Don Jr. uses parade tragedy to attack media: 'They will be coming up with every excuse for this piece of crap'

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Don Jr. uses parade tragedy to attack media: 'They will be coming up with every excuse for this piece of crap'
Donald Trump Jr during an appearance on Fox News. (Screenshot)

Donald Trump Jr. reacted to the Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy on Monday by attacking the media.

Less than a day after five people were killed by an SUV, Trump spoke about the incident during an interview on WPHT with host Dom Giordano.

Trump explained that his family had created a website called 45Books to bypass traditional publishing companies.

"It was a real sort of strong hit on what's become our weaponized media," Trump opined, "where it's not about truth, it's not about presenting both sides, it's about creating a narrative. It's totally one-sided."

"You see how quickly they're going to defend the Wisconsin attacker last night," he continued. "It's only a matter of minutes until it's, 'He was an incredible athlete that something went wrong.' They'll be coming up with every excuse for this piece-of-crap terrorist within about five minutes."

On Monday, 39-year-old Darrell Brooks was charged with five counts of murder. Police Chief Dan Thompson has said that the incident was not an act of terrorism.

Listen to the audio clip below.

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Moment Trump's 'most ambitious project' began to collapse spotted by conservatives

A former Reagan administration official and a conservative thinker argued that President Donald Trump has already lost his biggest second-term fight.

In a Saturday guest essay for The New York Times, former Reagan and Bush official Peter Wehner and Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, argued that Trump has already failed to remake America. The two conservatives even spotted the key moment when Trump's power began to fall apart.

Wehner and Rauch called the promise to remake American society the most sweeping goal that Trump and his allies carried into the second Trump administration. The two conservatives wrote that Trump reshaped the presidency but failed at the larger goal he and his allies carried into a second term.

"They failed at the most ambitious project that they brought to his second term, using the state to remake American society," Wehner and Rauch wrote. "That failure is a central fact of the past 20 months, and it is why the country is in a less dangerous place than it was a year ago."

The authors describe an effort that moved against universities, law firms, newsrooms and cultural institutions, backed by shows of federal force in American cities. That project, they argue, ran aground in Minneapolis, where peaceful resistance to an immigration crackdown known as Operation Metro Surge pushed the administration to retreat.

From there, the setbacks compounded. Trump's approval ratings sank to near-record lows, courts blocked one initiative after another, and the MAGA coalition began to splinter.

"The 80-year-old president is losing his grip on power and even his own base," Wehner and Rauch wrote. "The MAGA movement is fracturing. And the president no longer inspires the fear he once did."

The authors stop short of declaring the danger of the Trump administration over. They warn that Trump continues to menace universities and target free speech, and they caution against complacency. But their central claim is that American civil society proved "harder to intimidate and rewire than MAGA's cultural revolutionaries hoped."

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‘California will stop him’: Gavin Newsom deals major blow to Trump’s midterm ‘meddling’

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom dealt a major blow to President Donald Trump on Saturday after signing a package of bills designed to build a “wall” to “safeguard” California’s electoral process ahead of the midterms.

“Donald Trump won’t stop until he can exert dictatorial control over your free vote and disenfranchise millions of people this November,” Newsom said Saturday in a statement. “California will stop him at every opportunity.”

According to Newsom’s office, the governor signed a package of 13 bills Saturday specifically designed to thwart disruptions to California’s upcoming elections amid growing fears that the Trump administration may interfere in the electoral process. The package includes measures to make it a felony to seize ballots and election records and to prohibit deceptive political attack ads made with artificial intelligence.

“We have no bigger task than fighting to protect the right to vote from interference and meddling — the future of democracy is on the line,” Newsom said. “These bills today build upon the wall California has built to safeguard our electoral process.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta championed the package as well, arguing that the bills were necessary to combat the Trump administration’s “all-out assault on our elections and voting rights.”

“Just this week, we secured a major U.S. Supreme Court victory that blocks the Trump Administration from implementing sweeping changes to mail voting for the upcoming November midterm elections,” Bonta said. “But we cannot, and will not, let our guard down.”

The signing follows a monthslong legal battle over Trump's efforts to reshape voting rules ahead of November. Trump signed an executive order in March directing federal agencies to compile citizenship lists of eligible voters and limiting mail ballot delivery to people on those lists, while imposing new tracking requirements for ballots. Democratic officials in 23 states and Washington, D.C., sued over the order, and federal judges have repeatedly blocked it from taking effect.

Disbelief as Karl Rove's 'phenomenal' Trump impression sparks roaring applause

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove left onlookers in disbelief after he delivered a startlingly impressive impression of President Donald Trump.

On Saturday, reactions rolled in to Rove doing a standout Trump voice when asked to respond to the president calling him a "stone cold loser" in a Truth Social post. Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, drew Trump's ire after publicly announcing his plans to vote for a Democrat in a scathing op-ed about growing bigotry in the GOP.

In a video put out by The Atlantic, Rove repeats "stone cold loser" in Trump's voice while moving his hand and frowning like the president, prompting laughter and enthusiastic applause from the audience of The Atlantic's panel watching the event.

The praise continued as online responses remarked about the veteran GOP strategist's newly discovered talent.

"If you had told me Karl Rove can do a pitch perfect impersonation of Trump..." prominent activist and writer Charlotte Clymer commented in a post on X.

"I had no idea Rove could do such a good Trump impression," admitted political analyst and The Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols.

"I'll admit, I didn't have 'Karl Rove does great impersonation of Trump' on my 2026 bingo card," joked Australian journalist and television presenter John Barron.

"Hey wait a minute that's actually a phenomenal Trump impression," political analyst Drew Savicki agreed.

"The year is 2026. You just woke up from your coma. You see Karl Rove getting a round of applause from readers of The Atlantic," posted international law expert Yuan Yi Zhu, appreciating the whole scene.

"Karl Rove getting applause from Atlantic audience was never on my list of things that could happen," echoed economics professor Vincent Geloso.

Conservative columnist and political analyst S.E. Cupp struck a more serious tone, however, to draw people back toward her criticism of Rove.

"Yes, the important thing here is his Trump impression," Cupp sarcastically posted. "And now that he's decided not to back the Texas railroad commissioner candidate — for racism — let’s move steadily past the fact that he backed the racist PRESIDENT for 10 years."

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