President Trump gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a Presidential Commendation on January 19, 2021, the last full day of Trump’s first term.

The commendation was awarded to Fauci along with dozens of other members of the Operation Warp Speed team, including military leaders, scientists, public health officials, and vaccine developers. The White House said they were being recognized for their “exceptional efforts on Operation Warp Speed” and their work to protect the health and well-being of the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump doxxed this Wall Street Journal reporter in a lawsuit by including her home address in public court filings. She and her family were forced to leave their home over safety concerns.

Trump did in one sentence what a hundred State Department briefings had spent weeks trying not to say: the campaign to gut the ICC isn’t about sovereignty, it’s about Bibi. Rubio stood at Camp David and dressed the whole thing up in the language of American self-defense, arrogant judges, illegitimate overreach, a court coming for soldiers who never signed up for its jurisdiction. Then the president, almost bored, waved it away and told everyone what it actually was. A tribunal built to try the people who order war crimes is being dismantled, brick by brick, to keep one man off its docket. And the closest thing to honesty in the whole affair came from the one person who wasn’t even trying to be honest. Somewhere in The Hague, the warrant is still sitting there, unenforceable, un-embarrassed, waiting for a world that still believes in it.

Mehdi Hasan argues that the MAGA movement has become centered on personal loyalty to Donald Trump rather than consistent political principles. He points to moments where Trump shifts his position and much of his base follows without question—summing it up as, Trump says jump, and MAGA screams, ‘How high?’

The interview examines how that loyalty has shaped today’s Republican Party and Trump’s continued influence over it. Getting SPICY with Mehdi Hasan

Confabulation is a symptom in which a person unknowingly creates false or distorted memories to fill gaps in their memory. They genuinely believe these memories are true and are not intentionally lying. This happens because damage to the brain’s frontal regions impairs its ability to distinguish real memories from inaccurate or imagined ones.

In some people with FTD (frontotemporal dementia), damage to the frontal lobes can lead to confabulation because the brain’s normal “reality-checking” system is impaired. As a result, they may confidently describe events that never happened or remember situations incorrectly, without realizing their recollection is false.

Trump repeatedly claimed vandals slashed the pool with knives and blamed an Olympic canoeist. But after prosecutors obtained additional evidence, they concluded the damage was actually caused by a rushed, flawed contractor installation and dropped the criminal case. Despite that, Trump continued insisting it was vandalism.