“Hillary Clinton blasted President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the White House in an interview posted Friday, telling podcast host Kara Swisher that Trump’s ‘tackied up’ decor is ‘reminiscent’ of dictator Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Iraq,” CNN reports.

Said Clinton: “It’s sad to me — it’s sad that it’s so tackied up, and it’s a reflection of, you know, his narcissistic personality and his need to feel important, including sticking gold embellishments all over the walls of the Oval Office.”

She added: “This is a man who, his mind apparently goes to, ‘Where can I add more gold?’ instead of, ‘How do I get out of Iran without looking like the loser that I am?'”

New York Times: “Mr. Trump is not so much a student of history as a rewriter of it. In his second term, he is so set on avenging his election loss and pursuing retribution against his political enemies that he has Americans looking backward when many have signaled they would rather he explain why the country is at war with Iran, or help them afford groceries now, in the year 2026.”

“Neither his falling poll numbers nor the concerns among Republicans about the midterms seem to be modulating his insistence on revisiting much of what happened six years ago.”

“President Trump responded to recently released entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, saying he grew tired of the former White House medical adviser,” NewsNation reports.

Said Trump: “He was a much bigger player in the Biden administration. I grew tired of him… He wanted to close everything down. I allowed it to be up to the governors.”

NBC News: Anthony Fauci’s journal reveals how Trump and Biden White Houses handled their Covid cases.

“Diary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top U.S. government science adviser’s growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president ‘rambling,’ ‘crazy,’ ‘desperate,’ ‘bumbling,’ ‘incompetent,’ ‘an idiot,’ ‘a true embarrassment,’ ‘totally nuts’ and ‘truly an obnoxious adolescent,'” The Guardian reports.

“Last summer, as many one-time adversaries of President Trump sought to bury the hatchet with him, he met with someone who seemed like a intractable enemy: his former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump had a brief yet significant conversation at the president’s private, members-only golf club in Bedminster, N.J. breaking a yearslong estrangement marked by legal disputes and public acrimony.”

“Their conversation, which has not been previously reported, provided Mr. Cohen a toehold into Mr. Trump’s orbit and set in motion a broader effort to make peace with the president.”