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As Americans watch in horror as immigration goons are jailing innocent kids and killing U.S. citizens who dare to exercise their constitutional rights, President Donald Trump is flooding the zone with so much chaotic and horrific news in an effort to overwhelm the public. Trump has employed the chaos strategy for years, doing so many awful things all at once so his political opponents can’t craft…

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The film Donald Trump believes everyone has been waiting for finally hit theaters on Friday after an awkward black carpet premiere at the Kennedy Center Thursday night. Famously absent first lady Melania Trump appeared before a slew of press to promote the “Melania” documentary—and surprisingly weighed in on the ongoing chaos and violence caused by her husband’s mass deportation campaign. A growi…

Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins appeared on Fox News Friday, where she boasted about the GOP budget cuts that have successfully removed about 1.75 million Americans from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program . But don’t worry, this is just part of President Donald Trump’s American dream. “The American dream is not being on food stamp programs,” Rollins said. “We haven't released it …

President Donald Trump sought to defend the violent and deadly immigration raids being carried out in Minneapolis by the Department of Homeland Security, saying that "elections have consequences" and that a majorities of Americans actually like what they are seeing. He made the remark in response to a question from a woman who was part of the White House press pool on Friday. She asked Trump to r…

The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country. With a weekend shutdown looming, Trump made the rare deal with Senate Democrats on Thursday in the wake of the deaths of two …

Deputy Attorney General—and, of course, President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney—Todd Blanche begrudgingly made a television appearance Friday to say that, fine, the Justice Department will release some Epstein documents. Happy now? According to Blanche, after releasing 3 million of the 6 million Epstein files, the DOJ’s work here is done. That’s because, per Blanche , 50% of tho…

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen dropped a lyric video following the release of his protest song , "Streets of Minneapolis," a blunt condemnation of federal immigration agents’ abuses in Minnesota. The video pairs the lyrics with a montage of protesters, violent immigration thugs, and Trump administration goons, intercut with footage of Springsteen performing the song. YouTube Video The most damning…

Kari Lake hasn’t really been top of mind as of late, as her current task of destroying the once-venerable Voice of America doesn’t dovetail neatly with the Trump administration’s current fixation on using immigration agents to terrorize blue cities. Sure, she’s been making television appearances by trundling over to Newsmax and One America Network to weigh in on things like election fraud and imm…

President Donald Trump held a press conference Friday to offer up yet another fact-free retelling of recent history. “Elections have consequences. The people want law and order, and we have a silent majority,” Trump said. “We have a silent majority of people. They don't go and riot and everything else, but they like what we're doing.” YouTube Video He went on to ramble through a story about rando…