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- Anti-Trump Influencer Mockler Takes On MAGA Critic After CNN Brawl: Aping ‘His...
Anti-Trump influencer Adam Mockler took on a MAGA fan and “his a**hole president” Donald Trump over criticism of his performance in a brawl on CNN. Newsbusters editor Curtis Houck posted a clip of Mockler debating pro-Trump radio host Jason Rantz and wrote, “This MeidasTouch kid needs to be shoved into a locker. The idea he’s some foreign policy savant and geopolitical genius is comical, and Abby Phillip acts like he’s all-knowing and not to be questioned.” Mockler shot back that “the threat below is the MAGA movement in a nutshell. This 5’5″ maga freak can’t debunk a single point I made on CNN, so he threatens to shove me in a locker to model his a**hole president.” The clip in question was from Thursday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, during which Mockler and Rantz argued about the news that Iran has retained greater capability than previously thought: PHILLIP: What incentive do they have to do that if they, after a month of war, have retained half of their capabilities and perhaps more on the drone side? RANTZ: Well, I mean, keep in mind the reporting suggests when we’re talking about the half, a lot of that is under rubble, that it’s inaccessible. And that matters too because we’re going after the infrastructure. And if you’re not actually capable of reaching any of the weaponry or use some of the infrastructure at all, that obviously degrades the problem and it’s not as much of a threat. PHILLIP: That’s not right now. Because, I mean, I think part of the issue is that this war isn’t just about what’s happening right now. Presumptively, our desire to degrade Iran is about preventing them from doing things in the future. So, it’s sort of like the nukes and the nuclear material. It’s under rubble now, but if we don’t get it out, it’s still there. RANTZ: But we know where the rubble is, and I think that’s part of the two to three weeks. The other piece about this story that I think is actually really important is that the president and Marco Rubio and everybody else, they made the case as to why they needed to go to war. And this actually backs up that story, this idea that they didn’t pose a real threat, that there wasn’t anything sort of imminent. This actually cuts right to that and shows it was in fact imminent,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - WATCH: Tiger Woods Brags to Cops About Talking to Trump — Wildest Moments From... Golf legend Tiger Woods bragged to cops about talking to President Donald Trump in newly-released extended bodycam footage from his DUI arrest. Here are the wildest moments from that footage. Woods was charged with driving under the influence after crashing his Range Rover on Friday, March 27 in a rollover accident in Jupiter, Florida. Mr. Woods, who has suffered severe injuries during his career, was reportedly carrying two hydrocodone pills in his pocket and appeared to have “glassy eyes” when he was arrested after allegedly refusing a DUI check at the scene. Police released nearly a half-hour of extended body-worn camera footage on Thursday, which showed, among other things, Woods bragging about talking to Trump as the cops arrived. “I was just talking with the president…” In perhaps the most stunning moment, you can actually hear Woods wrapping up his call with Trump as the cops approach. Watch: COP: Mr. Woods… Mr. Woods… (Woods walks down the road toward the officer) COP: We need you to hang out down here with us, please. (Woods is heard speaking on the phone for a moment, then hangs up) TIGER WOODS: Thank you so much. All right. You got it. Thank you. Bye. (to the officer) Say again? COP: I.. just keep you down here with us, please. TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I was just talking with the president. Trying to (inaudible). “You Don’t Need Lipstick!” In another clip, as Woods walks up the road to the police cars, his manager can be heard saying, “He’s very apologetic for what he did last night.” The cop tells Woods not to put something in his mouth, then jokes, “You don’t need lipstick! Or lip balm.” Another individual can be heard laughing at something, and Woods says, “It is what it is.” Watch: “So much for hittin’ balls today!” As Woods waits to speak to the cops, he quips to his manager that his golf practice plans have been scuttled by the accident. “It could always be worse, though,” he adds. Watch: “Next Thing I Know, Boom!” When questioned by the cops, Woods blamed the crash on a moment of inattentiveness as he was “changing stations” on his phone. Watch: “Do you need me to explain it to you one more time?” The officer repeatedly asks Woods if he needs her to repeat the instructions as she administers a field sobriety test. Watch: “At this time you are… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Morning Joe Guest Astonished by WH Adviser Openly Comparing Trump to Jesus: ‘B...SiriusXM host John Fugelsang was more than a little surprised to hear President Donald Trump was compared to Jesus Christ by an advisor at an Easter event, the footage of which the White House later deleted. Fugelsang, comedian and author of the book The Separation of Church and Hate, joined Morning Joe on Friday and took a shot at both the president and White House faith adviser Paula White while discussing Holy Week. “Watching that, I’m reminded that the only way you can support both Donald Trump and Jesus is if you’ve never read either one of their books. Because, friends, the only things Donald Trump has in common with Jesus is that they both spent a lot of time with prostitutes, and they both use ghostwriters,” he said. Fugelsang went on to discuss the importance of Holy Week and accused White of “capitulating” to the president like a king at the Easter event. He said: This homeless, Jewish mystic faith healer is virtually mocking the pomp that surrounds the armies of Caesar. Because you’re either standing up to Caesar or you’re capitulating to him like Paula White. So by two days later, he’s having the rebellion inside the temple, the protests that he’s flipping tables over the way that some extreme conservative religious bosses collaborated with the empire to exploit the poor. And then by Holy Thursday, the night he’s arrested, he gives the greatest parable. He gives the goats and the sheep where he says, individuals and nations are going to be judged heaven or hell by how they care for the poor, care for the sick, welcome the stranger, and take care of those in prison. They arrest him, and by the end of the week, it’s the saddest story you’ve ever read. At the White House event, White directly compared the president to Jesus. She said: Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life. You were betrayed and arrested. And falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us. But it didn’t end there for Him, and it didn’t end there for you. God always had a plan. On the third day, He rose, He defeated evil, He conquered death, hell, and the grave. And because He rose we all know that we can rise. And sir, because of… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ONE SHEET: Bondi’s Out, Hot Takes Are In! Fake Ratings Surge, and Trump’s Sp...
The Big Picture The media-watching set woke up this morning sorting through the wreckage of President Donald Trump‘s primetime address on Iran — and came to very different conclusions about what they saw. Was it a reassuring pivot or an incoherent escalation? A “two to three weeks” promise or a placeholder that means nothing? Pam Bondi‘s firing as attorney general landed mid-afternoon and generated three distinct verdicts from three very different corners of the media world. OpenAI dropped a bombshell of its own, buying tech talk show TBPN and raising pointed questions about whether Silicon Valley is simply buying its own press corps. And the war crimes question nobody in this stack wants to ask keeps hanging in the air. Today’s sources: CNN Reliable Sources | Status | Poynter | CJR | Charlie Sykes | Press Watch | The Bulwark | The Free Press | Barrett Media | Mediaite | Breaker | The Ankler | Page Six Hollywood | Feed Me Programming note: The One Sheet is taking a holiday break on Monday and will return to regular programming on Tuesday. Top Story TRUMP’S IRAN SPEECH MOVED NOTHING — EXCEPT OIL PRICES. Charlie Sykes at To the Contrary didn’t cover Trump’s Iran speech so much as autopsy an entire presidency in a single day. His “Day in the Life” dispatch walked readers through April 1 hour by hour: Trump crashing the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on birthright citizenship, walking out halfway through when the justices — including his own appointees — expressed open skepticism. Then a Holy Week lunch at which faith advisor Paula White-Cain compared Trump to Jesus Christ while Catholic Bishop Robert Barron sat silently nearby. Then the speech itself — which Sykes characterized as “slurred and low energy,” a mash of recent Truth Social posts that left markets rattled and allies baffled. Oil prices spiked as Trump spoke. Sykes, citing geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer on X, noted that the address was “rambling, unmoored and unserious.” Brian Stelter at CNN Reliable Sources zoomed in on the specific phrase doing the most work: “two to three weeks.” Stelter dug up a New York Times archival piece by Shawn McCreesh establishing that “two weeks” has been one of Trump’s favorite units of time for nearly a decade — a “placeholder” that “simply means later. But later can also mean never. Sometimes.” Daily Wire managing editor Dylan Housman did… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Pete Hegseth Accused of Blocking Promotions of a Dozen Officers Due to Race, Gen...
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is accused of having intervened to block or delay the promotions of more than a dozen senior military officers in actions that some officials believe were motivated by race, gender, and perceived ties to the Biden administration. The interventions span all four branches of the armed forces, nine officials familiar with the situation told NBC News on Thursday. Two of those officials also reportedly expressed concern that Hegseth’s repeated disruption of that process may be politically or ideologically driven. “There is not a single service that has been immune to this level of involvement by Hegseth,” one official told the network. The promotion system is typically structured to elevate the most qualified candidates through independent review boards. Some officials said there is growing unease that qualified officers are being stalled because of their association with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives or policies enacted under the previous administration. Others cited scrutiny over officers’ support for Covid-era mandates or perceived links to former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley. Recent cases include three Marine officers — two women and a Black man — whose promotions were blocked despite recommendations and no ongoing investigations. In the Army, four officers — two women and two Black candidates — were removed from a promotion list before it advanced to the Senate. Officials said such interventions are highly unusual and defense secretaries do not typically remove names from promotion lists, especially in the absence of misconduct or formal inquiries. “If there are no open allegations or investigations, what was the reason they were removed from the list?” one official asked. “They have all deployed and done their jobs, and all are all combat-tested.” Military branches either declined to comment or directed inquiries to the Pentagon, which did not respond to repeated requests for comment by NBC News. The network added that the White House also did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The allegations were published the same day that Hegseth fired the army’s chief of staff, General Randy George, who, according to The New York Times, had clashed with the defense secretary’s bid to block promotions and refused to remove individuals on request.The post Pete Hegseth Accused of Blocking Promotions of a Dozen Officers Due to Race, Gender: Report first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - The Great Cable News Ratings Surge That Wasn’t
(AP Photo/Simon Dawson) Huge news: cable news is back! Record ratings across the board. Historic gains. Impossibly, every cable news network surging simultaneously in what industry observers are calling an unprecedented renaissance for a medium that many had written off. The crops are saved! You love to see it. Or, you would, if any of it were true. As is always the case in ratings stories, a healthy dose of skepticism is required, especially when the explanation nobody’s putting in their press releases is that Nielsen changed the entire measurement system. But we’ll get to that. Look, I’ve been on the receiving end of ratings press releases for the better part of two decades. I’ve seen every move: the triumphant subject line, the carefully selected daypart, the demo that flatters, the comparison window that doesn’t. Communications executives are really good at their jobs, and their job is not to inform me, it’s to shape numbers in a way that gives the chattering class something to publish that makes their network look good. I don’t blame them for it, and we’ve published plenty of it. Which is why this particular cycle made me laugh out loud. Not the cynical guffaw from reading years of shameless spin but an actual laugh. Out loud. What is being presented as a sweeping cable news comeback is, in fact, a story about a company changing how it counts. Everyone is winning, apparently. Fox News is up. CNN is up. MSNBC is up. Even fledgling NewsNation is “exploding,” declaring itself the fastest-growing network in primetime. The headlines suggest an unexpected renaissance, which would be more convincing if the history of this business didn’t tell you that one network’s gain is typically another’s loss. Real audience growth is remarkably uneven and competitive. It never moves in perfect unison across an entire industry, as last month’s raft of press releases would have you believe. So when every network’s ratings surge at once, the easy explanation is the news cycle. The more useful question is what else changed? Well, here’s what not one press release included: Nielsen changed. The company’s rollout of its “Big Data + Panel” system isn’t a minor update. It fundamentally alters how audiences are measured, layering tens of millions of set-top box and smart TV data points on top of traditional panel methodology. Nielsen also incorporated new inputs — including the ARF’s DASH study —… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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