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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Why is Donald Trump's phone lock screen going viral online?
While exiting Air Force One last Friday, Donald Trump held his phone and waved to the photographers, unintentionally showing his lock screen. The images have since gone viral online, as the US president's lockscreen shows a picture of himself doing his signature finger-pointing pose. One social media user, 'johnny maga,' posted a photograph of the lock screen with the caption 'Goes hard' while Benny Johnson, a conservative commentator, posted the screen on X with the fire emoji. However, most social media users had the opposite reaction, mocking the images, sharing their takes and making them go viral. The group Republicans Against Trump, wrote: 'Donald Trump's iPhone lock screen was spotted over the weekend. Yep, it's a photo of himself. Of course it is.' 'Trump having a photo of himself on his lock screen is the Trumpiest thing ever,' journalist James Surowiecki wrote on X. 'Just imagine what you'd say to a friend of yours if you saw that on his lock screen he had a picture of himself pointing at the camera,' he added. George Conway, a prominent Trump critic, posted: 'In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.' 'Trump's lock screen was spotted on his phone last night—and it was a photo of himself. Is that not one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed things you've ever seen??? Not his family, not his kids, but himself,' Harry Sisson, a political commentator and social media influencer, posted on X. Another social media user added: 'Trump having a photo of himself on his lock screen is the Trumpiest thing ever.' This isn't the first time social media users have commented on Trump's phone lock screen, which displayed the same background in 2023 while he was golfing. Trump was mocked again in 2024 after social media users noticed his phone lock screen in a photo that appeared to be taken on Air Force One. 'Of course. Trump's cell phone lock screen background image is a picture of himself. Not his wife, not his children, not his grandchildren … himself,' an X user said at the time. Elsewhere, Donald Trump has hit back at critics over a new nickname that has also been going viral: 'TACO' or 'TACO Trade'. At the White House last week, Trump called a reporter "nasty" after she asked him what he thought of his nickname, coined by Wall Street analysts, which stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out." The term / phrase has been doing the rounds on Wall Street to refer to the president chickening out on certain tariffs, causing market rates to rise. Trump defended his actions then responded by telling the reporter: "Don't ever say what you said, that's a nasty question."
Euronews
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Why is Donald Trump's phone lock screen going viral online?
While exiting Air Force One last Friday, Donald Trump held his phone and waved to the photographers, unintentionally showing his lock screen. The images have since gone viral online, as the US president's lockscreen shows a picture of himself doing his signature finger-pointing pose. One social media user, 'johnny maga,' posted a photograph of the lock screen with the caption 'Goes hard' while Benny Johnson, a conservative commentator, posted the screen on X with the fire emoji. However, most social media users had the opposite reaction, mocking the images, sharing their takes and making them go viral. The group Republicans Against Trump, wrote: 'Donald Trump's iPhone lock screen was spotted over the weekend. Yep, it's a photo of himself. Of course it is.' 'Trump having a photo of himself on his lock screen is the Trumpiest thing ever,' journalist James Surowiecki wrote on X. 'Just imagine what you'd say to a friend of yours if you saw that on his lock screen he had a picture of himself pointing at the camera,' he added. George Conway, a prominent Trump critic, posted: 'In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.' 'Trump's lock screen was spotted on his phone last night—and it was a photo of himself. Is that not one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed things you've ever seen??? Not his family, not his kids, but himself,' Harry Sisson, a political commentator and social media influencer, posted on X. Another social media user added: 'Trump having a photo of himself on his lock screen is the Trumpiest thing ever.' This isn't the first time social media users have commented on Trump's phone lock screen, which displayed the same background in 2023 while he was golfing. Trump was mocked again in 2024 after social media users noticed his phone lock screen in a photo that appeared to be taken on Air Force One. 'Of course. Trump's cell phone lock screen background image is a picture of himself. Not his wife, not his children, not his grandchildren … himself,' an X user said at the time. Elsewhere, Donald Trump has hit back at critics over a new nickname that has also been going viral: 'TACO' or 'TACO Trade'. At the White House last week, Trump called a reporter "nasty" after she asked him what he thought of his nickname, coined by Wall Street analysts, which stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out." The term / phrase has been doing the rounds on Wall Street to refer to the president chickening out on certain tariffs, causing market rates to rise. Trump defended his actions then responded by telling the reporter: "Don't ever say what you said, that's a nasty question."
The Star
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
Trump's lockscreen photo on his iPhone is 'Trumpiest thing ever'
Photographers captured a glimpse of the lockscreen, which shows a seemingly enhanced portrait of himself pointing to the camera.— AFP President Donald Trump's lockscreen is going viral. While exiting Air Force One last Friday, photographers captured a glimpse of Trump's lockscreen, which shows a seemingly enhanced portrait of himself pointing to the camera. One picture had even caught a glimpse of a text from Roger Stone, one of Trump's closest political advisors. One social media user, who goes by the name 'johnny maga,' posted a photograph of the lock screen with the caption 'Goes hard.' Benny Johnson, a conservative commentator, posted the screen on X with the fire emoji. But other users had quite the opposite reaction. 'Trump having a photo of himself on his lock screen is the Trumpiest thing ever,' journalist James Surowiecki wrote on X. 'Just imagine what you'd say to a friend of yours if you saw that on his lock screen he had a picture of himself pointing at the camera,' he wrote in a separate post. George Conway, a prominent Trump critic once heavily involved in Republican politics, added on X, 'In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.' 'Trump's lock screen was spotted on his phone last night—and it was a photo of himself. Is that not one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed things you've ever seen??? Not his family, not his kids, but himself,' Harry Sisson, a liberal social media influencer, posted on X. Sisson had also posted a TikTok to his 1.8 million followers reacting to the image. 'Do you know how narcissistic you have to be to want yourself to be your phone screen? Just like constantly looking at yourself. Normal people have a photo of themselves and others, like their family, or their friends, or maybe them and their pet, or something along those lines,' he said. 'No, no… in Donald Trump's world, it's constant him." Another user, journalist Aaron Rupar, wrote that 'having a photo of yourself is actually cringe.' Trump has at least had the same background since 2023, after he was pictured with it while riding in a golf cart, and again the next year while with content creators Nelk on Air Force One. – News Service
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Feds say Huntington Beach is a sanctuary city; city officials call designation a ‘serious mistake'
The Department of Homeland Security recently listed Huntington Beach as a sanctuary city, and officials within one of SoCal's most prominent Republican strongholds are strongly denying the designation. A press release issued by the City of Huntington Beach states that the community's inclusion on the DHS list of more than 500 sanctuary jurisdictions was a 'serious mistake' and 'does not reflect the city council's formally adopted policy.' In January 2025, the city passed a law that did the exact opposite of what federal officials did in the list issued on Thursday: Huntington Beach is officially a 'non-sanctuary city.' 'We adopted a formal policy on this,' Huntington Beach Mayor Pat Burns said in the press release, which was issued Friday. 'It went before the council, and we unanimously agreed that Huntington Beach is not a sanctuary city.' 'We took deliberate action to make our non-sanctuary stance clear,' Mayor Burns added. Burns elaborated that the DHS' inclusion of his city in the list is 'either a misprint or a serious mistake,' and that federal officials have been notified; he is also 'confident the DHS error will be corrected promptly.' However, as of Saturday morning, Huntington Beach still appeared on the list. The city's press release noted that several other jurisdictions across the U.S., including Baltimore, Las Vegas and Shasta County, California, have been misidentified as sanctuary jurisdictions. Mayor Burns said that Santa Ana is the only city within Orange County that has been 'publicly identified' as a sanctuary city; however, it was not included in the DHS list. Santa Ana was still not on the list as of Saturday morning. The full list of sanctuary jurisdictions in the United States can be viewed here. Huntington Beach has long been considered one of California's most conservative cities; the Wall Street Journal described the city council, which, as of December, is made up entirely of Republicans, as 'America's Trumpiest.' Earlier this year, the city council introduced plans to install a 'MAGA' plaque at the Central Library to celebrate Huntington Beach's 50th anniversary. Instead of signifying 'Make America Great Again,' the plaque's acronym stands for 'Magical, Alluring, Galvanizing, Adventurous.' The city council confirmed that the acronym was deliberately chosen to represent the 'Make America Great Again' slogan used by President Donald Trump and adopted by the Republican Party. After some pushback from residents — including former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, who was arrested while protesting at a February city council meeting — officials unanimously approved the $7,000 plaque, albeit with a slightly modified design and added security. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Judges Are Starting To Catch On To Trump's Utter Lawlessness
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana is among the handful of Trumpiest judges in America and even he can't countenance the Trump administration's lawless deportation actions. In an order Friday, Doughty expressed his suspicion that the Trump administration had just deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen with his undocumented Honduran mother over the objections of the child's father 'with no meaningful process.' In a separate case also out of Louisiana, the ACLU alleges that two children – ages 4 and 7 – who were both U.S. citizens were also deported Friday to Honduras. Meanwhile, in the Western District of Texas, U.S. District Judge David Briones ordered the immediate release of a Venezuelan couple that the Trump administration had swept up in its Alien Enemies Act detentions. In a scathing opinion, Briones became the first judge in the country to rule that the Trump administration had wrongly designated detainees as enemy aliens, finding the the government had presented nothing but unsubstantiated accusations against the DC-area couple that they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. 'This Court takes clear offense to Respondents wasting judicial resources to admit to the Court it has no evidence,' Briones wrote. All of these new developments played out against the backdrop of an extraordinary March 14 memo by Attorney General Pam Bondi, obtained by USA Today, that expressly told law enforcement there would be no due process for Alien Enemies Act detainees. 'An alien determined to be an Alien Enemy and ordered removed under the Proclamation and 50 U.S.C. § 21 is not entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, to an appeal of the removal order to the Board of Immigration Appeals, or to judicial review of the removal order in any court of the United States.' The Bondi memo – dated the same day as President Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation – was the administration's effort to operationalize the AEA detentions, which we now know had been underway for weeks and which would culminate with the notorious March 15 deportation flights. The Supreme Court has since rejected the argument that Alien Enemies Act detainees are not entitled to due process. But the Trump administration got the jump on the judiciary, and dozens of detainees remain imprisoned in El Salvador without having received due process. The effort to free them – and the mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia – is now grinding through the courts. If the brazen lawlessness in the deportation cases has a silver lining it's that it has quickly made plain to judges nationwide not just how much is at stake but how fast and loose the Trump administration is playing with the rule of law. A cynical view might be that the judiciary's awakening to the threat has made little difference, but that requires ignoring a growing body of court orders adverse to the administration, including some that have prompted it to retreat in key areas. Writing for the American Prospect, Maureen Tkacik has the backstory on MAGA turning Tren de Aragua into a propaganda set piece: How a Colorado slumlord's psyop turned into a brand-new 'forever war' on Venezuela The arrest of a sitting state Judge Hannah Dugan outside of her courthouse was a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration's two-pronged attack on the judiciary and sanctuary jurisdictions. While targeting a state judge for arrest for allegedly obstructing an attempt to detain a undocumented migrant doesn't raise the same constitutional concerns as defying federal court judges, the highly unusual handling of the case shows how it is part of a broader campaign of intimidation and eroding the rule of law. It bears noting that President Trump is expected to sign a new executive order today targeting sanctuary cities. Morning Memo will return to the underlying facts of the case in due time, but for now let's focus on the highly inappropriate public comments from top DOJ officials. FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted-deleted-reposted about the arrest Friday morning then went even further by posting a photo of the arrest on social media. Not normal, not appropriate, not okay. Attorney General Pam Bondi went further, appearing on Fox News to comment extensively about the case and engage in attacks on the defendant as well as the judiciary as a whole. These are the kinds of public statements about pending cases that are generally barred by DOJ policy and legal ethics rules. But Bondi paid them no heed in order to strut on a Trump-friendly media outlet: Mother Jones: Ed Martin Isn't Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer A federal judge sentenced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to 87 months in prison and ordered him to pay almost $374,000 in restitution and more than $200,000 in forfeitures in his campaign finance scheme. Prosecutors had sought an 87-month sentence. After his sentencing, Santos – who pleaded guilty – immediately began lobbying President Trump publicly for clemency. President Trump pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Biden's diary, the NYT reports. The pardon comes just days after Paul Walczak was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution for his conviction in a tax case. ProPublica: Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion WSJ: Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration NYT: Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump NYT: From Book Bans to Canceled Lectures, the Naval Academy Is Bending to Trump Anna Bower: 'A new court filing reveals the most compelling evidence yet that the government has been spinning a fiction about DOGE in federal court.' CNN: DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say The Atlantic, on the next phase of DOGE: 'Not only are individual agencies being breached, but the information they hold is being pooled together. The question is Why? And what does the administration intend to do with it?' NPR: Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts. NYT: A new study estimates that the sloppiness of the DOGE purges will cost the federal government roughly $135 billion this year. NPR: Some purged-reinstated-repurged federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured. Insider Higher Ed: Florida's Own DOGE Reviews Faculty Research, Grants NYT: Why Did a Charity Tied to Casey DeSantis Suddenly Get a $10 Million Boost? WaPo: DeSantis lashes out at Fla. GOP as questions build over wife's project 'They spent years watching Republicans illegitimately pack the Supreme Court, take away voting rights from people of color, systematically chip away at the constitutional order. Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people and trans kids and immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption.'–Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), on an early swing through New Hampshire. 60 Minutes confronted its corporate parent Paramount on the air last night over the loss of journalistic independence at the seminal TV news magazine. Paramount is eager to settle a bogus lawsuit against CBS News by Donald Trump so that it doesn't interfere with a merger for which the company needs federal regulatory approval. Scott Pelley did the honors:
