The youngest daughter of the President of the United States is a new mother.
Tiffany Trump, daughter of President Donald J. Trump and media personality Marla Maples welcomed a son with husband Michael Boulos.
Trump announced the birth on social media.
The world's most hated and controversial political leader has 11 grandchildren.
“Welcome to the world our sweet baby boy, Alexander Trump Boulos,” President Trump’s youngest daughter announced on social media Thursday. “We love you beyond words!”
“Thank you for coming into our lives!” she added along with the black and white photo of her infant’s foot.
Tiffany’s mother, Marla Maples, celebrated the birth of her first grandchild in an Instagram comment, writing, “No greater joy in the world.”
“Michael and Tiffany this Gran Mar Mar loves you all so much!!” the comment continued. “You rocked it, my girl!”
Tiffany Trump and Boulos married at her father’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in November 2022.
The president was the first person to make her pregnancy public, casually slipping the news in with a comment about his campaign surrogate Massad Boulos during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club.
“He happens to be the father of Tiffany’s husband, Michael, who’s a very exceptional young guy,” he said. “And she’s an exceptional young woman, so, and she’s going to have a baby. So that’s nice.”
Michael's father is a senior advisor to the president. He was the liaison to political outreach for Muslim and Arab Americans for Trump.
Massad Boulos reassured two Israeli operatives that he is on board with the ethnic cleansing and extermination (which they call relocation and reconstruction).
Your taxpayer funds keep Tiffany, Baron, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. fed, clothed and rich. The Trump children are profiting off this presidency.
I remember our president making threats on people and not one of these morons got upset over it.
The far right is livid about former FBI director James Comey posting on social media.
They attribute a post to a threat on our senile, violent inciting, name calling, sexual abusing, serial lying ass President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Okay, so let's play a game.
See how angry folks get when someone uses their free speech and they don't like it.
Mahmoud Khalil criticizes Israel. He is arrested. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims he can revoke a Green Card status because of antisemitism.
Shiloh Hendrix calls a five year old boy, a thieving NIGGER. The social media call for her termination of employment. She threw it back by setting up a GiveSendGo account to raise money to protect her family.
Austin Metcalf was stabbed by Karmelo Anthony after an altercation. Metcalf dies and Anthony is charged. Metcalf's supporters want Anthony to be held without bond, given life or death and punishment to his family. Supporters of Anthony raise money through GoFundMe and GiveSendGo.
Rodney Hinton, Jr. intentionally ran his vehicle into an Ohio sheriff’s deputy after he watched his son Ryan Hinton be killed by the local police. The family wants to raise money for Hinton and are pledging for more incidents. More Black families are endorsing Hinton's actions.
So if you're upset over free speech.... Blame Trump. He wants to make people comfortable to say bigoted slurs, make threats on people's lives and profit from hate.
Had Comey not launched his investigation into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's emails and personal server, Trump would be a faded memory.
History will not be kind to Trump, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.
Comey who was infamously fired by Trump because of his duty to follow the rule of law during an investigation into the president's campaign being involved with the Russian Federation.
Comey has become a harsh critic of him.
His replacement Christopher Wray stayed on throughout the remaining first Trump term and former president Joe Biden's term. He left before Trump was going to fire him.
Comey standing at 6'8" was the tallest FBI director in modern history.
Trump replaced him with conspiracy theorist Kash Patel.
Patel and his deputy director Dan Bongino are worthless media personalities who ended up getting jobs without any experience in the field. They likely compromised by foreign agents. It is a shitshow at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service are investigating a social media post by former FBI Director James Comey that several U.S. officials interpreted as calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday.
In a now-deleted post on Instagram, Comey shared a photo of what he described as a "shell formation" on a beach that formed the numbers "8647." The post was swiftly condemned by administration officials, Republican lawmakers and Trump allies who said it blatantly targeted Trump, the 47th president of the United States.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "eighty-six" can informally mean "to get rid of."
"Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey just called for the assassination of @POTUS Trump," Noem wrote on X. "DHS and Secret Service is investigating this threat and will respond appropriately."
A spokesperson for the Secret Service, which is part of DHS, said the agency "vigorously investigates anything that can be taken as a potential threat against our protectees."
“We are aware of the social media posts by the former FBI director and we take rhetoric like this very seriously. Beyond that, we do not comment on protective intelligence matters," Anthony Guglielmi, the agency's chief of communications said in a statement.
Taylor Budowich, a White House deputy chief of staff, accused Comey of putting out “what can clearly be interpreted as a hit on the sitting president of the United States.”
“This is deeply concerning to all of us and is being taken seriously,” Budowich wrote on X.
The president's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. accused Comey of "causally calling for my dad to be murdered."
Comey denied that his post was meant as a threat, saying in a statement that he was unaware people linked the specific numeric arrangement with violence.
“I didn’t realize some folks associate it with violence. That didn’t occur to me when I saw it but I am opposed to violence in all circumstances so I took it down,” he said.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) called for Comey to be arrested, while Chris LaCivita, Trump’s former campaign manager, said he would have had Comey’s home raided over the post.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau is prepared to “provide all necessary support” to the Secret Service, which holds primary jurisdiction over the investigation.
Comey was only four years into a 10-year term when Trump fired him in May 2017.
Under Comey, the FBI opened an investigation into allegations that members of Trump’s 2016 campaign had contact with Russian entities. Trump fired Comey months after that investigation was made public and hinted that the probe was among the factors that led to Comey's termination.
The primary motive for his dismissal, the White House said at the time, was a conclusion by senior Justice Department officials that Comey bungled an investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
The nation's largest discount retailer announced it will raise its prices. Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer and consumer spending if not already.
Walmart, based out of Bentonville, Arkansas is the country’s biggest retailer.
The discounter beat quarterly earnings expectations and stuck by its full-year forecast, which calls for sales to grow 3% to 4% and adjusted earnings of $2.50 to $2.60 per share for the fiscal year. That cautious profit outlook had disappointed Wall Street in February, but the company’s shares rose slightly on Thursday in premarket trading.
Walmart says that President Donald J. Trump's tariffs are the cause of the price increases.
Walmart is often seen as a barometer for the health of the U.S. consumer because of its thousands of stores and large customer base that cuts across age, income and region. Rainey told CNBC that Walmart has not seen a noticeable shift in consumer behavior from previous quarters.
“They’re discerning. They’re mindful. They’re maybe a little concerned about possible looming price increases, but their behaviors largely have not changed. They’re still looking for value,” he said.
Sales in the quarter were “a little choppy,” Rainey said. He said results in February fell below the company’s expectations, March results came in closer to what Walmart expected and then April “was a lot stronger.” So far, he said May “feels a lot more like April” with sales patterns.
Soon AI and robots will replace stock photos of Walmart employees.
Average ticket, or the amount that a customer spent, rose 2.8% year over year. Customer transactions increased 1.6% compared with the year-ago period in the U.S. Yet despite the growth of purchases across Walmart’s store and website, that marked the fourth straight quarter of deceleration for the metric.
Trade remains a major wild card for the company — and the retail industry — as companies debate how much inventory to order and place bets about where tariff levels will ultimately land. About a third of what Walmart sells in the U.S. comes from other parts of the world, with China, Mexico, Canada, Vietnam and India representing its largest markets for imports, Rainey said on the company’s earnings call Thursday.
CEO Doug McMillon said on the company’s earnings call that tariffs on China, in particular, create the greatest cost pressure. He said imports from the country account for high volume in categories such as toys and electronics.He said Walmart is focused on keeping food prices low, but said tariffs on countries like Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia have put pressure on the prices of bananas, avocados, coffee and roses. In some cases, he said, it’s keeping prices where they are — even if that means absorbing higher costs — such as keeping the price consistent for flowers at Sam’s Club on Mother’s Day.
My pastor told me one day I would be mayor of Omaha.
After running the city of Omaha for 12 years, the Republican incumbent mayor was defeated in a blanket primary against a Democratic county treasurer.
Jean Stothert was mayor of the city of Omaha since 2013.
Stothert is a Republican.
Her opponent John Ewing, Jr. the Douglas County treasurer is a Democrat.
He defeated her in a test of how President Donald J. Trump's policies are impacting smaller races. The race is historical.
Ewing will be the first African American mayor of the city. A city of 493,000 residents. It is the largest city in Nebraska. It has a metro area that covers Council Bluffs, Freemont, Waterloo and Glenwood, Iowa.
Carter Lake, an Iowa enclave sits directly in the city of Omaha.
Interstate 80 and Interstate 480 go through Omaha. Interstate 29 travels through Council Bluff, Interstate 680 and Interstate 880 (formerly the continuation of Interstate 680) serve as bypasses through Omaha. They renumbered the section after travelers continued getting confused about the highway aligned with Interstate 29. The Missouri River floods rapidly on Interstate 29 and the Iowa Department of Transportation wanted to avoid having people consider Interstate 680 as an alternative.
Omaha is vibrant city and hometown of retiring Oracle CEO Warren Buffett.
Nebraska is broken into five electoral votes. While Trump managed to carry four of the five electoral votes, former vice president Kamala Harris carried one.
The state has split electoral votes. It has three congressional districts and two senators. The controversial Nebraska U.S. lawmakers are Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE), Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE).
Bacon who represents metro Omaha is a proud Zionist and online troll. He is considered a vulnerable Republican in both primary and general.
Jean Stothert goes down.
Will voters finally reject the status quo?
Voters in Omaha were making history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor.
The race between Mayor Jean Stothert and challenger John Ewing primarily revolved around local issues like street repairs and garbage service, but in the final stretch the campaign touched on more national, hot-button issues such as President Donald Trump’s administration and transgender rights.
Stothert was trailing by nearly 5,000 votes in early returns Tuesday night. At her election night event, Stothert said she called Ewing and conceded in the race, KETV reported.
“I called John Ewing and I congratulated him,” Stothert said. “John Ewing is inheriting tonight a great city, and we leave a strong foundation for the city that we love. We are grateful and we are hopeful.”
The winner will lead Nebraska’s largest city, which makes up nearly a quarter of the state’s population.
In campaigning for a fourth term, Stothert has portrayed Omaha as a city on a hot streak with a revitalized riverfront, plans moving ahead on a streetcar line and progress repairing city streets.
“I have plans and can talk about them, and they are working,” Stothert told the Omaha World-Herald.
The incumbent mayor Jean Stothert was trying to distance herself from Trump.
If reelected, she would have the longest tenure as mayor in more than a century.
Ewing, the county treasurer, said the mayor hasn’t focused enough attention on core issues like filling potholes, hiring more police officers and building more affordable housing.
“People just feel like she’s had her time, and it’s time for somebody new,” Ewing said.
Although the mayor’s office is nonpartisan, the candidates have made it clear to voters that Stothert is a Republican and Ewing is a Democrat. Omaha is among the few spots in conservative Nebraska where Democrats have a reasonable chance of winning elected offices.
Despite a focus on bread-and-butter issues like city services, the candidates have issued more partisan messages as the election neared.
A Stothert TV ad says, “Ewing stands with radicals who want to allow boys in girls’ sports.”
Ewing responded that he hasn’t dealt with such transgender issues as treasurer and told KETV he wouldn’t respond to hypothetical questions.
Ewing has aired ads that connect Stothert to the Trump administration, showing the mayor on a split screen with Trump and saying “Let’s say no to the chaos and elect a mayor who will actually get things done.”
Cassie, the R&B singer who blew the whistle on Sean "Puffy" Combs testified in federal court. Pregnant and in tears, she details how her former fiance was a monster.
On Monday, the federal trial for Sean "Puffy" Combs started. It will be a two month trial. It will be a test of how the federal courts can put away a man who had a major impact on hip-hop, fashion and media. It will peel back the curtain. It will show the world that Combs is a deceitful human being. A crime boss who sexually assaulted women and men. A man who exploited his talent for his own selfish gains. A man who may have set up Tupac Shakur and Marion "Big Suge" Knight after the public feud led to the murder of Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.
It also may comes as no surprise that I get the feeling that President Donald J. Trump will pardon or commute his serving.
Trust me.
Mark this down.
Trump will pardon or commute Sean "Puffy" Combs. It will be a monumental shift to court Black men into the Republican Party. It will also be a privilege of the elite.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
While the media continues to call him Diddy, I will refer to him as that. I will also use his last name Combs or Puffy.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Cassie testified Tuesday that the mercurial music mogul — powerful, abusive and controlling — beat her mercilessly and ordered her to have “disgusting” sex with strangers during drug-fueled, multi-day marathons he called “freak offs.” She recounted a turbulent 10-year relationship with Combs that she said was consumed by violence and his obsession with a form of voyeurism.
Twelve jurors — eight men and four women — and six alternates were chosen just before opening statements began Monday. They include a massage therapist, an investment analyst and a deli clerk. The jurors’ identities are known to the court and the prosecution and defense sides, but won’t be made public.
Addressing the Manhattan courtroom for a second day in Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial, Cassie said Combs forced his way into her Los Angeles apartment and raped her on the living room floor after she said she was breaking up with him.
Cassie also said she didn’t feel she could refuse Combs’ demands for her to have “hundreds” of encounters with male sex workers — which he watched and controlled for hours and even days — because he would make her “look like a slut” if he made the videos public.
The Black Epstein. Combs (known as Diddy or Puffy) has names in his client book.
“I feared for my career. I feared for my family. It’s just embarrassing. It’s horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone,” said Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura.
Prosecutors showed the jury five still images from the sex videos on Wednesday. Cassie said the images depicted her at various stages of the encounters Combs called “freak-offs.” One juror’s eyes widened. Another shook his head from side to side.
She sued Combs in 2023, accusing him of years of physical and sexual abuse. Within hours, the suit was settled for $20 million — a figure Cassie disclosed for the first time Wednesday — but dozens of similar legal claims followed from other women.
Prosecutors accuse Combs of exploiting his status as a powerful music executive to violently force Cassie and other women to take part in sexual encounters. He is charged with crimes including racketeering and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Several other accusers are set to testify.
Combs denies all of the allegations. His attorneys acknowledge he could be violent, but say the sex he and others engaged in was consensual and that nothing he did amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Combs’ lawyers were expected to begin cross-examining Cassie on Thursday, when they will get the chance to challenge her credibility or poke holes in her account of what happened.
Combs, 55, has been jailed since September. He faces at least 15 years in prison if convicted. The trial is expected to last about two months.
Fighting back tears, Cassie Ventura details sexual abuse and extortion.
Cassie exposes the dark side of a celebrity relationship
Cassie’s testimony is exposing the dark underside of a relationship that, for years, played out publicly in pictures of the couple smiling on red carpets and celebrity events. She said she met Combs in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37. Combs signed her to a 10-year contract with his Bad Boy Records label. Within a few years, they started dating, Cassie said.
They were photographed in 2016 attending the premiere of the film “The Perfect Match,” only two days after Combs beat and kicked Cassie at a Los Angeles hotel — an attack captured on security camera footage. After the footage was leaked last year, Combs apologized. Jurors were shown that footage as well as photos of the couple at the premier.
Cassie, now 38, calm and poised after an emotional first day of testimony, said she used makeup to cover bruises and wore sunglasses to hide a black eye for the premiere. She said she sneaked into a popcorn closet at the movie theater to switch dresses for an after-party so bruises on her legs wouldn’t be visible.
On another occasion in 2013, while she was packing to go to Drake’s music festival in Canada, Cassie said Combs scuffled with her friends and threw her into a bed frame. She sustained a “pretty significant gash” above her left eye. Combs’ security personnel brought her to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills to get the wound stitched up, she said.
Afterward, she said she texted Combs a photo of her injured face and wrote: “So you can remember.” Combs replied: “You don’t know when to stop. You pushed it too far. And continued to push. Sad.”
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Cassie has.
Combs accused of a history of violence
Cassie testified about several other violent episodes. Early in their relationship in 2007, she said he repeatedly hit her and knocked her to the floor of a vehicle with a blow to her head. In 2011, when he learned she started dating rapper Kid Cudi, she said Combs lunged at her with a corkscrew and kicked her in the back.
After the 2011 attack, she said she lied to her mother at Christmas that it was the first time Combs hit her.
“I couldn’t hurt her like that,” Cassie testified. “And it was terrifying. It’s not normal, constantly being bruised up by the person you love — who says they love you.”
Cassie also testified that she saw Combs pull one of her friends back over the railing of a balcony in Los Angeles. She said she saw him hit a different friend of hers in the head with a hammer.
Cassie said she was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder before ending her relationship with Combs in 2018, and was blacking out and sleepwalking.
Cassie says she had a breakdown in 2023
Cassie testified that her life reached a climatic moment in early 2023 when she had “horrible flashbacks” as she was shooting a music video. She said she went home after the video shoot and her two kids were asleep but her husband was there. Cassie said she remembered “telling him you can do this without me. You don’t need me here anymore.”
With that, Cassie said she couldn’t take the pain anymore and “tried to walk out the front door into traffic and my husband would not let me.” Weeks later, she was undergoing rehab and trauma therapy.
Asked why she’s testifying at Combs’ criminal trial, she said: “I can’t carry this anymore. I can’t carry the shame, the guilt.”
I would support Kerry Washington if she ran for Congress. Hypothetically, she would be a formidable candidate. The only thing that could hurt a potential run is AIPAC backing.
The Democratic Pary needs new leadership. We cannot allow people like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Ken Martin run the party. They are out of touch, too cozy with Israel and not willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
All we get is platitudes, broken promises and people like John Fetterman.
If the Democratic Party is so far left, why are we embracing fascism?
If the Democratic Party is so woke, why are willing to continue electing candidates that are bigots?
I mean c'mon, the Republicans are riding on authoritarianism. The Republican Party embraces totally unpopular policies and are widely considered the reasons for America's decline.
For some reason Republicans are regarded as more popular than the Democratic Party right now. They are satisfied with President Donald J. Trump's endless chaos.
Former president Joe Biden is a headache not only to the Democratic Party but to former vice president Kamala Harris. His exit 100 days before the election was a huge mistake. His support for Israel was the big reason why Democrats lost the 2024 elections.
Supporting the TikTok ban and the tepid responses to Trump ruined Biden’s reelection and Harris' presidential bid.
Biden staying in the limelight depresses Democrats.
If we need new blood, how about we start with courting people who have influnce.
It cannot be Gavin Newsom, Josh Shaprio, Ruben Gallego, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer and JB Pritzker. They are too compromised and not willing to embrace progressive policies. They want to continue to embrace this notion that we need to move to the middle or win over dissatisfied Republicans.
White voters are not going to back to Democrats. They make up 70% of the nation's population but only vote less than 50% of the time for Democrats.
Although, I doubt she will ever run for office, I would hope actress/director Kerry Washington would announce a bid for Congress.
Washington is an American actress and director. She has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. She was included in Time's 100 list of most influential people in 2014, and Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress in 2018.
The only thing that might stop me from supporting her is AIPAC.
Washington lives in New York City in the borough of Manhattan.
There are three congressional districts that represent the borough.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Daniel Golden (D-NY) representing the borough. All three of them are embracing Israel.
They must be defeated in a primary.
I am willing to embrace any politicians who can actually do something.
Progressives are frustrated with the Democratic Party embracing status quo politics.
David Hogg, the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee is facing calls to resign after he openly stated that the party's leadership is too old.
He is right.
The young voters see the Democratic Party as out of touch.
So I am asking for some input.
Would you support Kerry Washington if she decided to run for Congress?
Better being an independent. Cause the Democrats and Republicans are toxic waste.
The out of touch political party is not just the Republican Party but the Democratic Party. They are stuck on stupid and not willing to change the status quo.
So thus, Democrats will continue to offer fear, promises of doing better but in reality, platitudes which results in depressing turnout.
David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland mass shooting at the Majorie Stoneman Douglass High School in Feb. 2018 is vilified by the right and the left. He is being ousted as a vice chair for the Democratic National Committee.
One thing clear about him, he ain't going anywhere.
And he is right.
Why are we continuing to follow the same formula?
The DNC taken a first step toward possibly requiring a new election for two of its vice chairs, including David Hogg, who has stirred controversy with his call for primary challenges to longtime incumbents in safe seats.
The DNC’s Credentials Committee voted on Monday to nullify the results of the February election in which Hogg and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta won two of the three vice chair positions. The vote followed a procedural complaint made by one of the losing candidates, who challenged the way the election was determined.
But the vote came as internal strife has dominated much of the past month of Hogg’s time on the DNC. Hogg’s group, Leaders We Deserve, launched a $20 million effort in mid-April to advance more than a dozen primary challenges against Democratic members of Congress to bring in a new generation to serve.
He’s said sitting members in competitive districts and those in safe districts who have been effective at standing up to President Trump would not be targeted, but his move has still caused plenty of backlash within the party.
DNC Chair Ken Martin said following Hogg’s announcement that no DNC officer should try to influence a primary.
But party leaders have said the vote on Monday was about the procedural issue, not other considerations.
Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a member of the credentials committee, said in a post on social platform X that the first vice chair, Artie Blanco, was elected with a clear majority, but Kenyatta and Hogg were elected on a combined ballot.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Malcolm Kenyatta are the status quo.
One of the losing vice chair candidates, Kalyn Free, issued a complaint that conducting the election on a combined ballot violated the DNC’s rules.
Pelosi said she called for upholding the election results but addressing the issue for future elections, but her proposal fell short of a majority vote of the committee, which eventually voted to recommend the DNC hold new ballots for the two vice chair positions that Hogg and Kenyatta hold.
The full membership of the committee will need to vote on the proposal for a new election to be held.
“Meanwhile, Malcolm Kenyatta and David Hogg continue to serve as DNC Vice Chairs,” Pelosi said. “And I think I speak for all of us on the Committee when I say I hope both of these talented individuals put their names on the ballot again.”
Hogg denounced the move in a statement, saying the DNC had taken its first steps to remove him from his position.
“While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote,” he wrote.
Hogg added that the DNC made clear its plans to remove him from his position in declaring its “neutrality” stance in primaries, but he argued that party committees like the Senate and House Democrats’ campaign arms regularly get involved in primaries.
“The DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort,” he said.
Kenyatta posted on X that he disagreed with the ruling but respects the committee’s decision. But he challenged the idea that it is about Hogg, noting that the challenge from Free was brought well before the 25-year-old — who entered the spotlight as a Parkland school shooting survivor — announced his primary plan.
“The credentials committee believed, as they stated, that they are remedying a procedural flaw. But doing so the way they did, is a slap in my face. I’m frustrated, but I’ll be ok,” Kenyatta wrote in the post.
“However any story about this, that neatly places this into a narrative about David Hogg is wrong,” he continued. “I worked my a– off to get this role and have done the job every day since I’ve held it.”
Kenyatta also made a pointed comment at Hogg, arguing he wants the story to be about him.
“This story is complex and I’m frustrated — but it’s not about @davidhogg111. Even though he clearly wants it to be,” he said.
Poachers, racists and genocide friendly people to the front of the line. White South Africans are "good" like Israelis. Trump's kind of people.
When you are on the wrong side of history.
Israel, Russia and the United States are the three most hated countries in the world.
President Donald J. Trump and former president Joe Biden have single handedly ruined our reputation. The U.S. siding with Israel, gaslighting us into endless conflicts and our presidents being too old are problems.
The U.S. is pushing 20th Century policies in a progressive 21st Century.
Through a series of conspiracy theories promoted by Tucker Carlson, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Jack Posobic, Lara Logan, Mark Levin and Elon Musk, the Trump Administration is allowing South Africans entry without restrictions.
The South Africans who are emigrating to the United States are white.
The Trump administration brought a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees Monday. It says it’s the start of a larger relocation effort for members of the minority Afrikaner group who are being persecuted by their Black-led government because of their race.
The 59 South Africans had their applications fast-tracked by the U.S. after President Donald Trump announced the relocation program in February. He said Monday that white Afrikaner farmers are facing a “genocide” in their homeland, an allegation strongly denied by the South African government.
The Trump administration has taken an anti-migrant stance, suspending refugee programs and halting arrivals from other parts of the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan and most countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Refugee groups have questioned why the white South Africans are being prioritized.
Lara Logan peddled the conspiracy about white South Africans being treated unfairly.
South Africa says there’s no persecution
The South African government said the U.S. allegations that Afrikaners are being persecuted are “completely false,” the result of misinformation and an inaccurate view of its country. It cited the fact that Afrikaners are among the richest and most successful people in the country, and said they are amongst “the most economically privileged.”
Afrikaners are the descendants of mainly Dutch and French colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. There are around 2.7 million Afrikaners among South Africa’s population of 62 million, which is more than 80% Black. Many in South Africa are puzzled by claims that they are persecuted.
Afrikaners are South Africa’s largest white group and part of the country’s everyday multi-racial life. Many are successful business leaders and some serve in government. Their language, Afrikaans, is widely spoken — including by non-Afrikaners — and is recognized as an official language, and churches and other institutions reflecting Afrikaner culture hold prominence in almost every city and town.
Afrikaners were the leaders of the apartheid system of white minority rule that ended in 1994.
So what persecution is the U.S. alleging?
Farm attacks
Trump and his South African-born adviser Elon Musk have accused the South African government of having racist anti-white laws and policies, but the claims of persecution and genocide center on a relatively small number of violent farm attacks and robberies on white people in rural communities.
The U.S. alleges those attacks are racially motivated and the South African government is “fueling” them by allowing anti-white rhetoric in politics and not doing enough to protect Afrikaner communities. The government has condemned the farm attacks, but says their cause is being deliberately mischaracterized.
Trevor Noah. The comedian from South Africa has something to say about Trump's Boer refugees.
Violent attacks on farm owners in South Africa have been a problem for years but represent a small percentage of the country’s extremely high violent crime rates, which affect all races. The government says there is no targeting of white people and farm attacks are part of its struggles with crime.
Groups representing farmers have recorded around 50 or less farm homicides a year in the last two years in South Africa. Those figures are set against a total of more than 20,000 homicides a year affecting all races.
“There is no data at all that backs that there is persecution of white South Africans or white Afrikaners in particular,” South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said. “White farmers get affected by crime just like any other South Africans.”
Still, many rural white communities have long expressed fear at the threat of violence and feel attacks against them in home invasions and robberies are especially brutal.
“So, we’ve essentially extended citizenship to those people ... to escape from that violence and come here,” Trump said.
Affirmative action and ‘reverse racism’
The Trump administration has also criticized South Africa’s affirmative action policies as racist against whites and has falsely claimed white South Africans are having their land taken away by the government under a new expropriation law that promotes “racially discriminatory property confiscation.”
No land has been expropriated, but Afrikaners who make up many rural communities have raised fears their land might be targeted.
South Africa has laws designed to advance employment opportunities for Blacks, and many white South Africans and white-led political parties have also criticized them and called them racist and counter-productive.
Some Afrikaner groups say the employment, land and other laws are designed to specifically limit their opportunities in South Africa in a kind of reverse racism as punishment for Afrikaners’ role in apartheid. The government rejects that and says the laws are designed to give Blacks access to jobs and land they were denied under apartheid.
Not the only racial minority in South Africa
Afrikaners are not the only racial minority in South Africa, and not the only white minority. South Africa also has nearly 2 million white people with British or other heritage.
The Trump administration’s program initially only referred to Afrikaners. But in new guidelines released by the U.S. Embassy on Monday, applicants for refugee status must be “of Afrikaner ethnicity or be a member of a racial minority in South Africa.” Other racial minorities include a group of around 5 million with biracial heritage, as well as people with Indian and other south Asian heritage.
It’s not clear how many South Africans have applied for or been granted refugee status, but U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the administration would welcome more Afrikaners as refugees in the coming months.
Serving a ten year bid in a California iron college, Daystar Peterson is finding life miserable there. Once he gets out, he faces deportation to Canada. He will be no longer able to see his child living in the United States.
And it was all because of his temper and the violence he put upon Megan Thee Stallion. His temper has gotten out of hand.
You can ask Megan, August Alsina, The Weeknd and his child's mother, Raina Chassagne.
Tory Lanez, you fucked.
He was hospitalized on Monday after a fellow inmate at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi attacked the rapper at around 7:20 a.m. local time, a spokesperson for the prison told ABC News.
"Staff immediately responded, activated 911 and began medical aid. Peterson was subsequently transported to an outside medical facility for further treatment," the spokesperson said.
The rapper/singer is serving a 10-year prison sentence for shooting and injuring fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, in July 2020.
The prison spokesperson did not provide further comment when asked about the nature of Peterson's injuries, whether he has been released from the hospital or whether a suspect has been charged in the attack.
However, the rapper’s verified Instagram account shared a post to his stories, saying: “Tory was stabbed 14 times, including seven wounds to his back, four to his torso, two to the back of his head and one to the left side of his face. Both of his lungs collapsed, and he was placed on a breathing apparatus. He is now breathing on his own."
"Despite being in pain, he is talking normally, in good spirits and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through," the post continued. "He also wants to thank everyone for the continued prayers and support."
Crystal Morgan, an attorney representing Peterson, confirmed to ABC News on Monday afternoon that the rapper was attacked at the correctional facility and remains hospitalized.
There's no smiles for Mr. Daystar Peterson.
Morgan said she had not been able to obtain any information about his condition and was "in the dark" like everyone else. Morgan added she called Peterson's family to notify them of the attack.
The prison's Investigative Services Unit and the Kern County District Attorney's Office launched a probe into the incident, while the Office of the Inspector General has been notified, the spokesperson said.
ABC News has reached out to the DA's office for additional comment.
Peterson was found guilty on Dec. 23, 2022, of three charges for shooting and injuring Pete in both feet as they left a party in the Hollywood Hills on July 12, 2020.
He was initially charged in October 2020 with one felony count each of assault with a semi-automatic firearm (personal use of a firearm) and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, according to charging documents obtained by ABC News.
He was also charged ahead of his trial in December 2022 with an additional felony count of discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Lanez, who chose not to take the witness stand during the trial, pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
His defense attorneys argued during the trial that Lanez was not the shooter and he has maintained his innocence in multiple social media posts since his sentencing last year.
During his sentencing hearing, prosecutors read an impact statement from Pete -- who testified during the trial -- in which she called for Peterson to "be forced to face the full consequences of his heinous actions and face justice."
"He not only shot me, he made a mockery of my trauma. He tried to position himself as a victim and set out to destroy my character and my soul," Pete said in her impact statement.
Peterson was denied bond by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Sept. 14, 2023, as his legal team appeals his 10-year sentence.
Israel has increased their hasbara campaign as it awaits the International Criminal Court's decision to pursue criminal charges against the regime.
Allegations of sexual abuse by Karim A.A. Khan are timed.
Khan denies the allegations and claim it is a smear campaign. These are tactics used by the Mossad to discredit the prosecutors who long pursued charging Israel.
They did it to previous prosecutors and officials.
They will be doing it to President Donald J. Trump soon. Trump went unilateral in some of the decisions involving the Middle East. He had negotiated the release of the American who served in the Israeli Defence Force. All of this done against Israel. That's why we are hearing about the $400 million airline he is accepting from Qatar. It is a slow leak before they flood the stream.
After all, Israel rooted for Trump and actively pushed for his return. Israel sees his actions as betrayal. They will find ways to deal with him. Former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris bowed to the Zionist apartheid ethnostate. It cost them big time.
Israel has officially declared it will occupy Gaza and force all its civilians to move or die. This is a Holocaust in real time.
Trump, the ultimate Zionist is allowing it to happen. Biden set the table, Trump is drinking the wine and Benjamin Netanyahu is cutting the meat.
History will not be kind to George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump.
An IDF female solider lost her leg.
As I look on X, I am starting to notice images of thirst traps who represent the Israeli Defence Forces. These young women are showing off their beauty, their dancing moves and their guns, literally.
It is an old playbook that the Israeli regime uses to encourage the narrative that Israel is a cool, fun and sociable country. It is not.
It is an apartheid backed by Jewish and white supremacy. The United States, European Union, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Argentina and New Zealand continue supporting it.
Edan Alexander, a Israeli-American who served in the IDF was released after 18 months in prisoner custody. The junk food media continues to call these settlers "hostages."
Trump said that he negotiated with Hamas to have the terrorist released.
Hamas says Alexander, the last living American serving as an IDF soldier in Gaza, will be released as part of efforts to establish a ceasefire, reopen crossings into the territory and resume the delivery of aid. Two Hamas officials told The Associated Press they expect the release in the next 48 hours.
The Hamas statement Sunday night does not say when the release will happen. The announcement comes shortly before U.S. President Donald Trump visits the Middle East this week. Trump is not planning to visit Israel.
There was no immediate response from regime leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. Netanyahu’s government was angered by U.S. direct talks with Hamas earlier this year.
Khalil al-Hayyah, a Hamas leader in Gaza, said the group has been in contact with the U.S. administration over the past few days.
Al-Hayyah said in a statement Hamas is ready to “immediately start intensive negotiations” to reach a final deal for a long-term truce which includes an end to the war, the exchange of Palestinian held by Israel and the handing over of power in Gaza to an independent body of technocrats.
Trump negotiated the release of the U.S. citizen who served as an IDF solider Eden Alexander.
A senior Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Alexander is expected to be released on Monday as a goodwill gesture. Another Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss negotiations, said Alexander’s release is expected in the next 48 hours, adding that it requires Israel to pause fighting for a couple of hours.
Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism. From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue when criticizing Israel, Jews, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, members of Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Canary Mission, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
Again, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing religious beliefs, there is no antisemitism when criticizing the Jews.
To clear up the AP's account of Oct. 7, the Israelis used the Hannibal Directive to massacre the settlers to prevent Hamas from taking IDF soliders. The IDF has used the weapons to kill settlers at a festival.
Hamas has been very clear on who they targeted. They targeted the IDF and the walls. They do not target civilians. Israel has exaggerated the way this went down.
They have used American weapons to kill settlers, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, UN peacekeepers and their own IDF soliders. Israel has killed Americans, British, German, Australian, Canadians and French citizens.
No investigations were carried out to why Israel targeted them.
Israel refuses to allow independent monitors into Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
IDF soliders who refuse to carry out orders are often taken out by snipers.
The "hostages" were IDF soliders.
Israel has violated the ceasefire. They are planning on invading Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. They have stopped humanitarian aid and attacked any attempts by volunteers or independent surveyors.
Israel wants the U.S. to start a war with Iran.
The supporters of former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris are playing on this "We tried to warn you" nonsense. How can you morally stand on principles of being a progressive and back Israel?
First and foremost, Americans have a right to vote for whomever they chose.
Second, Harris failed to win over voters. She stuck with former president Joe Biden on the economy, Israel, Ukraine, immigration and inflation. The former president failed to listen to voters and his base.
The former president gave unilateral support and cover. We knew Trump would be worse. We demanded that Biden and Harris put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel to stop killing. We urged them to stop invading other countries. Biden ignored the concerns. The Democrats paid the price.
This is what the junk food media shows of Edan Alexander. A kid. In reality, he is a monster who should have caught divine intervention for his actions in Gaza.
This shows a lot of "tone deafness" within the Democratic Party.
It is not Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) or the former supporters' fault for Biden and Harris' missteps. She warned them that Arab Americans did not like being ignored.
Those fucking hypocrites sat in silence as Israel is killing men, women and children.
They can fuck themselves.
Israel has killed Americans. No one was held accountable.
The killing of Rachel Corrie did not move George W. Bush to cut Israel loose.
The deaths of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Jacob Flickinger and Kamel Ahmad Jawad were never investigated by the U.S. Justice Department.
Mask off.
Resistance is not terrorism.
Occupation of oppressed people is not peace.
A two state solution is "separate but equal" and a de facto apartheid.
Telling other countries to take Palestinians is ethnic cleansing.
A sovereignty seizing land in a violent conflict is a war crime.
A violent attack on children throwing rocks at tanks is justified in the minds of those who support Israel.
Spitting and shoving Christians, Satanists, non Zionist Jews, Muslims and Hindus is considered a custom in Israel. How is this disgusting act justified?
The double standard in media coverage is the Israelis are hostages and the Palestinians are prisoners. Some of the Palestinians held in Israeli custody are children under the age of 14.
When Russia seized Ukrainian land and Crimea, the U.S. pushed for sanctions.
When Israel seized Lebanese and Syrian land, the U.S. recognized it as Israeli sovereignty. They have actively rejected sanctions imposed on Israel.
Iran supports the resistance. The U.S. and Israel labels it as an enabler of terrorism and war. Yet, Israel has created the conflicts by forcing regime change, killing their civilians, their scientists, their military generals and their diplomats. No one seems to call this terrorism. In fact, some U.S. lawmakers see it as justifiable offense.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion, a concert or Iran.
The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the status quo.
Will the real Eden Alexander please stand up?
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
Israel is the red line. If any lawmaker, entertainer, athlete or social media influncer backs the apartheid ethnostate, they will face a boycott.
Regardless of political affiliation, if you are supporting Israel, you are not getting donations or a vote from me.
I will hold President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance accountable.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to", blaming "illegal immigrants" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to focus on ending gun violence, lowering costs, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tir9ed of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We don't want any more wars on behalf of Israel. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.
The Resistance Must Stop Israel!✊️🇵🇸
Israel 🇮🇱 Will Fall......
This 🇮🇱 Will Be Regarded As A Symbol Of Evil In The 21st Century.
The senile president is compromised by Russia, Israel, Belarus and Qatar.
Qatar is gifting President Donald J. Trump a $400 million airliner jet.
ABC News reveals the shocking but not surprising controversy. The president has already seen the airliner.
The gift is expected to be announced next week, when Trump visits Qatar on the first foreign trip of his second term, according to sources familiar with the plans.
Trump toured the plane, which is so opulently configured it is known as "a flying palace," while it was parked at the West Palm Beach International Airport in February.
The Trump administration is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar -- a gift that is to be available for use by Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation, sources familiar with the proposed arrangement told ABC News.
The highly unusual -- unprecedented -- arrangement is sure to raise questions about whether it is legal for the Trump administration, and ultimately, the Trump presidential library foundation, to accept such a valuable gift from a foreign power.
Anticipating those questions, sources told ABC News that lawyers for the White House counsel's office and the Department of Justice drafted an analysis for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that is legal for the Department of Defense to accept the aircraft as a gift and later turn it over to the Trump library, and that it does not violate laws against bribery or the Constitution's prohibition (the emoluments clause) of any U.S. government official accepting gifts "from any King, Prince or foreign State."
Sources told ABC News that Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump's top White House lawyer David Warrington concluded it would be "legally permissible" for the donation of the aircraft to be conditioned on transferring its ownership to Trump's presidential library before the end of his term, according to sources familiar with their determination.
The sources said Bondi provided a legal memorandum addressed to the White House counsel's office last week after Warrington asked her for advice on the legality of the Pentagon accepting such a donation.
The White House and DOJ didn't immediately respond to request for comment. A spokesperson for the Qatari embassy did not respond to ABC's inquiries.
The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify the 13-year-old aircraft to meet the U.S. military specifications required for any aircraft used to transport the president of the United States, multiple sources familiar with the proposed arrangement said.
The plane will then be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation no later than Jan. 1, 2029, and any costs relating to its transfer will be paid for by the U.S. Air Force, the sources told ABC News.
The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify the 13-year-old aircraft to meet the U.S. military specifications required for any aircraft used to transport the president of the United States, multiple sources familiar with the proposed arrangement said.
According to aviation industry experts, the estimated value of the aircraft Trump will inherit is about $400 million, and that's without the additional communications security equipment the Air Force will need to add to properly secure and outfit the plane in order to safely transport the commander in chief.
As the Wall Street Journal first reported, the aviation company L3Harris has already been commissioned to overhaul the plane to meet the requirements of a presidential jet.
Both the White House and DOJ concluded that because the gift is not conditioned on any official act, it does not constitute bribery, the sources said. Bondi's legal analysis also says it does not run afoul of the Constitution's prohibition on foreign gifts because the plane is not being given to an individual, but rather to the United States Air Force and, eventually, to the presidential library foundation, the sources said.
The primary aircraft used in the current Air Force One fleet includes two aging Boeing 747-200 jumbo jets that have been operational since 1990. The Air Force contract with Boeing to replace those aircraft has been riddled with delays and cost overruns.
The original contract was signed in 2018, but as of last year, Boeing anticipated the aircraft would not be ready until 2029, after Trump leaves office.
The president has expressed deep frustration with the delays, tasking Elon Musk to work with Boeing and the Air Force to speed up the process. Those efforts have been modestly successful. Boeing's most recent estimated delivery date is now 2027, but Trump has made it clear he wants a new plane this year.
