Trump celebrates 78th birthday with paid fan club amid lingering questions about mental competency: Live updates

Donald Trump turns 78 today and is reportedly planning to celebrate at his fan club, Club 47, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Attendees pay between $35 and $60 for the pleasure of praising the presidential candidate.

Being a year older won't help Trump's claims that he remains young at heart and mentally active, and that Joe Biden, at 81, is too old or cognitively impaired to be fit for the White House.

Fox News' Jesse Watters is trying to preempt the argument that President Trump's recent rants about electric boats and sharks are actually just “common sense” that has been unfairly distorted by the media.

And for balance, here are Michael Cohen's expletive-filled thoughts on the same incident.

In case you missed that outlandish anecdote from the recent Las Vegas rally, here is my report on the reaction.

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace has again won the Republican primary, defeating an opponent backed by a prominent opponent.

The congressman won the Republican primary for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District over opponents Katherine Templeton and William Young. Mace jumped out to an early lead as the votes rolled in and was declared the winner early Tuesday evening.

Her victory came after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attacked her as one of eight Republicans who ousted him from the speakership last fall.

John Bowden Following the race:

Others cried out “sycophants” and “don't drink the Kool-Aid.”

Another protester, wearing a bear costume, held up a sign that read, “More Tax Cuts, More Benefits.”

Alex Woodward Field report:

Eric Garcia and Katie Hawkinson report:

President Donald Trump met with House Republicans on Thursday, marking his first visit to the House of Representatives since before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The former president met privately with party members just weeks before the Republican National Convention, where Trump will be nominated as the party's presidential nominee, and five months before the 2024 election.

Protesters heckled Republicans as they filed into the Capitol Hill Club, where Republicans frequently meet.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told party members that Democrat Nancy Pelosi's daughter said they were a perfect match for each other – a comment that instantly drew ire from Pelosi's family.

“Nancy Pelosi's daughter is a weirdo,” Trump reportedly said while speaking with House Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “Her daughter told me that under different circumstances, Nancy and I would be a perfect match.”

Kelly Risman The story goes like this:

A man's attempt to trademark the phrase “TRUMP TOO SMALL” failed when the Supreme Court ruled that a law protecting a person's name from being trademarked without their consent does not violate the First Amendment.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a unanimous decision Thursday that the law limiting trademarking of names reflects a “historic rationale for identifying the source of goods” to ensure “customers know the source of those goods.”

“Political parties have no First Amendment right to piggyback on the goodwill that other groups have built in their name,” Justice Thomas added.

Ariana Bio Report on the court decision:

“This could be a parole violation, it could be another felony,” Kimmel said of the weapon on his show Wednesday, before joking, “Does this guy think he's Hunter Biden?”

Kelly Risman The story goes like this:

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney appeared on X to share her thoughts on the reconciliation that has taken place between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump since December 2020, before the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

She writes, “Mitch McConnell knows that Trump incited a violent attack on the Capitol and then 'happily watched on TV' as his mob brutally beat police officers and cornered the vice president.”

“He knows that for hours, Trump refused to tell the rioters to leave, and continued to repeat lies about the election and praise criminals even as police officers bled.”

“He knows Trump has committed a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty' and is a danger to our Republic. Trump and his allies will be defeated and history will remember the shame of those who enabled them, like @LeaderMcConnell.”

Cheney was one of two Republicans, along with Adam Kinzinger, who served on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attacks.

Donald Trump revealed whether he believes in the existence of UFOs during an interview with social media personality Logan Paul published on Thursday.

President Trump recounted meeting with military pilots who had strange encounters with what the government called “unidentified anomalies.”