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Angry Trump Storms Out of On-Air Interview for Unnervingly Dark Reason

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Over the weekend, Donald Trump exploded during an on-air interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. He called her “crooked” and “stupid” and abruptly ended the interview in a fury. This was ostensibly because she questioned his claims that California’s ongoing vote counting is rigged against GOP candidates. But we think the real reason for Trump’s fury is darker. As the votes are being counted, those candidates—Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor and Steve Hilton for governor—are looking weaker than advertised. In real time, Trump is witnessing the failure of MAGA’s online disinformation apparatus to invent reality whole cloth and inflate the strength of his candidates into something it isn’t. In today’s episode, tech writer Gil Duran, author of the forthcoming The Nerd Reich, a book about techno-authoritarianism, puts this in perspective. He explains the California contests, why it’s so infuriating for Trump to watch real votes coming in, why this saga represents a larger failure of Trump-MAGA online propaganda, and why that has heartening deeper implications. (After we recorded, Pratt’s defeat became official.) Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.

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President Donald Trump booed during the National Anthem at NBA Finals

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President Donald Trump booed during the National Anthem at NBA Finals

President Donald Trump was booed by the crowd at Madison Square Garden during the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. As the anthem played, ABC cameras captured the President saluting in his suit. The crowd reacted loudly; this marked the only time Trump appeared on screen during the introduction. A crowd outside the arena also booed his motorcade upon arrival.Trump attended the Knicks' first home game with son-in-law Jared Kushner and administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and EPA head Lee Zeldin. Trump's attendance disrupted the fan experience significantly: the official watch party was relocated to Bryant Park to accommodate additional security measures, and attendees were required to arrive several hours before tip-off due to heightened security protocols.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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JUST IN: “The United States Must, of Necessity, Respond to This Attack” – Trump Reveals Downed Apache Helicopter Was “Shot Down” by Iranians, Vows Response

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JUST IN: “The United States Must, of Necessity, Respond to This Attack” – Trump Reveals Downed Apache Helicopter Was “Shot Down” by Iranians, Vows Response

President Trump vowed to respond after a US Army helicopter was downed last night, confirming that the Iranians executed the attack. President Trump initially told reporters while departing Queens, New York, after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals, "The pilots are fine." "Nobody injured. The post JUST IN: “The United States Must, of Necessity, Respond to This Attack” – Trump Reveals Downed Apache Helicopter Was “Shot Down” by Iranians, Vows Response appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump Blames Iran for Hitting Helicopter, Says US Must Respond

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Trump Blames Iran for Hitting Helicopter, Says US Must Respond

President Donald Trump said the US must respond after he blamed Iran for shooting down an American military helicopter off Oman, posing a new threat to the peace deal he’s said for weeks is close.

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Trump vows response against Iran after downing of US helicopter

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Trump vows response against Iran after downing of US helicopter

President Trump on Tuesday blamed Iran for shooting down an American Apache helicopter overnight and said a response was necessary. “I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump posted on his social…

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Trump prepares new military strike after Iran downs chopper: 'Must respond to this attack'

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Trump prepares new military strike after Iran downs chopper: 'Must respond to this attack'

President Donald Trump threatened a military response to the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.The two crew members were rescued in the first-ever sea drone operation conducted by the U.S. military, and the president blamed the crash on an attack by Iran."I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz," Trump posted Tuesday afternoon on Truth Social. "There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"CENTCOM has previously stated the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache went down near the coast of Oman while patrolling regional waters and that the cause of the incident remained under investigation.A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran appeared to hold Tuesday despite the two countries trading military strikes Sunday and Monday, and Israel has continued its parallel strikes against Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.

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Trump's Middle Eastern Ceasefire: Fiery But Mostly Peaceful

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Trump's Middle Eastern Ceasefire: Fiery But Mostly Peaceful

The White House keeps insisting that peace is around the corner. Meanwhile, Israel, Iran, and the United States keep shooting at each other.

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Jeffrey Epstein's former assistant Lesley Groff interviewed by House panel

Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, and her name appears more than 150,000 times in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice.

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Inside FIFA's 'embarrassing charade' to give Trump a bogus 'peace prize'

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Inside FIFA's 'embarrassing charade' to give Trump a bogus 'peace prize'

After Venezuelan then-President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in Caracas and the Trump administration installed leftist Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, opposition leader María Corina Machado tried to curry favor with Trump by offering him her Nobel Peace Prize (which was merely symbolic, as it cannot be transferred under Peace Prize rules). But Machado wasn't the first person to offer Trump a symbolic "peace prize": before that, in December 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered Trump the inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize." In the Daily Beast, reporter Leigh Kimmins details FIFA's "embarrassing" campaign to "sooth Trump" with a made-up peace prize.Trump isn't shy about claiming that he deserves to win the coveted Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2025, he was disappointed when that award went to Machado. "Gianni Infantino, the president of soccer's global governing body, FIFA, sensed an opportunity and cooked up the 'FIFA Peace Prize' to soothe Trump," Kimmins explains in the Daily Beast. "He did so because a closer relationship with the U.S. president would mean a smoother World Cup, which, in turn, would help repair his organization's image after years of fraud and neglect. Infantino, a former lawyer from Switzerland, had lobbied for Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, but quickly devised a plan when he was overlooked, according to The New York Times."Kimmins continues, "Just weeks after the snub, senior officials at the organization, a nonprofit with billions of dollars in its coffers, were informed of the plan. According to the Times, they asked how much time they would have to pull off the ingenious stroke of bootlickery. They also needed to know what the criteria for the award would be and how the nomination committee would be structured."The Daily Beast reporter notes that according to a FIFA insider interviewed by the Times, the "plan was to stage a charade to please" Trump. The World Cup draw was held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in December 2025. According to the Times, FIFA originally had Las Vegas in mind. But that was before "Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump ally serving as a presidential envoy, forced Infantino to reconsider," according to Kimmins."Some soccer officials were angered by the circus, saying it blew up FIFA's claims of political neutrality," Kimmins notes. "The president of Norway's soccer federation, who is a human rights lawyer, declared that the prize breached FIFA's rules on political neutrality and announced that Norway would back an ethics complaint against Infantino and his shilling."

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