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Mike Lindell gripes about MyPillow relocation: 'A woke company bought our building'

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell complained that his factory was forced to relocate after "a woke company bought our building."

During a Tuesday interview on Steve Bannon's War Room program, Lindell revealed that he was selling merchandise out of the back of semi-trucks after being forced to move from the MyPillow factory.

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Ex-GOP insider reveals why Trump’s AI Jesus keeps him up at night: 'He wants your worship'

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson shared just why President Donald Trump's decision to share an image of himself posed as Jesus "raising someone who looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein from the dead," troubles him.

The co-founder of The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump organization, discussed in his Substack on Tuesday why Trump's latest move was not only unsettling, but analyzed just how "the entire scam" has played out among MAGA and Christian followers who supported Trump.

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'Showed great respect': Mike Johnson praises Trump over 'sacrilegious' Jesus post

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said President Donald Trump shared an image of himself as Jesus because he didn't view it as "sacrilegious."

On Tuesday, Johnson told CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi that he contacted the president after he posted the sacrilegious image.

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'I thought she was brave': Trump turns on Italian ally over Pope criticism

Donald Trump has turned on Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, publicly denouncing her as "unacceptable" for defending Pope Leo XIV against the president's criticism of his unprovoked Iran war.

According to Politico, Trump spoke directly with Italian daily Corriere della Sera to express his fury with Meloni's refusal to join his attack on the first American-born Pope who resides in Vatican City.

"I was shocked by her. I thought she was brave, but I was wrong," Trump said in the phone interview, delivering a stinging personal rebuke to an ally he had publicly praised just a year earlier.

When confronted with Meloni's Monday statement calling Trump's criticism of Pope Leo "unacceptable," the president responded with characteristic vindictiveness:

"It's her who's unacceptable, because she doesn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if it had the chance."

Trump's grievance extends beyond the Pope dispute. He complained that Meloni expected the United States to "do the work for her" by protecting Italy from nuclear threats and ensuring stable oil supplies — suggesting she should be grateful for American military protection rather than criticizing his policies.

The deterioration of their relationship is striking. Trump noted the two hadn't spoken "in a long time," a stark contrast to just last year when Meloni visited Mar-a-Lago as Trump's guest. At that dinner, he called her "a fantastic woman" who had "really taken Europe by storm."

The rupture exemplifies Trump's pattern of discarding allies the moment they show independence from his agenda — a warning sign for other world leaders considering whether solidarity with the American president is worth the political cost.

DoorDash PR chief hammered after company accused of staging pro-Trump stunt: 'Crash out'

Julian Crowley, the head of public affairs for the online food delivery service DoorDash, made dozens of social media posts Monday after critics accused the company of staging a pro-Trump stunt with the delivery of McDonald’s food to the White House, a posting spree that MeidasTouch’s co-founder Brett Meiselas described as a “crash out.”

On Monday, President Donald Trump was greeted at the White House by Sharon Simmons, a 58-year-old DoorDash delivery driver who handed off two bags of McDonald’s food to the president. During the encounter, Simmons championed the president’s no-tax-on-tips provision included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is set to expire at the end of 2028.

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'Dropped a bomb': Fox News confronts acting AG with Melania's Epstein claims

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the Department of Justice has released all files on Jeffrey Epstein after First Lady Melania Trump made a surprise announcement calling for men who conspired with the sex offender to face consequences.

"The First Lady dropped a bomb at the White House," Fox News host Bill Hemmer told Blanche on Tuesday. "A number of questions that come off of this. Did you know she was going to make that statement? Did you have information prior? Will you act on her request before Congress?"

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Expert flags telling citation in Trump's Epstein card lawsuit dismissal: 'Speaks volumes'

President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for its reporting on a lewd birthday card the president allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein was tossed out by a judge on Monday, who in their ruling, made a telling citation that one ex-prosecutor and legal expert said “speaks volumes.”

Last year, the Journal got its hands on a lewd birthday card that Trump had allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003 for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday, and its subsequent report on the letter drew outrage from the president, who denied having written the letter. Trump would later sue the Journal over its report, which he called “defamatory” and “false.”

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'Fake': NY Times editors pinpoint crack in Trump's armor that could bring him down

The New York Times editorial board had a message Tuesday on what it takes to defeat Trumpism — and authoritarianism — as midterms approach.

The editors described how the landslide defeat of Viktor Orban by Peter Magyar in Hungary should inspire Americans hoping to see change in the United States amid President Donald Trump's tumultuous second administration. They outlined the different ways opposing candidates could identify vulnerabilities for Trump and his regime using Magyar as an example of how to defeat autocratic rule and apply "an American version of this strategy."

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Trump judges block contempt hearings that would punish government officials

A three-judge composed mostly of jurists appointed by Donald Trump blocked ongoing criminal contempt hearings as U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg was considering sanctions after government attorneys violated his order to halt deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

Last year, Boasberg found there was "probable cause" to find the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defying him by sending a Venezuelan man to the CECOT prison in El Salvador.

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GOP lawmaker nails Trump and JD Vance over 'double-dumb' endorsement hurting Republicans

Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance just suffered a humiliating foreign policy defeat that exposes the severe limits of American influence abroad — and signals potential disaster for the GOP in the midterm elections.

According to the Washington Post's Michael Birnbaum, Trump's decision to personally intervene in Hungary's election by dispatching Vance to campaign for strongman Viktor Orban not only failed catastrophically, but also damaged Republican credibility on the international stage.

Orban had been a darling of the American right, preaching to conservatives at CPAC about seizing control of institutions. "Have your own media," Orban once declared, "it was the only way to combat the 'insanity of the progressive left.'" He aligned perfectly with Trump's worldview, opposing NATO aid to Ukraine and framing it as anti-war rather than pro-democracy.

Trump returned the embrace enthusiastically by exempting Hungary from energy sanctions imposed on other European countries, and Vance personally campaigned for Orban, telling Hungarians they had a guaranteed friend in Washington if they reelected their prime minister.

It wasn't enough. Orban was decisively defeated. A constitutional supermajority for the opposition will now rewrite election laws that Orban had previously reshaped to favor his own party — a stunning reversal of fortune for Trump's endorsed candidate.

Vance attempted to minimize the damage, claiming "I'm sad that he lost. We will work very well, I'm sure, with the next prime minister of Hungary. It wasn't a bad trip at all because it's worth standing by people, even if you don't win every race."

But Republicans are furious. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who is retiring, blasted the intervention as a norm-breaking disaster that backfired spectacularly.

"President Trump and Vice President Vance broke the norms by going and campaigning for a candidate in another democracy," Bacon said. "It's not appropriate to do it, and then they failed. So it's like a double-dumb move, and it just undermines us."

The strategic implications are dire. One Republican strategist with extensive European experience warned that Orban's ouster is "a harbinger" for what might come in the midterm elections this fall.

"If you don't define your campaign on an issue set that gets your base energized to turnout in huge numbers, it will be a problem," the strategist told the Post.

Trump's naval blockade crumbles after Iran-linked vessels breach barricade: report

A U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went into effect Monday at 10 a.m. EST at the direction of President Donald Trump, but in a matter of hours, the blockade was breached without incident by at least four Iran-linked vessels, BBC reported Tuesday.

On Monday, Trump said that he had instructed the U.S. Navy to “seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran,” and the U.S. military later said that the “blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas.”

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Trump actively considering ‘another abduction operation’ against world leader: insiders

Despite being entangled in the ongoing U.S. war against Iran, President Donald Trump is actively considering an operation to abduct another world leader, much like his administration had in January with the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, three insiders revealed to Zeteo in its report Tuesday.

“In recent days, according to two sources familiar with the situation and another person briefed on it, officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the US government were quietly given a new directive that came straight from the Trump White House,” Zeteo’s report reads. “The message: ramp up your preparations for possible military operations against Cuba.”

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JD Vance out as 'Trump's obvious successor' as president targets him with jokes: analyst

JD Vance’s less than impressive performance as vice president, combined with Donald Trump needling him in his comments to the press, led longtime Financial Times columnist Ed Luce to claim the veep’s star has faded to the point where he is becoming irrelevant.

And because of that, he no longer can be considered Trump’s successor.

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