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3 days ago
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Trump Teases Extra Episode of Elon Show After Icing Him Out
Donald Trump praised Elon Musk while announcing a joint press conference Friday that will take place amid tension with the billionaire DOGE head who is departing his government position. In making the announcement, the president hinted that while Friday will officially mark his last day, he is expected to be a regular in Trump's orbit. 'This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way,' Trump wrote amicably on Truth Social. 'Elon is terrific! See you tomorrow at the White House.' Trump's words echoed that of Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, who expressed a similar rosy outlook Thursday night. 'I know Elon is still very very close to the President,' he said on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, 'and I think he's going to stay exactly there.' The Oval Office gathering comes as Musk has publicly distanced himself from a major piece of legislation to be considered by the Republican-controlled Senate: Trump's so-called 'Big, Beautiful Bill.' The legislation, which passed the House by a single vote, would curtail the effectiveness of DOGE's work over the last few months, Musk worried. 'I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,' Musk told CBS Sunday Morning in a preview released earlier this week. Musk's Tesla opposes the bill as well, warning that an end to certain energy tax credits would 'threaten America's energy independence and the reliability of our grid.' Musk had a back-and-forth with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller about the bill this week, with Miller claiming that DOGE's cuts couldn't be codified. 'You cannot cut discretionary spending (only mandatory) in a reconciliation bill. So DOGE cuts would have to be done through what is known as a rescissions package or an appropriations bill,' he wrote on X. The bill's fate in the Senate remains uncertain, with some Republican calling for more cuts. In addition to the budget proposal, Musk caused a stir last month when he objected to the president's sweeping tariffs, which he said would harm Tesla manufacturing. He and others in the administration, like Miller, also differed when it came to visas for highly-skilled workers, with Musk opposing a clamp-down. Yet Musk's departure was on 'good terms,' and the X owner is 'still friends with the president,' a senior Trump administration official told CBS. 'This isn't a separation, but just a return to the private sector for Musk,' the person added. 'He will continue to be a friend to the president, and we can characterize that as an 'adviser.'' Musk's status as a special government employee, which began January 20, lasted 130 days.
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3 days ago
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U.S. border czar: Nashville mayor, a critic of immigration sweeps, now faces investigation
Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell with, at far left, Metro Nashville Legal Director Wally Dietz and near left, Hal Cato, CEO of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee at a May 5 press conference addressing raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) U.S. 'border czar' Tom Homan said Tuesday on Fox News that Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell is under investigation by a Congressional committee over his condemnation of immigration sweeps that led to the detention of nearly 200 people earlier this month. As a result of O'Connell's public stance, Homan warned that Nashville could soon see an even larger federal multi-agency immigration crackdowns: 'We'll flood the zone,' Homan said repeatedly. 'We'll flood the zone in the neighborhoods to find the bad guy. We'll flood the zone at work sites to find the bad guy, but we're going to do it, and he's (O'Connell) not going to stop us,' said Homan, the White House executive director of enforcement and removal operations. A spokesperson for the Congressional House Homeland Security Committee referenced by Homan did not respond to questions about a potential investigation. The committee is chaired by Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green. Homan's remarks came days after Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles held a press conference to denounce O'Connell, a Democrat, for 'aiding and abetting illegal immigration.' Ogles, without offering evidence, accused the Nashville mayor of obstructing the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. An Ogles spokesman did not respond to questions about his assertions this week. Ogles instead used his Memorial Day press conference to reference O'Connell's public remarks condemning a joint effort by the Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE agents during the first two weeks of May, when state troopers making traffic stops led to the ICE detention of 196 individuals in one of Nashville's most heavily immigrant neighborhoods. The majority of those detained had no criminal records. Tensions run high among officials, community organizations after ICE enforcement in Nashville 'What's clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harm,' O'Connell publicly said of the early May detentions. Ogles also cited an executive order signed by O'Connell that requires city emergency officials to report, within 24 hours, any interaction with federal immigration enforcement officials to the Mayor's Office of New Americans. Homan appeared on The Ingraham Angle Fox News program with host Laura Ingraham Tuesday. 'We'll see,' he said in response to a question from Ingraham about whether he would seek criminal prosecution of O'Connell. 'I know Homeland Oversight is opening up a congressional investigation,' Homan said. 'I cannot confirm or deny if ICE is investigating (O'Connell), but we'll see where it plays out. It isn't just what he says, it's what he does…I said that from day one that we're going to hit every sanctuary city. Everybody that wants to push back against ICE, we're going to pay a lot of attention to them.' Nashville is not a so-called sanctuary city, a designation adopted by some U.S. cities to limit cooperation with ICE relating to immigrants accused of non-violent crimes. State law bars all Tennessee cities from adopting sanctuary status. In his television appearance, Homan also took aim at O'Connell's support for the so-called 'Belonging Fund' established by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a 30-year-old mainstay of the local charitable sector. The Community Foundation announced in early May the creation of an emergency assistance fund for transportation, rent, food, and child care for immigrant families impacted by ICE sweeps. The fund, as of Wednesday, has raised $286,343 in private donations and does not receive public funding, according to a foundation spokesperson. 'As far as the belonging fund that (O'Connell is) supporting, I have my own belonging fund,' Homan said Tuesday. 'We can give housing, food and free medical care in ICE detention and that's exactly what we're going to do in Nashville.' Ogles took to the social media platform X Wednesday in a series of posts to amplify his criticism of the Belonging Fund, inaccurately labeling it as the 'mayor's fund.' 'Mayor O'Connell's so-called 'Belonging Fund' — which may be using taxpayer dollars to help illegal aliens evade ICE — has no system to track who the money is going to?,' he wrote. 'This is exactly how Americans end up funding terrorists and gangs. Shut down the fund. Investigate O'Connell.' Community Foundation officials, in announcing the fund, pledged they would keep confidential the names of individual recipients of aid. Recipients of The Belonging Fund donations thus far have included a pregnant woman unable to work due to health conditions, who used the funding to buy medication, food and pay part of her rent after Nashville immigration sweeps caught up the family's breadwinner, the foundation spokesperson said. Another recipient spent the $1,600 she received from the fund on food and rent after family members were taken into custody, the spokesperson said. Immigrant advocates have highlighted the terror and trauma experienced by immigrants caught up in sweeps that took place near busy thoroughfares in South Nashville, an immigrant community hub. Children at the scene were seen tears as mass arrests were made. 'It appears anti-immigrant politicians and pundits are still clamoring to spin this traumatizing event — which left children at home without caregivers, pregnant mothers without income to support their families, and community members too fearful to leave their homes for groceries,' said an emailed statement from Lisa Sherman Luna, executive director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Commission, which has helped connect funding to families impacted by the immigration sweeps. Sherman Luna called the measure an effort to 'further their political agenda, drive division in our city, and demonize immigrant communities and those who support us.' In a separate post, Ogles on Wednesday claimed he had met with ICE officials who told him, 'there's an illegal alien gang operating in every Tennessee city. No one is safe. This isn't rhetoric — it's the reality of blue mayors obstructing law enforcement.' Ogles did not provide support for those claims on social media. The majority of cities in Tennessee, which is largely rural and Republican, appear to be led by mayors who are either nonpartisan or Republican. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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4 days ago
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Laura Ingraham Has Meltdown Over '60 Minutes' Reporter Criticizing Trump During Speech
Fox News host Laura Ingraham tore into CBS journalist Scott Pelley this week after he seemingly criticized the Trump administration in a commencement speech. Pelley, who has worked at CBS for 36 years and has been a '60 Minutes' correspondent since 2004, notably didn't mention President Donald Trump by name while addressing graduates at North Carolina's Wake Forest University on May 19. Still, he noted, 'In this moment – this moment, this morning – our sacred rule of law is under attack.' 'An insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts,' he added. 'The fear to speak in America.' Clips of Pelley's remarks went viral online over Memorial Day weekend, prompting Ingraham's heated response Tuesday on 'The Ingraham Angle.' In the segment, Ingraham revealed she and Pelley, whom she deemed 'a tool' and 'as humorless and uninspiring as he is pessimistic and angry,' met as colleagues during her brief stint at CBS in 1996. 'Nothing's changed. Scott's still a whiny liberal and still bitter,' she said. 'What he will never admit is his own role of tanking the credibility of the press he supposedly is so desperate to save. His influence has waned, the power of his old network is gone. And now he's not shy about showing the rank bias we knew he harbored all along.' Ingraham went on to blast the 'media giants of my childhood — CBS, NBC and ABC' for being 'too stupid to see through their warped reporting and selective story selection,' at least when it came to Trump. 'So Scott's old world has fallen away, and now he is just shouting into the wind with odd gesticulations,' she added. 'Oblivious to the fact that it was the legacy media's lazy agenda-driven coverage that helped create the very conditions that he now blames Trump for, like censorship and racial hatred.' Sharing Ingraham's sentiments was Fox News' Kayleigh McEnany, who served as a White House press secretary during Trump's first term. After noting Pelley 'should have been' arrested for his remarks, she said, 'How dare he lecture these graduates. They wanted a sunny speech about going off into their careers, and instead they got a load of garbage.' Pelley's speech comes as Trump continues to take aim at universities over diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, pro-Palestine protests and research funding, among other areas. Watch Scott Pelley's full Wake Forest University speech below. Laura Ingraham's Excitement Over Trump's Jan. 6 Pardon Is A Really Sad About-Face '60 Minutes' Reporter Rips Into Trump In Viral Commencement Speech Laura Ingraham Leveled A Racial Trope At Jasmine Crockett, And It's 'Not Subtle'
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4 days ago
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Laura Ingraham Has Meltdown Over '60 Minutes' Reporter Criticizing Trump During Speech
Fox News host Laura Ingraham tore into CBS journalist Scott Pelley this week after he seemingly criticized the Trump administration in a commencement speech. Pelley, who has worked at CBS for 36 years and has been a '60 Minutes' correspondent since 2004, notably didn't mention President Donald Trump by name while addressing graduates at North Carolina's Wake Forest University on May 19. Still, he noted, 'In this moment – this moment, this morning – our sacred rule of law is under attack.' 'An insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts,' he added. 'The fear to speak in America.' Clips of Pelley's remarks went viral online over Memorial Day weekend, prompting Ingraham's heated response Tuesday on 'The Ingraham Angle.' In the segment, Ingraham revealed she and Pelley, whom she deemed 'a tool' and 'as humorless and uninspiring as he is pessimistic and angry,' met as colleagues during her brief stint at CBS in 1996. 🚨 WATCH: Fox's @IngrahamAngle calls out CBS' Scott Pelley over speech to graduates: 'His influence has waned, the power of his old network has gone. And now he's not shy about showing the rank bias we knew he harbored all along.' — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 27, 2025 'Nothing's changed. Scott's still a whiny liberal and still bitter,' she said. 'What he will never admit is his own role of tanking the credibility of the press he supposedly is so desperate to save. His influence has waned, the power of his old network is gone. And now he's not shy about showing the rank bias we knew he harbored all along.' Ingraham went on to blast the 'media giants of my childhood — CBS, NBC and ABC' for being 'too stupid to see through their warped reporting and selective story selection,' at least when it came to Trump. 'So Scott's old world has fallen away, and now he is just shouting into the wind with odd gesticulations,' she added. 'Oblivious to the fact that it was the legacy media's lazy agenda-driven coverage that helped create the very conditions that he now blames Trump for, like censorship and racial hatred.' Sharing Ingraham's sentiments was Fox News' Kayleigh McEnany, who served as a White House press secretary during Trump's first term. After noting Pelley 'should have been' arrested for his remarks, she said, 'How dare he lecture these graduates. They wanted a sunny speech about going off into their careers, and instead they got a load of garbage.' Pelley's speech comes as Trump continues to take aim at universities over diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, pro-Palestine protests and research funding, among other areas. Watch Scott Pelley's full Wake Forest University speech below. Laura Ingraham's Excitement Over Trump's Jan. 6 Pardon Is A Really Sad About-Face '60 Minutes' Reporter Rips Into Trump In Viral Commencement Speech Laura Ingraham Leveled A Racial Trope At Jasmine Crockett, And It's 'Not Subtle'
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4 days ago
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Tapper apology ‘too late': Lara Trump
Fox News host and former Republican National Committee Chair Lara Trump indicated she is not totally buying regret expressed by CNN anchor Jake Tapper over how he handled an interview he conducted with her last fall, during which he dismissed concerns about then-President Biden's mental acuity. 'Jake Tapper called me about two month ago, actually. And he said, I have this book coming out. And I know everybody is saying that I should apologize to you,' Trump, the current president's daughter-in-law, said Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News's 'The Ingraham Angle.' Tapper told Trump during the phone call that his plan was, ''whenever the book comes out, to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong.' And I guess to Jake's credit, he did that.' Trump said Tuesday the 'damage' of Democrats and media outlets turning what she and other Republicans have said is a blind eye to Biden's condition during the final months of his presidency was 'already done.' 'We were so close to something so dangerous happening to this country,' she said. 'And Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and come out and say that I was right.' During the interview in question, Tapper appeared to dismiss concerns Trump, then the co-chair of President Trump's campaign, was raising about Biden's mental fitness for office. As he beat back criticism stemming from his new book on Biden's failed reelection bid, Tapper last week acknowledged the interview with Lara Trump, saying, 'She saw something I did not see, and I own that.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
