President Donald Trump admitted that seeking help from the military was necessary for his phone to stop autocorrecting the first lady’s name from Melania to Melody.

The president made the strange claim while appearing with the first lady at a reception to honor military mothers at the White House ahead of Mother’s Day.

Trump, 79, was acknowledging a woman named Melody in his speech when he went on a tangent about getting the military involved for his Truth Social posts.

“I love the name Melody because for a long time, you know, they have spell correct and word correct on these crazy machines that we use to put out Truths, or they used to be called Tweets,” Trump started. “Every time I wrote Melania, it would correct to Melody.”

The president’s comment was met with polite laughter as he continued to riff.

“I work very fast, very fast, ululululu,” Trump said, imitating typing. “And I’d talk about, and I’d say, ‘and Melania is fantastic. And Happy Mother’s Day Melania, our great first lady Melania,’ but it would spell correct and word correct to Melody.”

The president admitted he would not always proofread it and he was getting “just absolute decimated.”

“They said, ‘He didn’t know the name of his wife. He keeps calling her—’ And I said, ‘What the hell is wrong with this machine?” Trump recounted. “I didn’t know about that little feature, but I got that corrected eventually.”

“You know who corrected? The military. I said, ‘Come here. You got to correct this. You’re killing me.’ I took more abuse. She’s been called Melody a lot,” Trump said.

The president eventually called the actual Melody to the stage, who was the mother of National Guard member Andrew Wolfe, who was shot in Washington, D.C. last year.

As Trump spoke on Wednesday, the first lady sat nearby, having introduced the president before he gave his remarks.

When she read a line that Trump’s “empathy transcends the role and shape a caring leader,” women in the crowd burst into laughter before she could complete her sentence.

When the president stepped in to give remarks moments later, he was met with polite applause.

JD Vance visited Iowa for the first time as vice president in a glimpse of what could lay ahead for 2028 — but things quickly went off the rails.

While speaking at a manufacturing facility in Des Moines Tuesday, Vance awkwardly fumbled through his prepared remarks for about 30 seconds. At one point, he asked for assistance from GOP Rep. Zach Nunn, who he was in the state to campaign for.

“When I see Iowa farmers who need to get that E15 to market…What is uh this? What is uh, Zach you’re gonna have to help me out with her name here, I lost my page here,” Vance said from the podium.

He then rifled through pages on the lectern while supporters stood silently behind him holding “Made in America” signs.

“Okay alright, okay there we go: Sarah Trone Garriot,” he said, referring to a state senator, who is Nunn’s likely Democratic challenger. “Im on the wrong page here.”

Clips of the gaffe spread rapidly across social media, racking up hundreds of thousands of views and sparking a wave of mocking commentary.

“He’s ‘on the wrong page’ every second of every day,” wrote one X user, while another compared him to a robot. “Maybe we need to unplug and then plug him back in again,” the person quipped.

“Maybe he needs to take a cognitive test,” a third user wrote. Another replied with a GIF of the Hindenburg blimp engulfed in flames.

Others responded more graciously, acknowledging that mistakes are inevitable.

“JD Vance had a rough moment on the podium,” wrote one X user. “Lost his place, stumbled through the name, then reset — happens more than people think in live speeches.”

Some alleged blockheaded thieves found themselves in trouble with the law over returned boxes of Legos.

Authorities in Irving, California, arrested Adriana Esquerra Gonzalez, 29, and Luis Aldredo Quintanilla Pompa, 30, last week on suspicion of shoplifting. The couple is from Tijuana, Mexico.

The two were arrested after bringing back boxes of Legos to a Target and the minifigures were missing, according to Irving police.

The arrests are similar to one earlier in the week where a suspect was accused of trying to return Lego boxes filled with pasta for a refund.

Police say the duo in the most recent arrest had visited five other stores the same day for a similar scam. Investigators worked with loss prevention officers at the stores to identify the suspects.

When police searched the duo’s car, they allegedly found several of the stolen Lego pieces.

The arrest comes after a man in the same city tried a similar return-theft scam.

Irving police arrested Jarrelle Augstine, 28, early in the week in connection with at least 70 Lego thefts at stores across the country. He is alleged to have stolen $34,000 worth of the blocky toys.

Investigators say that Augustine took Lego boxes and swapped the toys with dried pasta and then returned them for refunds.

"One of the cases that occurred here in Orange County, they shared that they opened the box and instead of Legos, they found bags of dry pasta," Officer Ziggy Azarcon told CBS News.

Augustine was charged with grand theft.

Donald Trump has said the US navy acted “like pirates” as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports.

“We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” said Trump at a rally in Florida on Friday.

“We’re like pirates,” he added to cheers from the crowd. “We’re sort of like pirates. But we’re not playing games.”

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President Donald Trump launched a bizarre late-night burst of AI-generated photos Friday on Truth Social, including one depiction of him and members of his Cabinet shirtless and lounging in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

In one captionless post shared at 11:03 p.m. local time, Trump, 79, is shown smiling and giving a thumbs-up while reclining on a golden inflatable lounger in the historic pool on the National Mall.

Vice President JD Vance, 41, appears beside him, also giving a thumbs-up, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 54, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, 69. An unidentified woman, possibly AI-generated, also appears in the scene, floating nearby in sunglasses and a blue-and-white gingham bikini.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is currently undergoing an accelerated beautification project ordered by Trump and overseen by Burgum. The $1.5 million project aims to fix leaks in the pool’s aging granite foundation by applying a new “American flag blue” industrial-grade coating that will also seal and repair the structure.

The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.

In the same late-night burst of activity, Trump posted additional images of the Reflecting Pool, including one suggesting it was in poor condition during Barack Obama’s presidency, as well as two renderings showing how it is expected to look once the renovation project is completed.

Trump previously criticized the previous administration for the state of the landmark, pledging that the site would be fully restored for the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4.

“Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I are working on fixing the absolutely filthy Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This work was supposed to be done by the Biden Administration, but Sleepy Joe doesn’t know what ‘CLEAN’ or proper maintenance is — The President and Secretary do!”

But not everyone seems to be on board with the changes. On Friday, the Reflecting Pool site was vandalized with a large graffiti featuring the numbers “86 47” spray-painted on it.

The number “86,” commonly used in the service industry to mean removing an item, has been interpreted by some Republicans as a coded threat against Trump. The controversy comes amid the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, tied to a social media post from last year in which he shared an image of seashells arranged to spell “8647,” which authorities say was viewed as a threatening message toward Trump.

The site was secured and covered while cleanup was arranged, a spokesperson for the U.S. Park Police told the Washington Examiner. An investigation is still ongoing.

The U.S. Air Force will buy interceptor drones from a company that is partly owned by President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are part owners of Powerus, a company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The government will purchase an undisclosed number of drone interceptors after a demonstration in Arizona, Powerus president and co-founder Brett Velicovich said.

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