Dementia

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has threatened to close down social media platforms that do not support his agenda, a day after Twitter posted a fact-checking notice on one of his tweets. Social media firms suppressed conservative points of view, the president claimed – without any evidence – before saying his administration would “strongly regulate [the companies] or close them …

Deadline reports: As Kara Swisher’s New York Times column was drawing attention on Tuesday, Trump tweeted at 8:53 AM ET, “The opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough.” It was then deleted. About a half hour later, he continued to present the circumstances surrounding Klausutis’ death as a mystery. Last week, when Trump tweeted about Klausutis’ death, Morning …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is sowing doubt about a mail-in voting process — which many states are taking steps to implement in the fall. In a pair of Tuesday morning tweets, the president raged against the prospect of voting by mail, and came up with a whole host of ways in which he believes a mail election could or …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump struck back at those criticizing him for playing golf this weekend, firing off several tweets attacking former Vice President — and Trump’s presumptive Democratic opponent — Joe Biden. On Saturday, the president was spotted golfing on his course in Sterling, Virginia, for the first time since early March. Photographs of Trump were met with immediate …

Late last night after spending the day golfing, the president of the United States apparently searched Twitter for attacks on the appearances of leading Democratic women. Trump somehow landed on the account of one John K. Stahl, who ran for the US House in 2012 in California’s District 52, finishing fourth in the open primary. Below are Stahl’s tweets that …

The Hill reports: President Trump late Thursday fired back at criticism from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), who called him a “petulant child who refuses to follow the rules” for not wearing a mask during a visit to a Ford plant in the state. The president responded by suggesting Nessel “was taking out her anger and stupidity” on Ford. …

Yahoo News reports: “I tested very positively in another sense,” Trump said on the South Lawn before departing for Michigan to visit a Ford plant that is assembling ventilators. “So this morning, yeah, I tested positively toward negative, right? So no, I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning, meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it, positively toward …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump, who has mounted a yearslong attack on the intelligence agencies, is particularly difficult to brief on critical national security matters, according to interviews with 10 current and former intelligence officials familiar with his intelligence briefings. The president veers off on tangents and getting him back on topic is difficult, they said. He has …

The latest from our relentlessly infantile leader: President Trump on Saturday posted a heavily doctored clip from the 1996 movie “Independence Day” featuring himself as Bill Pullman’s character delivering a motivational speech to GOP allies, who were also photoshopped into the video. Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity from Fox News, and several other Republican …

The Hill reports: President Trump shared a video of a local TV reporter being confronted by anti-shutdown protesters in Long Island who called him “fake news” and “the enemy of the people,” prompting journalists to come to the reporter’s defense on Friday night. Several protesters sported Trump campaign flags and apparel, while some visibly angry demonstrators used anti-media rhetoric frequently …

“If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would’ve been in jail a long time ago and I’m talking with 50-year sentences. People should be going to jail for this stuff. “This was all Obama. This was all Biden. It is a disgrace, what’s happened. This is the greatest political scam hoax in the history of …

Mediaite reports: As the coronavirus continues to ravage the country, President Donald Trump is once again using his morning to throw Twitter insults at his political enemies. After blaming the “lamestream media” for how he ended his latest White House press conference after bizarrely deflecting questions, Trump gave the Twitterverse a clue as to which cable news morning show was …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: President Donald Trump pushed Monday morning for Pennsylvania to reopen its economy faster as rumors swirled that he would visit the state later this week. Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Philadelphia Democrat, quickly fired back at Trump Monday morning, tweeting that as a Pennsylvanian “let me tell you what we really want: for you to get a …

The Hill reports: President Trump late on Sunday repeatedly lashed out on Twitter at former President Obama, days after reports that Obama had expressed concern over the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The president also retweeted multiple accounts that posted memes taking aim at Obama, including one account that posted a …

Axios reports: Between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times about the investigations by the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. The tweetstorm shows the degree to which Trump is still consumed by what he believes to be an illegal attempt to end his …

The Hill reports: President Trump said Wednesday that he briefly put on a mask during a visit to a Honeywell factory in Phoenix but that the press didn’t see him. “I had a mask on for a period of time,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked why he didn’t wear a face covering during Tuesday’s visit to …

Arizona Central reports: Before he strolled through the Honeywell facility to examine its mask-making efforts, President Donald Trump mused for a moment about his 2016 presidential campaign, which showed some of its promise during an early stop in Arizona in 2015. “Today is a very interesting day because it’s my first day out,” Trump said as he wrapped a discussion …

The Washington Post reports: George T. Conway III, prominent attorney and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, has been trying with only modest success to provoke President Trump’s Twitter wrath for the better part of his presidency. He finally succeeded close to 1 a.m. Tuesday. What set Trump off was a video, sponsored by the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump …

The New York Post reports: President Trump on Monday took a shot at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough – calling for “Concast” to probe him for a cold case involving the accidental death of an intern in his congressional office in 2001. The president appeared to be referring to the case of Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old intern who was found dead in …

Deadline reports: President Donald Trump’s town hall on Sunday was not his first with Fox News, but it was the first event of its kind at the Lincoln Memorial. That’s why, in Trump’s long battle against the “fake news media,” one of his comments stood out. Responding to a question of whether he should change his tone during the COVID-19 …