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- Trump Drops New Bible Riffs Days After Bonkers Deleted Easter Lunch
President Donald Trump riffed on the Bible in a pair of new videos marking “Holy Week” — just days after the bonkers White House Easter Lunch that was deleted from all official channels. The White House deleted video footage of an hour-long Easter event featuring Trump at an “Easter Lunch” with Evangelical leaders that was supposed to be closed to the press and the public. But when the event began, the White House launched a video stream of the entire event, which ran for an hour and four minutes and featured many memorable moments. The White House edited together some audio from that event for a new “Holy Week” video that featured Trump reciting the story of Jesus, but with a Kenny G-esque saxophone score: In the original, now-deleted video, Trump goes off on frequent tangents as he tells the story: The president also posted a “Holy Week” message that included a Bible recitation and an ad-lib: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: This Holy Week, I’m proud to join with Christians across the country and around the world to celebrate the most glorious miracle in all of time, the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In his life, Christ displayed true humility. In his death, he modeled true love. And in his resurrection from the tomb, he proved that even death itself will not silence those who place their trust in Almighty God. As it says in Gospel of John, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, for whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”. Eternal life, such beautiful words. This Easter, millions of Christians all over the globe will be reminded that because of what Jesus did on the cross, all of us can live every day with hope in God’s promise, knowing that in the end, evil and wickedness will not prevail. In the spirit of joy and renewal this Easter, we also celebrate the extraordinary resurrection of faith and religion in America. As I have often said, to be a great nation, you must have religion, and you must have God. In churches across the nation on Sunday, the pews will be fuller, younger, and more faithful than they at any time in many, many years. Religion is growing again in our country for the first time in decades. Happy Easter to all. May God bless you. May God blessed… [TheTopNews] Read More.59 mins ago - CNN Reporter Calls Trump Out For Blurting ‘KEEP THE OIL’ Amid Search For Dow...CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes called out President Donald Trump for blurting “KEEP THE OIL ANYONE?” while rescue efforts were underway to recover the fighter crew that was shot down in Iran. News broke Friday that two U.S. warplanes — an F-15 and an F-35 — were shot down by Iranian missiles and two other aircraft were hit by Iranian fire during rescue operations. One member of the F-15 crew is still missing. As the events unfolded, Trump’s only public comment for hours was a Truth Social post that read “KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE?” On Friday’s edition of CNN’s The Arena, guest anchor Pamela Brown asked Holmes what she was hearing from the White House. Holmes noted the president’s post, and added “No actual response to the fact that this ongoing search and rescue mission has happened, that someone was rescued, that this plane was shot down”: PAMELA BROWN: Kristen, I want to bring you in. We know the president has been briefed on this. What are you hearing from the White House? KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, we’ve really been hearing almost nothing from the White House except for moments ago. President Trump did a brief phone interview with NBC News in which he told them that the jet going down would not affect any ongoing negotiations. Now, we have come to believe that we don’t actually know what is happening with those negotiations. I just want to remind you, we originally said that this meeting in person, meeting between the U.S. — excuse me, there’s a bee — between the U.S. officials and Iranian officials was going to be last weekend. Then it was moved to that week. And then it seems to have completely fizzled out. So, where those negotiations stand, that is still a huge question. President Trump himself publicly has only done one thing in the last six hours posted on Truth Social, saying, keep the oil, anyone. No actual response to the fact that this ongoing search and rescue mission has happened, that someone was rescued, that this plane was shot down. Of course, all of this coming as President Trump has definitively said, that the U.S. is almost completely, essentially won the war. At one point he said this, and I want to read this quote, “We literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can’t… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Trump Lashes Out at ABC’s Jon Karl In Late-Night Rant — Blurts ‘Don’t Bu...President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl in a late-night rant filled with errors and falsehoods, demanding “Don’t buy the book!” that Karl wrote. Karl is the longtime ABC News anchor and White House correspondent, and author of the tell-all tome “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America.” The book has been out since October, but it was late at night on Friday when Trump took to Truth Social to blurt out an entreaty to his followers not to purchase it: Third rate news “anchor” Jonathan Karl of ABC Fake News, the worst and most corrupt Network in the business, wrote another made up book about me where his stories and “reporting” bare no relationship to the truth. ABC was already forced to pay me $16,000,000 because of their false and misleading reporting. That was a Liddle’ George Slopadopolus error, but Karl is worse. A waste of time – Fictitious quotes. Don’t buy the book! President DJT The president routinely and falsely claims that CBS and ABC were forced to pay out millions in lawsuits — which were actually settled voluntarily. The attack comes days after Trump spoke to Karl on the phone to hype his address to the nation on the Iran war, which Karl described in a social media video: ABC NEWS CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JONATHAN KARL: So I had a lengthy phone call with President Trump yesterday. I’m going to try to summarize what was said over the course of about 20 minutes. First of all, obviously, Iran was front and center. The president expressed great confidence that everything was going to work out fine in Iran. He said he was negotiating, that there has been effectively regime change, and that the regime now in place is much more reasonable and much more moderate. I asked him specifically if he was talking to the speaker of the Iranian parliament. He said yes, and that the guy was quite reasonable. I pointed out that the speaker had been hitting him back and forth on social media, sometimes seeming to mock him. Trump said he’s been much better lately. But then he added what was clearly a threat to this person he says he’s negotiating with. He said, “We know where he lives. Let me put it that way.” The conversation touched on a whole bunch of other issues. One thing Trump was quite… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Who’s Winning Trump’s Gulf War? Depends on Which Channel You’re On.
(AP Photo/Fars News Agency/Ebrahim Noroozi) An American fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday. The pilot ejected and is still missing. Iranian state media released footage of another pilot parachuting to the ground before his plane crashed. The Pentagon called it an isolated incident. Iranian officials called it a victory. Critics of the war called it what it looks like: evidence that this conflict, sold as swift and decisive, is neither.The question of who is winning has been running alongside the actual war since the first strikes. The downed jets and the missing pilot have just made it harder to change the subject. The pro-Trump case isn’t wrong on its face. The U.S. military has dominated this fight. Pete Hegseth’s briefing numbers: an 86% drop in Iranian missile launches, a 73% drop in drone attacks, effective control of the airspace. They get handed to reporters pre-formatted and land in coverage almost unchanged, because they fit the medium perfectly. Laura Ingraham said it plainly on Fox in late March: U.S. and Israeli forces have “done a lot of damage” and Iran “cannot win militarily.” On those terms, it’s a rout. Early critics who questioned whether this was an optional war with no clear objective or exit strategy got accused of rooting for America to lose. It was an effective attack. It also changed the subject. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed to normal commerce. Shipping insurers have repriced risk so dramatically that cargo routes are being rerouted entirely. Gas has crossed four dollars a gallon nationally. And it’s not just oil. Fertilizer, raw materials, supply chains that run through that passage and touch industries most Americans ignore until the prices show up. Iran figured out early that you don’t beat the United States military. You survive it, and while you’re surviving it, you make the whole thing expensive enough that the other side eventually starts doing the math. Which is why that Ingraham segment is worth sitting with. In the same breath where she declared military dominance, she warned that Iran is trying to “inflict maximum economic pain on the global economy.” She didn’t connect those two things. Most of the coverage hasn’t either. The war and its consequences still run on separate desks, as if they’re different stories. Now even some of the loudest interventionists are losing patience. The tell is the mantra: two to three more… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Retired Lt. General Says Missing U.S. Aviator Would Be ‘Killed on the Spot’ ...Ret. U.S. Army Lt. General Russell Honoré said that if Iran were to apply Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s “no quarter” attitude, the American aviator missing in Iran would be “killed on the spot” if found. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a U.S. F-15 fighter jet on Friday over Iran. One of the two crew members was rescued, but another is missing in action. Later, it was reported that Iran also shot down an A-10 Warthog, whose lone pilot was rescued. After the shootdowns, Honoré noted on social media some remarks made by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. “We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” Hegseth said during a March 13 news conference. “No quarter” is broadly understood to mean “no prisoners.” Killing captured or surrendering soldiers is a war crime. In his post, Honoré called Hegseth’s comments “reckless and outrageous, and why it may be what gets these pilots tortured or killed.” Hours later, the retired lieutenant general appeared on CNN and elaborated: It’s a direct relationship. And the concern we had at the time the secretary of defense made that statement that we will give “no quarter” is a violation of our rules of war that we have trained our soldiers on. And it was practiced when we shot the Iranian warship off the Indian Ocean. We gave no quarter. We did not provide assistance to the survivors… So the secretary of defense’s language and his rhetoric about giving no quarter would have direct impact on our airman that’s on the ground somewhere in Iran right now trying to survive, that, if he’s caught, if the Iranians were to use the secretary of defense’s rule, that aviator will end up being treated very bad or even killed on the spot because that’s the way that’s translated: give no quarter to the injured or those who no longer can fight. Watch above via CNN.The post Retired Lt. General Says Missing U.S. Aviator Would Be ‘Killed on the Spot’ if Iranians Apply Hegseth’s ‘No Quarter’ Rule first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
- Former Trump NatSec Advisor Says President Probably in ‘Panic Mode’ After Tw...Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said President Donald Trump is “probably back in a panic mode” after Iran shot down two U.S. military planes on Friday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard shot down an F-15 fighter jet, whose two-person crew ejected. One aviator was rescued, but the other is still missing in action somewhere in Iran, which also shot down an A-10 Warthog, whose lone pilot was rescued. The shootdowns come after Trump repeatedly boasted of having air supremacy. On multiple occasions in recent weeks, he had even claimed Iran was not even firing on U.S. aircraft. “Their anti-aircraft equipment is gone. We’re flying wherever we want. We have nobody even shooting at us,” the president said on March 19. His remarks came hours after a U.S. F-35 fighter jet was struck by Iranian fire. The pilot involved in that incident managed to make an emergency landing outside Iran. Bolton appeared on Friday’s episode of The Source on CNN, where Kaitlan Collins asked, “Does it undermine what the White House has been saying about how degraded Iran’s capability is? I mean, the president said this week that Iran had no anti-aircraft equipment, that their radar was 100% annihilated.” “Sure, it absolutely degrades White House credibility,” said Bolton, who served in the first Trump administration. “And that’s a self-inflicted wound by the White House, not by the Iranians. If you overstate what you’ve accomplished and evidence comes that shows that you’ve overstated, you look foolish.” Collins noted that Trump had not spoken about the shootdowns on Friday. “Why do you think the president hasn’t spoken about this on camera today?” she asked. “Does that stand out to you at all?” Bolton responded: Uh, no. It sounds to me like he’s probably back in a panic mode, wishing he could find a way to declare victory and get out of this war, regardless of whether or not he opens the Strait of Hormuz before he does it. I think that’s a mistake, too. I think if there had been an effective decision-making process before the war started and these concerns were raised and they bothered the president, he had the option then not to initiate the attack. But apparently he was satisfied. Now, if things are upsetting him that he either didn’t think about or didn’t pay any attention to in the run-up to the war, that’s a problem for… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
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