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Mitch McConnell Is Back, Natalie Harp and Trump Smooching? | Breaking Absurdity · Breaking Absurdity — Today's Top Headlines That Can't Be Unheard. Brought to you by @ItsNotSatire.

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  What in holy hell, there's a photo of Donald
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  Trump and Nathalie Harp smooching on the golf
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  course. Is it real? And Mitch McConnell is back
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  and better than ever. Or is he? Here he is, Mitch
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  McConnell being wheeled out. They did not want
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  us to see this, clearly. Today in Breaking Absurdity,
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  we've got whatever this is. Trump's janky leg.
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  His arrival back to Washington with Melania stand
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  -in, Nathalie Harp. And finally, the scandal
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  that probably isn't a scandal with AOC and Mom
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  Donnie. It's breaking absurdity. Everything you
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  The link is in the show notes. Now let's get
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  into the absurdity. First up, it's Mitch McConnell.
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  He is prison. How are you going to vote today,
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  sir? Those cameras aren't getting anywhere near
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  him. I didn't think this day was going to come,
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  but here he is. Welcome back, Senator McConnell.
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  Yeah, welcome back. I don't know how I feel about
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  this. I mean, on one hand, you got one more vote
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  for the Republicans, so that's not good. But
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  on the other hand, this looks really bad for
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  the Republicans. I mean, people just cannot believe
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  that he is still in the Senate when we haven't
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  seen him for, I don't know, how long has it been?
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  Two, three months? And this just came in just
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  as I was recording this video. Here's another
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  view. You can see him a lot clearer now. There
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  he is. This makes me laugh. You know that he
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  can't talk very loud, what you're screaming at
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  a man in a wheelchair, like he's gonna scream
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  back at you. He talks about as slow as he walks,
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  and that's pretty darn slow. And more clips emerged.
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  Give us a thumbs up! Anything? I'm not sure if
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  anything's going on up there. It looks more like
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  a golden retriever than a United States senator.
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  And here's political correspondent Nicholas Ballacy
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  talking about what he just saw. Kentucky Republican
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  Senator Mitch McConnell has returned to the Senate
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  to vote after being out for three months. He
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  fell on June 14th. He was in the hospital and
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  then later transferred from rehab to his home
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  to recover. The senator is back in person to
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  vote. We didn't have any interviews from the
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  senator. No videos were released during that
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  three month time period, but he has returned
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  to the Senate. And here's one of those photos
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  that was released while he was hospitalized.
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  This is what absolutely made the internet melt
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  down. Nobody believed it was real. Everyone thought
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  it was AI. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said
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  that he received calls from state agencies that
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  said that he might even be dead. Yet, here we
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  are. Mitch McConnell being wheeled out of his
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  townhouse, headed into the Senate. Here he is
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  being wheeled into the Senate floor, getting
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  a bit of a greeting from his fellow Republicans.
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  I wonder what they're laughing about. And I wonder
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  how much Mitch McConnell is actually talking.
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  It's a little bit difficult to see. The cameras
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  don't really let us get too close to him. And
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  there's a few things to catch you up on. So this
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  is Trump in Ireland yesterday and the internet
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  was having a complete meltdown over Trump's leg.
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  Just take a look there. We're zooming in and
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  there's something getting in the way of his pants.
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  You can see there's a little protrusion on his
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  left leg sticking out there and that pant leg
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  does not lay right. Let's look at it again. See,
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  he's not walking like a person with a good gait.
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  And here's Trump stepping off Air Force One.
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  This is the Qatari -donated $400 million Air
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  Force One that Trump spent several more hundred
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  million dollars fixing up, stepping off very
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  carefully. Because you know, the one thing that
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  Trump admires about Obama is Obama bopped down
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  the stairs. And with Trump, there ain't no boppin'.
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  It is all about careful, careful steps. And since
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  Trump hates it so much, I just thought I would
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  play the video of Obama bopping down the stairs.
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  Trump wishes he could do that. But back to the
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  present day, sadly, here's Trump walking over
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  to Marine One. I've just fast forwarded this
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  a little bit. Look at Trump now, gesticulating
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  pretty aggressively at the military. What is
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  he upset about? Not happy about something? Maybe
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  they took too long. Maybe they had to change
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  his diaper and he got a little upset. And here's
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  people getting on. But I thought this would be
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  good to show you Natalie Harp. Natalie Harp,
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  Trump's executive assistant who follows him everywhere.
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  She's getting on Marine One and she's headed
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  back to the White House. So what do you think
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  she's going to do when she gets there? And yesterday,
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  Trump may have gotten a little confused because
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  he was talking about his wife being there, but
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  she clearly wasn't. My wife is here. Yeah, that
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  was a pretty bad mistake. Yep, seven hours on
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  a plane is where Melania draws the line. That's
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  not happening. And this just emerged on the internet
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  today. Donald Trump is smooching a woman who
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  looks a lot like Natalie Hart from behind. It's
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  allegedly a photo from Ireland and the golf weekend.
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  Of course, it's not verified. All we do know
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  for sure is that Trump was in Ireland, Natalie
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  Harp was in Ireland, Natalie Harp was on the
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  golf course with Trump, and Trump left the golf
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  course with Natalie Harp and got on the Marine
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  One. So whatever happened in between is still
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  forthcoming. Stay tuned on this one. But things
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  got a little weirder yesterday, so this has been
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  brewing on the internet for the last few days
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  since the 9 -11 ceremony in New York. Mom Donnie
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  and Ayo's see were on camera laughing and it
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  caused MAG at a totally spiral. Here's the original
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  video that started the meltdown. And this controversy
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  only got worse when the New York Post put this
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  online and talked about the Democratic socialist
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  darling's mom Donnie and AOC were laughing while
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  victims names were being read. Also, Meghan McCain
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  and Ted Cruz had some tweets and they had some
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  provocative statements as well. But it turns
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  out things are a little bit more complicated
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  than they appear on the face. And CNN actually
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  went back and investigated and put together a
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  clip that's a little bit more illuminating. Extended
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  footage of the same camera appears to show Mamdani
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  looking stoic before the greeting, and both of
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  them return to neutral expressions after the
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  exchange. The camera feed did not pick up audio
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  of their greeting. CNN has reached out to both
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  Mamdani and Ocasio -Cortez for comment. So what
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  looked like a huge controversy turned out to
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  be two people just saying hello. But what shut
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  MAGA up really quickly was this other shot of
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  JD Vance, Howard Lutnick, and Giuliani yucking
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  it up over to the side, appearing to have a great
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  time while the victims' names are being read.
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  But that didn't stop President Trump from weighing
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  in and making his own statements. So Trump thinks
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  it's inappropriate to not be paying attention
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  during 9 -11. Well, actually, I think I've got
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  a clip from him yesterday that might be relevant.
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  Trump couldn't stay awake during the Pentagon's
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  9 -11 ceremony yesterday. Although, to be fair,
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  he did seem to open his eyes every time the bell
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  rang. So whoever scheduled those bells during
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  Trump's nap better start updating their resume.
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  At least he was awake for the important parts.
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