President Trump is in the news for discussing voter fraud and rigged elections. The media, predictably, is poo-pooing his charges....
President Donald Trump attended Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday to cheer on his hometown team — but many of his fellow fans didn’t appear thrilled to have him there.
The President's attendance at the game, the first finals matchup the New York Knicks have hosted in 27 years, has drawn backlash from fans.
National security professionals inside the Trump administration are outraged after President Donald Trump made one of the worst appointments in his political tenure, according to one expert. David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, said on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Monday that insiders he's spoken with were shocked when Trump appointed Bill Pulte, the administration's former mortgage chief, as the next Director of National Intelligence. Rothkopf said his sources were outraged by Pulte's willingness to do what Trump tells him and his lack of experience in the role, which is defined by federal law. "When I talk to people in the national security community or when you see the petitions that have been circulated, there is a consensus that Bill [Pulte] is the worst appointment Trump has ever made because he has absolutely zero experience in intelligence, something even Marco Rubio, the butt-kisser of all time, acknowledged he has no intelligence experience," Rothkopf said. Trump appointed Pulte to replace former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned from the administration over her husband's health. Pulte, the former director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was a homebuilder before joining the Trump administration and has never held an intelligence job. Federal law requires anyone appointed to the Director of National Intelligence role to have "extensive" intelligence experience. "He is purely being picked because he will do exactly what Trump says," Rothkopf added, noting Pulte's willingness to cook up investigations against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook for mortgage fraud. "Trump wants him there because he thinks that the intel community can help him invalidate upcoming elections, which is his main job. And he also thinks he can help him go after his adversaries, possibly even help him shred information that might be incriminating to Trump." "But when I talk to people at the CIA, when I talk to people who are formerly national intelligence people, I spoke to somebody from the [Defense Intelligence Agency] over the weekend — they are outraged," he continued.
Ana Navarro, a senior political commentator on CNN, snapped at a former Trump campaign official on Monday night after the official defended the president's attacks against NBC News's Kristen Welker during an interview over the weekend. Welker traveled to Wisconsin to interview President Donald Trump for her Sunday show, "Meet the Press." The interview became combative after Welker challenged Trump to provide evidence for his claim that the 2020 general election was stolen from him. Trump abruptly ended the interview after that, and made some disturbing comments about Welker as he stormed off set. Trump called Welker stupid and crooked, and questioned her integrity, attacks he's levied against other female journalists like CNN's Kaitlan Collins who have asked him tough questions. "You’re a one-sided crooked network,” Trump said to Welker as he stormed off. “Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time."Navarro argued on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip that Trump's comments were part of a "horrible" pattern of behavior toward women. Caroline Sunshine, former deputy communications director for Trump's 2024 campaign, attempted to rebut those claims by arguing that she never witnessed Trump mistreat women while she worked with him.Sunshine also told Navarro to "give [her] a break," which sent Navarro over the edge. "Have you no shame as a woman that we hear him call [women] ugly and piggy and crooked and liars and stupid and bad journalists?" Navarro seethed. "Have you absolutely no solidarity with women? Oh my god, I can't believe you sit here and tell me to give you a break. When in this network, we hear him tell our journalist that she's not fit to be a journalist because she doesn't smile. How dare you tell me to give you a break? Have some shame."
Election officials are “crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked," Trump told a reporter.
President Donald Trump's supporters are spreading a flurry of conspiracy theories about mail ballots after MAGA-aligned reality star Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary race — but he never had a chance, election data analyst Harry Enten told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday evening."Harry, can you tell us what the numbers actually are and what we are looking at in places like L.A.?" asked Collins.Enten started off by acknowledging "we would rather the system be that the votes were counted faster in California." But the fact remains, he continued, "this is ... the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard."For starters, he said, this wasn't even the outcome the Democratic establishment in L.A. wanted. Incumbent mayor Karen Bass "wanted to face Spencer Pratt, for the simple reason that she would easily beat him. You could look at the runoff polls, right? [City Councilwoman] Nithya Raman actually is ahead of Karen Bass. Spencer Pratt was nearly 20 points behind Karen Bass."Indeed, he noted, net favorability polls show Bass "is greatly unpopular," but that Pratt "might be the one person in the [entirety of] Los Angeles who is running for mayor, who is less popular than she was. He would have been a God-given gift to her if she, in fact, faced him in the runoff." This is further underscored, he said, by the fact that Trump, whom Pratt heavily attached himself to, is down around 55 points in the city."What a surprise ... that a Republican is struggling in a city in which just 15 percent of the registered voters in that city are Republican," concluded Enten. "This isn't a conspiracy. It's simple math." - YouTube www.youtube.com
President Donald Trump's efforts to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City on Monday night astounded one political analyst because of how they blew up in the president's face. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game, and was met with boos both inside and outside of the arena. Fans booed his motorcade as it arrived at Madison Square Garden, and he was booed again as the camera panned over to his suite during the National Anthem. Brian Tyler Cohen, a progressive YouTuber, argued on a new episode of his podcast, "Another Day," that Trump's desire to attend the game despite all of the headaches it caused fans was a work of selfishness. "As a result of never seeing a moment he couldn't make about himself, the president of the United States has chosen to launch his own Manhattan project by attending tonight's Knicks game at Madison Square Garden," Cohen said. "Now, to be fair, I understand why he'd want to do this. When you see a sporting event that allows you to apply only one extra color of paint to your face, you want to jump on it immediately. But that feels like a pretty small win compared to the pretty big losses that New Yorkers are experiencing."Cohen noted that Trump is attending the game as his approval ratings decline ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, in which both the House of Representatives and the Senate could fall into Democratic hands. At the same time, Trump caused significant inconvenience for average fans who attended the final game. For instance, the New York Knicks moved the game's watch party from outside the stadium to Bryant Park, and fans waited for upwards of two hours to enter the arena due to additional security measures. Some fans told Trump to "stay home" instead of coming to the game. "It's almost as though Donald Trump prioritizes the wrong things during his presidency," Cohen said. "This president may like attending sporting events, but let's stop pretending that he gives two s---- about New Yorkers. This is a guy who has plenty of cash to raise his family in an apartment in the city, one that included a whole floor for his son to casually graze the rugs on his pet lion. And yet, he chose to depart for less liberal pastures."
The catcalls came after ticketholders faced airport-style security to enter the venue at Madison Square Garden.