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President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his easily disprovable claim to have won California’s electoral votes as he suggested that a Republican ex-reality television star running for mayor of Los Angeles could have trouble winning because of “dishonest” elections in the Golden State.

Trump made the bizarre comments to reporters before boarding Air Force One en route to Connecticut and a planned commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

Asked about GOP mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, Trump said he’d like to see the former The Hills star “do well” and called him “a character” and a “big MAGA person” before pivoting to unsubstantiated accusations about California’s elections.

“if you have a rigged vote out there, that's the problem. The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California. You have all the mail in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win because the elections are very dishonest,” he said.

“If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California, because I do great with Hispanics, but it's a rigged vote.”

The president continued by repeating an oft-employed grievance about the Golden State’s use of postal ballots, which he and other Republicans often suggest are used to manipulate election results even though California has voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in statewide office since the 1990s.

“They send out 38 million votes. Nobody knows where they're going, of course. The Democrats disproportionately, Democrats get many more votes, some get eight votes, they get eight cards, and Republicans have to call in, 'Where's my card?’ — it's a rigged system, one of the most, not the worst,” he said.

He added later that California was “one of the most dishonest states for voting.”

Trump also told reporters his message to graduating Coast Guard cadets would be to “enjoy your life” and said Americans don’t realize how important the Coast Guard is until disasters such as hurricanes hit.

“I remember the big hurricane in Texas, where these kids go on boats, and they're going to the waves that are 20 times higher than the boat ... these massive waves to save people that were inside, and you don't realize it, but boy, they are good, they are good seamen, they are unbelievable,” he said.

President Donald Trump has posted a bizarre AI meme of himself and the Secret Service escorting an extraterrestrial in handcuffs on Truth Social, just one of many eccentric posts that appeared on his page this weekend.

After returning from a long and exhausting mid-week trip to China, Trump used his “executive time” on Saturday and Sunday to golf and trawl social media.

The meme showed the president and a group of stern-faced agents leading the alien, silver and conspicuously muscular, across a desert U.S. military base, with no accompanying comment or caption to explain it.

However, he did also post three further memes of himself in a high-tech Space Force command center above the Earth as satellites, asteroids, and bombs explode in the background.

The science-fiction theme comes two weeks after the Pentagon declassified and published a swathe of previously top secret material on supposed UFOs collected by the U.S. government, a release that posed a potential problem for Christian members of Trump’s base, some of whom rationalized it as proof of the existence of angels instead.

Elsewhere on Truth Social it was largely back to business as usual, as the president posted attacks on his enemies, from rebel Republican congressman Thomas Massie, to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Barack Obama, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, all Democrats.

Newsom, in another AI meme, was depicted wearing a straitjacket in a padded cell, suggesting he had literally been driven insane by “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which the president recently insisted was a real medical condition.

Another post showed a Golden State license plate bearing an image of the governor as a zombie, its letters spelling out “NEW-SCM” (or “Newscum”), Trump’s preferred disparaging nickname for a man considered by many to be a likely Democratic presidential candidate come 2028.

There were also a number of press photos of himself looking statesmanlike in conversation with Xi Jinping and memes championing his renovation of the Reflecting Pool in front of the Washington Monument, as well as dramatic AI images of drone strikes on Iranian naval vessels, following on from his warning to Tehran that “the clock is ticking” on their faltering peace talks.

On Saturday, Trump’s output appeared to be dedicated towards promoting the idea that he remains youthful and in rude health, with the president recirculating praise that he “gets younger” and “ages in reverse” a month before the dawning of his 80th birthday.

The idea runs counter to the unwanted attention he received last week after dozing off at an Oval Office event on maternity care and social media focus on his swollen ankles during the Beijing visit.

Amid ongoing speculation about his health, the president is due for his latest checkup at Walter Reed Military Medical Center on May 26, hist fourth visit since returning to power in January last year.