On Thursday, shortly after 1 A.M. in Israel, a sleepy screening of documentaries by recent film graduates on Channel 12 was interrupted by breaking news. An anchor announced that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas had just been reached. The broadcast cut to the White House; footage showed President Donald Trump holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed him a slip of paper.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the court said you have freedom of speech but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds, they've never seen anything like it on both sides and you end up with riots. So we're going on that basis. We're looking at it from not from the freedom of speech, which I always felt strongly about, but never passed the courts.
President Trump is the peace president! Finally, the living nightmare the hostages have been forced to endure will end and Americans Itay and Omer can be laid to rest
The text of the note handed to Donald Trump by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, on Wednesday afternoon, captured in a photograph, suggested the president could soon announce a peace deal in Gaza on his social media platform. Very close, the note read, according to an image of the handwritten note taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.
Trump knows that they will mention his history-making presidencies, his ostentatious wealth, and his unusual charisma-but he also is aware that when he dies, people will remember his conviction on 34 felony counts, and that there is nothing he can do about it. Even now, White House officials have told me, Trump rages about how his guilty verdict is sure to be mentioned way up high in his obituaries.
Regarding a phone call Trump had last month with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, the president said he was taken aback by her insistence that Portland is not the hellscape he has been saying it is. I spoke to the governor, she was very nice, Trump said last month. But I said, Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.'
Donald Trump went with a different tactic on Monday. During an Oval Office press conference, CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked the president if he'd consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell, now that the Supreme Court has declined to review the 2021 conviction of Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice. "I haven't heard the name in so long," he said. "I can say this, I'd have to take a look at it."
"Absolutely, there are people I don't like," she told interviewer and TV writer Brad Falchuk, "and I would like to put them on one of Musk's spaceships and send them all off to the planet he's sure he's going to discover."
You know, the NFL just chose the Bad Bunny Rabbit or whatever his name. This guy who hates ICE, he doesn't like you. He accuses everything he doesn't like of racism. Do you think maybe we should just kind of entertain blowing off the NFL like a boycott or something along those lines? This guy does not seem like a unifying entertainer and a lot of folks don't even know who he is.
But Trump has also grown tired of Netanyahu's unwillingness to stop a war that Trump himself wants credit for bringing to a close. Last week, in Washington, Trump pressured Netanyahu into accepting a deal that would trade the approximately twenty remaining Israeli hostages for some two thousand Palestinians currently held in Israeli jails, and call for Hamas fighters to disarm in exchange for amnesty.
Trump said Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, will be part of the deal. Analysts had previously estimated that TikTok was worth significantly more. China and TikTok have yet to comment on where things stand. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Oracle would "audit" TikTok's algorithm and oversee its retraining. Control of the algorithm has long been a major sticking point in any sale.
I knew Al Sharpton for many years, not that it matters, but he was a major TRUMP fan. He'd ask me to go to his fake Rallies all the time, because I brought BIG Crowds, and he couldn't get anybody to come without me. Then he did the Tawana Brawley Hoax, one of the worst Low Level Scams in History, and that set him back, BIG TIME!
And please remember I wrote about Osama bin Lady exactly one yearbefore he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, You gotta watch Osama bin Laden.' And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true. But I said, One year before,' to Pete Hegseth. I said, One year before,' where's Pete? the president asked while scanning the crowd.
No dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces in order to have them belittled as failures and humiliated for their slovenly personal appearance, while degrading whole classes serving in the army, navy and air force degraded as inferior and unworthy. No dictator has ever pleaded for generals and admirals to applaud his remarks, followed by deafening silence.
Six years after Donald Trump allegedly wrote a suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, the current US president put his name to something that now seems almost as shocking: a letter calling for action on the climate crisis. In 2009 Trump, then a real estate developer and reality TV personality, was among a group of business leaders behind a full-page advertisement in the New York Times calling for legislation to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today.
You know, I'm not a fan of James Comey because of what happened in 16. Okay? Steele began. That's then. But the reality of it is you don't want the system ever to be weaponized against anyone, regardless of what they may have done in the past or what you may have thought of their actions in the past. He warned that the spectacle spoke to something far more corrosive and called for vigilance:
No fake news here, Beach posted on X. These first drafts honoring America's 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real. Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over. No fake news here. These first drafts honoring America's 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real. Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over.
Andrew Cuomo has stated he would welcome an endorsement from current New York City Mayor Eric Adams in his campaign for mayor. The former governor, running as a third-party candidate, expressed his openness to broad support from various political backgrounds, including Democrats, Republicans, and independents. However, when asked about a potential endorsement from President Donald Trump, Cuomo made it clear that he would not accept it, stating, "The tent isn't that big."