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Jon Stewart Masterfully Mocks Trump’s ‘F**king Weird’ Habit In Viral Video

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was in rare form Monday evening, expertly skewering Donald Trump for what he dubbed his “fucking weird habit” that was on full display when Donald appeared at the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris over the weekend.

“How fucking weird he is about shaking hands,” Stewart quipped.

“Top-down, up-down, bottom, side to side, grab it, hit me on the flippity.”

Stewart then made fun of Trump’s latest so-called business venture: A fragrance line he’s named “Fight, Fight, Fight.” He promoted them with a photo of himself sitting next to First Lady Jill Biden, who was also in attendance at the Notre Dame Cathedral event.

“You fucking won. You won,” Stewart said. “You don’t have to push merch anymore. I find it hard to believe I’m saying this, but it’s beneath you.”

Trump claims his strange handshake is no big deal.

“It’s just a firm shake.”

But as Vox reported back in 2017, there’s more to it than just a firm shake.

While most people are acutely aware of these power dynamics — lab experiments Renshon cites in his book have found that even infants can figure out which adults are high-status — there are some people who care so much about their status that they are willing to fight to establish dominance. Donald Trump is, by his own account, one of those people: The common thread in all 12 of his books is an obsession with his status, of showing that he’s better off than the people he’s competing with.

In other words, Trump insists on being seen as the alpha male. It’s part of his larger insecurity. He knows he’s a weak and feckless little man, so he has to try and show others up to hide his own failings.

It make just look like a strange way of shaking hands, but it speaks volmes about Donald Trump’s derangement.

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GOP Congressman: ‘We Can Move The Retirement Age Back’ To ‘Save’ Social Security

Republican Congressman Mark Alford (MO) said this morning that the way to cut trillions from the federal budget is to “move the retirement age back” and “save” Social Security.

On Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria, Alford said both Social Security and Medicare need to be changed because “people are living longer.”

Referencing a visit to Capitol Hill last week from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who have been charged by Donald Trump to slash the federal budget, Alford said, “You know they were here the last week speaking to members of Congress and really they weren’t speaking as much that’s were listening, getting some — from all sides of our conference — some ideas to cut our budget.”

The Missouri Republican added:

“We all agree this is an unsustainable area that we’re in right now — almost $36 trillion in debt and we are spending more on the interest on our debt than we are going to spend on the National Defense Authorization Act this year. Over a trillion dollars. And so we’ve got to right the ship and it’s going to mean cuts. It’s going to mean cuts to the 24% of the discretionary spending that we have and it’s also going to mean looking long-term at the front end of some programs like Social Security and Medicare. Not taking anyone off of what they paid into so far. But there is some waste, abuse and fraud in Medicare that we can take those numbers back and add to our general coffers and our treasury. And on the front end on Social Security, I think there’s a way, when people are living longer, they’re retiring later, then on the front end we can move that retirement age back a little bit.”

Move the retirement age back? How far? To the age of 70? To 80? Or would 90 be better for the GOP?

Hey, maybe we should say no one can ever retire and has to work until the day they die. And those who become unable to work can just starve, thereby making them less of a burden on the government. Sound good, Congressman Alford?

Here’s a better plan: Tax the rich at a rate of 50 percent or higher and cut every member of Congress’ salary to $5 a year with no benefits until they solve the problem without screwing over working people.

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‘Tacky’ Trump Trashed Online For Using Jill Biden Photo To Hawk His Fragrances

Proving yet again that he’s nothing more than a snake oil peddling grifter who would gladly steal a starving widow’s last penny, Donald Trump is once again attempting to make money off another of his shitty products, and this time he’s using a photo of him with First Lady Jill Biden to do so.

The photo, which Trump shared on social media, shows Mrs. Biden sitting next to the president-elect during a weekend ceremony marking the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.

That led the disgraced former/future president to post, “Here are my new Trump Perfumes & Colognes! I call them Fight, Fight, Fight, because they represent us WINNING. Great Christmas gifts for the family.”

Kinda makes you wonder if that “assassination attempt” on Donnie earlier this year in Pennsylvania was a staged event meant to boost his poll numbers and give him yet another way to make a buck.

One thing’s certain: Responses to Trump’s cologne post were overwhelmingly negative.

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Trump Says He’ll End Birthright Citizenship On ‘Day One’ – Even Though He Can’t

According to Donald Trump, he will immediately end birthright citizenship on “day one” of his administration, even though the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits such a move.

During an interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News, Trump was asked, “You’ve promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?”

“Yeah, absolutely,” Trump replied.

“The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens,” Welker explained. “Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?”

“Well, we’re going to have to get a change,” Trump responded. “We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.”

“Through an executive action?” Welker pressed.

“Well, if we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you. We have to end it.”

By way of explanation, birthright citizenship can indeed be found in the 14th Amendment, which reads:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.“

That could not possibly be any clearer. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. There are not two classes of U.S. citizens. If you’re born on U.S. soil, you’re an American, no matter who your parents are or where they’re from.

Of course, as anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the Constitution knows, Trump cannot end birthright citizenship via executive order or any other presidential action. That would require an amendment, which would have to be ratified by two-thirds of the states.

It’s also doubtful that even the six right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court would agree to take away the right to be an American by birth.

Trump and his advisers may be able to pull the wool over the eyes of their poorly educated minions, but most Americans are not about to sit idly by and let would-be dictator Donald shred the law without putting up a fight.

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New Video Of Barron Trump With His Father Leads To An Interesting Reaction On Social Media

Though we’ve seen Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, on several occasions with his father, he rarely speaks, which has led to speculation online regarding whether or not he’s afraid to speak or if he might have a speech impediment that could lead to embarrassment.

It turns out that Barron can speak, as he proved in a video making the rounds on social media.

The video clip comes from the documentary series, “Art of the Surge,” and it shows Barron greeting people.

“Hello, how are you? It’s very nice to see you. It’s very nice,” Barron, who’s a student at NYU, remarks.

https://twitter.com/ArtoftheSurge/status/1864473398144848320

Do Barron Trump’s speech pattern and mannerisms remind you of anyone? Many people noted that he was a carbon copy of his father while others said the Donald’s son comes across as downright creepy.