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The Associated Press reports: Reflecting on Mother’s Day this weekend, President Donald Trump said Friday that he could do no wrong in his mother’s eyes and perhaps that’s what framed his personality today. “I had a great mom. I loved my mom and she loved me, which … is probably not easy to do,” Trump told Fox News in an …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump has been mask averse for weeks. Within minutes of the CDC announcing its updated mask recommendations last month, the president said, “I don’t think that I’m going to be doing it.” Trump has told advisers that he believes wearing one would “send the wrong message,” according to one administration and two campaign officials not …

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 …

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump once again deflected blame for his administration’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 1.2 million people across the country, saying he had been too busy with probes into his conduct as president to ensure the federal stockpile of medical supplies was prepared for a pandemic. “Well, I’ll be …

The Daily Beast reports: Here’s a shock—President Trump, who has repeatedly boasted about how great he was at baseball in high school and how he could totally have gone pro if he’d wanted to, actually pretty much sucked at it. Slate has managed to unearth nine box scores from Trump’s time at New York Military Academy, which showed a four-for-29 …

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 …

The Daily Beast reports: Even by President Donald Trump’s historically low standards, the town hall on reopening the nation’s economy featured some astounding falsehoods on Sunday night: that he was never warned about the novel coronavirus until late January; that all 43,000 people who returned to the United States from China after the implementation of his travel ban were tested; …

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 …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump pushed back on Sunday against recent reporting that intelligence officials were issuing classified reports to his administration as early as last November warning about the early outbreak of coronavirus in the Wuhan province of China. The president also claimed the restrictions he placed on travel to the US from China in January have saved “tens …

The Palm Beach Post reports: A fleet of more than 300 boats paraded along the Intracoastal waterway Sunday in support of President Donald Trump with flag-waving spectators cheering from canal banks and seawalls. The procession, which traveled from Jupiter to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and back, was dubbed “Trumptilla” by some supporters, who learned of the pageant through Facebook. It …

Never forget that Glorious Leader is glorious: Trump can’t go outside and play (golf), so he is spending his Sunday morning melting down and spinning a tale of he saved America from coronavirus. Trump’s tale of a plague that came out of nowhere is completely detached from reality. The real story is that the President was told of the great …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Sunday took aim at George W. Bush after the former Republican president issued a call to push partisanship aside amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. In a three-minute video shared on Twitter on Saturday, Bush urged Americans to remember “how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat.” In an …

Raw Story reports: While talking with reporters, Trump again asserted that former President Barack Obama was to blame for the United States’ infamously late scramble to produce quality COVID-19 tests. “The last administration left us with nothing!” Trump ranted. “We started off with bad, broken tests and obsolete tests!” CNN’s Jim Acosta, however, asked Trump how Obama could have possibly …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. At least that appeared to be the case judging by a late-night Twitter screed in which he went after a number of cable news personalities who he feels have done him wrong. All this amid a deadly pandemic that has led to the …

Raw Story reports: During a press conference Wednesday, President Donald Trump was asked why he thinks that the coronavirus will disappear without a vaccine. His answer left many confused. “It’s gonna go. It’s gonna leave. It’s gonna be gone,” he said. “Why do you think without a vaccine, the virus would be gone?” asked the reporter. “It’ll be eradicated,” he …

Reuters reports: The United States has reported more than a million coronavirus infections only because of its testing, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, hailing the effort as being “much better than any other country in the world.” The Twitter comments came amid warnings from state public health officials that shortages of trained workers and materials have limited testing capacity. …

The New York Times reports: The White House canceled the daily coronavirus briefing that it had listed on the schedule for Monday as Mr. Trump continued to complain about news coverage of his handling of the pandemic. Kayleigh McEnany, the newly appointed White House press secretary, told reporters that there would be no briefing even though it had been listed …

The Hill reports: President Trump blamed Democrats on Monday for any delays Americans see in receiving additional unemployment funds provided under coronavirus relief legislation. Trump said Democrats “insisted” that states issue the checks, adding that he knew delays would occur. “I wanted the money to be paid directly, they insisted it be paid by states for distribution,” he added. “I …

Axios reports: President Trump tore into Fox News in a series of tweets on Sunday night, claiming that he has “no respect” for the network’s leadership and that it “keeps on plugging to try and become politically correct.” Why it matters: It’s the latest chapter in Trump’s love-hate relationship with the network. While he continues to praise and live-tweet several …