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Confused Trump raises eyebrows as he stumbles through order-signing on 'crypto-graffey'

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President Donald Trump's executive order signing ceremony on Monday left some observers wide-eyed. Trump signed a pair of executive orders to boost America's quantum computing industry during a ceremony in the Oval Office. However, Trump stumbled over a section of one of the orders while reading it to the press, leaving some onlookers genuinely baffled. "The second order I am signing directs federal agencies to make the transition to what is called 'quantum crypto-graphy,'" Trump said, seeming confused. "Does anybody know what that is? You're going to hear very soon."The Oval Office may have fallen quiet after Trump made his comments, but political observers were active online reacting to clips of the ceremony. Journalist Aaron Rupar posted on Bluesky that "[Trump] clearly has no clue" about the executive orders he was signing. "President Good Brains calls it 'crypto-graffey' twice," Brandon Friedman, a former Obama administration staffer, posted on Bluesky. "Perhaps another reason we should think of elections as selecting teams and political networks (albeit with notional leaders) into office," Sarang Shah, a fellow at Columbia University's Center for Law and the Economy, posted on Bluesky. "Hang this up in the Unitary Executive Theory Hall of Fame," James Goodwin, policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, posted on Bluesky. Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?"[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 22, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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Trump Administration Steps Up Law Enforcement Presence at Reflecting Pool

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Trump Administration Steps Up Law Enforcement Presence at Reflecting Pool

The president alleged that vandals damaged the pool, but the administration has provided little evidence to support that claim.

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Kennedy Center photos leak that Trump 'does not want anyone to see': report

Photographs smuggled out from behind tarp-covered scaffolding at the Kennedy Center reveal what President Donald Trump has spent nine days trying to hide.His name is gone.The images, first obtained by activist group Hands Off the Arts and independently verified by The Washington Post, show two rows of blank square panels on the performing arts venue's marble facade, where Trump's name had been affixed since December."This is the picture the Trump administration does not want anyone to see, so it’s all the more important … that people have an opportunity to witness when they’re winning," said Mallory Miller, co-founder of Hands Off the Arts.The name came down in the early morning hours of June 14. A 14-member crew completed the court-ordered removal around 3 a.m., hours past the judicial deadline. Rather than pull back the scaffolding and let the public see the results, the Kennedy Center left tarps and barricades up, with security guards blocking any view of the facade. A spokeswoman said the scaffolding "will remain up as crews address maintenance needs of the marble and soffit panels." The tarp cover was "starting to arouse suspicion," with some questioning whether the name had actually been removed.U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled last month that Trump's board had violated federal law when it voted to rename the venue. Only Congress, which created the Kennedy Center, has the authority to change its name.Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), whose lawsuit forced the removal, accused Trump's allies on the board of willfully sabotaging the facade in "a petty act of defiance." Trump had railed against the court order on social media, vowing he had "no interest" in continuing what he called a "hopeless journey."

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Trump DOJ accused of using new mandate to intentionally target Dem cities

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Trump DOJ accused of using new mandate to intentionally target Dem cities

President Donald Trump's administration is conditioning nearly $1 billion in public safety grants on local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, a move critics argue is designed to exclude Democratic-led cities. Approximately $700 million flows through the existing COPS grant program. NPR reports this new $300 million Model Cities Initiative will go to just two to four cities, bypassing standard competitive peer-review processes, explained Amy Solomon, senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and former head of the DOJ's Office of Justice Programs.Any program that impedes or hinders federal immigration enforcement will not receive funding, according to the mandate. This includes failing to honor requests from the Department of Homeland Security. Legal experts warn the approach is highly unusual, with critics predicting only Republican-led jurisdictions will apply, allowing the administration to portray Democrats as soft on crime. Police chiefs have long opposed linking local law enforcement to immigration enforcement, citing erosion of community trust and witness cooperation. Federal data shows over 70 percent of immigrant detainees lack criminal convictions. The DOJ defended the policy, while the first Trump administration's similar tactic was previously challenged in court and reversed under Former President Joe Biden.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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Reflecting pool to be drained again as Trump claims five vandalism arrests

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Reflecting pool to be drained again as Trump claims five vandalism arrests

President says ‘vandals’ to blame for algae blooms and peeling paint as $14m renovation to undergo further repairsThe Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is set to be drained again after Donald Trump said on Monday – without providing proof – that five people were arrested for vandalism and five more are under investigation in connection to the algae blooms and peeling paint that appeared weeks after his ill-fated $14m renovation attempt.“It’s not a lot of damage, but we’ll probably have to let the water out and refix it. They went in there with a knife,” Trump told reporters, describing what he first said was a 290- to 300ft slit in the paint but then later amended to a 350ft slit. He also said someone had put fertilizer into the water, which caused the algae to grow. Continue reading...

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Intelligence Democrats warn Trump nominee Bill Pulte as ODNI braces for firings

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Intelligence Democrats warn Trump nominee Bill Pulte as ODNI braces for firings

Intelligence Democrats are warning acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte against carrying out sweeping firings or improperly declassifying intelligence as Congress braces for the controversial new intelligence chief’s full first week on the job. Pulte, who also remains the head of a federal housing agency, was tapped by Trump to lead the Office…

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Trump-backed housing overhaul targeting Wall Street investors clears Senate

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Trump-backed housing overhaul targeting Wall Street investors clears Senate

The Senate advanced the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a Trump-backed package aimed at preventing the U.S. from becoming a "nation of renters."

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Iran cracked the code on Trump and is exploiting his 'rapidly decaying' cognition: expert

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Iran cracked the code on Trump and is exploiting his 'rapidly decaying' cognition: expert

Iran appears to have identified and systematically exploited President Donald Trump's rapidly decaying cognitive abilities.That's according to Atlantic staff writer and national security scholar Tom Nichols, who joined MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" on Monday. Wallace argued that Trump is operating inside an "artificial reality" constructed by aides who feed him selectively curated social media posts to shield him from negative information about the economy and the war. The arrangement, Wallace said, explains moments like Trump's repeated insistence that the country is "hot."I used to think he was lying. Now I think he's deluded," Wallace said, calling it a "threat to global stability."Nichols agreed with the withering verdict. "Delusion is the word I was going to use when you were asking about this, because he is self-deluded," Nichols echoed. "I have said many times on this show that I think his cognitive abilities are decaying rapidly."Aides who once told Trump hard truths have stopped doing so, he said. "He doesn't want to hear it. I mean, now we're just seeing a more extreme version of the problem that Donald Trump has always been uneducable and unbriefable. He doesn't listen. He's a narcissist. You can't tell a narcissist that they're wrong about something when they've decided that they're right," said Nichols.Drawing on the upcoming new book "Regime Change" by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Nichols said the portrait that emerges is of a president who has turned previous positions completely upside down. A regime once called an existential evil is now a negotiating partner, he said, and nuclear material that sparked the Iran war may now remain in the country indefinitely.Nichols argued that Iran had "figured something out" that Trump refuses to accept: that two months of high gas prices would damage him politically far more than depleting U.S. weapons stockpiles. That assessment tracks with earlier reports that Iranian negotiators were recruiting senior psychologists to tailor messages for what they described as Trump's "impaired mental state."Analysts have warned that Trump's split-off-from-reality problem has cascaded from domestic politics onto the global stage, leaving adversaries better positioned.

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President Trump Takes Questions from the White House Press Pool

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President Trump Takes Questions from the White House Press Pool

Following an oval office signing event where President Trump signed two executive orders intended to speed up the implementation of Quantum Computing within the U.S. Government, President Trump took questions from the assembled press pool on current events. The Q&A begins at 16:24 of the video below (prompted): . Posted in media bias, President Trump, […] The post President Trump Takes Questions from the White House Press Pool appeared first on The Last Refuge.

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