Trump White House Blindsided After Pete Hegseth Abruptly Canceled Ukraine Weapons Shipments: Report

Trump White House Blindsided After Pete Hegseth Abruptly Canceled Ukraine Weapons Shipments: Report

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the abrupt cancellation of U.S. weapons flights to Ukraine in February — without President Donald Trump’s knowledge — leaving top national security officials blindsided and scrambling for answers, according to internal records.

Do you think things will ever be normal? - John Collins

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Pete Hegseth Conducted Pentagon Business on ‘At Least a Dozen Separate’ Signal Chats: Report
• Trump Cabinet Secretary Fires Shot at Pete Hegseth on Fox News: 'DOD Has Promised Radical Transparency'
• Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Move Forward With Transgender Military Ban
• Israel vows to escalate war with new plan to 'conquer' Gaza
• Ukraine targets Moscow with drones as Putin prepares anniversary parade
• US veterans to attend Putin’s Victory Day parade, Moscow claims

It's like living with a violent abuser.

Every day, every damn day, all day, you're just waiting for it. You get up every morning and you're just waiting for it. What's going to set him off today? What's going to send this abusive deranged manbaby into a murderous unhinged rage today? Who's he going to lash out at? Who's he going to blame? What violent crazy abuse is he going to scream at us today? What's he going to break, because every day he breaks something else in a fit of childish rage.

I don't even have to say his name, you all know who I'm talking about. - Jim Wright

Another Door Slammed In Trump's Face, Live on TV!

Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney made clear to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, that his country is not for sale.

In an Oval Office meeting between the two leaders Tuesday afternoon, a reporter asked both men about President Trump’s repeatedly stated desire to annex Canada and turn it into the 51st state.

Trump Oval Office session with PM Carney a humiliation to America. Ego. Ignorance. Bluster. Rude. Stupid. PM Carney cerebral. Dignified. Firm. - Barry R McCaffrey

Carney has a doctorate in economics. Trump has a master's in stupid. - Alex Cole

Republican Shenanigans

• Pence Knocks Trump on Tariffs, Russia, and Jan. 6 Pardons in CNN Sit-Down With Kaitlan Collins
• 'FREE TINA PETERS!' Trump Slams 'Communist Persecution' of Convicted Election Clerk, Demands DOJ Release Her
• GOP Senator Comes Out Against Controversial Trump Pick for Powerful DOJ Post: 'What Happened on January the 6th Was Wrong'
• Karl Rove Breaks Out the Whiteboard to Slam Beto O'Rourke: 'Lesser Lights of the Democratic Party'
• '#LatinaWife Is Insane!' Trump Transpo Chief Gets Mocked Over Hashtag — Which Also Inadvertently Links To Lots Of Porn
• Fox & Friends Co-Host Appears to Agree Trump Administration Is 'Breaking the FAA': 'It Is'
• House Republican Botches U.S. Geography While Defending Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’
• Trump Commemorates ‘I Love Hispanics!’ Taco Bowl Tweet: ‘So Wonderful, 9 Years Ago Today!’

eric and donald trump jr are literally out here doing everything Republicans accused Hunter Biden of doing and tried to impeach Joe Biden for. - Covie

I Wonder Who Declassified This? Surely Not Trump or His Cronies.
Recently declassified intelligence contradicts Trump administration claims that the Tren de Aragua gang is coordinating with the Venezuelan government – undercutting a key basis for President Trump’s ignition of wartime powers to remove its citizens to a Salvadoran prison.

Following the Constitution is not a suggestion. It is a guiding force for all of us who work on behalf of the American people. Do you agree? - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

 

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Rock The Voter News

• Senate Democrats Rebel Against Crypto Bill, Citing Trump’s Perceived Conflicts of Interest
• House Democrats probe Trump DOJ's funding freeze to crime victim groups
• US judge orders North Carolina to certify Democrat winner of court election
• John Fetterman Trashes Bombshell ‘Hit Piece’ as Reporter Asks If He’s Taking His ‘Medications’

So the senile misogynist, who called Hillary Clinton nasty & Kamala Harris dumb & AOC not smart, called Jasmine Crockett low IQ - because strong smart capable women scare the sh*t out of him. - anyonewantchips

A Little Karma For A Brave Cartoonist
The Washington Post on Monday celebrated the Pulitzer Prize win of Ann Telnaes, the longtime cartoonist who quit the Post in protest after a scathing cartoon lambasting Jeff Bezos, the Post’s billionaire owner, was spiked by her editors.

Haven’t heard much about annexing Greenland lately. - godpod

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Business/Tech News

• Scott Bessent Tells Congress the Trump Admin Has NOT Held Any Negotiations With China Over Tariffs
• CNN Speaks To Frustrated Flyers Stuck In Newark Airport Travel Delay Chaos: 'I Can See It On Your Face, The Pain'
• 'I Don't Know Where You Are!' New Audio Reveals Chaotic Moment When Newark Air Traffic Controllers Suffered Radar Blackout
• Tesla's troubles in Europe are going from bad to worse

It has become painfully too clear Kamala Harris didn’t lose the election.

America did. - Being JWood

When Money Talks...
President Donald Trump received some surprising support from California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) after he pushed a plan to use tariffs to move more film productions into the United States...“California built the film industry — and we’re ready to bring even more jobs home,” Newsom wrote late on Monday in response to Trump’s desire for more domestic film productions. “We’ve proven what strong state incentives can do. Now it’s time for a real federal partnership to Make America Film Again. [POTUS], let’s get it done.”

Why don’t we cancel Trump’s stupid $90 million dollar birthday parade and spend it on something that matters, like properly staffing air traffic controllers and upgrading airport technology? - Alex Cole

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Odd News

• NASA’s Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet
• MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms
• Fruit company staff find cocaine in Norway banana boxes
• Boy playing with mom's phone orders 70,000 Dum-Dum lollipops
• Florida woman denied Real ID over missing 50-year-old marriage record
• Secret 'drug room' full of psychedelic 'snuff tubes' discovered at pre-Inca site in Peru

Time To Deflate Photo

Tongariro National Park - New Zealand's first national park.

Peace.

US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

Steven J Hatfill, who promoted the drug despite scant evidence of efficacy, becomes special adviser at HHS

How much does Donald Trump have to destroy before the country rises up?

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Laura Loomer Sets to Work on New MAGA Civil War
• Trump administration says it will pay immigrants to leave the country
• Trump Sidelines Tiffany’s Father-in-Law From ‘Symbolic’ Role
• Israeli cabinet approves plan to seize all of Gaza Strip, reports claim
• Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers. - The Onion

Mexico Slams Door On Trump

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she rejected an offer from her United States counterpart, Donald Trump, to send US troops to Mexico to help combat drug trafficking.

Speaking at a public event on Saturday, Sheinbaum said Trump had asked her during a call how he could help fight organised crime and suggested sending US troops.

The Mexican leader said she declined, telling Trump, “We will never accept the presence of the United States army in our territory.”

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP amps up Trump impeachment talk in midterm battle as party leaders woo Kemp for Senate
• Republicans eye ‘per capita caps’ in Medicaid savings search
• A GOP congressman is peppered with questions about Trump during raucous town hall
• Republicans are planning big changes to student loans and financial aid
• Stephen Miller’s Ex-Colleague: He’s a ‘Horrible Human Being
• RFK Jr. Hawks Bogus Measles Cure Amid Escalating Outbreak
• MAGA Melts Down Over Trump’s ‘Disrespectful’ Pope Post
• Blockbuster Exposé Ramps Up Stolen Valor Accusations Against Congressman: ‘He Didn’t Save My Life…I Don’t Recall Him Being There’
• Fox's Doocy Battles Angry Birds on White House Lawn AGAIN
• Rick Santorum Claps Back at Hillary Clinton Over 'K-12 Digital Literacy' Plans: Speech-Stifling 'Gov't Control of Information'
• Vance Under Fire for Defending Trump’s Tasteless AI Pope Joke
• Trump Calls for National Endowment for the Arts to Be Eliminated in Latest Budget Proposal
• Trump defends the high price tag for his military parade: 'Peanuts compared to the value'

Trump Says JD Vance Will Get Fewer Sex Dolls This Christmas. - Andy Borowitz

TRUMP: "Who are you with? The Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. It is a rotten newspaper. Did you hear what I said? It's a rotten newspaper."

Trump Posts Pic of Himself As Pope On White House Account

President Donald Trump‘s second-favorite pick for the papacy has slammed the president for a social media stunt decried by critics as “tasteless” and “deeply offensive” to Catholics.

“Well, you know, it wasn’t good,” New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan told a team of reporters ahead of a Sunday Mass in Rome, where next week he will be participating in the conclave to elect a new Holy Father following Pope Francis’ death three weeks ago.

People are talking about his Pope trolling and Alcatraz, rather than the billion dollar corruption scheme. - Anthony Scaramucci

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Rock The Voter News

• House Democrats Launch Probe into Elon Musk's 'Conflict of Interest'
• Democratic-led states sue to block Trump's halting of wind projects
• Hundreds join search for missing New York Democrat
• Ocasio-Cortez keeps Democrats in suspense over next move

To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, Republicans want to give teachers less money, more students, fewer books, more pressure, less support, fewer resources, more scrutiny, and a gun. - Middle Age Riot

Trump Wants To Reopen Alcatraz. 

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago.

Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he wanted to reopen the prison to "house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders."

We need to reopen Alcatraz.  There has to be another place in our country for dangerous repeat criminals.  The White House only has so much room. - Rep. Jack Kimble

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China was never our problem.

China never stole a single job. Our jobs were sent to China by rich people like Trump who sought to increase their profits and not give a rats ass about their country or its workers. - Brad

Business/Tech News

• Fears Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry
• Netflix leads media stock tumble as Trump threatens 100% tariff
• White House Says “No Final Decisions” Have Been Made on Movie Tariffs, Still “Exploring All Options”
• ‘60 Minutes’ Thumbs Its Nose at Trump With Scathing Segment
• Trump says trade deals are coming, but he's not planning to speak with Xi

Trump Slaps Tariffs on Foreign Films Because Subtitles Encourage Reading. - Andy Borowitz

Apparently, Crypto & Tax Cuts Is A Bad Mix For The GOP

The GOP’s tax cut megabill isn’t the only one of President Donald Trump’s priorities in jeopardy on Capitol Hill. Republicans have an unexpected crypto problem, too.

Crypto turmoil is unfolding in the Senate after nine key Democrats led by Sen. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) said this weekend that they would oppose GOP-led legislation that would carve out new rules for so-called stablecoins.

Friendly reminder that Trump's 'Crypto for influence' bribery scheme is the biggest scandal in presidential history and it's being largely ignored by mainstream news media. - mynamehear

BREAKING: Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty turns down a meeting with Trump. Asked why…’If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would have come in second!’ - Don Lewis

 

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Odd News

• When, where to see Eta Aquariid meteors as the shower peaks this month
• SpaceX launches largest batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to date
•  Dying satellites can drive climate change and ozone depletion, study finds
• Plane passengers survive alligator-infested waters for 36 hours before finally being rescued
• American Tourist's Colosseum Railing Climb Goes Horrifically Wrong

Time To Deflate Photo

The Banff National Park gondola in the great big beautiful country of Canada.

Peace.

Senate Republicans raise red flags about Trump's private dinner with his meme coin holders

Senate Republicans raise red flags about Trump's private dinner with his meme coin holders

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., a strong Trump backer and a major voice on cryptocurrency regulation in the Senate, said the dinner "gives me pause."

A UAE government-backed firm announced a $2 BILLION business deal using Trump's meme coin.

A foreign nation is funneling money directly into Trump's pocket.

U.S. policy should NOT be for sale. - US Citizen

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Trump: GOP should start thinking about expelling Democrats pushing impeachment
• Woman in Florida deported to Cuba says she was forced to leave baby daughter
• Cops Release Video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Traffic Stop: 'He's Hauling These People For Money'
• 'The Knives Were Out': The Wall Street Journal Calls Out JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Loomer Over Mike Waltz Ouster
• ‘Complete Moron’ Trump Announces WWII Victory Day on Wrong Date
• Trump is sending his national security adviser Mike Waltz to the UN in a shakeup
• Stephen Miller Is Favorite to Be Trump's Next National Security Adviser: Axios
• US step back from peace talks and ‘won’t fly around world at drop of hat’ to mediate
• Israel condemned at ICJ over Gaza, accused of drone attack on aid ship near Malta

Hegseth Astonished He Wasn’t First One in This Sh*tshow to be Canned. - Andy Borowitz

Steven Miller: We own your children now. You do not know how to educate them for the glory of the Regime so we are taking over.

Trump's $92 Million Parade Is "In The Works"
The Associated Press obtained plans for a celebration of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary on President Donald Trump’s birthday, complete with helicopters and thousands of soldiers. Last month, the AP reported that discussions of a parade on Trump’s birthday were in the works, but had few details to share, though a price tag of about $92 million had been floated and criticized.

I understand Trump is planning a military parade to celebrate his birthday, just like his pal and fellow dictator Kim Jong Un. Cost to taxpayers: About $91 million. Way to make Donald's ego great(er) again. - Stephen King

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Axes All Public Funding for NPR and PBS in Shock Late-Night Order
• Trump Says 'Internet People' Like Musk 'All Hated Me' and 'Now They're Kissing My Ass'
• Trump budget would eliminate CISA disinformation offices, alleging censorship
• Trump proposes $65M cut for Howard University
• Trump Hits Harvard With Huge Retaliation ‘They Deserve!’
• Harvard hits back 'no legal basis' for Trump move to take away tax-exempt status
• Trump Mocks Real Estate Developer for Having 'Trophy Wife'
• Elon’s Mom Furious Murdoch Paper Let Women Write About Son
• Bret Baier Confronts JD Vance on Poor Economic Data: 'The Economy Shrank'
• Old Friend of Vance Begs Him Not to Visit and Ruin His Rep
• 'Big Balls' Exposes Himself to Fox News's Jesse Watters: 'It's Me'
• Daily Show Tries To Make Sense of AG Pam Bondi's Math That Trump Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives in Months: 'You Sound High as F**k'

Trump is telling working people to survive on less—less money, less security, fewer toys on CHRISTMAS—while simultaneously advocating for the largest tax cut in HISTORY for the wealthiest Americans. - Mikel Jollett

Q: How Many Jobs Can Marco Rubio Handle?

A: As Many As Trump Wants Him To Handle
 Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security jobs at once as President Donald Trump presses forward with his top-to-bottom revamp of U.S. foreign policy, upending not only longstanding policies that the former Florida senator once supported but also the configuration of the executive branch.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Canada becoming 51st U.S. State: "It's always important to distinguish want from reality...what the Canadian people clearly have stated, virtually without exception, is this will never ever happen."

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Rock The Voter News

• Senate Democrats urge DOJ to drop plan to repay some Jan. 6 defendants
• Democrats eye Musk’s role in missile defense shield
• John Fetterman argues with an airline pilot about wearing his seat belt
• 60 Minutes Interview That Sparked Trump Lawsuit Scores Emmy Nomination for 'Outstanding Edited Interview'

That Fetterman profile is perhaps the most arresting piece of political journalism I’ve read in a few years and it’s clear he shouldn’t run for re-election. Praying for his family. - Stefan Smith

Trump Really Has It Out For Venezuelans
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to end deportation protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, the administration’s latest plea for the justices to intervene in President Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda.

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Business/Tech News

• Trump ends small package tariff exemption while waiving customs rules
• Trump calls for Fed to lower rates again after jobs report
• Unilever to invest $400 million in new Mexican factory
• China says 'door is open' to talks
• DOGE expands presence at Wall Street regulator: Sources
• Trump Honcho Makes Wild Claim About Gas Prices When Confronted on Fox About Plunging Market

Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance. - The Onion

Aren't Republicans All About States' Rights?  Yeah, Except For California.
Republicans moved a step closer Thursday to repealing a federal waiver allowing California to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a policy that had drawn opposition from automakers, fuel producers and President Donald Trump himself.

Ashli Babbitt was a traitor the United States who tried to overthrow the government and now my tax dollars are being used to pay her family. - Sarah Ironside

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Odd News

• New images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
• The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
• Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
• Banksy’s ‘Broken Heart’ painting defaced on a Brooklyn wall is up for sale
• After 856 'Snake Bites', Man's Blood Could Unlock Universal Antivenom

Time To Deflate Photo

 The "Veiled Woman" is a marble sculpture by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardi in 1869.

Best wishes for a peaceful weekend.