Trump cultists

The New York Times reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader. The event, billed as the “Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer & Worship Service,” was standing room only and ran for about 30 minutes, with Brooks …

The Huffington Post reports: Louis Prevost — the self-described “MAGA-type” older brother of new Pope Leo XIV — and his wife, Deborah, met Tuesday with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House. They had a “great meeting,” White House aide Margo Martin wrote on social media. It’s not clear what they talked about. Prevost has …

NBC News reports: Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a close ally of President Donald Trump, is still considering a run for governor of Florida — a twist that complicates a Republican primary that already has a Trump-endorsed candidate and, potentially, the current governor’s wife. Trump has backed Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., for the 2026 race, and a Trump adviser said the …

Politico reports: House Republicans on Tuesday passed legislation to rescind a Biden-era policy meant to more closely scrutinize proposed bank mergers, sending the regulatory rollback to President Donald Trump’s desk. The House voted 220-207 to nullify a new rule finalized by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last September that created a tougher regulatory process for banks seeking …

The Associated Press reports: A Virginia man has been charged with felony burglary after being pardoned for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, which included smashing the door panel that rioter Ashli Babbitt tried to breach before police shot her. Zachary Jordan Alam, 33, of Centreville, was arrested May 9 in a neighborhood outside of Richmond, Henrico County police …

The Daily Beast reports: Kid Rock is distancing himself from his own restaurant after it reportedly closed its kitchen to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The outspoken MAGA fan’s Big A– Honky Tonk Rock N’Roll Steakhouse was forced to close early on the weekend of May 10 after staff without legal citizenship either didn’t show up for work amid …

“I don’t think that we’re out of the woods and I do think that the biggest threat with regard to this sort of stuff is less the tariffs than the feeling of uncertainty for investors as to what comes next. And that’s where the pharmaceutical EO starts to come in or the negotiations over the tax bill. What actually makes …

“Social Security, another just obscenely broken program. What a complete fraudulent program Social Security is. They garnish all of our wages, then they spend all that — none of it goes to Social Security. “It’s a complete and total looting of the productive class to supplement the unproductive class, to create total fealty to the Democrat Party, and to scare …

“People are angry. You know, forget about the big beautiful bill, people want big beautiful handcuffs on some of these people. Because for far too long we saw– we saw Thomas Crooks took a shot at Trump in the head. He’s dead. We don’t know any more about that. Ryan Routh tried to shoot Trump on a golf course. We …

The Washington Post reports: Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they had long dreaded. El Faro — Spanish for lighthouse — is the premier independent investigative news outlet in El Salvador. The staff had received word that Bukele’s increasingly …

“Well, I’ve decided today’s the day I’m going to take the opportunity — since a lot of you are here — to make an announcement of my own. Some of you have already guessed, so it won’t surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer Joe Biden has. So I also have prostate cancer that has also spread …

“I think wokeness and DEI and cancel culture is starting to exit the building, and we can thank President Trump for leading that charge once again. I call him the dragon slayer in that regard, ‘cuz he just came and slit the throat of DEI and wokeness. “There’s always gonna be cancel culture at some level, somebody getting butt sore …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) accused the Biden White House of a “political cover up” following former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis while also offering best wishes to the former president on Monday. The take came after Biden’s team announced Sunday that he’d been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to the bone, …

The Guardian reports: Joe Exotic – star of the 2020 Netflix true crime documentary Tiger King – is publicly pleading for Donald Trump to pardon him from federal prison after his husband was deported to Mexico. “It’s really past time to have one of your people watch Tiger King Season 2, where they all admitted to perjury and a plot …

The Hill reports: A trio of Miami-area Republicans are pushing back against the administration as President Trump works to end programs protecting many of the region’s immigrant communities from deportation. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) asked for “nuance” in plans for a wholesale rescission of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), something the administration has axed for both Venezuela and Haiti. It’s a …

The New York Times reports: The House Budget Committee late Sunday night revived President Trump’s stalled bill to cut taxes and spending, after a handful of fiscally conservative Republicans relented and allowed it to advance even as they continued to press for deeper reductions to health and environmental programs. The vote signaled a temporary resolution to a remarkable revolt from …

Bloomberg News reports: The centrist mayor of Bucharest won Romania’s presidential runoff on Sunday, quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist as voters came out in force to ensure that the Black Sea nation held steady on a pro-European path. Nicusor Dan, an independent and one-time math prodigy, secured more than 54% of the vote in the contest, …

MARIA BARTIROMO: “You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it.” KASH PATEL: “Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who’s been in that prison system, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center. Who’s been in segregated housing. You know a …

The Daily Beast reports: MAGA trolls wasted no time spewing racist epithets online after a Mexican Navy sailing ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, killing 2 crew members. “In an absolutely stunning modern metaphor a ship blaring Mexican music and flying a massive Mexican flag just got destroyed by the Brooklyn bridge,” wrote right-wing serial plagiarist and misinformation peddler Benny …

FOX HOST JASON CHAFFETZ: “Do you think that this was just some accident that the former FBI director didn’t know what he was posting up about Donald Trump being obviously number 47?” JAMES COMER: “My opinion of Comey is so bad, I don’t know that I could give a fair and balanced answer to that question, Jason. So, my confidence …