Republican cabinet members’ message to the Democrat media: You can’t push us around anymore!

American  Thinker 

It’s a beautiful thing to watch: More and more, cabinet members being interviewed across mainstream media, particularly on the Sunday propaganda shows, are not taking any guff from those who pretend to be journalists. We’re seeing pushback that we’ve never seen before, and these cabinet members are showing Republicans that they are going to fight back, that they are not going to succumb to the media lies, and that Republicans everywhere need to follow their example.

Following are my observations about this relatively new demonstration of courage and confidence, specifically seen by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President J.D. Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. They are all making us proud, and proud to be Republicans and conservatives.

Below is just one example of Rubio’s pushback. Margaret Brennan of CBS News tried to attack VP Vance by confronting Rubio about the speech Vance had just given in Germany:

‘Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,’ Brennan said of Vance, who delivered a brilliant speech in defense of freedom and national sovereignty to a room full of European authoritarians at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday.

Brennan then stuttered and sputtered for 20 seconds or so as she tried tying Vance to Germany's ‘far-right’ extremists. But Rubio did not stand for it.

‘Well, I have to disagree with you,’ Rubio replied, interrupting Brennan's open endorsement of censorship.

‘Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,’ he continued. ‘The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and they hated minorities, and they hated those that -- they had a list of people they hated but primarily the Jews.’

‘There was no free speech in Nazi Germany; there was none,’ he added.

Nicely done, Secretary Rubio.

Now, don’t think that the V.P. isn’t quite capable of going on the attack, too. He took on several reporters who were trying to blame Republicans for the government shutdown:

Vice President JD Vance took questions at the White House press briefing, where he blamed Democratic lawmakers for the government shutdown that began at midnight. Vance insisted Democrats caused the shutdown by seeking health care funds for undocumented migrants.

And he showed his passion against the Democrats when he did it.

Let’s look at an incident that involved the usually calm Tulsi Gabbard with the Washington Post:

The top US intelligence officer Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday leveled an unusual attack on a journalist, accusing a Washington Post reporter of ‘actively harassing’ her staff in a social media post that also accused the media of seeking to undermine President Donald Trump's agenda. In a post on X, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard criticized journalist Ellen Nakashima's reporting methods, saying they reflected a media establishment ‘desperate to sabotage POTUS’s successful agenda,’ referring to the president of the United States.

Finally, Scott Bessent gives us an example of pushback on Kamala Harris, when he criticized Harris for her decision not to select Pete Buttigieg as a running mate, nixing the idea not because he was a terrible leader, but because his personal life didn’t fit the identity politics bill. Rather than a pushback on the media, Bessent called out a high-ranking Democrat:

‘First, it shows her emphasis on identity politics, and the American people have moved on,’ Bessent said to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo. ‘It shows how low regard she holds the American people.’

Bessent continued, calling Harris a ‘terrible candidate’ and Buttigieg the ‘worst transportation secretary in history.’

‘She judges him on his identity, his sexuality… let’s look and see whether he did a good job,’ Bessent said. ‘Let’s look on merit, and I can tell you, on merit he’s a failure, and on merit she’s a failure.’

The beauty of these examples is that they show a considerable transformation in the Republican approach to conflict. In the past, Republicans have gone along with Democrats, or at the very least refused to argue with them. Perhaps President Trump has demonstrated to all of them how it’s done. The times have changed, and Republicans are finally realizing that part of governing is fighting for this country and for the people they represent. Going along to get along is no longer acceptable.

It’s about time.

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Charlie Kirk’s assassination reveals the growing threat of Democrats’ violence

American  Thinker 

The numbers were shocking. The implications, worse.

In a recent conversation on my show News Sight, Patrick Basham laid out findings that expose a political culture edging toward something darker than polarization. His words stayed with me long after our broadcast aired on October 7.

Basham, the director of the Democracy Institute, has spent decades studying political behavior on both sides of the Atlantic. He is measured, data-driven, and careful with his language. Which is why what he said was so striking.

Reflecting on the Institute’s fresh polling data, he told me, “It’s a sort of quite terrifying, or at least unnerving, result. Just across the board, such a large minority admit to a pollster that they have hatred in their heart for those who hold opposing political views. But that said, we get to the nub of the issue, which is that a majority of Democrats admit that they hate at least some people who hold opposing views.”

The choice of words in the poll was deliberate. “We use the word ‘hatred,’ ‘hate,’ because we didn’t want to say ‘dislike’ or ‘strongly disagree.’ That’s just too tame today,” Basham explained. “This poll was taken in the days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We wanted to identify how intense the sentiments were. And we were not shocked that a majority of Democrats would acknowledge quite openly that that is how they felt about political opponents.”

This hatred did not emerge overnight. Basham traced its roots through the Trump era. “It’s probably not shocking when you consider over the last decade what Democratic voters have openly, explicitly, overtly said about Trump and about those who support him,” he said. “A healthy or unhealthy slice of Democratic voters really do view themselves as better people than their Republican peers, and there is a willingness to take that further.”

The poll results did not stop at expressions of hatred. They revealed something even more alarming. “This is where we go from clearly unnerving data to really quite terrifying data,” Basham told me. “One in three Democratic voters can sign off on political violence and is open to telling a pollster that that is the case. In the modern era of American history, this is uncharted territory, and in a very, very bad way.”

I asked him whether this surge in violent acceptance was coming from elite rhetoric or bubbling up from the grassroots.

Basham answered carefully: “Is this because of the rhetoric from Democratic leaders and the media? The political persecution of conservatives and Republicans? The weaponization of the federal government against the regime’s political enemies? Or is it about cultural changes? We simply have tens of millions of voters, not exclusively on the Democratic side but disproportionately so, who for their own weird and wonderful, weird and not so wonderful reasons, not only hate their opponents but are willing to condone and endorse the violence committed by others against those opponents?”

When the conversation turned to Charlie Kirk’s assassination itself, Basham was blunt: “It’s hard to remain calm intellectually when you’re face to face with these kinds of numbers. They tell us something very sad, very tragic, very dark about American political culture. The Charlie Kirk assassination is the most obvious, tangible demonstration of that. Not only is it not an isolated incident, but it is unlikely to be one, given the intense hatred and the willingness to condone violence that operates disproportionately among Democrats.”

Basham’s conclusions were sober. “What we know now, anecdotally and empirically, is that in America, a sizable minority of voters do not subscribe to some of the basic, fundamental tenets of liberal democracy, no matter how liberal they consider themselves,” he said. “That is one of the most unsettling conclusions that I’ve had to reach over many years of studying American political culture very, very closely.”

Basham expects violence to remain at its current level or worsen. “If I had to predict,” he said, “I would say it’s going to increase. I suspect it will take more assassinations, or at least more attempted assassinations of prominent figures, before most people recognize that this is madness.”

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has already had political repercussions. Basham noted that it has energized young conservatives, especially Christian voters, and could shape Republican prospects in key states. Meanwhile, Democrats are embracing positions that please their base but alienate the wider electorate. “They are going to have a really, really hard time winning senatorial races in swing states,” he observed.

By the end of our conversation, one truth was unmistakable. America has entered a period where hatred is mainstream, and political violence is no longer unthinkable. Basham’s data-driven warnings are not predictions; they are descriptions of the present. Pretending otherwise would be a dangerous mistake.

Hey Hey Ho Ho -– The UN has Got to Go!

American  Thinker 

President Donald Trump’s blunt assessment of the United Nations in his Sept. 23 address wasn’t just another form of political theater.

It served as a reality check for an institution that has long sacrificed its purpose and mission for pretenses and spectacle, and Americans, for the most part, have noticed this.

“The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions, not create them, and not finance them,” Trump reminded.

That line hit home at Turtle Bay because it’s true.

According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, 60% of voters agree, including 43% who strongly agree. That’s not the MAGA fringe. That’s mainstream America, tired of writing checks to a diplomatic dinosaur that hasn’t done its job since Harry Truman was in office.

The United Nations was established in 1945 to prevent wars and foster cooperation.

Instead, it’s spent 80 years honing the skill of doing nothing, and at a high cost.

From genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, and the Congo to its complete paralysis during the Iran hostage crisis, and its obsessive condemning of Israel (while turning a blind eye to Iran and North Korea), the U.N. has so often failed its core mission that “U.N. peacekeeping” has become an oxymoron.

And let’s not forget Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, which the U.N. has condemned more than all other nations combined. Specifically, from 2015 through 2023, the U.N. General Assembly “adopted 154 resolutions against Israel and 71 against other countries,” according to UN Watch.

Meanwhile, nations like China, Cuba, and Iran still hold seats on the Human Rights Council. That’s like appointing Bernie Madoff to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Trump was right to point out how the U.N. now functions less as a protector of peace and more as a refuge for global bureaucrats who view national sovereignty as a flaw. Its endless migration agreements and “sustainable development” plans all share a common aim: weaken the West, enrich the elite, and have America pay the bill.

The financials alone should infuriate taxpayers. The U.S. contributes 22% of the U.N.’s regular budget and more than 26% of its peacekeeping costs, totaling billions each year, while being lectured by diplomats from countries that depend on our foreign aid. No serious business would keep paying dues to a club that votes against it 80% of the time.

There are 193 U.N. member states. One such nation, the U.S., contributes a quarter of the U.N. budget, while the other 192 nations cover the rest. Why isn’t the left demanding the other countries, in a Bernie Sanders New York accent, “pay your fair share”?

The U.N. is just one example of government or semi-government waste and excess, all funded by the heavy taxes of hardworking Americans.

Elon Musk’s DOGE commission was the first glimpse into the financial scam of USAID and other unaccountable kleptocracies. When will DOGE investigate the U.N.?

And despite all that generosity, what do we actually get? U.N. diplomats with unpaid parking tickets, luxurious Manhattan apartments, and immunity from prosecution for crimes, including sexual assault, that would land an ordinary American in jail. It’s a sweet deal if you’re the one living off U.S. taxpayers with a stack of Hunter Biden “get out of jail free” cards ready to play when caught.

So yes, relocating the U.N. is more than symbolic; it’s common sense. If the global elite want their debating society, let them hold it in Geneva, Brussels, or Beijing. Let the high-brow EU diplomatic class fund this unaccountable spectacle.

America doesn’t need to bankroll its own critics.

The timing of Trump’s remarks couldn’t be more perfect. While the U.N. has held thousands of emergency sessions about the Middle East, often over fancy meals in upscale venues, without achieving anything, President Trump did what the world body couldn’t do in six decades: he brokered a breakthrough Israel–Gaza peace framework. 

His deal secured a ceasefire, a phased hostage release, and a withdrawal plan that both sides agreed on. In addition, he brokered peace in seven other wars. That’s leadership.

The U.N. has passed more resolutions on the Israel conflict than there are potholes in Manhattan. Talk is cheap, as the saying goes, and that’s the U.N. in a nutshell. Lots of talk, little action, and no results, all at great expense, with no benefit to those funding the largesse.

Predictably, the global commentariat mocked Trump’s deal. Some try to take credit, like Biden-era Secretary of State Antony Blinken, claiming Trump’s plan was based on Biden’s.

So what? New ideas often build on old ones, but that’s what the U.N. is about, ideas and little else.

The key is in the implementation, delivering results rather than just creating working groups, writing white papers, and speaking at conferences. Trump is a transactional leader who concentrates on solving problems, living in the moment instead of rehashing past grievances, and getting the deal done. 

That’s the opposite of the U.N. approach, which focuses more on singing Kumbaya than making any real progress.

But history will remember that Trump achieved in a week what the U.N. couldn’t in 60 years: real progress toward peace, not just another photo op at Turtle Bay.

Trump’s deal last week is far from guaranteed, as many players prefer endless conflict and war over peace and prosperity. This includes the U.N., which thrives on conflict, much like the monetized and lucrative civil rights movement, with one agency, UNRWA, actually hiring terrorists along with their supporters.

But Americans see the difference clearly. Rasmussen Reports found that 58% of voters believe the U.S., not the U.N., is the true force for good in the world. Only 33% said the same about the U.N. That’s not a disagreement. That’s a verdict.

Trump once asked, “What do we get for our money?” when referring to NATO and the U.N.. Increasingly, Americans know the answer: not much. If the U.N. won’t reform, treats dictators better than democracies, and continues to mock American sovereignty, then it’s time to do what any good landlord would do when the tenant damages the property. Evict them. Or in Trump’s language, say, “You’re fired!”

America’s founding principle was never “We, the Global Bureaucrats.” It was We the People. Maybe it’s time to remind the world of that again, starting with a one-way moving truck from Turtle Bay to anywhere but here.

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Here’s Why Transgender Identities Are Finally In Freefall

The generational cohort changes in trans and queer 

identification have been sudden and dramatic.

The  Federalist 

Elon Musk vulnerably told the world in July 2024, “My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,” adding starkly, “They call it deadnaming for a reason … they call it deadnaming because your son is dead.” Musk explained this mind virus to Bill Maher on his show more than a year earlier as a psychic spell where “you can’t question things; even the questioning is bad.”

This virulent virus fuels the deadly secular religion of transgenderism, a lie founded upon a contra-scientific view of male or female that rapidly infected millions of young people through social contagion over the last ten years. It caused whole guilds of otherwise well-educated professionals (physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, coaches, sports administrators, athletic associations, politicians, and the media) to lose their collective reason, objectivity, and credibility. We have all seen its horrific effects.

The deception seems to be exhausting itself, and there are now social science findings indicating this. Some are contesting this new data, but it is worth being mindful of as a notable indicator.

Eric Kaufmann, professor at the U.K.’s University of Buckingham and director of the new Centre for Heterodox Social Science, analyzed data from several large-scale, high-quality youth surveys and notes a decided shift in American teens and young adults moving away from identifying as either trans or queer.

His full report, entitled “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,” documents how the number of young people once identifying as trans or non-binary nearly halved across most data sets over the last two years. In his highly viral X posts, Kaufmann stated, “trans identification is in free fall among the young.” His report notes, “In these cases, we see a ‘rise and fall’ pattern of numbers returning to pre-surge baselines.” In other words, this nascent re-establishment of a pre-trans craze equilibrium could be the earliest empirical grave marker of the trans mind virus.

The same was shown to be true for alternative sexualities. While “traditional homosexual categories of gay and lesbian remained stable,” Kaufmann observed “a sharper rise and decline in the share identifying as bisexual and queer” as well as “questioning” and “pansexual” between 2020 and 2025. This decline was shown in “a return to heterosexuality.” The observation Bill Maher famously made that the sudden meteoric rise in these nouveau identities was suspect is now documented as true.

Kaufmann charts the dramatic rise and decline in gender and sexual identity this way.

In fact, professor Kaufmann documented a similar devastating anomaly in the “LGBTQ is completely natural so get used to it!” script in a groundbreaking 2022 paper: “Whereas in 2008 [sexual identity] attitudes and behavior were similar, by 2021 LGBT identification was running at twice the rate of LGBT sexual behavior” [emphasis added]. Just saying one was a meaningless “LGBTQ person” became twice as popular as actually doing any of the things those letters supposedly signify.

Again, social contagion at work in a deceptive mind virus.

In his new report, Kaufmann explains, “The average peak of non-heterosexuality, in 2023, matches the peak in non-binary gender identity in many of the surveys we have available.” He concludes, “It appears that trans and queer are going out of fashion among young people, especially in elite settings.” Yes, much of the LGBTQQIAAP2S+ rainbow pride madness we have all been badgered to celebrate every June has indeed been performance art cosplay.

The generational cohort changes in growing non-identity have been sudden and dramatic. Kaufmann states:

The fastest declines in BTQ+ identity over 2022-25 took place within the 2025 and 2026 graduating classes with 2027 and 2028 cohorts starting college life at lower BTQ+ levels. To the extent that the youngest represent the leading edge of new trends, this suggests that trans, bisexual and queer identities are declining in popularity with each new cohort.

So what is the reason behind this rise in gender and sexual play-acting and its possible dramatic decline? In a tight write-up of his study for UnHerd, Kaufmann explains, “My analysis indicates that changes in mental health over time, especially depression, made a significant difference to the trajectory of trans and queer identities over this period.”

But something else is certainly at work as well. You cannot sustain a lie for long, and the psychic trans spell is certainly breaking as so many are confidently speaking truth. Curiously, these were not bold Christian leaders. Many acquiesced to silly “pronoun hospitality.” Some publicly repented, giving others clarity and courage. The stalwart truth tellers were largely secular voices … and women.

Kellie-Jay Keen, the fire-filled Marilyn Monroe clone, boldly exposed the lie in 2018. Megyn Kelly caught Keen’s contagious courage and followed suit. J.K. Rowling fiercely started mocking the psychic madness on June 6, 2020 and has not stopped since. Liberal feminist Kara Danksy truthfully called transgenderism “left-wing misogyny on steroids … a made-up concept used to justify all kinds of atrocities.” Of course, there were also the young and fearless Riley Gaines and Chloe Cole, and author Abigail Shirer, who called it out as a “craze” in 2021.

Men spoke up as well. Billboard Chris started asking very public questions. Professor Jordan Peterson, early on, doggedly refused to have his language policed. President Trump gave billions courage and clarity when he signed, on his first day in office, an executive order establishing a basic fact: “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” And as we saw earlier, Elon Musk publicly denounced the trans mind virus and hasn’t stopped.

All these are simply following the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s prescient maxim that if we refuse to be “witting servants of the lie” we will all “be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.”

Friends, unapologetic moral clarity spoken with confidence is contagiously empowering. It’s certainly what’s killing the trans mind virus, and your voice must join the chorus.

Remember Those Mystery Drones Over New Jersey? A Private Contractor Just Revealed What Happened

Townhall 

In the summer of 2024, panic spread across the nation as hundreds of unidentified drones took to the skies around the New Jersey area. Local law enforcement and public officials grew concerned as thousands of reports came in of these unidentified drones near military bases and critical infrastructure. 

Watched the NJ drones fly around the Hudson River, near the Freedom tower, and over the W hotel in Hoboken last night. They were circling for a good 20-30 minutes. Crazy they can fly so close to our most valuable assets with full impunity. pic.twitter.com/PKhl7Ip6ki

— Dan Silverman (@Cryptodamus44) December 14, 2024

Well a private contractor is taking responsibility for the drones.

An unnamed company took responsibility in August, at the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit at Fort Rucker, Alabama, as one attendee discussed with the NY Post. 

🚨BREAKING: US military contractor says their car-sized drone was responsible for setting off the New Jersey drone hysteria in November 2024: "That was us."

The @nypost has received video of the drone: pic.twitter.com/oJAvH6SbI4

— Steven Greenstreet 🐷 (@MiddleOfMayhem) October 18, 2025

"You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us," one of the employees of the company said at the time. The company during the summit was demonstrating the manuevering capabilities of their 20 foot long drone, responsible for the incident last summer. 

They were not required to disclose their tests to the public, due to their contract with the government.

"It feels like it’s a UFO because it defies what you’re expecting to see," the source said. 

"When it turned, you almost completely [lost] sight of it," they continued. "Which is why I think people were seeing this up in the sky, and why there were reports of people seeing it and saying it disappeared." 

Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration, under President Trump, disclosed that the so-called "mystery drones” were not part of any covert operation but were simply flown by hobbyists and recreational pilots.

President Trump to Meet With China's Leader - Markets Zoom

RedState 

Never let it be said that President Trump isn't up for talking to other world leaders. During the event wherein President Trump hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House, the president made another surprising announcement: A meeting in "a couple of weeks" in South Korea, with China's President Xi Jinping. The stock markets, following the announcement, reacted with seeming enthusiasm.

The stock market is bouncing today as Donald Trump confirmed that he will meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping in South Korea.

'We're going to be meeting in South Korea in a couple of weeks, and we'll see what we can do,' the president told reporters as he hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at theWhite House on Monday.

The Dow jumped 500 points, the S&P 500 ripped higher by 1.2 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq revved up 1.52 percent. 

Earlier, the president took a much cooler line toward China's leader. A negotiating tool? Or has the Middle Kingdom made some kind of overture? Trump has, in recent days, threatened China with another round of tariffs. Could this bring them to the table?

Trump earlier this month threatened not to meet with Xi at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit summit in Gyeongju, South Korea.

The president has threatened to impose a 100 percent additional tariff on November 1 if Beijing does not drops its export controls on rare earth metals, which are essential to America's production of cars, fighter jets and electronics. 

Trump began to soften the position against Xi at the end of last week, stating that he saw 'no reason' why the pair should not meet.

Stocks ripped higher on the even more positive framing on Monday as the rollercoaster year for the market continued, with the major indexes now just inches away from the all time highs they reached at the start of October.

President Trump has shown an uncommon willingness to talk to foreign leaders, even meeting with North Korea's hereditary dictator Kim Jong Un during his first term. 

China is, of course, not only a key trading partner, but a key geopolitical rival. President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party have made no bones about their designs on the West Pacific, including squabbling with the Philippines (an American ally) over fishing grounds, and making more and more bellicose noises towards Taiwan and even Japan. President Trump has generally taken a hard line towards China since he resumed office, but this sudden willingness to meet face-to-face with President Xi may presage some kind of trade deal in the making.

Or, it could be another Alaska Summit.

President Trump has brought in a lot of trade deals in his second term, including one finalized only Monday with Australia. But China is still one of the biggest fish in the global economic pond, except for the United States, and we don't as yet have a trade deal with them. And, as it seems certain President Trump would agree, you can't make a deal without talking.

We'll see what happens next week.

Karoline Leavitt Drops Smug Reporter in Three Words After He Bombards Her With Dem Talking Points

RedState 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a screenshot of her combative text exchange with a reporter who snidely wondered if President Trump understood the historical ramifications of his upcoming meeting location with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It was glorious. The terse three-word response had been reported by the left-wing journalist. The rest of the exchange with Leavitt, coombined with today's comments on social media, just obliterated him on multiple levels.

As reported here at RedState, Trump announced a meeting with Putin in Budapest, Hungary in the coming weeks as he continues to pursue a path to peace in Ukraine.

S.V. Date, a senior White House correspondent for the Huffington Post, apparently texted her wondering who had suggested the location, while providing a condescending history lesson of sorts to Leavitt.

He concluded with, "Who suggested Budapest?"

Leavitt's response? Comedy gold.

"Your mom did," she wrote back.

Date published the comment, along with a slightly condensed version of the same via White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, but left out how he had been a smarmy, weapons grade jackwagon in his initial message.

Fortunately, the press secretary kept receipts. And the follow-up text was equally as brutal.

“It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face," she replied. "Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bulls*** questions.”

Leavitt posted the exchange on X, and alleged that the Huffpo hack texts her incessantly with questions from a very biased point of view.

"For context, S.V. Dáte of the Huffington Post is not a journalist interested in the facts. He is a left-wing hack who has consistently attacked President Trump for years and constantly bombards my phone with Democrat talking points," she fumed. "Just take a look at @svdate’s feed, it reads like an anti-Trump personal diary."

"Activists who masquerade as real reporters do a disservice to the profession."

To be fair, everybody on the Huffington Post roster is masquerading as something else - a "real reporter," a competent journalist, reasonable, etc.

Leavitt, meanwhile, has an already extensive history of dispatching with the opposition party - whether in the field of journalism or in the government - with relative ease. And it drives them apoplectic.

Just last week, she raised the ire of the resistance by describing the Democrat party as having a consitituency "made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals."

Meltdown Underway: Democrats Lose Their Minds Over Trump 'Demolishing' the White House

RedState 

Donald Trump is currently "demolishing" the White House, according to numerous left-wing commentators and press outlets. Videos emerged on Monday of construction crews tearing down part of the East Wing facade to prepare the way for a new ballroom, which is being privately funded. 

As I'll get to, the facts are far more boring that "Trump destroys historical White House," but that didn't stop the total meltdown.

Yes, nothing says "desecration" like not having to hold large events in tents anymore. I guess Barack Obama descrated the White House too when he built a basketball court. Jim Acosta joined the freak out as well, apparently unaware that nearly every president in history has modified or added something to the White House grounds. 

In fact, the current East Wing isn't part of the historical White House structure. It was a rather bland office building that was added on top of a bunker in 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. There's nothing sacred about it, and it was never meant to be anything but a practical addition to the facility. Heck, the current Oval Office isn't even original, being created by Harry S. Truman. Likewise, Richard Nixon ripped the first bowling alley out of the West Wing and built another one in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. 

What Trump is doing is perfectly within bounds. Lots of presidents have modified the White House grounds to make it more comfortable, luxurious, or practical. As expected, though, the press is spinning this as some kind of scandal. 

This may be the most inside-the-beltway story I've ever seen. Imagine being a working class individual trying to make ends meet, and you've got the press needing smelling salts over a ballroom being built. All of this plays into Trump's hands because if everything is the end of the world, nothing is the end of the world. It numbs the public because the outrage is never-ending. Pretty soon, they just start tuning it out, and based on Trump's approval actually rising during the current government shutdown, it seems like that's already a reality.