Month: September 2025

Democrats had forced multiple votes on almost every one of Trump’s picks, infuriating the president and tying up the Senate floor.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Anna Gomez said Thursday the Trump administration, via the FCC, is “weaponizing its licensing authority in order to bring broadcasters to heel.” “I see this as a part of this administration’s campaign of censorship and control,” Gomez, who was appointed by former President Biden, said at the Axios Media Trends…
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Stewart’s featured guest will be Maria Ressa, the journalist and author of “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.”

New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn expressed confidence the newspaper will defeat a defamation suit brought by President Trump this week. “He’s wrong on the facts; he’s wrong on the law. And we’ll fight it, and we’ll win,” Kahn said at an Axios Media Trends Live event Thursday. Asked if the Times would ever…
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Progressives and moderates alike are signing on to a new pledge to “unrig” Washington.

Trump has had long-running beef with late-night TV hosts who have criticized his policies.

“This behavior often stems from a need to assert social dominance,” noted one therapist.

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.) on Thursday suggested Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr “get a lawyer” for when Democrats take the majority in Congress at the midterms. Carr has faced significant heat from Democrats for encouraging ABC to remove host Jimmy Kimmel from airwaves after he made a joke about the fatal shooting of…
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The New York Times journalist said the president is viewing Kirk’s assassination in these particular “terms.”

Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Wednesday said President Trump’s plans to designate Antifa, the anti-fascist political movement, as a terrorist organization marked an “inflection point” that would be used to target the leader’s political enemies.  Axelrod said the Trump administration “will go after everyone and everything that they put under that umbrella, even though it…
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Anna Wintour says there was no talk from President Trump about anyone in his family landing a potential Vogue cover while meeting with him at the White House. The longtime Vogue editor in chief, who now serves as Condé Nast’s chief content officer, said she visited the Trump White House twice in recent months to…
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President Trump on Thursday suggested networks and late-night shows in particular should not be allowed to be overwhelmingly critical of him in the wake of ABC’s decision to take host Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Trump was asked about Kimmel’s indefinite leave from his late-night show aboard Air Force One as he returned from a…
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Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) said Wednesday the blame for a potential government shutdown would likely fall on Democrats. “They’re going to be blamed for shutting it down,” Manchin told Semafor. “Why would they want to put themselves in that position? They don’t have leverage on those types of things.” He added, “You’ve got to…
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Recently, President Trump claimed he was not a dictator but said many Americans would like him to be. His statement about people wanting a dictatorship is shocking. However, unlike the citizens of other nations that have recently transformed from dictatorships to democracies, Americans have no memory of a dictatorship and do not understand the consequences of…
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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard has not contributed to weeks of lower crime rates.  Instead, during her Thursday appearance before the committee, she lauded an increase in the presence of law enforcement backing the local Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). “What has worked…
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Disney’s Bob Iger was once celebrated by the left for standing up to Trump. Now he’s caving to his demands.

The president singled out the Princess of Wales at dinner on Wednesday night.

Trump wants the ability to control what is said and who can say it. And he’s been getting it.

The former president denounced the threats made to ABC and other media companies as a “dangerous” escalation.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) suggested Tuesday some people “want to cherry-pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn.” The comments came in the wake of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week in Utah. “During moments like this, I believe we have a responsibility to be clear and unequivocal…
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The State Department has halted “all frameworks” to counter misinformation from foreign countries, it announced Wednesday.  In April, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the closure of the department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) office, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC).  “Through free speech, the United States will counter genuine malign…
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In an interview, the pontiff drew a line between himself and his self-admitted “MAGA type” older brother, saying they were in “different places.”

President Trump, Vice President Vance and other members of the administration will speak at a memorial honoring Charlie Kirk on Sunday, according to a program from Turning Point USA. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot Sept. 10 at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem. He is survived by his wife, Erika…
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“He has disgraced the office he holds by bullying ABC,” they wrote.

David Frum, a speechwriter during former President George W. Bush’s administration, warned Wednesday night that the Democratic Party will face suppression. “We don’t have to speculate about what comes next, because President Trump — in his televised speech after the assassination of Charlie Kirk — and his aide Stephen Miller have already told us what…
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