Trump Lies

The Palm Beach Post reports: His boasts now have become legendary. Trump, who never loses an event at one of his tournaments, once said he won a club championship when he didn’t play the first round, crowned himself winner of a Senior Club Championship when nobody saw him play and said he won an event at Bedminster shooting a 67 …

CNN reports: Hours after President Donald Trump told Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to “go to hell” in a Saturday post on social media, the Senate headed into recess without reaching a deal over confirming Trump’s nominees. Senate Republican leader John Thune, Schumer and the White House had been engaged in a round of intense talks to end the standoff …

The Washington Post reports: “DESTROY” stickers were affixed this week to hundreds of cases of U.S.-branded food aid — 15,000 pounds’ worth — that have languished for months in a Georgia warehouse and then expired before they could be sent overseas to famine-stricken areas like Sudan. And Mana Nutrition’s warehouse holds plenty more of the peanut paste, a crucial element …

“We’ve seen positive job growth. We have seen consumer confidence go up. We’ve seen unemployment hold steady. While we could have seen better jobs numbers, right now we’re seeing American workers are being put first — native-born workers account for all of the job growth and that’s key. We’re setting the table for a positive economy and the American worker …

NBC News reports: Accompanied by the Israeli military, Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited an aid distribution site in southern Gaza run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where hundreds of Palestinians waited desperately behind barbed wire for food. “Incredible feat!” Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who accompanied Witkoff, said in a post on X …

CNN reports: Renderings provided by the White House depict a vast space with gold and crystal chandeliers, gilded Corinthian columns, a coffered ceiling with gold inlays, gold floor lamps and a checkered marble floor. Three walls of arched windows look out over the White House’s south grounds. The gold-and-white style closely mimics the Louis XIV-style main event room at Mar-a-Lago. …

Newsmax reports: President Donald Trump demurred on whether he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and former Republican Rep. George Santos, telling Newsmax he’s been asked to pardon only one of them to date. In a wide-ranging and exclusive interview with “Finnerty” host Rob Finnerty at the White House on Friday, Trump said he has the power to pardon …

AlterNet reports: Newsmax host Rob Finnerty asked Trump about Leavitt’s performance during her daily press briefings, and Trump complimented her skills as his administration’s chief spokesperson — as well as her looks. “She’s become a star. It’s that face, it’s that brain, it’s those lips, the way they move, they move like — she’s a machine gun,” Trump said, noticeably …

The Associated Press reports: The National Restaurant Association, which represents more than 1 million U.S. eateries and food service providers, said Friday that tariffs could increase the cost of popular menu items like coffee and hamburgers as well as ingredients like spices. Michelle Korsmo, the president and CEO of the association, said restaurants operate on such tight margins that the …

Politico reports: “What does a bad leader do when they get bad news? Shoot the messenger,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a floor speech moments after Trump’s post. “That’s just what happened with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” “Instead of helping people get good jobs, Donald Trump just fired the statistician who reported bad jobs …

“In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over …

“I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. “This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, …

Axios reports: The new tariff rates President Trump announced late Thursday are the highest in nearly a century and will cost the average family about $2,400 this year, the Yale Budget Lab said. Combined with the surprisingly weak jobs report Friday morning, it’s the latest sign that American households face a much more difficult economy in the months to come. …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump is once again pushing the widely disputed claim that Barack Obama attempted to stage a “coup” after the 2016 election, and insists those involved “must pay.” In a flurry of posts on Truth Social, the president has returned to his familiar playbook of trying to distract his MAGA base from the ongoing fallout …

The Washington Examiner reports: President Donald Trump on Friday called on Senate Republicans to stay in session instead of taking a monthlong recess in order to confirm his nominees, who require confirmation from the upper chamber. Of the estimated 1,300 nominees requiring Senate confirmation, more than 160 nominees are ready for a vote. The massive backlog of nominees comes just …

“People have criticized James Comer, alright? Who’s been in charge of Oversight for a while now. People have criticized Jim Jordan because for whatever reason, it seems like Republicans get weak in the knees when it comes to actually going beyond investigation and recommending something to Department of Justice. “I think Comer played a role in Kamala losing the race …

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s super PAC is sitting on about $200 million that it can spend against his rivals, giving a term-limited president a never-before-seen amount of power in his party’s finances and future. In the first half of 2025, Mr. Trump’s group, MAGA Inc., collected about $177 million from the likes of Elon Musk, Mr. Trump’s …

CBS News reports: The White House will undergo a $200 million extensive renovation of its East Wing, President Donald Trump’s latest construction project of the executive mansion. Construction will begin in September on an approximately 90,000 square foot White House state ballroom with a 650-person seating capacity. Trump and other “patriot donors” will pay for the $200 million-dollar renovation, according …

“On the peace front, President Trump helped deliver an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries were engaged in a deadly conflict that had displaced more than 300,000 people until President Trump stepped in to put an end to it. The president spoke directly on the phone with the acting prime minister of Thailand and the …

“He’s going to see a massive defeat coming, and he’ll try to do anything he can to extricate himself in that defeat, and I would not put it at all past him to try to call martial law or declare that there’s some kind of national emergency in the country or anything like that, because the hoof prints are coming, …