Donald Trump

Independent - President Trump has claimed that the CEO of Google talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean.  Trump, who in his second term has shown a penchant for renaming large bodies of water, made the claim at a rally in South Carolina as he tried to drum up support for Senator Darline Graham ahead of the midterm elections.

“We have a lake, we have a gulf. Now we need a river, and we need an ocean,” he said, referring to executive orders to rename Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico to Lake America and the Gulf of America, respectively.

Trump went on to say that he would consider only two oceans for bearing either his name or America’s. 

Independent -  President Donald Trump on Friday lost his temper with yet another journalist as he said he did not care about Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s history of being raped by her late stepfather and continued to voice support for a widely condemned ad targeting Acton — by using a clip of her estranged mother calling her a “liar.”

 Speaking as he departed the White House for a rally in Florida and a weekend at his Palm Beach home, Trump upbraided a female reporter for NBC News who pressed him about his continued support for GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s decision to run the television spot, which shows Acton’s birth mother, Donna Arthur, accusing her daughter of being “a liar” and warning the people of Ohio not to vote for her.

“You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you,” Trump said after the journalist informed him of her employer’s identity.

Acton, 60, has said she was raped by her stepfather when she was 12 years old and has not spoken to Arthur since 1978 after the latter refused to believe her and instead sided with her husband, whom she stayed with, even after he was charged, until his death.

NBC News - When voters headed to the polls nearly two years ago, Donald Trump promised them cheaper groceries, gas below $2 a gallon and a wave of new manufacturing jobs. They elected him president — and got the opposite. Instead, prices have kept rising and wages have struggled to keep pace with inflation. While the broader economy has grown at a healthy rate, the gains have disproportionately flowed to the wealthiest households.

….Take cheaper groceries. Prices are up 3.5% from January 2025, when Trump came into office, in part because of tariffs and higher fuel costs following the Iran war.  Speaking of fuel, Trump promised gas for $2 a gallon. But the national average of regular gas is $4.27, according to AAA — the first time gas has ever averaged more than $4 a gallon in October.

Taxes, however, are lower on average, as Trump promised. And while tax law partially achieves his pledge to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime, the reality is a little more complicated.

Alternet -  In the wake of President Donald Trump’s rallies on Wednesday, a widely cited psychologist and body language expert warned of a “shocking new symptom” of the commander-in-chief’s increasingly apparent “neurological decline.” According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump displayed a “wide variety of neurological symptoms” suggesting a severe “dysfunction,” and it’s only going to get worse.

“I've been saying for a while now the signs and symptoms of the neurological dysfunction are going to become more obvious,” says Garrison, asserting, “It is more obvious now.”

He plays a clip in which Trump makes an abrupt "eeerp" noise in the middle of speaking. According to Garrison, “There's several possibilities of what this could be. This could be something like I talked about a couple of months ago, like a focal aware seizure or something similar. But one thing we know for sure is that we're seeing motor dysfunction. We're also seeing vocal dysfunction.” Whatever the cause, warns Garrison, it is “a startling and absolutely shocking new symptom.” 

New Republic -  “If you don’t want Communists controlling the Senate, which is between JIIIAAAAT,” Trump slurred. “How about the gentleman from a place called Michigan, he’s in a jihadist. He’s a jihadist!”

Trump was referring to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim and a Democrat—not a Communist or jihadist.

Later, in a desperate attempt to appeal to normal people, Trump once again pretended he could relate to struggles with landscaping equipment, with some … creative insertions.

“You got to be very smart to turn on a lawnmower. I don’t want you to have to think too much. I’d like you to POWW or BIIING,” Trump said.