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President Donald Trump cracked a joke about wanting to take a psychedelic for symptoms of anxiety and depression during a White House event touting the benefits of the drugs.
Joe Rogan, who has been fiercely critical of Trump’s war in Iran, was a special guest in the Oval Office Saturday morning to witness the president sign an executive order to “accelerate medical treatments for serious mental illness,” including psychedelic therapies, which Rogan advocates.
Trump touted the success of the psychedelic drug ibogaine—a Schedule I controlled substance—and cited a study in which he said participants experienced an “80 to 90 percent reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within one month.”
“Can I have some, please?” Trump quipped, prompting the room to erupt in laughter. “I’ll do whatever it takes…I don’t have time to be depressed. If you stay busy enough, maybe that’s what works too, that’s what I do.”
Rogan, who endorsed Trump for president in 2024, said the executive order cam..

Eighteen-year-old Lauryn Muller was scrolling through social media when she encountered a video of Donald Trump disparaging California Governor Gavin Newsom over his dyslexia.
The clip deeply affected Ms Muller, stirring memories of her own difficulties learning to read and the persistent feeling that something was amiss with her. Mr Trump had labelled Mr Newsom “stupid,” “low IQ,” “mentally disabled,” and declared him “unfit to become president.”
While Ms Muller recognised the comments as part of a political rivalry – Mr Trump is a Republican and Mr Newsom, a Democrat, is anticipated to contend for the White House in 2028 – the remarks resonated with her on a deeply personal level.
“We’ve had to overcome so many deficits, and for someone to, on a national stage, say, yeah, they will never be like us — that definitely came as an emotional sting to me,” said Muller, an incoming student at Auburn University whose dyslexia was identified as a child.
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Donald Trump has told “useless” Nato to stay away from the Strait of Hormuz after the UK and France announced they would work to protect shipping “as soon as conditions allow”.
In another explosive rant, the US president, who has been heavily critical of the key alliance, once again accused it of being “useless when needed” and dubbed it a “paper tiger”.
The criticism came after Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron vowed to lead a “multinational mission” aimed at protecting ships passing through the vital waterway, which Iran has now agreed to reopen for the duration of its ceasefire with the US.
“This will be strictly peaceful and defensive, as a mission to reassure commercial shipping and support mine clearance,” the prime minister said at a gathering of world leaders in Paris on Friday.
“We invite all nations with an interest in the free flow of global trade to join us. Some have already indicated their readiness to contribute. We will take this forward with a military planning conf..

Fidel Castro’s grand-nephew tried to deliver a secret letter to Donald Trump warning that Cuba was preparing for a possible US incursion, according to a report.
Raúl Rodríguez Castro, the grandson and aide of Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro, gave a letter to a businessman in Havana in the hope that it would reach the White House, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official.
The letter was formatted like a diplomatic note and was emblazoned with an official Cuban seal. It proposed economic and investment agreements as well as sanctions relief for Cuba.
Roberto Carlos Chamizo González, 37, a Cuban businessman involved in private, high-end auto rentals and luxury tourism who was tasked with delivering the letter, was sent back to Havana by an agent of Miami’s Customs and Border Protection, who obtained the letter.
open image in galleryUS President Donald Trump gestures during a roundtable focused on tax cuts in Las Vegas, Nevada (Reuters)The letter followed a series of rem..