He described a phone call the other man says never happened.
The President said a conservative critic phoned him to apologize. The critic told a foreign newspaper the call never took place.
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The President says he cut drug prices by a thousand percent.
The President keeps saying he cut drug prices by hundreds, even thousands, of percent. A price can only fall by 100. His own officials defended the math anyway.
The President hosted cage fights on the White House lawn for his birthday.
The White House staged a UFC fight on the South Lawn for the President eightieth birthday, branded Freedom 250 to mark the country turning 250. The UFC paid the bill, around sixty million dollars.
The President opened the strait before anyone signed the deal.
The President announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be open to all the moment a deal is signed. The same day, Iran said the deal is not getting signed tomorrow, and was not even finished.
President says Iran just has to sign a paper, bombs them instead.
The President posted that Iran took too long to negotiate and will now pay the price, with three exclamation points. Hours later the military struck multiple targets in Iran, one day after he said a deal was two or three days out.
The President Might Keep the UFC Cage on the White House Lawn Forever.
A UFC cage-fighting arena is being built on the White House South Lawn for a June 14 fight night. The President said he might keep it permanently and compared it to the Eiffel Tower.
The President Added Up Four Cognitive Tests and Announced 120 Out of 120.
The President scored 30 out of 30 on the cognitive screening at his annual physical, then went on Truth Social to multiply it across four tests, announce 120 out of 120, and call the result extreme intelligence. The test screens for dementia and does not measure intelligence.
The Bands Quit the President's Festival, So He Offered to Speak Instead.
Five of nine acts quit the President's Freedom 250 concert series within 48 hours, so he went on Truth Social and offered to take their place himself, with a speech, claiming bigger crowds than Elvis.
The President Spent Ten Minutes on a Reflecting Pool He Kept Calling a Lake.
During a nationally televised Cabinet meeting held while the Iran war negotiations stall, the President spent about ten minutes describing the resurfacing of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in 'American flag blue,' twice reaching for the wrong name for it.
The President Spent Sunday Slowing Down the Iran Deal He Sped Up on Saturday.
Twenty-four hours after announcing the Iran agreement had been largely negotiated and posting a map with Iran painted over by the American flag, the President posted that he had told his negotiators not to rush. The naval blockade stays in place.
The Iran Peace Deal Came with a Map of Iran Painted Over.
On Saturday morning, the President posted that an Iran peace agreement had been largely negotiated. He then posted a map of the Middle East with Iran painted over by the American flag. NBC News and CNN covered both.
The President Cancelled the AI Safety Order at the Last Minute.
The Oval Office signing was scheduled. The reporters were called. Two hours before, the President pulled the order, citing American competitiveness. NBC News, CNBC, and PBS covered the reversal.
The President Told the Coast Guard to Fight, Fight, Fight.
The President gave the keynote at the 145th Coast Guard Academy commencement on Wednesday, behind a clear protective panel, for about an hour. He told 260 newly commissioned junior officers to fight, fight, fight. The Coast Guard, generally, does not fight.
The President Threatened Iran on Truth Social, Again.
Sunday's Truth Social post warned Iran that the clock is ticking and 'there won't be anything left of them.' Stocks dropped Monday. Oil jumped. The previous deadlines this year did not result in war, but the markets cannot tell yet which one will.
Taiwan Politely Reminded the President They Were Already Independent.
The President told Fox News he isn't looking to have anyone 'go independent.' Taiwan's Foreign Ministry, the Presidential Office, and Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung politely informed him on Saturday that the matter had been settled some time ago.
President announces a three-day Russia-Ukraine ceasefire that conveniently covers Victory Day.
Three days of quiet, a prisoner swap, and a Russian holiday parade in the middle. The President called it the beginning of the end.
President hosts a free spelling lesson in front of three networks.
On-camera homophone breakdown clipped, captioned, and shared inside the hour.
President says consumer confidence is way up; the survey says it is near a record low.
He said way up. The Conference Board said no. The U-Mich index said no. So did the third one.
President says he has not read Iran's peace proposal but has been told the concept.
He hadn't read the fourteen-point Iran peace proposal. He had, however, been told the concept of it.
Senate confirms a new ATF director who, the same day, signs thirty-four gun-rule changes.
59-39 Senate vote. Seven Democrats said yes. The new director immediately signed thirty-four notices of rulemaking.
King Charles III arrives for a four-day state visit, two days after the President was rushed off a Hilton dance floor.
Britain's monarch on the South Portico, on the South Lawn, looking at the new beehive shaped like the White House. The country, two days earlier, was on the Hilton floor.
Justice Department adds the firing squad to its menu of federal execution methods.
Firing squads, electrocution, gas chambers. Announced by the Acting Attorney General on a Friday afternoon.
President extends the Iran ceasefire, citing Iran's 'seriously fractured' government.
Extended until the Iranians, who he says are too divided to govern, deliver a unified proposal. The blockade continues.
President signs an executive order accelerating FDA review of psychedelic drugs for serious mental illness.
An executive order to fast-track FDA review of psychedelics. Six days later, three priority vouchers were already out the door.
House Democrats file six articles of impeachment against the Defense Secretary.
Six articles. Filed by the first Iranian-American in Congress. No chance of passing the chamber. The substance is on the docket anyway.
Iran-US peace talks in Islamabad collapse, and the Pentagon orders a naval blockade.
Talks broke off in Islamabad. By the next day, the Navy was running a blockade. The ceasefire technically still held.
First Lady delivers a rare White House statement to deny a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
The First Lady, in a rare appearance, asks Congress to hear the survivors. The West Wing, by all accounts, was not given a heads-up.
President hosts the Easter Egg Roll while declaring the next day Bridge and Power Plant Day for Iran.
Bunny ears on one side of the South Lawn, Bridge and Power Plant Day on Iran on the other. Same Monday.
President asks for $1.15 trillion in base defense as a U.S. fighter jet goes down over Iran.
An F-15E shot down over Iran. A trillion-dollar base Pentagon request the same week. The President said the regime knows what has to be done.
The President threatens to seize one of Iran's oil hubs.
Monday morning, on a phone call: maybe we just take an Iranian oil hub. Which hub, sir? 'You'll see.'
The President speaks at the FII Priority Summit in Miami while DHS workers go a 41st day without pay.
Friday in Miami: the President addressed a Saudi-backed investment conference, took credit for the TikTok deal, and floated annexing Cuba.
The Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary, 54 to 45.
Three Republicans voted against. The new Secretary takes over an agency where most workers have not been paid in five weeks.
The President posts that with 'the death of Iran' the greatest enemy is the Radical Left Democrat Party.
The President declared Iran dead and the Democratic Party the greatest remaining enemy. The actual country, by all measures, is still alive.
The DHS nominee admits at his Senate hearing that he should not have called a man killed by ICE 'deranged.'
Three hours of testimony, two walked-back positions, and one Republican vowing to vote no.
The President gives Iran 48 hours, then plays golf.
Forty-eight-hour ultimatum from the seventh tee. Iran ignored the clock. The clock ran out. The next post moved it to seventy-two.
The Pentagon tells Congress the first six days of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion.
Eleven point three billion dollars in six days, on a four-point objectives sheet.
The President holds his first wartime press conference at his Doral golf resort.
First wartime press conference. Held at his own resort. Two hours of quotes that contradict each other on tape.
The President posts in all caps that there will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
On Friday, the Pentagon said the war was just beginning and the President posted, in capitals, that the only acceptable end was unconditional surrender.
The President says Iran's next supreme leader will need approval from him.
On day four of the war, the President told ABC News that the next supreme leader of Iran would need his personal approval, or else.
President orders every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic AI technology.
The order: stop using Anthropic. The reason: the company asked the Pentagon not to use the AI for mass surveillance.
President delivers the longest State of the Union address in American history.
One hour, forty-seven minutes, forty seconds. Twenty minutes past the previous record. The Senator giving the rebuttal had to wait.
President says he is sending a hospital boat to Greenland; Greenland says no thank you.
He said he is sending a hospital ship. Greenland said free care for all. The named ship is in Mobile, Alabama.
After a federal judge orders it, the administration releases the rest of the Gateway tunnel money.
$127 million released for the New York-New Jersey rail tunnel. The funds had been frozen for weeks.
Trade adviser tells Fox News data center builders may have to absorb their own electricity costs.
The trade adviser told a Sunday show data center builders should pay their own way on power. He is not the rate-setter.
President pardons five former NFL players for crimes including drug trafficking and perjury.
Five NFL players pardoned. Crimes: perjury, marijuana trafficking, cocaine conspiracy, counterfeiting.
Ghislaine Maxwell pleads the Fifth more than a dozen times in a House Oversight deposition.
Closed deposition. Maxwell took the Fifth. Her lawyer offered a clemency request and a character reference.
The Vice President is booed at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
VP and Second Lady on the jumbotron. Sixty-five thousand people in Milan got their answer in early.
Colombian president edits the slogan on his MAGA hat at the White House.
Two hours behind closed doors. The President called Petro 'terrific.' Petro corrected the hat in pen.
President signs an executive order for an IndyCar street race around the National Mall.
Executive order: an IndyCar race around the Lincoln Memorial. Roger Penske at the Oval Office signing.
A man rushes a sitting member of Congress at a town hall and sprays her with a syringe.
Member of Congress, in her own district, sprayed at the lectern by a man with a syringe. She kept talking.
White House posts an AI image of the President walking toward Greenland with a penguin.
AI image of the President with a penguin marching toward Greenland. Penguins are in the Southern Hemisphere.
President says he 'won't use force' on Greenland after a meeting with the head of NATO.
He said force was off the table. He said it from a stage in Switzerland. The tariffs were quietly walked back the same hour.
Eight NATO allies condemn tariff threat as the European Union pauses a US trade deal.
Eight allies, one statement. The Danish prime minister: 'Europe will not be blackmailed.' Hon.
Venezuelan opposition leader hands over her Nobel Peace Prize medal at the White House.
She brought the Nobel medal. He took it. Then she left with a swag bag and a press release that didn't endorse her.
Defense Secretary announces Elon Musk's chatbot will be plugged into Pentagon networks this month.
The Defense Secretary announced Grok on the Pentagon networks. He announced it from SpaceX.
Agriculture Secretary suspends $129 million to one state because of fraud allegations against another office.
$129 million in USDA funds frozen to Minnesota by letter on a Friday. Hon.
On the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack, the White House publishes a website saying it didn't happen.
The official White House website says no officers died on January 6. The names of the officers are public record.
United States bombs Caracas, captures the Venezuelan president, and posts a photo.
Air strike on the capital, special forces grab the head of state, and the President posts the trophy photo by lunch.
CIA conducts a drone strike on a port facility on the Venezuelan coast; the strike is the first known U.S. attack on a target inside the country.
A CIA drone strike on a port inside Venezuela. The first kinetic strike inside the country. No war-powers notification. Hon.
President posts a Christmas-week message on his social network telling 'sleazebags and losers' to enjoy 'what may be your last merry Christmas.'
Christmas-week post. To the sleazebags. Enjoy what may be your last merry Christmas. Hon.
On the NORAD Santa-tracker call from Mar-a-Lago the President tells an eight-year-old in Kansas that if Santa brings her coal, it will be 'clean, beautiful coal.'
Eight-year-old in Kansas. Hopes Santa won't bring her coal. The President says: clean, beautiful coal. Hon.
President names the governor of Louisiana as 'Special Envoy to Greenland.'
The Special Envoy to Greenland is the governor of Louisiana. Greenland is owned by Denmark. Hon.
Kennedy Center board votes to rename the building 'The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.'
The Kennedy Center is, as of Thursday, the Trump-Kennedy Center. The man it was named for died in 1963. Hon.
President signs an executive order designating fentanyl and its precursor chemicals as 'weapons of mass destruction,' a category previously reserved for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
Fentanyl is now, by executive order, in the WMD category alongside nuclear weapons. Hon.
President hands the 1980 'Miracle on Ice' team their congressional gold medals and tells the players in the Oval Office, 'this is very exciting.'
Forty-five years overdue, the 1980 hockey team got their medals. The room got the President. Hon.
President speaks for one hour and forty minutes at a casino in Mount Pocono, abandons the affordability talking points, and spends most of the speech on insults.
Casino in Mount Pocono. One hour and forty minutes. The economy got the first ten. Hon.
President's Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day proclamation pledges to 'annihilate any foe who dares to threaten our liberty.'
The proclamation, signed Friday, was the verb 'annihilate' inside a remembrance for the men who died at Pearl Harbor. Hon.
President announces a rollback of the federal fuel-economy standard from 50.4 mpg to 34.5 mpg and calls the new initiative 'Freedom Means Affordable Cars.'
Fuel economy goes from 50.4 mpg by 2031 down to 34.5 mpg. Crossovers are cars again. Hon.
November ends; the month's ledger does not balance.
End of the month. The receipts are in. The receipts do not match what the man at the podium said the receipts would say.
Thanksgiving comes and goes. Ukraine has not signed. The President says the deadline was always 'aspirational.'
The Thanksgiving deadline has come and gone. Ukraine did not sign. The President is at his golf course.
Federal judge dismisses the Comey and James indictments because the prosecutor was unlawfully appointed.
Two showcase indictments dismissed. The prosecutor was past the statutory cap. The cases collapsed.
President meets the New York mayor-elect he called a communist Marxist socialist; calls him a rational person.
He called him a communist on Tuesday. He called him rational on Friday. The mayor-elect did not change.
President welcomes the Saudi crown prince and tells the country, on camera, that 'things happen.'
The reporter asked about a journalist hacked apart in a consulate. He said: things happen. He told her not to embarrass our guest.
President spends Saturday at Mar-a-Lago 'weighing options' for war with Venezuela.
Twelve warships in the Caribbean. The President is making the call about war from the back nine.
President signs the bill to end his own shutdown and announces the country has been extorted.
He spent six weeks calling the shutdown good for him. He signed the bill calling it extortion. Same shutdown.
BBC director general resigns over an edit; the President threatens a billion-dollar lawsuit.
The BBC made a bad edit. The director general quit. The President asked for a billion dollars anyway.
Drug-pricing event ends abruptly when a pharma executive collapses behind the President.
He was telling us prices were down. The Novo Nordisk man hit the carpet. Event over.
On 60 Minutes, the President calls the host a disgrace for reading the question.
She read what the suspect wrote. He told her she was disgraceful for reading it.
President meets the Chinese leader for one hundred minutes and announces a one-year truce in the trade war he started.
One hundred minutes in Busan. The deliverable is a one-year pause on a Chinese restriction announced three weeks ago. Hon.
President says he has not ruled out a third term, then a third tarmac press gaggle says he has, then a fourth says he hasn't again.
He hadn't ruled it out. Then he had. Then he hadn't. The Twenty-Second Amendment did not change in between. Hon.
DHS Secretary holds an immigration press conference in a windowless basement room while hundreds protest outside.
The press conference was in a windowless basement room. The protests outside were the size of a small parade. Hon.
Nominee to lead the federal whistleblower office withdraws hours before his hearing over leaked texts.
The nominee said he had 'a Nazi streak.' He withdrew the night before the hearing. The vetting was the failure. Hon.
Marine artillery demonstration over Interstate 5 prematurely detonates and rains shrapnel on the Vice President's motorcade route.
Live ordnance over the 5 freeway. It misfired. The shrapnel hit the Vice President's escort. Hon.
Every major news outlet at the Pentagon turns in their badges rather than sign the new press rules.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, AP, NYT, WaPo, NPR. All turned in their Pentagon badges. One outlet signed. Hon.
Vice President says the President is 'looking at all his options' on the Insurrection Act.
Asked Sunday morning if the administration is considering the Insurrection Act, the VP did not say no. Hon.
The New York Attorney General is indicted in Virginia by a prosecutor with no prosecutorial experience.
The career prosecutor said no case. He got pushed out. The insurance lawyer who replaced him secured the indictment. Hon.
Illinois and Chicago sue the federal government for sending in the National Guard without being asked.
Illinois sued the federal government for sending troops without being asked. Hon. The state has the floor here.
Treasury releases a draft $1 coin design for the country's 250th birthday with the President's face on the front and his fist on the back.
The 250th birthday coin is the President's profile on the front and 'FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT' on the back. Hon.
President tells eight hundred generals the homeland is a 'training ground'; the Defense Secretary, alongside, complains about beards and weight.
Eight hundred generals in the room. Beards, weight, and the 'enemy from within.' Hon.
President directs the defense secretary to use 'full force' to protect Portland; Portland's mayor says the right number of troops is zero.
Truth Social post says Portland is 'war ravaged.' The mayor says the right number of troops is zero. Hon.
President spends part of his UN address complaining about windmills; he says they ruin Scotland.
Fifty-seven minutes at the UN. Windmills come up three times. They are still cheap.
President speaks at a stadium memorial that mixes prayer and political rally; the speakers' list includes the Vice President and Stephen Miller.
Stadium memorial. Hymns, then takedowns. The hymns mostly came first. Hon.
President says Putin has 'really let me down' at the Chequers press conference; the next sentence is about Palestine.
Chequers presser. Putin has 'really let me down.' Then a disagreement on Palestine. Then a tech deal.
Treasury Secretary announces a 'framework' for a TikTok deal; China has not announced one.
Bessent announces a TikTok framework from Madrid. China has not. The deadline is Friday. Hon.
Administration asks the appeals court to let the President fire a Federal Reserve governor before the next rate meeting.
Fire the Fed governor. Court says no. Run to the appeals court. The Fed meets next week. Hon.
President clarifies that the strike on a sovereign ally was not his decision; the ally was Qatar.
He didn't know about the strike. He let Qatar know about the strike. The strike was already happening. Hon.
President posts an Apocalypse Now meme about Chicago captioned 'Chipocalypse Now.'
Saturday morning Truth Social post. The President's face on the Apocalypse Now poster. Buddy.
Fighter jets scream over the White House as the President welcomes the Polish leader he endorsed.
F-16s over the lawn. A bilat with the man he endorsed. No message for Putin. Funny how that works.
Saturday papers ask where the President is; he is, again, at his golf course.
After a week of rumors about a bruised hand, CNN found him at the golf course. Again.
CDC director is out after twenty-nine days; the official reason is 'not aligned with the President's agenda.'
Twenty-nine days on the job. The official reason: 'not aligned with the agenda.' Four senior officials walked out the same day.
President posts that Roger Clemens belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, NOW.
Sunday post, all caps. Roger Clemens. NOW. The Baseball Hall of Fame is a private museum in upstate New York.
President names the Airbnb co-founder as the country's first Chief Design Officer.
We have a Chief Design Officer now. He helped invent staying in a stranger's house. Hon.
President tells the French president, on a hot mic, that Putin 'wants to make a deal for me.'
On a hot mic, to the French president: 'I think he wants to make a deal for me.' Then: 'as crazy as it sounds.'
President rolls out the red carpet for Putin in Anchorage; the meeting ends with no deal.
Red carpet. F-22 honor guard. Photo op. No deal. Putin flew home. The President flew home.
White House orders the Smithsonian to submit its exhibits for review.
The federal government is going to read the wall labels at the Air and Space Museum. With deadlines.
President floats a land swap on a Saturday; Ukraine, which owns the land, was not consulted.
He floated swapping somebody else's land. Somebody else said no. The somebody else lives there.
Apple CEO arrives with a glass disk on a 24-karat gold base; the President receives it on camera.
A glass plaque on a 24-karat gold base. Made by an Apple employee. Followed, immediately, by a tariff exemption.
Top economic adviser defends the firing without defending the firing.
On Meet the Press: 'a fresh set of eyes.' On the actual rigging claim: nothing. That's the whole segment.