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- Bombshell Report Shows Trump WH Knew Ballroom Would Use Taxpayer Money Despite P...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon The Washington Post revealed on Tuesday the latest cost estimates for President Donald Trump’s highly controversial ballroom, which he promised the American people would be funded entirely by private donors. The Post obtained a “detailed project summary prepared for the White House by the contractor” that instead showed the cost would come in at $600 million, with over half the cost being burdened by the public. Even more remarkable, the Post notes, Trump received the estimate three weeks before publicly saying the project would cost $400 million and include no public funding. “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump declared in the Oval Office on March 31, well after receiving the estimate. “President Trump and generous American patriots are funding the ballroom to the tune of approximately $400 million, which will be a secure and appropriate venue for Presidents for generations to come,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle wrote in a statement to the Post. The Post also reached out to the contractor that prepared the estimate, McLean, Virginia-based Clark Construction, which said through a spokesperson that “all project details are confidential and referred questions to the White House.” Trump regularly discusses the ballroom at public events and has boasted that it will include military-grade infrastructure. Following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April, Trump and his allies argued that the event further showed the security need for the president to be able to host large-scale events on the White House grounds. In April, Trump took to Truth Social and wrote, “The White House doesn’t have a Ballroom (No Taxpayer Money!), which Presidents have desperately wanted and desired for over 150 years, but a Trump Hating, Washington, D.C. District Court Judge, a man who has gone out of his way to undermine National Security, and to make sure that this Great Gift to America gets delayed, or doesn’t get built, is attempting to prevent future Presidents and World Leaders from having a safe and secure large scale Meeting Place, or Ballroom, one with Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass — which all means that no future President, living in the White House… [TheTopNews] Read More.51 mins ago - Fox’s Ben Domenech Shreds Trump’s Iran Deal — Appears to Brand JD Vance â€...
Fox News contributor Ben Domenech made clear that he’s not a fan of the Trump administration’s peace deal with Iran in a rant on Monday that included a possible dig at Vice President JD Vance. The harsh commentary came during a Monday evening panel discussion on Special Report with Bret Baier. After anchor Bret Baier pointed out that many conservatives, like fellow Fox host Mark Levin, have urged Trump to release the memorandum of understanding, he invited Domenech to share his opinion on the peace deal. He started off complimentary, calling President Donald Trump “the best foreign policy president of my lifetime,” and arguing that America’s offensive against Iran was a “gutsy call” that he believes was the right one. But the niceties ended there, as Domenech then targeted the peace agreement. “This deal, and everything that we know about it, to the degree that it is being spun in public by this, you know, and behind the scenes by the administration, everything about this deal seems bad to me,” Domenech said. “It all seems bad. It all seems like a setback. It doesn’t seem like it meets any of the measures that the president actually put out there of his goals when it came to this conflict.” Domenech then slipped an apparent jab against Vance with a riff on the title of Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. “And, look, at some point, this Republican Party needs to decide which kind of foreign policy it’s gonna have. Is it going to be an American first foreign policy, one that is bold that uses American power in key moments, decisively in order to affect what it wants to achieve, or are we going to just backslide into being some kind of ‘Hillbilly Obama’ kind of GOP?” he said. Concluding, Domenech added that the deal “is not something that is acceptable to me. It should not be acceptable to Republicans. And it should not be acceptable to any conservative who is interested in the success of America going forward.” Read a portion of the conversation below: BRET BAIER: I mean, Ben, it’s not just Democrats. I mean, Mark Levin and others saying, “Here’s an idea, if you want people to stop speculating about the MOU release, release the MOU.” Don’t brief just a few appointed ones to control the narrative and expect everyone else to sit silently. So that’s where we… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Fox Host Tells Vance ‘Obama Took a Shot’ at Trump’s Iran Deal — Vance Re...Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Vice President JD Vance about former President Barack Obama’s “shot at” President Donald Trump’s Iran deal on Monday, and Vance responded. The VP has been making the rounds to discuss the news of the day and promote his new book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” Vance was a guest on Monday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, during which the host brought up recent comments from Obama trashing Trump’s deal, and Vance dismissed them: HANNITY: Let’s talk about anyplace, anywhere, anytime U.S. inspectors? VANCE: That’s — HANNITY: Is that part of the deal? VANCE: Yeah, that’s absolutely something that we are negotiating over, Sean. That’s one of the final details that’s going to be figured out here is — if you go back to the original Obama JCPOA, there were a couple of big problems with it. Number one, by the way, is that the Gulf Arabs hated the Obama deal. Why? Because they thought that it empowered the Iranians to be a malign actor. It actually enriched the Iranians while they were misbehaving. This deal, the Gulf Arabs love because they know that this is the kind of deal that can fundamentally transform the Middle East. Another problem with that deal is that the inspections regime was effectively nonexistent. There was a little bit there, but it was basically nonexistent. This goes back to our fundamental principle here, that if they show verifiable commitment, and that means a real inspections regime, then they can get the benefits of the bargain. HANNITY: Obama took a shot and said, “I don’t think this deal is any better than the deal we had before.” The JCPOA was dramatically different than what you were describing here tonight. VANCE: Correct. And I’d ask the president, the former president, I’d say, Obama, why in the world, if it’s the same thing, why is it that the Gulf Arabs hated your deal and they love our deal? They are the ones who are in the region. They know what it means to enrich the worst terrorist regime in the world. And they also know what it means to turn over a new leaf and to go to a different future. So I think President Obama, he should acknowledge that the people who are closest to this, they love the Trump deal. They hate the Obama deal. And… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- ‘When Does the World Get to See It?’ The New York Post Calls Out Trump Over ...
AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File The New York Post called out President Donald Trump on Tuesday over the yet-to-be-revealed Memorandum of Understanding his administration has struck with Iran. Tuesday’s cover reads “Trump’s Mystery Deal” and includes the subheading, “Says Iran agreement signed, but won’t reveal what’s in it.” Inside, the paper’s editorial board observed that “Aside from the vast damage the war did to Iran’s military assets and the deaths of so many of the ruling cabal, this Memorandum of Understanding seems to leave things right back where they were before the bombs started dropping. That is: Tehran hasn’t actually agreed to give up its nuclear program or its support of terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas — but only to talk about it all some more.” Today's cover: President Trump and Vice President JD Vance secretly signed the Iran peace deal Sunday — with officials describing plans to give Tehran “small antes” of money as nuclear talks continue. https://t.co/OyzqRvTLoA pic.twitter.com/JurWMCwarU — New York Post (@nypost) June 16, 2026 It continued: Maybe the full MOU text makes things look better . . . or worse: The fact that it’s still a mystery isn’t encouraging. When does the world get to see it? If the Strait of Hormuz really opens, it’ll do one good thing — but the planned 60 days of talks could still yield a serious win for Tehran. The White House says those negotiations will settle the details of Iran destroying its enriched uranium, ending its nuclear program forever and its terror funding too, but what if they don’t? And what might US diplomats give away along the way? The last few months have proved that Iran’s rulers are more willing to take far more pain (or to have their citizenry suffer, at least) than America’s leaders (ahead of the midterms, at least). That’s a huge edge for Tehran in the negotiations. Plus, the Iranians are masters at drawing out talks, steering them into ridiculous side issues, reversing concessions they’d supposedly committed to, adding new demands at the last minute and so on. The Post went on to express concern that figures like Vice President JD Vance and Steve Witkoff were getting their way while deal skeptics such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were being ignored before concluding, “More than two months ago, Trump told a world the two sides were within two… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Gushes About UFC Fights When Asked About Foiled Attack That He Claims He H... President Donald Trump gushed about the fights when he was asked about a foiled plot to attack the White House Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event with drones — and claimed he’s heard nothing about it. After being delayed by some nasty weather, the Trump-backed “Freedom 250” organization’s UFC fight at the White House to celebrate Flag Day/Trump’s birthday finally got underway on Sunday night. But in addition to UFC fighter Josh Hokit’s shocking attack on former first lady Michelle Obama, the FBI says another attack was being discussed — an alleged plot to deploy drones and gunmen to disrupt the event. Trump spoke to reporters at the G7 during a meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and was asked if he had been briefed about the plot. Shockingly, Trump said he didn’t know about the alleged plot and quipped about the “attacks” he witnessed during the fights: REPORTER: Mr. President, were you briefed on the attack plans for the UFC event at the White House? The FBI thwarted an attack. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I haven’t heard about it, no. But I watched, the attack that I watched were the fighters. (LAUGHTER). And he saw it, too, by the way. He was sitting back home in his beautiful palace, and he was watching that. And they were as good a fight as I’ve ever seen. UAE PRESIDENT SHEIKH MOHAMED BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN: The best fights. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The best, they were. That last fight was brutal. And the two last, all of the fights were good. UAE PRESIDENT SHEIKH MOHAMED BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN: (INAUDIBLE). PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It was all good. It was a great evening. It was very different for the White House. But I wish you could have been there. They, we built an incredible arena. Dana did a great job. UAE PRESIDENT SHEIKH MOHAMED BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN: Is there going to be another fight next year Mr. President? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don’t know. It’s… I got away with it, there- it’s 250 years. Maybe in another 50, maybe in 300. Watch above via Press Pool.The post Trump Gushes About UFC Fights When Asked About Foiled Attack That He Claims He Heard Nothing About first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Confronted on Why He Hasn’t Released Text of Iran Deal — Vows to Read ...President Donald Trump was confronted, on Tuesday, about the details of the peace deal he agreed to with Iran. Speaking with the press at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, the president was asked by a reporter why the fine print of the deal has not yet become public. “There’s so much interest in the text of the document,” the reporter said before asking, “Why not release it?” “Oh, I will,” Trump replied. “I’d like to get a formal setting first before we do that. But I have no problem with that.” The deal has come under heavy scrutiny from some prominent conservatives. Mark Levin said “Why can’t we, the people, see the damn MOU?” Ben Shapiro ripped the idea of a photo-op, scheduled for this Friday, with Iran’s parliament leader. And Fox’s Marc Theissen slammed the plan to establish a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran. But the president vociferously defended the deal he struck. “It’s a good document,” Trump said. “Here’s what it says: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. That’s what it says. It won’t have one. To buy, to develop. They will not have a new nuclear weapon. And I would say that’s about 99.9% of what I wanted because we couldn’t let that happen…In addition to that, the Strait is going to be open toll free, and it’s toll free beyond the 60 days.” Trump went on to say he’s planning a “word-by-word” reading of the document. “I’ll not only release it,” Trump said. “I’ll probably have a press conference and read it to you word by word so that the press covers it accurately because it’s a very important document — unlike Obama, who could have destroyed the Middle East with a horrible JCPOA.” The president added that the press conference will take place in “a couple of days.” Watch above, via CNN.The post Trump Confronted on Why He Hasn’t Released Text of Iran Deal — Vows to Read it ‘Word by Word’ at Presser first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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