularly upset that Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Tom …

CNN reports: His mood darkened as soon as he walked into his members-only club Mar-a-Lago, three days before Christmas, according to multiple sources. The changes to his private quarters, many of which were overseen by his wife, first lady Melania Trump, were not to President Donald Trump’s liking, and he was mad about it. Several weeks in the works, the …

Fox News reports: President Trump launched his latest attack against Twitter on Christmas Eve, accusing the company of “going wild with their flags” and “trying hard to suppress even the truth,” referring to his continued baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Trump also reiterated his call to end Section 230, a provision in the Communications Decency …

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump is reportedly questioning the loyalty of Vice President Mike Pence as the commander-in-chief pushes ever more extreme measures to overturn his election loss. After another round of White House scheming with right-wing allies, Trump is focused on the vice president’s largely ceremonial role of presiding over a Jan. 6 session of Congress …

The Independent reports: President Donald Trump has today tweeted another election result rant but continues to stay silent on claims Russia was responsible for a massive cyberattack on the US. Meanwhile, Mike Pompeo has claimed that Russia carried out the cyberattack that targeted a number of federal agencies, including the nuclear weapons agency. Mr Pompeo’s sentiments were echoed by Senator …

The Daily Beast reports: As this dreadful election cycle hurtles toward its sorry climax, we have reached a point that was perhaps always inevitable—the incumbent president threatening to kick his Democratic rival’s ass. At a Sunday night rally in Florida, the recently hospitalized president, who famously believes that doing exercise makes people die young because humans have a finite amount …

The Hill reports: President Trump said Thursday at a campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., that only Jesus Christ is more famous than he is. “Someone said to me the other day, ‘you’re the most famous person in the world by far.’ I said, ‘no, I’m not’… they said, ‘who’s more famous?’ I said, ‘Jesus Christ’,” Trump recounted, prompting cheers from …

CBC News reports: Mr. Trump posted a video to Twitter late Wednesday, praising the therapeutic drugs that he credits with helping him in his recovery. The president called the therapeutics a “cure” for him, even though there is no cure for viruses like COVID-19. “I feel great. I feel like, perfect,” the president said in a four-minute video. “I think …

The New York Daily News reports: Spoiler alert: it’s not a compliment. President Trump promoted a tweet from a Daily Beast columnist that repeated his claim Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un are more mentally competent than Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. That tweet also mocked the president for fawning over tyrants. Trump, who has been …

Cleveland’s NBC News affiliate reports: President Donald Trump shook things up in Northeast Ohio on Wednesday by calling for a boycott of Goodyear tires after the company reportedly told employees they couldn’t wear “Make America Great Again” or “Blue Lives Matter” attire. It didn’t take long for leaders in Akron and across the state to respond. Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan …

Axios reports: To the alarm of some government health officials, President Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to permit an extract from the oleander plant to be marketed as a dietary supplement or, alternatively, approved as a drug to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works. The experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump on Thursday tore into Kamala Harris and other Democrats, saying the presumptive vice presidential nominee is a “mad woman” and claiming her party wants to get rid of “any kind of animals” and tear down New York’s famed Empire State Building. The president, trailing Joe Biden in nationally polls and ones in most key swing …

The Daily Beast reports: While the president spent part of his interview with pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity discussing the apparent bird-killing qualities of windmills, he found no time to say anything about the nearly 165,000 Americans who have died from coronavirus. Portraying Harris as “against petroleum,” the president first claimed that meant Biden would be unable to win …

“No, I wouldn’t have done that. I think it’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do. If we didn’t close up our country, you would’ve had one and a half or two million people already dead. “We’ve called it right, now we don’t have to close it. We understand the disease, nobody understood it because nobody’s ever seen anything …

The New York Times reports: Since the first days after she was elected governor of South Dakota in 2018, Kristi Noem had been working to ensure that President Trump would come to Mount Rushmore for a fireworks-filled July 4 extravaganza. After all, the president had told her in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on …

“You’re never gonna know who won the election, you can’t have that. And Nevada is a big state. It’s an important state. It’s a very political state. And the governor happens to be a Democrat. “And I don’t believe the post office can be set up. They were given no notice. You’re talking about millions of votes. It’s a catastrophe …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump posted a profanity-laced video from conspiracy theorist and longshot Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opponent Antoine Tucker in which Tucker complains that Democrats “don’t give a fuck about helping Americans.” On Saturday morning, Trump posted the video along with the concise message “Wow!” In addition to running a longshot campaign to unseat AOC, Tucker frequently posts conspiracy memes …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has yet again boasted of his performance on an elementary test designed to screen for early signs of dementia — this time demonstrating one of the easier tasks during a White House interview. Speaking to Fox News medical contributor Dr Marc Siegel, Mr Trump described asking a doctor if there was “some kind of cognitive …

Fox News reports: Asked about the possibility of losing, Trump noted that he does not handle losing well, and may not handle it well if it happens in November. “I’m not a good loser. I don’t like to lose,” he said. “I don’t lose too often. I don’t like to lose.” When asked if he is gracious, Trump said, “You …