Posts on Wednesday, March 5, 2025
If Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is on a mission to prove to Americans that the “D” in Democrat stands for delusional, she has been a smashing success.
The trash-talking new face of the demoralized party did it again on Tuesday, the day of President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, when she proclaimed that voters made a mistake by not electing Kamala Harris who she seemed to liken to Moses with her remarks that the ditzy ex-veep would have “led us to the promised land.” [Tweet, video]
“I want to make clear that when we hear the stories of the economic impact,
Last night “Wolfman Al” couldn’t contain himself. Leaping from his seat, at the start of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, he set a disruptive tone. “You don’t have a mandate, you don’t have a mandate,” the Wolfman bellowed at Trump, all the while shaking his cane at the president. Immediately, Republicans began chanting “USA, USA” to drown out the obnoxious Green. Some weren’t as diplomatic. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina reportedly told Green to “sit your a**” down,” while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia yelled “throw him out.”
13-year-old DJ Daniel has a message for Democrats after meeting with President Trump: I’m coming for you.
President Trump on Tuesday evening honored DJ Daniel for his bravery as he fights brain cancer.
Trump made DJ Daniel an honorary member of the US Secret Service on Tuesday evening. The brave child was seen hugging Secret Service Director Sean Curran.
Ghoulish, evil Democrats refused to stand and clap for a child fighting brain cancer.
John Podesta, Biden’s top climate czar, was in charge of doling out $375 billion in climate change spending, which had been sent to many charities founded only months ago.
The New York Post wrote:
The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered.
In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.
in 2024, EPA adviser Brent Efron was caught on video
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump “misused” some of the guests at his speech Tuesday night — including the angel families who lost their loved ones to illegal immigrant crime and the young boy battling brain cancer.
“Pretty awful, and I really did not like the way he used the tragic incidents and the families that were there, who, of course, appreciated, you know, what they think is their president caring about what happened,” Waters said, implying that Trump does not actually care about these individuals.
“You know, to the 12-year-old, and to others who were victims, and we all feel sad and bad for them,
Disgraceful Dems callously politicized
DJ Daniel, Laken Riley – and sunk to
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So much for Democrat women being more compassionate than the rest of us. Uh uh. They have hearts of stone.
Take cute DJ Daniel, the pint-sized 13-year-old boy with brain cancer who dreams of being a cop. There shouldn’t have been a dry eye in the House when President Donald Trump announced in the middle of his speech to Congress Tuesday night that he was making little DJ an honorary Secret Service agent.
But one side of the chamber was bone dry, their desiccated hearts a perfect reflection of Democrats’ barren ideas for revival. (Photo)
As Republicans applauded and DJ’s face lit up, Trump asked his new Secret Service director,
Politicians love to talk about running the government “like a business,” but President Donald Trump is arguably the only person who has ever approached the presidency with a true CEO mentality.
Drawing on his decades of business experience, Trump clearly recognizes that his job right now is very similar to that of a CEO brought in to engineer a corporate turnaround. Virtually across the board, the entire apparatus of the federal government is in desperate need of an overhaul. Waste, fraud, and weaponization of the justice system are so endemic that entire books could be — and regularly are — dedicated to cataloging the most obnoxious examples.
ABC News legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that all the Democratic lawmakers should have walked out during President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress.
Hostin said, “You know, while I didn’t watch it, I was looking for signs of an opposition party, which is what the Democratic Party must be at this point. Not a resistance, because resistance is passive. Opposition is active. I think that what I saw when Representative Al Green stood up and said, ‘You don’t have a mandate to take away Medicaid,’ and he was tossed out, I expected the rest of his Democratic caucus, his colleagues,
A posthumous presidential pardon for the late baseball legend Pete Rose "would mean the world" to the family, says his son Tyler Rose.
President Trump stated last week that Major League Baseball should never have banned Rose, and the Hall of Fame should have inducted him during his lifetime. He also promised to posthumously pardon Rose, since he was permanently banned from the league after an investigation found that he had bet on games involving the Cincinnati Reds when he was a player and a manager.
President Trump put DC Mayor Muriel Bowser on notice Wednesday, demanding that she clean up the city’s homeless encampments, specifically surrounding the White House and the State Department.
“If she is not capable of doing so, we will be forced to do it for her!” the President declared.
Per The Hill:
Last month, Trump said “the governance” of the nation’s capital should be acquired by the federal government.
“I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump said to reporters at the time. “I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order,
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By March 2025, the United States has poured over $175 billion into Ukraine’s war chest—a staggering sum that could have rebuilt every crumbling bridge in the Rust Belt, funded a decade of veteran care, or slashed the tax burden on families buckling under inflation’s weight. Yet here we stand, bankrolling a foreign conflict while our own house frays at the seams. It’s time to say it loud and clear: America before Ukraine. This isn’t isolationism—it’s stewardship. It’s not callousness—it’s clarity. It’s a conservative creed for a nation at a crossroads, and it demands we rethink our priorities with both heart and head.
Actress Mia Farrow just dropped a new theory about the survivability of Democracy in America. This time saying she’ll be surprised if we make it to Labor Day.
“If we have 6 months of democracy left i’ll be surprised,” actress Mia Farrow said in Bluesky, adding “Im guessing 3-4 months – unless we do something.” [BlSky]
What that “something” is, Farrow didn’t explain to her 200,000 followers.
Farrow’s wild theory came just as President Donald Trump was delivering his primetime address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
She also revealed new nicknames for the president and took shots at the Republicans cheering him on during his speech.
Elon Musk comes to Capitol Hill to meet
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Washington—Billionaire Elon Musk arrived on Capitol Hill Tuesday and learned about something new — budget rescissions, an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his federal budget slashing effort and enshrine the cuts into law.
Musk joined a lunch meeting with Republican senators just hours after the Supreme Court issued a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze some $2 billion in foreign aid funds as part of its sweeping shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development. As he opened the private session, Musk led with a message urging Congress to act.
Over plates of fried catfish, senators explained how the White House could put the billions
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals allowed President Trump’s firing of Hampton Dellinger to proceed.
The appeals court granted a motion to stay Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s order reinstating the Biden holdover.
The three judge panel included: Henderson (George W. Bush appointee), Millett (Obama appointee), and Walker (Trump appointee).
Opinion to follow…(X) Earlier this week corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled in favor of Hampton Dellinger on Saturday and entered a judgment declaring his firing illegal.
DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old boy diagnosed with brain cancer who was made an honorary Secret Service agent during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, visited Trump in the Oval Office.
In a post on X, Margo Martin, a special assistant to the president, posted a video showing Devarjaye, also know as “DJ” and his family in the Oval Office with Trump. DJ can be seen hugging Trump in the video. “What a good-looking family,” Trump says in the video.
State Farm has chosen to ignore California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s recommendation that all insurance companies pay 100% of personal property coverage rather than asking fire victims to itemize all contents.
As Breitbart News has reported, Lara asked all insurance companies to pay their customers 100%, rather than the state minimum of 30%, before requiring them to itemize everything they may have owned — a process that the New York Times called a new form of “trauma” for those already struggling with the fact that they lost their homes.
Lara’s deadline was February 28. His office did not return requests for comment about which companies had complied.
State Farm, however, did not.
During the final months of the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health awarded $28 million to a mysterious venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc., a biomedical firm founded in 2022 whose chief financial officer happens to be one of former president Joe Biden’s top COVID advisers.
To Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), the September 2024 grant from the NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health doesn’t pass the smell test. Vaccine Company has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds, which the Biden administration doled out to a seemingly random post office box in Bethesda, Maryland. Ernst urged Health and Human Services
The House of Representatives moved to advance the censure of Rep. Al Green (D-TX), after his unruly behavior during President Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
In a 211-209 vote, the House voted to move forward with the censuring of Green after the House Sergeant at Arms escorted him out over his refusal to follow decorum during Trump’s speech.
As Breitbart News’s Bradley Jaye previously reported, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) interrupted Trump’s speech as Democrats began exhibiting unruly behavior and warned them that they needed to “observe House decorum.”
“Mr. President, members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House
Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno is blasting a handful of judges in his state for claiming that “emergency” powers allow them to invalidate federal immigration laws and to prevent ICE from rounding up and deporting illegal aliens.
Moreno ripped these “rogue judges,” and one judge in particular, for claiming that they have the power to block ICE immigration enforcement activities in Ohio.
In his March 4 letter, the senator criticized Franklin County Judge Kim Brown and warned her that “no one is above the law,” but added, “And yet, you’re giving illegal aliens a pass.”
Far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker went on yet another unhinged rant a few days ago criticizing Republican speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson’s approach to fixing Medicaid fraud.
Piker took to Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, and where he has close to three million followers, to fantasize about the murder of a U.S. Senator.
His suggestion for Johnson, “if he really wants to address Medicaid fraud,” is to “murder” Senator Rick Scott (R-FL).
“If you [Mike Johnson]cared about Medicare or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott, ok.”
“You wouldn’t make Rick Scott, former Governor of Florida Rick Scott,
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) exposed sanctuary city mayors over outrageous sums
of taxpayer money they’ve spent on the
migrant crisis during a blistering line of
questioning in a hearing on Capitol Hill
Wednesday — but half of them couldn’t even
provide a full figure.
“Around $79 million since 2022,” Denver
Mayor Mike Johnston told members of the
House Oversight Committee, while New York
City Mayor Eric Adams disclosed a stunning
$6.9 billion has been spent on the migrant
crisis.
Also present at the hearing was Chicago
Mayor Brandon Johnson, who explained
Rep. Thomas Massie Demands Congress Cut
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Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) is calling on Congress to take immediate action to defund the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) following an outrageous SCOTUS ruling.
In a jaw-dropping betrayal of American taxpayers and constitutional integrity, the Supreme Court has caved to the radical left, stomping all over President Donald Trump’s rightful executive authority.
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must IMMEDIATELY fork over $1.9 billion in foreign aid payments—money that hardworking Americans never signed up to ship overseas.
This disgraceful ruling upholds a rogue district court judge’s order, forcing the administration to honor bloated foreign aid agreements that predate Trump’s America First agenda.
The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released undercover video of a State Farm VP attacking Los Angeles fire victims and admitting State Farm is excluding white people from employement.
State Farm VP of Innovation and Venture Capital Haden Kirkpatrick told an OMG undercover journalist that, “Areas like where the Palisades are, there should never be houses built in the first place…it’s a tinderbox.”
Kirkpatrick also said he wants to reshape the workforce at State Farm to include more Latinos – he also admitted State Farm is excluding whites from employment.
“I personally, I task my HR team, finding me… the perfect profile of the workforce of the future,” Haden Kirkpatrick said.
DOGE made another noticeable move saving U.S. taxpayers money and perhaps striking a blow against Barack Obama’s massive ego in the process.
As Fox News reported, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the lease at the Obama Presidential Library site. This was one of many federal leases and contracts recently terminated.
This library is located at the Hoffman Estates in northwestern Chicago and is not the same as the Obama Presidential Center near Jackson Park on The Windy City’s southside, which is scheduled for completion next year.
The Biden administration locked up or deported just 8 out of more than 100 migrants with suspected ties to ISIS who crossed illegally into the US, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed Wednesday during a visit to the border.
The Trump administration is now working to hunt down the terror suspects and pick up the pieces left behind by the last administration, Gabbard said during a press conference with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Eagle Pass, Texas.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed President Trump to re-fire Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger pending the disposition of Dellinger's lawsuit for reinstatement. This is a very important decision as it overturns the order by District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson forcing the Trump administration to reinstate Dellinger (DC Circuit Court Judge Orders OMB, Treasury to Reinstate Legally Protected Official Who Trump Fired – RedState).
The backstory is that Dellinger, according to statute, can only be removed from office “for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Trump fired Dellinger using a recent Supreme Court precedent as the rationale. Shortly after being reinstated, Dellinger began waging
As many Christians gather to celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten liturgical season, President Trump released the most overtly Christian message by any president on any subject in modern history.
This Ash Wednesday, we join in prayer with the tens of millions of American Catholics and other Christians beginning the holy season of Lent—a time of spiritual anticipation of the passion, death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
During the Lenten season, Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying, fasting, and giving alms to deepen our faith and strengthen our belief in the Gospel. Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads—
EU Leaders Meet Again Thursday to Discuss
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The 27 leaders of the European Union countries are meeting tomorrow, Thursday, in Brussels with an urgent agenda to figure out what to do with Ukraine and their own security state if the USA draws-down military support.
After years of taking little action, the EU leaders are now facing a crisis situation trying to figure out how to pay for expanded military for their own defense. The latest proposal from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls for €800 billion in EU defense spending, much of it from secured loans to various EU countries.
Toy makers with US manufacturing facilities are getting slammed with orders as the industry scrambles to negotiate a slew of stiff tariffs from the Trump administration, The Post has learned.
MGA Entertainment, which makes Bratz and LOL Surprise dolls, also owns the 56-year-old Little Tikes brand, which manufactures larger, indoor and outdoor toys at a factory in Hudson, Ohio. The facility will hire more workers as it lines up a “select” group of toy companies who it believes will become “long term” clients, according to MGA CEO Isaac Larian.
“We have received many inquiries and we have the capacity,” Larian told The Post.
Some days, you sit back and scratch your head. Things can get so confusing, and it may seem as though the world around you doesn't make sense, and maybe it never did. That is what I think of when I see my brand-new Senator Elissa Slotkin, who replaced the old senator, Debbie Stabenow; she was a decrepit, do-nothing senator for almost 30 years.
Why does Michigan suck at electing senators?
That is probably a topic for another time.
So while I could not stay up for the entire joint session of the Congress speech by the 47th president of the United States (because I'm old), I did catch my junior senator
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for comparing the new briefing room, which allows previously barred outlets to ask unscripted questions, to North Korea and Russia.
The controversy surrounds a recent decision by the White House to open the press pool to new outlets and allow a wide range of voices to ask the President questions in events only the pool could access. For years, the far-left White House Correspondents’ Association held an iron grip over deciding which outlets get a seat in the coveted White House press pool.
In 2020, the far-left garbage website Washington Post wrote a hit piece
President Donald Trump delivered an inspiring speech on Tuesday night.
Even in the face of howling Democrats who were trying to disrupt the event, he reached for those special moments to recognize important things for America, including things like getting the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate bombing and bringing home Marc Fogel from Russian captivity.
But through it all, most of the Democrats sat on their hands and didn't stand even for the sweetest moments, like 13-year-old DJ Daniel being named a Secret Service agent by Trump. Instead they held up ridiculous signs that even MSNBC hosts mocked and Fox's Dana Perino called out. Many held signs that said "False,"
DOGE made another noticeable move saving U.S. taxpayers money and perhaps striking a blow against Barack Obama’s massive ego in the process.
As Fox News reported, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the lease at the Obama Presidential Library site. This was one of many federal leases and contracts recently terminated.
This library is located at the Hoffman Estates in northwestern Chicago and is not the same as the Obama Presidential Center near Jackson Park on The Windy City’s southside, which is scheduled for completion next year. The Chicago Tribune reports the lease was scheduled to end this year and move to a new location.
To say this week has been a bad week for Democrats so far would be an understatement, especially when one considers the pathetic displays they put on during President Donald Trump's joint Congressional address Tuesday night, and how those stunts did not go over well with the American people according to post-speech polls.
There were, of course, many lowlights among Democrats during the course of Trump's speech, among them being Rep. Al Green (D-TX) having to be escorted out of the chamber by the House Sergeant at Arms for repeated interruptions as Trump was speaking, and Democrats (save one) who refused to stand
Boom: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Referring
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Wednesday told four sanctuary city mayors that she will be referring them to the Department of Justice for "aiding and abetting" illegal immigrants in violation of federal law.
The Democrat mayors - Eric Adams of New York City, Michelle Wu of Boston, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, and Mike Johnston of Denver - were testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee earlier on Wednesday.
Luna made the surprise announcement, citing a federal statute often referred to by Border Czar Tom Homan in justifying the threat of criminal charges for sanctuary city officials.
“To me, after this line of questioning, it’s very clear that these policies
In a few weeks, Donald Trump has done what his prevaricating predecessor declared to be impossible: he has brought the border under control. Those of us who watch the goings and comings of illegal border crossings are familiar that Donald Trump 45 did a stellar job of taking a border crisis and bringing it within appropriate management.
For instance, in the Yuma sector alone, Trump 45 brought encounters with illegal aliens to a previously unheard of 8600 in the last year of Trump’s first term. That was astounding, especially in light of Biden’s border crisis which often saw more encounters in a weekend than in Trump’s entire last year.
US President Donald Trump issues a new ultimatum to Hamas to immediately release all remaining hostages or be destroyed.
“‘Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose,” Trump writes on Truth Social.
“Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you,” he says.
“Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!”
“I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say,” he warns.
A group of college students in Orange County, Calif., has been going around to Little Free Libraries in quaint neighborhoods and putting them on a symbolic lockdown. (Snip) President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday night was overloaded with performance art. A few Democrats decided not to attend, and you better believe that they trumpeted their absence ahead of the speech.
Democrats dressed in matching outfits — pink for women, black for black issues, and blue and yellow for Ukraine (of course) — and held up what my friend and colleague Stephen Kruiser referred to as “what looked like auction paddles
We’ve already seen the rave reviews Americans are giving President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress, but it’s even better than we thought. Data provided courtesy of our friends at EyesOver is showing just how much the Trump speech resonates with Americans — and how damaging the Democrats’ behavior might be for them.
EyesOver tells us that Trump’s speech “significantly boosted his positive sentiment ratings.” The way Trump addressed certain issues specifically resonated with his supporters.
Of course, the economy and trade are issues at the forefront for Americans. Trump spoke about reciprocal tariffs for nations that might try to take advantage of trade with the U.S.,
Where do we go? Where do we go now? Where do we go?
—Axl Rose, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
The Democratic base is frustrated and demoralized. Ever since President Roomba Biden meandered aimlessly (and mindlessly) in his one and only presidential debate, it’s been one horror show after another. (And not even a good horror show, like those classic “Friday the 13th” movies — I’m talking the bad ones that don’t even respect the viewer enough to include gratuitous nudity.)
Oh, by the way: Biden Roomba’d across the debate stage on June 27, 2024. That was 250-plus days ago!
At this point, the Dems are quickly approaching a yearlong losing streak.
My own insight about woke revolutions is that they happen most intensely in places that need them the least. That's not to say anyone really needs them, but if in theory someone did it wouldn't be far left enclaves where these woke uprisings regularly happen.
It's not a coincidence that the first big woke uprising most people became aware of happened at the most progressive college campus in Washington state (Evergreen State College). More recently, it explains why Columbia University is the site of building takeovers by masked, pro-Hamas students rather than some less progressive institution.
Why are so many left-wing advocacy groups struggling internally
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President Donald Trump is delivering his address to Congress, and already, it's been a bang-up event. We're live blogging it, so come join us if you haven't already. He's been hitting the high points on what he wants to achieve for the American people, and he's brought some surprise guests as well. (Snip) Meanwhile, the protest that they assembled outside the event was just pitiful. Check out this sparse group. [Tweet, video]
I think there were more people in line at the donut place I went to this morning. And Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wants us to think the American people are with them?
Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night was the most powerful, rousing and pointed of any presidential address in decades. “America is back… and we are just getting started,” it began, capturing the theme of the night. The address ended with a peroration that his administration would “take up the righteous cause of American liberty” and “fight, fight, fight for a country our citizens’ believe in and deserve.” Our country’s “Golden Age,” he said, ”has just begun.”
Dozens and dozens of applause lines were planted throughout the speech as Trump laid…
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I am assigned the role of being the dour critic of speeches and debates, but this time I can't find a bad thing to say about Donald Trump's speech last night.
Not one damn thing. It was quite literally the best speech before Congress ever, and that is saying a lot. I watched all Reagan's SOTU speeches, and they were great. But Trump really took these speeches to a new level by avoiding the "laundry list" approach to SOTU speeches and instead leaned into a different Reagan innovation: telling the American story through focusing on ordinary Americans and what brings us together.
'America is back!' Donald Trump bellowed kicking off his first joint address to Congress as the 47th President, marking the fifth time he's spoken to a gathering of the House and Senate.
But this was Trump's lengthiest and, by far, his most effective effort yet.
There were no overtures to bipartisanship, no reaching across the aisle. This was a president certain of the direction that he wants to take the country – and willing, if not determined, to crush his opposition if necessary. And given the Democrats behavior last night, they deserved every bit of it.
Trump walked into the House chamber triumphant on Tuesday evening
The State Department unveiled visa restrictions on foreign government officials who are thought to be responsible for aiding illegal immigration into the U.S., part of a wider effort by President Trump’s administration to crackdown on immigration.
The new visa-restriction policy, which was released on Wednesday, will apply to foreign officials, including customs and immigration officials, and port authority and airports officials who are deemed culpable for bolstering illegal immigration into the U.S., according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The visa bans would be imposed on foreign officials for “failure to enforce immigration laws or establishing and implementing policies and practices that knowingly
Washington—This is the terrorist accused by the Trump administration of plotting the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 US service members and 168 Afghans trying to flee the Taliban in August 2021.
The Post obtained a snapshot of alleged ISIS-K bigwig Mohammad Sharifullah, escorted by two FBI agents, as his extradition flight touched down at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia early Wednesday.
President Trump announced Sharifullah’s capture and extradition to the US Tuesday night during his address to a joint session of Congress. (Photos) “Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and countless others in the Abbey Gate bombing,” Trump told lawmakers
UPDATE: (X) After slapping new tariffs on Canada this week, citing a lack of results on the fentanyl flow into the United States and across the northern border, President Donald Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday morning. "Justin Trudeau, of Canada, called me to ask what could be done about Tariffs. I told him that many people have died from Fentanyl that came through the Borders of Canada and Mexico, and nothing has convinced me that it has stopped. He said that it’s gotten better, but I said, 'That’s not good enough.'
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tore into Democrats for their obnoxious and "shameful" behavior during President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening.What's remarkable is that she even helpfully gave them advice - suggesting they applaud at least some parts of the speech - in the hours before Trump spoke.
"I think, frankly, the Democrats should think about if they should stand up in applause for some of the things President Trump will be talking about," she told Fox & Friends. "He's bringing common sense back to this country."
They didn't listen. Instead, America got to see them for the clowns, utterly devoid of common sense,
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has already expressed regret for how his meeting with President Donald Trump last week played out and has asked for a do-over, but perhaps eyeing the chance for another incident the British and French leaders may offer to accompany him.
It is possible the French government may have hatched a plan to dispatch both President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer — both of whom undoubtably have functional working relationships with President Trump — to wingman for Zelensky should the time come he returns to Washington D.C. again.
If an election official was sentenced to nine years in prison, you might assume they had been caught stuffing ballot boxes or rigging results. But, what if they were convicted for preserving election records? That’s the case of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, whose actions led to a landmark prosecution — one that has now drawn scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal authorities are stepping in to review whether her sentence was excessive and whether her prosecution was influenced politically.
Hyundai is standing by its DEI policies and launching a new multicultural marketing campaign — and an executive says that it’s good for business. "In terms of the creative that we’re doing and the work that we’re doing with Culture Brands, it’s born from a recognition that it drives sales, drives the bottom line for the company," Hyundai Director of Experiential and Multicultural Marketing Erik Thomas told Digiday. Culture Brands is Hyundai’s African American Marketing Agency of Record[Snip] The ads will be aimed at Black consumers on channels such as TV One and Bounce.
Colorado House Republicans say stabbings,
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House Republicans from around Colorado say they’re worried about being in Denver. In a letter to Mayor Mike Johnston, all 22 members of the GOP caucus raised concerns about “the alarming state of safety in our capital city.” As they see it, Denver is no longer a place where families and businesses can thrive — or where lawmakers and the public feel safe walking around. “Now, it has become a neglected metropolis where violent crime, drug overdoses, and lawlessness have made it unsafe for those who work and live here,” the Republicans wrote. “The Colorado State Capitol sits in the
We’ve been told that President Trump’s address to Congress tonight would dilate on the theme of the “Renewal of the American Dream.” And so it did. But for short hand, two ideas predominated. One was “Woke No More.” The other was “common sense.”
Both were themes of Trump’s inaugural address. I have expatiated on the theme of Trump’s embrace of common sense in a talk I gave to the Connecticut outpost of Hillsdale College at the end of January. The irony is that what should be common to all has been so uncommon in an age marked by perversity and ideology. Together, the attack on wokeness and the reinstitution of
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides healthcare for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top level officials at the agency that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.
That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act.
The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization
Watching President Trump speak to both Houses of Congress, two colorful Yiddish words kept floating into my mind. (snip) each captures an aspect of the reality of that unprecedented gathering that the English language fails to convey with the same level of nuance.
As President Trump spoke, I kept thinking that he’s a real shtarker, which is often translated as “tough guy”, but which carries considerable historical context. (snip) "In Europe, studious, myopic Jews (snip) were easy pickins for their loutish, violent anti-Semitic neighbors and were often attacked and beaten. Every community had their tough guy (shtarker = strong one) who could be summoned to prevent or mitigate a beating
ASA's stranded astronauts have put on a brave face throughout their uncertain nine-month stay on the International Space Station - but that appeared to slip in a recent interview.
Barry Wilmore seemed to suggest he and his crewmate Sunita Williams had been caught up in political games in Washington.
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, whose spaceflight company was tasked with bringing Williams and Wilmore home later this month, has repeatedly said the Biden administration 'abandoned' them for 'political reasons.'
Musk has also said that former president Joe Biden rejected his offer to bring the astronauts home early because it would've made Donald Trump and his supporters 'look good.'
CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “Where is the soul of our nation headed?”
Democrats have long used Trump’s speeches as a chance to engage in eye-roll-inducing theatrics, but Colbert was a big fan of Green,
Jon Stewart has officially invited Elon Musk to appear on “The Daily Show” after the billionaire entrepreneur suggested he would agree to an interview under one condition: that it air “unedited.”
Stewart’s on-air invite comes days after the “Daily Show” said on its X account that it would be “delighted” for Musk to appear on the satirical program if it agreed to air the interview unedited.
Last week, Musk blasted Stewart after the “Daily Show” host devoted one of his monologues to DOGE cuts — with Stewart getting so worked up during his remarks that he ended up slicing his hand open.
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Democratic mayors of four major cities said Wednesday that Congress and the Trump administration are exaggerating crime committed by immigrants and attacking so-called sanctuary cities simply to score political points, as Republicans hammered the policies for shielding criminals and discouraging cooperation with federal officials.
The comments came in a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where Republicans accused the mayors of putting their cities in danger and undermining President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
Republicans have repeatedly highlighted crimes committed by immigrants who crossed illegally into the U.S.,
Donald Trump proved himself more than worthy of my vote tonight. For a man who was hunted, framed, falsely accused, spied on, impeached twice, indicted four times, convicted of a “felony,” almost assassinated twice, he stared down the Democrats and gave maybe the best speech of his entire political career.
The Democrats did significant damage to their brand, although by now, I’m not sure there is anything left of their brand. What do they even stand for anymore? Certainly not for the kid with multiple surgeries on his brain given an honorary appointment to the Secret Service. They sat there, stone-faced and entitled, and looked like petulant little brats i
The White House Presidential Personnel Office is staffing President Donald Trump’s administration at a rapid pace, even as candidates go through a thorough vetting process, including a measurement of “loyalty” to the president.
The personnel office, which is in charge of recruiting, vetting, and recommending candidates to fill the president’s 4,000 political appointees, including the 1,600 Cabinet officials and other nominees who require confirmation in the Senate, filled more than 1,300 executive branch vacancies on the president’s first day in office.
According to three PPO officials, granted anonymity by the Washington Examiner to discuss internal matters, Trump had extended 2,000 offers to possible hires as of Tuesday,
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ABC News staffers are bracing for imminent layoffs while the division will restructure its programming including the merging of its “20/20” and “Nightline” programs and the consolidation of its “Good Morning America” productions, according to reports.
The Walt Disney Co. is set to lay off around 200 people from its ABC News Group division as well as its Disney Entertainment Networks unit — a move that constitutes cutting some 6% of the combined staff of the two units, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Almin Karamehmedovic, president of ABC News, circulated a memo to employees on Wednesday morning confirming the changes.
On Wednesday morning, in a 5-4 emergency decision, the Supreme Court upheld a decision from U.S. District Judge Amir Ali that essentially says that Donald Trump can't withhold $2 billion in USAID money from existing contractors. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the three liberal members of the court. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh voted in favor of Trump, with Justice Alito writing the lengthy dissent that begins with: Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer
The U.S. has paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine alongside military aid to pressure its government into cooperating with the Trump administration’s negotiations to end the war against Russia.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox Business Wednesday and said the Trump administration would likely resume sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky’s Tuesday statement expressing openness to peace talks.
“President Zelensky put out a statement that said, ‘I am ready for peace and I want President Donald Trump’s leadership to bring about that peace,'”
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives will question the mayors of four of the country's largest cities on Wednesday about their so-called "sanctuary city" laws, which restrict local officials in helping enforce federal immigration regulations.
The Republicans who lead the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have long criticized such laws, as has U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican who returned to the White House in January promising to deport more unauthorized immigrants than his predecessors. The committee has invited the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City, all Democrats, to explain and defend the laws during a televised hearing at 10 a.m.
Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) died late Tuesday after serving just two months and a day in Congress, party officials said Wednesday. He was 70.
Turner’s death was confirmed by his successor as mayor of Houston, John Whitmire, and former Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison.
“I’m so heartbroken to learn about the passing of my dear friend Congressman and former Mayor @SylvesterTurner!” Harrison wrote on X. ” We became friends during the DNC Convention Site selection process in 2018. A visionary leader and advocate… I will miss my friend and he will be missed by so many in his beloved Houston, TX.
At President Trump’s address Tuesday night he told of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed not quite a year ago in Far Rockaway, Queens. Trump said that the decorated officer had been shot “while conducting a traffic stop.” Actually, Diller and his partner were investigating a report that an occupant of a car parked in a bus stop had been seen with a handgun. The officers suspected that the car’s occupants were planning to rob a nearby store.
Trump introduced Diller’s widow, Stephanie, and used the story to remind the audience that Diller had been killed by criminals with long records (including arrests and convictions that
When the president addresses Congress, we expect some partisanship. When Democrats talk about how they want to force people to do their bidding, Republicans don’t applaud. When Republicans talk about cutting people’s taxes, Democrats sit on their hands.
But there have always been times in the past when the entire chamber applauds, sometimes members of the opposing party even stand. That’s because the person addressing them is president of the United States, not leader of a faction.
Until now.
We have never seen a spectacle like we saw last night.
By many accounts, President Trump gave one of the best speeches he ever has during Tuesday night's joint Congressional address, at times highlighting his accomplishments one month in and pulling no punches in slamming Democrats while at other times tugging at the heartstrings of viewers watching with the sweet, sometimes heartwrenching stories he told about our fellow Americans.
Predictably, the Democrats who decided to show up threw tantrums at the beginning, flashing ping pong signs with various political messaging on them, wearing pink to show so-called "solidarity" with women, and
President Donald Trump touted his record-low number of illegal border crossings since reentering office, arguing that the U.S. needed a “new president,” not “new legislation,” to secure the country during his Tuesday joint address to Congress — while Democrat members refused to stand to honor Laken Riley’s grieving family.
“If we truly care about protecting American children, no step is more crucial than securing America’s borders. Over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States. Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world,” Trump said during his first time addressing Congress
Chaos erupted during President Donald Trump’s congressional address on Tuesday night as unhinged Representative Al Green (D-TX) threw a tantrum, disrupting a speech meant to unify the nation and highlight the administration’s bold vision.
The disgraceful outburst forced Speaker Mike Johnson to intervene, ordering the Sergeant-at-Arms to kick Green out of the chamber like the disgrace he’s proven himself to be.
But that wasn’t the end of Green’s unhinged antics — he’s now doubled down, vowing to push yet another baseless impeachment against Trump.
Five weeks into his second term as president, and Donald Trump still holds the approval of the American voting-age public. But, not surprisingly, sharp differences emerge when looking at party affiliation, with Republicans more likely to give the new chief executive high approval marks than either Democrats or independents, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The national online poll was taken by a sample of 1,434 adults from March 26-28 and has a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points.
Those taking the poll were asked: “Overall, is your opinion of Donald Trump generally favorable,
In 1984, a legendary Gipper debate quip put to rest fears about President Ronald Reagan’s advanced years:
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”
The public’s response: “people meters” off the charts with likes – and the instant recouping of a polling margin that had begun to erode.
But equally telling was Democratic candidate Walter Mondale’s reaction: a sheepish laugh plus looks over and then downward – a visage and posture essentially conceding defeat.
Marty Makary is the wrong choice for FDA commissioner. He’s very good at communicating at a popular level, but the fact that he kept pushing the mRNA COVID vaccine long after problems with it were obvious should be an insurmountable barrier to confirmation.
In social media posts and through widely circulated video and news interviews, Makary repeatedly promoted just about every Biden White House talking point about the COVID mRNA vaccines. Even as he did this, he never addressed the thousands of peer-reviewed mRNA vaccine injuries described in the literature and the thousands of unretracted Covid-era journal publications.
If you watched Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening, you know that Democrats behaved like children, and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was so disruptive that House Speaker Mike Johnson had him forcibly removed from the chamber.
Speaking to reporters after the incident, Green doubled down on his disruptive behavior and, of course, defended his childish actions.
“The president said he had a mandate, and I was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid,” Green said. “I have people who are very fearful. These are poor people, and they have only Medicaid in their lives
As predicted, the meltdowns Democrats were having prior to President Donald Trump giving his joint address to Congress Tuesday night carried over into the speech itself, with ping pong paddles containing anti-Trump messaging being flashed, "feminist" Democrats wearing pink with political messaging on it, and repeated interruptions of Trump's speech happening in its first few minutes.
In one of the more dramatic moments, Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who was the first Congressman in this session to declare on the House floor his intentions to try and have Trump impeached, was escorted out by the House Sergeant in Arms at the direction of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after repeated interruptions
During Donald Trump's big speech on Tuesday night, the Democrats proved more than ever that they hate this country and do not wish to see it succeed. They refused to clap for common sense things like lowering taxes and removing dangerous criminals from the streets. Even worse, they failed to applaud for everyone from the mothers of young girls who were brutally murdered to foster dads and foster children. But one of the most disgusting moments of the evening came when they refused to acknowledge a young boy with brain cancer for something that was about as far from partisan as you can get.
President Trump laid out an ambitious plan on Tuesday night to forge a new American economy with sweeping tax cuts and regulatory relief for domestic production while imposing tariffs on products made outside of the U.S.
Trump detailed far-reaching plans to revitalize American manufacturing by cutting taxes on companies that produce goods in the U.S., allowing capital investments to be immediately expensed, extending interest rate tax deductions to include auto loans of American-made cars, and levying reciprocal tariffs on countries that impose tariffs on U.S. goods and protective tariffs on strategic commodities.
“We are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit,”
President Donald Trump announced during his joint address to Congress that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to negotiate toward peace and sign a mineral deal with the United States.
He revealed the major news by reading a letter he received from the Ukrainian president shortly before his address Tuesday. “The letter reads, ‘Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,'” Trump said.
Per Trump, the letter continues:
My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.
Democrat lawmakers may not have approved of President Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the Capitol, but polling shows their constituents loved it.
CBS News/YouGov survey interviewed a nationally representative sample of speech watchers immediately following Trump’s joint address to Congress, and the numbers will please the poll-mindful president.
The poll shows an astounding 76 percent of Americans viewing the speech approved of Trump’s remarks, with only 23 percent — less than a quarter — disapproving.
President Donald Trump asserted that he was “saved by God to Make America Great Again” when he miraculously survived the assassination attempt at his Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally during his Tuesday night joint address to Congress.
While speaking on Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who was held in a Russian prison for over three years for trying to enter the country with a personal amount of medical cannabis until his release due to diplomatic negotiations by the president, Trump mentioned that he is from Butler:
The starkest impact made by President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress was the boldness of his vision and the absolute absence of any alternative from the Democratic Party. Whether you voted for Trump or not last November, it was hard on Tuesday night not to see someone seeking to put his agenda into practice. The president made clear to lawmakers and indeed the world, that his overarching goal is American renewal and the reinvigoration of the American Dream.
As an American patriot who remembers JFK’s inaugural address in 1961, and remembers Ronald Reagan’s inaugural address in 1980, it’s hard not to see the president’s speech
Jay Bhattacharya was in pretty terrible shape five years ago. He was losing sleep and weight, not because of the COVID-19 virus but in response to the efforts of his colleagues at Stanford University and the larger medical community to shut down his research, which questioned much of the government’s response to the pandemic. Some of his Stanford colleagues leaked false and damaging information to reporters. The university’s head of medicine ordered him to stop speaking to the press. Top leaders at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, dialed up the attacks, dismissing him and his colleagues as what Collins termed “fringe epidemiologists”
President Trump’s box was filled with family members, administration officials and special guests – invited by first lady Melania Trump – for his Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress.
Trump children Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr., Eric and Tiffany all attended the event with their respective partners – Jared Kushner, Bettina Anderson, Lara Trump and Michael Boulos.
Melania was seated in the front row of the box, several rows below her father Viktor Knavs.
(Photo) The first lady was flanked by guests Elliston Berry, a 15-year-old victim of computer-generated deepfakes created by a bully at her school, and Haley Ferguson, a former foster child and recipient of a scholarship
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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday on her network’s coverage of the presidential address to a joint session of Congress that she hopes the young man who survived pediatric cancer who wants to become a police officer does not commit suicide because of something like January 6
Wallace said, “Let’s just stick with DJ. I mean, I think that if there was a moment where your whole body could relax and you could celebrate someone, it was the 13 year old cancer survivor who would like to be a police officer. It was a genuinely beautiful moment.
Holy moly, these people aren’t playing around. From DOGE finding billions of dollars in fraud and waste and decimating bloated (corrupt) agencies like USAID to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announcing plans to shutter over 110 IRS offices, the Trump administration has been cutting waste like no administration we have ever seen before.And they are far from done, it would seem: on Tuesday, the GSA outlined plans to get rid of a staggering 443 “non-core” federal properties and sell them off. The size of such a move would be absolutely yuge:
An inventory of 443 “non-core” assets posted by the General Services Administration Tuesday included
Democrats in the chamber for Trump’s speech have behaved like petulant children from the very beginning of his speech. One of them even had to be removed from the chamber.
Trump got tired of it and called them out to their faces, saying that nothing he could ever do or say would cause them to stand, applaud, or even smile.
He is absolutely right, and this admonishment called these people out for the vicious, petty, horrible people that they are.
Partial transcript via Twitter/X:
As Dems Wallowed in Adolescent Tantrum,
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You knew that liberal America was going to hate it, but we don’t care about those people. They had their time. It’s over. It’s done. It’s now our time to lead, govern, and drag this country out of the dementia-laden mess left by Joe Biden and his clown car of incompetents who wrecked the country. (Video) You knew the atmosphere would be charged, with threats of Democratic shenanigans during President Trump’s first address to Congress. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was ejected from the chamber. The rest of the Democrats had paddle signs and resistance t-shirts in what was a cringeworthy display
The Democrats’ reaction to President Trump’s first address to Congress since the 2024 election wasn’t out of the ordinary for these surly, puerile mental invalids. Yet, when you can’t cheer for law enforcement, that’s a problem. It's baffling when you can’t cheer for someone accepting to West Point. But when you refuse to clap or stand for a 13-year-old with cancer who wants to be a police officer, it’s deplorable.