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Newsweek reports: President Donald Trump appears to have shared an image of the wrong Nobel Prize in a Twitter video Monday ostensibly touting his achievements as a peacemaker. The minute-long video at one point says “Trump stands for peace” and then shows the president with the prime minister of Israel and ambassadors from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. A …

Mediaite reports: The timing here is…not well done. Amid overlapping economic and public health crises and nearly eight weeks after the election, Donald Trump tweeted out a hagiographic, campaign-style video cheerleading his presidency, which mimicked the old, “Beef… It’s what’s for dinner” marketing blitz. The one-minute video released on Monday afternoon overlays patriotic displays and campaign trail images of Trump …

Via press release from GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: The 2020 presidential election was one we’d expect to see in a banana republic, not the United States of America. In fact, the rampant fraud and unconstitutional actions that took place were so egregious that seven contested states– Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all sent dueling slates of …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump is driving the country through chaos from behind the wheel of his golf cart. Over the Christmas weekend, he was the only man with the power to forestall a government shutdown on Tuesday, restore jobless benefits to millions of laid-off Americans and prevent further economic calamity in the days ahead. Trump appeared interested in doing …

CBS News reports: After tossing a grenade that threatens to blow up a massive COVID relief and government funding bill and force a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic, President Trump spent the last two days golfing in Florida. Failure to agree on the bill could deny checks to millions of Americans on the brink. CBS News confirmed …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump appeared to back the idea of trying to overturn the election result in Congress on 6 January in a series of tweets on Saturday morning in which he once again made unfounded claims of electoral fraud. Mr Trump signalled before the 3 November election that if he lost he would make claims of fraud. He …

CNN reports: “Fake news!” he complained on Twitter from Palm Beach, concerned for Melania’s social station on Christmas as Americans hunkered at home, enduring a holiday diminished by pandemic, darkened by the prospect of an imminent government shutdown and shaken by an eerie explosion in Nashville that authorities said was intentional. That Trump has little penchant for reflecting the struggles …

Raw Story reports: One of President Donald Trump’s friends and legal allies spent Christmas evening spreading conspiracy theories about Chief Justice John Roberts. Taking to Twitter Friday evening, Lin Wood demanded to know why Roberts had a black eye in a photo from June when Roberts revealed he fell at his country club, which resulted in the cut above his …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump has been tweeting furiously this Christmas about his quest to overturn the 2020 election, even going so far as to threaten Republican leadership he sees as insufficiently helpful. While a number of Republicans have backed Trump’s baseless claim the election was stolen from him by Joe Biden, leadership has mostly ignored his charge. Senate Majority …

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 …

Mediaite reports: On Thursday morning, his attempt to overthrow the election he’s lost over and over to President-elect Joe Biden was top of mind, as he tweeted Trump campaign ads that were chock full of lies, as well as a string of bizarre humblebrags about how he got the most votes of any candidate who isn’t Joe Biden, the guy …

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump leaves the White House next month with the country more sharply divided than when he moved in and amid caustic assessments of his record in office, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. Fifty percent of Americans now predict history will judge him as a “failed” president. The survey shows the risks of actions …

The Daily Beast reports: In a strange, innuendo-filled rant published Monday, the administrator of the far-right social networking platform Voat called it quits, spreading shockwaves across far-right image boards and social networks. Adding to President Trump’s failure to secure an election victory or overturn his stinging defeat, the loss of Voat spells another setback for QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory …

Law & Crime reports: Hours after Bill Barr officially stepped down as Attorney General, President Donald Trump publicly called for a special counsel to look into the election results. Trump is refusing to accept the reality that he lost, and as a result he’s been entertaining all sorts of baseless and conspiratorial claims of voter fraud. Claims that, despite the …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump will once again flee Washington DC to ride out the rest of the year in the warmer weathers of Florida. This time, however, the president may not return. Mr Trump regularly makes December trips to his Florida golf resort, Mar-a-Lago – which he calls the “White House South” – though this year he will be …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the sweeping defense bill that both chambers of Congress recently passed by veto-proof majorities. He had previously threatened to do so because it doesn’t include a repeal of Section 230, a law that shields internet companies from being liable for what is posted on their websites by them or third parties. The …

The Daily Beast reports: If there are any checklists or plans, procedures or guidelines for the Secret Service to follow in the event of an autogolpe—a Latin American-style crisis where a sitting president refuses to transfer power—a half-dozen former officials privy to the government’s most sensitive contingency plans aren’t aware of them. None would speak for the record, owing to …

Morning Consult reports: As his time in the White House winds down, President Donald Trump is contemplating his next move, which, according to some media reports, might include a return to reality television. But polling finds that while he has some Republican support, larger shares of voters are against the idea. A Dec. 18-20 Morning Consult/Politico poll found that 48 …

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 Daily Beast reports: In the dying days of his presidency, Donald Trump has taken to asking some aides and advisers about the process of naming airports after former U.S. presidents, according to two people who’ve heard him recently inquiring on this. One of the two sources relayed that, in the past three weeks, Trump mentioned that “no president” wants …