4 deeply troubling things Donald Trump did on his tenth day back in the White House

Spouting chaotic innuendo astir the calamity unfolding successful the Potomac River, opening a caller migrant detention campy successful a precise acquainted spot - and making wildly mendacious claims astir sending condoms to Gaza. Here's what you request to know

Given the calamity unfolding successful the Potomac River, conscionable a fewer minutes' thrust from the White House, you mightiness person thought Donald Trump would spot yesterday arsenic a clip for calm reflection.

Perhaps helium would walk the evening speaking to experts and cautiously considering however to merchandise accusation astir the level crash.

But no, helium decided to spout a watercourse of innuendo connected societal media - and airs a bid of questions that mightiness beryllium amended enactment to the Transport Secretary alternatively than his conspiracy theory-loving die-hard followers.

Elsewhere the measurement of bonkers announcements and troubling actions was a small little compared to erstwhile days.

But the things helium did denote were existent doozies.

Here's what you request to know.

1. Responded to the Potomac River level clang pushing retired a conspiracy theory

In the hours pursuing the tragic level clang successful the Potomac River, the White House issued a connection saying the President had been afloat briefed connected the incidental and would stock much details later.

Later, obviously, helium took to Truth Social....posting: "The airplane was connected a cleanable and regular enactment of attack to the airport.

"The chopper was going consecutive astatine the airplane for an extended play of time.

"It is simply a wide night, the lights connected the level were blazing, wherefore didn't the chopper spell up oregon down, oregon turn.

"Why didn't the power operation archer the chopper what to bash alternatively of asking if they saw the plane."

These are each questions you mightiness deliberation the President of the United States could inquire the caput of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). Unfortunately, Mike Whitaker, the erstwhile caput of the FAA, resigned connected the time Trump took office. He'd been heavy criticised by Elon Musk for not approving SpaceX missions rapidly enough.

No acting caput of the FAA has been appointed.

Meanwhile, contempt the FAA being understaffed, Trump ordered a hiring frost connected the assemblage past week. He besides disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, which was formed pursuing the 1988 Lockerbie bombing to analyse information issues astatine airlines and airports.

Later successful the evening helium posted connected Truth Social again: "What a unspeakable nighttime this has been. God bless you all!!"

2. Scrapped the authorities spending freeze, conscionable similar that

As rapidly arsenic it was hamfistedly introduced, the White House canned the frost connected astir each authorities grants and loans.

After 48 hours of radical not unreasonably asking wherefore Meals connected Wheels was woke and whether anyone was *really* sending $50 cardinal worthy of condoms to Gaza (they weren't) - not to notation a justice ordering that it beryllium halted - the White House relented.

Which is bully quality if you get Meals connected Wheels. Probably little bully quality if you're 1 of the dozens of Republicans who stood successful beforehand of cameras and defended the frost astatine magnitude implicit the past mates of days.

3. But that didn't halt him lying astir the Hamas condoms again

At a measure signing, the President claimed: "We identified and stopped $50 cardinal being sent to Gaza to bargain condoms for Hamas."

You don't adjacent request wrong accusation to cognize this isn't true, conscionable a calculator.

USAid, an bureau that among many, galore different things, distributes contraceptives to places wherever they are hard and costly to obtain, buys condoms for astir 5c each.

That makes a cardinal condoms for the 1 cardinal oregon truthful men (and antheral children) who unrecorded successful Gaza. So astir 1,000 each, which mightiness look ambitious to some.

In reality, USAid spent astir $7 cardinal connected condoms past year, to administer astir 137m condoms. Worldwide.

4. Opened up a migrant detention campy successful Guantanamo Bay

Trump has ordered the operation of a migrant situation astatine the infamous US Navy basal successful Cuba to location up to 30,000 of "the worst transgression amerciable aliens threatening the American people".

Cuba, predictably are unimpressed, and accused the US of torture and amerciable detention connected "occupied" land.

Explaining his reasoning, Trump said: "Some of them are truthful atrocious we don't adjacent spot the countries to clasp them, due to the fact that we don't privation them coming back. So we're going to nonstop them to Guantanamo... it's a pugnacious spot to get out."