Trump Lies

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive intervention in the U.S. technology sector has come even though his financial disclosure forms show significant holdings in some of the companies most directly affected by his efforts, including Apple and Nvidia. Trump’s latest investment filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed that he owned between $615,000 and $1.3 …

“I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense that we got along great. And it’s good when, you know, two big powers get along—especially when they’re nuclear powers. We’re number one. They’re number two in the world. And it’s a big deal. That’s a big deal! You never want to even mention that word, the word nuclear, but …

The Washington Post reports: For more than 47 years, a D.C.-area family has made the medals for the Kennedy Center Honors — gold-plated medallions outfitted with satin ribbons in rainbow colors and presented to luminaries. James Baturin, an 86-year-old retired marking device manufacturer, said he, his wife, Mila, and their two kids assembled more than 255 awards — mostly from …

The New York Times reports: After three hours of talks, President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia told reporters that they had made progress on unspecified issues, but they gave no details, took no questions, and most importantly failed to announce a ceasefire of any kind. The meeting broke up several hours before scheduled, and far short of the …

Axios reports: The Justice Department is suing California in an effort to block the state’s enforcement of emissions standards for trucks. It’s the latest battle between President Trump and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom over whether California has the right to set tighter pollution limits than federal law requires. Under the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency granted California waivers from …

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge convinced the Justice Department to walk back President Donald Trump’s efforts to assert control over the D.C. police department and signaled that she would issue a temporary restraining order if the changes are not complete by Friday evening. After hearing arguments on an emergency request from D.C. officials to block the Trump administration’s …

The Associated Press reports: While Trump was meeting privately with his top aides and Putin, his political team sent out a fundraising email that said, “I’m meeting with Putin in Alaska!” “It’s a little chilly,” the fundraising pitch said. “THIS MEETING IS VERY HIGH STAKES for the world.” It also said, “No one in the world knows how to make …

“The swamp is in full panic mode. DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me, hoping to thwart our team from dismantling the status quo and advancing POTUS’ Make America Healthy Again agenda. They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m running for president in 2028. Let me be clear: I am not running …

The Daily Beast reports: The Trump administration is set to spend up to $50 million on a wave of taxpayer-funded PR amid the torrent of negative coverage dogging his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A planning forecast record posted this week by the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) pledges $20 million to $50 million as an “International Campaign Follow-on” to …

“This is truly sick, Washington Post. The media doxxed Secretary Noem’s precise apartment location as she faces daily death threats, including from the terrorist organizations, cartels and criminal rings that DHS targets. Due to the increased threats and safety concerns, she has been forced to temporarily stay in secure military housing. As the DHS officers Secretary Noem leads face a …

Washington DC’s WTOP reports: Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been a vocal critic of Trump’s efforts, and on Thursday the president belittled Moore in response to the Maryland governor’s resistance to deploy the National Guard in his state. “He’s not presidential timber, at all,” Trump said. “I heard him today talking about how the National Guard or the military …

The Hill reports: A band of Democratic lawmakers is introducing legislation to thwart President Trump’s takeover of the D.C. police department, arguing the White House is exceeding its authority. The resolution would terminate Trump’s Monday order, something the lawmakers say comes as “the President has concocted a false narrative around the city’s crime rates” which have been declining for two …

CNN reports: Wednesday evening on the MAGA cable channel OAN, as Defense Department spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson gushed to host Matt Gaetz about an alleged year-over-year increase in female military recruits, four images of women soldiers in combat fatigues were displayed on-screen. All four images were AI fakes. The images appear to have been generated using Elon Musk’s Grok, as small …

The Washingtonian reports: The US Department of Agriculture spent $16,400 to hang two banners in May outside its headquarters on Independence Avenue in Washington, DC, government documents show. One banner honored Abraham Lincoln. The other featured the glowering face of President Trump. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins posted a video on X on May 15 that begins, amid stirring music, with …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: President Trump knows the public is skeptical about his tariffs, which is why Administration officials are anxious to convince voters someone somewhere else in the world will pay for them instead of American households. Inflation data released Thursday tell a different story. The producer-price index (PPI) in July rose 0.9% in the month …

The BBC reports: Trump’s short post on social media a few minutes ago – “HIGH STAKES!!!” – raises expectations and the sense of drama. The US president will land at a Cold War-era American air-base in Anchorage, followed shortly afterwards by President Putin. Stepping foot on US soil, beyond UN meetings, for the first time in two decades, Putin in …

Axios reports: The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a senior White House official tells Axios. Trump works transactionally, and companies have rushed to pay demonstrative homage. Now, senior aides will have data to consult when considering corporate …

Deadline reports: “Today is Liberation Day in the state of California,” Gavin Newsom proclaimed today in downtown L.A. of the legislative effort to stop Donald Trump from “rigging the system” with gerrymandering and other blows against American democracy. “I know they say don’t mess with Texas, well don’t mess with the great Golden State.” “We’ve got to recognize the cards …

Yahoo News reports: A federal judge ordered the nation’s health department to stop giving deportation officials access to the personal information — including home addresses — of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first handed over the personal data on millions of Medicaid enrollees in a handful of states in June. After an …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate millions of dollars in grant funding that it terminated for several nonprofits involved in agriculture and ecology-related projects. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of five groups that sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture after it terminated their grants in …