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3 hours ago
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Trump Says 'If You Feel Sorry' For Biden, 'Don't Feel So Sorry'
President Donald Trump launched a personal attack on Joe Biden in a nearly 5-minute ramble at a White House press conference on Friday, saying people shouldn't 'feel so sorry' for his predecessor. It began with a question from Fox News' Peter Doocy. 'So many of the things that you're trying to do are held up in court right now,' Doocy said. 'If the courts are going to have so much influence over U.S. policy, do you wish you would have just become a judge?' Both Doocy and Trump laughed after the question. The president then launched into a lengthy rambling response in which he called a federal judge in Boston 'a radical left person,' criticized the previous administration's immigration policies, praised himself and called Biden a 'vicious person.' His comments about Biden came as Trump was trying to explain why he doesn't 'believe' that Biden was truly responsible for some of his administration's policies. 'He's been a sort of a moderate person over his lifetime,' Trump said of Biden. 'Not a smart person. But a somewhat vicious person, I will say. If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious.' Trump added, 'He hurt a lot of people. And so, I really don't feel sorry for him.' It was not immediately clear exactly what Trump was referring to when he said he didn't 'feel sorry' for Biden. However, manynewsoutlets and people on social media noted that the comments came off as particularly insensitive in the wake of the former president's cancer diagnosis. Biden's office announced this month that he had been diagnosed with aggressive stage 4 prostate cancer, but told reporters at his Delaware home on Friday that 'the prognosis is good.' 'The expectation is we're going to be able to beat this,' Biden said After the news broke, Biden was met with an outpouring of support and encouragement, including from people in Trump's cabinet. Others, including Donald Trump Jr. and far-right influencerLaura Loomer, took his illness as an opportunity to attack him. Trump himself initially posted a sympathetic message on Truth Social, writing, 'Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis.' But he later played into unverified theories that Biden had hidden his cancer diagnosis. 'Actually, I'm surprised that, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that's a long time,' Trump told reporters last week. (Biden has stage 4 cancer with a Gleason score of 9.) The president also stated, 'somebody is not telling the facts.' Biden On His Cancer Diagnosis: 'We're Going To Be Able To Beat This' Biden Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Cancer Announcement Biden Had Not Received Prostate Cancer Screening Since 2014, Spokesperson Says
Hindustan Times
4 hours ago
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Did Trump just mock France's Macron by offering marital advise after viral slap incident? Netizens say ‘hillarious'
President Donald Trump on Friday offered a marital tip to French President Emmanuel Macron following a viral video that garnered netizens' reactions as his wife Brigitte shoved him in the face. The incident happened on Sunday as the Macrons touched down in Vietnam, the opening destination on their week-long Southeast Asian tour. According to the French President, he is in the area at a 'key crossroads of global trade' to demonstrate that 'France is present and acting with its partners' in the face of growing trade hostilities between the United States and China. During an interview with Trump, Fox News' Peter Doocy asked, 'Do you have any world leader to world leader marital advice to Macron?' prompting laughter from the crowd. Doocy's question prompted Trump, who has been married three times, to grin and reply, 'Make sure the door remains closed. That was not good.' 'No, I spoke to him and he's fine,' the 47th President responded. Meanwhile, several netizens reacted to Trump's witty advise to Macron, with one X user said, 'Dude's hilarious.' 'Trump's comedy chops are legit,' another said. 'The most powerful man in the world, has a great sense of humor!,' a third user stated. Also Read: Elon Musk breaks silence on new bombshell drug abuse charge, netizens react; 'It's funny that…' After the footage of Brigitte Macron and Macron aboard a plane in Vietnam went viral on video tape was verified as legitimate by the French President's office, which also stated that it depicted the couple 'horsing around.' The Macrons' relationship has garnered significant media attention for years due to the age gap between the French President and Brigitte. Meanwhile, the Trump administration's position on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as well as Trump's choice to impose worldwide tariffs last month that target almost all US trading partners, including France, have caused tension in the ties between Trump and Macron.
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16 hours ago
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President Trump Teases Potential Pardon for Diddy If Mogul's Convicted
President Trump is weighing in on the Diddy federal criminal trial ... saying he would look into the case and consider a potential pardon if the jury returns a guilty verdict. Trump just doled out a bunch of pardons and commutations this week to a slew of celebs ... and he was asked Friday if he would ever consider pardoning Diddy. POTUS says he hasn't been following the Diddy trial all that closely and he would have to "look at what's happening" and "look at the facts." Trump said if Diddy was convicted and if he felt Diddy was "mistreated," he might consider a potential pardon. Those are some pretty big ifs -- Diddy's literally on trial right now and we're likely not even halfway through. Frankly, this all sounds a bit premature, even if Trump's recent batch of pardons prompted the question from Fox News' Peter Doocy. Diddy and Trump are both big figures in New York and in 2012 on 'Celebrity Apprentice,' Trump said of Diddy, "I love Diddy ... You know, he's a good friend of mine, he's a good guy." But Trump seemed to distance himself from Diddy in his answer ... saying they haven't seen each other or spoken to one another in years. Trump says when he got into politics, his relationship with Diddy "busted up" ... though he says that would NOT have an impact when it came to considering potential clemency. Diddy's pled not guilty to two counts of sex trafficking, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, and one count of racketeering conspiracy ... and he's currently on trial in Manhattan.
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20 hours ago
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Trump gifts Musk gold key to White House in Oval Office sendoff
President Trump gifted outgoing adviser Elon Musk with a gold key to the White House on Friday, lauding his service in the administration. 'Elon gave an incredible service. There's nobody like him, and he had to go through the slings and the arrows, which is a shame, because he's an incredible patriot,' Trump said during an Oval Office presser, adding that Americans 'appreciate' his work. Throughout his tenure as a White House adviser and special government employee, Musk led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in seeking spending reductions, cuts to the federal workforce and closures of federal agencies. As a result, protests across the country took place as people decried job losses and constrained access to services. Although the tech giant served for only 130 days, he said the mission of DOGE will continue amid his departure. 'This is not the end of DOGE, but really the beginning,' Musk told reporters. 'The DOGE team will only grow stronger over time. The DOGE influence will only go stronger,' Musk added. 'It is permeating throughout the government, and I am confident that, over time, we will see a trillion dollars of savings and a reduction in — a trillion dollars of waste and fraud reduction.' Vice President Vance previewed that sentiment last month. 'DOGE has got a lot of work to do. And yeah, that work is going to continue after Elon leaves,' he told Fox News' 'Fox & Friends' in April. 'But fundamentally, Elon is going to remain a friend and an adviser of both me and the president. 'And he's done a lot of good things. People don't realize how vast and uncontrolled the bureaucracy was,' the vice president continued. 'We've started to chip away at it, but there's a lot of work to do. It's not going to happen all in six months, it's going to take a long and committed effort.' The president previously gifted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a gold key as reported in Jared Kushner's memoir 'Breaking History.' The total number of golden keepsakes gifted by the president is unknown. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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21 hours ago
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Dan Bongino actually has to do work at the FBI — and he doesn't like it
Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, appeared to become emotional on live national television Thursday. Not while recalling some gut-wrenching FBI child exploitation case, or a grisly mass shooting crime scene. No, Bongino, a former right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist, who is typically a tough-guy poser, went on the Fox News' morning show 'Fox and Friends'to whine about how taxing his new gig is. There's more here than meets the watery eye. 'I gave up everything for this,' he lamented before adding that FBI Director Kash Patel typically works 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and that 'I'm in there at 7:30 in the morning.' Bongino said, 'I stare at these four walls all day in D.C., by myself, divorced from my wife — not divorced, but I mean separated, divorced — and it's hard. I mean, we love each other, and it's hard to be apart.' After saying that the job has been tough on his family, he said, 'People ask all the time, 'Do you like it?' No. I don't.' Cry me a river. Bongino is describing what anyone in a senior FBI leadership role is expected to endure, particularly at headquarters. I've been there, done that. As an inspector and then chief inspector based in Washington, D.C., I had to live apart from family, travel extensively and fly home whenever a free weekend permitted. When I was named an assistant director, we agreed to let our son finish his last year of high school and then my wife joined me in D.C. And my experience was easier than senior executives at even higher levels. Entering the J. Edgar Hoover building before sunrise and leaving after sundown was the norm — for all of us. Such personal and professional sacrifice isn't limited to executives. Agents and professional specialists throughout the FBI's field offices routinely miss family events, their kids' birthday parties and games, and have their vacations and holidays disrupted. The same is true for career government servants across our institutions. Welcome to the real world, Mr. Bongino. It's not hard to surmise why Bongino felt it necessary to broadcast how hard he and Director Patel are working. Both are under increasing pressure from the Trump base to deliver on the conspiracy theories they promoted before Trump hired them and to expose the so-called deep state cover-ups they claimed existed. Moreover, Patel has been taking some heat lately on whether he's taking his job seriously — especially after he showed up unprepared for a budget hearing in Congress. Bongino seems particularly touchy about how he's perceived. When he got wind that The New York Times might publish an embarrassing account of how he was injured trying to grapple with an FBI instructor at the bureau's academy, Bongino tried to get out in front of it by issuing his own statement on X that confirmed he was no match for the FBI agent and that he got hurt. He said it was 'not an 'injury' but a bit of swelling in my right elbow.' Some of this transparent attempt at PR might be humorous if it weren't consistent with Trump world's misunderstanding of sacrifice. The president himself has equated the hard work he says he does with sacrifice and, most disgracefully, said it in response to a Gold Star family who said he'd 'sacrificed nothing.' And at a public event this Memorial Day, President Trump extolled his own accomplishments in office. In his 2019 book 'Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,' Donald Trump Jr. wrote about Arlington National Cemetery this way: 'As we drove past the rows of white grave markers … I also thought of … all the sacrifices we'd have to make — giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals." The president's net worth has doubled to $5.4 billion since he ran for re-election. Much of that increased wealth is coming from the Trump family's engagements in the Middle East, including with an Emirates company that struck a deal to purchase $2 billion of a Trump family organization digital coin. While the FBI's deputy director bemoans his lot in life, and the president and his family get richer while pretending they've made substantial sacrifices for the country, perhaps they should consider the plight of Americans who work two jobs to make ends meet, the losses suffered by Ukrainians fighting for freedom, the horrors experienced by Israeli hostages and their families, and the agony of children in Gaza begging for a meal. Hard work is admirable, but if you're going to complain about it, you'll get little sympathy from me. This article was originally published on
