Donald Trump has been mocked after posting an AI meme of Canada Geese with his hairstyle defending “Lake America”.

The so-called “Donald Ducks” are shown firing machine guns in the clip, which the US president posted on Truth Social.

It follows Trump’s controversial bid to re-name Lake Ontario over his ongoing trade war with Canada.

He signed an executive order last week changing its name to Lake America – triggering an angry backlash from Canadian politicians.

Lake Ontario is one of the five “Great Lakes” which straddle the two countries.

Trump said the name change was “official, effective immediately”.

Responding on X, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney blew Trump’s claims out of the water by pointing out it has been known as Lake Ontario for centuries and will remain so “now and always”.

Undeterred, Trump posted the Donald Ducks meme on Saturday – sparking ridicule online.

One X user said: “It’s confirmed. The president is insane.”

A separate AI video also posted by Trump shows him replacing the Lake Ontario sign with a Lake America one before doing his signature dance.

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We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how menopause is increasingly driving women with suspected ADHD to get a formal diagnosis. The life stage can “amplify ADHD-related challenges,” Eve Lepage, a reproductive health specialist at Clue, shared with us previously. Scientists have long suspected that hormones like oestrogen can affect how ADHD presents.

But researchers only began formally tracking ADHD symptoms across women’s menstrual cycles recently, with scientists calling the much-reported issue scientifically “overlooked”.

And in an article published in Frontiers in Reproductive Health, study authors wrote that “Autistic women navigating the menopause transition face a constellation of challenges that remain critically understudied”.

Issues with body awareness, sensory overstimulation, and systemic barriers can make the experience uniquely challenging for autistic women, they added.

Here, HuffPost UK spoke to Dr Claire Agathou, a GP with a specialist interest in women’s health and the co-founder of A-Z General Practice at HCA’s The Wellington Hospital, about the topic.

Dr Agathou told us that menopause “can affect virtually every aspect of a woman’s wellbeing from sleep and mood to concentration, memory and temperature regulation – and for autistic women there may be an additional layer of complexity”.

Emerging research suggests that autistic women might experience an intensification of autistic traits during the transition – “In particular, sensory
sensitivities may become more pronounced, emotional regulation can become more difficult, and changes in sleep, concentration and executive function may have a disproportionately disruptive effect on everyday life”.

Take, for instance, a hot flush, the GP said. “For someone who already experiences heightened sensitivity to temperature, clothing or touch, it may become intensely uncomfortable or overwhelming.

“Similarly, sleep disruption and the cognitive symptoms commonly described as ‘brain fog’ may compound existing difficulties with executive function, planning or managing competing demands”.

As with women who have ADHD, Dr Agathou continued, autistic women might find it harder to “mask” their neurodivergence during menopause.

Strategies they may have spent years adopting in order to hide struggles or navigate their professional or social sphere could be harder to maintain, which may be distressing, “particularly for women who have spent much of their adult lives functioning at a very high level, some without recognising that they may have autism”.

However, the doctor stressed that not every autistic person going through menopause will necessarily have a more intense experience.

“Menopause itself varies enormously between individuals. At present,
the evidence base is relatively small, so we need to listen to women’s individual
experiences rather than make assumptions based simply on a diagnosis,” she said.

When asked how we can support autistic women through menopause, Dr Agathou said it’s important to recognise the experience isn’t uniform.

“Healthcare professionals should actively ask about sensory symptoms, sleep, emotional regulation, executive functioning and the impact symptoms are having on day-to-day life, rather than focusing solely on hot flushes or changes to periods,” she said, adding that clear, written explanations and avoiding info-dumping on patients might also help some women.

“We should also recognise that autistic women may describe or experience internal bodily sensations differently, which can sometimes make identifying and communicating symptoms more difficult”.

But unfortunately, she continued, the intersection of menopause and autism simply isn’t all that well-studied.

“There are two historically neglected areas intersecting here. Women have traditionally been under-recognised in autism research because our understanding of autism was largely developed from studies of boys and men.

“Many autistic women… therefore reached adulthood without a diagnosis, often becoming very skilled at masking their difficulties. At the same time, menopause itself has historically been under-researched, and, for many years, women’s symptoms were too readily normalised or dismissed,” the GP explained.

“When those two gaps overlap, it isn’t surprising that autistic women going through menopause have received relatively little attention.”

This, despite some early evidence suggesting that menopause can be especially difficult and/or have unique side effects for some autistic women.

“The key message is that we shouldn’t assume menopause looks the same for every woman,” Dr Agathou ended.

“If somebody tells us that this transition has fundamentally changed how they are able to function, we need to listen, explore why, and provide care that reflects their individual needs.”

Meanwhile, the Frontiers In Reproductive Health study argued: “As the autistic population ages, and as researchers continue to learn more about the presentation of autism in the female population, it will be imperative to support autistic females in their experience of menopause”.

Keir Starmer is having to find a new house because of a firebomb attack on the one he lived in before becoming prime minister, it has emerged.

The former PM’s biographer, Tom Baldwin, said he had been advised not to return to the property “for security reasons”.

Two men were jailed in June following a trial at the Old Bailey over arson attacks on property connected to Starmer.

The jury heard Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc had been recruited by an anonymous Russian-speaking figure called “El Money” on the messaging service Telegram.

In the early hours of May 12, 2025, a fire broke out at Starmer’s former home in Kentish Town, north London, where his sister-in-law and her family were then living.

Lavrynovych and Carpiuc were also convicted of setting fire to a car once owned by Starmer, and the front door of a property in north London that Starmer had previously managed, earlier the same month.

Speaking in the House of Commons at the time, the then PM said it was “an attack on all of us, on democracy and the values that we stand for”.

Starmer and his family divided their time between Downing Street and the country grace-and-favour residence Chequers when he was prime minister.

But he left No.10 last month after being replaced as PM by Andy Burnham.

On Sky News on Sunday, Baldwin was asked how Starmer is coping with life out of power.

He said: “He’s had a holiday, which is something he didn’t get in his first summer. He is looking for a place to live, because he can’t go back to his old house for security reasons.”

HuffPost UK has contacted Starmer’s representatives for comment.

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In the UK, an estimated eight million people are living with anxiety at any given time. But not all types of the condition are equally common.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, for instance, about 7% of the US population experiences social anxiety. Selective mutism, meanwhile, is “the least common anxiety disorder”, affecting somewhere between 0.47% and 0.76%.

HuffPost UK spoke to BACP-accredited therapist and anxiety expert, Kamalyn Kaur, about the phenomenon.

This “is an anxiety disorder whereby someone is unable to speak in certain situations, despite being able to speak comfortably in others,” the therapist said.

“For example, a child may talk freely at home but be unable to speak at school, or an adult may struggle to speak in particular social or professional settings but be absolutely fine when with close friends.”

Kaur stressed that even though people with selective mutism can speak freely in some situations, that doesn’t mean they’re choosing to stay silent in others. They might desperately want to talk, but their ability to do so is hampered by anxiety.

• Not being able to talk in situations that make the person with selective mutism feel anxious, vulnerable, and exposed,
• Freezing or becoming very still,
• Avoiding eye contact,
• Difficulty responding, even non-verbally,
• Appearing withdrawn or expressionless,
• Intense fear of being judged or drawing attention to themselves.

When we asked Kaur whether she thinks the condition is misunderstood, she replied: “Yes, I think it often is.

“Selective mutism is less widely understood than conditions such as generalised anxiety or panic disorder, and it can be mistaken for shyness, defiance, rudeness, or simply a lack of confidence,” she added.

“One of the biggest misconceptions is [due to] the word selective, which can make it sound as though the person is consciously choosing when not to speak. In reality, the inability to speak is often… outside their control”.

Accepting you have the condition and trying to remove the pressure to “just speak more” is a great start, the anxiety expert said.

“In fact, telling someone to ‘just speak more’ can be some of the worst advice, as it minimises the condition and can make the person feel inadequate… For someone experiencing selective mutism, it isn’t that simple; their inability to speak in certain situations is driven by anxiety, not a lack of willingness or effort.”

Treating selective mutism can begin with professional therapy, which could be useful in identifying the anxiety behind the behaviour.

Other helpful tools might include understanding your triggers and anxiety patterns, trying manageable, gradual, expert-led exposure therapy, cognitive behavioural approaches, and confidence-building.

“The key and important thing to remember is not to pressure, shame or punish someone for being unable to speak, as this can increase anxiety. Creating a sense of safety, a non-judgemental space, and gradually expanding communication is generally much more helpful,” Kaur ended.

In general, “Greater awareness is important because when selective mutism is recognised early and responded to with understanding rather than pressure, people can receive the right support and avoid years of misunderstanding (and labelling).”

The final episodes of Love Is Blind UK delivered all the shocks and twists we love from our reality TV fix – and that finale was arguably the most explosive to date.

Now that we know which couples made it down the aisle and said “I do”, which called time on their big day and how things played out afterwards, fans’ attention has naturally already turned to whether another season is on the horizon.

Well, we’re happy to report that we already know the answer…

Yes, Love Is Blind UK will be back for a season four.

Back in March, Netflix announced they were searching for a brand new couple of singles looking for love for both a third and fourth series.

With a record number of engagements in season three, the singletons entering the pods next season have their fingers crossed that they will also meet The One.

Netflix said earlier this week: “We’ve barely had enough time to give the pods a quick hoover after the drama of season three, but we’re ready to send a whole new batch of hopeful singles in as Love is Blind UK returns for season four next year.”

Very few details are currently known about the fourth iteration of Love Is Blind UK.

One thing we can confirm is that Matt Willis and Emma Willis will return as hosts for the fourth time, guiding more hopefuls through the process of finding their perfect match.

We can also expect the show to follow the tried-and-tested format of taking a group of people looking for love, and placing them in pods to form a real connection without being able to see one another.

Once they are engaged, the couples then meet for the first time in the real world, and try to add a physical connection to their emotional bond ahead of their weddings.

If you watched series three of Love Is Blind UK and felt inspired to apply, not got long at all left.

Casting for season four closes on 31 August, and if you’re feeling curious, you can fill in an application here.

Matt and Emma appeared in a casting video posted to Instagram in July, encouraging those looking for love to give the show a try.

While Love Is Blind might be an unconventional way to find a spouse, some couples have found their happily ever after appearing on the Netflix season.

From the first series, Bobby and Jasmine are still married and have a son together. Nicole and Benaiah from that series are also still together, although they have taken a step back from sharing their life on social media.

From the second, only Megan and Kieran’s relationship survived the reality series and appears to be going from strength to strength.

There is currently no release date for the fourth season, although the UK version of the dating franchise generally streams in August on Netflix.

Until then, you can watch 10 series of the original American version of the show, as well as more international seasons from Brazil, Sweden, Argentina, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland and the UAE.

President Donald Trump pulled one of his typical moves by using artificial intelligence to poke fun at Canada amid their escalating trade war and political feud over his sweeping tariffs.

On Saturday, the president shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social, in which he physically renamed Lake Ontario by replacing its sign.

In the clip, Trump walks up to a “Welcome to Lake Ontario” sign, topples it over using his foot and replaces it with a “Welcome to Lake America” sign featuring the American flag.

Trump then celebrates by doing his signature fist pumping dance to Village People’s anthem, “YMCA.”

Trump has attacked Canada on Truth Social numerous times after a trade deal between the once-friendly nations fell through. Trump has floated changing the Canadian lake’s name following the US imposition of 50% tariffs on Canadian goods as well as the collapsed trade talks.

Canada retaliated against Trump’s tariffs by implementing counter tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods.

In a separate post on Saturday, Trump shared a wacky AI video of an army of Canadian geese sporting the president’s blonde swept-over hair.

In the clip, set to the theme song from “Hawaii Five-O,” the birds, who have human arms that carry machine guns, march toward “Lake America” as American flags appear in the background. At the end of the video, the geese fire off rounds from their weapons.

Above the clip, a caption described the geese as “Donald Ducks.”

Last week, Trump signed an executive order instructing the Interior Department to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America on official U.S. maps and federal documents. The president’s order notably would only apply within American government records.

After signing the order, Trump criticised Canada, telling reporters, “Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly. Even the military, you know, we defend Canada for nothing. We don’t get anything.”

Trump has also repeatedly suggested that Canada should be absorbed as a 51st U.S. state.

Over the last few years, Jacob Elordi has become one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood.

Hot off his first Academy Award nomination for his performance in Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein, this year, he starred alongside Margot Robbie as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s much-talked-about interpretation of Wuthering Heights, and can currently be seen in action in Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars.

The Australian actor first became a household name thanks to his role in Euphoria, and went on to wow Hollywood with performances in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and the headline-grabbing Saltburn.

But before he became an Oscar-nominated A-lister, he had numerous supporting roles in film and TV, many of which we’ve probably completely forgotten about.

Here are 11 of those Jacob Elordi roles you may have forgotten he once played…

Jacob’s first credited film role was in 2018’s Swinging Safari, helmed by Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert director Stephan Elliott.

Starring Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce and Julian McMahon, the 80s-centric movie centres on the excitement a small town in Australia feels after a whale washes up on shore.

Jacob has a minor role as Rooster, a hunky lifeguard in the local town.

Just a year before Euphoria’s debut, Jacob’s first leading role was in Netflix’s 2018 The Kissing Booth.

The Aussie plays bad boy football star Noah Flynn in the film, the love interest of leading lady Joey King’s character.

Despite poor reviews, The Kissing Booth became one of the biggest streaming hits of 2018, later being named that year’s most rewatched film, leading to two more sequels, released in 2020 and 2021.

As it goes, Jacob agreed with the reviewers, controversially calling the Kissing Booth films “ridiculous” and admitting he “didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies”.

In 2019, Jacob appeared in the horror anthology movie The Mortuary Collection.

He played Jake Matthews in Segment 2: Unprotected, a frat boy who, after non-consensually taking off a condom during sex, is cursed with a monstrous pregnancy.

Although the film didn’t make a big impression at the time, The Mortuary Collection found its audience years after release, with horror fans seeking out Jacob’s old work after his impressive turn in Frankenstein.

2 Hearts is a romantic drama that follows the parallel stories of five people, including Jacob’s college student, Chris.

The faith-based film is based on the real-life story of Chris Gregory, who tragically died at 19 and donated his organs to five people, including Jorge Bacardi of the Bacardi Rum dynasty.

While the film was released in 2020 amid Jacob’s post-Euphoria success, it was actually filmed years prior, and was one of the first jobs that Jacob booked after The Kissing Booth.

Jacob was part of an all-star cast in this Amazon Prime original film from 2020.

The meta comedy features Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan playing himself, as he desperately tries to restore his ruined reputation on the eve of being knighted.

In the satirical film, Jacob has a minor role as Chase, Paul’s fictional son, with the cast also including the likes of Chevy Chase, John Cleese and Luke Hemsworth.

The Very Excellent Mr Dundee is also notable for being the late Olivia Newton-John’s last on-screen appearance.

Upon its 2022 release, Deep Water was Jacob’s highest-profile movie project to date.

Co-written by Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, the psychological drama followed a couple, Vic and Melinda (played by Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas), who have an open marriage.

Jacob portrays Charlie, a piano teacher with whom Melinda has an affair, leading to tensions rising between the two men when Ana’s character flaunts her relationship with Charlie in front of her wealthy husband.

Jacob told E! in 2022 that making Deep Water was one of his favourite on-set experiences, enthusing: “I could just sort of linger around and play a small role and you know be involved in a movie that I would really watch and enjoy.”

However, the film received generally poor reviews and is probably best remembered as the place its two leads met before embarking on a very public relationship for nearly a year.

Jacob had a minor role in 2023’s The Sweet East, an experimental film which follows Lillian, a teenage runaway who encounters a rotating cast of wild characters, including neo-nazis, punks, conspiracy theorists and filmmakers.

During her journey, Lillian (played by Talia Ryder) is cast in a film alongside a character referred to as the “nation’s heartthrob”, who is perhaps fittingly played by Jacob.

Jacob was praised by critics for his “charm and charisma” as Ian, the handsome but dim actor. Jeremy O Harris, Ayo Edebiri and Simon appear alongside the Aussie star.

That same year, Jacob appeared in He Went That Way alongside Zachary Quinto. The Oscar nominee played Bobby Falls, a serial killer based on Larry Lee Ranes, who went on a killing spree in the 1960s.

Based on a true story, the film follows the relationship he forms with an animal trainer, who picks up Bobby hitchhiking.

Despite Jacob’s performance being labelled “magnetic” by critics, the film was generally met with poor reviews, and has only a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Despite being co-written by Paul Schrader, the man behind Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and boasting a cast that includes Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Michael Imperioli, Oh Canada failed to make much impact with audiences upon its release in 2024.

The film tells the story of Leonard Fife (Richard Gere’s character), an acclaimed documentarian, who, on his deathbed, agrees to turn the cameras around and film himself.

Jacob plays Richard’s character in his younger years and, despite being nearly a foot taller than his more seasoned counterpart, was praised for giving a lived-in performance as a young filmmaker.

Jacob Elordi co-stars with Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter and Diego Calvo in the understated period drama from 2025.

Set in 1950s post-war America, the film follows two newlyweds whose new family life is disrupted by the arrival of the husband’s brother, played by Jacob, who threatens their stability as he is more interested in gambling and exploring a relationship with his coworker.

Empire claimed that Jacob was “at the peak of his charisma-machine powers, creating off-the-charts tension with every scene partner as well as conveying the depth of Julius’ inner turmoil” in On Swift Horses, though the film itself has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 53%.

The 2025 Australian miniseries The Narrow Road To The Deep North saw Jacob play a doctor who is captured at the Battle of Java and taken to a Burmese work camp under the command of the Japanese imperial army, where he is forced to work on the railway.

Ciarán Hinds plays an older version of the character, Dorringo Evans, while Odessa Young, Simon Evans and Olivia DeJong co-star in the compassionate study of Australians at war.

The show was universally praised, with most critics singling out Jacob’s “intensely moving lead performance”.

While internationally, Jacob’s performance as a soldier in Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama was mostly overshadowed last year by his Oscar-nominated role in Frankenstein, Jacob did win an AACTA Award for his work in it, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe for the harrowing role.

The Dog Star is in cinemas now.

I’ve often wondered what my usual comfort watches – The Thick of It, Ugly Betty, Blackadder, Derry Girls, Peep Show – say about me (aside from the fact that I had most of them on DVD as a teen).

I mean, they’re not all soothing, are they? A screaming Malcolm Tucker isn’t exactly what springs to mind when you picture a relaxing rewatch.

But according to the “social surrogacy” theory, the shows we come back to time and time again might offer a type of comfort that isn’t as straightforward as gentle voiceovers or calming scenes.

According to research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the one-sided relationships we form with the people in our beloved episodes can “provide the experience of belonging”.

The hypothesis suggests that when people aren’t getting their social needs met in real life for whatever reason, they might turn to music, books, and TV shows to “belong”.

In this paper, the researchers ran four studies to support that theory in the case of television series.

The first one showed that people were likelier to turn to their favourite shows when they felt lonely, and that starting yet another binge-watch of their beloved programmes lessened that feeling of isolation.

The second study suggested that people might talk more, and in greater detail, about their favourite TV shows when they feel left out or rejected.

Study three, meanwhile, demonstrated that thinking about series we adore “buffers against drops in self-esteem and mood and against increases in feelings of rejection commonly elicited by threats to close relationships”.

And lastly, the final experiment revealed that keeping our comfort watch in mind might make people less likely to think about being lonely or feel lonely.

Notably, watching TV in general didn’t seem to give people these results. Only the shows they already had a relationship with seemed to offer these effects.

This, the researchers concluded, might mean “seemingly asocial human technologies, such as television, can actually serve a social function”.

Not at all. The study authors checked for levels of self-esteem, the need to belong, and attachment style among participants (previous research had hinted that these factors might make someone more likely to seek “social surrogates”).

They found that these qualities didn’t seem to make a difference in the effect familiar TV had on belonging at all in their studies, though – “the results of these analyses suggest that social surrogacy does not appear limited to just one gender or to ‘insecure’ or ‘maladjusted’ individuals”.

The research also reads, “Television programming, particularly reliably-followed favourite programs, allows viewers the opportunity, week after week (or even day after day), to regularly immerse themselves in a narrative about a recognisable ’social’ world in which familiar people, situations, landscapes, and events become intimate and comfortable”.

That cosy feeling of belonging can bring us back to our faves, over and over.