"Get Out Of Here": Trump Slams Reporter Over Qatari Jet Question

05/22/25 1:42 AM

Dismissing questions about the Pentagon's recent announcement to modify a Qatari Boeing 747 as a future Air Force One, Donald Trump slammed the NBC reporter who made the question, calling him "terrible" and "not smart enough" to do his job.

'Blindsided': South African newspaper accuses Trump of hoodwinking nation's leader

05/21/25 6:43 PM

The Sunday Times based in Johannesburg, South Africa, accused President Donald Trump of blindsiding the African nation's leader who arrived in Washington Wednesday for an Oval Office meeting."US president Donald Trump blindsided his counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa during their meeting in the White House's Oval Office by playing a montage of video clips of EFF leader Julius Malema singing about killing white people," the Times published.The EFF, or Economic Freedom Fighters, are described as a "South African Marxist–Leninist and pan-Africanist political party.""Just moments after Ramaphosa answered a question on the false white genocide narrative, Trump asked for the lights to be dimmed and the collation of the Malema clips was played," the Times reported.Malema can be heard singing "Kill the Boer," referring to the Dutch-speaking colonists now known as Afrikaners.Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that "thousands" of white Afrikaners were clamoring to get into the United States as refugees because they were "afraid of being killed" in a "white genocide." Trump called it "the opposite of apartheid" and said the U.S. press would never report on it."Ramaphosa had just told Trump that he would allow, in their private meeting, his delegation... to explain to him that there was no white genocide in the country." That's when the paper said Trump "jumped in and directed that the video clip be played."EXCLUSIVE: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in shadeRamaphosa's delegation included his minister of agriculture and Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen, billionaire Johann Rupert and golfer Ernie Else, "all of whom are white," according to the paper."The playing of the clip...came after a South African reporter asked Trump what it would take for him to be convinced that there was no white genocide in South Africa," the Times reported."Ramaphosa jumped in to respond to the question, saying, 'Well I can answer that for the President,' with Trump agreeing, 'I would rather have him answer,'" the paper reported.“It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends like those who are here," Ramaphosa continued. "But when we have talks between us around a quiet table it will take President Trump to listen to them, I'm not going to be repeating what I've been saying, I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my minister of agriculture, he would not be with me.“So it would take him, President Trump, listening to their stories, to their perspectives, that is the answer to your question.”Read The Sunday Times Johannesburg article here.

'Body slammed!' Dem lawmaker praised for takedown of ed secretary Linda McMahon

05/21/25 9:14 PM

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) received widespread praise on social media Wednesday for her takedown of Linda McMahon during the education secretary's defense of the Trump administration's plan to slash $4.5 billion from the nation's K-12 schools. McMahon, a billionaire thanks to her involvement with World Wrestling Entertainment, testified before the House Appropriations Committee, echoing the administration's talking points on "waste, fraud, and abuse." McMahon said the school cuts and Trump-directed dismantling of her department would "shrink bureaucracy and empower states 'to manage education in this country,'” The New York Times reported. "You can say anything you want because your rhetoric means nothing to me," Coleman said while jabbing her finger at a smiling McMahon. "What means something to me is the action of this administration, from the President of the United States conducting himself in a corrupt manner to his family enriching himself corruptly, to determine that this administration can tell you what's right, what's wrong, what's lawful, what's not. That it can arrest judges, it can arrest lawyers, it can use its power to bully people. And I'm telling you the Department of Education is one of the most important departments in this country, and you should feel shameful being engaged with an administration that doesn't give a damn." EXCLUSIVE: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in shade The account of @lilwaltjr305 on X posted, "Ma(d) Shoutout to @RepBonnie Watson Coleman. She just body slammed the Secretary of Wrasslin' Linda McMahon. Hell yeah Auntie Watson Coleman." Journalist B.J. Bethel posted simply, "Linda McMahon vs. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman." "She’s like 'you can bring Hulk Hogan, you can even bring Triple H. I said what I said,'" posted the account of @crosbyt123. Occupy Democrats lavished praise on Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) in a lengthy post. "Democratic Congresswoman Madeleine Dean obliterates MAGA Education Secretary Linda McMahon for trying to gut her own Department: 'Why are you in this job at all?' This is what we've all been dying to say to this monster's face..." began the post to the account's nearly 700,000 followers. At least one Republican was unhappy with McMahon's comments on the department's TRIO educational outreach programs "designed to motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds," according to ed.gov. USA Today education reporter Zach Schermele wrote, "'I'm not sure that all the expenses in TRIO should be there,' Linda McMahon told members of Congress today. That assertion rankled even Rep. Mike Simpson, a Republican congressman from Idaho who called the program 'highly successful' and said other programs could learn from it.'"Watch the clip below or at this link.