bonkers anecdote in Time: "Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his legacy ... He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the US captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out. Trump came away thinking Grok was ingenious."

New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult

"The ads are unambiguously illegal — and that’s the point. Again and again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, and nobody can stop him." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-taxpayer-funded-ads

The fact of the matter is that Trump not only lost his war against Iran but it's the biggest L the United States has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed and abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying with us. Hegseth and company want to move on to the latest culture war slop, but they got routed and we'll be dealing with the repercussions for decades.

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

Look who's in the Oval Office today!

#MeetingsWithNatalie

(Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

Trump on giant AI companies: "They're gonna police. They're gonna police each other. They're gonna self-police. They're gonna police themselves. It's gonna work out very well."

alert the press -- Trump is conked out in the Oval Office again

New in PN: Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith

"Schmitt did not explain how attending a basketball game in Atlanta would be evidence of Smith cahootsing with DA Willis. But the GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/eric-schmitt-jack-smith

Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)

BASH: Trump is using taxpayer funds for White House campaign ads. Do you think that's an appropriate use of tax money?

RICKETTS: Well I haven't seen the ad. I can't speak to it

wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor

CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses?

JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would