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Buzz Feed
17-07-2025
- Business
- Buzz Feed
Trump Blames Biden For His Own Actions, Gets Checked
President Donald Trump 's critics on Wednesday were stunned after he appeared to forget who appointed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Hint: It was Trump himself. Trump has been attacking Powell for months for not cutting interest rates, and has toyed with the idea of trying to fire him, even though that's not a power the president has. He continued his verbal assault on Wednesday, saying Powell does a 'terrible job' and costs the nation 'a lot of money.' 'I was surprised he was appointed,' Trump said. 'Surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him.' But President Joe Biden didn't 'put him in.' Trump nominated Powell as Fed chair in 2017, praising him at the time for his 'steady leadership, sound judgment, and policy expertise.' Biden renominated Powell for a second term in 2021. In both cases, Powell was confirmed by the Senate with widespread bipartisan support. Critics offered the president a trip down memory lane on X: Not remembering he appointed Powell himself is kind of a perfect encapsulation of how poorly thought out and stupid this move is. — Tina Smith (@SenTinaSmith) July 16, 2025 @SenTinaSmith/ Fox News Dementia? And yes let's once again imagine the reaction not just from Fox but the entire DC media if Biden said this. — Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) July 16, 2025 @Lawrence/ Fox News I hear Biden had trouble recognizing George Clooney once — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 16, 2025 @RadioFreeTom/ Fox News Appointing someone and being surprised they got appointed is a special kind of stupid that only Trump can trademark. — Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 16, 2025 @acnewsticits/ Fox News Trump surprised that Trump appointed Powell makes you wonder who has Administration car keys now . . . — Jonathan A. Parker (@ProfJAParker) July 16, 2025 @profjaparker/ Fox News Holy 25th Amendment, Batman! — chuckwestover (@chuckwestover) July 16, 2025 @chuckwestover/ Fox News — Comedy of Things (@ComedyOfThings) July 16, 2025 @comedyofthings Hey Jake Tapper, where's your book on Trump's brain turning to goo — I Smoked The Diddy Verdict (@BlackKnight10k) July 16, 2025 @blackknight10k/ Fox News Jake Tapper wrote a whole ass book about Biden's "decline" while this motherfucker is running the country with the IQ of a boiled carrot. — Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) July 16, 2025 @stealthygeek/ Fox News "Trump: I was surprised he was appointed— surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him." Holy crap. — Holly 🇺🇸🐊 (@CrossingUNStyle) July 16, 2025 @crossingunstyle/ Fox News Amazing. Truly amazing. To go on a 2 minute rant about a prominent official without even bothering to check to Wikipedia… … to find out YOU appointed him. — Stephen Richer (@stephen_richer) July 17, 2025 @stephen_richer/ Fox News ….Trump appointed Jerome Powell does he not remember that? — je ne sais quoi (@lonerzstoner) July 16, 2025 @lonerzstoner 25th Amendment. Now. — Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) July 16, 2025 @artcandee If Trump makes such big mistakes on details like this related to him, imagine how many other mistakes he makes on a day to day basis and what the implications are for major policy issues like tariffs. We're only half a year in to a four year term folks. — Rian Davis (@RianAuthor) July 17, 2025 @rianauthor Imagine if Biden etc, etc etc.... All the guys who hung on every single Biden word for sign of a flub have just completely gone missing. Strange. — Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) July 16, 2025 @wilson_valdez/ Fox News The list of people Trump hired, turned against then fired is extraordinary — Akash Maniam (@ManiamAkash) July 16, 2025 @maniamakash Whoever appointed him was obviously an incompetent fucking moron. — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 16, 2025 @ronfilipkowski/ Fox News
The Independent
15-07-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Trump just delivered a word salad speech that would've got Biden impeached
Once upon a time, if the president of the United States stumbled over a sentence, forgot a name, or momentarily glitched mid-speech, it was treated as a national emergency. 'Cognitive decline!' the headlines cried. 'Who's really running the country?' asked Republican attack ads on then-president Joe Biden, implying former vice president Kamala Harris was lurking just offstage with the strings of the puppet in her hands. Twitter (not X, never X) diagnosed poor Joe with dementia. There was talk about invoking the 25th Amendment. Biden's enemies — and then even some of his friends — painted him as a husk of a man: barely lucid, tragically unaware, propelled only by hubris toward a second term. But now Donald Trump is back, and aren't things different? Or wait, are they? During a speech in Pittsburgh Tuesday afternoon for the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, the 47th president certainly had his faculties on full display. To start, the president claimed, without blinking, that he had already secured $16 trillion in investments into the U.S. economy. For reference, the entire GDP of the United States is under $30 trillion. Now, we all know that Donald is prone to exaggeration. We've all heard that his latest idea/bill/haircut is the greatest thing ever, and that some people are saying it's the most incredible idea/bill/haircut the world has ever seen. But this was clearly not delivered for melodramatic effect. This was the president of the United States claiming that he had single-handedly funded half of capitalism, in six months. Moments later, Trump attempted to introduce Republican Rep. Dan Meuser. 'Where's Dan?' he asked, scanning the crowd. Dave McCormick, seated beside him, had to quietly inform him that all the representatives had stayed in Washington. 'Oh, they're in Washington working on our next bill? Good!' Trump replied. 'Now I don't have to mention their names, although they're watching on television, I guarantee.' He laughed nervously as he said it, in quite an uncharacteristic way, and then trailed off while muttering, again, that it was 'good' that 'they' are working on something in D.C. It was oddly difficult to watch. The 79-year-old president then struggled to pronounce the name of one of his own White House aides, before saying, 'They tell me you're doing great.' And, as the spicy dressing on the word salad, he added a bizarre aside about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski being a great student ('It didn't work out too well for him' in the end, however, according to Trump, a conclusion that clearly demands intellectual rigor beyond the everyday man or woman.) If Biden had said any of this, Fox News would have launched a live countdown to impeachment. But it's unlikely we'll see these gaffes dominate the news cycle — even though President Donald J. Trump, supposedly the sparkiest 79-year-old who ever damn lived, began to visibly struggle to stay awake while seated behind the microphone. There's something to be said here about gerontocracy, and the fact that the last election felt like watching two bald grandpas fighting over a comb, and the awfulness of having people on both sides of the aisle (the late Dianne Feinstein and the clearly struggling Mitch McConnell as two examples) hold on to power rather than relinquish it to people who have the mental and physical capacity to wield it. There's something to be said about Republicans sticking together, even in the face of clear dereliction of duty, and Democrats routinely turning on their own. There's even, perhaps, something to be said about how one can sleepwalk (quite literally) into stupid-sounding lies if one is accustomed to just saying whatever one wants all the time, until eventually it becomes clear that the emperor has no clothes. Trump is vulnerable at this moment, writing as he has on Truth Social that he's disappointed in his 'boys' and 'gals' for not letting themselves be gaslit into believing there was no Epstein list after all. Elon Musk is calling for a new party, as Laura Loomer and Tucker Carlson are being periodically, and loudly, more disloyal. Vice President J.D. Vance isn't exactly coming to a resounding defense of his running mate each time controversy rears its head, either. So it really might've been a good idea for Trump to bring his A-game to events right now. Instead, he showed, in a few short remarks, that he has very little knowledge of the reality of the American economy; is incapable of remembering where his own representatives are, to the point that he'll invite one onstage who is literal states away; doesn't appear to have heard of his aide; and cannot stay awake during an early afternoon public appearance. It's hard to sell 'disruptor' and 'firebrand' when you're falling asleep at the table and muttering people's names semi-coherently. But of course, as we know, all of this will simply be absorbed into the MAGA mythos: just another quirk of the ever-evolving, benevolent Trumpian character. The Republicans will carry him, even if they saw ten times less from Biden and called it reprehensible. And they won't do it because they truly think he's sharp. They'll do it because, in the end, they no longer think that matters.
Politico
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Trump's U-turn on White House secrecy could reshape how future presidents get advice
But the courts concluded that the Jan. 6 attack was so momentous, and Congress' need for Trump's records so great, that executive privilege would have yielded even if Trump were the sitting president at the time. Still, the Jan. 6 committee did not get all the testimony it wanted from Trump's advisers. Stephen Miller refused to discuss 'any conversations that he had with President Trump,' saying Trump had not waived executive privilege to permit him to testify. David Warrington, who at the time was an attorney representing Trump's former White House personnel director, emphasized that Biden's waiver of privilege was 'pretty specific' and 'not a broad waiver.' Miller is now Trump's deputy chief of staff, and Warrington is Trump's White House counsel. Even witnesses willing to cooperate with the committee — like Mike Pence's aides Marc Short and Greg Jacob, as well as Trump's former White House counsel Pat Cipollone — refused to discuss direct conversations with Trump they said could potentially be covered by claims of executive privilege. 'We have an instruction from President Trump not to respond to questions that may implicate the privilege,' Short's attorney Emmet Flood told the Jan. 6 panel. Trump's effort, as a former president, to assert privilege over his White House records and testimony by former aides set up an unprecedented clash — no sitting president had ever diverged from the privilege claims of his predecessors. It raised unresolved questions about the degree to which former presidents retain any ability to assert privilege at all. Although the Nixon-era Supreme Court said they do, the justices also emphasized that only the incumbent president is charged with the stewardship of the executive branch and would virtually always prevail in a dispute with his predecessor. Biden's hands-off approach Trump's effort to stymie the Jan. 6 panel's probe stands in contrast to Biden, who allies say has made no effort, so far, to instruct witnesses on how to approach the investigation into his cognitive health. The Oversight Committee has not specifically articulated the scope of its investigation, but Comer said in a subpoena letter to O'Connor, Biden's White House physician, that the panel is exploring legislation related to 'oversight of presidents' fitness to serve.' Republicans are also looking into making potential changes to the 25th Amendment, which gives Congress a role in determining whether a president is no longer fit to hold office — something House Democrats proposed during their probe of Trump's actions preceding the Jan. 6 attack.
Time of India
02-07-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Donald Trump dealing with dementia? Psychologist alleges motor skills decline; cites ‘telltale' sign
A psychologist has alleged that Donald Trump may be exhibiting early signs of dementia, particularly in his motor skills, and highlighted a "telltale" sign in his right leg that could indicate the former president is battling a specific type of the condition. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Dr. John Gartner has voiced concerns about Trump's coordination, which he believes has worsened over time, suggesting this decline could be symptomatic of dementia. "When we talk about deterioration from dementia, I was focusing on language because that's the thing we most observe, but also we always see deterioration in motor performance," he explained during an appearance on The Dean Obeidallah Show. Dr. John Gartner: Trump's cognitive decline is alarming-there will be need to invoke 25th Amendment Old footage vs present stumbles Dr. Gartner observed changes in Trump's motor abilities citingg old footage of the 79-year-old engaging in sports. This analysis comes amid renewed worries about Trump's cognitive health following what some are calling an "obvious sign" with comparisons being drawn to Biden. "We found some of him doing athletic activities in the 80s. I have a film of him playing volleyball, diving to dig the ball and popping up and hitting a high shot, he was very coordinated," Dr. Gartner remarked. "And now, you know he really does have trouble getting up the stairs, he does trip and fall," he added. While acknowledging that a single fall isn't conclusive evidence of dementia, Dr. Gartner insists there are additional indicators. "I hate to do a gotcha thing 'Oh he tripped on the stairs,' but no, his gait is slow, he is falling," he said during the recently aired programme. 'Telltale' leg swing The psychologist asserted that Trump has repeatedly displayed a symptom which is "diagnostic" of Frontotemporal dementia, mentioning that other medical professionals have also observed this sign in him. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now "The other thing that's actually even more diagnostic, and I had a neurologist point this out and then several neurologists confirmed it, if you watch the way he walks, he has what they call a leg swing, where his right he kind of swings it in a semicircle like it's a dead weight, and he's just kind of swinging it around," Dr. Gartner detailed. "It's very apparent in some tape and not so much in others, but that right leg swing is considered to be very diagnostic of a specific type of dementia, Frontotemporal dementia," he continued. Dr. Gartner mentioned that forensic psychiatrist Dr. Zoffman even told him that "she's absolutely convinced that it's Frontotemporal dementia that he has because of that telltale right leg swing." Frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is a rare form of dementia characterized by behavioral and language difficulties. It targets the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain and typically progresses slowly, worsening over time. Recent footage fuels speculation Concerns about Trump's right leg aren't new; observers recently pointed out the president limping up the steps of Air Force One, favoring his left leg. An X user shared a video from Right Side Broadcasting Network, commenting on Trump's posture: "That left leg is doing all the heavy lifting. He's really making sure that it's firmly placed," as reported by Mirror US. This observation comes amid various clips circulating social media over the past year that show Trump dragging his right leg. Former federal and state Prosecutor Ron Filipkowski highlighted Trump's mobility issues, tweeting in October: "Montage of clips of Trump dragging his right leg over the last few months. He refuses to release his medical records," showcasing several instances where the former president seemed to struggle physically. What the White House says Nevertheless, in April, Trump's White House physician declared him in tip-top shape. Captain Sean Barbabella assured the public of Trump's health with a statement: "President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State," following the president's initial annual physical exam of his second term. The medical evaluation included neurological tests assessing mental status, nerves, motor function, sensory function, and reflexes, where Trump displayed no indicators of depression or anxiety, according to the memo. The president also aced the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a test used to detect cognitive impairment and early signs of dementia, by scoring a perfect 30 out of 30, the physician noted. Post-cognitive assessment, Trump told journalists with pride that he "got every answer right." He expressed confidence about his well-being: "Overall, I felt I was in very good shape," adding, "A good heart, a good soul, a very good soul."
Time of India
30-06-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Dear Mr Japan? Trump's tariff letter opener sparks mockery and memes on social media
Donald Trump's recent interview sparked controversy after he addressed Japan's prime minister as "Mr. Japan" while discussing trade tariffs. This comment quickly became a meme online, drawing criticism and satire. Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on Japanese cars also faced scrutiny, considering most Japanese cars sold in the U.S. are manufactured there. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Why did Donald Trump mention tariffs on Japanese cars? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads How did people react online? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Dear Mr Japan? Trump doesn't know what or who he is talking about undefined Barbara Comstock (@BarbaraComstock) June 29, 2025 If President Biden started a sentence with "Dear Mr. Japan," Republicans would never shut up about it and "25th Amendment" is all theyundefinedd be talking about. This is fucking INSANE. undefined BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) June 29, 2025 Fact: Japan manufactures more cars in US than it imports to US. Japan has some $700 billion invested in US, employs close to 1 million Americans. Ignorance is strength. undefined Robert Manning (@Rmanning4) June 29, 2025 BREAKING: Trump has no clue who the Prime Minister of Japan is so he calls him 'Mr. Japan' in the interview. How can you negotiate with somebody if you don't know their name? undefined Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary) (@MAGALieTracker) June 29, 2025 For the millionth time: (1) "We" donundefinedt give Japan cars - private companies make and endeavor to sell them. And private Japanese individuals, not "Japan," have been decling to buy them. (2) Japan pays US tariffs with the money given by American citizens when they buy those cars. undefined Michael Hausam (@MPHaus) June 29, 2025 FAQs US President Donald Trump is once again the center of a social media storm, this time because he made a mistake about Japan. Trump sparked a meme storm after referring to Japan's prime minister as 'Mr. Japan' during an interview about trade tariffs. Critics and comedians didn't miss a comment quickly became meme fodder online, drawing snark, satire, and eye-rolling from social media users negotiations between the two countries continued, President Donald Trump suggested maintaining 25% tariffs on Japanese automobiles. If a trade agreement is not reached, a series of higher duties will take effect in less than a his tariff pause expires early next month, Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo he would be sending out letters, citing Japan as an example. When describing the letter, Trump seemed to improvise rather than naming Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, whom he met at the White House in February, as per a report by the HuffPost.'Dear Mr. Japan: Here's the story,' Trump said during a Fox News interview that aired Sunday. 'You're going to pay a 25% tariff on your cars.'His threat of a 25% tariff drew criticism, since most Japanese cars sold in the U.S. are made fact that the US imports "millions and millions" of Japanese automobiles while Japan imports relatively few from American automakers, he claimed, is "unfair." 'They won't take our cars,' Trump said, adding that Japan could make up the difference by buying other American goods, like oil.'Now, we have oil. They could take a lot of oil. They could take a lot of other things,' in reference to ways Japan could lower the US trade deficit, he Trump has stated in the past that his tariffs are an attempt to encourage businesses, including foreign ones, to boost their output in the stated in January that his message to all businesses worldwide is straightforward: Come manufacture your product in America, and we will offer you some of the lowest taxes in the the threat of new tariffs is unlikely to affect Japanese automobiles sold in the United States because the great majority of them are already produced fictitious letter to Japanese leaders, which began, "Dear Mr. Japan," was what enraged people on X:One user tweeted, 'Dear Mr Japan? Trump doesn't know what or who he is talking about.'Other user stated on X, 'For the millionth time:(1) "We" don't give Japan cars - private companies make and endeavor to sell them. And private Japanese individuals, not "Japan," have been decling to buy them.(2) Japan pays US tariffs with the money given by American citizens when they buy those cars.'Yes, while discussing car tariffs, he appeared to forget Japan's Prime Minister's name, saying, "Dear Mr. Japan."Not much, most Japanese cars sold in the United States are already manufactured here, so the tariff threat may have a limited impact.
