“He was always a mean son of a b—h. How’s it working? Not working too well for him now. When you start feeling sorry for him, remember he was a bad guy,” Trump said, before returning to the topic of ending anti-Christian bias in the U.S., a country whose pledge of allegiance references God directly.

Trump’s comments on Europe’s approach to immigration

What Trump said:

We’ve taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming.

Trump also attributed immigration rates in Europe to a … :

… globalist migration agenda … It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. Your countries are going to hell.

The facts: Shutting down uncontrolled migration has been a central claim for Trump since his inauguration and indeed, illegal border crossings have dropped to their lowest level in decades in the first months of his presidency. But migration experts have warned that the issue is complex and that uncontrolled migration has not been ended. Furthermore, many of the administration’s remedies have suffered reversals in the courts.

The claim that European countries “are going to hell” thanks to an open border policy is emotive, subjective and, arguably, impervious to fact-checking. Many European nation states cite both cultural and economic benefits from immigration, despite the fact that tensions and challenges also result.

Furthermore, “open borders” is a problematic and misleading description, and European countries are not operating such a policy. Most European Union and Schengen agreement countries allow free movement and an absence of border checks at their internal borders but implement strict external border checks. Britain, where immigration remains a sensitive topic, ended freedom of movement and instituted a points-based immigration system when it left the EU in 2020.

Trump on the war between Russia and Ukraine

What Trump said:

Europe would … :

 … have to join [the US] in adopting the exact same measures [tariffs on Russia] if the war continued.

You’re much closer to the city. We have an ocean in between. You’re right there, and Europe has to step it up. They can’t be doing what they’re doing. They’re buying oil and gas from Russia.

The facts: The claim that European countries – most of which have limited oil resources – are continuing to buy oil and gas from Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine is an oversimplification and, in large part, inaccurate. The EU still buys some of these resources from Moscow but at significantly reduced levels compared with before 2022, when the bloc banned most Russian oil imports.

This Is What Proves Trump’s Dementia: Psychologist

Dr. John Gartner tells The Daily Beast Podcast that signs of deterioration in Trump’s functioning are readily apparent.,

At least one psychologist is convinced that President Donald Trump has dementia.

Dr. John Gartner told The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles that he has observed a “major deterioration” in Trump’s language skills, motor skills, and impulse control. The former Johns Hopkins professor and co-host of the podcast Shrinking Trump explained how he arrived at a diagnosis of dementia for the president, telling The Daily Beast that doing so involves assessing someone’s against their own baseline.

“We have to see a major deterioration in functioning in language and thinking and psychomotor performance and impulse control and a whole variety of areas… what a lot of people don’t realize is that Donald Trump used to be a very articulate person.”

“He used to speak with a high level of vocabulary in very polished paragraphs. Now what we see is not only has his vocabulary gone down, but… there are times when he’s really unable to complete a thought. Sometimes he’s unable to complete a word,” Gartner continued.

Gartner also cited Trump’s tendency to go on tangents in the middle of his own sentences, using a tangent about Hannibal Lecter as an example.

“He was lying and saying that they’re sending all these immigrants from insane asylums, right? And then he goes, ‘Silence of the Lambs. Anyone seen Silence of the Lambs?’ Well, Silence of the Lambs is a movie about insane asylums. Okay, so now we’ve moved from immigrants to has anyone seen this movie?“

“And then he goes, ‘The late great Hannibal Lecter. Nobody likes to talk about him anymore.‘ Well, first of all, he’s not dead, he’s a fictional character, so he can’t be the late Hannibal Lecter,” Gartner explained.

Gartner went on to tell The Daily Beast Podcast that he believes Trump to be a malignant narcissist, which, when combined with the deterioration in his functioning, is a “worst case scenario”.

“So that’s what we started out [with] as a baseline, but now what we have is this chronic organic deterioration from his own baseline. So we have in a sense the worst of both worlds because his judgment was always bad, he was always impulsive, he was always a liar, but now he really is losing his ability to think clearly, to plan, to understand things and to inhibit his speech and his behavior,” Gartner said.

In addition to a deterioration in his language skills and impulse control, Gartner, and other medial professionals, have observed a decline in his psychomotor performance.

“One of the dementia experts that I’ve consulted with is convinced he has frontotemporal dementia because of this symptom alone, which is it’s called a wide-based gait. If you look at his right leg, sometimes he just swings it like a dead weight in a semicircle… the expert that I consulted with said this is what we call pathognomonic. You don’t see this in anyone unless they have frontotemporal dementia,” Gartner explained.

Gartner also referenced the president’s diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency and reports of his ‘droopy face‘ at a memorial event on September 11, which made waves after footage of the event was posted online.

“That’s not something that comes with age. It really is suggestive of some kind of potential mini stroke. So all of these things could be related,” he added.

Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Biden Is a Robot Clone

“There is no Joe Biden,” the post reads, claiming that the former president was actually murdered in 2020.

With one repost from President Donald Trump, former president Joe Biden has joined a storied pantheon: public figures believed to have died and been replaced by clones.

Not content with spreading conspiracy theories on Friday night, late on Saturday night, Trump shared a post by a supporter to his Truth Social page that claimed Biden was killed in 2020. The post reads, “There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. Democrats dont know the difference.”

With this bizarre accusation, Biden joins such celebrities as The Beatles’ Paul McCartney, who has been dodging rumors about his death since 1969, and Avril Lavigne, who has been plagued by a conspiracy theory involving her death and subsequent replacement by a clone since the 2000s.

Trump’s own wife Melania has also been the subject of similar conspiracy theories, with the idea that Melania had been replaced by a body double gaining credence during Trump’s first term, prompting the White House to issue a statement dismissing the theories as a “non-story.”

Trump supporters were quick to encourage the president’s repost, sharing memes and “evidence” for the theory in the replies—one being that Biden’s eye color allegedly changed in 2020, while another claims that Biden was replaced because his ear lobes suddenly appeared to be attached to his head, whereas prior to 2020 they were unattached.

Other commenters pointed to side-by-side photos of Biden from the 1990s and the 2020s, as well as different signatures as further proof that Biden had been murdered, with some specifying that he had been executed by a military tribunal.

It’s been a conspiracy-filled weekend for Trump, with the president also reposting a conspiracy theory on Friday night that accused CBS of suppressing footage of his 2015 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (the footage is readily available on YouTube).

Biden, who is still dealing with speculation about his fitness for office toward the end of his term, recently shared that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

The news prompted many in the MAGA-verse, including Trump, to call for Biden’s White House doctor to be investigated for giving the former president a clean bill of health last July.

Trump, 79, Insists George Washington Would’ve Voted for Him

The 47th president claimed the country’s first president would have supported his America First agenda.

President Donald Trump told attendees at the American Cornerstone Institute’s Founders Dinner that George Washington “would have voted” for him.

Addressing the crowd dining at Washington’s own Mount Vernon estate, Trump said, “On the world stage, we are once again putting America first. That is what we do, we help others, but we have to put America first. Exactly as George Washington would have wanted. He would have voted for us.”

During his speech, Trump also announced that he would be giving his Ben Carson, his former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Carson and his wife Candy established the American Cornerstone Institute, a think tank that aims to promote conservative values, in 2021. The institute was on the advisory board of Project 2025.

It’s not the first time Trump has invoked the name of America’s first president in order to bolster his own. In his address to Congress in March, the president said the first month of his second term was more successful than even George Washington’s.

“It has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency… is the most successful in the history of our nation,” Trump said, without specifying who had stated that. “And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who number two is? George Washington. How about that? I don’t know about that list, but we’ll take it.”