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An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Military Fitness Experts Bash Hegseth’s Workout Videos — One Says NONE of Hi...
Screenshot via X. It sounds plausible to say that America has seen Pete Hegseth in a T-shirt and shorts more than any prior Secretary of Defense, but his technique in those workout videos he loves posting would get a flunking grade, according to several military fitness experts interviewed by The Atlantic. The Secretary of Defense has made physical fitness and appearance a core part of his focus since making the transition from a Fox & Friends Weekend host to leading the world’s powerful military. He’s scolded older officers for getting “fat,” barred troops with facial hair from events, and posted numerous videos of himself working out with members of the military. One recent video Hegseth posted showed him and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoting what they called “The Pete and Bobby Challenge,” which consists of trying to do at least 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in under ten minutes. Video clips of Hegseth and Kennedy went viral, with many commentators mocking Kennedy’s habit of working out in jeans and dissing the whole thing as cringy and awkward. I teamed up with @SecDef Hegseth for the "Pete & Bobby Challenge" — 50 pull-ups, 100 push-ups. This is the start of a nationwide push to get Americans fit again. We’re calling on our friend @SecDuffy to take the challenge. pic.twitter.com/TTlv9VvkCe — Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 19, 2025 Hegseth’s form is so bad, multiple military fitness experts said he “fails on form” the service’s tests based on his videos, according to a report by The Atlantic’s Tom Bartlett headlined “Pete Hegseth, You Call That a Pull-Up?” Bartlett noted that Hegseth and the agency he oversees are the ones recording, editing, posting, and heavily promoting these videos (which he mockingly refers to as “Boot Camp Pete” episodes), and he’s the one who declared strict and harsh judgment was the way to go on military fitness issues. With each one of these videos, Bartlett wrote, “critics skewer his form and mock his endurance,” dissing him as “all flex and no fundamentals.” In the video below declaring he “CRUSHED 44 reps” doing bench presses, Bartlett pointed out that Hegseth “doesn’t fully extend his arms, making the exercise far easier and inflating his total.” America’s @SECWAR CRUSHED 44 reps on the bench after a morning run with the troops yesterday in GTMO. pic.twitter.com/NSBs5pmZio — DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) June… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Artist Who Made Life-Sized Charlie Kirk Sculpture Says He Has No Buyers, But Peo...
Alexandra Buxbaum/Sipa USA via AP Images A sculptor who spent $100,000 to make a life-sized statue of the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk said he has no takers for the work, but multiple people have told him that they would like to urinate on it. Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated in September 2025 while speaking at Utah Valley University. Sergio Furnari, an Italian-born New York artist, told the Guardian he spent $100,000 of his own money making the statue, which depicts Kirk as he was before he was killed with a single bullet to the neck: sitting down while holding a microphone and wearing a shirt that says “FREEDOM.” Furnari said the bulk of the money was spent on steel, resin, and labor. While working on the statue, Furnari broke his foot after he tripped over a roll of tape in his studio. He said he believed that some wealthy individual would buy the figure. But, to add insult to literal injury, he has had no takers. “I was thinking that it was going to resonate with the world, with whoever, but man, people are strange out there,” Furnari said. “Meaning like, nobody is really coming up with support, especially financial support. So far I’ve spent all my money on this.” Instead, he said, he received a flood of messages from people saying they wanted to pee on the statue. Ironically, Furnari said he did not even like Kirk. “I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” he told the Guardian. “Like one thing that I couldn’t stand about him while he was alive [was] when he was talking about Palestine. [Kirk would say]: ‘Oh no, Palestine doesn’t exist.’ I thought: ‘Well, this guy must be out of his mind.’” Furnari said his financial situation is an “absolute nightmare” after spending $100,000 on his project. “People are cheap, man,” he said. “You know, people talk, talk – I know lots of people out there, and everybody’s so cheap. You know, like, it’s disgusting how cheap they are.” Tyler Robinson, 23, has been charged with murdering Kirk. So far, he has not entered a plea in the case.The post Artist Who Made Life-Sized Charlie Kirk Sculpture Says He Has No Buyers, But People Told Him They Want to Urinate On It first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Benny Johnson Mocks AOC for Adopting Southern Accent: ‘Very Cringe’
MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) “very cringe” adoption of a Southern accent during a Memphis rally. After Ocasio-Cortez spoke at the rally for House candidate and Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D) on July 17, many critics accused her of breaking out a faux southern accent, equipped with a heavy drawl as she repeated the word “behind.” “We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind,” she said in the speech. “We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind.” On Monday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also rallied for progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and she has campaigned with progressive activist Hasan Piker, who has blamed the U.S. for 9/11. Before he could seem to form a question, his guest, Johnson, jumped in. “You know, I’m surprised AOC is not trying to speak in an Arabic dialect when she is in Michigan,” Johnson said. “This is a theater kid-occupied government, Sean. We have been warning about this for a long time. It’s called live action role playing, LARPing. These people don’t know who they are or where they are, they will change their accents. It’s this change of your accent I can’t get over. Barack Obama does this, Hillary Clinton famously does this.” To prove his point, Johnson turned the tables, directing a question at Hannity. “Do you do this?” he asked Hannity. “You have millions of viewers across the south, you have millions of viewers in Texas, but I have never seen you do this show in a southern drawl, Sean. Why is that?” Hannity affirmed he had not altered his accent for viewers. In response, Johnson answered the “why is that?” of his own question. He claimed the reason Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez appear to alter their accents is because “they don’t know who they are,” in contrast to conservatives like Hannity. “The fundamental difference is these people don’t believe anything,” he said. “They don’t know who they are, they don’t know where they are from, and they don’t know what they stand for. People that know who they are, they don’t have to pander. You don’t use a Chinese accent when you go to a Chinese restaurant because you know who you are and where you’re from.” He continued: Conservatives have a fundamental bedrock of who we are as… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Laura Ingraham Calls on Trump to Get Out of Iran War Before the Elections: ‘Th...Fox News host Laura Ingraham called on President Donald Trump to find a way out of the Iran war that he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started in February. The U.S. bombed Iran for the 10th consecutive night on Monday after Iran strikes on Jordan killed two active-duty U.S. Army soldiers over the weekend. Another U.S. soldier was killed in Iraq while disposing of an Iranian drone. At least 17 U.S. soldiers have been killed since Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war in February. The conflict has intensified this month after a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran fell apart, leading Iran to re-close the vital Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. to reimpose its blockade of Iranian vessels in the Gulf of Oman. On Monday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle, the host urged Trump to find a palatable way to exit the conflict before the midterm elections: With the midterm elections a little more than 100 days away, the clock is ticking for President Trump to get out of this war before voters head to the polls. It’s making a lot of Republicans nervous. It’s already, as we know, unpopular. According to the new Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 69% of Americans disapprove of the handling of this conflict. Republicans cannot let this become an endless distraction, especially if they want to win in November. Just a few hours earlier on Fox News, Brit Hume hit a similar note, stating that Trump’s war had put the president – and by extension, Republicans – in a “tough spot.” “And he promised to keep us out of endless wars or unsatisfactory wars, and now he’s in one, and it’s not at all clear how it’s gonna end,” Hume said on Special Report. “So, he’s vulnerable on this point, and in political terms, he does need to get this over with. But what he may need his time, and he doesn’t have a lot of time.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Laura Ingraham Calls on Trump to Get Out of Iran War Before the Elections: ‘The Clock Is Ticking’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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