President Trump destroyed a CNN reporter on Wednesday in a hilarious takedown of the network that “nobody watches.” 

“Fortunately, nobody watches. Is anybody watching CNN nowadays? I haven’t seen it in a long time,” the President said.

This is seemingly in response to the looming end of CNN. The far left network is facing the possibility of a spin off sometime in 2026 by its corporate parent company Warner Bros./Discovery, which views the network as a “declining asset.”

The reporter was attempting to ask the President about his supporters’ concerns over U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran war. President Trump responded, “Do you ever ask a positive question at CNN?”

“My supporters are more in love with me today, and I’m in love with them, more than they were even at election time, where we had a total landslide. You know, we won all seven swing states. Did CNN report that?” Trump continued.

Real America’s Voice reporter Brian Glenn highlighted that many of the President’s voters “don’t want a long-term war.”

“I only want one thing: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, that’s it,” The President responded. “I’m not looking long-term, short-term… Very simply, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That’s it. It’s not a question of anything else, and if you did, you wouldn’t have much of a country because they’d use it on us, and they’d use it on other people, and they’d be a terror all over the world.”

WATCH:

The Gateway Pundit reported on new polling data, which shows 60% of Americans and a majority of Trump supporters would like to see the U.S. stay out of the foreign conflict, which began when Israel struck Iran last Thursday.

NEW: Poll Finds 60% of Americans, Majority of Republicans Oppose US Involvement in War with Iran

Many supporters of the President would like to see Trump negotiate an end to the war without putting American troops on the ground.

The post HILARIOUS! President Trump DESTROYS CNN Reporter: “Is anybody watching CNN nowadays?” – Responds to Worries from Supporters of Long-Term War (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

President Trump on Wednesday slammed worthless Federal Reserve Chairman “Too Late” Jerome Powell over his continued refusal to lower interest rates, calling his decisions “political” and calling him “a stupid person.”

“So, we have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed. He probably won’t cut today,” Trump told reporters. “Europe had 10 cuts, and we had none. And I guess he’s a political guy. And I guess he’s a political guy. I don’t know, he’s a political guy who’s not a smart person, but he’s costing the country a fortune.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Powell refused to cut interest rates last month, telling reporters the “economy is doing fine,” but “the right thing to do is to await further clarity.”

FED Chairman Jerome Powell Screws Trump and America Once Again – Refuses to Drop Rates Despite Amazing Economic News – TRUMP RESPONDS

The Fed will announce a decision on whether or not to cut rates again today.

Still, ahead of the decision, Trump went on a five-minute rant about how awful Powell is and how much money the United States is losing on debt interest payments.

The President also suggested that he should appoint himself Fed Chair when Powell's term expires.

"We’d save six, seven, $800 billion. I think we're 38th now in interest, and we should be number one. We should be the lowest," Trump noted. "We're paying more interest than a lot of European nations that can't carry our suitcase."

WATCH:

Trump: We're doing well as a country, and if the Fed would ever lower rates, you know, we’d buy debt for a lot less. It's a shame this guy. I have a guy. Did you ever have a guy that's not a smart person, and you're dealing with him? He's not a smart guy. He's worried about inflation. I said, That's right. If there's inflation in six months or nine months, you lower the rates or you raise the rates. You can do whatever you want, Brian, right?

So, let's say there's rampant inflation, which there's none. You know what there is? There’s success. I got a call from Congress last night: Sir, there's a problem. I said, What is it? Money is pouring in. We don't know how to account for it. I said, check the tariffs. $88 billion came in from tariffs, no inflation, and it's going to get even more so. I know what I'm doing. So, we have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed. He probably won't cut today. Europe had 10 cuts, and we had none. And I guess he's a political guy. I don't know, he's a political guy who's not a smart person, but he's costing the country a fortune. So, what I'm going to do is, you know, he gets out in about nine months, he gets, fortunately, terminated. I would have never reappointed him. Biden reappointed him. I don't know why that is, but I guess maybe he was a Democrat. You know, he got great advice from him.

But he's done a poor job. So, we have no inflation, we have only success, and I'd like to see interest rates get down. Now, Biden did a lot of very short term debt, so we have short term debt coming due, and because of this guy's rates, you know, if he'd lowered a point, I'd pay about a point less, then if he’d lower it two points, I'd pay about two points less. And that's for 10 years, 12 years, 15 years, five years; It's hundreds of billions, it's even trillions of dollars, that we're going to lose because of this “Too Late.” I call him Too Late Powell because he's always too late. I mean, if you look at him, every time I did this, I was right, 100%. He was wrong. Maybe I should go to the Fed. Am I allowed to appoint myself Doug? I don't know. Am I allowed to appoint myself at the Fed? I do a much better job than these people. So, anyway, we should be two points lower. It’d be nice to be two and a half points lower. We'd be saving $800 billion, 700 billion— That’s a lot of money —Think of it, for nothing. For absolutely nothing.

The post (VIDEO) President Trump RIPS “Stupid” Fed Chair Jerome Powell – Suggests He Should Appoint Himself Fed Chair: “Am I allowed to appoint myself at the Fed?” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Failed CNN anchor Jim Acosta was already one of America’s worst ‘journalists’ thanks to his constant lies while working for CNN. Now, he has solidified himself as a thoroughly disgusting human being as well.

As Fox News reported, Acosta appeared on a “No Kings” Day episode of “The Contrarian” podcast with host Jennifer Rubin on Tuesday to discuss the ICE raids happening across the country. Far-left reporter April Ryan also appeared on the podcast.

At one point during the discussion, Acosta accused President Trump of hypocrisy by accusing him without evidence of harboring illegal aliens on his property while ICE rounds up unlawful migrants from coast to coast.

“I got a question: where are the ICE raids at the Trump properties?” Acosta mockingly asked while Rubin and Ryan laughed. “Can somebody call ICE on the Trump course in Virginia?”

Acosta then turned more sinister when he brought up Trump’s deceased ex-wife Ivana to drive home his perverted point.

“How many immigrants has he married?” Acosta queried. “He’s got one buried at his golf course in New Jersey!”

“Isn’t she buried by the first hole or the second tee or something like that?” he added as Rubin and Ryan continued to laugh. “Immigrants are always doing the jobs that Americans don’t wanna do.”

WATCH:

NEW: Jim Acosta drags Trump’s deceased ex-wife Ivana into *UNHINGED* rant about immigration raids

“How many immigrants has he married? He’s got one buried at his golf course in New Jersey!”

“Immigrants always doing the jobs that Americans don’t wanna do!”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/qRuhNYYJII

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) June 17, 2025

Fox News notes that Ivana, the mother of the president’s three oldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, is buried at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. She died back in 2022 from blunt impact injuries to her torso from an accidental fall down the stairs in her New York City apartment.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Acosta’s cruel remarks bluntly.

“Jim Acosta is a disgraceful human being,” she told Fox News.

Disgraceful may be too kind a word. Wicked or sinister would seem more accurate.

The post What a Wicked Man: Jim Acosta Makes Absolutely Sick Remarks About President Trump’s Dead Ex-Wife Ivana During Discussion on ICE Raids – White House Responds (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

By Wayne Allyn Root

Let’s start with the philosophy of Ronald Reagan. My hero Reagan once said, “If you agree with me 70% of the time: We are Friends, not Enemies.”

So, Tucker Carlson (and others in MAGA), please stop saying that if President Trump disagrees with you on the one issue of Israel, “MAGA is over…and the Trump presidency is dead.” How hysterical, exaggerative and absurd.

This rhetoric is what threatens to break up MAGA. You are playing right into the hands of the radical left and the communist media – who want MAGA to break up over one disagreement.

MAGA is bigger than this.

Over the years, I’ve been on the same side as Tucker, and Steve Bannon, and many other leading MAGA conservatives 99% of the time. Disagreeing on Israel doesn’t mean the end of MAGA, or the Trump presidency, or our movement, or our friendship.

We can disagree, argue, debate and then live to fight another day on the same side of all the other issues that will “Make America Great Again.” I need you, and you need me. All for one and one for all. That’s how we win the fight on every other MAGA issue.

I won’t end our friendship over any one issue. Neither should you.

The radical left is characterized by “circular firing squads” that destroy careers and friendships over one disagreement. Communists think this way and act this way. They think “The party is always right and there can be no disagreement.” Do we want to emulate communists and the radical left?

Secondly, let’s hear from a past champion of MAGA – Barry Goldwater. Read “The Conscience of a Conservative.” Barry Goldwater was MAGA and “America First” before those brands existed. If you read his solutions to every problem in America inside his book, Goldwater was right about everything- way back in 1961. Yet Barry Goldwater was 100% pro-Israel. He always supported Israel, while fighting for “America First.”

Third, President Trump has never changed since he came down that escalator as candidate Donald J. Trump. He is the founder and inventor of MAGA and “America First.” And he was always 100% behind Israel and the Jewish people- from day one. Since before any presidential ambitions, when he was “Grand Marshal” of the Israel Day Parade in New York City.

Trump defines MAGA.

Everything Trump stands for, everything he promised in his three runs for president, everything he did in his first term, was…

1) MAGA,

2) America First,

and 3) Always protect and defend Israel.

Nothing has changed. That was always his definition of MAGA. Didn’t you notice? Anyone who voted for Trump – and he received 214 million votes in three presidential runs (the most in history by a mile) – was voting for those views- MAGA, America First, and always love and support Israel. Sorry, but there’s no “do overs.”

I understood from day one what we were getting with President Trump. As Trump himself said when introducing me at a rally, “Wayne pushed my presidency before I was even running for president.” Which is 100% true. I was in the media day and night back in 2015 urging him to run for President before he even announced any intention of running.

I wrote the column “Donald J. Trump is the Next President” for Fox News on the day he announced his run. I understood the man and his unique MAGA views before anyone else- and I believed he’d win when no one else thought it possible. I’ve been by his side from Day One.

But I always understood part and parcel of the Trump agenda was support of Israel. After his victory in 2016, only days later, I wrote for Fox News, “America has Elected our First Jewish President.” I argued then (and still believe) in the same way that Bill Clinton was called “the first black president” because he was so supportive of the black community, Trump would be considered “the first Jewish president” because of his unwavering support for Israel and the Jewish people.

Nothing has changed.

Donald J. Trump is MAGA. He is “America First.” But he’s always there to protect and defend Israel. Just as America has ALWAYS been there to protect and defend Israel. Trump just does it bigger and better than anyone before him- as he does everything!

Since when is MAGA for “no wars ever”? I was there at the start of MAGA. I was there at the start of Trump. I know MAGA just as well as Tucker. MAGA says “war is bad for business, war costs tremendous money better spent elsewhere, war costs priceless lives. War is to be avoided.” I agree 100%.

But it doesn’t say “we can never fight a war.” That is absurd. What if there is no other choice? What if there is an existential threat to our nation? What if war is the only way to stop a rogue terrorist nation from using nukes to hold the entire world hostage?

Iran is the worst terrorist nation in the world. Iran is a rogue state that sponsors and funds terrorism all over the world, and is led by extreme Jihadist religious fanatics who would use nukes to threaten and hold hostage the entire world. Iran hates Jews, Christians, and America. Iran is backed by evil nations that hate us- all our enemies.

Iran is the modern-day Nazi threat to the world.

Iran with nukes isn’t just a threat to Israel. They are a serious threat to America and the entire world. They’re a threat to Americans everywhere in the world. They’re a threat to US military members. So, supporting Israel and fighting Iran is as “America First” as it gets. It is 100% in America’s interests.

Israel is doing the favor of a lifetime for America (and the world).

Israel is doing now what every civilized nation in the world wants and needs- by eliminating the threat of a rogue terrorist nation with nukes in their hands. But the rest of the nations don’t have the balls to do what Israel is doing. They get to stand back and let Israel do the fighting and dying (and gets the criticism)- while everyone else benefits from the elimination of nukes in the hands of a suicide bomber.

Finally, from a religious and Biblical standpoint, the foundation of America from day one has always been to support Israel. ALWAYS. The Founding Fathers supported the idea of a Jewish state. The Founding Fathers expressed support for the Jewish people and their historical connection to the land of Israel.

The Founding Fathers were thankful for the support and funding of the American Revolution by Jewish leaders. One Jewish businessman gave his life savings to fund the Revolutionary War. Yes, we have a Jew to thank for America’s existence and freedoms today.

And then there is God’s message from the Bible in Genesis 12:3…

“Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses Israel will be cursed.”

From day one, America has always loved, supported and blessed Israel. And in return, God has rewarded America with His Blessings.

Some would say it’s in America’s DNA to love and support Israel.

I would say, President Trump is “the Chosen One.” Chosen by God, blessed by God, and saved from an assassin’s bullet by God, to make America great again, and to also provide America’s protection for Israel. Yes, that is part of MAGA.

It’s important to point out Thomas Jefferson was our most Libertarian president, and the one who most supported the idea of no wars and “no foreign entanglements.” Yet Jefferson made one exception- he spent all eight years of his presidency in a war against the Barbary Pirates- extreme religious fanatical Muslim terrorists (exactly like Iran today).

In conclusion, 214 million combined American votes elected President Trump over three presidential elections- the most in history. All those voters had faith in President Trump to make the right decisions as president and Commander-in-Chief. And to be our chief negotiator (ie “The Art of the Deal”).

President Trump has my faith.

I trust that President Trump will leave no stone unturned to negotiate peace with a radical terrorist nation. He will continue to have the United States be “the great Eagle who tucks Israel under her wing,” and will always have Israel’s back.

And I have confidence that President Trump will correctly decide when, or if our national security is at risk, and when or if military action is necessary to keep America safe. That decision will be based on America’s interests FIRST.

And yes Tucker, we’re all still friends, we’re all still on the same team. MAGA.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “Raw & Unfiltered” at UntamedNation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

The post WAYNE ROOT: God, Trump, MAGA and Israel. Why Tucker Carlson is Dead Wrong This Time appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

The person many regard as the dumbest senator in America ended up red-faced after trying to humiliate the nation’s secretary of defense with an inane question at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

As NBC News reported, Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the Pentagon’s budget request.

During the hearing, he was hit with multiple questions regarding the Iran-Israel conflict and military deployments in Los Angeles. The latter became particularly fiery once dim-witted Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) got her chance to interrogate the defense secretary.

Hirono decided to try to humiliate Hegseth with a sick question designed to paint Trump as a tyrannical dictator, implying that he wanted protesters to get shot for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Of course, force would be justifiable if said agitators decided to assault law enforcement, which has consistently happened in riots all over the country.

“If ordered by the President to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry out such an order?” Hirono inquired.

Hegseth was ready, though, and promptly swatted Hirono aside.

“Senator, as I have said before, of course, I reject the premise of your question,” Hegseth replied. “And the characterization that I would be given unlawful orders, it’s all meant to smear the commander in chief, and I won’t fall for it.

That’s how it’s done.

WATCH:

Secretary Hegseth smacks down Senator Hirono’s INSANE line of questioning:

. @SecDef Senator, as I have said before, I reject the premise of your question. The characterization that I would be given or are given unlawful orders, it’s all meant to SMEAR the commander in chief,… pic.twitter.com/p8LAlpiAGv

— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) June 18, 2025

Hegseth also left Hirono dismayed after she demanded to know whether he would follow a court ruling that said sending federal troops (Marines, for example) into America’s cities was illegal.

After Hegseth pointed out that the ruling was still pending, he stated that district courts should not determine national security policy and that the administration would decide once it reached the Supreme Court.

. @SecDef “I don’t believe district courts should be determining national security policy.” pic.twitter.com/DEBwjVaB5d

— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) June 18, 2025

The post WATCH: Pete Hegseth Effortlessly Smacks Down Dem Senator Mazie Hirono After She Asks a Disgusting Question About Trump and the Leftist Riots Across the Country appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.