Trump: "I shouldn't make this political, because they made the Academy Awards political and they went down the tubes. So they'll say 'Trump made it political,' but I think if we make it our kind of political, we'll go up. Okay, let's see if I'm right about that."

Trump on Kennedy Center: "We're going to fix this building for very little money." Congress allocated $257 million to renovate the complex.

Situation in DC, on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no agency ID'd -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

DOJ is employing Jared Wise, a Jan. 6 defendant who called cops "Nazis" and urged the crowd to "kill em" as they stormed the Capitol. npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-…

Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Dept is now referring media inquiries to the White House Press Office. That is..... quite a change … for a major American police force

Putin: "It only makes sense that we've met here because our countries though separated by the oceans, are close neighbors. So when we met, when I came out of the plane and I said, Good afternoon, dear neighbor. Very good to see you."

On 14th & R this morning in DC, officers with vests that said only police detained a man who seemed to have been riding a moped, taking him down as passerby screamed. Officers refused to say what agency they’re with. Their unmarked cars had Maryland plates. The Washington Post

Media Matters wins court victory as it pushed back on FTC investigation.

Newsmax Settles With Dominion Voting Systems For $67 Million Over Coverage Of 2020 Election Rigging Claims deadline.com/2025/08/newsma…

The 2016 GOP platform said "every violation of state sovereignty by federal officials" was "an assault on the liberties of individual Americans." Today, Trump says states are merely his "agents" -- even when Constitution explicitly gives them the power. cnn.com/2025/08/18/pol…

Donald Trump Complains About "Woke" Smithsonian: "Everything Discussed Is How Horrible Our Country Is, How Bad Slavery Was" deadline.com/2025/08/trump-…

Has he been to the Museum of American History? The main entrance leads to one of its most prized artifacts, the Star Spangled Banner. The Constitution Ave. entrance lobby leads to exhibits on American progress in industry, and the value of money. x.com/charliekirk11/…

"It's not a place that I recognize in the way he describes it": Harvard history professor Annette Gordon-Reed and former Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin talk about the President Trump's plans to overhaul the Smithsonian, which he says is "OUT OF