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- Maggie Haberman Baffled by Trump’s Fixation on Kimmel Joke: ‘This Is Free Sp...
President Donald Trump continued his verbal broadsides against Jimmy Kimmel and ABC on Thursday, again demanding the network fire him over a joke he made last week, and even longtime Trump beat reporter Maggie Haberman is surprised by the president’s persistence. On last Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host performed a mock roast of Trump and the administration. At one point, he said, “Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” The crack went largely unnoticed until a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. On Monday, the first lady issued a statement accusing Kimmel of “violent rhetoric” and said he should be off the air. The president soon followed and demanded ABC News fire him “immediately.” Kimmel responded by telling the first lady that if she is concerned about violent rhetoric, she should have a talk with her husband. On Thursday’s episode of The Lead on CNN, Haberman expressed puzzlement as to why the president is continuing to go after Kimmel. “I can’t profess to understand exactly why they’re leaning in this hard on this,” she said. “Obviously, you saw that the first lady say something because she was partly what the joke was about. People don’t have to like every single joke. People can actually find jokes distasteful or find them unfunny or unfair or what have you. But this is free speech. And that is the essence of what Trump claimed to be fighting for in 2024 after saying that the censorious left had cracked down on conservatives too much. And now he is using the apparatus of government to go after a network over this joke.” Watch above via CNN.The post Maggie Haberman Baffled by Trump’s Fixation on Kimmel Joke: ‘This Is Free Speech’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The U.S. Air Force will buy interceptor drones from a company that is partly owned by President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are part owners of Powerus, a company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The government will purchase an undisclosed number of drone interceptors after a demonstration in Arizona, Powerus president and co-founder Brett Velicovich said. Bloomberg reported: The deal represents the first sale of this kind of weapon — which can zip into the sky and blow up enemy drones — by Powerus to the US military. The company declined to detail the terms of the deal or the size of the contract, but the military frequently enters into such deals as it weighs whether to adopt a new weapons system. The arrangement fits with a broader US push to counter cheap Iranian attack drones with similarly inexpensive interceptors instead of far pricier missiles. The US Army has already sent 10,000 AI-enabled Merops interceptor drones developed in Ukraine to the Middle East. Last month, before securing the contract, one ethics scholar pointed out the issue with a defense contractor being partly owned by the president’s children. “It’s corruption,” Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law told the Associated Press last month. “Government decision makers will feel pressure to use contract awards to enrich the president’s family.” Last week, Eric Trump appeared on Fox Business after Foundation Industries, where he is an adviser and investor, won a $24 million Department of Defense contract to make humanoid robots for use on the battlefield. “We have to win this race,” Eric Trump said at the time. “We have to win a lot of races, right? I got involved with crypto in a very big way because we had to win that digital revolution.” Eric Trump was referring to World Liberty Financial, in which the Trumps have a majority stake. Last week, billionaire investor Justin Sun sued the company, alleging breach of contract.The post Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - ‘Get Your F*cking Hand Out Of My Face’: Scott Jennings Loses It on Adam Mock...CNN’s Scott Jennings exploded at MeidasTouch commentator Adam Mockler on Thursday, telling him to get his “f*cking hand out of my face.” Mockler hammered Jennings on the timeline for President Donald Trump’s war with Iran on CNN’s NewsNight, noting the former George W. Bush staffer’s history of promoting foreign wars. “We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters ‘I-r-a’ that we are currently failing, that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt,” said Mockler. “I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior endless wars. Now this war is failing.” Jennings pushed back on Mockler’s characterization of the Iran war as “endless,” leading to a confrontation between the two that forced host Abby Phillip to intervene: JENNINGS: Eight weeks is endless to you? MOCKLER: Ok, you said it was going to be four to six weeks. JENNINGS: Is that your– you have the attention span of a nat? MOCKLER: Wait a minute, dude, hold on– JENNINGS: Is that what you have? Okay. MOCKLER: When I debated you on TV four to six weeks ago, and you said we were weeks away from it. Now you’re making condescending remarks because you can’t defend the fact that this war is not going your way. Wait, one more time– JENNINGS: Not going– not going your way? MOCKLER: Give me one– name me one political concession– JENNINGS: Get your f*cking hand out of my face, first of all. MOCKLER: Name one political concession– PHILLIP: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Woah woah woah. Guys, excuse me. JENNINGS: I’m not going to have this guy’s hand in my face. PHILLIP: Everybody, everybody hang tight, okay? JENNINGS: Honestly. PHILLIP: No, everybody, calm down. Okay? We’re having a debate. You can respond to the points that he’s making. MOCKLER: Can you name a political concession that we’ve gotten? PHILLIP: We’re not. CNN PANELIST GERALDO RIVERA: Flashback to the war the skinheads had at my studio. MOCKLER: I would be mad about it– PHILLIP: Okay. Scott, you can respond and then move on. JENNINGS: We have a very simple goal: to keep terrorists and a terrorist regime from having a nuclear weapon that can threaten the United States, our interests in the region, our allies in Europe, anybody else in the world. MOCKLER: So you can’t answer the… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- ‘Why Do You Have A Different Position Now?’ Kaitlan Collins Confronts GOP Se...CNN’s Kailan Collins confronted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Thursday with his previous comments about the filibuster, pressing the senator about why he had flipped on the issue. Scott joined The Source to discuss, among other topics, President Donald Trump’s ongoing conflict with Iran. The senator claimed that while he would vote on a potential resolution authorizing the war, the vote itself would only be put to the Senate on the Democrats’ schedule. “I’ll be glad to vote. I have no problem voting, but let’s put it in perspective here. We don’t get to vote here in the Senate. I mean, the Democrats block only– block all the votes, only they’re willing to vote on things they want to vote on,” he said. “They use this 60 vote threshold to filibuster, which I think we ought to get rid of all right, to block all the votes.” Collins then asked Scott about the filibuster, reading aloud his own comments in favor of keeping the procedure before Republicans were in the majority: COLLINS: Just for a moment, since you mentioned the filibuster and you said you should get rid of it, when Republicans were in the minority, you described it as “repeatedly defended,” as “vital and necessary to protect minority parties’ rights.” You said, “including by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and even Senator [Chuck] Schumer.” Why do you have a different position now that Republicans are in the majority?” SCOTT: Well, then, let’s do the filibuster. But it means you talk. I mean, we’re not making people talk. The filibuster was set up, so I’m fine with if we were going to do the filibuster, where people have to talk. The filibuster was used to say, we’re going to have a conversation, and then at some point, once we’re done, we vote. I’m fine with that. But we don’t make people talk. So if we’re not going to make people talk– COLLINS: But Republicans are in charge. SCOTT: –let’s get rid of it. COLLINS: I mean, this is– the only reason that’s still a thing is because Leader [John] Thune says y’all, Republicans, don’t have the votes to get rid of that. SCOTT: Well, I mean, look, I’m from Florida. This is what I believe in. I talk to the people in my state. They agree with me. I’ve been clear on what I believe. Every senator has got the… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- ‘Is That Really His Job?’ Anderson Cooper Clashes With Scott Jennings Over H...CNN host Anderson Cooper clashed with Scott Jennings on Thursday over Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Congressional testimony about the Iran war. Jennings joined AC360 to discuss Hegseth’s testimony to both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees over the last two days. The secretary told both groups that the “biggest adversary” facing the U.S. was the Democrats due to their lack of support for the war. “The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans,” he said. Cooper asked Jennings, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, about the remark, pressing him on whether the comment was “weird” considering the country was actively at war with a foreign power: COOPER: Obviously, he’s also speaking to President Trump and wants to stay in President Trump’s good graces. Is that the biggest adversary of the United States faces right now? Democratic lawmakers and some Republican lawmakers? JENNINGS: Well, the biggest adversary is the adversary, the people that we’re fighting. And that would be Iran. But here at home– COOPER: But that’s not what he’s saying. JENNINGS: But you do get the idea. And you do hear some Democrats say things like, well, Iran has been strengthened or– COOPER: But I understand that you said that. But is it weird that the Secretary of Defense, whose job is to talk about military matters, that this is his shtick, that this is his line? I get it plays with Donald Trump and the base, but does– is that really his job? JENNINGS: Well, I mean, it’s his point of view, and I don’t think it’s good for Democrats to go on TV and say, after a several week campaign of the U.S. military, somehow Iran’s military or their position is strengthened or in better shape. And honestly, too, Hegseth here, he gets banged on a lot. I saw Seth Moulton, a Democrat member of Congress, on our air last night, suggesting that he needed to be executed for war crimes. And so, there is a lot of rhetorical volleying going on here. And so I give him a little latitude on that because he’s taken a fair amount of incoming, but he’s there also to defend the military. He runs the military. He’s there to defend the military. And I don’t think you could argue with a straight face anything other than they… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Trump’s Approval Ratings on Inflation Are So Bad, Pollster Had to Redo Graph
Photo: Alex Brandon/AP Pollster G. Elliott Morris expressed shock at President Donald Trump’s abysmal approval numbers in a new poll, remarking that they were so low they “literally broke the scale” of the graph on his data portal. The polling numbers for Trump and the GOP have been brutal as his second term has progressed, with his immigration crackdown cratering his support, the handling of the Epstein files getting abysmal marks, and even Americans’ views on his handling of the economy taking body blows. The president’s recent social media posts and public comments about the Iran war sparked new chatter, with reporters openly asking him about his “mental health” and critics accusing him of advocating for war crimes. The Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll Morris was citing was taken earlier this month and had a margin of error of +/-2.6 percent. Thursday afternoon, Morris tweeted a link to his report discussing additional data from that April 10-14 poll on his Substack, along with a screenshot of a graph showing the president’s numbers taking a downward trajectory in every category that was surveyed. trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portalhttps://t.co/cLg7fEXIpF pic.twitter.com/gTmzhCZvTo — G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) April 30, 2026 “[T]rump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal,” wrote Morris, with the polling on “Inflation/cost of living” diving down below the rest of the lines on the graph, apparently necessitating a redesign to cover a lower range of numbers. As of April 30, the poll showed Trump’s approval on inflation and cost of living is 40.3 points underwater. That same poll also found that a majority of U.S. adults now supported impeaching Trump (55% support, 37% opposed, 8% unsure) — including about one out of every five people who voted for him in 2024.The post Trump’s Approval Ratings on Inflation Are So Bad, Pollster Had to Redo Graph first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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