Among the many events held in conjunction with President Donald Trump's inauguration was a party hosted by black conservative CJ Pearson.
New York Magazine took a photograph of the event, put it on the cover, and complained that "almost everyone is white."
How could that happen?
Simply crop the blacks at the event out of the picture.
It is NotTheBee that explained, "Erasing black people from history seems to be a trend on the Left these days, and the trend kept on a kickin' when New York Magazine decided to crop three black people from their cover photo of a Trump inauguration event and then claim 'Almost everyone [at the party] is white' in the accompanying article. Sounds like satire, but it's real."
From the magazine itself, which bragged about Brock Colyer reporting on the "young, gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers."
Pearson noted that the magazine "intentionally left me out of their story because it would have undermined their narrative that MAGA is some racist cult."
Further reports confirmed that Colyar is a man who poses as a woman.
The report addressed the magazine, "You literally cut the black people out of the cover photo, refused to mention the black organizer, and made yourself even more of a laughing stock than you already were."
"After giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot that CNN offered me, I've decided to move on," Acosta said, adding he'd reveal his next step in the coming days.
Trump reacted to the news on Truth Social, saying: "Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, 'Death Valley,' because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!).
"Word is that he wants to QUIT, and that would be even better. Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up. Good luck Jim!"
While Acosta did not address Trump's remarks, his departure announcement took obvious aim at the president.
"Don't give into the lies, don't give into the fear, hold onto the truth and to hope," he said.
As WND reported one week after the presidential election in November, CNN was looking to lay off hundreds of employees, possibly including some stars, following Trump's landslide victory over Kamala Harris.
In 2019, WND reported how Acosta suggested CNN's competitor Fox News is controlled by the Trump White House, referring to it as "a beast with many heads."
Acosta claimed to radio broadcaster Hugh Hewitt that Fox News is a type of "state TV."
You don't think they get scripts?" Acosta asked Hewitt.
"You don't think they get a script that night when they come on? You don't think that they're reading from talking points that are almost identical from what the White House wants out that day?"
"Absolutely not. Do you think they actually get a script from the White House, Jim?" responded Hewitt.
Acosta replied: "It sounds like that's the case. We hear the same talking points from the surrogates that we hear on their show night after night. It certainly sounds that way."
CNN said regarding Acosta's departure: "Jim has had a long, distinguished nearly 20-year career at CNN, with a track record of standing up to authority, for the first amendment and for our journalistic freedoms."
"We want to thank him for the dedication and commitment he's brought to his reporting and wish him the very best in the future."
That's the official White House conclusion on the mysterious drone flights reported over New Jersey in the final days of 2024.
At her first press briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karolin Leavitt said:
"And before I turn to questions, I do have news directly from the president of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office. From President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones.
"After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.
"Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying drones and in time it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy."
Online journalist Nick Sortor reacted on X, saying: "WHY DID BIDEN LIE? WHY NOT JUST TELL US THAT?
Filmmaker Robby Starbuck noted: "This is incredible. The Biden administration let the whole country freak out for weeks about drones and a possible drone threat when they approved the damn drones. Why did they help create panic instead of telling the truth and calming people down? Lunacy.'
As WND reported on Dec. 15, there were reports suggesting the devices were part of a massive counter-terror operation hunting for a dirty bomb or another possible weapon of mass destruction on American soil.
"It's potentially the most significant national security threat we've faced since 9/11," said Gary Franchi in his Raw Feed broadcast on the Next News Network.
"Apparently the Office of Global Access [a division of the CIA] has deployed these advanced surveillance assets for one purpose: hunting for a dirty bomb that's believed to be hidden somewhere on U.S. soil.
"But here's what should really keep you up at night. The reason the intel is leaking now, well, because time may be running out."
"These are our drones," Franchi stressed. "They are tracking gamma rays linked to possible WMDs in a massive counter-terror operation."
JERUSALEM – An Iranian author and political commentator who recently spoke in the Qatari capital Doha, has caused no little consternation in his home country after he expressed "awe" at the number of young Iranians who "hate Palestinians."
"You'd be surprised today," Sadegh Zibakalam, who is also a professor at Tehran University, said in a video shared by Iran International. "Since Oct. 7, 2023, you'd be surprised at the number of Iranian who HATE Palestinians. What happened to that sympathy? It's gone – it's evaporated."
More shockingly still it was not just the apparent pent up hatred of Iranians toward Palestinians, but they also praised Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a kind of hero. He said he would have thought the person who told him such a thing as a prediction 15 months ago was out of their mind or talking nonsense. "But I saw it with my own eyes during the past 15 months, the degree of hatred of younger generation of Iranian against Palestinian. And their hero was Netanyahu."
He added, "Do you think they knew anything about Netanyahu and the Likud party, and the Hamas? No, no. They hate Palestinians because the Islamic leaders – they support Palestinians."
Last month, a viral video circulated on social media, showing a high school principal in Iran trying to get his students to chant,"Death to Israel," and, "Death to America," while the students instead replied, "Death to Palestine," reported Israel National News.
Iran's population of some 90 million people is young, with the median age being 33. It isn't too difficult a proposition to understand where Iran's young people are coming from; they have endured a teetering economy bent to the will of the mullahs in Tehran, which has been under the downward pressure of crippling sanctions – until the Biden administration hiatus – and might soon be again. While their own economy is deprived, the IRGC has spent billions of petrodollars on the vaunted "ring of fire" foreign policy to encircle Israel, and which the Jewish state managed to dismantle in large part – although by no means completely – in a few short weeks.
True to form, officialdom in Tehran was unimpressed with Zibakalam's pronouncement, with the Prosecutor's Office filing charges against the commentator.
"Due to recent baseless statements made by Sadegh Zibakalam, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against him," Mizan, Iran's judiciary news website, said on Tuesday, without providing further details of the charges.
The charges come after a video of his lecture, titled "The Trump presidency and the 46 years of hostility between Iran and the US," was widely shared on social media, according to Iran International.
"More than being worried about Trump and what Trump is going to do with Iran, I am worried about the situation in Iran – the sharp contradiction, the sharp conflict between the younger generation of Iranians and their hatred of literally anything which is tied to the Islamic Republic," Zibakalam said in a lecture at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha on President Trump's inauguration on January 20.
The commentator has previously been sentenced to 18 months in prison and a two-year ban from political activities for "propaganda against the system."
GOP Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski sided against President Donald Trump in his announced interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark, the Daily Caller reported. Murkowski said in a joint statement with a member of Demark's parliament that Greenland is "not for sale."
Murkowski and Aaja Chemnitz, the representative for Greenland in the Danish Parliament, released a joint statement on Monday. The Alaska Republican shared it to X, formerly Twitter.
"As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward. The future will be defined by partnership, not ownership. To ensure our alliance reaches its full potential, Americans must view Greenland as an ally, not an asset," Murkowski captioned it.
As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward. The future will be defined by partnership, not ownership. To ensure our alliance reaches its full potential, Americans must view Greenland as an ally, not an asset.…
Murkowski sided against Trump in the statement, rejecting his proposal and making her digs. "In recent weeks, as President Trump has suggested the U.S. should purchase Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark, attention has rapidly turned to what the future may hold," the joint statement began.
"The appeal of Greenland is easy to understand. It is strategically located for defense, shipping, and more. It is also a storehouse for all sorts of minerals, the building blocks of society that will determine who leads—and controls—the industries of the future," it went on.
"Of course, a businessman turned president would be interested," the lawmakers sniped. "But Greenland is not for sale. The question has been asked and firmly answered by the government of Greenland, Naalakkersuisut," the statement added.
“As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward. The United States, like Denmark, should recognize that the future will be defined by partnership, not ownership," the statement went on.
"To ensure our alliance reaches its full potential, Americans must view Greenland as an ally, not an asset. Open for business, but not for sale," it added.
Trump's Argument
As The Hill reported, Trump expressed a desire to expand America's territory, including a possible acquisition of Greenland. The land mass is strategically located in the Arctic but is currently part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Trump reportedly had a confrontational call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. He supposedly threatened tariffs and other sanctions, though the administration has not commented on whether it was a contentious discussion.
National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said Trump continues to be interested in Greenland for the sake of national security. It's situated in the sweet spot between Russia and China and could deter both adversarial nations from a hot conflict.
"President Trump has been clear that the safety and security of Greenland is important to the United States as China and Russia make significant investments throughout the Arctic region. The President is committed to not only protecting U.S. interests in the Arctic but also working with Greenland to ensure mutual prosperity for both nations," Hughes said in a statement.
Murkowski has sided against her president and her party with this stance. Whether there is any actual negotiation for Greenland or not, she has shown herself to be disloyal at the height of Trump's popularity.
The cast of Saturday Night Live took shots at President Trump and his family over the weekend, in a limp attempt to revive the deflated cultural "resistance" against the current, and former, president.
The tedious opening skit depicts Trump as a "king" upstaging the Founding Fathers - and also mocks Barron Trump, white people, and Trump's change in his inauguration plans.
SNL mocks Trump' return
The scene depicts "king" Trump interrupting Alexander Hamilton, portrayed by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, during the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
"Never say never... Kidding of course, though in many ways I’m not. I’m in my king era," said James Austin Johnson, portraying Trump.
The skit proceeds into a wearisome, racially charged attack on Trump's first week back in office, particularly his actions reversing DEI.
"But just like the founding fathers, I am creating a new country as well. And just like them, we’re doing it very whitely. DEI is over. It’s dead."
"Workplaces must go back to looking like the TV show ‘The Office’: mostly white people but with one funny black guy who is having a really bad time," Johnson said.
Barron targeted
The show's creators also made it perfectly clear that 18-year-old Barron Trump, now a college freshman, is fair game for their lame jokes.
After Trump's first inauguration in 2017, a Saturday Night Live writer was suspended for calling then 10-year-old Barron Trump a "school shooter." Saturday's broadcast poked fun at Barron's prodigious growth over the past eight years, comparing him to the Lord of the Rings character Gandalf.
“I’m back in the White House, just in time. Everything is back to how it was,” said Johnson’s Trump. “Except now my new favorite son is Barron, and he is smacking his head on every door frame. Oh, it’s bad."
“It's like when Gandalf goes to Bilbo's house,” Johnson added.
Trump's inauguration also came in for mockery, with Johnson's Trump saying, “It was inside due to cold and fear. But we had a lot of surprise guests. Like Melania. That was nice.”
Saturday Night Live famously reacted to Trump's 2016 victory with a funereal performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" by Kate McKinnon portraying Hillary Clinton.
The solemn skit marked the beginning of the anti-Trump "resistance," as the left marshalled all of its cultural influence to discredit the 45th president.
All in vain, as Trump returns to office with more popularity than he had the first time. Meanwhile, Saturday Night Live is looking more out of touch than ever.
The White House has begun spotlighting some of the criminal illegal aliens who already have been arrested under President Donald Trump's border security agenda.
That includes not just securing the border but also arresting and deporting those who broke the law to enter the U.S. illegally, and especially those who also are criminals.
Among those taken off the streets is Edgar De La Cruz-Manzo, a convicted child rapist.
And an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador wanted for aggravated homicide. And another wanted for aggravated homicide.
And a Honduran national found with cocaine, fentanyl and a firearm. And a murder suspect wanted by INTERPOL.
Others included those who were convicted of sexual abuse, kidnapping, assault, manslaughter, and much more.
A report from a CBS affiliate in Colorado confirmed that agents raided a "makeshift nightclub" near Denver over the weekend and captured almost 50 people, many who reportedly are affiliated with the violent Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela, whose members have been disrupting the local economy by simply moving in and taking over various apartment buildings, collecting rent from the residents who previously had been paying the building owners.
The report said, "TdA gang activity is partly to blame for unsafe conditions at several apartment buildings in Aurora. City officials there announced last week their intent to seek closure of the five remaining buildings in the Edge of Lowry complex at Dallas Street and East 12th Avenue. Residents have already been asked to vacate a sixth building in which a migrant couple was taken captive and beaten by alleged gang members late last year."
Previously police there said 19 people were arrested after an investigation, including 16 who are part of the gang.
Fox News reported that on Sunday alone, the Trump campaign to remove illegal aliens, especially criminals, from the United States took into custody nearly 1,000.
The report said a Nicaraguan national was arrested in Florida for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon, discharging a firearm in public and driving with a suspended license; a Jamaican was arrested for possession of oxycodone and displaying a firearm during a felony offense, and more.
Hundreds of similar arrests have been made each day since President Donald Trump was inaugurated a week ago.
Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed those deportation numbers will be going up, and the security plan ramps up to full speed.
Over the weekend, an impasse developed in Trump's program when Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused two U.S. flights carrying deportees back to their homes there permission to land.
It was resolved within hours when Trump then announced a 25% tariff on Columbian goods, and that prompted Petro to back down.
"For Trump, the episode gave him a chance to show the rest of Latin America the risks they face if they do not fall in line with his deportation plan," a report said.
A commentary at Twitchy explained, "During his administration, Joe Biden defended his open border policies by calling all those who streamed into the country on his watch (along with 'border czar' Kamala Harris and DHS Secretary Mayorkas) 'model citizens.'"
While demanding that Congress support his open-borders agenda, Biden had said, "We are a nation of immigrants and we shouldn't forget it. … Give me a break. These have been model citizens. Congress has to act."
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"Make America Healthy Again," the new Trump administration agenda inspired and led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., couldn't be more vital – indeed, crucial – considering the alarming decline in Americans' health. Consider:
* The U.S. is in the grip of a full-blown obesity epidemic, with well over 200 million Americans – including millions of children – being overweight or obese. According to the CDC, over 40% of adults in the United States are clinically obese, in stark contrast with the 1950s, when approximately 10% of U.S. adults were obese.
* The number of American children and adults with autism spectrum disorders has exploded, rising by 175% over just the last decade. One out of every 36 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 44 as recently as 2021. In contrast, during the 1950s, autism was virtually nonexistent, afflicting between 0.01% and 0.05% of Americans born during that decade.
* Early-onset cancer cases rose almost 80% over the last three decades and show no signs of slowing down. One major 2022 study reveals the incidence of early-onset cancers – including breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver and pancreas – has been dramatically increasing since around 1990.
* A staggering 38 million Americans are suffering from diabetes, a number expected to increase to almost 55 million in the next five years. During the late 1950s, the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. was estimated to be 9 cases per 1,000 people, for a total of 1 million cases.
What's going on? Why is the health of Americans degrading so radically? With the rapid growth of knowledge and technology, including medical technology, one might expect the exact opposite to be the case – that everyone's health would be ever improving.
Yet Americans are becoming less and less healthy, including, tragically, the nation's children. Fully 50% of American children are dealing with some sort of chronic health issue, up from less than 1% five decades ago.
Obviously, with Americans' health in crisis, the goal to "Make America Healthy Again" is welcome and necessary. But there's one major obstacle to achieving this goal that needs to be addressed up front.
They all lied
As deadly and traumatizing as the COVID-19 pandemic was, it did bring about a mass awakening in at least one important area: Americans discovered they absolutely could not trust the government agencies tasked with safeguarding their health. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the Food and Drug Administration, to the National Institutes of Health and other branches of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, they all lied to Americans, either explicitly or by willful suppression of the truth.
Most visible, of course – and setting the standard for all other government bureaucrats – was Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under the NIH. Fauci acted the part of the kindly, grandfatherly presidential adviser on all things COVID. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a classic sociopath, smiling while lying about virtually everything – from mask-wearing (he initially admitted the truth, that masks are ineffective, only later doing a full 180 and insisting on universal masking, even outdoors!) to imposing the "six-foot rule" (later admitting this arbitrary rule was based on exactly zero science), to perversely denying that natural immunity provided ideal protection against COVID-19 just as it does for other viruses – a pivotal and unconscionable lie that flung open the doors to ruthless vaccine mandates.
Some of Fauci's lies were not only dangerous, but jaw-droppingly corrupt – like his insistence that COVID-19 arose spontaneously from an open-air food market in Wuhan, China, rather than from the level-4 biohazard research facility just a few blocks up the street (the Wuhan Institute of Virology) where ongoing mad-scientist "gain-of-function research" – funded by the NIH at Fauci's direction – was focused on rendering bat coronaviruses more dangerous and more transmissible to humans.
Meanwhile, the CDC and FDA perversely denigrated and mocked the use of ivermectin, a Nobel Prize-honored drug that had saved literally millions of lives from various other deadly infectious diseases, as documented in the peer-reviewed "Journal of Antibiotics." Yet despite multiple studies proving ivermectin to be an effective and life-saving early treatment for COVID-19, it was ridiculed mercilessly by the federal health bureaucracies and their news media "echo chamber." Similar story with hydroxychloroquine.
Why did they all lie, mocking and discouraging Americans from taking advantage of these drugs, whose safety was long-acknowledged by the FDA, and which could have saved many more lives and enormously reduced suffering during the COVID pandemic?
That's easy: They maniacally wanted every man, woman and child in America to take "the jab" – that is, the various experimental mRNA COVID-19 shots that turned out to be some of the most problem-ridden vaccines in medical history.
Clearly, the medical bureaucracies within Big Government have not been worthy of Americans' trust. Nor has Big Pharma, which has proven itself to be far more motivated by gargantuan profits than safeguarding human lives.
Hollywood's Selena Gomez on Monday posted – and then deleted – a video of herself on Instagram sobbing uncontrollably as she reacts to President Donald Trump's deportations of criminal illegal aliens.
"I just want to say that I'm so sorry," Gomez, 32, says through tears, with a Mexican flag emoji visible.
"All my people are getting attacked. The children, they don't understand.
"I'm so sorry I wish I could do something, but I can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise."
Facing apparent backlash, she later shared another message on her Instagram Story, writing, "Apparently it's not ok to show empathy for people."
Among those slamming the former Disney star is Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, who said on X:
"'My people?' Aren't you American?
"Where was the sobbing over the 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl poisoning? Where were these tears over the 340,000 children who went missing after being trafficked over our border? Why wasn't there a breakdown for Rachel Nungary, Rachel Morin, or Laken Riley? I guess those Americans weren't 'your people?'"
Selena Gomez in 2010 (Courtesy Flickr / avrilllllla)
Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan appeared on television Monday to react to the Gomez meltdown.
"We're gonna do this job, and we're gonna enforce the laws of this country," Homan told Sandra Smith of Fox News. "If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law."
"We're going to do this operation without apology. We're gonna make our community safer."
"It is all for the good of this nation. And we're gonna keep going. No apologies. We're moving forward."
Gomez produced the Netflix documentary, "Living Undocumented," which reveals the lives of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Though she was born in Texas, Gomez previously indicated her aunt crossed the American border from Mexico while hiding in the back of a truck.
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