Donald Trump

Independent, UK -  U.S. President Donald Trump increased the refugee admissions ceiling by 10,000 for this year to allow more white South Africans into the country, a presidential determination reviewed by Reuters showed. The document, dated May 21, stated white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity face an emergency due to "incitement of racially motivated violence" by the government and political parties in the majority-Black nation. Trump, a Republican, froze refugee admissions globally when he took office in January 2025, but weeks later launched a programme exclusively aimed at white South Africans.

MSN -  A top doctor has sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s habit of falling asleep during meetings, saying it could be a sign of something sinister.  Trump, who turns 80 next month, has appeared to nod off during several engagements, most recently at a Memorial Day event at Arlington Cemetery on Monday. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine and the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the George Washington University Hospital, and also cardiologist to the late former Vice President Dick Cheney, has said this could be evidence of a “severe illness.”

Speaking about Trump’s long list of issues, ahead of his visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center for a checkup on Tuesday, Reiner honed in on Trump’s sleeping habits.

“The president has severe daytime somnolence. He falls asleep very often. He’s fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the Cabinet room;"

Alternet -   After tearing down the White House East Wing without the legal authority to do so, President Donald Trump is now acting in a way which suggests he may have designs on the building’s iconic Ionic columns.  “President Donald Trump appeared absorbed by the White House’s columns on Monday, lingering for several minutes and running his hands along the stonework,” The Daily Beast's Erkki Forster reported on Monday night. “The row of columns framing the White House’s entrance seemed to arrest the 79-year-old president’s attention as he returned from Arlington National Cemetery after delivering a boastful Memorial Day speech.”

....“Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the Trump appointee who chairs the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal arts commission, proposed replacing the Ionic columns with Corinthian columns, a more luxurious style preferred by Trump, The Washington Post first reported in March,” Forster wrote. In that Washington Post article, it was observed that “the Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those more decorative columns, a style known as Corinthian, are considered the most luxurious in classical architecture and appear on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. They have long been deployed on Trump’s properties, and the president has handpicked them for his planned White House ballroom, too.”