More: Business leaders can secure a one-on-one meeting with the president at Mar-a-Lago for $5 million, according to sources with direct knowledge of the meetings. At a so-called candlelight dinner held as recently as this past Saturday, prospective Mar-a-Lago guests were asked to spend $1 million to reserve a seat, according to an invitation obtained by WIRED.

"You are invited to a candlelight dinner featuring special guest President Donald J. Trump," the invitation reads, under a "MAGA INC." header. MAGA Inc., or Make America Great Again Inc., is a super PAC that supported Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. "Additional details provided upon RSVP. RSVPs will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis. Space is very limited. $1,000,000 per person."

Invitees were asked to RSVP to Meredith O'Rourke, who served as national finance director and senior adviser at Donald J. Trump for President 2024, a campaign committee, and who is the owner of The O'Rourke Group, which O'Rourke describes on her LinkedIn page as a "Republican political fundraiser." Invitees were also directed to email Abby Mathis, the finance coordinator at MAGA Inc. Mathis was previously a staff assistant for Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama"a former Auburn University football coach"and also served as an intern at the White House office of the staff secretary, according to LegiStorm, a research organization that posts information on politicians and their staffers.

"I can't recall a sitting president in the first weeks of his administration asking for millions of dollars in fundraising," says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. "The concern is less about fundraising and more about access and influence ... People hoping to get favorable treatment view it in their interest to donate money to Trump."

"Part of what is worrying," Moynihan adds, "is the lack of ethical guardrails in the current Trump administration, where there doesn't seem to be a clear line between Trump's businesses and the presidency."

Are we great yet, Republicans? Or do we need to bring back leaded gas to go a long with our sh!+ filled water?

Democrats are spineless. They'd rather sit back and watch Trump tear up the constitution than dare to speak up.

The parties are not the same but they both need to be abolished.

Recession is optimistic. A second Greater Depression is my guess.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases we know of. Worse than flu, small pox, whooping cough and six times more contagious than ebola.

You're wasting your time, Laura, cowardly little boyaz doesn't understand what words like progressive mean. They're just pejoratives to him.

Are the ICEholes not proud of the work they do?

If you're terrified of your identity being discovered you need to find a new job.

As someone from NC I'll just quote you from a different thread, Zed.

1) I didn't vote for that bastard, Trump. A lot of us didn't.

2) I am sorry that this wasn't enough. If it's any consolation, the people who support Trump are already paying through their noses.

Stand your ground.

If they do something like this expect it to happen just before the midterms. They will have time not only to destroy the economy but then also send out relief checks to seem heroic to the simpletons who vote red.

I've got a friend who is a groundskeeper at a big VA facility. He had four emails from different people in his chain of command demanding he reply to Elon's email by COB today.

The party of law and order.

Those bounties may be the only way many(most?) people in that state are able to eat and pay rent once King Donald and President Musk pull the federal funds keeping that state afloat.

Unfortunately the Dems are absolutely spineless and will never do it.

More: "Hey, John, what's this all about? What's this a tour of?" Mr Trump reportedly asked John Kelly, his then-chief of staff, when they took a private tour in 2017 of the USS Arizona Memorial, a ship commemorating the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War.

"Trump had heard the phrase 'Pearl Harbor' and appeared to understand that he was visiting the scene of a historic battle, but he did not seem to know much else," write the authors, who quote a former White House adviser concluding the US president was "dangerously uninformed".

During a meeting with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister's "eyes bulged out in surprise", the Washington Post reporters claim, when Mr Trump told him: "It's not like you've got China on your border."

China and India in fact share more than 2,000 miles of common border.

Mr Modi's expression "shifted from shock and concern to resignation", with aides telling the authors the Indians "took a step back" in their diplomatic relations with the US following the meeting.

We'll be banning mRNA vaccines here shortly. Thanks RFK!!

I'm shocked, SHOCKED! /s

Now they're good cops.