25th Amendment. Seriously.
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Donald Trump waged a teeny, tiny battle with a binder clip Tuesday morning during a live TV press conference.
While speaking to reporters at the White House during a briefing televised by CNN, the president again hit out at Joe Biden's administration, repeating to attendees once again a false claim that Biden actually lost the 2020 presidential election.
Then, as he held up a "book on accomplishments" his team has allegedly achieved during the first year of his second term in office, Trump nearly shut his finger in a large binder clip holding the thick stack of documents together.
The 79-year-old slightly recoiled as a loud snapping noise was heard after he removed the clip from the papers, while he exclaimed, "Ooh, I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could've done some damage."
Still, he assured reporters, "You know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain."
He lingered on the topic for the next few seconds, asking the room, "Did you hear that?" before calling the snap "nasty" in the moment.
"But, I would not have shown the pain," he reiterated. "I would've acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was nasty. I think somebody did that."
He then looked around the room and pointed toward a member of the press, smiling as he said, "It was him. It was my man. How are you?"
Trump then threw the clip off to the side of the podium, and it could be heard clanging around on the floor beside him. He then shifted his attention to the contents of the stack of papers behind the podium, lifting it up as he rifled through the pages.
"Each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. It's big stuff, too," Trump said, calling the United States "the hottest country in the world" before tossing the papers to the ground as reporters in the room laughed at the gesture.
https://ew.com/donald-trump-nearly-shuts-finger-binder-clip-live-tv-11888923
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Davos 1/21/26
He has lost his mind. Worse than ever
https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=2974788b53f73e7950e8aa49f3a306db.2598&s=77d95fc6cad8d45533dd3f27036310a4 -
US President Donald Trump says that the US military used a mysterious new weapons system dubbed the “Discombobulator” during the operation to capture then-Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro in Caracas earlier this month, Trump tells the New York Post.
“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump says.
According to Trump, the weapon “made [Venezuela’s] equipment not work,” suggesting that the system was used to disrupt the Venezuelan air defense and radar systems, allowing US forces to carry out the raid with near-impunity.
“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us,” Trump tells the US news outlet..
It gets worse….,
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Slovakia’s prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president’s state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said.
Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump’s stance on Europe’s weaknesses, was concerned about the U.S. president’s “psychological state,” two of the diplomats said. Fico used the word “dangerous” to describe how the U.S. president came across during their face-to-face meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Jan. 17, according to two of the diplomats.
The conversation between Fico and his European counterparts took place in Brussels on Jan. 22 on the sidelines of an emergency EU summit arranged to discuss transatlantic relations in the wake of Trump’s threats to seize Greenland. Leaders used that gathering to try to calm tensions after the U.S. president walked back his threat to slap tariffs on some European countries over the issue a day earlier.
All the diplomats were granted anonymity by POLITICO to allow them to discuss the confidential exchanges between leaders. They come from four different EU governments. The fifth is a senior EU official. All of them said they didn’t know the details of what Trump had said to Fico that had triggered his reaction.
Fico denies he said these things.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/
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From Gov Newsom's office:
https://bsky.app/profile/govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov/post/3mdlf5k6j6s22
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