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President Donald Trump's attempt to smear the Biden administration turned into a self-own while he spoke at the commencement ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy this week.
Trump spoke as several hundred protesters gathered outside Coast Guard Academy campus in New London, Connecticut. During the nearly hour-long address to cadets and their families, he alternated between praising the graduating class of 2026 and revisiting familiar themes about what he described as the country’s recovery after a period of decline.
At one point, he said:
"Our country is hot. I hate to say, it but I will. A year ago, a year and a half ago, two years ago, the last administration, we were a dead country. Right now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world.”
"We're respected all over the world. You saw that with China just recently, you saw that in Venezuela, and you saw that right now with Iran. Everything's gone: their Navy's gone, their Air Force is gone, just about everything."
"The only question is are we going to finish it up or are they going to be signing a document? Let's see what happens. But we're a hot country. We're the hottest country."
"We're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the strongest, most powerful military anywhere in the world. There's nobody close."
You can hear what Trump said in the video below.
But there's a problem with Trump's math basic math considering he referred to the U.S. as a “dead country” just “a year ago.”
Trump has already been back in office for roughly 16 months, meaning part of the period he was criticizing would have fallen under his own administration.
The mockery was swift.
Trump did something similar last month after he accidentally criticized his own presidency while attempting to criticize former President Joe Biden's presidency—seemingly forgetting that it wasn't Biden who was in office a year ago.
Trump, while discussing his "No Tax on Tips" policy, claimed the country was an "embarrassment" last year, adding that "All over the world, they laughed at us."
Considering it wasn't Biden who was in office a year ago, Trump might want to rethink who the "embarrassment" really is.
For those who did not know, having a birthday party at Ulta Beauty is now a possibility. Complete with skincare sessions, mini-makeovers, discounts, and goodie bags, it's kind of perfect for teens and tweens who are enthusiastic about makeup and skincare.
But while the birthday party is going on, what is a bored parent to do?
For dad and TikToker Tim Richards, aka TikTokTimmay, the obvious solution was to stay in the store but also stay out of the way of the birthday party in progress, so he decided to wander around the perfume section, enlightening the TikTok community with his astutely hilarious and brutal reviews.
Richards confessed:
"My daughter's having a birthday party at Ulta. I have nowhere to go!"
"So, I'm smelling perfumes."
He started with a perfume by Sabrina Carpenter in a bright yellow bottle that looked like a candy bar.
"The Sabrina Carpenter 'Sweet Tooth Lemon Pie.'"
"Not a fan!"
Then there was a perfume from the popular Bridgerton line, whose title he read in an exaggerated British accent.
"Then there's the Bridgerton 'Dearest Revel Vanilla.'"
"This one is good!"
You can watch the video here:
@tiktoktimmay8 When your daughter has a birthday party at @Ulta Beauty but you have no place to go #dad #beauty #makeup #shopping #birthday
Fellow TikTokers were tickled by the dad keeping himself busy during the birthday party.






A few called him out, pointing out that he only shared two reviews, while they wanted more.






Prepared to please his growing TikTok community, Richards shared a follow-up video with a few more perfume reviews.
" Ariana Grande. 'Mod Blush.' This is really good."
"Marc Jacobs. 'Daisy Wild.' Not for me."
Then he held up an animal-shaped perfume bottle with an ombre rainbow finish. It was a squeeze-pump style perfume dispenser.
"I really wanted to try this one: 'Squishmallows: Whisked Away,' Tropical Sunset. I can't figure out how to work it!"
And finally:
" Billie Eilish. 'Your Turn II.' This is also really good!"
You can watch the follow-up video here:
@tiktoktimmay8 Back at @Ulta Beauty , my home away from home, with more perfume reviews #dad #beauty #makeup #perfume
Sometimes you have to stick around somewhere with nothing to do, and you have to get creative!
This dad absolutely had the right idea. Between wanting to encourage his daughter's love of makeup and his own enjoyment of fragrances, what could go wrong?
Let's face it: every single one of us has flopped at least one job interview. Whether we knew in the moment that it wasn't going well, or it only hit us later how spectacularly we'd missed the mark, we've all been there.
But at least most of us can say that we didn't freeze up and start spouting facts about our favorite snack.
TikToker @dadgummit10, unfortunately, can never make that claim again.
In a hilarious video, the guy settles into his car in a nice button-down shirt and looks thoroughly perturbed, as it turns out, toward himself.
The TikToker recounts:
"Just bombed a job interview."
"I knew the question was coming. They always ask it. 'What's your biggest weakness?'"
"I blacked out. Brain went numb."
"I didn't say, 'Oh, delegation. I have a problem delegating, because I want to make sure it gets done right.'"
"No. You know what I said?"
"Oreos."
"I said OREOS were my biggest weakness."
"I was like, 'I'll eat them until the milk's gone. However much milk is in my cup, I'll eat Oreos. It could be two. It could be 12.'"
The TikToker stared pointedly at the camera and then chuckled.
"Ya boy is still looking for a job."
You can watch the video here:
@dadgummit10 Just absolute absurdity from myself today. I continue to surprise myself with new levels of stupidity. #job #interview #fyp #foryoupage #oops
As much as the TikToker was left beating himself up over it, the video was shared and went viral on X, where X users were sympathetic, supportive, and, of course, cackling over the story.
Some sympathized, saying they'd had their own failures when put on the spot.
Others pointed out how endearing the answer actually was and how much they felt like this would make the guy stand out if they were the ones conducting the interview.
Of course, some just took the situation at face value and could not stop laughing.
Though this TikToker felt like he thoroughly messed up the interview, the rest of the internet was quick to say the opposite. His mind may have frozen up in that moment, but what came out instead was honest, hilarious, and relatable.
Being funny cannot be trained into a person, and often, neither can relatability or sympathy. By having this moment, as random as it may have been in context with the rest of the interview, it could have illuminated what the team wouldn't be able to train him to do, if they just took a moment to really listen.
The right company would only need to ask his favorite kind of Oreo, and then if those cookies are really his weakness, they'd only need to worry about keeping up the supply.
When two people are planning to get married, there are countless details to consider, often to create an incredibly beautiful and aesthetic wedding.
One detail that most couples take very seriously is the photographer who will take the wedding photos and help create an engagement announcement.
Because you never know when the photographer might accidentally turn a bride into a centaur.
During an otherwise gorgeous photoshoot, a lovely couple posed in a picturesque scene, perfect for a whimsical photoshoot, as the bride posed in a lovely and airy gown, draped over the back of a horse.
But because of her future husband's position next to the horse, and the fact that the horse had its head down grazing, the horse's head can be easily missed, making it look like the man is holding hands with a gorgeous centaur woman.
You can see the photo here:

The other photos are more obvious and whimsical, as the pair shares a kiss from the perspective of the front of the horse, making the three of them separate and fully visible.
You can see that photo here:

Regardless of the bride's state as a woman or a centaur, the couple looks incredibly happy to be wed!

As gorgeous as the couple's photos are, the optical illusion of the first photo attracted a serious number of viewers, though the reactions were anything but serious.
You can see the full collection of photos here.
Many people admitted to missing the horse's head entirely and believing this was a centaur-themed shoot.






Others even joked that true love's kiss freed the bride from her centaur's curse!





And the jokes just kept on coming.





This is one of those instances where the couple and the photographer were so focused on the gorgeous location, the whimsical nature of the bride's dress with the trees and the horse, and the couple's love for each other, that they didn't even realize at the time the level of optical illusion they'd created.
However, if the pair enjoys whimsical fantasies, this might be a dream come true!
Students are being actively discouraged from using ChatGPT and other AI-generation tools, as they are expected to learn their educational concepts and be able to put them into practice. They are also not supposed to use these tools while writing papers or during at-home tests.
Given how expensive grade school and college textbooks are, it is reasonable that educational writers and content professionals should be held to the same standards. Wouldn't it make sense for them to use the knowledge of their field, rather than what's been fed into ChatGPT, to make a textbook a worthwhile purchase for students?
But it seems a textbook writer did not see it that way, at least while writing a unit on database management systems (DBMS).
On a page discussing the specific breakdown of data tables, regarding what's contained in rows and columns, Redditor imfrom_mars_ discovered a ChatGPT response to a prompt that hadn't been deleted from a textbook they're using.
Looking at the entirety of the page, the writing and editing appear sloppy, as the formatting and writing style are deeply inconsistent.
And the icing on the weird-editing-choices cake is the ChatGPT response someone forgot to delete:
"If you want, I can also explain columns, primary keys, or other DBMS terms."
"Here is a clear and simple explanation of a Column in DBMS:"
You can see the photo of the textbook page here:

Redditors on the "India Tech" subReddit were frustrated that people would spend hard-earned money on this product.
"What's the point of buying these textbooks then?!"
"And if it's from a private publisher, it'll be costly, as well!" - Purple-Maybe-7637
"This is so sh*tty. We have to spend so much on these books, and then it's going to be filled with so many errors. The whole education system is dying." - Solid-Measurement-96
"No AI! At least not in textbooks!" - No-Formal2300
"Education is doomed if the younger generation has to study AI slop. No critical thinking, no realisation of facts, grim times ahead for sure!" - No_Chocolate_3292
"BOMBASTIC SIDE-EYE. It seems even the SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS are dependent on ChatGPT now?! We're doomed." - Large_a**2780
"Oh my GOD, is this real? They do proofread before publishing the book, right? How did this get missed? Is the editor named Claude?" - Fast-Enthusiasm-3137
"I can see it now: Author's bibliography: chat.openai.com." - Zealousidea_Owl1129
"Teachers are trying to call students so lazy for using these tools, and yet the PUBLISHERS are so lazy, they don't even..." - Adventurous-Peace15
"This is so disappointing. Maybe talk to your school about not using AI in books. They need to think about what they've done." - Objective_Squirrel87
"Yay! What a fun time to be alive! Fake textbooks! Fake education! Yay!" - Relevant-Criticism-8
There are inevitably going to be professionals in every industry who turn to ChatGPT and other similar platforms to minimize their workload, but there's something particularly nefarious about expecting students to pay for expensive textbooks when they could have just loaded their questions into ChatGPT instead.