Overview

• The White House has confirmed President Trump will host Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, describing the gathering as a “listening exercise” at a U.S. military facility
• President Trump continues to attack Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Truth Social and boast that he “ACED” a cognitive test taken at a misnamed Washington D.C. military hospital, raising questions about his memory
• On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host pointed out Trump’s misstatement of the test location and ridiculed the cognitive-boast as akin to a basic finger-counting exam
• Jimmy Fallon used Taylor Swift song titles such as “Bad Blood” and “Blank Space” on The Tonight Show to satirize the tense dynamic between Trump and Putin
• Taylor Swift’s surprise new-album announcement and the ensuing website and Ticketmaster outages have become a pop-culture thread for late-night comics framing this week’s political headlines