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- Trump’s Post Announcing Shiny New ‘Golden Gift’ for White House Met with M...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump announced a shiny new “Golden Gift” for the White House Monday evening — a giant golden eagle sculpture that swiftly drew online mockery. The president’s love of gold decor has been well-documented for decades, from the gold decor on nearly every surface at his residences at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and Trump Tower in Manhattan to his significant changes to the White House itself, including the addition of numerous gold accents in the Oval Office and a renovation to the Lincoln Bathroom that added marble and yet more gold fixtures. Monday evening, Trump shared a photo on his Truth Social account of what he said was “A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!” The photo showed a large shiny golden sculpture of an eagle hanging from the White House’s Truman balcony. The sculpture also had an arc of eleven stars (the original U.S. flag had thirteen stars for the thirteen colonies and still has thirteen stripes to reflect that history) and a shield with red and blue accents. Screenshot via Truth Social. The official White House account shared the photo as well. "A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!" – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/XV2sk6smcf — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 30, 2026 It should perhaps be noted that this July 4th will not be the White House’s 250th birthday, but the country’s. The White House is 225 years old. In 1800, America’s second president, John Adams, was the first to occupy the “President’s House” at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after the nation’s capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. The White House was burned down in 1814 by the British during the War of 1812 and had to be nearly entirely rebuilt, a process that took several years, so the building is arguably even younger. It is not known what person, company, or organization was behind the “Golden Gift.” It is also not yet known if the sculpture has even been finished or even created. Several posts said the image was mostly or completely AI-generated. D.C.-based freelance photographer Andrew Leyden posted several photos of the balcony showing there was no golden eagle sculpture mounted there. This is what the Truman Balcony looks like at 9:30pm Monday night. pic.twitter.com/IEZEGsRuUn — Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) June 30, 2026 … [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Dave Portnoy Suggests He’ll Run Against Mamdani and Asks, ‘Can I Win Here?â€...
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy floated a challenge to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but expressed skepticism as to whether he could actually defeat him. Portnoy appeared on Monday’s Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News, where the host slammed the democratic socialist mayor and the candidates Mamdani endorsed who won primaries last week. On Tuesday, former NYC comptroller Brad Lander crushed Rep. Dan Goldman to earn the nomination in the 10th district. Union organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th district. And state Rep. Claire Valdez trounced Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in the 7th district. All three districts are solidly blue, and so the Mamdani-backed candidates are expected to win. “What would you do about it?” Jesse Watters asked as the chyron read, “Commie wave hits New York City.” “So I’ve always thought I would never get involved in politics, but I think you can do more in the private sector,” Portnoy replied. “What is going on has actually made me pause that thought. I was saying to you that old Plato quote, if you don’t do your public service and run for office, you’re doomed to be run by basically dummies. And right now I feel like that’s what’s happening. Now, not everyone’s getting out to vote. I think what the Democrats have done is they’ve let the fox into the henhouse.” Portnoy said that it is “a scary time” to live in New York and added, “I do feel like it’s my duty. I can’t turn away. I feel like I could make a change, maybe a do run in politics. So I don’t know.” “You might run against Mamdani?” Watters asked. “If I was going to run, it would be here,” he responded. “Can I win here? I have no idea. I don’t the demographics, whether I’d get enough votes. There’s a lot of people who like me in New York City. I know that. I’ve done a lot of good in New York City when I wasn’t thinking about politics, whether it was the Barstool Fund, pizza places. So, it wasn’t for show. I’ve had a real job. I’ve done real things unlike these clown politicians who have never had a job and never been in the real world for a day. But the people voting for these people that just won are these young, white, like, Ivy League-ish, elite-ish, women. It’s like, who are they? Like, they’ll never vote for me. They’ll never… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Congresswoman Says Trump Official Blew Up at Her and ‘Called Me Stupid’Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said Iran war negotiator Steve Witkoff went off on her during a conference call on Monday. Her description of the call stunned MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart. Witkoff, who is the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, has been a key figure in negotiations with Iran, which the U.S. and Israel began bombing in February. President Donald Trump appointed Witkoff, a real estate investor and longtime friend, to the post, despite a lack of diplomatic experience. Witkoff and Vice President JD Vance have come under scrutiny recently after the U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding that even Trump’s allies have criticized as being too generous to Iran. In part, the deal calls for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and to pledge not to develop nuclear weapons. In exchange, the U.S. will end the naval blockade of Iran, unfreeze Iranian assets, and allow the country access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Dean appeared on Monday’s edition of The Last Word on MS NOW, where Capehart, who was guest-hosting, asked the congresswoman about the bipartisan call, which was not classified. The lawmaker explained that Secretary of State Marco Rubio began with a brief state of play, but said, “We didn’t learn much of anything.” Dean said that at one point she asked Rubio and Witkoff some questions, and it did not go well: DEAN: I did ask a set of questions to the secretary and to Mr. Witkoff, which really piqued his ire. He cut my mic off and said that– he called my question “smartassed” and “stupid,” cut my mic off and said, “There’s your answer.” I was simply asking tough questions about who wrote the MOU, why does it sound so in favor of Iran? And from literally paragraph one, we’re already out of sync with what was to happen. I also mentioned the fact – and I think we should never forget – that in this reckless, unconstitutional war, which is what I said to the gentlemen on the call, 13 service members have died. We must never forget that. Hundreds have been wounded and thousands of civilians killed throughout the region. But he called me “smartassed,” “stupid.” I think this diplomat or would-be diplomat’s been hanging around the president too much. CAPEHART: Wow! Did anyone object to the Secretary of State speaking to you in that… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Jesse Watters Asks RFK Jr. if He’ll ‘Leave the Raccoons Alone’ After Kenne...Fox News’ Jesse Watters asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he’ll “leave the raccoons alone” following reports Kennedy cut off a raccoon’s penis. The raccoon story comes from New York Post writer Isabel Vincent’s book, RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise. In it, Kennedy personally recounts his shocking interaction with a dead raccoon. “I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road-killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy is quoted as saying in the book. He also claimed that he collected the genitals to “study them later,” all while his “kids waited patiently in the car.” Kennedy appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime Monday night to discuss the revival of the Presidential Fitness Test and President Donald Trump‘s executive order to scale regenerative farming. After Kennedy praised the latter initiative and emphasized that it is backed by farmers, Watters combined a compliment with a nod to Kennedy’s wild animal tales. “Very good, and you’re going to leave the raccoons alone?” he asked. Kennedy appeared to embrace the joke as he responded, “Yeah, for the moment.” After the raccoon story gained traction in April, a TMZ reporter asked Kennedy, “What did you do with the raccoon’s dead penis? Where is it now?” But Kennedy offered up only a chuckle in reply. The HHS Secretary is no stranger to wild animal stories, including a video he posted himself in which he attempts to wrangle two black racer snakes while his wife Cheryl Hines begs him to stop. His own sister accused him of releasing a snake into a swimming pool filled with children. Perhaps most famously, Kennedy allegedly intended to skin and eat a roadkill bear he’d found in Upstate New York, but ran out of time because he opted to stop for a meal at Peter Lugar Steak House in Brooklyn. Kennedy left the dead cub in Central Park, dramatically staging the scene to look as though it had been killed by a cyclist. Watch above via Fox News.The post Jesse Watters Asks RFK Jr. if He’ll ‘Leave the Raccoons Alone’ After Kennedy Cut off Raccoon’s Penis first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Trump Flips Out at Gas Companies Over ‘Totally Illegal’ Gouging: ‘DROP YOU...
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana President Donald Trump warned energy companies on Monday to lower gas prices and accused them of “totally illegal” price gouging. As of Monday, the national average for a gallon of gas was $3.86 after hitting about $4.50 in recent months. Crude oil, meanwhile, is hovering around $70 a barrel after topping $100 on several occasions since February, when the U.S. and Israel launched the war against Iran. In response, Iran effectively shuttered the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s oil flows. The war is technically ongoing, but the U.S. and Iran are currently in a tenuous ceasefire that apparently has investors feeling optimistic. Over on Truth Social, Trump escalated his attacks on gas retailers and demanded that they lower their prices. He alleged that the companies are engaged in “totally illegal” price gouging (which he spelled ‘gauging’), and said if prices do not come down, there will be “big problems ahead”: Gasoline Retailers must get their Prices down, IMMEDIATELY! They’re too high considering that Oil is now at $68 a Barrel, and heading south. The Retailers must quickly react to this statement, and do what they know is right — DROP YOUR PRICE FOR OUR GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE! There will be no gauging, which is totally illegal. If Retailers don’t do this, big problems lie ahead! Start targeting around the $2.50 a Gallon number, and California should stop charging such heavy Taxes on their Gasoline. Soon the Tax will be higher than the Product itself, and the United States will not stand for it, nor will the People of California, who are being abused by these ridiculous Taxes, and by their own Government. President DONALD J. TRUMP Last week, the president claimed his administration was “doing a big investigation” into gas prices. “It’s ExxonMobil, it’s Chevron, it’s, uh, Shell, it’s, uh, BP, it’s a lot of ’em,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “The gasoline, or the oil prices, have come down so much, and we are not seeing anything at the pump by comparison to what it should be. We should be, in my opinion, at $2.25 right now at the pump.” In late May, Trump downplayed gas prices, which were markedly higher then. “Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is going to– you know, I had gasoline down to $1.85 in Iowa,” he said at… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Trump Names Replacement for Labor Secretary He Ousted Amid Embarrassing Allegati...
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin President Donald Trump has nominated Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling to take on the job permanently, which will need Senate approval. Sonderling has been in the acting role since April 2026, when former scandal-plagued Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned. Among the allegations against her, which she has repeatedly denied, are the mishandling of department funds, inappropriate relations with staff, and drinking on the job. While the White House and Labor Department initially called the allegations against her “baseless,” those denials became more muted over time as further reports of wrongdoing emerged. A New York Times report released just days before her resignation stated that the Labor Department’s inspector general was investigating Chavez-DeRemer, her top aides and family members for regularly sending personal requests and messages to young staff members. Sonderling served as Chavez-DeRemer’s deputy for more than a year before her resignation and served as acting administrator of the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division during Trump’s first term. The president announced his nomination of Sonderling for the permanent position on Truth Social, writing: It is my Great Honor to announce that I am nominating Keith E. Sonderling, the outstanding Acting United States Secretary of Labor, to be permanent. Keith previously served as Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer and, during my First Term, worked at the U.S. Department of Labor as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Throughout his career, Keith has proven his dedication to delivering strong results for the Hardworking People of our Country, and I know he will do an incredible job in his new role. Thank you for your attention to this matter! The position requires Senate approval. Sonderling was confirmed to be Deputy Secretary of Labor last year in a 53-46 vote along party lines. The post Trump Names Replacement for Labor Secretary He Ousted Amid Embarrassing Allegations first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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