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- Trump Absolutely Melts Down at ‘Biased’ NY Times in Late-Night Screed Over $...
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) President Donald Trump tore into The New York Times in a wild 400-word overnight rant after the newspaper reported the real cost of his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool makeover was far higher than he first claimed. The president unloaded in a Truth Social screed shortly after 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, raging over reporting that the Interior Department plans to pay a contractor $13.1 million for the project, far above the $1.8 million figure Trump publicly floated while unveiling the plan last month. Federal records cited by The Times show the Interior Department increased the contract by $6.2 million beyond the original estimate, bringing the project total to roughly $8 million before additional costs are factored in, and revealed that the administration awarded the no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a firm that had reportedly renovated pools at Trump’s Virginia golf club in the past. The renovation includes repairing leaks in the iconic Reflecting Pool, located beneath the Lincoln Memorial, and repainting parts of the structure “American flag blue.” Taking to Truth Social, Trump appeared incandescent over allegations of the ballooning price tag, insisting The Times was “trying to justify [Barack] Obama and [Joe] Biden’s expensively botched attempt at fixing the long broken, unsightly, and unsanitary” pool. “They squandered at least 55 Million Dollars haplessly trying, with no chance of success, to get the Reflecting Pool to work,” he wrote. “Instead, they made it worse, keeping it closed for years, and ending up with a leaking, smelling, ode to both of their failed Administrations. It was and [sic] embarrassment to Washington, D.C., and to our Country, itself. Despite the vast sums of money spent, they never got the pool to work, and cosmetically it was a total mess for all to see.” Trump continued to cast himself as the lone figure capable of rescuing the project from bureaucratic incompetence: “Now, along comes “TRUMP,” who is asked by many patriots if I can fix it. The answer is a resounding, YES, and for a “tiny” fraction of the cost!” The president said that he instructed the Department of the Interior to contract the work as if repairing a “highly sophisticated swimming pool” for a fraction of the price and to complete it “in 2 weeks rather than 4 years.” Trump then rounded on one of the Times journalists who wrote the report, David Fahrenthold, branding him a… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - South Chicago Man Hospitalized After Police Shooting
A Black man remains hospitalized with serious injuries following an armed confrontation with Chicago police officers in the South Chicago neighborhood. ABC 7 Chicago reports that the incident prompted an immediate investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), the independent agency responsible for reviewing officer-involved shootings in the [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Jimmy Kimmel Reveals the Brutal Reason Nobody Can Boycott CBS for Axing Colbert ...
Jimmy Kimmel torched CBS parent company Paramount from the network’s own stage on Monday night as he offered a brutal take on why Stephen Colbert fans couldn’t boycott the company’s streaming service, like his audience did Disney’s – because no one subscribes. As Colbert prepares to sign off from The Late Show for the very last time next week, America’s biggest late-night hosts, all from rival networks, used a rare on-air reunion to needle President Donald Trump’s long-running fixation with them and trash Paramount. Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver joined Colbert for a farewell episode ahead of the CBS show’s finale when the conversation quickly turned from nostalgia to politics. After making a passionate case for late-night as a genre, arguing that “people like it” and that ratings are higher than ever, Kimmel mentioned how his viewers applied pressure to Disney, the owners of ABC, after the network temporarily suspended him in 2025 following outrage over a joke he made about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “When I got knocked off the air for a few days, people cancelled Disney+,” he said. Turning to Colbert’s in-studio audience, he jabbed, “Why aren’t you people canceling Paramount+? … Because you didn’t have it in the first place!” Oliver, whose show airs on HBO, a property which Paramount may take control of in a further merger with Warner Brothers Discovery, mockingly hedged, “Well, Jimmy, until the deal goes through, if I could just do a counter there, Paramount+ might have some good programming, unless it’s not going through, which case it can go f*ck itself now and forever.” “Reasonable people can disagree on the utility of Paramount+, right, Stephen?” he joked. “100%,” Colbert laughed. Colbert asked the panel whether, as young comedians, they ever imagined they would one day hold “a job that the President of the United States would have strong feelings about?” “You know what’s even weirder?” Kimmel replied. “Doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about.” The ABC host was referring to his recent clash with First Lady Melania Trump, prompting Meyers to joke, “Most of us have avoided that part.” Oliver said he first learned of the fallout through the group’s private text chain. “It’s an amazing thing to get, in a group text, a text from Jimmy saying, ‘Oh, boy.’ And then a picture of Melania mad at him,” he said. Meyers… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Warner Chappell’s Guy Moot Makes History as First Publisher to Win U.k. Mits A...Warner Chappell Music co-chair and CEO Guy Moot will receive the U.K.’s Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS) in 2026, becoming the first music publisher to earn the honor. The award recognizes his more than 30-year career in music publishing and his focus on songwriter development and creative leadership. Moot has [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Association of Music Offices Launches to Boost Local Us Music Ecosystems Nationw...Music Offices Unite to Build Local Industry Power Publishers and songwriters could see new business opportunities from a national effort designed to make local music economies more organized, measurable and better funded. The Association of Music Offices, known as AMO, has launched as a new trade group bringing together government [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Podcast and Programmatic Fuel iHeartMedia Revenue GainsiHeartMedia reported stronger first-quarter performance, with total revenue reaching $884 million, up 9.6% year over year. The company also reduced its net loss to $95.6 million, compared to $280.9 million in the same period last year. Within its Multiplatform Group, which includes its AM/FM broadcast assets, revenue increased 4.3% to [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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