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While speaking on Friday at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami, President Donald Trump explained, “I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” After his sprawling speech to investors, which included calling an Iranian official, Qasem Soleimani, whom Trump ordered to be killed in early 2020, a “great leader” and a “mad genius,” he moved to a Q&A session. Notably, the president called for questions of all kinds, adding, “You can talk sex” and “whatever the hell you want.” Responding to an inquiry about “what leadership trait the world is missing right now,” Trump said, “Well, it’s winning.” He continued, either saying “you gotta win” or simply just mumbling, before musing, “The one thing about sports is you break it down into, you know, a two-hour period. You don’t have to wait a lifetime to find out, ‘Is somebody a winner or a loser?’ You got a lot of losers, mostly losers, fortunately.” “It’s a good thing to have a lot of losers,” Trump explained. “I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” Laughter could then be heard from the crowd. “I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.” He then clarified, “I’m only kidding, I wanna say that,” before seemingly thinking better and adding, “Eh, sort of,” “People that win, it’s much easier to lead when you’re successful, and you win,” Trump concluded. He went on to mention the famed former NFL coach Vince Lombardi, calling him “very tough” and “sort of a violent guy.” But, Trump said, “he won, and he got away with things because he won.” Watch the full clip above via The White House on YouTube.The post Trump Explains, ‘I Always Like To Hang Around With Losers’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘You Can Talk Sex’: Trump Invites Questions of All Kinds After Speech to Inv...President Donald Trump invited attendees at an investors’ gathering to turn the event into a live version of Loveline. On Friday, the president spoke in Miami at the Future Investment Initiative, a Saudi investors’ forum. During his remarks, he complimented Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian commander he ordered killed in a drone strike in January 2020. “He was a vicious, horrible human being, but he was a great general and a great leader — if you define a leader in a certain way — a very powerful leader,” the president said before opening up the floor for questions. “You’re gonna win like you never have before,” Trump told the crowd. “So, I wanna just thank everybody very much, and I’m asked to take a few questions. Unlike other politicians – they would like the questions screened – I don’t ask for screening of the questions. You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex. You can– whatever the hell you want. I’m here for you. Whatever question you want, you can ask.” The first questioner asked, “In one sentence, where should the world invest in America right now?” “Well look, the one that they’re going crazy about is AI,” Trump responded. “But AI is going crazy. AI– so my family, Don, the whole family, Eric is doing a good job. All of us. Ivanka. We like real estate. When you can make money in real estate, it’s a great business. I see some of these guys come into my office, they’re wearing a t-shirt, and they’re 24 years old.” The president pivoted back to AI and said, “So, I think probably if you’re going to say one thing, AI, and just hope that it works.” Mercifully, no one asked Trump about sex. Watch above via C-SPAN.The post ‘You Can Talk Sex’: Trump Invites Questions of All Kinds After Speech to Investors first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Sharpie Rebuts Trump’s Account of Phone Call With Company: ‘We Don’t Have ...
Alex Brandon/AP According to a Friday Washington Post report, Sharpie parent company Newell Brands denied President Donald Trump’s retelling of a phone call with the brand, saying in a statement, “We don’t have any information about the conversation described.” The response comes after Trump used part of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting to tell a long story about allegedly haggling over the price and appearance of the customized markers he uses to sign official documents. While riffing on design, spending, and the look of official government materials, Trump held up a customized black pen and launched into a winding anecdote about why he wanted a more polished version of the marker. “This pen is an interesting example,” Trump said. “This pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well. I like it.” Trump then claimed he personally called the company to complain that the standard Sharpie branding was too ordinary for high-profile presidential signings. “I called the guy, I said, ‘I’d like to use your pen, but I can’t have a great thing with a big S on it saying Sharpie as I’m signing a $1 trillion airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets,’” he said. According to Trump, the company head offered to upgrade the pens by painting them black, adding a gold White House emblem, and even printing Trump’s signature on them. Trump also said the executive initially offered the pens for free before he insisted on paying. “I said, ‘How about five bucks a pen?’” Trump recalled. “He said, ‘That’s all right.’” Yet when WaPo’s Isaac Arnsdorf presented Newell Brands with a transcript of Trump’s comments, the company rejected the story. “We don’t have any information about the conversation described,” a spokesperson said. “We’re proud to be a beloved brand trusted by so many globally.” The White House, according to the Post, did not answer questions about who Trump allegedly spoke with, when the call happened, or how the customized pens were actually obtained.The post Sharpie Rebuts Trump’s Account of Phone Call With Company: ‘We Don’t Have Any Information About the Conversation’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Says Iranian Official He Ordered Killed Was ‘A Great Leader’During a Friday address at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami, President Donald Trump said that Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian official whom he ordered to be killed in early 2020, was a “great leader.” Soleimani was one of Iran’s most powerful military figures, serving as commander of the Quds Force, the overseas operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Trump ordered the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani near Baghdad International Airport in January 2020, a move that sharply escalated tensions between Washington and Tehran. On Friday, speaking about his most recent military escalations in the region, Trump said, “It was a big moment, also in my first administration, when I took out Soleimani. And a lot of people think that might have been the biggest thing of all because he was a mad genius.” “He was a vicious, horrible human being, but he was a great general and a great leader — if you define a leader in a certain way — a very powerful leader,” the president continued. “In fact, he was so powerful that I really think that the leadership of Iran was extremely happy when I took him out, but they don’t say that. But nobody’s gonna be able to ask them anymore, because they’re not here either,” Trump concluded. With the Iran conflict rounding out its fourth week, a growing number of GOP lawmakers are voicing unease over the prospect of a deeper U.S. military entanglement. Of the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, one anonymous Republican congressman said to Politico that if Trump sends ground troops to the Middle Eastern country, “We lose 60 to 70 seats.” Also per Politico, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), the “MAGA-aligned former Navy SEAL who served five wartime deployments,” said, “My biggest concern this whole time is that this would turn into another long Middle Eastern war… Though I don’t want to try and take away any of the president’s ability to carry out this operation, I know a lot of our supporters and a lot of members of Congress are very concerned.” Watch the clip above via The White House on YouTube.The post Trump Says Iranian Official He Ordered Killed Was ‘A Great Leader’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- ‘Calling… Epstein Island’: Journalists Phoning White House Get Quite the S...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File Several reporters from The Washington Post’s Style section tasked with dialing up the White House for details on what designer outfit First Lady Melania Trump was wearing on Wednesday found, shockingly, they were calling “Epstein Island” – thanks to the work of an unknown troll. While the number for the White House switchboard was absolutely correct, the label that appeared on some phones was not, instead referencing the widely used nickname for Little St. James, Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, where prosecutors said much of the convicted pedophile’s abuse took place. (Screengrab via The Washington Post) The glitch, according to The Post, appeared to only affect Android devices after a manipulated listing briefly attached the name to the White House number via Google’s caller identification system. iPhones, the reporters found, showed no such name. After the journalists contacted Google, the company confirmed the issue stemmed from a “fake edit” in Google Maps that was “briefly” incorporated into its call-screening feature. Google spokesperson Matthew Flegal told the newspaper that the change violated policy, had been reversed, and that the responsible user was blocked. By Friday, the Post reported, calls to the same number displayed no label. The episode comes months after the release of the Epstein files and against the backdrop of ongoing scrutiny over Trump’s past association with the disgraced financier, who died in custody in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges. Trump previously said he knew Epstein socially before a falling-out, but has always denied knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activity.The post ‘Calling… Epstein Island’: Journalists Phoning White House Get Quite the Surprise first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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