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- ‘When?!’ Fox’s Peter Doocy Presses Econ Chief on Trump’s Claim Prices Wi...
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett Sunday on exactly when gas prices were expected to come down “like a rocket ship in reverse,” as President Donald Trump claimed at a recent rally. “The president knows in places where there are high prices, that can cause a problem for a president,” Doocy said. “But he is now starting to argue, with the midterms approaching, that he thinks the high prices are worth it because he thinks the Iran war is worth it.” Doocy then rolled tape on Trump saying the Iran war is an “inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done.” “Remember that,” Trump told the North Carolina crowd to sparse applause. “Even if, frankly, even if it was a lot more, but that’s going to come tumbling down. That’s going to be like a rocket ship in reverse,” Trump said. “Prices down like a rocket ship in reverse!” exclaimed Doocy. “When?” “Well, one of the things you’ve seen, first of all, is that how, I guess, out of control the Iranians and now the Houthis are,” Hassett said. “And, again, this whole thing started because the Iranians told us, like, ‘We don’t have to talk to you anymore because we’re two weeks from having a nuclear weapon.’ And you see that they’re shooting ships like crazy in the strait. The president had to act. And if you think about what would have happened if he hadn’t acted, it would be really, really bad for the global economy and for human civilization.” Hassett continued: While we’ve done that, what we’ve done with our incredible Navy is we’ve been bringing oil through the straits. It’s up to a billionaire barrels of oil have come through the straits with naval escorts to keep the price as low as it can possibly be, given the disruption. So President Trump will decide when enough is enough, but I can say that the U.S. Government has done everything we can to make the price effect way smaller than people expected. And so, people, when this started, they were saying we’re going to have $150, $200 oil, and we haven’t had that because President Trump organized everybody to get friendly oil out of the straits. Meanwhile, Iran isn’t getting any oil out of the straits, and they’re running out of money, they’re having hyper-inflation, and… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘Really Bad!’ GOP Senator Wrecks Don Jr. Over Russian Oligarch-Funded Weddin...Outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) slammed Donald Trump Jr. for accepting a $250,000 wedding gift from a Russian oligarch with strong ties to Vladimir Putin, even though President Donald Trump claimed his son has paid back the money. Face The Nation’s Margaret Brennan asked Cassidy about his Republican colleagues’s strong reactions to news that the oligarch paid for part of Trump Jr.’s wedding to socialite Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas. “President Trump claimed Friday that his son has now repaid a Russian billionaire named Umar Kremlev after it was reported that he paid for parts of his wedding celebrations in the the Bahamas,” Brennan began. “Don Jr. originally called it a ‘gift,’ but your Republican colleague from Utah, Sen. [John] Curtis, called it ‘corruption.’ Your colleague from North Carolina, Thom Tillis, said it was ‘beyond bad.’ Do you think it’s corruption and does repaying the funds make a difference?” Brennan asked. “Repaying the funds does make a difference,” Cassidy said before lighting into Trump Jr.: Anytime someone gives a $250,000 gift and they have strong ties to the Kremlin, that’s wrong. You — with that proximity to power, being the president’s son, you’ve got to give faith to the American people that Washington is not a swamp. And even though in your mind it might be a gift, the appearance of it is really bad. And so I’m glad it’s been repaid. It would be nice to have that kind of verified and, no, it shouldn’t have been done in the first place. Brennan credited ProPublica for their “important reporting” on the gift. After the report came out, Bettina Trump posted a response on her Instagram on behalf of both her and her husband: Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding. It was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend, and something for which we were and remain incredibly grateful. It’s unfortunate that something so personal and happy can be recast as something political or sinister simply because of who someone is or where they come from. Friendship doesn’t require a political motive. Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift. During an Oval Office presser last week, President Trump claimed that Don Jr. paid Kremlev back. “It’s totally allowed, and a lot of people have parties, but… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Republican Whose Viral Ad Accused Trump of Having ‘Betrayed’ Hispanics Seems...The House Republican who accused President Donald Trump of having “betrayed” Hispanics in a viral ad seemed to backpedal on Sunday — shifting blame instead to the president’s “advisers.” Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) was confronted about the ad by moderator Margaret Brennan. “You have been speaking for months about your concerns regarding President Trump’s immigration policies,” Brennan said. “But in this ad you put out, you’re more direct. You said, ‘the same Hispanics who helped Trump get to the White House in 2024, feel betrayed. His enforcement efforts have gone too far, and half of the 50,000 people detained in July had no criminal record.’ You spoke to the president after this. Did he take any of your advice?” “It was a very good conversation,” Salazar replied. “He was a gentleman, very courteous, very receptive, and I told him exactly what you just repeated. ‘Sir, you have this- this moment in history where you can keep the pot of gold that you brought to the GOP in 2024.’ No other president- and, you know, I covered for 35 years Spanish television. ‘No other president was able to convince the Hispanics to vote 55 points for a GOP president. Please preserve that fortune that you have brought to the party.’ Why? Because we need to continue winning elections because we have this very big threat called the socialists on the Democratic side. She added that she told the president, “‘Remember, sir, that you are the only guy who can do this.’ And then we had a fantastic conversation. I certainly hope he listened to what I was saying, but he listened.” Brennan pressed for specifics. “But he seems to have a different definition of criminality than you do, right?” Brennan asked. “Because the administration argues anyone who entered this country undocumented should be deported. You’re saying no.” “You know very well, immigration is a very toxic topic,” Salazar replied. “It’s a very complex topic. And the average American, the normal American who is watching right now, knows two things. That 70% of the polls say that the average American wants some type of immigration reform law …I presented that legislation called the Dignity Act five years ago. And number two, the average American understands the difference between the narco and the nanny and the gangster and the… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- CBS’s Weijia Jiang Denounces Trump Press Ban in Rare Interview on Fox News Sun...CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang denounced President Donald Trump’s move to ban three news organizations from the White House in a rare interview on Fox News Sunday. Jiang, the former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, spoke with her successor in that role — Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich following the president’s move to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. “Why should people outside of D.C., this D.C. media bubble, care about whether these three outlets get banned from the White House?” Heinrich asked Jiang. The CBS correspondent spelled out why it is in the public’s interest to have CNN, MS NOW and Politico in the White House — even if some people may have criticisms of those outlets. “I think we have to be very clear about what this is and is not,” Jiang said. “This is not a tantrum by three media outlets who are upset because they can’t get into the White House or the Oval Office. This is a serious concern for the public because an attack on one outlet is an attack on everyone, no matter where that outlet falls on the political spectrum. It is limiting the amount of information that reporters inside can gather, can excavate, to give back to the public so that people at home can make informed decisions, especially during an election year. So I understand when people point at journalists and say, well, you know, it’s not your right to be inside the White House. She added, “once you open up that access for any news outlet, you can’t take it away just because you don’t like what they are saying.” Heinrich went on to note that some Trump allies who “agree with his criticisms of his coverage” are “cheering this on.” “But what happens that those people should keep in mind when the shoe is on the other foot and maybe a Democrat is in the office, the Oval Office?” Heinrich asked Jiang. “What does this precedent mean in practice?” Jiang warned of the potential implications under a future Democratic administration. “That is so important to point out,” Jiang said. “Look, every administration, every president hates the press. There should be tension. We wouldn’t be doing our jobs and neither would they if there wasn’t that friction. But there’s a… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- ‘That Did Not Happen!’ ABC’s Jon Karl Nukes GOP Talking Point on Trump’s...ABC’s Jonathan Karl shut down a popular GOP talking point in defense of President Donald Trump’s ban on three news organizations from the White House. In a testy exchange on ABC’s This Week Sunday, Karl confronted House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) about Trump’s move to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. “Do you support him banning these news organizations because he doesn’t like what they’re reporting?” Karl asked Scalise. The Republican leader defended the ban. “First of all, I don’t think we’ve had a president that’s been more open to the press,” Scalise said. “Look…you go to a bill signing with President Trump, and the first thing he does before he even signs the bill is he brings in the press, and everybody gets to not only take pictures but ask questions. Go look at Joe Biden. Joe Biden removed the press credentials from over 400 different agencies. You know, what President Trump’s done has brought a lot of those back in. But he wants a free and fair press. He’s … been to the White House Correspondents Dinner. He just the other day he was answering questions about this to the press and they’re asking him about his attitude towards the press while he’s holding a press conference. You never saw that under President Biden.” Karl promptly fact-checked Scalise on a claim that numerous Trump defenders have made in recent days. “That’s actually not true about Biden,” Karl said. “The 400 individual reporters who had credentials did not reapply. There was only one that was actually denied a credential. And all of those who didn’t reapply were allowed to come in. They were not banned from the White House. That did not happen!” Karl pressed Scalise about the president’s move — which has been denounced by observers across the ideological spectrum. “[Trump] is now banning CNN, MSN. MSNOW and Politico from the White House,” Karl said. “Do you support him doing that? Do you think it violates the First Amendment?” “Well, I don’t know why he did it,” Scalise said. “I don’t know what the background is. Look, when we have our press conferences every week, the speaker, myself, our leadership team, we take questions from everybody. CNN’s there, all of them. But the president takes those questions. I’ve never seen him turn a question down from anybody.… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Trump Warns Fox’s Yingst ‘Very Big Things’ Are Happening on Iran: ‘My Qu...President Donald Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst that “very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future” on Iran and that “my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?” In a Sunday morning appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend Yingst reported he had just spoken with Trump and conveyed the substance of his conversation with the audience. “He tells Fox News he’s in a ‘deciding mode’ and that ‘very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future,'” Yingst said. “The president described the current choices on the table as ‘wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal.’ He added, ‘My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.'” The comments resemble remarks Trump made to Axios’s Barak Ravid on Thursday when he said, “Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? Trump is attending the United Nations General Assembly later this week — as is Iranian President Pasoud Pezeshkian. Yingst asked Trump if he would be open to a meeting with the Iranian leader, and he responded “probably.” “But [he] described this weekend as no different from any other weekend, despite these alerts that went out to U.S. Citizens across the region,” Yingst said. “Remember, a lot of moving parts here. It’s not just the situation with Iran and the ongoing U.S. naval blockade, but also the attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen that targeted Saudi Arabia yesterday with ballistic missiles. The president said the United States is in constant communication with the Houthis and that they’ve agreed not to fight the United States.” Watch above, via Fox News.The post Trump Warns Fox’s Yingst ‘Very Big Things’ Are Happening on Iran: ‘My Question is — If and When Do I Blow the Entire Nation Up?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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