TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin
Greetings! Don’t fire Jimmy Kimmel. That’s the surprising message from right-wing entertainment pundit Christian Toto. On his website he argues that it would fuel already overheated ideological wars. Instead, Toto says viewers should boycott Kimmel. To me, Kimmel’s joke (told days before the DC dinner) – “Mrs. Trump, you have the glow of an expectant widow” – gratuitously poked the bear putting his Disney/ABC bosses in a no-win situation. Worth noting: Donald Trump has a long history of boosting violent words and images. In March 2024, he posted a video of a pickup truck with President Joe Biden hogtied on the tailgate. And in 2023, he suggested that Gen. Mark Milley should be executed for treason...Class Act: Bruce Springsteen, a staunch anti-Trumper, opened his Sunday concert in Austin, Texas, with a prayer for Donald Trump, per The Gateway Pundit. “We...send out a prayer of thanks that our President, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending was injured in last night’s incident at the press Correspondents’ Dinner.” That’s how a musical genius uses his superstar pulpit to hit the right notes without singing a song...Friendly Fire? RealClearPolitics national political correspondent Susan Crabtree hints that the Secret Service officer who was shot at Saturday night’s WHCD event may have been struck by friendly fire. “I just asked the Secret Service about the possibility that the UD officer was hit by another Secret Service officer or agent,” she wrote on X. “I'm told there's a gag order on the entire Secret Service over what exactly occurred last night in terms of who shot whom. Sources in the Secret Service community are raising friendly fire questions based on the below video which they shared with me.” Crabtree’s post includes the video...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard
source: American Spectator
Hatred has consequences. None of them good. And Jimmy Kimmel, alas, and on repeated evidence, is a hater.
source: American Thinker
By Silvio Canto: Will ABC fire him? I don’t care, but a little decency might be in order.
source: Wall Street Journal
President and Mrs. Trump and many others were kept safe. That’s a success.
TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin
Greetings! Teflon Don: Trump’s political survival skills kicked into overdrive in the chaotic aftermath of a gunman’s attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in the Washington Hilton ballroom where the president was set speak Saturday night. Later in the evening, safely back at the White House, Trump held a press conference, looking gleeful and robust, a man who once again cheated death. His late night presser, against the wishes of his security team (per Trump), burnished his desired image as the invincible and masculine MAGA warrior. And after The Donald’s no good, very bad, horrible stretch of bad news recently, the week ended on best note imaginable for him. No one yesterday was talking about high gas prices and low approval ratings....Here’s the manifesto of alleged shooter Cole Tomas Allen that was published in the NY Post...Dept. of Bad Ideas: Trump is pressing for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to be rescheduled in the next 30 days. Why give Trump a second chance to insult journos and the organizations they work for? The WHCA dodged a...uh....embarrassing situation when the night’s festivities were cut short before the president could turn his verbal firepower on the room before a live TV audience. In the aftermath of the mayhem, Trump boasted that it would have been “the most inappropriate speech ever made.” Memo to the WHCA: don’t reschedule. Instead, start planning next year’s event and put in place much better security...The editor of the left-leaning Daily Beast, Hugh Dougherty, had the room next to the suspected WHCD shooter at the Washington Hilton, and noted several security flaws. (Townhall)...Far right conspiracy shit slinger Alex Jones, doesn’t believe Saturday night’s WHCD shooting was staged. For once, I agree with Jones. (Infowars)...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard
source: Daily Wire
The president is a walking middle finger to the progressive Leftists who want him dead.
source: Wall Street Journal
Another apparent assassination attempt brings out his most presidential qualities.
source: FrontPage
The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat.
source: American Spectator
Democrats have created a permission structure for all types of political violence.
source: American Thinker
Our intellectual and academic culture is dangerously creating violent pro-assassination rhetoric that is creating this cultish desire to kill President Trump.
source: LifeZette
It was a legendary clapback.
source: Not the Bee
That's how you handle fake news media!
source: PJ Media
The president surrounds himself with masculine men. Some leaders would be afraid to do that, fearing it would make them look weaker. Others wouldn't even know how to recognize it to create such a team. Trump embraces it. We may not always get to see it so out in the open, but on Saturday night, it was on full display.
source: Townhall
Since the Democrats have nothing to offer the voters, they have to allow for the possibility of cheating at the ballot box: mail-in ballots, selective ballot harvesting, no picture ID, etc. And since Trump is the poster boy for MAGA, their thinking goes that if you get rid of him, then you have solved the problem.
source: American Greatness
Trump’s assassination attempts underscore how rhetoric that casts political opponents as existential threats can move from language to violence.
source: NY Post
By Miranda Devine: If his Trump-deranged critics could be honest with themselves for a moment, they would admit that the president’s remarks that night were pitch-perfect. He offered calm reassurance, wry humor, and even kindness to the shaken reporters and to a nation sick of ongoing political violence.
source: Victory Girls
He wrote a manifesto. Lo and behold, he uses the exact same anti-Trump talking points Democrats have been using for the last ten years.
