A group of anti-ICE protesters stormed Trump Tower on Monday to demand the return of immigrants "kidnapped" by the Trump administration.
The small demonstration of "mostly grey-haired" protesters, the New York Post notes, was a muted echo of the migrant riots that have raged for days in Los Angeles.
The New York Police Department arrested 24 people who occupied the lobby of Trump's iconic Fifth Avenue building. There was no immediate report of charges being filed.
The protesters voiced complaints about aliens who have been deported to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison without "due process". The Trump administration brought one of those immigrants, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to the United States last week to face charges of human trafficking.
“We are demanding that the administration bring back everyone from CECOT to the United States, release them ICE custody, return them to their homes and families and allow them their day in court,” the protesters said.
The protesters ignored multiple police commands to disperse, and the cops ended up dragging them out in zip-ties.
"This is the New York City Police Department. You are occupying these premises unlawfully and without permission. I am ordering you to leave these premises now. If you refuse to leave, you may be subject to arrest,” police said.
Anti-ICE demonstrations have been spreading across the country after an explosion of violent unrest in Los Angeles over the weekend. Trump has deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to protect federal property and restore order in the nation's second-largest city, where rioters have blocked roads and attacked law enforcement with concrete blocks and fireworks.
The protests in Los Angeles have been the largest, and most violent, to date in response to Trump's second-term immigration crackdown. Episodes of lawlessness have been observed on a smaller scale in other cities, including New York, where mobs of rioters have also attempted to block ICE operations around federal buildings.
New York mayor Eric Adams has warned that anarchy in the Big Apple will not be tolerated.
“The escalation of protests in Los Angeles over the last couple of days is unacceptable and would not be tolerated if attempted in our city,” Adams said during a press conference Monday alongside NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Despite the violent backlash ICE has received, more than half of voters approve of Trump's deportation plans, a new CBS poll found.
President Trump says that Elon Musk will face "very serious consequences" if he starts supporting Democrats in future elections.
The comment is consistent with Trump's response to Musk's shocking public meltdown - restrained but firm, with a hint of a threat.
The alliance between Musk, a former Democrat who became Trump's biggest campaign benefactor in 2024, collapsed last week as Musk suddenly targeted Trump and his reconciliation bill, calling it a "disgusting abomination."
Over the course of a dramatic day, Musk continued to flame Trump on Thursday, claiming without evidence that he is named in the Epstein files (Musk later deleted the post), taking credit for his election victory and calling for him to be impeached. Musk even suggested starting his own political party, fueling speculation that he could use his vast fortune to challenge Trump and his GOP allies.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that," Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on Saturday. “He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that.”
Musk's influence showed its limits earlier this year, when the world's richest man backed the losing candidate in a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, a swing state that Trump carried in November.
Later, Musk said he would be scaling back his campaign contributions, but it's unclear if Musk might walk back the pledge, which was made before his break-up with Trump.
While Musk's erratic behavior makes his future plans hard to predict, a majority of Republicans are still siding with Trump. Vice President J.D. Vance, in a podcast interview recorded during Musk's online meltdown, said that Musk's relationship with Trump could be broken irreparably, calling Musk's Epstein smear a "big mistake."
“I’m always going to be loyal to the president, and I hope that eventually Elon comes back into the fold,” Vance said. “Maybe that’s not possible now because he’s gone so nuclear.”
Trump, in comments over the weekend, showed little desire for reconciliation as he warned Musk against further escalation.
“I think it’s a very bad thing, because he’s very disrespectful,” Trump said. “You could not disrespect the office of the president.”
When asked if their relationship is over, Trump responded, “I would assume so, yeah."
While Musk may be the wealthiest man in the world, Trump is still its most powerful political leader. That means Musk, if he is smart, should take Trump's warnings about "serious consequences" very seriously.
Elon Musk's work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was widely celebrated by most in the Republican Party and, more importantly, by millions of Republican voters.
However, according to Axios, there are some Republicans who are worried that DOGE cuts could have a negative effect on an upcoming important election -- an election in Virginia that was described as an "early test" of President Trump's policy moves.
The state in question in Virginia, and some Virginia Republicans are worried that DOGE's cuts to federal employee workforces there could have a disastrous effect on the upcoming gubernatorial election.
Internal polling conducted by Republicans is already reportedly showing damage done by federal workforce cuts.
The state of Virginia has one of the highest concentrations of federal workers -- up to and over 5% of the state's workforce, going by some estimations.
That means thousands of those employees, a portion of whom are presumably Republican, have lost their jobs or have been enticed to leave it under the Trump administration, and might not be happy about the situation.
Some institutions and groups, such as the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center, estimated that roughly 32,000 government jobs could be lost in Virginia this year.
With the gubernatorial race expected to be close, some of the affected Republican-leaning federal employees who no longer have jobs could take out their frustrations at the ballot box by voting for the other side or not showing up at all.
Axios quoted:
Northern Virginia is filled with people who suffered the consequences of the DOGE cuts, and it's hard to see them being sympathetic to a Republican candidate who supports the DOGE cuts," said Whit Ayers, a veteran Republican pollster.
Another quote stated:
"I suspect this will be an albatross around the neck of every Republican candidate this year," said Virginia Republican Bill Bolling, a former lieutenant governor.
So far, in Virginia, DOGE doesn't seem to be as popular as it is in other parts of the country.
One poll showed that only 39% of voters there had a favorable view of DOGE.
As far as candidates suffering, the leading Republican candidate for governor is now trailing his Democratic counterpart by single digits outside of the margin of error -- enough to be a concern.
Only time will tell if affected Virginia Republicans will take out their frustrations in the upcoming race.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has openly proved that he's willing to defy President Donald Trump and his administration at every turn, and is apparently willing to put his struggling state in jeopardy as a result.
According to Breitbart, President Trump is now reportedly exploring different pathways to pulling more federal funding from the state of California, despite the state's great need for the federal cash flow.
Newsom's California is in a massive budget deficit and is already borrowing money to keep its Medicaid program afloat.
The anti-Trump governor has also requested a staggering $40 billion from the federal government for fire disaster relief funds.
Newsom has filed a number of legal actions against the Trump administration, hoping in many cases to seek nationwide injunctions that would hamstring Trump's policies across the nation.
The state of California is defying Trump and the White House at nearly every turn on most hot-topic issues, and it looks like it's about to backfire in a big way.
CNN reported that a number of major federal funding cuts could soon be hitting the state.
The outlet noted:
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.
White House spokesman Kush Desai slammed the governor and the state for the stances its taken since Trump entered the White House earlier this year.
"No taxpayer should be forced to fund the demise of our country," Desai said in a statement. "No final decisions, however, on any potential future action by the Administration have been made, and any discussion suggesting otherwise should be considered pure speculation."
Dems have openly argued that federal funds should not be withheld from the state simply because it disagrees with Trump's policies on most issues.
They argue that the state is still entitled to the funds given that it contributes so much to the federal government.
Trump has proven that he's not willing to play ball with those who defy him, especially those who continue to attack him.
It'll be fun to watch Newsom buckle when the money dries up. It'll happen sooner than later.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (Ky.) subpoenaed President Biden's longtime doctor this week, as a delayed reckoning with the cover-up of the former president's cognitive decline continues.
The subpoena comes after lawyers for physician Kevin O'Connor refused a request to sit for a transcribed interview about "the circumstances surrounding your assessment in February 2024 that former President Biden was ‘a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency."
The doctor has had a cozy relationship with the Biden family and was even involved with one of their business ventures, raising doubts about his credibility.
"Among other subjects, the Committee expressed its interest in whether your financial relationship with the Biden family affected your assessment of former President Biden’s physical and mental fitness to fulfill his duties as President," Comer wrote.
The subpoena requires O'Connor to appear before the House Oversight Committee on June 27.
"In lieu of full compliance, your counsel suggest a set of written interrogatories that would afford them as well as an unnamed medical ethics expert the ability to 'closely evaluate' your answers. This is not acceptable and will not satisfy the Committee’s legitimate oversight and legislative needs," Comer wrote.
Comer rebutted O'Connor's excuses for not appearing before Congress, which included "physician-patient privilege" and a section of law that O'Connor quoted "selectively."
"The plain language of this Section is clear: it only limits a physician’s ability to disclose confidential patient information in ‘Federal courts in the District of Columbia and District of Columbia courts,'” the letter explained. “The D.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed this interpretation, stating that the law creates ‘an evidentiary privilege only, and extends no further than the courtroom door.’ Congress is not a court; this Section therefore in no way precludes you from appearing and testifying your role as Physician to former President Biden.”
O'Connor has been Biden's doctor since 2009, when the former president was, compared to today, cognitively sharp. The doctor's failure to notice a decline in Biden's condition is suspicious, to say the least.
As recently as February 2024, O'Connor certified that Biden was fit for duty, despite never giving him a cognitive test. Months later, as Biden faced pressure to step aside following a disastrous debate, O'Connor downplayed multiple visits that Biden received from a Parkinson's specialist.
“Seeing patients at the White House is something that Dr. Cannard has been doing for a dozen years,” O’Connor wrote in a letter at the time. “Dr. Cannard was chosen for this responsibility not because he is a movement disorder specialist, but because he is a highly trained and highly regarded neurologist here at Walter Reed and across the Military Health System, with a very wide expertise which makes him flexible to see a variety of patients and problems.”
After Biden's re-election campaign imploded last summer, O'Connor told a New York Post reporter that Biden's condition was "excellent" and insisted that a cognitive test was not necessary because Biden showed up to work "every day."
O'Connor is just one member of Biden's circle who is facing scrutiny for the scandalous cover-up, with former first lady Jill Biden facing accusations of "elder abuse."
A source told the New York Post that Congress is also seeking testimony from former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who repeatedly vouched for Biden's cognitive fitness and stonewalled questions about his treatment.
She was one of Joe Biden's most loyal defenders during his presidency - but now Karine Jean-Pierre is singing a different tune as she tries to cash in on her White House tenure.
With her book Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, Jean-Pierre is recasting herself as a free-thinker, despite her role in helping to cover up Biden's cognitive decline. Adding insult to injury, she is leaving the Democratic party.
The ex-press secretary's treacherous about-face has emboldened former insiders to speak bluntly about her qualifications, with some calling her incompetent and a burden on her colleagues.
During her time on the podium, Jean-Pierre became known for her clumsy delivery and overreliance on notes. She was the second person to serve as Biden's chief White House spokesman, taking over the role from Jen Psaki in 2022.
As questions mounted about Biden's cognitive health, Jean-Pierre vouched for his fitness - calling him "sharp as ever" after his infamous debate meltdown, which led to the unraveling of his re-election bid and presidency.
"Until January 20, I was responsible for speaking on behalf of the President of the United States," Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Wednesday.
"At noon on that day, I became a private citizen who, like all Americans and many of our allies around the world, had to contend with what was to come next for our country."
Her effort to recast her White House role as a passive observer has infuriated former colleagues, who accuse her of a cynical cash grab.
"The hubris of thinking you can position yourself as an outsider when you not only have enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power — which ... bestows the name recognition needed to sell books off your name — but have actively wielded it from the biggest pulpit there is, is as breathtaking as it is desperate ... It's difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash grab," a former Biden communications official told Axios.
Her brazen new venture has also emboldened former colleagues to speak bluntly about the way she was "coddled" inside the White House.
As one official said, "The amount of time that was spent coddling [Jean-Pierre] and appeasing her was astronomical compared to our attention on actual matters of substance."
Her critics also say she is making a mistake by severing ties with the Democrats, given her reliance on the party for career advancement.
"Today Karine lost the only constituency that ever supported her — party line Democrats," one official said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is renaming a Navy ship that bears the name of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, arguably the most famous openly gay man to hold public office in U.S. history.
A defense official told Military.com, which first reported the news, that Hegseth's timing is intentional and meant to back up the Trump administration's message that "Pride month" is no longer recognized by the federal government.
Milk is considered an icon in the LGBT movement, which received from his friend, Army veteran Gilbert Baker, the design for the rainbow "Pride" flag.
The move to scrub Milk's name sparked fury among Democrats in California, including San Francisco career politician Nancy Pelosi.
"Our military is the most powerful in the world – but this spiteful move does not strengthen our national security or the ‘warrior’ ethos,” Pelosi wrote in a post on X. “It is a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream.”
Milk was elected to the San Francsico Board of Supervisors in 1977, becoming one of the first openly homosexual men to hold public office in the United States. Less than a year into the job, he was assassinated along with then-mayor George Moscone by a disgruntled ex-city supervisor.
Milk has been held up in recent years as a civil rights icon, with admirers overlooking his scandalous relationship with a 16-year-old boy.
"Harvey Milk was a pedophile,” Mary Rice Hasson, the Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., wrote in a post on X. “This is the right thing to do," she added of Hegseth's move.
President Obama's Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, originally announced plans to name a ship after Milk, a Navy veteran. Those plans did not come to fruition until the 2021, when the USNS Harvey Milk was formally launched on the Biden administration's watch.
The renaming is part of a broader effort by Trump to restore a "warrior ethos" at the Pentagon, which in recent years had become focused on celebrating particular identity groups.
"Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior ethos," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell added in a statement.
The Navy is also reviewing other ships named after civil rights leaders, including Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
The vessels belong to the John Lewis-class of oiler ships named after John Lewis, the civil rights activist and former Democratic congressman.
No new ship names have been announced yet. Any renaming "will be announced after internal reviews are complete," the Pentagon said.
The Trump administration has said it will not make a proclamation celebrating "pride," and will instead honor June as "Title IX" month, a nod to the civil rights law that protects equal opportunity for women.
Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is making a fresh bid for attention with talk of impeaching President Trump.
The second-term congresswoman, known for her confrontational stunts, told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics that she would "absolutely at least do an inquiry" if Democrats win back the House in 2026.
Despite Crockett's rhetoric, there is little support for impeaching Trump among House Democrats currently.
Their crushing defeat in November capped years of failed attempts to derail Trump's remarkable political ascent through lawfare, efforts which escalated dramatically during the 2024 election cycle as Trump faced multiple overlapping prosecutions.
With Democrats' approval ratings in the gutter, leaders in the party are reluctant to embrace more impeachment theater.
Crockett conceded that two past efforts to impeach and convict Trump have not been successful.
"Once we get to the majority, which I’m hoping and praying we get to, next cycle, that allows me to start to open up and do the things that would look like an impeachment. Now, whether or not we would put it to a vote, you know, he’s been impeached twice, couldn’t get convicted. There’s a lot of things to consider about whether or not to go forward.”
To make impeachment stick, Democrats would need control of the House and the Senate and at least some Republican defectors willing to convict and remove Trump. But Trump's control of the GOP is stronger than ever before, making such an outcome unlikely.
Another low-ranking House Democrat, Shri Thanedar (Mi.), withdrew an impeachment resolution recently under pressure from leadership.
Despite her aggressive posturing, Crockett understands that impeaching Trump has not worked before and is unlikely to work in the future. Still, she suggested there could be a political payoff in pursuing an impeachment investigation into Trump, even without a formal impeachment vote. She pointed to House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into Hunter Biden as a precedent.
"So I think that there is something to be said for us digging in when there’s real things to look at such as this $400 million plane from the Qataris and whether or not that’s a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution," she said.
"I think that we need to dig into all this crypto nonsense that he’s got going on. I think we need to dig into the fact that it looks like he’s giving out pardons for play," she said.
Hedging, she concluded, "I would absolutely at least do an inquiry. Absolutely.”
Michelle Obama is fueling fresh speculation about her personal life after making some baffling remarks about childbirth.
While airing her latest grievances on her new podcast, the Former First Lady made the bizarre claim that making babies is the "least" function of a woman's reproductive system.
Obama bemoaned the state of discourse on women's reproductive health, claiming women are not receiving the priority they should from lawmakers who care "just about the fetus."
"Women's reproductive health is about our life," she added. "It's about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life."
"It's a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that's producing it — if you want to whittle us down to a machine — if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two."
The remarks have sparked fresh backlash, with critics accusing Obama of disparaging childbirth and the women who embrace the role of mother.
Besides being offensive to many, Obama's comments are also just plain odd.
The reproductive system is for .... reproduction. What else does she think it's for?
Her failure to grasp this basic concept has led to speculation online, where rumors have long circulated about her husband's sexuality.
Alex Marlow, Breitbart editor-in-chief, confessed he would need to investigate claims that Michelle Obama did not have her own children.
"The least of what a women’s body does and their reproductive system is produce life? I don’t know how you can say this and no one caught her…there [are] lots of rumors online that she did not have her own children, that she had surrogates…I’ve never really gone down that rabbit hole, but now I’m compelled to do so, because she says so matter of fact that women are — having a baby is the least a woman does with their [reproductive system]," Marlow said on the Alex Marlow Show.
Michelle Obama has been open about her fertility challenges, which led her to use IVF to conceive her two daughters. There is no evidence that we know of that she used surrogacy.
There may be less to Obama's comments than some think. It is no secret that she is a career-driven narcissist who sees children as a burden to be suffered and perhaps avoided if possible. Maybe she really convinced herself of the nonsense she is spouting here, simply because she finds it to be validating.
All we can say for certain is that Michelle Obama should never be taken seriously, under any circumstances.
President Donald Trump's mission to root out illegal aliens from American streets doesn't stop in the nation's capital, not even for those who work for some of the most powerful people in Congress.
According to the New York Post, one of Rep. Jerrold Nadler's (D-NY) aides was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inside of the congressman's Manhattan office.
The arrest caused an uproar among Democrats, and especially from Rep. Nadler, who clearly wasn't happy with the situation.
Nadler accused the president of "sowing chaos" across the nation after ICE agents made the arrest.
In what was described as a "dramatic" confrontation with Department of Homeland Security officers, agents entered the Big Apple office Wednesday and accused Nadler's staffers of "harboring rioters."
"President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security are sowing chaos in our communities, using intimidating tactics against both citizens and non-citizens in a reckless and dangerous manner," the congressman reportedly told Politico.
Being extra dramatic, Nadler warned that this "could happen to anyone."
“If this can happen in a Member of Congress’s office, it can happen to anyone — and it is happening," he said.
The Post noted:
The video, obtained by Gothamist, showed one agent aggressively restraining a teary-eyed female staffer, while another employee asked for a warrant and blocked a second officer from entering a private section of the congressional office, located in the same Varick Street building as federal immigration court.
Nadler accused the agents and the Trump administration of violating legal protocols as a result of what he called a "deeply troubling" incident.
Federal Protective Service officers were dispatched to Nadler's office after the agency received reports that he was "harboring" protesters inside.
Officials said, "Based on earlier incidents in a nearby facility, FPS officers were concerned about the safety of the federal employees in the office and went to the location to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those present."
Of course, what Nadler didn't mention is that the lady who responded to the officers at the door of his office was confrontational, both verbally and physically.
DHS explained, "The officers then detained the individual in the hallway for the purpose of completing the security check."