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- This Is Probably the Best ‘…If Mike Pence Has the Courage’ Tweet Ever Writ...
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall It’s not often that social media posts about terminal cancer or January 6 can evoke any sort of positive emotion, much less one that is truly heartwarming, but former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-OK) managed to do just that on Monday. President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 tweet urging Vice President Mike Pence to “have the courage” to overturn the Electoral College results was a shocking call to disregard constitutional norms amidst the chaos and violence of that day, but since then, the post’s outlandish language has become long-running online meme about what is needed to accomplish various impossible tasks. Examples cover a wide range of topics, including political commentary (like Viktor Orbán’s landslide defeat to Péter Magyar in the recent Hungarian elections) to the woes of disappointed sports fans. Orban can still win this thing if Mike Pence will only have the courage to do the right thing. https://t.co/yQDiSoG1lI — Gerard Baker (@gerardtbaker) April 12, 2026 Mike Tyson can still win the fight if Mike Pence has the courage. — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 16, 2024 If Mike Pence has the courage, Drake can still win this beef https://t.co/cQ0MuO3ptz — Stephen Neukam (@stephen_neukam) May 5, 2024 TEAM USA CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING. #WBC #USAvsJapan — Jacob Perry (@RealJacobPerry) March 22, 2023 The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing. #SuperBowlLIX — Seth Taylor (@SethTaylor1991) February 10, 2025 Monday evening, Sasse wrote one of the all-time tweets of this genre, judging by the reactions he received. The 54-year-old represented Nebraska in the U.S. Senate from 2015 until 2023, when he left to serve as the president of the University of Florida, a position he held until he stepped down in July 2024, citing his wife Melissa Sasse’s “recent epilepsy diagnosis and a new batch of memory issues.” Last December, he broke the news that he had Stage IV pancreatic cancer in posts on his Facebook and X accounts, and that it was unfortunately a terminal diagnosis. Since then, Sasse has granted numerous media interviews, garnering widespread praise for his unfiltered and heartfelt conversations about his faith, love for his family, hopes for our country, and the perspective that his diagnosis has… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Jimmy Kimmel Scoffs at Melania Trump for Accusing Him of ‘Violent Rhetoric,’...
Jimmy Kimmel responded to First Lady Melania Trump on Monday, who earlier in the day said the late-night comedian should be off the air over a joke he made last week. On Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host did a mock roast of President Donald Trump and officials in the administration. At one point, Kimmel got around to cracking about the first lady. “Our First Lady Melania is here,” he said at the time. “Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” Two days later, at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a gunman was apprehended near a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, where the president, first lady, other U.S. officials, and members of the press were gathered for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The Trumps were quickly whisked away by Secret Service. One law enforcement officer was struck in their bulletproof vest. No one was killed. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, made his first court appearance on Monday and did not enter a plea. In a statement on social media, the first lady said Kimmel should be off the airwaves. “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she said. “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.” Shortly after, the president demanded that ABC fire the comedian “immediately.” On Monday’s show, Kimmel hit back, stating that his joke was not remotely a call to violence and that if the first lady wanted to do something about “violent rhetoric,” she should start in the home: It was a pretend roast. I said our first lady, Melania’s here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow, which obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination. And they know that. I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular. But I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend and probably every weekend… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - MAGA Senator Has No Interest in Using Taxpayer Money on Trump’s Ballroom: ‘W...
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has been a longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, but he is not onboard the push from some of his congressional Republican colleagues to spend taxpayer funds on his ballroom project. Scott served as Florida Governor for two terms and endorsed Trump for president in 2016 after he won the Florida primary; he also chaired a Super PAC that supported Trump that year. In 2018, Scott was term-limited from running for governor again and ran for Senate, getting Trump’s endorsement and defeating the then-incumbent, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL). The ballroom Trump wants to build where the White House’s East Wing once stood has been controversial for numerous reasons, including the hasty demolition of the East Wing, questions about the transparency of the financing through private donors, criticisms of the design, and concerns about the potential cost to taxpayers. One notable thing about Trump’s ballroom: less than a month ago, it was a nonstarter in Congress. Tried to talk to GOP lawmakers who didn’t want to engage — some of the same ones pushing legislation now. Big reason: polling was terrible. Guess we’ll see what new polls show. pic.twitter.com/15COUuzvQY — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 27, 2026 For months, the president has discussed the ballroom project as something that would be funded with private donations. But in the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and Trump’s renewed calls for the ballroom as a secure event facility — Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Katie Britt (R-AL) have come forward in favor of legislation to authorize spending taxpayer money on it. Scott, however, was adamantly opposed to that idea when asked about it by NBC News senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tells me there is no need for taxpayers to fund Trump’s ballroom. “I don't know why you would do it, if it's all funded” with “private money,” which he said is the way forward. “We have $39 trillion of debt. Maybe we ought to stop spending money.” — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 27, 2026 “I don’t know why you would do it, if it’s all funded” with “private money,” Kapur reported Scott told him, with the senator saying he still thought private funding was the way to move forward with the project. “We have $39 trillion of debt,” Scott… [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - Lindsey Graham Says He’s Proposing Bill to Spend $400 Million on Trump’s Bal...Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responded to the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by not only joining President Donald Trump’s calls to move forward with building a White House ballroom, but by proposing legislation to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on it. The annual confab of politicos and journalists erupted in chaos Saturday evening when a gunman fired several shots. Secret Service whisked the president and First Lady Melania Trump out of the room, and all of Trump’s Cabinet members were safely evacuated as well. The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of California, was apprehended and is in custody. During a first appearance in federal court on Monday, he was informed he is facing three charges: an attempt to carry out a political assassination, transporting a firearm across state lines, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. He is facing a maximum sentence of life in prison. Trump held a press conference in the White House briefing room nearly two hours after the shooting occurred, and took questions from the gathered reporters who had been in attendance at the dinner, still in their gowns and tuxes. The president has also repeatedly made reference to his ballroom project in the aftermath of the shooting, despite the fact that the WHCD is a private event organized by a private organization, the White House Correspondents’ Association, and would be under neither obligation nor expectation to hold the event on any government property. (And, for the record, while it has long been traditional to invite the president and numerous other government officials, none of them are under any enforceable requirement to attend.) Graham added his voice to those using the WHCD shooting to push for a ballroom, in remarks he made during a press conference on Monday. Graham said that Trump had told him, “We need the ballroom, not just for me, but for future presidents,” adding that it would have been better if Trump could have just walked out of his bedroom, through the White House, and directly into a ballroom for last night’s event. “That’s what needs to happen,” the senator continued, to keep safe events where you have “one thousand, two thousand people gathered in today’s environment.” “The sooner we get the ballroom built, the more hardened it is, the better it is for the country,” said Graham, pushing back on critics who… [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
- Katie Miller Blames WHCD Shooting on Gavin Newsom, Who Slams Her ‘Absurd State...Former Trump administration official Katie Miller blamed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting on California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), who took to social media to slam her “absurd statement” and “finger-pointing.” In an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday night, Miller detailed her experience at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as she said her husband, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, protected her and their unborn child, shooting down false reports he used her as a “human shield.” Amid her praise for her husband, Miller seized the opportunity to slam Newsom, making the correlation between the shooter and California native Cole Tomas Allen and the California governor: First and foremost, my husband did a phenomenal job. Anyone who wants to say otherwise doesn’t know what they’re talking about. So, what happened is, the reporter next to me pulled me to the floor. I look at my husband, who’s still just sitting in his seat, eating his salad. And another person says to Stephen, I think you should be on the floor. Stephen looks around, sees everyone else is down so he, too, gets on the floor. Then at that point he puts his body over mine. I’m looking at the president, who still looks calm, cool and collected because as we know he has battle tested not once, not twice, but now three times in the face of an assassin’s bullet. It is crazy as we just saw your intro about the political violence and political rhetoric in this country. It’s no mistake this man hails from the state of California and that of Gavin Newsom who is one of the worst offenders of this violent political rhetoric that we see that sparks this man’s imagination. Newsom slammed Miller’s claim in a post to X on Monday night, condemning her “absurd statement” and asserting, “Political violence is NEVER acceptable. PERIOD. What Cole Allen did was reprehensible and we’re grateful the President was uninjured.” He went on to criticize “people like” Miller for amplifying President Donald Trump‘s “dangerous rhetoric.” “This finger pointing from people like Katie who haven’t just tolerated, but amplified, Trump’s dangerous rhetoric is offensive,” he wrote. “The President has openly celebrated the deaths of his political opponents, called Democrats and immigrants ‘vermin,’ ‘demonic’ and ‘evil’ ‘animals’ who are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ He regularly uses violent language, threatens to arrest and… [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
- Man Who Casually Ate Salad Amid WHCD Shooting Chaos Explains Why He Didn’t Tak...Michael Glantz, the man who went viral for casually eating his salad amid the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, revealed that he did not duck for cover as he has a “bad back” and is a “hygiene freak.” Glantz, a “super-agent” with the Creative Artists Agency, has been trending as “#saladman” on social media. Commenters appear wowed by the contrast of those seeking cover under the tables around Glantz while he looks unfazed, eating, in the clip, which was filmed amid the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump Saturday night. In an interview with The New York Times, Glantz explained that he “wasn’t scared” and “wanted to watch” the scene unfold. “I’m a New Yorker,” he said. “We live with sirens and activity happening all the time. I wasn’t scared. There are hundreds of Secret Service agents hurtling themselves over tables and chairs, and I wanted to watch.” He also told WHCInsider Editor Tammy Haddad that he “didn’t want to miss the show” while everybody was “down on the floor.” “Two other reasons I wouldn’t do it: One, I have a bad back,” he told Haddad. “I couldn’t get down on the floor. Two, I’m a hygiene freak. There’s no way I’m putting my tux on that dirty floor. So, it wasn’t going to happen. I was watching the show. Didn’t want to miss anything. Glantz shared with TMZ that he is happy people can find levity from the clip, though he finds it “silly” how viral it has gotten, after this “horrific moment” unfolded. The clip has amused News Correspondents, too, on both sides of the political aisle. On Monday, Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo said he “loves” that Glantz was “quietly eating his burrata salad.” Meanwhile, clearly amused, CNN’s Kasie Hunt shared the footage, revealing that she was among those “down on the floor” and “not calmly eating burrata salad,” but “I guess, hats off to Michael.” Watch above via CNN.The post Man Who Casually Ate Salad Amid WHCD Shooting Chaos Explains Why He Didn’t Take Cover first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
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