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- Sean Duffy Reveals He Spent Seven Months Filming Reality TV Show While in Office
During a Friday appearance on Fox & Friends, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed he spent parts of seven months filming a reality TV show documenting his family’s road trip across America — all while in office under President Donald Trump. According to the promo, the show, titled The Great American Road Trip, is meant to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary this July. It features Duffy, his wife, Fox co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children. “Over the course of seven months, we just kinda found these moments where I might be able to do some work, I could take the kids with me, do a road trip, and our motto is, to love America is to see America,” said Duffy after the show’s trailer played on-air. The screen then showed footage of Duffy and his family in the Oval Office with Trump, as he revealed that the White House was their first stop — “The kids were wildly excited and [Trump] was so generous with his time,” he added. “There are so many different ways to do a road trip,” Duffy said after some more promotional clips played. “It fits any budget to do a road trip.” “We live in a Porn Hub world,” Campos-Duffy remarked. “This is really wholesome, good family stuff. This is what families need to do.” The announcement has not gone without criticism, with some, like MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez, linking Duffy’s comments that road trips fit “any budget” to skyrocketing gas prices amid the U.S. war with Iran. "It fits any budget to do a road trip," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy of 'The Real World: Boston' fame. https://t.co/9BCr6eP0uD pic.twitter.com/mXZjQCEO3g — Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports) May 8, 2026 Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, was similarly upset, writing on X, “The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son’s ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump’s war of choice.” The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son's ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump's war of choice. How… https://t.co/phUUdVz1Fx — Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) May 8, 2026… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - X Purges Charlie Sykes’s Account After Article Critical of Elon Musk
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Charlie Sykes, the veteran conservative radio host turned leading “Never Trump” figure, had a run-in with the moderators of Elon Musk’s X this week as he was locked out of his account and his recent posts were temporarily purged. Sykes wrote about X’s punitive measures in his To the Contrary newsletter on Thursday with the subject line, “I’ve Been Kicked Off Twitter (X). And I’m Feeling Fine.” Sykes, one of the co-founders of The Bulwark, detailed the timeline of his expulsion, writing: As best I can tell, it happened this way: On Tuesday, I got an email from X. My initial reaction was WTF; but I also vaguely wondered whether it had something with the newsletter I had published the day before: “Elon Musk’s Racist Screed-Storm – by Charlie Sykes” Yesterday, I got two more emails from the folks at X: The first said that I had violated X’s “copyright” policy and linked to the picture of Musk from Monday’s post. Before I had a chance to respond, I got another missive, telling me that my email had been changed to an obviously phony one, and that I should ‘secure” my account. “By the time I tried to ‘secure’ the account, I was locked out… and every post from the Trump 2.0 era was erased. I mean, just vanished. So this is what it looks like now, with the latest post dated November 2, 2024 — just days before the election,” Sykes continued while sharing a screenshot of his account reflecting the purge of his posts. Screenshot via Substack The article Sykes published on Elon Musk documented the X owner’s “rabid dive into white supremacy,” which he noted “has taken place in broad daylight” but in recent months has largely gone ignored. Americans on both sides of the aisle have indeed become more or less jaded to the antics of Musk, which were also the recent subject of a Washington Post report titled, “Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans.” Sykes explained he tried to regain control of his account with some 350,000 followers, “but then came to a (very) belated realization: I should have done this a long time ago, when Elon Musk enshittified it. So, I said, in the immortal words of Dr. Johnson, ‘F*ck it.'” Mediaite reached out to Sykes for any further comment on X’s actions against… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Maggie Haberman Says Trump Has Biden-Esque ‘Disconnect’ With VotersLongtime Trump beat reporter Maggie Haberman pointed to one “similarity” between messaging by the current administration and former President Joe Biden’s administration when it came to the economy: “disconnect.” The remarks came when Haberman appeared on CNN Friday, hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, down from the 180,000 jobs created in March, but reportedly higher than economists’ expectations. At the beginning of the segment, however, host Kasie Hunt kicked off the interview by mocking viral comments made by President Donald Trump’s economic advisor Kevin Hassett on Fox Business earlier in the week. Hassett was widely roasted online and by political pundits for insisting the economy was in great shape and pointing out that credit card spending is “through the roof” as proof. “I was trying to figure out, are we in the Trump administration or the Biden administration?” Hunt jibed. “Because there was a heck of a lot during the Biden administration of attempts to take numbers that looked rosy and convince people that their lives were fine. They didn’t buy it then, do you think they’re going to buy it now?” Haberman replied: “I agree with you that, yes, certainly there has been a similarity in terms of how President Biden and how President Trump have handled how voters feel about their own personal economic situations.” “I think that’s different than the job numbers. This was a good jobs report for this White House, and there’s no question about it. And it’s certainly welcome news for them,” she continued. “There were good jobs reports in the Biden administration, too, and what would be very frustrating for President Biden was that voters did not feel that. That didn’t impact their lives, necessarily.” She added: “That is also true with President Trump. He is showing some of the same issues in terms of sounding as if he understands what people are going through, as if he wants to focus on what people are dealing with in their own lives. And so there is that disconnect.” “Jobs are obviously a positive thing,” Haberman said, “but if people are paying $5 gas – I passed one gas station today where it was almost $6 in the Washington area – that’s potentially much more problematic. It depends where it is in a few months, if things turn around, if the war… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- ‘It’s Gone the Wrong Way’: Fox Host Hammers Trump On Cost of Living Issues...Fox Business Network host Dagen McDowell hammered the Trump administration for ignoring how much average Americans are hurting when it comes to day-to-day living. On Friday’s The Big Money Show, McDowell declared, “The way that people feel right now about gasoline prices and mortgage rates, they are pissed off, and they have every right to be upset. And it’s that quote from the CEO of Hines yesterday, Kraft Hines, ‘Consumers are literally running out of money.'” “But who’s ignoring that?” asked co-host Brian Bromberg. “When we talk about, ‘Hey, the stock market and the A.I. spend,’ we sound like a bunch of Democrats ’cause that is what the Democrats did when inflation was soaring,” McDowell said. “And, it’s not at 9%-plus, but it’s a problem for everyday Americans, and they’re upset by it. What, did revolving credit go up last month, $10 billion, it was the biggest jump in more than two years? People are strapped, and you can’t ignore it.” Guest host Steve Forbes added, “You have, in effect, two economies going on. People are really feeling they are not getting ahead.” Forbes continued: They do not see much improvement in terms of cost of living in a good sense. And that’s one reason why, again, another subject, the administration should go for a new reconciliation bill with tax cuts and tax rates so that people see their paychecks going up, even if their wage likely is not going up. Go for a big tax cut instead of the skinny bill they’re having out there now. Nice stuff in that bill, but let’s get to really revving that economy up so that everyone feels things are starting to get better. “With all due respect…Trump has done more in a year on so many fronts then any of his predecessors,” Bromberg said. “‘But, what have you done for me?’ I get that. We have such high expectations for what he’s gonna do that we are dinging him for the heights he’s not able to reach.” “People voted for President Trump in part to make the cost of living lower, and make making ends meet easier, and it has gone the wrong way in the last couple of months,” McDowell said. Watch the clip above via The Big Money Show on Fox Business Network.The post ‘It’s Gone the Wrong Way’: Fox Host Hammers Trump On Cost of Living Issues… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- FBI Denies There’s a Criminal Investigation Into Reporter Who Wrote Unflatteri...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images According to a Friday X post from independent journalist Catherine Herridge, the FBI is denying the existence of a criminal leak investigation into The Atlantic reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick and her reporting on alleged troubling workplace behavior by Director Kash Patel. The statement, from FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson to Herridge, is in response to a Wednesday exclusive from MS NOW, which reported that the bureau had opened a highly unusual criminal leak investigation focused on Fitzpatrick and aimed at identifying the sources behind her recent article alleging that Patel had “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.” “They know they are not supposed to do this,” one source “familiar with the matter” told MS NOW of the FBI agents allegedly assigned to investigate the sources who fueled Fitzpatrick’s reporting. “But if they don’t go forward, they could lose their jobs. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” “There is no criminal leak investigation focused on Sarah Fitzpatrick or her reporting,” read Williamson’s Friday statement. “There is no national security investigation focused on @S_Fitzpatrick or her reporting. There are no agents assigned to any such matter because the matter does not exist.” BREAKING: @FBI on-the-record statement @TheAtlantic via Spokesman Ben Williamson. “There is no criminal leak investigation focused on Sarah Fitzpatrick or her reporting. There is no national security investigation focused on @S_Fitzpatrick or her reporting. There are no… — Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) May 8, 2026 Notably, in MS NOW’s Wednesday scoop, they included a similar statement from Williamson, which read, “This is completely false. No such investigation like this exists, and the reporter you mention is not being investigated at all… Every time there’s a publication of false claims by anonymous sources that gets called out, the media plays the victim via investigations that do not exist.” As for Patel, he has vigorously denied the allegations and filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against Fitzpatrick and the magazine, claiming that the allegations in her article were “false,” “obviously fabricated,” and “designed to destroy Director Patel’s reputation and drive him from office.”The post FBI Denies There’s a Criminal Investigation Into Reporter Who Wrote Unflattering Kash Patel Story first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Dems Hit Panic Button After Gerrymander Loss: We Now ‘Have to Pitch a Perfect ...
The Virginia State Capitol is seen on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly) Democrats have reportedly hit the panic button after suffering a major setback in the party’s redistricting efforts in Virginia. On Friday, Virginia’s Supreme Court overturned a new congressional map that would have given Democrats a significant advantage across virtually the entire state. The map was previously approved by the state legislature. Virginia was just one of many states that have become the sites of redistricting battles between Democrats and Republicans. Both parties have pushed to redraw maps in an effort to gain congressional seats ahead of this year’s midterm elections. With Virginia’s Supreme Court blocking the Democrat-friendly map, the party’s path to retaking the House will be even more difficult. In a Friday report from Axios, multiple anonymous Dems revealed just how bleak the mood has become. The report said: “Damn, California and Virginia were supposed to be our bigger ones,” one House Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid getting out ahead of their leadership, said in a phone interview after the ruling was released. “This means we gotta make sure we have a good wave to win the House … we have to make sure we win a lot of those toss-ups,” the lawmaker said. “Democrats now have to pitch a perfect game.” Another House Democrat, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, offered a one-word reaction in a text message to Axios: “F*****ck!!” As it currently stands, the Democrats have a slim 6-5 House margin in Virginia. The new map would make it 10-1. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the party was looking for avenues to overturn the Supreme Court ruling.The post Dems Hit Panic Button After Gerrymander Loss: We Now ‘Have to Pitch a Perfect Game’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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