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Bizarre new behavior from President Donald Trump has planted fresh new worries among White House insiders, according to a report Thursday.

Some who described changes to Salon’s Brian Karem are concerned that Trump is quickly losing ability to put in the hours needed for his position — and that his mental acuity has taken a significant downturn.

“Maybe Trump has fallen off a mental cliff,” wrote Karem, adding “even some in his administration [are] worried about his physical and mental health.”

Among warning flags are the fact that the president has apparently stopped working on Mondays. The information came from a White House source who told Karem, “I’d lose my job if I talked about this publicly. Or worse.”

He confided that Trump hasn’t shown up in the Oval Office on a Monday for the past month. He’s also been playing golf in Virginia, avoiding his usual trips to his clubs in Florida and New Jersey.

“That’s because he doesn’t have to be gone from the White House as long,” the source told Karem. “I don’t think he’s in good physical health.”

Other causes for concern voiced to the writer by two people inside Trump’s circle included, “His recent lackluster public appearances, his gait, his apparent befuddlement, his propensity to govern via Truth Social postings, his sloppy attire and his lack of engagement at the White House with others.”

“His sanity looks long gone,” Karem surmised. “And that doesn’t bode well for the country since there’s absolutely no chance the sycophants in his cabinet will invoke the 25th Amendment.”

The Department of Justice vowed Thursday to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant who President Donald Trump’s administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year due to an “administrative error.”

“Our plan is that he will be taken into ICE custody and removal proceedings will be initiated,” said Jonathan Guynn, deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s civil division, Notus reported.

Guynn was answering questions in a federal courtroom Thursday from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, among several federal district judges in Maryland whom the DOJ sued over their opposition to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport migrants to countries of which they have no connection, and without due process.

Xinis asked Guynn where the Trump administration, now planning to deport Garcia a second time, would deport him to.

“To a third country is my understanding,” Guynn said, ruling out that the Trump administration would again deport Garcia to El Salvador. “There’s no timeline for these specific proceedings.”

Garcia, who was recently charged with crimes related to human smuggling, charges he denies, was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to be released, and is expected to be released Friday. Concerns exist, however, that Garcia could be arrested the moment he’s released.

President Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a young, progressive Muslim state representative who pulled off a massive upset by defeating the comeback candidacy of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month — but House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is putting his foot down against it.

"As President of the United States, I'm not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I'll save New York City, and make it 'Hot' and 'Great' again, just like I did with the Good O' USA!"

Jeffries, however, hit back on Wednesday.

"Stop lying about Assemblyman Mamdani," Jeffries posted to X. "He is neither a communist nor a lunatic. And New York City doesn’t need to be saved by a wannabe King. Besides, you are too busy destroying America with your One Big Ugly Bill to do anything else."

This comes after Jeffries appeared hesitant to give a full endorsement to Mamdani's candidacy in an interview with ABC on Sunday, saying, "We don’t really know each other well. Our districts don’t overlap. I have never had a substantive conversation with him" — which Politico had speculated might mean Jeffries was poised to throw him under the bus.

Trump has previously drawn fire for suggesting he could have Mamdani arrested if he interferes with immigration enforcement in New York City, and falsely claimed he might not even be in the country legally and could face deportation.

Mamdani, a naturalized citizen, rebuffed these threats, saying, “The president of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported, not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city. His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy, but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.”