Donald Trump has refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10bn in damages against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge threw out an earlier version over legal deficiencies.
The lawsuit is one of several the US president has brought in his personal capacity against news organisations and is part of what critics say is a wider pressure campaign against the media.
President Donald Trump shared an artificial intelligence-generated video of him assaulting Stephen Colbert and throwing him into a dumpster to celebrate the comedian’s final show.
The feud between the Republican and the late-night host has long been documented, and it appears the president is nailing the coffin – or rather the dumpster – closed.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2026
With the failed attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, there have been seven major attempts to assassinate President Trump since 2016.
Let us examine US presidential assassination attempts and attempt to ascertain why President Trump has been the most-targeted president in US history.
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Donald Trump has said the Duke of Sussex was “not speaking for the UK” when he called for the US to show “leadership” on Ukraine – comments which came days before King Charles was due to meet the president.
Speaking on a visit to Kyiv, and without mentioning Trump, Prince Harry said the US should “show that it can honour its international treaty obligations – not out of charity but out of its enduring role in global security and strategic stability”.
Asked about the remarks, Trump said: “Prince Harry? How’s he doing? How’s his wife? Please give her my regards.
“I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure. I think I am speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry.”
Pope Leo says he was not seeking to debate Donald Trump when he criticised “tyrants” for spending billions on wars in a speech earlier this week.
The pontiff said the remarks, delivered days after a high-profile spat with the US president, had been written a fortnight earlier – “well before the president ever commented on myself”.
“And yet as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate, again, the president, which is not in my interest at all,” he told reporters aboard a flight to Angola on Saturday.
Pope Leo said the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” in his latest anti-war remarks.
Speaking in Bamenda, northwest Cameroon, on the latest leg of an 11-day African tour, the American pontiff criticised leaders who spend “billions on war” and called for a “decisive change of course”.
There is an old adage that goes like this: “If someone says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
While the Roman Catholic Church has largely been quiet on geopolitical matters over the past few decades, it’s only been since President Donald Trump started to more aggressively enforce America’s standing border protection policies and immigration laws that the Vatican has clearly gotten political.
Canadians aren’t used to being hated by the United States. Stereotyped, sure. Ignored, absolutely. But hated?
We got a taste of it during Donald Trump’s first term. There were tariffs and lies and lots of weirdness then, too. But it seemed to be more between chummy adversaries, rather than outright enemies.
Well, something happened in the intervening four years. Between rounds of golf and trial dates, Mr. Trump seemed to nurture a white-hot animosity toward Canada, for reasons that escape any balanced mind. The MAGA hordes dutifully hopped on the bandwagon, all riled up over the latest scapegoat to be served up to them.
NEW YORK — U.S. President Donald Trump posted an apparently AI-generated image of Jesus embracing him on Wednesday, two days after he deleted a post that prompted criticism that the Republican president had compared himself to Jesus.
The image, reposted to Trump’s Truth Social account, shows Trump with his eyes closed, touching temple-to-temple with a similarly posed Jesus. Trump is standing behind a microphone, and behind him is an American flag. The original post had the caption: “I was never a very religious man .. but doesn’t it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed … that God might be playing his Trump card!”
Pope is woke.
President Trump has posted an AI-generated image seemingly depicting himself as Jesus Christ as he attacked the Pope for not supporting his war in Iran.
In the image, posted at the same time as the US president criticised the Pope for being “weak” on crime and “terrible” for foreign policy, Trump appears dressed in red and white robes as he cures a man with his healing hand. The American flag is shown over his shoulder. The image was shared on the president’s Truth Social site.
Update: Trump posts, then deletes AI image of himself as Christ-like figure, sparking blasphemy accusations
Trump is drawing heat even on Truth Social for this post but some added context was supplied about the origin of the picture in his defense, regardless many are not buying in.
PS. Let me know if you can access the Truth Social links above, I will add the origin/defense pic in the comments.
Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in casual conversations over the last year.
“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office],” the president reportedly said in a recent meeting, garnering laughs from the room, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing an anonymous source.
The publication reported that another source had said Trump used the line in an earlier conversation, but with a smaller radius: he said he would pardon anyone who came within 10ft of the presidential office. Other sources claim Trump has floated hosting a news conference at the end of his term where he will announce mass pardons.
American President Donald J. Trump has threatened Iran that their “whole civilization will die tonight” if they don’t surrender the Strait of Hormuz immediately.
On his Truth Social account, he wrote, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, who knows?”
Greatest President Ever!
Wow. @fancypants_s https://t.co/dRic1Rlo77
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) April 4, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
After the tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!” declared Pope Leo XIV this week. “Instead, as we know, it still exists, and technological development, which is positive in itself, is being put at the service of war. This is not progress, it is regression!” The pontiff remonstrated: “Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky.”
