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Donald Trump turns 78 today and celebrated his birthday in the company of his “Club 47 USA” fan organization in West Palm Beach, Florida, with the guests paying for the pleasure of paying court to the presidential candidate.
Trump took the opportunity to baselessly accuse Joe Biden of “providing material support for terrorism” during a speech on Friday, alluding to the recent arrest of eight migrants with suspected ties to ISIS.
Earlier, the former president got birthday wishes of sorts from Biden who took the opportunity to remind him of their similar age and his dubious presidential record, but more traditional messages from Ivanka Trump, Lara Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Trump was back in Washington DC on Thursday to meet with the House and Senate GOP, who presented him with a cake featuring 47 candles in tribute to his hopes of becoming America’s 47th president.
During his meeting with House representatives, Trump spoke about issues including abortion and immigration but sparked fury by reportedly calling the city of Milwaukee “horrible” a month before it hosts the Republican National Convention.
The former president’s interview with social media celebrity Logan Paul for his Impaulsive podcast also dropped yesterday, covering his felony convictions and campaign before moving on to a wide variety of topics from the upcoming debate on CNN to aliens, AI, and the rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
Joe Biden wished Donald Trump a happy birthday on Friday, “from one old guy to another.”
Biden offered the birthday wish in a post on X, offering Trump the platitude that “age is just a number,” likely a not-so-subtle reference to the numerous concerns raised over both men’s ages as one of them will take the White House in November.
The post wasn’t all chummy birthday wishes though…
Trump is celebrating his 78th birthday in West Palm Beach with his fan club — who all have to pay at least $35 to be there
The Democratic National Committee is putting up billboards in 10 locations across Milwaukee featuring former president Donald Trump’s reported slating of the city that will host the Republican National Convention next month.
During a meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, Trump reportedly called Milwaukee, Wisconsin a “horrible city”.
Republicans scrambled to defend the former president, first denying he said it, then giving different explanations about the context before Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote that he had been referring to crime and voter fraud.
Nevertheless, the damage was done and the comment spread like wildfire with the Democrats seizing on it, given the importance of Wisconsin in the upcoming election.
DNC Spokesperson Addy Toevs said in a statement: “Donald Trump has made his contempt for Wisconsinites and their home clear. Just yesterday, he called Milwaukee – which will host the RNC in July – a ‘horrible city.’ The dislike is mutual – in 2020, Wisconsin handed Trump a one way ticket back to exile in Mar-a-Lago and sent President Biden to the Oval Office. In November, they’ll do it again.
“Thanks to President Biden, Wisconsinites are seeing job creation, higher wages, and lower costs on things like prescription drugs and health care. That’s in sharp contrast to Trump, who cost Wisconsin more than 80,000 jobs during his term, incentivized companies to ship jobs overseas, and rolled back worker protections. Trump hates Milwaukee because Milwaukeeans know exactly who he is – a sore loser who they’re going to make a two-time loser this November.”
Trump has been hammering Biden over border in recent speeches
Donald Trump threatened to fire his speechwriter in Apprentice-style as he discussed the merits of artificial intelligence (AI), and claimed to have previously used a computer-generated speech.
The former president told Logan Paul that he had once had a speech rewritten in 15 seconds by an AI program, which he described as “super duper”.
Mike Bedigan reports:
The former president said he had once had a speech rewritten in 15 seconds by an AI program, which he described as ‘super duper’
Donald Trump turns 78 years old today and will celebrate his birthday in the company of his “Club 47 USA” fan organisation in West Palm Beach, Florida, delivering a keynote address to guests paying between $35 and $60 for the pleasure of wishing him well.
According to a flyer for the celebration, the party-cum-rally will take place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center near his Mar-a-Lago home from 3pm ET, with the former president taking to the stage to speak at approximately 7pm local time.
Joe Sommerlad has the details as the time nears where Trump will take the stage:
Republican presidential candidate spending his big day delivering keynote address to Club 47 USA in Florida
Over twenty years ago, Holly Valance was starring on an Australian soap opera and topping charts with bubbly pop singles.
Now, she’s a top moneymaker for Donald Trump abroad.
Imagine going back and explaining this to someone 20 years ago…
Katie Hawkinson reports:
Former singer and actress Holly Valance has denied climate change and decried ‘woke-ism’
President Donald Trump unleashed an expletive-filled rant about the stock market not increasing enough when the first Covid-19 vaccine trials were successful, Dr Anthony Fauci has recounted.
Fauci, one of the nation’s top infectious disease experts who helped lead the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic until 2022, is publishing On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service next week. His chapter on working with Trump during the pandemic is aptly titled, “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not,” according to The New York Times’ review of the book.
Katie Hawkinson reports:
Anthony Fauci has a new book plan and detailed one conversation with trump where the president said he “loved” him, but also expressed anger with the doctor.
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Supporters of former US President Donald Trump wait to enter his birthday campaign rally at the West Palm Convention Center in Florida
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