Posts on Sunday, April 13, 2025
Rory McIlroy embraces wife Erica Stoll
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and daughter Poppy after 2025 Masters
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It’s a Masters Sunday Rory McIlroy and his family will forever remember.
Moments after the Northern Irishman won the 2025 Masters following a rollercoaster final round at Augusta National, where he won his first green jacket and completed a career grand slam after defeating England’s Justin Rose in a one-hole playoff, McIlroy celebrated with wife Erica Stoll.
The couple, who reconciled last summer after McIlroy filed for divorce in May 2024, sweetly embraced as they took in the jubilant scene with their 4-year-old daughter, Poppy. (X Video)
No, I'm still not tired of winning yet.
In another new development on the energy front, it looks like oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of America is going to be on the upswing - and one report indicates that there's a lot more oil and gas than estimated. This is good news for the energy sector and for those parts of the economy that are reliant on affordable, reliable energy. In other words - all of it.And, as have so many great things, it starts with the reversal of a Biden-era policy.
Reversing Biden administration policies that halted offshore leasing, prompting lawsuits and restricting
Pennsylvania Judge Faces Up to 60 Years
in Prison After Shooting Ex-Boyfriend
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in Prison After Shooting Ex-Boyfriend
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Suspended Dauphin County Magistrate Judge Sonya McKnight was convicted Wednesday of attempted murder and aggravated assault for shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head as he slept.
McKnight, a Dauphin County judge since 2016 and a Democrat, carried out the heinous act days after her ex-boyfriend, Michael McCoy, ended their relationship.
The incident, which unfolded in February 2024, stemmed from a bitter breakup. McKnight, 58, had been living in her ex-boyfriend Michael McCoy’s home but refused to leave despite his repeated demands after their relationship ended.
We reported earlier Sunday how Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were awakened by police pounding on the door at 2 a.m. after an arsonist set fire to the Governor's Residence in Harrisburg.Although no one was injured, the fire did significant damage and indicated yet another troublesome instance of political violence in this country.
On Sunday afternoon, officials announced that they have arrested a suspect:
A 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an arson fire at the Pennsylvania governor’s house as the governor and his family slept inside….
Colonel Christopher Paris, state police commissioner, said at a Sunday news conference Cody Balmer
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (DOE) on Friday announced that it has begun the process of cutting federal K-12 funding to Maine, as the Democrat-run state continues to allow transgender-identifying males on female sports teams.
DOE is also referring its Title IX investigation of the state to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for “further enforcement action,” the department said. DOE said its actions are a “direct result” of the Maine Department of Education’s (MDOE) continued refusal to comply with Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities receiving federal funding.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said his administration will “work with [illegal immigrants who self deport] right from the beginning on trying to get them back in legally.” While that may sound like a clever strategy to encourage self-deportation, it misses the bigger picture — and sends the wrong message.
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Such statements completely undermine the seriousness of violating our immigration laws and insult every single American. Allowing aliens who broke the law to have a second chance at coming to the U.S. legally is like rewarding someone who broke into your home by handing them the front door key.
The owner of a New Jersey sushi restaurant, who was previously convicted of spying for China, has once again found himself in trouble, this time in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Despite his conviction, the individual was released back onto the streets, raising serious questions about the effectiveness of the immigration enforcement system and the dangers posed by individuals with ties to foreign adversaries.Ming Xi Zhang, known as “Sushi John,” was taken into custody by ICE on March 24— nearly one year after he was convicted of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government and sentenced to three years probation.
Fighting against the wishes of their voters is a classic Republican pastime — and this week is no different.
When they apparently thought nobody was looking, a cabal of GOP senators comprised of Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Utah’s John Curtis, Kansas’ Jerry Moran, and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis — who’s up for reelection next year — quietly sent a letter on Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune regarding ongoing negotiations over the party’s reconciliation package.
After sitting back for four years while the leader of the Democrat Party allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade the country, 208 Democrats voted against legislation Thursday that would keep foreign nationals out of American elections.
The Republican-led House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act 220-208. The legislation, introduced by Texas Rep. Chip Roy, would require documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. )snip) Four Democrats — Rep. Ed Case (HI); Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX); Rep. Jared Golden (ME); and Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) — voted alongside Republicans to pass the SAVE Act.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum authorizing a “military mission for sealing the southern border of the United States and repelling invasions,” giving the U.S. military the ability to occupy public land along the border in order to secure it.
The directive, released late Friday, allows the military to use federal lands for military activities, including constructing border barriers and using “detection and monitoring equipment” to deter would-be migrant invaders.
Letitia James has “Daddy issues”. The New York State Attorney General who hounded President Trump appears to have been acting out a vendetta against her own father. No rational explanation accounts for her reckless attacks on Trump, especially given her own checkered history of possibly illegal real estate transactions.
James’s father, Robert James, was born in South Carolina in 1916. He married Letitia’s mother, Nellie, and set out to build a future in New York City. They had eight children together, including Letitia. For many years, the sprawling family shared just 1,100 square feet of living space in a 2-bedroom 2-bath rental apartment at 44 Butler Place in Brooklyn.
Influencers — those obnoxious (and increasingly) political hype beasts who’ve defined much of internet life in the last decade — may finally be going the way of the Apple Watch: once a flashy trendsetter, now a garish relic.
When a jacked-up fitness bro went viral in late March for a video flaunting his daily six-hour morning saga of 4 a.m. pushups, mineral water ice plunges, and banana peel facials, it was mocked into oblivion.
Hipsters posted their own derisive morning routines, huffing on flavored vapes and chugging Red Bull; grannies filmed themselves putting in their dentures before settling in on the john. One man from India did his take:
In a nearly unprecedented move, the Trump administration met directly with Iran on Saturday to hold denuclearization talks. Currently, Iran is amassing enough enriched uranium to make one nuclear weapon a month.
Previous administrations would have never dreamed of direct talks with a pariah state like Iran so early in a new administration. They would have favored a slower technocratic process of preliminary proposals, proffers, and, above all else, insulating the principals from any blame in the event the talks failed.
Not Trump. He has never been much for bureaucratic foreplay. He’s bored by conventions and processes.
Vermont-based Agri-Mark Inc. is pulling out thousands of pounds of butter from the market, citing bacterial contamination, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The recall is applicable to 189 cases of “Cabot Creamery 8 oz. Extra Creamy Premium Butter” totaling 1,701 pounds, the agency said in an April 8 enforcement report. The products are being withdrawn as they are “contaminated with elevated levels of coliform” bacteria.
Coliform represents a large group of bacteria. While most coliform types are harmless, certain variants such as fecal coliform can result in stomach aches, gastrointestinal diseases, and cholera. E. coli is a type of fecal coliform that poses health risks to human beings.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Sunday after the New York Democrat called him and other Trump appointees "Dumb Effing Individuals," a play on the DEI acronym, in an X video on Saturday.
"That's how far they have fallen. It's astonishing, not surprising," Hegseth told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
"Of course, they don't like the fact that we're ripping DEI out of the military and making it colorblind and merit-based." (Photo) "If their whole strategy is… minute-long videos on TikTok to call us names while we secure the southern border, kick out Chinese influence, revive the warrior culture inside our military, that's why
White House physician Sean Barbabella pointed to President Trump’s “frequent victories in golf events” as evidence of the commander-in-chief’s “excellent health” and “robust” neurological condition in a memo on his physical examination results.
In a glowing health memo released Sunday that detailed very few health ailments against the 78-year-old commander in chief, Barbabella extolled Trump’s physician condition.
“President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State,” Barbabella wrote in the memo released by the White House. (Photo)
ESPN hot-take artist Stephen A. Smith says he must consider a presidential run because he is ” disgusted” with both parties.
“I have no choice, because I’ve had elected officials — and I’m not going to give their names — coming up to me,” Smith told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “I’ve had folks who are pundits come up to me. I’ve had folks that got a lot of money, billionaires and others, that have talked to me about exploratory committees and things of that nature. I’m not a politician. I’ve never had a desire to be a politician.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was mocked after she was captured hiding her face behind a stack of binders to avoid being seen standing in the Oval Office when President Donald Trump spoke to the press.
“It’s rare when you get a shot of the EXACT moment a politician’s career ends, but there you go,” Keith Olbermann mocked (snip)
flanked by two White House aides as she shielded her identity behind a set of blue folders she was holding before her scheduled meeting with Trump on (snip)
Whitmer was in Washington DC to discuss issues including tariffs and a recent ice storm which Whitmer has since asked for a Presidential Emergency Declaration.
After DOGE, the border shutdown, and the tariff and trade debacle, it's pretty obvious that President Trump doesn't mess around.
So now he's announced that sanctuary cities are a target for federal defunding:
No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World. Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!
Donald Trump Truth…
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It makes perfect sense. Why should cities and states shielding illegally present criminals from repatriation to their homelands get so much as a dime of federal funding from other taxpayers?
President Donald Trump issued a Palm Sunday message at the start of Holy Week renewing his administration's promise "to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government." [Snip] "As we focus on Christ’s redeeming sacrifice, we look to His love, humility, and obedience--even in life’s most difficult and uncertain moments,"... "This week, we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our beloved Nation. ...that America will remain a beacon of faith, hope, and freedom for the entire world, and we pray to achieve a future that reflects the truth, beauty, and goodness of Christ’s eternal kingdom in Heaven."
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were forced to evacuate the governor’s mansion after an arsonist set it on fire overnight while they were sleeping, he announced.
The blaze broke out just hours after the governor posted a picture of his family celebrating the first night of Passover on Saturday, ABC 27 reported. (X) The arson attack remains under active investigation, police said.
“Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg,” Shapiro wrote on twitter.
Teen killed mother, stepfather as part
of larger plot to assassinate Trump, federal
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of larger plot to assassinate Trump, federal
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WAUKESHA, Wis.- New details are emerging in the case of the Wisconsin teenager accused of killing his mother and stepfather earlier this year.
Newly unsealed federal records show the murders were part of a much larger plot, which included plans to overthrow the government and assassinate President Donald Trump.
A federal search warrant, unsealed Friday, details the murder plot that was part of a plan targeting Trump.
The documents attribute that the plot is connected to 17-year-old Waukesha student Nikita Casap.
Kyiv Ukraine– At least 32 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said.
Two ballistic missiles struck the heart of the city at around 10:15 a.m. as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, according to officials. Images posted from the scene on official channels showed lines of black body bags lying on the side of the road, while more bodies were seen wrapped in foil blankets among the debris. Video footage also showed fire crews as they fought to extinguish the shells of burnt-out cars among the rubble from damaged buildings. “On this bright Palm Sunday, our community has suffered
When does rank illiberalism become "freedom?" When mainstream press outlets need another way to proclaim the orange man bad. The Economist did just that on Sunday morning, releasing a think piece entitled "Europe Is the Actual Land of the Free Now."
The picture used to head the article? A cartoon of an EU-flagged boat hauling the Statue of Liberty away with a sign reading "gone to Europe" on its empty pedestal. Get it? The United States is no longer a democracy, so our European betters have come and repossessed it, signifying their place as the true providers of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
HBO host Bill Maher opened his show on Friday by delivering a monologue on the details of his recent meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Read the full transcript below.
"So meet up in person, maybe it'll be different," Maher described meeting with Trump. "Spoiler alert, it was. First good sign, before I left for the capital, I had my staff collect and print out this list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president said about me. Things like: stupid, dummy, low-life dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone-cold crazy. Really a dumb guy, fired like a dog, his show is dead. I brought this
The baseline tariffs remain, specifically as they pertain to China. However, in a move to diminish public backlash President Trump has now exempted the majority of consumer electronics from the 125% reciprocal tariff levy.The types of electronic and computer systems exempted, as announced by U.S Customs & Border Protection, Cargo Systems Messaging Service [DATA HERE], is extensive. The machines used to make semiconductors will also be exempt.
All of the following products are now exempt from the larger global tariffs, including the tariffs in place against China:
•Computers (laptops, desktops, servers) •Workstations •Computer systems •Keyboards •Mice •Hard drives •Memory modules (RAM) •Power supplies •Computer motherboards •Graphic cards
ICE Boston, alongside DEA and ATF agents, arrested Gilberto Avila-Jara, a 64-year-old illegal Ecuadorian national, on April 1 in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Avila-Jara faces over twenty heinous charges of sex crimes against a minor, including indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, forcible rape of a child, and aggravated statutory rape.
This monster has been preying on America’s children, and yet, thanks to Democrat sanctuary city policies, he was allowed to slip through the cracks for far too long.
According to ICE, Avila-Jara first sneaked into the U.S. near San Ysidro, California, in 1996,
At her press briefing on Friday, April 11, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a forceful statement regarding the coverup of former president Joe Biden’s health by the Biden administration and most journalists, including White House correspondents.
While President Trump underwent his yearly physical at Walter Reed Medical Center Friday, a White House correspondent asked Leavitt,
“Is [President Trump] considering using his executive powers to bring any greater transparency [to Joe Biden’s health]?”
Leavitt responded,
“There was certainly a lack of transparency from the former president,
A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of his parents in a bizarre conspiracy to "obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary" to assassinate Donald Trump and "perhaps the vice president," according to a manifesto discovered by law enforcement.
Seventeen-year-old Nikita Casap was taken into custody last month and charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as two counts of hiding a corpse, according to ABC News.
Casap allegedly shot and killed his mother and father in February, living for several days with the unburied bodies in the house. He then took the family's SUV and began to travel
Imagine a world war that left more than seven million dead, hundreds of millions became ill, wrecked the global economy, and left a generation with lasting psychological and developmental injuries.
We have seen such wars in history. What is different in this circumstance, however, is that all of that happened, and yet, years later, we still have no agreement on the original cause or possible culprits behind a pandemic that ravaged the world.
In an ongoing effort to curb illegal immigration, the Trump administration has quietly begun invalidating Social Security numbers of illegal immigrants who are in the U.S. unlawfully, effectively pushing them to "self-deport." This action is part of a broader effort to crack down on illegal immigration and ensure that only those who follow legal procedures can access the benefits and rights associated with a Social Security number.This week, the Trump administration instructed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to add over 6,300 illegal immigrants to its list of deceased individuals, effectively blocking their ability to work.
The Left doesn’t know what a woman is. Actually, that’s not quite true. For them, a woman is whatever mentally ill men say it is, (Snip)
Now we’ve discovered, according to the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), many Americans are stark raving mad. Their study reveals what they call “assassination culture,” an acceptance of premeditated murder for political purposes.
The NCRI study links this cultural shift to the December 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione. In the aftermath, researchers observed a disturbing surge of viral memes glorifying Mangione, which effectively turned him into a folk hero among certain corners of the internet.
The Supreme Court’s order on Monday granting the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift a lower court stay on deportations of certain Venezuelan nationals was unsigned, swift, and unmistakable in its signal—or signals.
For now, the executive branch retains its sovereign authority to enforce immigration law. And for President Trump, now in his second, non-consecutive term, the ruling marked an early victory in a week that would yield several more.
But if constitutionalists interpret this as a decisive turning point, they misread the terrain. The Left’s lawfare brigades remain dug in
Owner of NJ sushi joint convicted of spying
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for China and let back on the street nabbed
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An alleged sushi-slinging spy is in ICE custody.
Ming Xi Zhang, known as “Sushi John,” the 61-year-old owner of Ya Ya Noodles in Montgomery Township, NJ, was arrested March 24 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark.
Zhang was convicted in April 2024 of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government and sentenced to three years’ probation. In May 2021, he pleaded guilty to having served as an agent of China in 2016 without notifying the U.S. Attorney General.
ICE says he legally entered the U.S. in 2000 but later “violated the terms of his lawful admission.”
In a nearly unprecedented move, the Trump administration met directly with Iran on Saturday to hold denuclearization talks. Currently, Iran is amassing enough enriched uranium to make one nuclear weapon a month.
Previous administrations would have never dreamed of direct talks with a pariah state like Iran so early in a new administration. They would have favored a slower technocratic process of preliminary proposals, proffers, and, above all else, insulating the principals from any blame in the event the talks failed.
Not Trump. He has never been much for bureaucratic foreplay. He’s bored by conventions and processes.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just confirmed what conservatives have known all along: the Deep State is real, and it's embedded within our federal agencies. During his first visit to the FDA alongside Commissioner Marty Makary, Kennedy didn't mince words when addressing FDA employees. And what he said validates everything President Trump has been saying for years.
"President Trump always talks about the Deep State, and the media, you know, disparages him and says that he's paranoid," Kennedy stated. "But the Deep State is real. And it's not, you know,
History’s great Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
I would paraphrase Franklin’s wise words with this update: “Nothing is certain except these people always being wrong: former Congressman Joe Walsh…MSNBC’s prince of darkness Lawrence O’Donnell…and virtually any cast member on The View.” This week has provided all the proof one needs to know how Trump Derangement Syndrome has poisoned the brain cells of these and other Trump haters. That list also includes Erik Erickson…Jonah Goldberg…the late Jennifer Rubin—
The Climate Crisis Con Game
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The technical term is “confidence game.” A crook gains the confidence of a victim (the “mark”) and preys upon their naivety, greed, and/or fear. Ultimately, the duped mark gives their money and/or property to the crook willingly.
Consider this real-world example provided in Connie Fletcher’s 1991 book, What Cops Know: Today’s Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America’s Streets, wherein an anonymous Chicago Police Department (CPD) detective reminisces about a con game he redressed:
“One of the superintendents of the Chicago Police Department—his aunt was taken for $15,000…
Influencers — those obnoxious (and increasingly) political hype beasts who’ve defined much of internet life in the last decade — may finally be going the way of the Apple Watch: once a flashy trendsetter, now a garish relic.
When a jacked-up fitness bro went viral in late March for a video flaunting his daily six-hour morning saga of 4 a.m. pushups, mineral water ice plunges, and banana peel facials, it was mocked into oblivion.
Hipsters posted their own derisive morning routines, huffing on flavored vapes and chugging Red Bull; grannies filmed themselves putting in their dentures before settling in on the john.
Wretchardthecat has given us a sage analysis of the MAGA agenda:
The reason the MAGA initiatives looked so disjointed to the media is they were component parts of a vast alternative worldview now coming into sight. Like the five blind men and the elephant the progressives are only now realizing the aspects of a single larger foe.
Immigration control is a key feature of the MAGA initiatives: closing the border, removing illegal immigrants, keeping non-citizens from voting and stopping federal funds from going to so called non-government organizations who were bringing in millions of immigrants who overwhelmed housing, welfare, and educational budgets, committed crimes, and threatened national security.
The History of Palm Sunday
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The celebration of Palm Sunday originated in the Jerusalem Church, around the late fourth century. The early Palm Sunday ceremony consisted of prayers, hymns, and sermons recited by the clergy while the people walked to various holy sites throughout the city. At the final site, the place where Christ ascended into heaven, the clergy would read from the gospels concerning the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. In the early evening they would return to the city reciting: “Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord.
The UK government is taking control of Chinese-owned British Steel after emergency legislation was rushed through Parliament in a single day. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told MPs the government's likely next step would be to nationalise the Scunthorpe plant, which employs 2,700 people. But he said he was forced to seek emergency powers to prevent owners Jingye shutting down its two blast furnaces, which would have ended primary steel production in the UK. MPs and peers were called back from their Easter holidays to debate the legislation in an extremely rare Saturday sitting of both houses of Parliament. It has now received Royal Assent after being passed
Ministers could send the Royal Navy to escort a fuel shipment to Scunthorpe’s blast furnaces after parliament voted to seize control of British Steel to ensure its survival.
A senior source said the government was considering the extraordinary move to ensure the cargo reached the UK without being intercepted or redirected. The location and details of the cargo have not been confirmed but it is said to be coking coal — vital to keeping the furnaces running. Without securing fresh supplies, the furnaces at the steelworks, owned by the Chinese firm Jingye, would burn out and be almost impossible to turn back on. This would kill the UK’s last domestic source
I remember very well that day in 2015, Donald Trump came down that golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce that he was running for President of the United States. He had run before; some of us remember his 2000 run on the Reform Party ticket, which he abandoned in February of that year. In 2015, he was serious, and he won, in no small part because of his slogan, which became his campaign theme. Like all good political slogans, it was pithy, packed a punch, was easy to shout at rallies, and it sparked a connection with millions of Americans: Make America Great Again.
Augusta, Ga. — History awaits Rory McIlroy.
A career Grand Slam sits a tantalizing 18 holes away.
Sometime before 3 p.m. Sunday, McIlroy will stand on the first tee in the final pairing of the day at Augusta National on the precipice of history, with a chance to become only the sixth player ever to win all four major championships. (Photo) He’s won two PGA Championships, one U.S. Open and one British Open. The Masters has been the elusive one, like the girl you’ve been asking out for years who keeps rejecting you. This week is McIlroy’s 11th attempt at completing the career Slam by winning his first Masters.
CNN ‘extremism expert’ Donie O’Sullivan appeared on the network on Friday night to preview an upcoming program on the subject of political extremism in the country right now and laughably claimed that all the extremism is on the right with no equivalent on the left.
It’s amazing that anyone could say such a thing with a straight face.
The left is attacking Tesla owners and firebombing Tesla dealerships. The left is leading antisemitic mobs on college campuses and in cities. The left is holding up accused murderer Luigi Mangione as some kind of hero.
President Donald Trump’s entrance to UFC 314 in Miami, Florida, Saturday night sent the Kaseya Center into a frenzy.
The president walked into a star-packed Kaseya Center sporting a gold tie while flanked by his entourage, which included some of his grandchildren, UFC CEO Dana White, and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who Trump has endorsed for governor of Florida. (X Video) UFC Commentator Joe Rogan asked fellow commentators John Anik and former Heavyweight Champion and U.S. Olympian Daniel Cormier, if anyone else besides Trump and UFC fighters has a “walk-in” as the president’s signature entry song, “