Podcaster Joe Rogan said he would “rather go to Russia” than attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Canada. Rogan, who is also a UFC commentator, said he would not be attending May’s UFC 315 in Montreal, Canada.
Months after a disastrous election cycle for Democrats, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) is acknowledging the failures of the Harris-Walz campaign, particularly in its media strategy and voter outreach.
In an interview with Politico, Walz admitted that the campaign took a cautious approach, avoiding media engagements and missing opportunities to connect with voters.
Walz pointed to the limited time the campaign had following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race four months before the election, but suggested that they should have taken a more aggressive approach rather than limiting media appearances.
President Joe Biden during the debate at CNN’s studios in Atlanta. CNN Anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are moderators of the debate.
“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” Walz told Politico.
“I think we probably should have just rolled the dice and done the town halls, where [voters] may say, ‘You’re full of sh*t, I don’t believe in you.’ I think there could have been more of that.”
The Harris campaign’s media strategy, Walz suggested, reflected a broader pattern among Democrats, who have been reluctant to engage with the press.
He said that instead of playing it safe, the campaign should have recognized that they were never truly ahead in the race.
“In football parlance, we were in a prevent defense to not lose when we never had anything to lose because I don’t think we were ever ahead,” Walz said.
While some former Harris aides agreed with Walz’s assessment, arguing that the campaign “put him in a box” and did not effectively use him as a candidate, others disagreed.
Some staffers pointed to his struggles during media appearances, particularly in the vice presidential debate against now-Vice President JD Vance.
One former Harris staffer described Walz’s debate performance as a major liability, citing his difficulty answering questions, particularly on his past travel to China.
“This was a guy who definitely was embarrassed by his flubs, didn’t handle them well, and seemed like there was a never-ending supply of them, so that was part of the issue of getting him out there everywhere,” the former staffer said.
“I don’t look back on that campaign and think that the way we used Walz was a critical error.”
Leading up to the vice presidential debate, Walz reportedly struggled with confidence, with campaign insiders describing him as “in his own head,” “super nervous,” and concerned about letting down the ticket.
His uneven debate performance was widely criticized and raised questions about his ability to handle high-pressure moments on the national stage.
Despite the 2024 defeat, Walz is now considering a presidential run in 2028. When asked about the possibility, he told Politico that he is “not saying no” and remains open to future opportunities.
“I’m staying on the playing field to try and help because we have to win. And I will always say this, I will do everything in my power, and as I said, with the vice presidency, if that was me, then I’ll do the job,” Walz said.
With Democrats struggling to rebuild after their 2024 election losses, Walz’s reflections signal a broader conversation within the party about what went wrong and how to restructure future campaigns.
Whether Walz emerges as a serious contender in 2028 remains to be seen, but his recent remarks suggest he is positioning himself for a role in the party’s future.
Vice President JD Vance kicked off the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by storm at the National Harbor, Maryland, where he doubled down on illegal immigration and free speech.
Vance had just jetted in from the European tour where he lambasted European governments for promoting illegal immigration and runaway censorship at the behest of Joe Biden.
Vance started by reiterating that the American people gave President Trump the mandate to save the country, adding that the president was keeping his team at a “pretty breakneck pace.”
“Trump knows that the American people have given us a chance to save the country, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do. And thank God for that, because the past month has been a lot of fun,”
The Thursday morning interview host Mercedes Schlapp noted that the media was overwhelmed and could not keep up with Trump’s progress. Vance took a jab at CNN by claiming that the Trump admin had issued more executive orders than the network’s viewers.
When asked, Vance doubled down on illegal immigration which he termed as the greatest threat to Western civilization.
“The greatest threat in Europe, and I’d say the greatest threat in the US until about 30 days ago, is that leaders in the West have allowed millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries,” he said.
“We have to secure the southern border, and thanks to his [Trump’s] action, border crossings are down well over 90%, and we’re just getting started.”
Vance also put drug traffickers on alert saying their “free ride is over because President Trump is back in the Oval Office.” He also noted that the federal government needs to hire more border patrol agents to secure the country’s border.
“We got to give Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Christy Noem, the resources they need to secure the border.”
On the economy, Vance said America must reignite its economic growth to create good jobs and high incomes for its people.
“We have to unlock the engine of the American growth. We have to get back to having a growing economy that creates good jobs and high wages for the American people and a lot of that goes back to drill baby drill.”
He also noted that the government must account for taxpayers’ money, of which he said Elon Musk’s DOGE was helping uncover massive waste.
“Like for example… why are we spending money on Progressive modern art projects, centered around toilets in Afghanistan?”
“Let’s turn off the spigot and spend the American people’s tax money on the American people’s priority.”
Vance also talked about making Trump’s tax cuts permanent, which include ending tax on tips.
On freedom of speech, Vance received a standing ovation after mentioning his Munich speech in which he lambasted European governments for terrorizing their citizens for expressing themselves. He said that stopping illegal immigration was not enough and governments must allow people to speak about it.
JD Vance just got a massive standing ovation for the speech he gave to European officials. pic.twitter.com/g7z5DN8NWI
“… you have to allow free speech to debate this stuff.”
“You’ve got to give the populations of the world the opportunity to speak up and say, ‘no more this BS, we want borders, we want sovereignty, we want to be able to speak our own mind in our own country.’”
“I’m not even blaming the Europeans, I’m actually saying, you followed the lead of Joe Biden into censorship and mass migration. Follow the lead of Donald J. Trump and that’s free speech, borders, and sovereignty, that’s the future for our shared civilization.”
The vice president warned that US-European relations will depend on shared values such as freedom of speech and strong borders.
Vance also addressed the Ukraine conflict by assuring the American people that President Trump was working to resolve it as quickly as possible.
“I think with President Trump, what makes him such a strong negotiator—and I’ve seen this in private—is that he doesn’t take anything off the table. Everything is on the table. And of course, that makes people in America upset because they say, ‘Why are you talking to Russia?’”
Addressing concerns that Trump was negotiating with Putin, Vance reiterated that the Ukraine War cannot end without speaking with all parties involved.
“How do you end the war if you don’t talk to Russia? You have to talk to everyone involved in the fighting.”
The Vice President also addressed abortion by advocating for policies that allow Americans to “choose life” and “start families,” adding that Americans need to “stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded.”
He also encouraged young people, especially men, to be themselves and avoid the negative culture that “wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”
Vice President JD Vance has a powerful message for young men 🔥🔥
“My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends,… pic.twitter.com/JKWuX9cQhn
Vance’s speech kicked off the three-day event at which President Trump, Elon Musk, GOP lawmakers, government officials, and international leaders will appear. Government officials and legislators expected to speak at the CPAC include House Speaker Mike Johnson, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Foreign leaders expected to attend the CPAC include Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and Argentina’s President Javier Milei. European conservative politicians such as Britain’s Nigel Farage, France’s Jordan Bardella, and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will also attend the CPAC.
Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Liz Truss jokingly requested Trump to take his revolution to Europe and allow Musk’s DOGE team to look into “the British deep state.”
The first openly gay U.S. District Judge, Ana Reyes, spent hours questioning the Trump administration to determine how its military transgender policy would affect trans service members.
Shortly after taking office on January 21, President Trump signed an executive order outlining “trans-identifying medical standards for military service” and rescinding policies that undermined the military’s readiness.
Trump’s “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive order required that the “radical gender ideology” be expunged from all branches of the military. On November 25, 2024, the Times reported that Trump would sign an executive order that would declare 15,000 transgender service members unfit to serve on medical grounds. The order would also remove transgender military leaders from various ranks.
Subsequently, a civil rights group sued the Trump administration over the executive order alleging discrimination. It also claims that the order threatened national security and obliterated years of defense training investment.
Thus, Biden appointed Judge Reyes questioned the Trump administration to determine whether the executive order amounted to transgender ban and whether the administration perceived transgenderism as an ideology. She also wanted to know if transgender people, including the plaintiffs, would be removed from the military or their units.
“Can we agree that the greatest fighting force that world history has ever seen is not going to be impacted in any way by less than 1% of soldiers using a different pronoun than others might want to call them,” she asked Justice Department attorneys.
She also suggested transgenderism does not impact a soldier’s war-fighting abilities as pronoun use did not impact other service members.
“If you can find someone who will tell me we’re less prepared because we have to use pronouns for a few thousand people,” she said.
However, pronoun use can affect team spirit by causing conflicts over misgendering and wrong pronoun use. Additionally, transitioning individuals undergo months of intensive chemical treatment and surgeries that render them unable to deploy at a moment’s notice.
Crazed, partisan, foreign-born lesbian Ana C. Reyes’ biographical details are wholly unsurprising.
Trump’s executive order categorically states that our heroes should be “free of medical conditions or physical defects that may reasonably be expected to require excessive time lost from duty for necessary treatment or hospitalization,” adding that “many mental and physical health conditions are incompatible with active duty” as they require “require substantial medication or medical treatment” and hospitalization.
Nonetheless, the Uruguayan-born American judge wanted to know how Trump’s executive order would be implemented. She threatened to grant a temporary restraining order if the Trump administration failed to guarantee that the plaintiffs would not be affected.
Claiming that “smarter people on the D.C. Circuit would have to tell me I’m wrong,” Reyes also added that the executive order’s assertion that only two genders exist is “not biologically correct.”
BREAKING: Federal Judge Ana Reyes Threatens to Block President Trump's Executive Order on Transgender Troops, Calls Two-Gender Assertion 'Not Biologically Correct' pic.twitter.com/vbDShVM61Y
Meanwhile, when Trump announced he would issue the executive order, the Left claimed it would undermine enrolment when the military was struggling to meet its recruitment targets.
“It would also lead to a ban on trans people joining the military and would come at a time when almost all branches of the American armed forces are failing to meet recruitment targets.”
However, then Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth blamed wokeism for falling recruitment numbers, stating that the core military demographic took a wide berth at the military to avoid being subjected to the radical gender ideology.
“There aren’t enough lesbians in San Fransisco to man the 82nd Airborne Division,” Hegseth said.
“…if I wanted to do the woke cr*p, I could go to the local community college or local college. I don’t need it here.”
Unsurprisingly, Trump’s non-woke military has already shattered a 15-year recruitment record less than a month into his second presidency.
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman, Michael Steele, who held the position between 2009 and 2011, now works for legacy news network MSNC. He recently exposed himself (again) as the irredeemable RINO he always was over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting measures.
Most presidents before Trump have promised to curb government wasteful spending. However, only President Trump had the spine to follow through and confront the nemesis of unchecked government wasteful spending that threatens to bankrupt the country.
Steele recently embarrassed himself in a cringeworthy tirade on MSNBC about Musk’s DOGE curbing wasteful spending. He rallied Democrats against Trump for doing what most presidents, including Republicans, only paid lip service to but lacked the spine to do. “I’d just like you to show that you give a damn!” the former RNC chairman said. “That you get a little emotional about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately!
“That this individual sitting down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has given absolute power to one man, who brings his son into the Oval Office, whose son says to him, ‘you’re not the president! You shouldn’t be in that chair!’
“Now, where did he get that from? He got it from his daddy! Because that’s what his daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the Oval Office.”
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele suffering from severe TDS:
"[Trump] has given absolute power to one man who brings his son into the Oval Office who says to him, 'You're not the President!'"
Steele also fearmongered that Musk’s DOGE was everywhere, from your bedrooms and living rooms to your businesses. I hardly believe that ordinary Americans should fear DOGE unless they are laundering money on behalf of the government agencies under scrutiny.
“They’ve got they got your data, dumb a–! They got all your stuff! Elon Musk has his tentacles in everything you’re doing! Not just off of X, but he’s in the Treasury Department! He’s in the Labor Department! He’s in [the] Department of Homeland Security!” He continued.
The former RNC chairman sounds like a model DEI hire employed to regurgitate the Democrats’ political talking points. It’s also very naive of him to think that any government agency was above the law and not subject to audit. Similarly, it is also hypocritical for the former RNC chair to care about people losing their jobs when those jobs do not serve the interests of American taxpayers.
We recently reported that barely 6% of federal workers report to work daily, and many opted to quit instead of reporting to the office when given the chance. Not many American taxpayers have the luxury of choosing between reporting to work or quitting with advanced pay. However, Steele and his ilk want to convince Americans otherwise.
Musk’s DOGE also uncovered the wasteful spending of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), of which less than 300 out of the over 10,000 employees worldwide are essential.
🚨 BREAKING: DOGE just dropped the hammer on an $8.2M USDA contract for "Cow Farts"! 📷
Turns out, the project was for "environmental compliance services" to study what? Cow Farts! 📷📷Yep, you heard that right – your tax dollars were about to fund the ultimate in climate… pic.twitter.com/ZLolhcp19b
The department also recently discovered that approximately $4.7 trillion in federal government payments could not be accounted for because their tracking codes were left empty, leaving ample room for fraud.
Yet Leftists continue to fight DOGE for stopping the wasteful spending because everybody else matters to them except the ordinary American taxpayer who bears the financial burden of funding these unnecessary expenses.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered that the federal government cannot account for approximately $4.7 trillion of taxpayers’ money paid for unknown reasons.
DOGE found that the tracking codes used to associate payments with budget line items were left blank, making it impossible to trace the payments.
“The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process),” DOGE explained on X.
“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible.”
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
DOGE noted that the TAS field, which allows account identification had since been made mandatory, increasing visibility into the payments.
Less than a month into Trump’s presidency, DOGE has exposed how trillions of taxpayers’ money was wasted on unnecessary projects overseas. They include $10 million for voluntary male medical circumcision in Mozambique, $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre, $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub,” $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” and $14M for “social cohesion” in Mali.
US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled: – $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision" – $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills" – $2.3M for "strengthening…
A DOGE subcommittee hearing chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) also uncovered approximately $2.7 trillion in erroneous or improper payments, including for projects whose authorization had expired. Over $700 billion was also lost due to inaccurate record keeping.
$2.7 TRILLION of YOUR money.
Down the drain.
💸💸💸
Tomorrow, the @DOGECommittee will EXPOSE the waste, fraud, and abuse of improper payments doled out by the federal government.
Similarly, over $2.7 trillion went to Medicare and Medicaid payments overseas to people who should not have received the money. Musk also discovered over 25 million people between the ages of 100 and 369 years, almost certainly deceased, still receiving Social Security payments.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk X’ed.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
Responding to Real America’s Voice White House correspondent Brian Glenn about the wasteful spending, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said “that is certainly fraud.”
“There is also a lot of contracts they’ve identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks been only $500,000 went out the door, so where’s the rest of that cash?” Leavitt noted.
Musk had warned that radical action was required because “America is going BANKRUPT from EXTREME levels of government spending.” The U.S. national debt interest payments had doubled in four years to reach a staggering $1.17 trillion under Biden, while the budget deficit also topped $1.8 trillion in 2024. Government debt also increased by $2.3 trillion to reach $35.7 trillion between 2023 and 2024.
Subsequently, Musk’s DOGE is looking for public input to uncover more wasteful spending and fraud and has set up over two dozen affiliates to oversee the process.
“DOGE is looking for help from the general public! Please DM insight for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, along with any helpful insights or awesome ideas, to the relevant DOGE affiliates (found on the Affiliates tab). For example, @DOGE_USDA, @DOGE_SSA, etc.”
Meanwhile, Musk is optimistic that he could cut the deficit by $1 trillion by 2026 by reducing wasteful spending by $4 billion per day.
“I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend,” he X’ed.
I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend https://t.co/XQBK3rqkwo
President Donald Trump asserts that Ukraine will pay back the $350 billion the U.S. sent to the country to fight Russia as he moves forward with efforts to bring peace to the region.
While speaking to reporters briefly before flying to Daytona Beach for the Daytona 500, the president announced that the $350 billion sent to the Zelensky regime would be repaid to the U.S.
Trump suggested the funds were allocated without safeguards for U.S. interests, emphasizing the need for “security on our money.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now negotiating the terms under which Ukraine would provide the United States with a significant portion of its rare earth minerals, oil, and gas reserves.
Such resources are vital to industries such as technology and defense and could bolster both strategic interests and the U.S. economy.
Watch:
NEW: Trump is pressing for the return of $350 billion from Ukraine
Zelensky has turned down the latest offer, which was an agreement on rare earth metals, a proposal put forth by US Treasury Secretary Bessent. pic.twitter.com/mBCeyCvRnP
Reporter: Would you support Zelinsky’s seeding territory or exchanging territory in any agreement to end the war?
President Trump: Well, he’s going to have to do what he has to do, but his poll numbers aren’t particularly great, to put it mildly. He’s got a country where it’s been savaged and attacked, and he’s got an army that’s been very, very brave, actually, despite the fact that we’ve given him, in my opinion, $350 billion. That’s what the number is. You don’t hear that number. And Europe has given, in my opinion, $100 billion. And they’ve done it in the form of a loan.
And I have a Secretary of Treasury right now who’s actually quite brave. He’s over in Ukraine on a train, and there’s a lot of things happening around that train that aren’t so good. And he’s going there to get a document done where we’re going to be assured that we’re going to, in some form, get this money back because we’re putting up far more money than Europe.
And Europe is in far more danger than we are. We have an ocean in between. Europe has nothing in between. You know what they have in between? They have Ukraine in between. So as you know, Europe is putting up money, and they’re getting it in the form of a loan.
And the United States, under Biden, didn’t do loans. They just handed money. Every time somebody walked in from Ukraine, they just handed them money foolishly. This should have never happened. It should have never started. And once it did, other things should have happened. Other things should have taken place. So we’re getting security on our money. We’re going to have it secured by… They have raw earth, and they have oil and gas, and they have a lot of other things. And we’re asking for security on our money. So does it mean you are not sending any more aid to Ukraine? They’ve agreed to it. Ukraine has agreed to it.
Reporter: Does it mean you are not sending any more aid to Ukraine?
President Trump: No, we are, but we want it secured, and the money is going to be secured..
The FBI under President Donald Trump discovered thousands of unsubmitted records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Two thousand four hundred records tied to the assassination of the former president were uncovered by officials after Trump ordered that all documents be released.
The records were meant to be transferred to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board and the National Archives in compliance with the 1992 JFK Records Act but remained hidden. The classified records are among 14,000 pages of documents uncovered during the FBI review ordered by Trump.
“This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination. “The FBI is finally saying, ‘Let’s respond to the president’s order,’ instead of keeping the secrecy going.”
However, various U.S. intelligence agencies requested that some redactions be made to protect sources and methods. White House staffers said Trump would “hit the roof” if there were any attempts to prevent the disclosure of the records.
After more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration stated that 97% of the 5 million pages were available to the public. However, around 3,000 documents remained classified, and an additional 30,000 had redactions.
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