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President Trump says he was joking. He was joking when he called himself “the chosen one.” On Wednesday, Trump called himself just that when he was speaking to reporters at the White House. He seemed to be referring to how he saw it as his duty to get into a trade war with China. “I am the chosen one,” he said, looking up at the sky.

Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and tea party favorite turned radio talk show host, announced a challenge Sunday to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, saying the incumbent is unfit for office and must be denied a second term. ‘‘He’s nuts. He’s erratic. He’s cruel. He stokes bigotry. He’s incompetent.

President Trump suggested multiple times that national security officials look into using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to a report from Axios published Sunday night. “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” Trump reportedly said at an unspecified hurricane briefing at the White House, Axios reported, citing sources who attended the meetings and were briefed on a National Security Council memo that recorded his comments.

The Democratic presidential field is facing its first real winnowing as more than half a dozen candidates confront the increasingly real possibility that they could be left out of the next primary debate. The fierce competition for money, air time and polling support is taking its toll on the record field of contenders. In little more than a week’s time, three candidates — former Colorado Gov.

MORE on Friday announced he would increase tariffs on more than $500 billion in Chinese goods, marking a new escalation in his trade war with China that has reverberated across the U.S.

MORE on Saturday arrived for the annual Group of Seven (G-7) economic summit in France amid major differences among world leaders over issues such as trade, climate change and the situation with Iran. Trump's past disputes with leaders attending this weekend's summit were in full focus as he arrived in the seaside town of Biarritz, with multiple global delegations emphasizing a push for unity heading into the weekend of discussions. The president held a working lunch with his French counterpart MORE shortly after arriving on Saturday.

Congressional Republicans are confused and suffering from whiplash after ordered U.S.

While Ocasio-Cortez has been relatively silent on social media over the past week, she made waves after posting a video on Instagram Monday, mocking the Electoral College, and by consequence, Middle America’s voice. “Alright everyone it’s been a minute. We’re coming to you live from the Electoral College,” she said as her video panned to empty plainlands. “Many votes here, as you can see. Very efficient way to choose leadership of the country. I mean, I can’t think of any other way.

O’Rourke made this observation in a tweet, wherein he wrote: O’Rourke did not mention the 2012 Congressional Research Service report showing that as private gun ownership expanded between 1993 to 2009, “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” plummeted. Moreover, the report shows that the decline in “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” came as the number of privately-owned guns jumped from roughly 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009. As for the commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles for which