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- Top NYT Reporter Calls on Journos to ‘Rethink’ Annual White House Correspond...
The New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker said it is time for the White House Correspondents’ Association to “rethink” its annual dinner with the president, after the event with President Donald Trump did not “advance” the First Amendment. Baker shared his two cents on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in a Saturday post on X, one day after it happened. The WHCD was rescheduled from April 25, when the bash ended just minutes after it started due to yet another assassination attempt on Trump. “Have been a member of the WHCA almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did advance that cause,” Baker posted. “Time to rethink the dinner.” Baker’s wife, The New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, seemed disgusted with the event as well. She posted on Friday, “#FirstAmendment. If journalists won’t stand up for it, hard to ask everyone else to.” Baker’s comments stand out, considering just two years ago he received the WHCD award for “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure.” He was honored for his coverage of then-President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel just days after the 10/7 Hamas terrorist attack; Baker smiled and shook Biden’s hand after receiving the award, plus a $2,500 prize to go along with it. Baker and Biden at the 2024 WHCD (Credit: The Washington Post on YouTube) The Trump-Baker relationship hasn’t been as friendly, though. Trump went off on Baker, his wife, and his colleague Maggie Haberman — and the “SICK” and “TRUMP DERANGED” NYT editors — early in his second term. “The Failing New York Times insists on using Liddle’ Peter Baker, a really bad writer and Obama biographer and sycophant, to write many of the long and boring Fake News hit pieces against me,” Trump posted in March 2025. “The only two people with less talent than Peter are his ‘wife,’ the lovely Susan Glasser, and, of course, Maggot Hagerman, who may be the least talented writer in the entire stable of New York Times’ MEDIOCRITY!” His post came a month after Baker wrote Trump had “demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions” since returning to the Oval Office. More recently, Baker said Trump’s threats against Iran and… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Podcaster Tim Dillon Recounts His ‘Lovely Experience’ With Andrew Tate And B...
Podcaster Tim Dillon recounted a “lovely experience” he had with Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate at a steakhouse in Bucharest, Romania, as the brothers now face extradition from the U.S. to the U.K. to face 59 charges of rape, human trafficking, child porn, and other crimes. “These Tate brothers can’t catch a break these days, huh?” Dillon began on Saturday’s show. “You know, I met them in Romania. I interviewed them on the Patreon, and this was years ago, and they were lovely and they took me to a steakhouse. I was in Romania to do a gig…and I hit up the Tates, and I said, ‘You know, you have any recs, any recommendations?’ And they go, ‘We know who exactly who you are, we’ll pick you up from the airport.’ And they did.” Dillon continued: And they came in their Rolls Royces, and they truly were — now I know they’re accused of raping, human trafficking, whatever, but let me just say my piece first, and then I’ll get to that, I’ll get to that. They were truly lovely, we had a lovely meal, we went to their home, we did a podcast, they were lovely people. Do I, can I like, am I like saying they’re pure of spirit? I don’t know. I’m just saying my personal experience with them — “They’re accused of choking women, sometimes until they passed out, then raping them.” Again, not good, that’s from The New York Times, my producer highlighting that. I understand that, I’m getting to that, and I appreciate you highlighting that, as I talk about how lovely our dinner was, thank you very much for doing that. We are against that here at the Tim Dillon Show, choking women until they pass out and then raping them. Obviously wrong, we get it…now I’ve never been for it. “We want justice for the women or whatever,” Dillon said. “I mean, and I don’t mean to minimize it when I say ‘whatever.’ I don’t really know what’s going on over there, I mean because this has been a saga for years with them. They keep arresting them, they keep going there, they’re running this ‘trafficking ring’ and then they keep popping up again in Miami in a nightclub.” Dillon added, “So, I don’t know what’s going on. So, are they running a trafficking ring and are they like… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Trump Debating Large-Scale War Against Iran If He Doesn’t Get ‘100%’ Of Wh...
Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo President Donald Trump said he is open to full-on assault on Iran if he does not get everything he wants out of the enemy. The president was asked about potentially ramping up the war on Saturday by Sonia Dridi, a White House correspondent for French TV news outlet LCI. “I just asked on the phone President Trump if he was considering resuming a full-scale war with Iran,” Dridi said, according to the X translation of her post in French. Trump told her, “if we don’t get 100% of what we want, absolutely.” Dridi did not mention if Trump said what he is looking for in particular, but the president has insisted for months Iran can never obtain nuclear weapon, among other demands for ending the war. Je viens de demander à @POTUS au s'il envisageait de reprendre 1 guerre à grande échelle contre l'Iran “Si nous n'obtenons pas 100 % de ce que nous voulons,absolument”“Avez-vous un message pour vos alliés européens?”“Ils ont de la chance de m'avoir comme ami” @LCI @TF1Info — Sonia Dridi (@Sonia_Dridi) July 25, 2026 Her post coincided with Axios reporting Trump halted a U.S. strike on Iran on Friday night. Trump had received a plan for a new round of strikes, but held off on approving them after the U.S. had hit Iran for 13 straight days prior. The 13 consecutive days of attacks followed Iran striking a Cyprus-flag ship in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, violating the fragile ceasefire. Trump launched retaliatory strikes in response, and Iran killed two American troops with a missile and drone strike on a military base in Jordan on July 17. Trump’s paused strike on Iran came after he told Axios reporter Barak Ravid the enemy had not suffered enough “pain” yet. “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump said. As Mediaite’s David Gilmour noted: Trump separately warned on Truth Social that the U.S. would hold Iran responsible if the Iran-backed Houthi rebels launch further attacks on ships in the Red Sea, after threatening a blockade there. Calling the Houthis an Iranian proxy, he said “major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis themselves.” The president told Axios on Thursday he is “close” to deciding on the huge attack.The post Trump… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Abby Phillip Mocks Republican Argument Olive Garden Has More Security Than Elect...CNN star Abby Phillip has no problem with Americans being required to show ID at Olive Garden. But when it comes to federal elections, it makes her want to hurl. The anchor made her feelings clear during a Saturday segment on Table for Five, where Phillip reported Olive Garden was requiring customers to provide ID to buy its “Never Ending Pasta Pass.” Phillip said Republicans have “seized” on the announcement to push for the SAVE America Act, which would require ID to vote in federal elections. She then played a handful of clips of right-wing lawmakers and pundits griping the Italian-ish food chain has a stiffer verification process than the U.S. Government. Phillip quipped about it after. “I love me some pasta and salad. However, it ain’t a constitutional right, as last I checked, to be able to go into an Olive Garden and buy and eat as much pasta a you want,” Phillip said. “However, voting is.” Her public proclamation she is a pasta lover drew some chuckles from the panel. She continued by saying, “Voting is the one thing that everyone who is a citizen has a right to do without impediment, period.” Phillip’s comments follow President Donald Trump calling on Republican lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act for months. The legislation has stalled multiple times in the Senate, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday Trump’s “patience is running out” with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) over it. Table for Five panelist Kmele Foster said he understood where Phillip was coming from and that he was not worried about mass voter fraud. But he said Democrats are wrong to dismiss calls for voter ID completely. “This actually resonates with plenty of people, like showing your ID to do something basic,” he said. “I go to pick up my kids from daycare, I show my ID. There are so many times a day where I have to do that, it’s not an unreasonable request.” Still, he said Republican have bad messaging on the issue as well. Foster said they would have been better off calling it the “Common Sense Voting Act.” Watch above.The post Abby Phillip Mocks Republican Argument Olive Garden Has More Security Than Elections: ‘Ain’t a Constitutional Right’ to Eat Pasta first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Tucker Carlson Slammed for ‘Stoking Anti-Jewish Fervor’ By Longtime Guest: â...
(Photos via: The Tucker Carlson Network on YouTube and Fox News) A former recurring guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show said the pundit has morphed into an unrecognizable Jew hater who is “far more dangerous than Candace Owens.” Investigative journalist and author Gerald Posner went off on Carlson in a lengthy X post on Saturday, saying he never would have bet Carlson would go from the “provocative and smart” rising media star he met in the ’90s to the Israel-obsessed podcaster he has now become. “I never saw a glimpse of the person who has emerged since he left FOX— someone who finds a byzantine conspiracy behind every major story, who has turned ‘America First’ into cover for old antisemitic tropes and an anti-Israel fervor that at times makes him a modern-day Father Coughlin — the radio priest whose 1930s broadcasts to tens of millions of Americans made him the most notorious antisemitic demagogue in U.S. media history,” Posner posted. Posner’s post included pictures from a handful of his appearances on Carlson’s Fox show over the years. He said he does not believe Carlson started pushing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content because he needs money or because he craves the spotlight; this is purely “ideological,” Posner said. “I believe we are finally seeing the real Tucker Carlson,” he said. “I’d once have said “‘or better or worse’ — there is no ‘better’ in this version of him. He is one of the most prominent voices stoking anti-Jewish fervor at a moment when antisemitic violence is at record levels.” He continued, “In some ways he’s far more dangerous than Candace Owens, because he’s a sharper, a more practiced debater, someone who can twist facts into a narrative that millions of his followers find compelling.” Six years ago Tucker Carlson said, "Gerald Posner may be the best known and most thorough investigative reporter in this country." I wish I could still recognize the man who said it. I first met him in 1995, when I was writing a biography of Ross Perot and he was a 26-year-old… https://t.co/7YXGVK7yB2 pic.twitter.com/3dQdhagyQA — Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) July 25, 2026 Posner’s post comes after Carlson has made bashing Israel a fixture of his show. Carlson has also claimed on multiple occasions Israel strong-armed President Donald Trump into launching the Iran war, including last week when he said the president was too “weak” to… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Megyn Kelly Rips Michigan Senate Candidate Haley Stevens’ Accent and Calls Her...Megyn Kelly ripped Michigan Senate candidate Haley Stevens (D-MI), playing video of the politician’s apparently changed accent and laughing at a now viral TMZ clip of Stevens in the halls of Congress. Stevens, first elected in 2019, is locked in a tight primary race with progressive Abdul El-Sayed, who has been confronted for past statements calling to “defund the police” and has courted controversy for campaigning with Hasan Piker, once claimed “America deserved 9/11.” The Democratic Party has backed Stevens, who recently earned Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) endorsement. But conservative podcaster and journalist Kelly was quick to point out Stevens’ apparently changed accent, which became a hot topic after TMZ’s interview went viral. “I am gonna be workin’ on our behalf, I am gonna be tellin’ the stories on our behalf,” Stevens says in the clip. “And you better believe I’m gonna be doin’ it with a little bit of joy, a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy, and a little bit of ‘stick it to ’em!’ Because that’s the Michigan way!” “I sound like the people who I’m trying to fight for,” Stevens says in the clip. Kelly wasn’t buying it. “This woman, she’s not playing it straight. We’ll show you the proof. Um, this is not how she’s always talked. She’s Jasmine Crockett,” Kelly said. “That’s what we’re realizing. This is a new Jasmine Crockett. Like, but I don’t get it, because do Michiganders need you to ‘speak like this in order to vote for ya, with the back in your throat, have your hard A’s,” Kelly said, imitating a stereotypical Michigan accent as she spoke. “No I don’t think so, I don’t think they require that, because that’s not how any other Michigan politician talks,” she added, later playing older clips of Stevens’ speaking with less of a notable accent. Later guest Emily Jashinsky made fun of Kelly’s attempted Michigan accent. “That was such an offensive Midwestern accent from you, Megan. I can’t even begin,” Jashinsky said. “Well, I am imitating this woman, not Midwesterners. That’s the problem for her,” Kelly said. “She’s the offensive one,” Jashinsky said. Jashinsky added the accent change is ammunition for Republicans. “She’s been in politics for a long time. It is just an absolutely ridiculous act that, if she beats Abdul El-Sayed, will bite her in the… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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