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- Trump Claims He ‘Did So Well With the Gay Vote’ Because He Plays the ‘The ...
President Donald Trump claimed he did well among gay voters in the last election, and credited The Village People. Trump held a rally in Suffern, New York on Friday, where he was joined by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who is running for reelection in New York’s 17th congressional district. The president was introduced by New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart, whose physique Trump marveled at. “I’m looking at the legs,” Trump said. “He’s this beautiful guy. He’s got legs like tree trunks!” Later, he told the crowd that First Lady Melania Trump had requested the president not recite some of his regular rally lines. During the anecdote, he took a brief detour to say he did well among gay voters because he plays “Y.M.C.A.” by The Village People at his rallies. “[S]he says, ‘Darling, please, you speak so beautifully, would you do me a favor? Don’t do the swimming story. Don’t do the weight-lifting story. It’s so damn unpresidential. And also, darling, when you’re leaving, and they have that song, gay national anthem,'” Trump said, relaying the first lady’s remarks. “That’s why I did so well with the gay vote, I think, because of that song,” he said. “I did great with the gay vote, better than any Republican’s ever done by far, but my wife, first lady, very elegant woman.” Earlier this month, Trump stated that his wife “hates” when he dances to the song. “She hates when I dance, too, at the end,” he told the crowd at the time. “She hates when I dance to what’s sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem. You know that? She hates it.” Polls show Trump received around 12% of the LGBTQ vote in the 2024 presidential election.The post Trump Claims He ‘Did So Well With the Gay Vote’ Because He Plays the ‘The Gay National Anthem’ at Rallies first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Japanese Company Pours $50 Million Into Trump Presidential Library
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson According to a Friday exclusive from Politico, Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group quietly donated $50 million to President Donald Trump’s future presidential library and foundation — one of the largest publicly known contributions to the project so far. Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported, per two people familiar with the matter, that the donation is for a section of the library planned on the U.S.-Japan alliance, specifically the economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries. As the report notes, SoftBank — one of the world’s largest investors in artificial intelligence and a major backer of OpenAI — has maintained close ties with Trump throughout both of his administrations. Founder and chair Masayoshi Son has appeared alongside the president multiple times at the White House, and even promised to invest $100 billion into U.S. companies during his second term in 2024. The company also actively lobbies the federal government on AI and technology policy issues, according to recent disclosure filings cited by Politico. Lippman went on to disclose, according to one of his two sources, that while SoftBank previously donated to the presidential libraries of former President Ronald Reagan and former President George W. Bush, those contributions came after the libraries had already been completed. Per Politico, spokespeople from the Trump library and SoftBank refused to comment. As Mediaite noted in March, when first renderings of the planned Miami building were released, the skyscraper bears a resemblance to New York City’s One World Trade Center, but with Trump’s name clearly atop it. As Politico notes, it will also be the home of Trump’s new Boeing jet — a gift from the Qatari royal family. Other funds for the Trump library effort, as Lippman points out, come in the form of lawsuit settlements with the president from major media and tech firms like Meta, X, Paramount Global, and ABC News.The post Japanese Company Pours $50 Million Into Trump Presidential Library first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - ‘Are You Saying That About Me?!’ Jessica Tarlov Confronts Co-Host Who Floate...On Friday’s edition of Fox News’ The Five, Jessica Tarlov confronted Fox News contributor Tyrus after he floated the use of a crude word, responding, “Are you saying that about me?!” During the moment in question, Tarlov was discussing a Friday speech from President Donald Trump at a rally in Rockland County, New York, for Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). “Today,” she said, “telling people you have more money in your pockets when nobody thinks that — except the richest Americans at this point. You know, the weird stuff again about the cognitive tests and how he’s acing things that they give to people who’ve had traumatic brain injuries, no one knows there’s a B in the word dumb — we all know there’s a B in the word dumb.” She continued: And he has cratering support with core constituencies. In the Fox poll, amongst Republicans, non-MAGA GOP, white voters, rural Americans, approval in the mid-30s, 71% disapprove of the economy, he’s negative 52 on handling inflation. And guess what? There are no legislative accomplishments for the Republicans. [Sen.] Josh Hawley [R-MO] has admitted it. There’s a big POLITICO piece about this. I love this from a GOP Senate aide: “The so-called victories” — I’m talking about this getting [Rep.] Thomas Massie [R-KY] out — “over the last couple of weeks are just a mirage. They’re self-owns. Gas is up 45% due to the president’s decisions to go to war with Iran, and he’s focused on the ballroom and his slush fund.” They couldn’t do the reconciliation bill because he’s like, “Oh, there were very fine people who came in on January 6, and they deserve compensation.” “There’s another word with a B that I would like to add to that, and it’s in the front,” said Tyrus. “Are you saying that about me, Tyrus?!” asked Tarlov. “I’m talking about the Democratic party,” he backtracked. Watch the full clip above via Fox News.The post ‘Are You Saying That About Me?!’ Jessica Tarlov Confronts Co-Host Who Floated Using Crude Word first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Adam Schiff Shreds Tulsi Gabbard While Offering Condolences for Husband’s ‘S...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) tore into departing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday, ripping her resignation as her “only positive contribution” to U.S. national security after she announced her plan to “step away from public service” while her husband battles a bone cancer diagnosis. The senator’s blistering statement came just hours after Gabbard announced she was stepping down from her role in President Donald Trump’s administration effective June 30 and acknowledged the “circumstances around her departure” – offering prayers – before scorching the outgoing DNI’s record. “She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more,” Schiff wrote on X. He continued: “We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.” Schiff’s remarks were met with furious rebuttal from administration officials and conservatives alike who viewed the takedown as wildly insensitive, given Gabbard’s stated reasoning. Trump’s ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee unloaded on Schiff as a “serial liar” and condemned the statement: I've always realized Adam "full of" Schiff had NO class & he proved to be a serial liar who fabricated hateful charges against @realDonaldTrump but his comments about @TulsiGabbard are a new low for someone I didn't think could sink any lower. He just did. https://t.co/IwQI0qmbYT — Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 22, 2026 White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson called the post “ghoul behavior”: Absolute ghoul behavior. Disgusting. — Abigail Jackson (@abigailmarone) May 22, 2026 New York Post columnist Miranda Devine branded Schiff a “snake”: You snake https://t.co/l6Lt3bXTNj — Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 22, 2026 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and conservative pundit Megyn Kelly also joined in to slam the senator’s remarks: Utterly classless. https://t.co/OIfu8sLLv2 — Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) May 22, 2026 Omg you are so inappropriate. Shame on you @SenAdamSchiff https://t.co/GCL2Ovoq17 — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) May 22, 2026 Gabbard, formerly an anti-interventionist Democrat and the fourth Trump Cabinet official to resign, served a tenure marked by several controversies, including criticism over her appearance at an FBI raid connected to a Georgia election office in Fulton County. She later said she had attended… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Ted Cruz Says Republican Senators Were ‘Screaming’ at Trump’s AG During Te...According to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), via an early Friday morning edition of his podcast, Republican senators were “blasting” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a tense meeting over President Donald Trump’s new “anti-weaponization fund.” The Department of Justice’s new $1.776 billion fund, which was created as part of the settlement from Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the 2019 leak of his tax returns, has gotten its fair share of Republican criticism since its announcement on Monday. Speaking about the meeting between Blanche and Republican senators to discuss the fund on Thursday, Cruz said on Friday, “There were fireworks at an epic level. And I gotta say, it was one of the roughest meetings that I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate. There were a lot of Republican senators who were just pissed.” Cruz went on to cite Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as being quite unhappy with the president over this new fund. “We have a 53-47 majority,” Cruz stressed. “If you lose four senators, you’re below 50, and you can’t get anything done. That is going to be a complicating factor for the rest of the year.” He continued: Fiery does not begin to cut it. The senators I mentioned, they were pissed, but almost every Republican senator was there, so my guess is that there were probably 45 senators in the room. At least half of them were blasting the Attorney General. They were pissed. Basically, the message they said is, ‘You know what, we were gonna pass reconciliation this week, we were gonna fund all of ICE, all of CBP, all of Border Patrol, and then you announced this judgement fund,’ and right now, here’s the challenge. If [Majority Leader] John Thune [R-SD] had put reconciliation on the floor tonight, the Democrats would have put a bunch of amendments on the floor to unwind the judgment fund, then we would have lost everybody. We wouldn’t have lost it close. It wouldn’t have been 51-49. I gotta tell you, the Republican senators were pissed. People were, the entire meeting, were screaming at the Acting Attorney General. Watch the full clip above via The Verdict with Ted Cruz on YouTube.The post Ted Cruz Says Republican Senators Were ‘Screaming’ at Trump’s AG During Tense Meeting first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- GOP Senate Candidate’s Campaign Account Calls Alleged Matt Lauer Rape Victim â...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images. A campaign account for Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), who is running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, sparked a firestorm of controversy and anger on Friday for mocking an advisor for his rival’s campaign over past rape allegations. Luke Thompson, an advisor helping elect former college football coach Derek Dooley, shared new polling data in the race between Dooley and Collins on X and wrote, “48 hours later, and the Collins lead has cut in half. Dooley beats [Democratic Sen. Jon] Ossoff. Collins can’t. Not hard to understand.” “Mike Collin’s War Room” account then replied to Thompson, “Matt Laurer’s [sic] sloppy seconds chiming in to take an L.” Greg Bluestein, a veteran reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, shared the exchange and added some additional context to the shocking attack on Thompson’s wife. “A campaign account for Senate candidate Mike Collins mocks an adviser to rival Derek Dooley’s PAC whose wife attempted suicide after accusing Matt Lauer of rape,” Bluestein noted. A campaign account for Senate candidate Mike Collins mocks an adviser to rival Derek Dooley’s PAC whose wife attempted suicide after accusing Matt Lauer of rape. #gapol pic.twitter.com/llCa1Jex9q — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) May 22, 2026 The account soon deleted the post, which quickly went viral and sparked the ire of conservative commentators. Erick Erickson, a popular conservative radio host, said of the attack, “A campaign that can’t help but make rape jokes about a rape victim will be unable to avoid antisemitic jokes about Jon Ossoff. Mike Collins’s campaign needs to go away.” A campaign that can’t help but make rape jokes about a rape victim will be unable to avoid antisemitic jokes about Jon Ossoff. Mike Collins’s campaign needs to go away. — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 22, 2026 Former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Guest, added, “Mike Collins is paying for this trash. After Collins made fun of rape victims, his paid online operation doubles down on the disgusting content. This is not a serious operation. It’s a dirtbag circus.” Mike Collins is paying for this trash. After Collins made fun of rape victims, his paid online operation doubles down on the disgusting content. This is not a serious operation. It's a dirtbag circus. pic.twitter.com/BMpo4FmbNm — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 22, 2026 Collins has long raised eyebrows and grabbed headlines… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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