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On his first day in office, President Donald Trump reinstated Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reversing an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden just last week.
Biden had announced plans to lift the designation as part of a Vatican-brokered deal to free political prisoners in Cuba.
Following the announcement, Cuban authorities began releasing detainees, including some arrested during the 2021 protests over economic hardships and government policies.
The Left Never Learns: 'Constitutional
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Attorney' Is First to Call for Trump’s
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John Bonifaz is the kind of guy who could have answered a casting call for “lunatic leftist who will attempt to resurrect the left’s failed strategies against Trump on his first day back in office.” He says he is the “Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People,” as well as a “constitutional attorney,” all of which sounds impressive enough if you’re the type who gets impressed by that sort of thing, but which in reality simply confirms that what we have here is someone who has abjectly failed to read the room, and to realize that the fact that Trump has been impeached twice
On January 20, 2025, the “shock and awe” campaign of the Justice Department came to an end as President Donald Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th defendants.
Four years ago, the Justice Department set out to send a chilling message to the nation. In an interview with CBS News a year later, Justice Department official Michael Sherwin indicated that they wanted to send a message with the harsh treatment of defendants.
Sherwin explained that “our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe … it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C.
For years, inaugural fashion has signaled a new administration, making way for a new president and new agenda. This year was no different. President Donald Trump was surrounded by no shortage of fashion headline-makers as the world watched on for him to take his second oath of office. Here are the top 10 fashion moments from the inauguration ceremony. Second Lady Usha Vance's pink coat dress Second Lady Usha Vance popped in a powder pink Oscar de la Renta coat dress with a thin belt, and blush, suede, knee-high boots. She complemented the femininity of the ensemble with large flower
President Donald Trump wielded his newfound executive authority to declare a national emergency over the crisis at the Southern Border just hours after being sworn in, immediately reversing the lenient Biden-era policies that allowed record numbers of illegal immigrants to enter the country.
Trump began the process of signing an expected 200 day-one executive orders in front of tens of thousands of supporters at the Capital One Arena Monday evening, making good on his inaugural address promise to “completely reverse” the “horrible betrayal” of the Biden years.
Trumponomics has roared back into the White House as President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at ushering in a “golden age of America” by taking a sledgehammer to the regulatory state and ramping up energy production.
Much of Trump’s Day One economic agenda centered around energy policy, where Trump dusted off the playbook to and reversed a spate of Biden-era policies restricting oil leasing, setting goals for electric vehicle output and more.
“The biggest factor for inflation is energy. They screwed up my energy policy,” Trump said during a gaggle with reporters while signing executive orders. “We’re going to make a lot of money from energy.
President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, was tough to miss in the Capitol Rotunda for his father’s inauguration ceremony, but it was where he was standing that drew particular attention.
A video circulating online shows the 6-foot, 7-inch Trump scion positioned nearly perfectly behind the podium bearing the presidential seal, appearing stoic and poised in a dark tailored suit complete with an American flag lapel pin.
The clip shows the 18-year-old surveying the crowd, and offering a polite smile and wave to an unseen audience member like a politician in waiting, a marble statue of Ulysses S. Grant in the background adding gravitas to the imagery.
January 6th political prisoners have been languishing in prisons across America for the past four years, many without a trial. Many of them never had a criminal record, many never committed a single act of violence, including on January 6, 2021, and most of them have had their lives destroyed by the Democrat Party machine’s punishing injustice system. (Photo) In addition to shining a bright light on Joe Biden’s dirty system of “justice” by giving them a voice on their popular website, The Gateway Pundit has exposed the truth behind the brutal and avoidable murders
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With only 15 minutes to go as president, Joe Biden snatched infamy from the jaws of obscurity.
With record-low polling and widely viewed as a “failed” president, Biden completed his one-man race to the bottom of ethics by issuing preemptive pardons to members of his own family.
The pardons were timed to guarantee that the media would not focus on yet another unethical act by this president. He need not have worried. For four years, the media worked tirelessly to deny or deflect the corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was issuing roughly 1,500 pardons and commuting the sentences of six of his supporters in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of them stormed the building amid his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.
He made the remarks after returning to the White House Monday evening. An attorney for Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy, told NBC News on Monday that his client was being processed for release from FCI Pollock, a medium security federal prison in Louisiana. Tarrio was serving 22 years
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was a special guest of President Trump’s inauguration today. Along with other billionaire tech giants, Bezos surprisingly followed the lead of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and embraced President Trump in the final months of his campaign. Bezos attended President Trump’s inauguration with his fiancé Lauren Sanchez, who forgot her blouse before heading out the door.
The cameras followed Sanchez and Bezos as they entered the room and found their seats behind President Trump’s family.
A Presidential Pardon does not take effect unless the suspect accepts it. That according to a little known, 1915 ruling from the Supreme Court, once accepted, the pardon serves as an “imputation of guilt,” or what’s more commonly known as an admission. Because accepting the pardon is “essential to it’s validity,” I am demanding the Biden family, Dr. Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the members of the J6 Committee and everyone else Biden unsurprisingly pardoned declare their acceptance of the pardon publicly. Because, according to the Supreme Court, it would also serve as a declaration of guilt.
Donald Trump began signing a slew of executive orders soon after taking the oath as president Monday, looking to quickly implement his agenda, with his plans including declaring a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, ordering construction on his border wall to resume, and terminating diversity programs in federal agencies.
The first order he signed before a crowd at the Capital One Arena revoked approximately 80 executive actions that had been signed by former President Joe Biden. He also signed a freeze on new regulations, as well as a hiring freeze on federal workers. And Trump also withdrew — again — from the Paris climate treaty.
The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, the first high-level Cabinet official for the new administration to be approved by the chamber.
The confirmation vote took place just hours after Trump was sworn in as president. The overwhelmingly bipartisan vote was 99 to 0 with no senators voting against the nomination.
Rubio has served as a Republican senator from Florida since 2011, and his nomination drew strong support from a number of Senate Democrats, who called their colleague highly qualified for the role.
The Pentagon took down a recently unveiled portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who butted heads with President Donald Trump following his 2020 election defeat. The portrait of Milley, who served as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 2019 to 2023, was unveiled earlier this month. Trump nominated Milley, but their relationship soured until the end of Trump’s first term. As of midafternoon Monday, just hours after Trump was inaugurated for his second term in the White House, the painting was no longer in the spot it was unveiled
In one of his very final acts as the putative President, literally minutes before Donald Trump was re-inaugurated, the Big Guy issued a pardon to all his siblings and their spouses.
Joe’s five pardons together with his earlier pardon of his son Hunter for tax evasion and gun-running convictions (and all other crimes known and unknown over a period of ten years) bring Joe’s pardons of family members to a total of six.
In case you’re wondering what crimes these six family members could possibly have committed that required a presidential pardon, let’s just say it was a family business. It was a lucrative one
If you've never heard of Larenzo Sewell before, you definitely know him now.
Pastor Sewell is the head pastor at the 180 Church on Detroit's west side. He's a man who isn't afraid to put political themes in his sermons as he is of the mind that the Bible is, in fact, a political book with a political message.
“The gospel message is a political message. The Bible is a political book, from Genesis to Revelations. We see that the Bible is a political book,” Sewell told Fox News. “It is impossible to be politically neutral.”
Sewell hosted Trump at his church for a roundtable discussion back in June,
Trump Admin Ends CBP One, Cancels All
Appointments. Watch How Some Undocumented
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Appointments. Watch How Some Undocumented
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Minutes after President Trump was sworn in, the new administration promptly shut down a mobile app the Biden administration used allowing undocumented aliens to make appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Effective January 20, 2025, the functionalities of CBP One™ that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available, and existing appointments have been cancelled," reads a notice on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website.
The app allowed individuals access to U.S. Customs and Border Protection services, including checking wait times at the border and the ability to apply for a provisional I-94 entry.
I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with President Donald Trump over the past few months and my expectations for his first 100 days in power are very high.
Americans are about to witness a period of rapid change that will revolutionize their lives.
For one, Trump knows that he must move fast.
He has two years of nearly unfettered control of Washington DC, before mid-term elections threaten to undermine the Republican party’s slim majorities in the House and Senate.
Secondly, Trump knows he has pulled off the greatest political comeback in American history – and he’s not about to squander his second chance.
Is Jake Tapper trying to get his network sued again? If anything, it displayed a remarkable lack of self-awareness. The CNN host was not pleased with the likes of tech billionaires showing up for Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. [Video]
"We're about to enter an era of deepfakes and all sorts of misinformation and the degree to which those five gentleman play a role or do not play a role will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are four years from now." [Tweets, video]
Jake, your network just lost a massive lawsuit where you smeared a Navy veteran and peddled fake news.
Liberal protesters gathered around Washington, D.C., to express their disapproval of President Donald Trump's inauguration Monday.
Trump succeeded former President Joe Biden after winning the election two months ago, which included the popular vote. Still, Trump has some outspoken adversaries. Among them were some who erected a makeshift guillotine in Malcolm X Park, also known as Meridian Hill Park. The phrase "come get sum" was painted on the crafted 20-foot-tall structure. Meanwhile, other protesters flanked it, one dressed as an executioner with their face covered, another holding a rainbow flag, and another with a sign that read, "The revolution is now."
The Great Man Returns
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It seemed fitting that President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral took place only days before President Trump’s second inauguration. Carter has often been described as one of the nation’s worst executives — a pejorative epithet now firmly attached to President Biden’s name as well. So it was painfully symbolic for the lost and confused outgoing president to eulogize his often-disparaged predecessor. One could be forgiven for wondering whether, at the end of his remarks, Old Joe might try to scooch Jimmy’s body to one side and join him in the casket. Both literally and figuratively, we buried two terrible presidents this January.
Minutes after President Donald Trump's inaugural address ended, the CBP One app used by the Biden administration to allow nearly a million illegal aliens to enter the United States was heavily changed. As of now, folks can do things like check border crossing wait times, request an inspection of agricultural or biological products, or submit a manifest for bus travelers, but illegal aliens cannot use it essentially receive blanket humanitarian parole. Fox News' Bill Melugin, who's spent a good portion of the last four years along the southern border, made the discovery. (X)
Several leftist nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday. The complaint centers on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a non-government advisory group headed by X owner Elon Musk to slash government spending. A group of nonprofit organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the American Public Health Association (APHA), and several others,