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- ‘False Premise’: Pete Hegseth Shuts Down Question About Israel Defying Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shut down a question from a reporter on Tuesday, rebutting the “false premise” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could pull President Donald Trump back into open conflict with Iran. The tense exchange came at the end of the Pentagon press briefing on the Iran conflict, when Zero Hedge White House correspondent Liam Cosgrove asked a lengthy question citing comments he attributed to Netanyahu and Israeli’s Mossad chief on the country’s “intent” to continue fighting “until the Iranian government collapses.” “They’re referring to the government that President Trump has brokered a ceasefire with and is working on a lasting peace in the region with. And so that’s something many Americans, especially American farmers, are hoping he does get to, a lasting peace,” Cosgrove said. He continued: “So if President Trump is successful in that and the Israelis are explicitly stating their intent to continue fighting at a later date, how can you assure America doesn’t get roped back into a war if that comes, and secondly, with Netanyahu comfortable tweeting something like that out and also Netanyahu has continued bombing Lebanon despite President Trump explicitly –” Before the the reporter could finish, Hegseth cut in. “I would say your question is based on the false premise that somehow President Trump is being pulled in by Prime Minister Netanyahu to any of these actions,” the defense secretary said. Before Cosgrove could counter, Hegseth quipped: “That’s where you’re going.” “Just to be clear,” he said. “President Trump has led at every step of this based on his view of American interests and America First. And we’re grateful that Israelis have been very capable partners at many steps of this and they may have some objectives that, at times, that are slightly different than ours, but there’s only one hand on the wheel ultimately directing this, whether it’s Project Freedom or previously Operation Epic Fury, and it’s President Trump.” He continued: “So we’re grateful for their input, their insights, the existential nature of the threat they face from an Iranian bomb, the capabilities that they can bring to that. But ultimately, the coordination will happen with the leadership of President Trump.” With that he ended the briefing. Watch above via Fox News.The post ‘False Premise’: Pete Hegseth Shuts Down Question About Israel Defying Trump first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.38 mins ago - Pete Hegseth Asked About Bizarre Report of ‘Kamikaze Dolphins’ in Strait of ...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were asked Tuesday about reports of Iran using “kamikaze dolphins” in the Strait of Hormuz. Since the beginning of the war, Iran has restricted passage through the waterway as a way to strain the global economy. That strain has caused energy prices to surge, with Americans seeing the cost of the war at the gas pump. Iran has also placed mines in the water to further discourage passage, and officials predict it could take six months to remove them. The tactic of using dolphins was mentioned last week in a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report read: Iranian officials said Tehran could use previously unused weapons to attack U.S. warships, from submarines to mine-carrying dolphins. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to step up escalation by cutting phone cables in the Strait of Hormuz, which would disrupt internet traffic globally. During a Tuesday morning press conference, Daily Wire correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan asked Hegseth to clarify the report that Iran could use “kamikaze dolphins” to block the strait. Amused by the idea, Caine claimed he wasn’t aware of the report and jokingly said, “Like sharks with laser beams, right?” Hegseth added: And I can’t confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don’t. Ultimately, any follow-on effort, if there are mines identified, would be something that some of our units could undertake or the world could undertake. But right no,w we know we have a lane of safe passage that commercial shipping can flow through. Watch above via MS NOW.The post Pete Hegseth Asked About Bizarre Report of ‘Kamikaze Dolphins’ in Strait of Hormuz: ‘Like Sharks With Laser Beams?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Bill O’Reilly Warns Republicans They’ll Get ‘Slaughtered’ in Midterms if...Bill O’Reilly offered Republican lawmakers a stiff warning: don’t get cute and try to move away from President Donald Trump heading into the 2026 midterms — because if you do, you’ll get “slaughtered” at the ballot box. O’Reilly shared his view on NewsNation on Monday night. “If you think that you can cut loose the most charismatic, populist president of the last 50 years, you’re crazy. You can’t,” O’Reilly said. “And if you try, you’re going to get slaughtered.” His answer came a moment after host Leland Vittert asked if there was “room for Republicans to move away from Trump.” O’Reilly replied with a flat “No,” before letting out a little laugh. “That’s the answer to that question, no,” O’Reilly continued. “He’s the ship and you’re either gonna sail with it or go down with it.” Vittert asked him the question after playing a clip of Karl Rove giving his advice to GOP lawmakers on Fox News last Sunday. Rove argued Republicans need to make their case to the American people why they’re better than Democrats, rather that just leaning on their ties to Trump. “Most important of all, they’ve gotta show they have another act. Not just ‘Vote for me because of what I’ve done.’ But ‘vote for me because of what I want to do. Here is the agenda I’m going to work hard for in my next term,’” Rove said. “And that agenda has to come from them — it can’t be given from the leadership, can’t come from the president. It has to come from them.” When Vittert asked O’Reilly if he felt Rove was “wrong,” the former Fox News star said Rove was not telling Republicans to shun Trump. “What Rove is talking about is that he wants the individual people running for office in November to be better campaigners, to connect with the voters in an emotional way,” O’Reilly said. “And of course that would be best for the Republican Party if that were to happen.” But ditching Trump would not wise, he added. Their analysis comes as the Dems enjoy a fairly cushy lead in most polls; the one major outlier is Harvard’s latest poll showing the two parties tied heading into November. Watch above via NewsNation.The post Bill O’Reilly Warns Republicans They’ll Get ‘Slaughtered’ in Midterms if They Shun Trump first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Rachel Maddow Twists Knife on Trump Over Disastrous Polls: ‘Minus 25 Is as Goo...MS NOW host Rachel Maddow twisted the knife on President Donald Trump over the latest disastrous polling numbers, noting that his minus 25-point net approval rating was “as good as it gets” in the poll. Aside from the occasional outlier — like the “100 percent” MAGA poll that Trump bragged long and hard about — Trump has been showered with bad polling news for most of his second term. Recent surveys reflect all-time low approval ratings and disastrous numbers with independents that even led pro-Trump host Megyn Kelly to remark, “You’re effed!” if those numbers don’t change. On Monday night’s edition of MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the host took a couple of minutes in her A-block commentary to relish the latest bad polling news for Trump: RACHEL MADDOW: They are not great at this. They are really not great at this. Politically, they’re not great at this either it turns out. In an environment where the Republican Party is embodied essentially entirely by their leader, where nobody — nobody else is allowed the oxygen to thrive or speak. The latest Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll has Trump negative 25 overall. He’s 25 points underwater on his overall approval rating. And that’s kind of a high point for him in this poll. Minus 25 is kind of as good as it gets on the economy. His approval rating is 31 points underwater. On the Iran war, his approval rating is 33 points underwater. On inflation. Trump’s approval rating is 45 points underwater. On Trump’s handling of the cost of living, which is effectively what he ran on to get a second term in the White House, Trump is 53 points underwater, 76 percent of the country disapproves of Trump’s handling of the cost of living. He’s minus 53. As, among other things, his war of whim, his war of impulse, this war of choice that he doesn’t even seem to understand drags on with no end in sight and the energy crisis he caused by starting this inexplicable war just gets worse and worse with gas prices continuing their steady, steep rise. They are really, really not great at this. They’re not good at this. Watch above via MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Show.The post Rachel Maddow Twists Knife on Trump Over Disastrous Polls: ‘Minus 25 Is as Good as It Gets’ for Trump first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Mark Halperin Rips The New York Times Over Its New ‘Heroes’: Tucker Carlson ...
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Mark Halperin criticized The New York Times over its recent treatment of far-right online personalities Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, arguing that the Gray Lady is treating the pair like “heroes” now that they’ve broken with President Donald Trump. “Over the weekend, Tucker Carlson interview with The New York Times dropped — New York Times is so funny. Their heroes now are people who used to support Donald Trump, but no longer do. If you supported Donald Trump like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Tucker, and now you’re adverse to Trump, boy, The New York Times loves you,” marveled Halperin on Monday’s edition of 2WAY’s The Morning Meeting. “All of a sudden, Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson are the two finest people in America. It’s very funny. I’m also thinking about Graham Platner. Guys, imagine there was a Republican Senate candidate in a targeted race, like a really-, one of the critical races determining control of the Senate. And imagine the Republican nominee, okay, beat an establishment candidate and that Republican nominee had a tattoo that was a Nazi symbol up until recently, and had said things about rape, and about all sorts of controversial things. Imagine if that were a Republican.” “The New York Times is so funny,” says @MarkHalperin, remarking on the Times’ big interview with Tucker Carlson. “Their heroes now are people who used to support Donald Trump, but no longer do. If you supported Donald Trump, like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Tucker, and now now… pic.twitter.com/AKuK3Go7QE — 2WAY (@2waytvapp) May 5, 2026 Carlson sat down with the Times‘ Lulu Garcia-Navarro in a new interview that both Carlson’s friends and detractors characterized as being relatively friendly, given the pair’s facially distinct politics. “I really think she [Garcia-Navarro] tries to be fair,” submitted Megyn Kelly, who has defended Carlson from charges of anti-Semitism amid his promotion of various conspiracy theories and relentless focus on Israel, in her review of the conversation. “She, I thought, did a very nice job with Tucker.” After Garcia-Navarro described the conversation as being “intense” on X, The Manhattan Institute’s Jesse Arm pushed back. “If you watch the full interview, it’s pretty clear the conversation was far from ‘intense.’ There are a few moments of mild, respectful pushback, but it’s largely a cordial, friendly, and agreeable exchange,” argued Arm. “There is a reason the New York Times constantly… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘Ungrateful!’ Noah Rothman and Adam Mockler Throw Down Over American Soldier...National Review writer Noah Rothman accused anti-Trump influencer Adam Mockler of being “immensely ungrateful” to U.S. service members in a heated throwdown on CNN’s NewsNight after the liberal pundit likened the president’s “failing” war in Iran to the “two failed wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. During Tuesday’s show, host Abby Phillip asked Mockler about polls showing a “generational divide” over the Iran conflict when he warned that he did not “trust the process line” coming from lawmakers who promoted past wars that he said turned into “a grinding counterinsurgency” and cost trillions of dollars. He argued that millennials “grew up” in the 2000s reading “headlines” that promoted the wars’ success but claimed that they had left the world “less safe.” Gen Z voters, he said, were experiencing the same distrust over the Iran conflict. Responding, Rothman said: “Yeah, I don’t think so. I think honestly, Adam, that’s immensely ungrateful to American service personnel and the people who keep us safe every day.” Revisiting the wars that took place after 9/11, Rothman argued that Mockler’s view was “frankly dismissive” of personnel he said were working to “stop” adversaries “executing attacks on Americans and their allies.” “And I just think it’s just ungrateful to say that service personnel are not keeping you safe when they are,” he added. Mockler replied: “No, I feel less safe due to the actions of our leaders. I’m incredibly grateful for our servicemen.” Co-panelist Hal Lambert cut in to lambast Mockler’s point, to which he shot back: “Hold up! Let me finish, he was talking to me!” After an intervention from Phillip, Mockler rounded on Rothman: “You are doing the exact same thing that I just laid out in the opening. You’re telling young people they shouldn’t be asking questions, they shouldn’t be questioning the people in power –” “I would love for you to ask questions about-” Rothman started. “What was ungrateful about what I said? I said the leaders are making us less safe, and I can prove that,” Mockler said. “Right now Iran has control over the Strait of Hormuz, and that is a weapon they didn’t have control of two months ago.” “Of course they did!” Rothman countered. “They shut down the Strait of Hormuz in the 80s, and we opened it up in the 80s!” Lambert cut in, warning Iran would “blackmail the world” if it had a nuclear weapon… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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