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- ‘Who the Hell Wrote That?’ Trump Stops Mid-Speech To Say He Doesn’t Know W...
President Donald Trump paused his prepared remarks on Thursday to confess he had “never heard” the term “corner store” before. The president was in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he touted last year’s passage of his “No Tax on Tips” policy, which was included in the omnibus budget the Republican-controlled Congress passed in July. The provision allows employees who receive tips to deduct up to $25,000 in tips when filing their taxes. Trump also boasted of the tax cuts included in the bill. While doing so, he was tripped up by the inclusion of the term “corner store,” which had been written into his speech. “The great big beautiful bill also slashed taxes on millions of Americans, small businesses, including restaurants, dry cleaners, corner stores,” the president said before pausing his speech. “What is a corner store? I’ve never heard that term. I know what a quarter store is, but I’ve never heard it described. A corner store. Who the hell wrote that, please?” Several people in the audience laughed at Trump’s admission. Corner stores, of course, are shops where patrons can purchase staples such as groceries, a term the president has also mused about publicly. “But a big thing on costs, you know, the new word is ‘affordability,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in November. “Another word is just ‘groceries.’ You know, it’s sort of an old-fashioned word, but it’s very accurate.” Elsewhere at the event, the president spoke derisively about a public relations stunt involving a “DoorDash Grandma” at the White House on Monday. “It was a little bit of a, you know, I mean, to be honest, it was a little tacky,” he said. “You know, they come up with these crazy ideas like McDonald’s.” He added, “They’re a little embarrassing.” Watch above via C-SPAN.The post ‘Who the Hell Wrote That?’ Trump Stops Mid-Speech To Say He Doesn’t Know What a ‘Corner Store’ Is first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Calls Own White House DoorDash Stunt ‘A Little Embarrassing’ President Donald Trump said Monday’s DoorDash public relations stunt at the White House “was a little tacky” and “a little embarrassing.” The president spoke Thursday at an event in Las Vegas, where he touted his “No Tax on Tips” policy, which was included in last year’s omnibus budget. Employees who receive tips may deduct up to $25,000 in tips for tax purposes. On Monday, “DoorDash Grandma” Sharon Simmons was summoned to the White House to deliver two bags of McDonald’s as part of a public relations gimmick. “You’re really nice. Would you like to do a little news conference with me?” Trump asked Simmons. “These are not the nicest people. They’re not nice like you. You know that, right?” “I’ll do whatever you ask me to do,” Simmons said. In Las Vegas, the president recalled the moment, which he admitted he was not exactly fond of: Earlier this week at the White House, I met a wonderful woman named Sharon Simmons, a grandmother driving DoorDash to help support her husband’s cancer treatment. He’s got serious cancer. He’s gonna be ok, I think. Sharon delivered McDonald’s to the Oval Office. It was a little bit of a, you know, I mean, to be honest, it was a little tacky. You know, they come up with these crazy ideas like McDonald’s, although that was the biggest ever on Google, they say. [?] Number one, ever. The garbage truck. I mean, we do these things in politics. They’re a little embarrassing. They’re a little tiny embarrassing, but we do them and you win by landslides, you know? It’s one of those. So, we gotta keep doing them. No, we’ve gotta knock the Oval Office door. This has not happened. That’s a first maybe in the history of the Oval Office. And it was a very beautiful woman standing there with two big bags of McDonald’s hamburgers. And I say, “Is this really believable?” DoorDash received backlash online from users who noted that Simmons testified before Congress in July to promote No Tax on Tips. At the time, she identified herself as a resident of Nevada. She has since moved to Arkansas and ostensibly became a D.C.-area DoorDash driver this week, if only for a day. “No one is claiming it was a real delivery,” DoorDash flack Julian Crowley responded. “It was clearly and obviously a planned event to mark a new policy… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Acting ICE Director Resigns
AP Photo/Tom Brenner Acting ICE chief Todd Lyons resigned from the agency on Thursday, submitting a resignation letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that noted his plans to stay on through May. Lyons will stay on to help with the transition as Mullin begins his new position after taking over from former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “Thanks to his leadership, American communities are safer,” Mullin said in a statement. “We wish him luck on his next opportunity in the private sector.” Mullin did not specify the reasons for Lyons’ departure after 20 years at the agency. Lyons was appointed to the agency in March of last year, replacing Caleb Vitello. He joined ICE in 2007. Lyons headed ICE throughout President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation, overseeing around 584,000 deportations, as well as the fatal shooting of Renee Good during Operation Metro Surge. Lyons declined to apologize to Good’s family at a congressional hearing in January. The following month, Lyons said that two officers involved in the January shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant had made “untruthful statements” under oath, and both officers were placed under investigation by the Justice Department. Border Czar Tom Homan was reportedly a close ally of Lyons, with the two more in line on deportation strategy than Noem or former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. The alleged difference of opinion between the two camps led to consistent rumors of friction at DHS. Homan told NBC on Thursday that under Lyons’ leadership, “ICE achieved a record number of removals in the first year of this Administration, despite unprecedented challenges.” “I commend him for a distinguished law enforcement career and the countless contributions he has made to protect our country and advance its interests,” said Homan. Lyons’ tenure under Trump was marked by the administration’s deportation agenda, which saw Lyons face the president and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller’s demand for thousands of immigrants to be deported a day. “Todd is a phenomenal patriot and dedicated leader who has been at the center of President Trump’s historic efforts to secure our homeland and reverse the Democrats’ sinister border invasion,” said Miller of Lyons’ time at ICE. Lyons was summoned to appear in court personally by a federal judge in January, who demanded that the chief explain why the agency failed to carry out court-ordered bond hearings for detained immigrants on multiple occasions. The acting ICE chief was hospitalized at… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Gavin Newsom’s PAC Spent $1.5 Million To Buy Copies of His Book
Marijan Murat/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images California Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) PAC spent over half a million dollars buying and distributing thousands of copies of his book to supporters, amounting to around two-thirds of the copies sold. Newsom’s move to send his book to supporters began in November, months before its February release date. The governor offered a free copy of Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery to anyone who donated. “Make a contribution of ANY AMOUNT today and I will send you a copy,” the email read. Newsom’s PAC, the Campaign for Democracy Committee, spent $1,561,875 to purchase and deliver the 67,000 copies of his book purchased through the donation program, The New York Times first reported. Of the 97,400 books sold since the book’s release, about two-thirds of sales came from Newsom’s program. “We were thrilled with the response,” a spokesperson for Newsom told The Times. “Our goal was to deepen the relationship between him and the millions of folks who have already expressed support for Governor Newsom’s work. And as it turns out, the tactic more than paid for itself.” The spokesperson also noted that the amount of money donated through the campaign was actually more than the PAC paid to purchase them, though he noted that the governor did not receive royalties from the book. The purchase of the books, made through the governor’s PAC to the Porchlight Book Company, amounted to the largest expenditure thus far this year. The PAC listed the purchase as “books at cost.” The governor’s team touted the sales of the book in a March press release alongside a map showing state-by-state sales. “With more than 91,000 copies sold through organic, in-person and online, non-bulk purchases in the United States, the memoir surged on bestseller lists within hours,” read the release. Newsom heavily promoted Young Man in a Hurry, the book tour for which created the viral, and trickily edited, exchange where the governor told a room, “I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy.” Fox News hosts and allies of President Donald Trump claimed the exchange, which omitted both Newsom’s discussion of living with dyslexia and a full view of the crowd, was racist, prompting fierce pushback from the governor.The post Gavin Newsom’s PAC Spent $1.5 Million To Buy Copies of His Book first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Steve Bannon Gets Laughed at When He Touts Banning Sharia Law in Texas: ‘Thatâ...Steve Bannon received audible laughs on Thursday when he told a crowd a proposition he supported banning “Sharia law” in Texas. Bannon spoke with Semafor’s Ben Smith at the outlet’s World Economy Summit, where the former advisor to President Donald Trump spoke about his vision for the future of the MAGA movement. Smith asked Bannon about the dominant role of money in politics, asking him why he believed some parts of the Republican party were stifled by corporate interests. “It doesn’t always get rolled,” said Bannon. “What I said last time, also, I said ‘Hey, you’re going to have two choices. You’re going to have Mangione or going to have what turned out to be Mamdani.’ Right, you’re going to have Mamdani’s populism on the left– I actually think it’s more of neo-Marxism and jihadism.” A loud laugh from the crowd interrupted Bannon, who turned to the audience to clarify his remarks. “But it’s very effective. What they’ve done is copy us on how to get out the vote,” he said. Smith later asked Bannon about his comparison between alleged murderer Luigi Mangione and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. In his response, Bannon drew laughs from the crowd both intentionally and unintentionally, going so far as to question the audience over their response to a policy he supported. Read their exchange below: SMITH: When you know, when you said this a year ago– you’ve got a choice between Steve Bannon and Luigi Mangione– I think people were kind of like pretty freaked out. BANNON: They didn’t know which one to choose, right? [LAUGHTER] SMITH: I think people in Washington right now are much less worried that that’s going to be the choice, and I wonder– and you said, you know, you say you think Republicans are going to take the House. That’s a very, you know, if you bet on that on Kalshi or Polymarket, you’re going to make a lot of money. BANNON: Well, hold on, when you say that, look at John Cornyn. John Cornyn spent eighty million to a hundred million dollars, the same old playbook to destroy Ken Paxton. We went down to Texas with Geert Wilders and Glenn Beck in January. We had a proposition on the ballot. We put a proposition on to galvanize people that was to prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas. [LAUGHTER] BANNON: Also to have uh– that’s funny? Is that funny?… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Trump Hurls Nasty Insults at Fox News Host: ‘One of the Least Attractive and T...
Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP President Donald Trump fired off an ugly Truth Social post after a Fox News host greatly displeased him. On Thursday’s edition of The Five, liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov brawled with her conservative colleagues. “The argument that you’re making against the Biden-Harris administration falls flat when you look at what the Trump administration is doing,” Tarlov told co-host Kellyanne Conway, saying Trump’s performance as president comes up short of former President Joe Biden’s. “Well, I’m gonna look at the fact that Trump got elected running against the Biden-Harris economy,” Conway replied. “And what do people think of him now?” Tarlov said of Trump. “He has a 35% approval rating in most polls.” Co-host Greg Gutfeld then bizarrely jumped in to say, “He’s not a politician.” “He is!” Tarlov noted. “Stop saying that he’s just the host of The Apprentice who came to save us.” “You can’t understand Trump because his political decisions align with his personal and patriotic ones,” Gutfeld insisted. “Personal ones, like his own bank account,” Tarlov responded, alluding to the self-enrichment of Trump and his family while in office. The president seemingly did not appreciate the segment. Posting on Truth Social, he demeaned Tarlov by calling her unattractive and claimed the polls she cited are fake: I’m on Air Force One heading to Las Vegas and Arizona for Greetings and Speeches on NO TAX ON TIPS, a WINDFALL for our Great American Citizens. I am watching one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television, Jessica Tarlov. Her voice is so grating and terrible, I had to “turn her off!” Her Democrat soundbites are FAKE. She makes up “Poll Numbers,” and nobody challenges her, because she is so boring. I have among the best Poll Numbers I have ever had, and why shouldn’t I, ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN. CNN had me at 100%, saying they never saw that before. GET HER OFF THE AIR, SHE IS BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY! I hear Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are dying fast. Their numbers are terrible. Nobody believes them anymore. They were FAKE MAGA, and now they’ve been exposed! President DJT Recent polling shows Trump with an approval rating in the high 30s to low 40s. Fox News did not respond to Mediaite when asked for comment. Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Hurls Nasty Insults at Fox News… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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