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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.”

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) called out President Donald Trump for being "more committed to selling fragrances than he is to telling the truth" about the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill."

As Republicans try to muster the votes for Trump's legislation, Kamlager-Dove spoke with a group of Congressional Black Caucus members outside the Capitol on Wednesday.

"We have a president that is more committed to selling fragrances than he is to telling the truth," she railed. "And [Republicans] are negotiating with this person about bending the knee to him rather than bending the knee to the constituents."

"And in our district, in every single district across this country, 85% of voters in every single district want Medicaid, want SNAP, want these programs that they are cutting," she continued. "If you cut Medicaid, you're going to close hospitals, you're going to close urgent cares, you're going to close community clinics."

The lawmaker also insisted Trump was "lying" about his pledge not to tax tips, overtime, or Social Security.

"Working folks who rely on tips, who rely on overtime, might only end up taking an additional $10 home," Kamlager-Dove explained. "How is $10 going to help you? It's not, especially when the richest of the rich are getting tax breaks of up to $300,000."

"We want everyone to know how more broke, how more hungry, how more sick they are going become and we need to be holding these receipts up to and through 2026 and holding these Republicans accountable. Why aren't they here with balloons and megaphones touting how beautiful this thing is? Because they know it stinks just like the cologne that they are selling in the White House," she added.

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Donald Trump's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence may be tempered by a new report from the Washington Post that demonstrated that five different AI models responded that the president plays fast and loose with the truth.

In recent speeches, the president has been a big booster of AI, in addition an executive order designed to “sustain and enhance America’s dominance in AI.”

With that in mind, the Post's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques and Steven Tian decided to test the technology to see how Trump's statements hold up when compared to reported facts.

As it turns out, Trump did not fare well.

Setting the stage, the report notes, "To counter any inadvertent bias or systemic failures, we asked each of five leading AI models — OpenAI’s ChatGPT; Anthropic’s Claude; X/xAI’s Grok (owned by Elon Musk); Google’s Gemini; and Perplexity — to verify the president’s most oft-repeated claims or assertions," while pointing out each platform is independent from the others.

"Artificial intelligence discredited all the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking the president with startling accuracy and objective rigor," the report notes before adding, "Across all questions, AI model responses disproving Trump’s claims or rejecting his assertions were always in the majority (i.e., 3 out of 5 responses or greater). All five models generated consistent responses firmly denying the claims in 16 of the 20 questions."

As an example, the AI platforms were asked the touchy question: "Will Trump’s current tariff policies be inflationary?"

Both Grok and ChatGPT came to the same conclusion with Grok, on Elon Musk's X, replying, "Trump’s 2025 tariff policies are likely to be inflationary, with estimates suggesting a 1-2.3% rise in consumer prices, equivalent to $1,200-$3,800 per household in 2025."

The platforms also came back with answers unfavorable to Trump on his cryptocurrency involvement (Grok: "Trump’s cryptocurrency investments … present a strong case for a conflict of interest due to his administration’s pro-crypto policies, personal financial gains, and events like the $TRUMP gala, which suggest access-selling) and the even touchier question of "Is Trump right that the media is 'dishonest' or 'tells lies'?"

Examples like that led to the following summation: "How would Trump respond to the near-unanimous denial of his claims by the five AI models? Probably the way he always reacts to unfavorable news — by discrediting the dissent. But would he disavow the technology he is decisively promoting? Or, is there something fundamentally wrong with the accuracy of these AI models that is not widely realized?"

"The simple truth our analysis points to is this: Either the president is wrong, or the technology is a failure. We leave it to you to choose," the Post report concluded.

You see more examples here.