President Donald Trump on Tuesday made another dubious claim about his involvement in the recovery effort following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, leading critics to call him "delusional" and a "despicable liar." Trump, who had already been brutally fact-checked over claims of extensive involvement in the recovery effort in 2019, claimed Tuesday that two firemen "lifted me up" from the rubble amid concerns that a nearby building was going to collapse. There has been no evidence that Trump helped clear rubble at Ground Zero, let alone that he fell and was carried by firefighters.
The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning. read more
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) skipped a scheduled meeting with paralyzed veterans from his home state, but had time to appear on Fox News instead, The Wall Street Journal said in a report detailing his aversion to work. read more
"Donald Trump loves hot dogs"loves them. But he reserves a particular devotion for the ones served at the snack shack beside the 11th tee box at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C."wieners that, on Trump's personal scale of human achievement, probably rank somewhere between mankind's first glimpse of gold in a riverbed and the construction of Trump Tower," Forbes reports. Said a former club employee: "He has this weird, very odd pride about how good the hot dogs are. That's his thing. The chef has to be out there. And he's like, Chef, get everyone a hot dog"all these guys.'" "And everyone means everyone"roughly 30 carts full of Secret Service agents included. But the president's frankfurters are not free ... Ethics rules restrict agents from accepting gifts from those they serve. So Trump's club charges the agency that protects him."
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