Trump's kissing photo scandal takes a WEIRD turn

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David Pakman (0:28)

Welcome, everybody. We have pulled together the most important stories and viral moments from the show this week. If you want to keep this thing growing and get access to ad free main episodes and daily bonus content, check out Join Pakman Dotcom. Here is Trump asked, have you ever used a Trump goes, yeah, I use AI. And when he's asked, oh, well, how do you use it? Trump goes, you can use AI for a lot of stuff.

He has no idea. It is obvious Trump has no clue.

Donald Trump (1:01)

We take in a lot of their cars, car tariffs.

SPEAKER_4 (1:04)

This week, again, there's been so much concern about AI.

SPEAKER_5 (1:07)

Have you heard directly from any of these AI tech leaders? And you seem to downplay some of the concerns that we bring.

Donald Trump (1:13)

But it's going to be more good than bad. But by a lot. And I've said it from the beginning, whoever wins AI and we're leading by a lot, whoever wins AI wins.

SPEAKER_5 (1:25)

Have you ever used it yourself or have you been? How do you use AI.?

Donald Trump (1:29)

But I would say, you know, for the most part, you can use AI for a lot of things.

David Pakman (1:35)

Speaking of AI. I don't want to tell you, you can use AI for a lot of things. Sir, do you understand the rules of basketball? Absolutely. Yeah, no, absolutely. Oh, interesting. And like, what do you think is the rule that should maybe most be change? Oh, I don't want to tell you that. No, no, no, no, no. There's so many rules in basketball. There is a picture going absolutely viral that shows Donald Trump kissing his aid, Natalie Harp on a golf course and getting a little handsy with her. The picture of what appears to be Donald Trump.

I don't want to say fondling, but certainly getting handsy with and making out with his assistant, Natalie Harp. The picture that started circulating was very blurry and it purported to show a golf course and embrace a kiss between someone who seems to be Trump and a blonde woman that seems to be Natalie Harp. Now then, things get even stranger because after the blurry picture came out, a much clearer version of essentially the same image started circulating online. And that version has a pretty spectacular problem, which is look at the woman's gloved hand.

It kind of seems like she's got six fingers.

Now, there were some tests done of the sharper picture, and there was strong evidence that that picture was AI generated. There was one report from Hive that that sharper image is 99.9 percent likely to be AI generated. Open AIs verification system detected a watermark associated with their own image tools. So then we can go, oh, so it is AI, right? Well, not really, because it could be the case that the sharpened image is coming up as AI generated or modified because AI was used to upscale and sharpen the image, but that the underlying blurry image may indeed be real. Mitch McConnell is ready to come back to work and go to the Senate, except it's not quite so simple. He looks like a disaster after being missing from the Senate for months. He suffered a fall. He was briefly unconscious. He then had a bout of pneumonia while recovering, went to rehab, all of it. Here is how they did it.

This is not a story about aging. This is not a story about one old guy. It's not a story about wheelchairs, mobility, scooters or disability. There are many people in their 80s who are sharp and engaged and productive and fully capable of doing really demanding work. The issue here, I believe, is what happens when political institutions become so desperate for one senator's vote that nothing else matters. Republicans have controlled the House and the Senate, all of Congress, for two years. And after nearly those two years, JD. Vance is going, Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years.

Gavin Newsom (4:42)

We're fixing.

Give us another chance or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the past two years. And the second argument.