“In a 12-hour span this week, President Trump promised that the war with Iran was ending soon. He picked a fight with the pope on social media. He threatened to fire the chair of the Federal Reserve. He posted an illustration of himself receiving an encouraging hug from Jesus Christ,” the New York Times reports.

“This is what it looks like when Mr. Trump is under pressure and burrowing his way into a more flattering news cycle. And anyone who has been paying even a little bit of attention over the past decade can pinpoint where we are in a well-established routine, when, intentionally or not, the president tosses out little rhetorical grenades meant to shift attention elsewhere. (It often works: Remember last week, when he threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization?)”

“Now, Mr. Trump is showering Truth Social with Jesus memes and threats and endorsements.”

Before President Trump posted an image of him as a Christ-like healer, he discussed the meme with his controversial housing finance chief Bill Pulte, Axios reports.

“Kristi Noem, the former secretary of homeland security, holds nearly $1.1 million in her old leadership PAC, according to a new disclosure filed with the Federal Election Commission,” NOTUS reports.

“This is significant because Noem, whom President Donald Trump ousted last month, still faces congressional and legal scrutiny for her management of Department of Homeland Security funds, with some Democrats accusing her of committing fraud.”

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid animal genitalia researcher in his spare time, once pulled the family sedan to the side of the road after spying a dead raccoon and swiftly cut off its sex organs so he could ‘study them later,’” the New York Post reports.