Fox News mocked as host heaps praise on Trump for walking: 'Graded on a curve?'

Political commentators reacted to the president's appearance in Évian-les-Bains, France, with French President Emmanuel Macron.

"The WH is trying to project Trump as the president who never stops working, going right from the UFC thing to Paris and nailing down the Iran agreement when others were sleeping. In reality, he looks and sounds totally spent. How much longer can they keep the plates spinning?" Conspiracy expert and author Mike Rothschild wrote on X.

"Trump does not look like a man that’s in full control of his faculties," entrepreneur and technologist Gissur Simonarson, co-founder of Cloud Sherpa, wrote on X.

"Trump looks like death warmed over," journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X.

"Trump, now 80 years old, is looking banged up after his big night at the fights and a flight to Europe," Rupar wrote in a separate X post.

"The blank eyes. A portal to hell," political commentator Bill Johnson wrote on X.

Newsom's office has said that "several people" linked to their family were contacted by federal agents, and they also believe "the agents have ... subpoenaed banking records, but said they had seen no written evidence of that."

In a video statement released on Monday, Newsom, who has become notorious for his social media postings mocking the president, attacked the probe as a politically motivated fishing expedition to try to gin up charges against a political rival, noting that he has often been floated as a presidential contender for 2028.

"Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean Tweets," said Newsom. "He’s coming after me because I am considering running for President. Because he hates that I’ve consistently called him out – over and over again – for his lies and deceit. Donald Trump is simply the most corrupt President in American history."

Newsom also listed several more cases in which the Trump administration launched various controversial investigations into various people perceived as rivals or figures who wronged him.

"His personal attorney [Todd Blanche] now runs the Department of Justice, which has repeatedly gone after his political enemies," Newsom said. "Ask Jerome Powell. He sent them after James Comey. Tish James. Adam Schiff. He sent them after Tim Walz. And a woman that a jury found Donald Trump had sexually abused."

"One by one, anyone who has challenged Donald Trump has ended up on his hit list," he added. "And today, I proudly join that list."

According to Meidas Touch's Scott MacFarlane, the lawsuit cites the cost overruns of Trump's other recent projects, like the White House ballroom and the cleaning and repainting of the Reflecting Pool, which has already seen a resurgence of algae. The plaintiffs also argue that the changes would reduce the recreational use of the park.

Above all, the suit argues, the project was illegal without consent from Congress, noting that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's "announcement of West Potomac Park as the site of the garden complex was definitive and not conditioned on congressional approval."

The suit further cites as proof of urgency for court action the recent comments by Trump administration legal counsel that the government could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and there would be nothing courts could do about it as long as they did it so quickly it was too late to enjoin the work.

Trump, for his part, has championed the new garden as a "magnificent exhibition," saying of the park on social media, "Right now, it is a totally BARREN field of Prime Waterfront Real Estate along our Mighty Potomac River."

All of this comes days after the Trump administration was forced by court order to take the president's name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.