Posts on Friday, February 28, 2025
Democratic strategist James Carville made a bizarre claim Friday in a video suggesting that one of the reasons behind President Donald Trump’s reaction to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office could be syphilis. During a meeting at the Oval Office with Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Zelenskyy and other officials to discuss the U.S.’ potential mineral deal with Ukraine, tensions escalated after Zelenskyy publicly criticized the U.S. for not attempting to halt Russia.
Elon Musk is a dad once again — to his alleged 14th child.
The tech tycoon has welcomed a fourth kid with Shivon Zilis, the top Neuralink executive announced via X — which Musk also owns — on Friday.
“Discussed with Elon and, in light of beautiful Arcadia’s birthday, we felt it was better to also just share directly about our wonderful and incredible son Seldon Lycurgus,” the 38-year-old gushed.
“Built like a juggernaut, with a solid heart of gold. Love him so much ❤️ .”
Musk, 53, commented, “❤️.”
Washington—U.S. Agency for International Development workers — many in tears — carted away belongings through cheering crowds in a final visit to their now-closed headquarters Thursday as the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of the congressionally authorized agency moved into its final stages.
Notices sent out in mass mailings this week are terminating over 90% of USAID’s contracts for humanitarian and development work around the world, and the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a judge’s order requiring the administration to release billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Apparently, ABC News and Disney were against “personal freedoms and free markets.” That was the message being sent judging by the reaction from the liberal ladies of The View, on Friday, when they were collectively up in arms over Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos telling the opinion side of the paper those American ideals were what they were going to focus on.
“Now, The Washington Post owner and multibillionaire Jeff Bezos said he's retooling the opinion section of the paper to reflect opinions he agrees with. Isn't that censorship?” bloviated Joy Behar, fresh from baselessly accusing Elon Musk of being “pro-apartheid” and “enemy” of America.
Reuters reported on Friday that interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is transferring numerous Biden DOJ prosecutors to pursue misdemeanor offenses in the DC Superior Court.
They should consider themselves lucky after what they did to innocent Americans!
Politico posted a list of names of the demoted DOJ prosecutors who built phony cases against Trump supporters in an attempt to ruin their lives and spread fear of the regime across the nation.
Those demoted include John Crabb and Elizabeth Aloi, who prosecuted contempt of Congress cases that sent Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to jail for four months apiece. They include Jason McCullough, who helped lead the team that sent
Hours after being booted from the White House by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky kept his appointment for an interview by Fox News Channel's Bret Baier. Zelensky began the interview by thanking President Trump and the American people for their support throughout Ukraine's three-year war with Russia.
I was always very thankful from all our people. You helped us a lot from the very beginning... you helped us to survive. We are strategic partners, even in such tough dialogue. (Video) Things went downhill quickly from there, when Zelensky was pressed by Baier to answer the question about whether
Stocks Soar in Late Friday Rally Following Zelensky’s White House Fiasco
Wall Street ended the week on a high note, shaking off geopolitical tensions after President Donald Trump’s tense White House showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Stocks wobbled early as Trump warned Zelensky he was “gambling with World War III,” but markets shook off the uncertainty and surged into the close. The S&P 500 added 1.59 percent, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 601.41 points, or 1.39 percent. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.63 percent, marking a strong rebound from earlier losses.
Early in the day, stocks climbed before dipping into the red when Zelensky balked
President Donald Trump suggested that either former President Joe or his corrupt son Hunter Biden is responsible for the cocaine found in the White House in July 2023, promising to launch an investigation into the matter. In a statement, Trump implied that the discovery of the drugs raised serious questions about the Biden family's involvement, vowing to push for a thorough probe.During an interview with the Spectator World, Trump said that his return to office convinced him that “either Joe or Hunter” misplaced the cocaine in the West Wing of the White House
We all know that one of the swamp’s most high-profile ‘revolving doors’ is the former-government-official-to-cable-news-talking-head. Whether it’s ex-spooks gracing CNN panels as “national security analysts” or former White House press secretary Jen Psaki landing her own show on MSNBC, the pipeline is not only lucrative but also the most blatant example of how the swamp and D.C. media reward each other’s failures.
There could be many reasons Friday's meeting in the Oval Office between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky disintegrated into the petulant Ukraine leader being tossed out of the White House on his ear.
It could be that he came into the meeting sulking about not being invited to the initial peace talks that took place last week between U.S. and Russian officials. It could be because Trump had hinted that the Ukrainian people should hold new elections. And it could be that Zelensky didn't like Trump's comments about his attire, which, admittedly, was ultra casual and in stark contrast
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined to apologize to President Donald Trump until the very end of his first TV news interview following an intense verbal spat in the Oval Office on Friday, while he thanked the U.S. for its continued support of Ukraine.
Asked by Fox News host Bret Baier whether he feels he owes an apology to the Trump administration, Zelensky avoided directly answering the question at first. When pressed further, he gave a similar response.
“No, I respect the president, and I respect the American people, and I think that we have to be very open and very honest, and I’m not sure that we did something bad,”
We're forced to wonder about the viability of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's continued political future. Not only is he overseeing the loss of a big portion of his country to Russia, but as of this morning, he has angered and alienated the very nation that has been sending him billions of dollars' worth of support - the United States. This morning's meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance saw Zelensky effectively defenestrated from the White House to the street.
Now a former Ukrainian MP (Member of Parliament) is calling for Zelensky to be impeached.
Earlier this week, we covered how radical leftists in Congress like Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) have stood up for other nations, even at the expense of the United States. This was especially the case with the Russo-Ukrainian war, with the United States opposing a nonbinding resolution blaming Russia for the war. The resolution still passed, though that didn't stop Swalwell from claiming his own country had joined the "Axis of Evil." Now, after Friday's showdown between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump, and Vice President JD Vance, Swalwell is at it again.
Democrat governors came to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s defense after he was kicked out of the White House for making “disrespectful” remarks during a meeting with President Donald Trump.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) accused Trump and Vice President JD Vance of having “advanced Russia’s propaganda directly from the White House,” and of “embarrassing the United States on the world stage.”In a post on X, Shapiro issued a statement criticizing Trump and Vance for having “attacked President Zelenskyy,” adding that they had undermined “the safety and security of America
Ukrainian President Zelensky went on FOX News with Bret Baier on Friday evening after disrespecting President Trump and the American people openly in the White House in a historic meeting earlier today.
Zelensky was tossed out of the White House earlier today after his disgraceful behavior at the White House.
It was clear that Zelensky does not want peace. He refused to even sign a ceasefire agreement.
During his interview with Trump-basher Bret Baier, Zelensky started off by thanking the American people, President Trump and the US Congress.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest attempt to play the tough-guy card on the international stage has imploded in a blaze of diplomatic embarrassment.
The highly anticipated meeting, intended to solidify a bilateral agreement on the Ukraine’s rare mineral resources, devolved into a contentious confrontation.
President Trump, accompanied by Vice President J.D. Vance, chastised Zelensky for his ingratitude toward U.S. aid and his reluctance to engage in peace negotiations with Russia.
Trump accused Zelensky of “gambling with World War Three” and questioned his commitment to diplomacy.
We saw a stunning turn of events Friday afternoon during a press conference in the Oval Office involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald Trump, and Vice President JD Vance (and other cabinet officials), where a planned minerals deal fell apart after Zelensky decided to challenge the president and vice president in front of the media. Following their fiery exchange, Trump essentially sent Zelensky packing despite reports that Zelensky and his team begged to stay and work things out.
A reporter for a Russian state media outlet was booted from the White House on Friday after he sneaked inside the Oval Office ahead of a high-stakes meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The reporter for TASS – one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top propaganda outlets – was not on the pre-approved pool list but somehow made his way into the Oval Office for the Trump-Zelensky showdown with journalists from Bloomberg, CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other outlets.
“TASS was not on the approved list of media for today’s pool,” a White House official said in a statement.
Bessent Calls Zelensky’s White House
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior during White House visit on Friday as “unacceptable” and “one of the great diplomatic own goals in history,” underscoring the deepening rift between Washington and Kyiv.
“It’s very difficult to do an economic deal with a leader who doesn’t want to do a peace deal,” Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg Television, following a contentious Oval Office meeting that derailed a planned agreement granting the U.S. access to Ukraine’s critical minerals.
The collapse of the deal marks a setback for Ukraine as it sought to deepen economic ties with the U.S. while the Trump administration attempts to negotiate
President Donald J. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a tense meeting where the president and Vice President JD Vance made it clear that there’s a new directive on Ukraine aid, and the gravy train was over. It was a brutal smackdown, and Zelensky got the message. He was later kicked out of the White House, with the joint presser being canceled. (X's) During the meeting, President Trump took questions from the media, where he once again exhibited his classic demeanor of not respecting these people or their dumb questions.
During a tense moment in the Oval Office, the Ukrainian ambassador was seen covering her face as President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly attempted to speak over President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. The incident, which occurred during a heated discussion about a potential peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, highlighted the increasing friction between Zelensky and key American leaders, underscoring the growing concerns over the impact of his leadership on Ukraine.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised President Donald Trump for giving “a masterclass on how to stand up for America” after kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky out of the White House after he made several “disrespectful” comments.
As Breitbart News’s Katherine Hamilton previously reported, Zelensky’s comments were made “in front of the media ahead of planned private talks and the expected signing of the much-discussed minerals deal.”After Zelensky was kicked out of the White House, the “White House confirmed” that Zelensky had not signed the minerals deal and Trump issued a statement in a post on Truth Social stating that he had “determined that President Zelensky is not ready
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were expecting a consequential but standard Oval Office appearance with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.
Their appearance was anything but routine.
The meeting to announce a rare earth materials agreement between Ukraine and the United States as part of a pathway to peace between Ukraine and Russia deteriorated quickly after a combative Zelensky protested U.S. desire to draw down the long war.
“The president and vice president were caught off guard by Zelensky’s offensive antics,” a source familiar told Breitbart News.
The days of catch and release at the border are over.
Border Patrol agents manning the southern border have released just two migrants into the US since President Trump’s Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks took the reins, the new head honcho revealed to The Post.
“The days of an open border are done,” Banks, a longtime former border agent himself and Texas’s former border czar, declared Friday.
He assumed the role, serving as the federal agency’s 27th head, on Jan. 22.
“The United States Border Patrol is just getting started. We will not accept anything other than
complete operational control over our border,” the chief added.
US intel shows Russia and China
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Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN.
The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct mass layoffs across the federal workforce – a plan laid out by the Office of Personnel Management earlier this week.
Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk
It's certainly been a fire-breathing meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky.
As we reported, it did not go well, with Zelensky getting up in the face of Trump. He was trying to dictate to Trump and Vance, telling them they were wrong about things, without any appreciation for what the United States has done for his country. Trump and Vance were not having any of that. It was a bizarre position to take when Ukraine is so reliant on U.S, help in the war with Russia.
Trump was furious and felt Zelensky had disrespected the U.S. in the Oval Office.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the US’s support for Ukraine’s power grid.
The State Department ended a USAID initiative that has given hundreds of millions of dollars to the restoration of Ukraine’s power grid.
Ukraine has been struggling with power outages because of Russia’s attacks on its power grid over the last few years.
USAID will also drastically reduce its presence in Ukraine, according to NBC News.
House Oversight Investigating Last Minute
Biden Hires Intended to ‘Trump-Proof’
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Biden Hires Intended to ‘Trump-Proof’
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The House Oversight Committee is investigating the Biden administration’s last-minute efforts to embed its political appointees within the federal workforce to undermine the Trump administration, National Review has learned.
“We are concerned about job postings and hiring surges not based on actual agency mission needs, but based on political goals, including a desire to ‘Trump-proof’ agency staffs by placing personnel opposed to President Donald Trump’s agenda,” Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) wrote in letters addressed to 24 federal departments and agencies on Friday.
Poor Howard Dean.
The former Democrat National Committee chairman and embarrassingly-failed 2004 Democrat presidential candidate seems to step on a rake or ten every time he opens his mouth in public.
In the latest example, Dean — also a former governor of Vermont, which explains a lot — idiotically trashed the "fascist" attack on capitalism, warning that it "could break in the United States."
Again, poor Howard.
During a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Dean incredibly began by first making sense.
Bernie Sanders is partly right that we need to focus on the working people of this country. We talk a good game,
Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Oval Office on Friday, and as RedState reported, things blew up in spectacular fashion. The latest reports are that the Ukrainian president was kicked out of the White House, with the prior negotiated mineral rights for aid deal shelved indefinitely. So what exactly happened? That's a good question because I have no idea what Zelensky was thinking. This was not a situation where President Donald Trump was beating him over the head or demanding he submit to a specific narrative surrounding the war in Ukraine. On the contrary, the meeting was essentially over when Zelensky decided it'd be a great idea to try to publicly embarrass
At the start of Friday at the White House, here was the scheduled agenda for the visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: Oval Office press event then a lunch meeting with President Trump, followed by a signing event on a deal between the U.S. and Ukraine over rare mineral rights, then a joint press conference between the two leaders. As many of you know by nowFind more reactions on the blow-up here.
Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in a video he posted to his X account this morning that he spoke with both the president and Zelensky ahead of the official cementing
Volodymyr Zelensky did not wear a suit and the Ukrainian president did not sign a minerals deal with the United States, either. Instead, the wartime leader was unceremoniously kicked out of the White House after tangling with President Trump and Vice President Vance.
Trump has been pushing for an end to the land war in Europe since returning to office, meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week to find a path to peace. Those meetings went well. His sit-down with Zelensky did not.
The breakdown occurred when Zelensky called into question the efficacy of diplomatic efforts with Russian President
[Update] Trump Blows up at Zelenskyy in
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Fiery Oval Office Meeting, Boots Him From
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Update: President Donald Trump has kicked Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House following the tense exchange: The president posted on Truth Social: Original article: In a tense Oval Office meeting on Friday, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance engaged in a fiery exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marked by sharp accusations and heated rebuttals. The confrontation underscored deep frustrations as Trump and Vance pressed Zelenskyy on his apparent ingratitude for the Trump administration’s efforts to end the war.
Zelenskyy was visiting the White House intending to potentially sign a deal that would grant the U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources for investment,
Democrats inflated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sense of arrogance and entitlement before Friday’s disastrous Oval Office meeting, with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even calling Zelensky the real leader of the free world. (X) For years, D.C. insiders have been advising Ukraine — badly.
Democrats — newcomers to the Ukrainian cause, after appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first six years of President Barack Obama’s term — set Ukraine up to oppose Trump. They did so by interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton, and then again with Zelensky’s tone-deaf visit in September 2024, when he appeared to be campaigning against Trump’s return to office.
Melania Trump may be the first lady again, but she’s no Beltway insider.
Pals say that Trump’s “real friend group isn’t in Washington, DC, or even in NYC — it’s in Palm Beach, where over the last decade she’s made a tight circle of close friends who she trusts and likes to spend time with.”
A fixture at Donald Trump’s private club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, tells us that among Melania’s Palm Beach buddies, “No one says anything about what she does or says as everyone is aware of how hurt and disappointed she was with Stephanie [Winston Wolkoff] who betrayed her trust.”
Wolkoff is Trump’s former bestie and adviser who
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a disastrous visit at the White House today. President Trump slapped the man around. It was a brutal five-minute exchange which led to Zelensky being kicked out of the building. The lunch was canceled, with the joint presser scrapped. (X's) The liberal media will predictably throw a fit that Trump treated Zelensky this way. For the rest of us, it was a long time coming. Support for this war has cratered, and Zelensky knows the gravy train is over.
The Fall of the USS Gettysburg
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At around 0300, on Sunday, 22 December, the Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) shot down an F/A-18F preparing to land on USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) while operating in the Red Sea. First, we all need to understand that there is only one man who knows what happened on that day, and that is the commanding officer of Gettysburg. Gettysburg’s captain knows what happened in terms of the detailed events, unless the failure was the result of identifiable human error, understand why certain things did happen. That level of detail may only be revealed in the post-mortem.
Paramount Global
told its employees this week that it’s ending numerous diversity, equity and inclusion policies, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.
In the memo sent to employees Wednesday, Paramount said it would comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the practice in the federal government and demanding that agencies investigate private companies over their DEI programs.
Co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins cited the executive order in the memo, as well as the Supreme Court and federal mandates, as the impetus for the media giant’s policy changes.
Among the changes, the company said it “will no longer
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
Despite English being the predominant language, the U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level...
The summary of the order said the goal of making English the national language is to promote unity, establish efficiency in the government and provide a pathway to civic engagement.
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance teamed up during a fiery White House meeting on Friday to epically put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his place.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Zelensky arrived at the White House on Friday to meet with President Trump to discuss his rare earth mineral rights proposal.
Ukraine agreed to Trump’s requested mineral rights deal with the US earlier this week to compensate Americans for the hundreds of billions of dollars the Biden regime had given them since the Ukraine-Russia war started three years ago.
President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was “gambling with World War III” during a fiery Oval Office exchange Friday.
The high-stakes visit went off the rails shortly after Vice President JD Vance tore into Zelensky for seeming to slight his American counterparts.
The VP said it was “disrespectful for Zelensky to come into the Oval Office, litigating in front of the American media” — setting off a shouting match among the men. “Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems, you should be thanking the president for wanting to bring an end to the conflict,” Vance said.
Federal workers in Washington, fired from their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing cuts, are being kept from getting unemployment checks, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray said Wednesday during a virtual press conference.
“We are hearing from literally hundreds of people … that they got this letter that said they were being fired for poor performance,” Murray said. “That has impacts beyond just the emotional ones you’re hearing and the fact that they’ve lost a job — but in many of those who are trying to collect unemployment, it is hampering them from collecting unemployment.” Three recently laid-off federal workers local to Washington
Tapped out Tapper
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So CNN’s Jake Tapper and co-author Alex Thompson of Axios and CNN have announced May 20 as the publication date for their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and his Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
My hunch is that they are still writing the book, but want to pre-empt the field of journalists feverishly cranking out similar “inside stories” of Biden’s disaster right now.
Let’s have a look at the pre-publication description:
Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump presidential term. He, his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that
MSNBC just canceled “The ReidOut,” the most vicious, nasty, anti-white and pathologically anti-Trump show on air. Host Joy Reid, for five years, unleashed one hateful, often irrational attack after another. It was only after President Donald Trump’s reelection and her ratings plummeting nearly 50% that MSNBC pulled the plug.
Here are just some of her greatest hits:
“(The courts) are stacked now to essentially suborn our democracy to their very particular version of right-wing evangelical Christ ... That’s no different than Talibanism.”
“The goal of the Republican Party today, is it to seize control of every level of government, to lock out voices of color and LGBTQ voices except those
Walz sticks with it
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Republican state senator and physician Scott Jensen ran against Tim Walz in the 2022 Minnesota gubernatorial campaign. Having opposed the incredibly arbitrary and destructive one-man rule that Walz imposed during the Covid regime — Walz never wanted it to end — Jensen made an issue of it. Speaking to an enthusiastic audience at a quadrennial event of the Minnesota chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Jensen cited The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany. I was there. We gave Jensen a standing ovation.
The event was off the record and closed to the press. However, the Star Tribune obtained a
The scandal surrounding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its abuse of taxpayer dollars to support causes backed by leftist billionaire George Soros continues to get worse. MRC Business has revealed that USAID gave a $1 million grant to Central European University, a grossly anti-American indoctrination giant founded and financed by none other than Soros himself. The grant’s period began in September of FY 2021 and is set to end in September FY 2025, with $238,609 of the total obligated grant being outlayed so far.
To illustrate just how invested Soros is in elevating CEU on the global stage, his Open Society Foundations funneled an ungodly $948,570,000
It’s amusing to see them pose the question to themselves. It’s not really a question; rather, it’s rhetorical. Posing the question, “Why aren’t we marching in the streets?” is their way of saying that they really should be.
But even after considerable angst, self-incrimination, and rhetorical excesses about not marching, they’re still not marching.
As for why, there’s a simple answer and a complicated one. The simple answer is, because it’s cold outside.
Remember the “protest era” of the 60s and early 70s? College kids would organize protests and sometimes riots with two goals in mind:
Ending the Vietnam War (or, really, just ending the draft); and
Ending Spring finals.
If Trump is to be successful as regards tariffs, he must look at President William McKinley’s successes and mistakes.
As a young, struggling congressman, William McKinley’s friend President Rutherford Hayes told him to specialize and develop expertise in tariff policy. McKinley's first legislative effort as a congressman was to increase tariffs in 1877. McKinley rose quickly to chair of the Ways and Means Committee. McKinley was instrumental in forming a Tariff Commission and became a framer of the 1882 Tariff Bill.
His chairmanship led to the passage of the famous "McKinley" Tariff Act of 1890. The Tariff of 1890 went too far and lacked the appropriate guardrails to
German police are investigating a violent attack at Kusel train station, where a mother and her eight-month-old baby were reportedly forcibly thrown out of a train carriage by a group of migrants. According to initial reports, the baby fell out of the stroller face down onto the ground after being ejected from the train. Eyewitnesses described the scene as chaotic, with passengers reacting in shock.
Authorities have confirmed that the mother and child received medical attention following the incident, though the extent of their injuries remains unclear. German federal police have launched an urgent manhunt for the suspects responsible. A spokesperson for the police confirmed that
Have you noticed that the Democratic playbook hasn't changed in decades? For years, their attacks on Republicans haven’t changed. It’s always the same lines. “Republicans are for tax cuts for the rich!” “Republicans want to destroy Social Security!” “Republicans want to take away healthcare!” and so on.
After these narratives have never actually proven true in generations, you would think the Democrats would try something new. But the broken record keeps spinning.
After Speaker Mike Johnson secured a narrow victory (217-213) to pass the budget resolution this week, Democrats immediately launched their predictable fear campaign, accusing Republicans of gutting Medicaid. Does the budget resolution gut Medicaid? No.
Former President Joe Biden told President Trump that he blamed fellow former President Barack Obama for the Democrats’ knockout loss in the 2024 election, the commander-in-chief revealed in a new interview.
Trump told the Spectator World he had visited the White House to meet with an “angry” Biden shortly after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris — who took Biden’s place on the Democratic ticket after he was forced out of the race due to concerns over his age and abilities. (Photo's) “I asked him, I said, ‘So who do you blame?’ Because he was very angry, you know, he was a very angry guy, actually. And he said,
The observation was well-warranted: We know more about Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, than we do about Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to assassinate President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July. Crooks was shot and killed during the attempt, but not after a slew of security breaches and all-around ineptitude from the Secret Service was exposed. (X)
President Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting on February 26, 2025, was like a grand painting of the leaders of the Second American Revolution. Every American Citizen who knew that November 2024 was the last chance to save America, felt a sense of pride and participation, everyone could claim they helped make this assemblage of superheroes at #47s first Cabinet meeting possible. There has been a dramatic change in the direction of American Government with the inauguration of the Trump Administration, this normally only happens through bloody civil war or revolution. Yet here we are,
Just when we think it's safe for young women to go back into the water and compete against only women and not a bedlamite dudette in a bikini, along come activist judges to spew communism in the face of sanity.
FACT-O-RAMA! Forcing young women to compete against men—and then shower naked with them—is sick, and you'll understand if I can't let such perversian pass without mocking the brain-free, easily-controlled simps who embrace "woke" so that someone doesn't call them names like "transphobe," "thinker," or "sane."
Trump's February 5, 2025, executive orders (EO) stated that men with kangaroos in the top paddock can't jump into the ring and
FBI Director Kash Patel and Pam Bondi
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President Donald Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel has publicly responded to a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting the full documents on Jeffrey Epstein.
Bondi’s letter alleged that a whistleblower informed her that she was not provided with all of the documents from the Epstein case.
“Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein,” Bondi wrote. “In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.”
Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) suggested Wednesday that Congress and President Trump should allow private citizens, or “pirates,” to take on cartels at the Mexican border to protect national security.
Lee appeared on Fox News’s “The Will Cain Show” and was asked about his plan to allow people to be deployed but not using the U.S. military.
“Privateers is what they’re called,” he said. “Letters of marque and reprisal are authorized under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 of the Constitution.”
Lee said it’s the same clause that gives Congress the power to declare war, but it also allows the legislative branch to issue letters of marque, “authorizing privateers, pirates essentially
American liberals are, for the most part, completely unfamiliar with self-awareness and honesty. That's what makes the late New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael's somewhat infamous — and often misquoted — response to Richard Nixon's landslide victory in 1972 all the more stunning. In a speech shortly after the '72 election, Kael said, "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are, I don't know. They're outside my ken." When I was just a lad, Kael perfectly described what I would begin referring to as the Coastal Media Bubble™ more than half a century later.
President Trump has spoken nicely about Vladimir Putin as he brokers a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv, but he’s also gently letting Vlad know he’ll need to make some real concessions, too: Ukraine should get its land back.
On Wednesday, Trump told reporters he aims “to make the best deal we can for both sides,” which “for Ukraine” means getting “as much back as possible.”
Good.
The Kremlin’s already bitten back at our president’s suggestion that Putin wouldn’t mind if some European troops serve in Ukraine to protect the peace; if it digs in on this front too,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will reopen a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, that has a 1,000-bed capacity — the largest facility of its type on the East Coast.
ICE announced Thursday that Delaney Hall will be the agency’s first detention center to open under the Trump administration, which has made cracking down on illegal immigration a top priority.
“The location near an international airport streamlines logistics, and helps facilitate the timely processing of individuals in our custody as we pursue President Trump’s mandate to arrest, detain and remove illegal aliens from our communities,” acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello said in a statement.
After forces from the al-Qaeda affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group conquered Damascus and overthrew Syria's Assad regime in December 2024, they urged the residents of the Valley of the Christians to surrender any weapons they kept for self-defense, telling them that civilians would not be harmed. Since the jihadists' takeover of Syria, however, around 500,000 Christians in the country have been faced with increased persecution and abductions
On February 16, more Christians... were abducted from another village in the area. Their kidnappers, according to sources on the ground, are torturing them.
In consuming the news, one could easily conclude that, as we said earlier in the week, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are carpet bombing the federal government. The wails and screeching breakdowns over the injustice of federal workers losing their jobs are ear-piercing. They are, we’re told, under attack.
After all, these are no everyday workers toiling for large corporations and small businesses – they’re federal employees who apparently are so indispensable to life as we know it that if they are no longer employed at taxpayers’ expense, America and maybe even western civilization will collapse.
Why else
The White House press corps has nerve complaining about access to the president after it raised barely a peep in protest at Joe Biden being practically AWOL his entire presidency.
Biden didn’t even hold a press conference until two months in.
The handful of press conferences he did conduct were a bad joke, in which he would take three or four questions from preselected reporters, whose names and photographs were printed on a card. Yet he still got fawning praise from the Washington media.
The worst insult they could muster was “boring,” but the Baltimore Sun even spun that into “Biden’s superpower.
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.
To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.
Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.
But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled. And so none did -- until now.
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) Before we get to the "pity poor Gaza" freaks I just wanted to come clean about something. I am not at all caught up with the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. I mean, like, all the way back to the beginning. Sure, I loved the "Epstein didn't kill himself" memes, but I never bothered to read up on much of it. All I know is that, if we do learn everything, there may be pictures of Bill Clinton spooning with Prince Andrew and an underage pool boy.
I don't have the bandwidth for that.
The wearisome, ignorant, "Free Palestine" campus criminals
As of this writing, Pope Francis is still alive but in serious condition.
This Sunday, the Oscars telecast will air and ironically, one of the Best Picture nominees is the film “Conclave” which is about the process to elect a new pope.
During my years at the New York Sun, I was frequently asked by my editor, Seth Lipsky, to cover current events involving Pope John Paul II and the priest scandals, presumably because I am a devout Catholic and had some access to the New York archdiocese and the then-archbishop of New York,
Jill Biden’s former press secretary, Michael LaRosa, admitted the Biden White House covered up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and “gaslighted” the public about his deteriorating condition.
For years, The Gateway Pundit documented Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
The fake news media attacked the conservative media for posting videos of demented Biden wandering around lost and accused us of posting “cheap fakes.”
Last June, the Biden Camp and their stenographers in the media went into full-blown panic mode after a video of Biden wandering away from the G7 group went viral.
President Trump has tapped former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino to become Kash Patel’s deputy FBI director beginning next month. In December 2023, Bongino signed a multiyear extension of his contract with syndicator Westwood One to continue his weekday radio program which airs in the same timeslot as the late talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh. Dan Bongino’s show—which was also distributed as a podcast—was a reflection of the man: former NYPD officer, Secret Service agent, onetime candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland and former host of a TV show for the National Rifle Association.
Here's why dozens of lawsuits seeking
to quash Trump's early actions as president
are failing replies
to quash Trump's early actions as president
are failing replies
The Trump administration's lawyers have spent significant time in court this month fighting dozens of requests filed by legal groups, labor organizations and a litany of other state and local plaintiffs across the country – and so far, most judges haven't granted these requests.
The courts "are rightfully saying we don't have jurisdiction over this," or, in certain cases, that plaintiffs "aren't proving harm," Fox News legal editor Kerri Kupec Urbahn, a former spokesperson for Attorney General Bill Barr, said of the numerous legal challenges to Trump's agenda.
The lawsuits, totaling more than 80, are aimed at blocking or reversing some of Trump's most controversial actions and executive orders.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Thursday during an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business that the United States and Ukraine have struck a deal on strategic minerals as well as oil and gas amid peace talks for ending the war with Russia.
Bessent not only revealed that the “deal is done” but that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will be coming to the White House to sign it. “I went to Kiev two weeks ago and met with President Zelensky. Since then, we have struck a deal. Their governing council approved the deal last night, so I have an agreement from their economics minister, so the deal is done,”
President Trump nominated former Virginia Republican Senate candidate Hung Cao – an outspoken proponent of toughening up the standards for military service – to serve as the under secretary of the Navy on Thursday.
“Hung is the embodiment of the American Dream,” Trump said of his pick to serve as the second-highest ranking Navy official. (Photo)
“As a refugee to our Great Nation, Hung worked tirelessly to make proud the Country that gave his family a home,” the president added. “He went to our amazing United States Naval Academy, and later earned his Master’s Degree in Physics.”
“Hung served in combat as a Special Operations Officer for twenty five years.
The New York Post is publishing what their reporter Dana Kennedy is falsely calling an exclusive, citing geofencing and data analysis that shows that alleged Trump assassin Thomas Crooks had an accomplice.
The New York Post is giving its readers an exclusive six months late to this aspect of the story, and without crediting the work done prior by others.
Crooks is alleged to have taken 8 shots at then-candidate Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 from atop the AGR Building.
The NY Post cites the investigatory work of Private Investigator Doug Hagmann as having reviewed geofencing data, interviewed 100 people in the area
It was not a good day for the Trump Justice Department. No major scandal erupted, but this Jeffrey Epstein document dump, which Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed would contain some sick stuff, was hardly newsworthy. Almost everything was public knowledge, the lion's share coming from documents submitted into evidence during Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial a couple of years ago. Maxwell was Epstein’s right-hand woman who facilitated the child sex trafficking antics, which made the New York financier infamous before his ‘suicide’ in August of 2019. Epstein is a convicted child sex predator, but his ties to the wealthy and powerful allowed him to escape justice for years.
Please Be Nice to Us, Mr. Trump! Mexico
Extradites 29 Prisoners to US—Including
Murderous Drug Lord replies
Extradites 29 Prisoners to US—Including
Murderous Drug Lord replies
In an apparent bid to gain favor with President Trump, who has promised to enact tariffs against Mexico starting March 4, the Mexican government has extradited 29 prisoners wanted by the feds to the U.S. The list of miscreants includes notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was reportedly behind the brutal murder of a DEA agent. They’ve turned over what sounds like some truly nasty characters:
Mexico has extradited drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985,
A poll published this week by the firm Ipsos found Canada’s leftist Liberal Party overtaking the Conservatives in support for the first time since 2021, shortly before an expected election to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The survey, published on Wednesday in conjunction with the media outlet Global News, found the two parties within the margin of error of each other’s support. About 38 percent of respondents said they supported the Liberal Party, compared to 36 percent for the Conservatives. Support for the New Democratic Party (NDPs), a far-left rival to the Liberals, almost entirely collapsed to 12 percent. The poll’s margin of error is 3.8 percent.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that recent anti-GOP protests at various town halls were “paid” for by Democrats.
Johnson made his claim during an interview with Kaitlan Collins on CNN.
“The videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places,” Johnson said. “These are Democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats.”
Collins said that Johnson could not “argue they were all paid protesters,” adding that a “Republican acknowledged they were his constituents.”
“One Republican acknowledged they were … constituents. That’s fantastic, OK, but
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour featured guest Brian Stelter, editor of CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter (and reliable white knight for the mainstream media) to discuss the “chilling effect” of the Trump Administration blocking the Associated Press from the White House pool of reporters. Geoff Bennett: ....The White House says it's changing the traditional process of how reporters cover the president. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced today that the Trump administration will now choose which media outlets will be part of a select pool of reporters that cover smaller events and travel with the president and White House officials....
A moviegoer jumped out of his seat and screamed 'run' just as a theater ceiling came crumbling down in Washington State.
During a screening of Captain America: Brave New World, the ceiling of the Liberty Cinema in Wenatchee dramatically collapsed on Tuesday evening.
Luckily, just two people - a man and his girlfriend - were inside the theater at the time, but they got a little more action than they bargained for.
'They heard some pops and cracking and the gentleman stood up and took a peek,' Wenatchee Valley Fire Department Battalion Chief Cam Phillips told King5.
'[He] walked up toward
So President Trump has closed the border to illegal immigration, declining to accept asylum applications from illegal border crossers, shutting down the USAID spigots to NGOs fueling the migrant pipeline, reading Mexico the Riot Act on its free trade privileges and rapidly repatriating those who attempt to enter illegally.
The daily number of illegal border crossings has gone to the low hundreds, according to the Border Patrol.
And just like that, the brutal cartel violence in northern Mexico is gone.
According to this local from Tijuana: cNo car burnings. No blocked roads. No machine-gun shootouts. No bodies splattered across the pavements and in residential doorways. No shakesdowns. No innocent Mexican citizens chased
President Trump said earlier today that tariffs on Mexico (plus China and Canada) would finally take effect on March 4, which is next Tuesday. His reason? Too many illegal drugs are still coming across the border.
Tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on March 4 “as scheduled,” President Trump said on Thursday morning, claiming that those countries were still not doing enough to stop the flow of drugs into the United States...
“Drugs are still pouring into our Country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,” he said. “A large percentage of these Drugs, much of them in the form of Fentanyl,
Mainstream media members professed shock this week when the White House took over access and pool assignments in the press briefing room from the White House Correspondents Association. They professed even more shock when people scoffed at the argument that this was an affront to democracy and transparency.
Perhaps there may be a good argument in that response, but the American public simply doesn't have any trust in the media to be transparent and honest. A new survey from Gallup shows that trust in their integrity has fallen to yet another all-time low, unsurprisingly: About two-thirds of Americans in the 1970s trusted the “mass media