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- Trump Goes on Posting Spree and Shares Friendly Xi Pics and AI Video of Him Blow...
(Photo Credit: @RealDonaldTrump on Truth Social) President Donald Trump went on a Saturday afternoon posting spree that included him posting chummy pictures from his recent visit to China and the president sharing an AI-generated video of a U.S. battleship blowing up an Iranian fighter jet. The video included the now-viral clip from last week of Trump playing drums on his Oval Office desk and acting like he was entering directions into a computer. “Buh ba ba ba bah, okay, we have it in our sight,” Trump said in it. “Fire, boom.” That clip was used in the Saturday video to make it look like he perfectly timed striking the Iranian jet and blowing it to bits. You can see that clip below: New media post from Donald J. Trump ( TruthSocial: May 16 2026, 1:41 PM ET ) pic.twitter.com/aIl3NhR1sj — Donald J Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) May 16, 2026 Trump posted a lot of other content on Saturday too. That included several pics of him walking alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping, as well as this one of the two shaking hands: The president followed that up with a meme mocking ex-President Joe Biden for looking lost when he met Xi: Trump also signaled to Iran that he is ready for the war to continue. The president posted a picture of him towering over a Navy ship and pointing forward with the caption “It was the Calm Before the Storm.” Trump is flanked by a very serious-looking admiral in the pic: Trump told reporters before he left for China last week that he was thinking about ending the month-long ceasefire and restarting attacks on Iran. “We’re either going to make a deal or they’re going to be decimated,” Trump said on May 12. He added a post on Saturday afternoon about the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump said the project is costing a “small fraction” of the $355 million he said ex-Presidents Biden and Barack Obama spent on it. He also bragged that the 2,030 foot long pool would be taller than the Empire State Building and Sears Tower if it was a skyscraper, before adding the project will hopefully be done by the Fourth of July.The post Trump Goes on Posting Spree and Shares Friendly Xi Pics and AI Video of Him Blowing Up an Iranian Fighter Jet… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Ari Melber Warns Trump’s Potential IRS ‘Slush Fund’ Could Bankroll New Ins...
MS NOW’s Ari Melber warned that Donald Trump’s potential “IRS slush fund” — that he reportedly wants for dropping his massive lawsuit against the IRS — could end up bankrolling his cronies, pardoned J6 rioters, and even a brand-new insurrection. ABC News first reported on Thursday about the plan for Trump to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns in exchange for the creation of the $1.7 billion fund. ABC added more details Saturday that the alleged deal would include a “Truth and Justice Commission” that would pay out slush fund money to Americans who were “unfairly targeted” by the IRS and Justice Department. “The people convicted of violence against the United States, against police, targeting lawmakers, calls to assassinate officials? Those are the people that, under this reported plan, would get your taxpayer money,” Melber said on Saturday’s The Beat: Weekend. “The deeper question is why Donald Trump, who has no more elections yet to run, is so interested, so fixated, on using or abusing a legal process to fund these people. He already freed them from prison, which remains one of his greatest scandals of his term,” Melber said. “Some of these people were convicted of sedition against the United States. They were supposed to serve for over a decade. Now, they might, under this plan, profit.” Melber continued, “Trump’s slush fund could go beyond those so-called foot soldiers or militia members. ABC says it could also be routed to anyone else who says the Biden administration weaponized the legal system against them,” including people like election deniers Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell. Melber said that the push to go further than pardoning the guilty “raises the question of why he doesn’t just want these people out free roaming the streets, many of them, of course, former convicts. But why he wants them incentivized, on his team, with his money to potentially do what they did last time, or do it again with more success.” Watch the clip above via MS NOW.The post Ari Melber Warns Trump’s Potential IRS ‘Slush Fund’ Could Bankroll New Insurrection first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - New York Magazine Writer Accused of Plagiarism for the Second Time in a Week
(Photo Credit: Ross Barkan during a 12/25 appearance on The Honest Broker podcast on YouTube) New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan has been accused of “heavily” plagiarizing a report about President Donald Trump’s “covert” operations in Venezuela — just days after he was accused of ripping off a Washington Post report about Ben Shapiro. Let’s review. NPR Correspondent Bobby Allyn on Friday said he ran Barkan’s work through an AI model to see if he had lifted work from other writers. Allyn said he was inspired to investigate after Barkan’s “pilfering” of WaPo reporter Drew Harwell’s May 9th report on Shapiro; Harwell called Barkan out on X for his NY Mag story — which ran five days later — having an almost identical first two paragraphs to his story in the Post. Harwell said Barkan had “copied my lede and reporting.” Barkan did not respond to Harwell publicly calling him out, but NY Magazine added a note to his report saying “This story has been updated to credit reporting from the Washington Post.” Allyn on Friday said his AI review showed Barkan had stolen from other writers as well. Allyn said Barkan had “lifted several exact phrases” from a 2025 report from The Intercept about TikTok, followed by another example with passages that were “strikingly similar” to a Compact report from last year. He showed side-by-side examples of what Compact report Juan David Rojas wrote in his story and what Barkan wrote in NY Mag, including the following example: NY Magazine: The Trump administration authorized covert operations by the CIA in Venezuela, most likely ruling out continued diplomacy with President Nicolas Maduro. Compact: Trump administration authorized covert operations by the CIA in Venezuela after reportedly ruling out continued diplomacy with President Nicolas Maduro. Another example, with passages strikingly similar to @rojasrjuand writing for Compact Magazine pic.twitter.com/3X9J9g6aFa — Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 15, 2026 Barkan defended himself in a response to Allyn, saying “Juan is credited directly in that column, by name, and linked to. You could actually read the actual column and not rely on an AI-curated excerpt.” Compact editor Matthew Schmitz responded to that excuse from Barkan by saying it wasn’t good enough. “So [Ross Barkan] heavily plagiarized a [Juan David Rojas] article in Compact. He claims that this is a-ok because he linked to Juan’s article. No. That isn’t how it works,” Schmitz posted.” Barkan responded to Schmitz by saying he… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN’s Harry Enten Declares Trump Facing ‘Worst Polls Ever for Any Presidentâ...CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten declared on Saturday that President Donald Trump is getting the “worst polls ever for any president” when it comes to inflation. On CNN’s Table for Five, panelists, including Enten, reacted to Trump saying that rising costs within the United States are not a factor for him when negotiating with Iran to end the current war. The president spoke to reporters this week and he was asked whether the Americans’ financial situations are motivating him to make a deal with Iran. He said: Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran, they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all. That’s the only thing that motivates me. Enten predicted the soundbite would be used plenty in ads by Democrats going into the midterm elections. The data analyst also scratched his head over making such a comment when you’re facing the polling the president is. He said: A majority of Americans are against this war, and regardless of what exactly he did mean, the context matters, but also here’s what also matters, Democrats love that comment. They’re going to cut it and put it in so many ads before the midterm elections, my goodness gracious. It’s a dopey comment from that perspective. And more than that, we’re talking about 79% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump on gas prices. That is the highest percentage that any president has had disapproving them on gas prices in any question I could possibly find. When we’re talking inflation, right, We’re taking about the worst polls ever for any president belong to Donald John Trump. It’s worse, he’s doing worse than [Jimmy] Carter. He’s doing worst than Joe Biden did in his last term. When you put it all together, you just go, man alive, man. What are you doing? Enten has highlighted numerous polls that show — except for some MAGA-only surveys — a growing disapproval of the handling of the war and spreading concern on inflation and gas prices. According to CNN polling, 79% of Americans disapprove of Trump when it comes to gas prices. Among Democrats, that number sits at 97%. Among independents, it also rises to 85%. And among Republicans, more than 50%… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- ‘Just Be Funny’: Comic Replacing Stephen Colbert Says He Won’t Be Touching...Things are changing at CBS. Comic Byron Allen said his program that will soon be replacing Late Show host Stephen Colbert will have nothing to do with politics. Instead, he told CNN on Saturday that his goal is simple: “just be funny.” Allen talked about his approach to late night during an interview on Michael Smerconish’s show. And he made it clear, he’s going in a much different direction than Colbert, who has been locked in a years-long feud with President Donald Trump and routinely bashes the president on his show. “A lot of eyes are going to be on your program to see, well, what are the political leanings? What can they read into it?” Smerconish asked. “What I’m doing with Comics Unleashed, we don’t talk about politics. We don’t talk about anything that’s topical,” Allen answered. “We don’t do anything that’s racist or sexist or anti-Semitic or homophobic. Just be funny and don’t offend.” His show Comics Unleashed is set to debut in Colbert’s time slot on Friday, May 22 — one night after Colbert’s 11-year run as the host of the Late Show ends. Comics Unleashed has been syndicated since launching in 2006, and CBS will be leasing the airtime used by Colbert to Allen’s media company. Allen told CNN that he wants to follow the same model as All in the Family producer Norman Lear, who “used comedy to bring us together.” Again, that’s a different approach than the one Colbert has taken with his show. Colbert has made it clear he is not a fan of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement and has used his show to skewer the president for years. He said Trump’s mouth was only good for being Vladimir Putin’s “c*ckholster” back in 2017, and has more recently ripped the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his feud with Pope Leo XIV. And Trump has punched back at Colbert plenty of times too, it should be pointed out. Smerconish later told Allen his approach to comedy sounded like a famous quote attributed to Michael Jordan, where he explained his apolitical stance by saying “Republicans buy sneakers too.” Allen agreed, saying, “I don’t care who you vote for. I don’t care. I’m here to make people laugh. You’re going to vote who you’re going to vote for no matter what I say, doesn’t matter. It’s not my business, do what… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Table For Five Panelists Question Fetterman’s ‘Tough Guy’ Character As He ...Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) commented this week that his Democratic Party was becoming “increasingly Anti-American,” leading CNN’s Table For Five panelists to debate whether he was just “poking the bear” to get a reaction. “He’s been rewarded with one of the biggest shifts I’ve ever seen within his own party in terms of popularity ratings,” said CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten. “His net popularity, his net approval rating, has shifted like 100 points in the wrong direction among Democrats from where he was at the start of his term.” “It’s pretty amazing,” said host Abby Philip. “He’s now 40 points under water with Democrats,” Enten continued. “He is in a positive net approval rating with Republicans, and that leaves him in the political wilderness, whereby he is being cited, you know, oftentimes on Fox News, while Democrats are consistently distancing themselves from him. And I just have to wonder what exactly is his political future?” Phillip rolled tape on Fetterman and Bill Maher laughing over President Donald Trump’s “quiet piggy” admonishment to a female reporter. “I mean, it’s interesting because Fetterman is the one who brings it up and is laughing about it,” Phillip said. “But again, this is why it goes for some liberals beyond, ‘Well, we disagree on policy issues.’ He’s — to them, it’s a character thing.” “Well, to your point, ‘poking the bear’ — I feel like he’s doing this, at least to me,” said CNN contributor Cari Champion. “I don’t think that he’s doing this because he wants to unify and have one voice and be a part of the common sense caucus.” “I was having dinner with someone the other night and they were dead set on why they liked Fetterman,” she continued. “They thought that he was a tough guy. He had his own opinion. He was doing what he wanted to do, and he was speaking from his heart.” She added: I can’t relate to that, that “tough guy,” that “machismoism” that I’m feeling and hearing. And certain men really respond to that. And I think when you hear him say “anti-American,” I think he thinks what Trump is doing is tough and strong… And those things he relates to, and people are giving him credit for being — or Bill Maher is saying, “It’s so refreshing to see how honest you are.” And in my mind, I’m like,… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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