Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said over the weekend that the U.S. needs to be ready to support Israel if it decides that it is time to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program.

Graham made the remarks on “Fox News Sunday” as the Islamic regime continues to inch closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“We’re trying to define the world in which we live in accurately,” Graham said. “Senator Fetterman has been a champion for the State of Israel.”

“I went to him and asked him, would you work with me to do a census Senate resolution saying that over decades, Iran has been trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, not a nuclear power plant, that they’re the largest state sponsor of terrorism, that they would blow Israel off the map if they had a nuclear weapon, that they would come after us?” he continued. “And he said, I would be glad to.”

“So what this resolution does, it lays out the case against Iran’s nuclear ambition,” Graham said. “Bibi and the Israelis are going to have to make a decision relatively soon what to do about the Iran nuclear program.”

“This is not an authorization to use force, but I am here to tell you and the audience and the world that I think America should support an effort by Israel if they decide to decimate the Iranian nuclear program, because I think it’s a threat to mankind,” he added.

America should unequivocally support Israel if they decide to decimate the Iranian regime’s nuclear program.

If the ayatollah were to obtain a nuclear weapon, it would be a threat to mankind. All options should be on the table to prevent that. pic.twitter.com/fqFQKB7OsM

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) February 2, 2025

Border Czar Tom Homan announced over the weekend that the Trump administration has seen a dramatic drop-off in illegal border crossings since taking over and telling the world that the border is closed.

Homan made the revelation during a Sunday interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” after the administration has been in power for nearly two weeks.

“We’ve got the numbers this morning. The crossings on the border are down 93%. 93%!” Homan said. “That’s a bigger decrease than under the first Trump administration.”

“So, look, I said it, President Trump’s the game-changer,” he continued. “No one has had the success he’s had in securing the border. He clearly understands we can’t have strong national security if we don’t have border security. We need to know who’s coming in, what’s coming in, where, and why.”

“We’ve achieved success on the border already,” Homan said. “We’ve got more work to do. And as far as the deportation operation, I think we got 5,000 arrested the first week, and a majority of them being criminals.”

Homan said that the “non-criminals” that the media was talking about were “arrested in sanctuary cities because you force us into the community rather than arresting the bad guy in jail, and when we find that criminal, he’s most likely with others, and they’re going to go, too.”

“If you want to be a sanctuary city, you’re going to get more agents in the community,” he said.

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WATCH: Trump Border Czar Tom Homan says that border crossings are down 93%!!

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️pic.twitter.com/aFZz7TJtVu

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 3, 2025

Left-wing host Margaret Brennan was forced to pivot during an interview on Sunday after a guest she demanded evidence from provided evidence that shut down her line of questioning.

The moment happened when Brennan interviewed Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, during a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”

Mast said that he supported the “purging of people throughout the State Department” and “other agencies where we’re freezing aid,” which he said were “very important and necessary steps to make sure that we secure America.”

“You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel?” Brennan asked. “What does that mean exactly?”

“Well, if you want to take a look at the State Department, where DEI has been a priority over, let’s say, diplomacy, in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of examples of where they were authorizing–” Mast began to say before Brennan cut him off.

“What proof do you have of that?” she asked.

“Sure. Let’s list them off. Half a million dollars to expand atheism in Nepal, $50,000 to do, let’s see, a transgender opera in Colombia,” he said. “$47,000 to do an LGBTQ trans comic book in Peru. $20,000 a pop to do drag shows in Ecuador. Shall I continue with more examples of where DEI was the priority?”

Brennan responded by saying that the government could just have “a review of things” and that foreign aid only comprised “less than 1% of the entire federal budget.”

“So we’re talking small amounts of money by comparison,” she claimed.

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Margaret Brennan, who recently got humiliated in her interview with VP Vance, gets humiliated again when she asks for examples of DEI waste in foreign aid the US gives.

Rep. Mast came with the receipts and owned Brennan.pic.twitter.com/7LBWGbKmdT

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 2, 2025

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) suggested over the weekend that he was not closed off to confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Sanders left the possibility open during a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with host Margaret Brennan.

“I have, up to now, voted for some Trump appointees. A few,” Sanders said. “I voted against most, and I’ll make my decisions next week. Where Kennedy is right is, we are an unhealthy society — a point I’ve been making, many others have been making for a long time. One of the things that concerns me very much, and Kennedy mentioned it, is our life expectancy. How long our people live is five years less than other wealthy countries.”

“And if you’re working class in this country, you live six or seven years lower than if you are rich,” he continued.
“It is an issue we have to deal with. And I think the kind of addictive and poisonous food that the food industry is providing our kids is one of the factors, not many. But when you have Kennedy come forward in saying he cannot — he believes, continues to believe that autism is caused by vaccines despite the fact that there have been a dozen studies over the years which disprove that. When he has other conspiracy theories, when he cannot acknowledge that if you’re going to make America healthy, you’ve got to guarantee health care to all people. He was not clear about the need to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and lower prescription drug costs. So I was not particularly happy with his presentation.”

When asked if some of Kennedy’s responses were “red lines” for him, Sanders responded: “I just don’t go around making these announcements.”

“I will vote when I’ll vote,” he said. “But anybody who watched that hearing understands my deep concerns about Kennedy, but I got to tell you, the conspiracy theories that he is throwing out is not unlike what we’re hearing all over the Trump administration. And to me, what is most important in terms of what’s been happening since Trump has been president, it’s not just him having the three wealthiest people in the country stand behind them. By the way, anybody, any working person in this country, should understand what that means. It means that you can have a government working for the very rich, not for the working class of this country, but the movement toward authoritarianism.”

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won’t say whether he will vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, but he still has “deep concerns” about Kennedy’s stances on vaccines and other health issues.

“The conspiracy theories that he is throwing out, it’s not unlike what… pic.twitter.com/YAr0d6TkBM

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 2, 2025

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said over the weekend that illegal aliens sent to Guantanamo Bay will have the same rights as they would inside the U.S. and that the plan is not to detain them indefinitely.

Noem made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” with Kristen Welker when asked about the plan that President Donald Trump introduced last week.

“Due process will be followed and having facilities at Guantanamo Bay will be an asset to us in the fact that we’ll have the capacity to continue to do there what we’ve always done,” Noem said. “We’ve always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained. We’re just building out some capacity. So we appreciate the partnership of the DoD in getting that up to the level that it needs to get to in order to facilitate this repatriation of people back to their countries.”

“So remember that Guantanamo Bay clearly, by this president, has said that it will hold the worst of the worst, that we are going after those bad actors,” she continued. “This last week, I was in New York City. We were going after people that had warrants out for their arrest on murders and rapes, assaults, gun purchases, drug trafficking. In fact, we had a member of TDA that was one of the ringleaders that we picked up that week, had been trying to buy grenades. These are the types of individuals that we are targeting, we’re removing from communities, and that could end up having a stay at Guantanamo Bay before they are returned home to their countries to deal with.”

When asked if illegal aliens could be held indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Noem responded: “That is not the plan.”

“The plan is to have a process that we follow that’s laid out in law and make sure that we’re dealing with these individuals appropriately according to what the state and the national law directs,” she said. “So we will work with Congress to make sure that we’re addressing our legal immigration laws and using Guantanamo Bay appropriately. But it is an asset that we have that we fully intend to utilize.”

.@Sec_Noem: Guantanamo Bay will be an asset to us for in detaining the worst of the worst illegal aliens as we facilitate their repatriation BACK to their own countries. pic.twitter.com/Qdc5AZyuuD

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 2, 2025

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) signaled support for President Donald Trump’s tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada over the weekend.

Schmitt made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” when asked why Trump was leveling harder tariffs against Canada than China.

“All we have to do is look at President Trump’s first four years where he instituted tariffs,” Schmitt said. “We didn’t see inflation. In fact, we saw record wage growth. We saw $200 billion plus go into the Treasury from those tariffs. Tariffs that help even the playing field with countries who have been ripping us off, quite frankly, for generations. China, specifically. I think the American people are tired of being ripped off.”

“They’re tired of seeing their jobs go overseas,” he continued. “But I think these tariffs specifically, Kristen, are meant to bring Canada and Mexico to the table for the fentanyl that is streaming into our communities. It’s also worth noting, in the last four years, that the trade imbalance and our trade deficit has gone up 200% plus with Canada and up 52% with Mexico.”

“The fact is, these countries are taking advantage of us,” he added. “All along the while, we’ve got fentanyl streaming into our country. So Mexico has a choice. They can choose to trade with the United States or continue to cozy up with the cartels. It’s pretty simple.”

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Mexico has a choice: they can choose to trade with the United States or continue to cozy up with the cartels. It’s pretty simple, pic.twitter.com/U1yBWEaVP7

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 2, 2025

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), whose state has been at the forefront of former President Joe Biden’s illegal immigration crisis, signaled over the weekend that he does not support President Donald Trump deporting illegal aliens back to their home countries.

Kelly made the remarks during an NBC News interview on Sunday on “Meet The Press” when asked about ICE agents carrying out routine immigration raids.

“Do you support what you are seeing so far, the deportation plan, as it’s been carried out by the president?” asked host Kristen Welker.

“Yeah, I don’t,” Kelly said. “For a number of reasons. It seems to be more about intimidation of a big population of people. It’s going down the road of mass deportation, which he said he would do, which would rip communities apart. These are really bad ideas.”

“It’s all about scaring and intimidating people,” he said. “It’s the same thing for Guantanamo Bay. Building a facility there is because it just sounds very frightening to a lot of folks. When you’re a criminal, we need to find where you are and we need to take you into custody, and if you’re not documented, you should be returned. That makes sense. I’m all about public safety and border security. But we’ve got to do it in a way in accordance with our values.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said over the weekend that the point of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on other countries is to “make them feel pain.”

Noem made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” when asked about the tariffs Trump announced last week.

“These countries have an opportunity to get on board with the President of the United States and to partner with us to deal with illegal immigration, to take back their individuals that have been in our country illegally,” she said. “We want to repatriate them home. And they can be partners. So economically, yes, they will feel – they will feel pain. They will feel what this consequences are, and we’ll be able to continue to go forward with a president who’s strong, who’s putting America first.”

Host Kristen Welker noted that Trump indicated that the reason he was implementing the tariffs was to combat the trafficking of fentanyl and illegal aliens into the U.S.

When asked about tariffs leading to higher prices for consumers and how that helps Trump fulfill his campaign promise of lowering prices, Noem pointed to the administration’s recent spat with Colombia.

“You’ve seen the president take action already this week with Colombia,” Noem said. “And you saw Colombia react in a very positive way that was good for everyone involved. Canada, Mexico, other countries have the opportunity to do exactly the same. So we have a strong leader. He has laid down exactly what he is going to do and what the consequences are. I encourage their leadership teams to get on board and to make sure that they’re not pushing up prices.”

“If prices go up, it’s because of other people’s reactions to America’s laws,” she claimed. “And that’s what President Trump is doing. He is making sure that we’re not picking and choosing winners and losers, that the law applies equally to everybody, American citizens. It applies to those who are here illegally. And our world leaders across the country and across the world, they can help us, or they’re going to face some consequences.”

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has chosen leftist activist David Hogg to serve in one of its top roles.

Over the weekend, DNC members picked Hogg to serve as vice chair alongside Artie Blanco and Malcolm Kenyatta. They also elected Ken Martin, a longtime leader of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, to become chairman.

I’ve just been elected as a Vice Chair of the DNC. I’m deeply grateful to the members for their trust and belief in me and I don’t take it lightly. Now it’s time to get to work. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/3ypkRc62hL

— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) February 2, 2025

Hogg became a high-profile gun control proponent after surviving the 2018 Parkland high school shooting in Florida in which 17 people were killed.

In his bid for DNC vice chair, Hogg was endorsed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s failed vice-presidential candidate in the 2024 election.

As previously reported by The Daily Wire:

Hogg has a history of outlandish statements and self-promotion; in June 2022, he accused Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of avoiding him because Hogg “triggered” him, writing in a later-deleted tweet, “Rubio staff said I can’t meet with him or his staff because I ‘trigger’ him. I just wanna have a conversation. Please meet with me @marcorubio I just want to figure out how we can stop these things from happening. We have to end the continuous debate and find what we can agree on.”

“No one said such a thing,” Rubio’s Chief of Staff Michael Needham responded to Hogg. “As for the meeting, you must be confused as we had a 2p meeting scheduled with you. However, since you are lying and clearly using this all for self-promotion, that meeting is now cancelled [sic]. … the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.”

Also, the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.

— Michael Needham (@MikeNeedham) June 9, 2022

In August 2018, Hogg claimed that the “NRA is pulling strings to increase gun sales in a record low year.” He was immediately fact-checked:

There have been about 1 million more FBI background checks, the most reliable indicator of gun sales, this year than last year and this year is on pace to be the second-best in the history of NICS. So, no, gun sales are not experiencing a record low year. https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 24, 2018

In September 2020, Hogg stated, “The use of violence to acquire political power is deeply rooted in imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy[.] I personally refuse to believe that the use of this same violence will ever create nonviolent systems of government that represent and support everyone.” He later apologized, but added, “Let me be clear what I am NOT trying to do is tell BIPOC people how they should react to violence directed at them by the state. It’s not my place or any white persons to direct or criticize the way BIPOC people choose to defend themselves against this violence from the state.”

Hogg was accepted to Harvard University despite getting only a 1270 on his SATs. “The bottom 25% of students admitted had an average score of 1460,” Business Insider noted.

After Hogg was elected as DNC vice chair, Hogg’s critics took a moment to point out some of his prior comments.

“DNC Vice Chair David Hogg has some legitimately INSANE views that are wildly out of step with the American people,” said conservative communicator Steve Guest. “Good to see that the Democrat Party has learned absolutely nothing.”

Here’s some of what Guest and others highlighted:

He also has 0 knowledge about how the Constitution works. pic.twitter.com/nhX7HDouQz

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 2, 2025

Throwback to when the new DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, got destroyed by a Chinese immigrant on gun control pic.twitter.com/KCdeXXT0SF

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2025

Dear America,

The democrats just elected rabid anti-gun activist David Hogg as Vice Chairman for the DNC.

In 2023, Hogg posted, “You have no right to a gun.”

To every hunter/gun owner in America, it’s time to vote

(30% of Pennsylvania hunters are NOT registered to vote). pic.twitter.com/mW8lwi1omB

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) February 2, 2025

The new Vice Chair of the DNC wants to Defund the Police. pic.twitter.com/66JtnaVk8J

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) February 2, 2025

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said during an interview over the weekend that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s refusal to call Edward Snowden a traitor during her confirmation hearing last week could end up costing her.

Warner made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News’ “Face The Nation” when asked by leftist host Margaret Brenna what Republicans senators are saying privately about her nomination.

“Edward Snowden released more information — probably did as much damage to our intelligence community as anyone in history,” Warner said. “And the fact that Ms. Gabbard — who actually had legislation to pardon Edward Snowden, she called him a brave whistleblower — couldn’t bring herself to call him a traitor, I think is disqualifying just on plain judgment.”

“What would that signal if she got in, would that send to the IC workers or contractors? Is she going to suddenly enforce the law if she called Snowden a brave whistleblower?” he asked. “And what I’m particularly concerned about is our sharing of information with our allies, that’s not written into law, that’s based on trust.”

“Will they really trust to share their intelligence with us if she can’t call out one of the worst traitors in recent American history as such, as a traitor?” he added.

He said that the Senate Intelligence Committee has historically been the most bipartisan committee in the U.S. Senate and that those who serve on the committee often will resist pressure from their own parties.

“But it’s not just Snowden, America’s most powerful intelligence tool is something we call Section 702, she left us totally confused on her views on that,” he continued. “And as well, her lack of judgment, whether it’s going to visit Assad when he was head of Syria, whether it was taking trips paid for by sketchy groups or echoing Putin’s comments somehow NATO started the war in Ukraine, that is not the judgment of somebody that would run 18 intelligence communities — agencies.”

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Tulsi Gabbard’s refusal to call Edward Snowden a “traitor” in her director of national intelligence confirmation hearings is “disqualifying just on plain judgment,” says Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA).

He wonders if U.S. allies will “trust to share their intelligence with us if she… pic.twitter.com/oiT7ALWvlE

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 2, 2025

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) was asked over the weekend why the Democrat Party has become so deeply unpopular among voters.

Kaine was asked the question during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” after new polling from last week showed that Democrats are more unpopular now than they have ever been.

“You see there this is Quinnipiac poll; 57 percent of the American people have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, only 31 percent favorable,” Tapper said. “This is the worst number for the Democratic Party since Quinnipiac University began asking the question. And it’s not an outlier. A recent CNN poll found a 33-year low favorable rating with the Democratic Party.”

“Why is your party so staggeringly unpopular with the public?” he asked.

Kaine claimed he did not know what happens in the other 49 states, just Virginia.

“We focus on the economy,” he said. “This is what we do in Virginia. And I think, sometimes, national Democrats don’t.”

“It’s just that so often, Democratic candidates don’t emphasize that,” he later added.

“And so, yes, the American public looks at standard campaigns,” he continued. “They don’t see Democrats advertising on the economy, which is their principal concern, and so they have wonders about us. Let’s return to the bread-and-butter basics that people want to really focus on.”

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WATCH: Jake Tapper asks Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine why Democrats are so unpopular.

“57 percent of the American people have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, only 31 percent favorable. This is the worst number for the Democratic Party since Quinnipiac University began… pic.twitter.com/aUkY60bEkX

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 2, 2025

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy highlighted on Sunday some of the ways that the previous administration was focused on the wrong things inside the Department of Transportation.

Duffy made the remarks during an interview on CNN’s “State Of The Union” following two tragic plane crashes that happened last week.

Host Jake Tapper asked Duffy if DEI practices were in any way tied to the accident in Washington, D.C., where a military helicopter collided midair with a commercial passenger jet.

“So I do know that, in the last administration, they were focused on not safety, but they were focused on changing the name from cockpit to flight deck, or notice to airmen, they want to change it to notice to air mission,” Duffy said. “They focused on E.V.s and sustainability and racist roads, things that don’t matter in regard to safety.”

“Our mission since the start has been safety,” he said. “And they have lost that mission. And we see, when you don’t focus on safety and you focus on social justice or the environment, bad things happen.”

Duffy said that the department was going to assess all the ways that DEI has impacted the DOT and FAA and will release a report on it.

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Sean Duffy just dispelled all the media lies about how Trump is just racist for suggesting that DEI played a role in the tragedy that unfolded in Washington, DC.

“I do know that in the last administration, they were focused not on safety, but they were focused on changing the… pic.twitter.com/waSAo88ZJy

— Media Lies (@MediasLies) February 2, 2025

Liberal comedian Bill Maher defended President Donald Trump mocking a reporter this week who asked him about visiting the site of a plane crash, which happened in the water.

Maher made the remarks on his HBO show “Real Time” in response to the following exchange that Trump had with the reporter in the Oval Office following the tragic plane and helicopter crash:

REPORTER: Have you spoken to any of the families of the victims of the plane crash?

TRUMP: I don’t want to comment on that.

REPORTER: Do you have a plan to go visit the site?

TRUMP: I have a plan to visit, not the site, because you tell me — what’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?

Maher said that Trump’s response to the “stupid question” was “exactly right.”

“They asked him a question about the crash and they said, ‘Will you visit the crash site?'” Maher said. “Now, every other politician would go, ‘Of course, it was a tragedy.'”

“And he went, ‘It’s the water. What do you want me to do, swim there?'” Maher continued. “Yeah. And I was like, exactly! F*** right! You’re exactly right. It’s a stupid question.”

“And you got just the answer you deserve,” he added. “And that is why they like him.”

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Bill Maher scorches the reporter who asked President Trump a “stupid” question about whether he was going to visit the crash site of the American Eagle DCA plane crash.

Maher: “Yeah, I get it. You know? I mean, they asked him a question today…about the crash and they said, will… pic.twitter.com/CFK6BPilKH

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) February 1, 2025

Related: Trump Mocks Reporter Over Nonsensical Question On Plane Crash

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called transgender procedures on children a “barbaric” practice in remarks she made in response to a question from Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.

Olohan asked Leavitt during Friday’s press briefing about the executive orders that Trump has signed on the issue of protecting children.

“Is he interested in backing congressional legislation on this point?” Olohan asked. “And does the Trump administration have interest in investigating doctors who perform these irreversible procedures on kids such as a double mastectomy on a minor girl?”

Leavitt responded: “Well, the president has already taken a very strong stance on this issue this week with the signing of his executive order, a few executive orders in this space.”

“First, he made it the official policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female, and we have directed all federal agencies to comply with that policy,” she said. “As for congressional legislation to support the president’s agenda in this space, and certainly ending the mutilation of young children, the chemical castration of young children, which is a barbaric practice that the vast majority of Americans do not support, for young, minor children, certainly, the president would support Congress’ efforts, as he has already made that very clear this week.”

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked during Friday’s press briefing about President Donald Trump’s use of profanity while making remarks in public.

“On the president’s use of sign language in this room yesterday — and without seeking to cast myself as some kind of moral exemplar, because it’s rather late in the day to try — nonetheless, this was an event yesterday that began with a moment of silence for the victims of the air crash and the president’s own invocation of quote ‘a loving God,’ and then he uncorked that expletive to insult a former cabinet officer,” the report said.

“It was the same expletive that I saw him use in East Room in 2020 when he famously held up the Trump acquitted headline,” he continued.

The reporter asked if Leavitt could “shed any light for us on how the president perceives his use of public profanity, which is a practice that certainly sets him apart from all of his predecessors.”

“Does he regard it as an effective communications device?” the reporter asked. “Part of his appeal? Or is it something that he lapses into inadvertently, perhaps in times of frustration and later regrets?”

Leavitt responded: “I think one of the things that the American people love most about this president is that he often says what they are thinking, but sometimes lack the courage to say themselves.”

“And I think yesterday at this podium, you heard President Trump express great frustration, perhaps even anger, with the previous administration’s policies, many of which have led to the crises that our country is currently facing and that this president is focused on fixing,” she added.

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The question came in response to Trump slamming former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in response to the tragic accident that happened this week with the plane crash in Washington, D.C.

“The FAA website shows that the agency’s guidance on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23rd of ’22,” Trump said. “They wanted to make it even more so. And then I came in and I assumed maybe this is the reason the FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a real winner, guy’s a real winner.”

“You know how badly everything’s run since he’s run the Department of Transportation? He’s a disaster,” Trump continued. “He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city into the ground and he’s a disaster now. He’s just got a good line of bulls***.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed a CNN reporter during Friday’s press briefing after he repeatedly talked over another reporter she called on.

The moment happened when CNN Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny interrupted another reporter that Leavitt called.

“You’re interrupting your colleague, but sure,” Leavitt said. “I called on Lindsay.”

Zeleny proceeded to ask his question about President Donald Trump’s remarks on the altitude at which the helicopter was flying when it collided with the airplane earlier this week.

“The president based that statement on truth, because it is truth and it’s fact, and it was relayed to him by the authorities who are overseeing the investigation into this horrific plane collision,” she said. “And the president, as I said in my opening remarks, continues to be briefed on the collision by everybody across his cabinet, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Defense, the NTSB, who the commissioner there was in the Oval Office with him yesterday.”

Leavitt then called the other reporter again and Zeleny continued to interrupt.

“Lindsay, go ahead,” Leavitt had to say in talking over Zeleny, “Lindsay, go ahead. Thank you.”

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UFC CEO Dana White unloaded on one of the organization’s fighters this week for praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, calling him “literally” “one of the dumbest human beings.”

White’s comments came after Bryce Mitchell said this week: “I honestly think Hitler was a good guy based on my own research – not my public education.”

Mitchell proceeded to make anti-Semitic remarks about Jewish people and other disturbing comments.

White addressed the remarks at the start of a press conference on Thursday.

“I’ve heard a lot of dumb, ignorant s*** in my day, but this one is probably the worst,” he said. “When you talk about Hitler, he’s responsible for the death of six million Jews, and he tried to completely eliminate a race of people. World War II was the deadliest war in history. 15 million military deaths, 45 million civilians and 25 million soldiers were killed in World War II. Second of all, Hitler is one of the most disgusting and evil human beings to ever walk the face of the earth, and anyone that even tries to take an opposing position is a moron.”

“That’s the problem with the internet and social media,” he continued. “You provide a platform for a lot of dumb, ignorant people. We’ve obviously reached out to Bryce, and when we read what he said and let them know how we feel about it. I don’t even — we’re beyond disgusted. So for those of you that don’t know what’s going on, good, you’re lucky. For those of you that do, that’s, that’s what I have to say about it.”

He said he was disgusted by Mitchell’s remarks but was limited in what he could do because he supports free speech.

“For all of you that hate Bryce Mitchell, you get to see him hopefully get his ass whooped on global television,” he said. “I mean what do you want me to say about it? You know where I am with free speech. We’re disgusted by it. I think he’s one of the, probably one of the dumbest, literally, one of the dumbest human beings. Let’s not forget that this is a guy who took a drill through his nut sack, then had to reverse it and put the drill back out of his — that’s the level of stupid that we’re talking about here.”

“That’s the world that we live in now. Dumb people, people who are really stupid and really ignorant, can have a voice. We don’t have to agree with it. We don’t have to like it,” he added. “I’m giving you mine and the UFC’s position on what he had to say. And this is no different than things that I’ve said about Strickland. But I will say this, out of all the dumb ignorant shit I’ve heard in my life, this has to be the dumbest and most ignorant.”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during an interview this week that the U.S. military can increase its capacity to hold illegal aliens at Guantanamo Bay well beyond the 30,000 beds they currently have ready for the job.

Hegseth made the remarks during a Fox News interview after Trump announced on Wednesday afternoon that the U.S. would be sending up to 30,000 illegal aliens to the base on Cuba.

“We absolutely can and can increase it rapidly,” Hegseth said. “I served there, I know the places where this would happen. Guantanamo has long been a place for migrants. In fact, in the 90s, tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants staged their as part of a crisis.”

“We have an even bigger crisis on our hands right now,” he continued. “It was mentioned, 7,500 violent illegals have been captured by ICE in the last nine days. God bless them, where you move them? I tell you what, know one is going to be waiting on the Defense Department.”

He said that the U.S. military would continue to “lean forward and make sure we stay on the border to protect it and that we have great tales which are known as military aircraft to help mass deportations to Guantanamo Bay.”

“We don’t want illegal criminals in the United States, not a minute longer than they have to be,” he added. “Move them off to Guantanamo Bay where they can be safely maintained until they are deported to their final location, their country of origin where they are headed. So we feel great about this plan, we know we can execute it. And the Defense Department is prepared to do everything we can. We applaud DHS and ICE what they’ve done, and we’re going to protect the American people.”

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) erupted during a heated exchange with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the U.S. Senate on Thursday after RFK accused him of being corrupt.

The exchange happened during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s hearing to consider the nomination of Kennedy to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

“If we want to make America healthy, will you assure the American people that you will fight to do what every other major country on earth does—guarantee healthcare to every single American?” Sanders asked.

“I’m going to make America healthier than any other country in the world right now,” Kennedy responded.

“Will you guarantee to do what every other major country is?” Sanders interrupted him. “It’s a simple question, Bobby.”

Kennedy fired back: “The problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it’s in Congress, too. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry to protect their interests.”

“Oh no, no, no! No, no, no,” Sanders responded. “I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives. Not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry. They came from workers.”

“In 2020, you were the single largest recipient of pharmaceutical dollars,” Kennedy responded.

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