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AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump became so enraged by photos of a small crowd at his rally kicking off the Great American State Fair that White House officials deleted the images from their social media accounts, CNN reported on Wednesday. The overall event has drawn paltry attendance. Last week, Trump gave a 30-minute address to commence the ongoing State Fair, where he boasted of his accomplishments ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration on July 4. That speech, which he gave after most of the planned musical acts withdrew from the event, was sparsely attended. The president is also scheduled to give a speech on Saturday, when the temperature in Washington, D.C. is expected to exceed 100 degrees. He has vowed to give a “really long speech.” “I do not understand why we are doing this so late,” an anonymous White House official told CNN. “I’m really not sure who thought this was a good idea.” CNN also reported that Trump was “livid” upon seeing aerial images of the crowd size at his speech last week: Trump announced he would headline the event instead and spoke for roughly 30 minutes, most of which he spent recounting his accomplishments and boasting about America’s revival under his administration. Though he wasn’t initially aware of the size of the crowd, he later saw an aerial photo that showed acres of sparsely populated fields beyond the audience that had crowded around the stage. The visual enraged him, the sources said, and multiple White House officials who had posted the photo deleted their posts. The revelation led to a defensive Trump lashing out on social media, claiming that the crowds were “packed to the brim.” In May, Trump announced that he would replace the musical acts that had bailed. “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote on Trith Social, “the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate “Artists,” and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Mysterious Polymarket Bettor Makes Massive Wager That Putin Will Be Out of Power...
Evan Vucci/AP photo An unknown bettor on the Polymarket gambling website plunked down $400,000 on Russian President Vladimir Putin no longer being president by the end of 2026. The wager comes as Ukraine has been hitting targets deep inside Russian territory amid the ongoing war, which began with Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022. NBC News first reported the big wager on Wednesday night. Ukrainian forces used drones to hit targets in Moscow and have disrupted fuel supplies by bombing oil refineries while stepping up efforts to cleave off Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Russia has responded with a wave of drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. The bettor’s account, which was created in May, is @ZnotluvuiSamez and has a Ukrainian flag as its profile image. That person has also bet that Ukraine will retake Crimea before 2027. The odds do not seem particularly favorable to the bettor, who is facing slightly better than 6:1 odds. If the $400,000 bet hits and Putin is out by 2027, the payout will be around $2.5 million. Putin has been Russia’s president since December 1999, save for the years between 2008 and 2012, when he wielded power via then-President Dmitry Medvedev because the Russian constitution bars presidents from serving more than two six-year terms, a provision that Putin has circumvented via political gimmicks. In April, the Department of Justice charged a U.S. Army soldier who participated in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in early January. The indictment alleges that Gannon Ken Van Dyke made more than $400,000 on Polymarket by betting on Maduro’s ouster. “Those bets all took the ‘YES’ position on ‘U.S. Forces in Venezuela . . . by January 31, 2026’; ‘Maduro out by . . . January 31, 2026’; ‘Will the U.S. invade Venezuela by . . . January 31,’; or ‘Trump invokes War Powers against Venezuela by . . . January 31,’” the complaint states. “Van Dyke bet a total of approximately $33,034 on those outcomes while in possession of classified nonpublic information about Operation Absolute Resolve.The post Mysterious Polymarket Bettor Makes Massive Wager That Putin Will Be Out of Power By Year’s End first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Hannity Abruptly Changes Topic After Fetterman Mentions Scandal-Ridden Republica...
Fox News host Sean Hannity quickly changed the subject when Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) began talking about scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). In May, Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Texas. The attorney general has been; indicted on criminal state securities fraud charges in 2015; hit with federal civil fraud charges in 2016; accused by former staff members of taking bribes; impeached by the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives; accused of adultery by his wife; and has been accused of abusing his office to help a friend and donor, who reportedly employed Paxton’s mistress as a favor. Paxton will face Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November. Polls show an unusually close race in the Lone Star State. Fetterman has become something of a regular on Fox News, where he readily bashes other Democrats for being too progressive and/or insufficiently pro-Israel. On Wednesday’s Hannity, however, Fetterman began veering away from the standard fare by criticizing Paxton. The host responded by redirecting Fetterman away from the candidate and toward “radical views” in the Democratic Party. The senator invoked Graham Platner, the embattled Democratic Senate candidate in Maine. “He has a little Platner energy,” Fetterman told Hannity. “I worked with John Cornyn. He’s a rock-ribbed conservative. He has respect across the aisle. Now, Texas picked Paxton–” “Let me ask you the big question,” Hannity interjected, apparently uninterested in hearing Fetterman’s criticism of a Republican. “The big question to me is, the leaders of your party, the Chuck Schumers, the Hakeem Jeffries, why are they so fearful to speak out and take on these radical views that the Democratic Party never supported before?” Fetterman obliged by slamming the democratic socialists who have recently scored major upsets in Democratic primaries, particularly in New York, where three of them coasted to victory.The post Hannity Abruptly Changes Topic After Fetterman Mentions Scandal-Ridden Republican Candidate first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘Let Me Finish!’ De Blasio Scolds Hannity in Heated ExchangeFormer New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio repeatedly clashed with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday, at one point snapping, “Let me finish!” as the two sparred over Democratic socialist candidates. Commenting on the right’s condemnation of the Democratic Party’s socialist swing, de Blasio said that President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement “to a lot of mainstream Republicans, was considered absolutely radical… and yet, it tapped into something that a lot of Americans were concerned about.” “I don’t know why there’s a double standard here,” he added of Democratic socialists. Hannity went on to bring up a candidate supported by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — Darializa Avila Chevalier, who just won the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District. Their exchange continued: HANNITY: She wants to abolish the police completely. Let’s go through it all. She wants to abolish America’s prisons completely. She wants no American borders completely. She doesn’t want anybody deported, even people, illegals, convicted of murder and rape. A day after Oct. 7, she showed up at a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square. That would be the equivalent of losing 40,000 Americans in a day, if you extrapolate out the population. Brags about using the American flag to wipe her hands. Now, is that your party? Is that who you are? Would you vote for her? DE BLASIO: Sean, the question is why did the people of that district vote for her? And I’ll tell you why. HANNITY: No, no, no, no, no. That’s your question. I asked you a different question. My question is simple. Hang on! Would you vote for her? DE BLASIO: She is the Democratic nominee. I would vote for her, yes, but let me tell you what’s going on here. HANNITY: Wow. DE BLASIO: Sean, you can do your lists, but what’s really happening is she spoke out against what America has been doing in the Middle East, and a lot of Americans, you know, Sean, a clear majority of Americans do not think we should be in a war with Iran, including a lot of people supporting Donald Trump. A clear majority of Americans think that what the [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu government has done in Israel to the Palestinian people is wrong. Wait, wait, wait. Let me finish! HANNITY: We’re not talking about Israel. No, no, no. We’re not talking about Israel. DE… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Reporter Details Bizarre Trump Demand: ‘It Was Important to Him To Have a Full...President Donald Trump demanded that White House staff ensure the Residence was equipped with a full carpeted bathroom upon taking office again, according to the authors of a new book. New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman discussed their book, Regime Change, on Wednesday’s All In on MS NOW, where host Chris Hayes read an excerpt describing the unusual request. “New carpet was laid in the bathroom on Inauguration Day, as before,” the authors wrote. “Trump’s preference for a fully carpeted bathroom had posed a challenge for the Residence staff during his first term. The portion nearest the shower would often be soaked through; the staff was never quite sure why, but they worried about mold growing underneath.” Hayes confessed that he had not seen such an arrangement. “I’ve never in my life encountered carpeting in the bathroom, but this apparently is a real Donald Trump must-have,” he said. “Yes,” Swan replied. “It was important to him to have a fully carpeted bathroom and Residence staff solution to the damp problem, or the potential mold problem was to get essentially a small piece of carpet and overlay it as if it was a bath mat on top of the carpet in front of the shower, and then substitute and rotate that carpeting. So, we do have some details from inside the residence, including some disputes and tensions between the president and the First Lady over the interior decorating and renovating.” Swan and Haberman reported that the president and First Lady Melania Trump repeatedly clashed over the interior decorating in the White House. “I think it was a pretty one-sided battle,” Haberman told CNN last week. “But it is absolutely true that while she was not there, in the early stages of this second presidency, the president was very focused, as he has been a lot, on decorating and decor, and she had items in the center hall of the residence that were put where, as the residence staff understood, she wanted them to be.” She added that when the First Lady was absent, Trump would take some of the items and put them in his room or the Oval Office. Watch above via MS NOW.The post Reporter Details Bizarre Trump Demand: ‘It Was Important to Him To Have a Fully Carpeted Bathroom’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
- Trump Voter Tells MS NOW the President ‘Has Enough Money Already’ and to ‘...Two individuals who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 told MS NOW on Wednesday that he “should just concentrate on being the president,” adding that he “has enough money already.” The interview, conducted by MS NOW’s Laura Barrón-López, took place at Trump’s Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., where sparse crowds have drawn widespread attention in recent days. Barrón-López asked the voters about Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure report, which went public this week, and revealed the president earned roughly $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures last year. “Do you think that’s appropriate for the president to be doing while he’s in office?” the MS NOW reporter asked. “I actually don’t,” replied one of the voters. “No. I don’t think that’s appropriate. I think, you know, if you’re in the office, take your salary; your investments are in the hands of third parties that you don’t have any influence over.” “I think he should just concentrate on being the president,” the other voter added to MS NOW. “I think he has enough money already.” MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace went on to repeat the comment that Trump “has enough money already,” adding, “I do too, but those folks are people who voted for Donald Trump 18 months ago.” Those voters aren’t the only ones raising concerns. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published a pointed critique of the Trump family’s financial dealings on Wednesday, accusing them of “cashing in on the Presidency in big and sketchy ways.” The piece pointed to the family’s crypto earnings, foreign business ties, and investments connected to government-backed projects before arguing that, even if legal, the arrangements amounted to “an unseemly display of using the Presidency for family profit.” “Americans, and especially his supporters, deserve better from this or any President,” the WSJ editorial board concluded. Watch the full clip above via MS NOW.The post Trump Voter Tells MS NOW the President ‘Has Enough Money Already’ and to ‘Just Concentrate’ on Job first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
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