Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said President Donald Trump was “unhinged and unwell.”
Discussing a conversation with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Dean said, “I told him how deeply concerned I am that the president is unhinged and unwell, and our allies are noticing it, and they’re looking elsewhere for support, and our enemies are enjoying it, and they are emboldened by it.”
Host John Berman said, “You just called the president unwell again. What do you mean by that?”
Dean said, “Well, he’s aging, aren’t we all? I think we can very much notice that he’s a different man than he was in his first term. He’s slower, he’s a little more lethargic. But much more important to me is what he is saying before the world. That meeting with the generals, number one, allowing the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, to call in more than 800 military leaders from around the globe, was an extraordinarily dangerous, reckless, vain thing to do on both of their parts. Pulling them out from the theaters where they are working and leading, and then to stand before them rambling about how he walks on stairs, what wars he solved, and that he doesn’t like the design of battleships. Does he want them to be gold or something? Just bizarre comments that meandered.”
She added, “I want this president to succeed, but it is clear to me that he is unwell. I think the people around him have to recognize that and go to him and admit it to him.”
Judge Rules Against Sanctuary Cities, Will Not Stop Trump from Cutting Off Federal Funds
A federal judge ruled against two sanctuary cities this week, ensuring President Donald Trump can move forward with blocking certain Department of Justice (DOJ) grants to such jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Earlier this year, Trump signed two executive orders, both designed to get sanctuary cities to cooperate with ICE as they enforce federal immigration law — or risk losing certain federal funds.
Soon after Trump signed the executive orders, the sanctuary cities of Chelsea and Somerville, Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit claiming they would suffer irreparable harm if the orders took effect.
On Thursday, Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton sided with the Trump administration and against the sanctuary cities.
“This Court acknowledges the nuances and complex relationships that characterize the administration of municipalities and how they prioritize constituent services,” Gorton writes in his ruling:
Those complexities notwithstanding, the Cities still bear the burden of demonstrating to this Court how it is not just possible, but likely, that without injunctive relief, they will suffer imminent and irreparable harm. Plaintiffs have not done so. [Emphasis added]
For the foregoing reasons, plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction against defendants is DENIED. [Emphasis added]
Dale Wilcox with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which filed a brief in the case, said sanctuary cities continue to refuse to cooperate with ICE and have sought out the courts in an attempt to block Trump’s fierce immigration agenda.
In this case, Wilcox said, that initiative has failed.
“Rather than simply comply with federal law and the Constitution, these cities have run to court to keep the money flowing even as they go on breaking the law,” Wilcox said. “But the administration’s pressure on these cities to obey the law is not an injury a court can recognize. We are pleased the court clearly saw that there was no imminent irreparable harm here, and denied the injunction.”
The case is City of Chelsea v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-10442 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Treasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump’s face for U.S. 250th anniversary
- The Treasury Department is considering minting a $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump’s likeness on both sides.
- A first draft of that coin shows Trump’s head in profile on one side, above the words “IN GOD WE TRUST” and the dates 1776 and 2026.
- The other side of the coin mirrors a widely viewed photo taken of Trump in the moments after he survived an assassination attempt at a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The Treasury Department is considering minting a $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump’s likeness on both sides to honor him and commemorate the United States’ 250th birthday next year.
A first draft of that coin, which will mark the semiquincentennial anniversary of the nation’s founding, depicts Trump’s head in profile on one side, above the words “IN GOD WE TRUST” and the dates 1776 and 2026.
The other side of the coin shows a defiant-looking Trump raising his fist, closely matching the pose he struck moments after surviving an assassination attempt at a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The words “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT,” which Trump mouthed to his supporters right after that attack, appear around the edge of that side of the coin.
“No fake news here. These first drafts honoring America’s 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real,” U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach wrote on X in response to a post touting sketches of the coin.
“Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over,” Beach wrote.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reposted Beach’s message from his own X account.
A Treasury spokesperson told CNBC that a final design for a $1 coin to commemorate the anniversary has not yet been selected.
But “this first draft reflects well the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, even in the face of immense obstacles,” the spokesperson said, adding, “We look forward to sharing more soon.”
Commemorative coins are legal tender, but they are not minted for general circulation, according to the United States Mint.
It was not immediately clear if the government has created any previous commemorative coins or other coins depicting a living president.
A federal law signed by Trump in January 2021 — just a week before his first term in office ended — allows the Treasury secretary to mint $1 coins “with designs emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial” during the year of the anniversary.
But that same law, under a heading on standards for circulating collectible coins, states, “No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).”
Subsection Y refers to the rules about coins for the 250th anniversary.
That language appears in similar forms in other coin-related laws listed on the U.S. Mint’s website.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco notes, “To avoid the appearance of a monarchy, it was long-standing tradition to only feature portraits of deceased individuals on currency and coin.”
“That tradition became law with an 1866 Act of Congress,” the Fed bank added.
The Treasury Department did not provide a comment in response to CNBC’s questions about the legality of the draft coin.
Trump threatens mass firings of federal workers if government shutdown isn’t averted, NBC News reports
- President Donald Trump told NBC News on Sunday that “we are going to cut a lot of the people that … we’re able to cut on a permanent basis” if the government shuts down.
- The White House renewed warnings that thousands of government jobs could be on the line if lawmakers don’t reach a deal.
- Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress are still far apart on negotiations.
President Donald Trump warned Sunday of widespread layoffs if the federal government shuts down this week, telling NBC News that “we are going to cut a lot of the people that … we’re able to cut on a permanent basis.”
″[I’d] rather not do that,” he told NBC News in an exclusive interview.
The White House is doubling down on warnings that thousands of government jobs could be on the line if the government shuts down at midnight on Tuesday.
The Trump administration last week told federal agencies to begin preparing for mass firings if Congress does not agree to a deal to avert a shutdown. If the White House follows through on its threat, it would mark a break from precedent, as federal employees are typically furloughed in such cases.
When there was a full government shutdown in 2013, for instance, about 850,000 employees were furloughed, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The warning of potential mass firings — which was made via a memo released by the Office of Management and Budget — marked a significant escalation of pressure on congressional lawmakers to head off a shutdown.
Still, with less than three days until the government funding deadline, lawmakers remain far apart on negotiations, increasing the chances of a shutdown.
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