President Trump and the White House recognized Christopher Columbus on Monday as a “hero.”

Trump started the celebration of Columbus Day early with a Sunday Truth Social post, blasting the American left for forcing Italians to “suffer” as they “rampaged through our cities and towns ripping down almost all of the beautiful statues of Christopher Columbus.”

“Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever. This is a big day for our great Italian American Community, and the Country of Italy itself, maybe the biggest,” he said:

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY TO ALL, in particular our great Italian American Community which was forced to suffer as the Radical Left Dumocrats, Socialists, and Communists rampaged through our cities and towns ripping down almost all of the beautiful statues of Christopher Columbus. Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever. This is a big day for our great Italian American Community, and the Country of Italy itself, maybe the biggest. Congratulations! President DONALD J. TRUMP

The White House shared on X this morning, “In this Administration, Christopher Columbus is a hero!”

In this Administration, Christopher Columbus is a hero!

Happy Columbus Day! pic.twitter.com/HrRnqKd9l4

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 12, 2026

Trump also issued a strong proclamation, declaring October 12, 2026, as Columbus Day, not ‘Indigenous Peoples Day,’ and recognizing Columbus as “one of history’s greatest heroes.”

Full proclamation below:

More than five centuries ago, Christopher Columbus embarked westward across uncharted waters and discovered the New World — bringing with him the rich traditions of Western civilization and paving the way to the birth of the American Nation less than three centuries later.  Today, we honor his life of valor, adventure, and ingenuity.  We cherish his memory and pledge to safeguard his story.  Above all, we remember with gratitude that the triumph of freedom and the glory of our Republic are the fruits of his faith and unrelenting devotion.

In August of 1492, Columbus departed the shores of Spain to chart a new trade route to Asia.  With his crew of about 90 men aboard the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María, for more than 2 grueling months, he pressed onward across the vast and unforgiving Atlantic Ocean — braving violent storms and treacherous waters.  Through every trial, Columbus never wavered, holding his crew to the mission when most others would have turned back.

When Columbus and his crew made landfall on the islands of the present-day Bahamas, they first believed they had reached the shores of Asia.  Instead, their voyage redrew the map of human possibility and opened a new chapter in the history of exploration.  They unleashed a bold new age of discovery that expanded the horizons of knowledge, carried the splendors of the Western world across an ocean, and set in motion the forces that would culminate in the miracle of July 4, 1776.  When they arrived, as a sign of devotion to God and respect to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Columbus raised a mighty cross in the newly discovered land as a sign that “Your Highnesses hold this land for your own, but chiefly as a sign of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  Ever since, this spirit of adventure has coursed through the veins of generations of patriots — from the brave settlers who established the first colonial foothold at Jamestown to the daring pioneers who pushed westward and tamed the frontier.

Today, we reaffirm that Christopher Columbus is a legend whose vision, fortitude, and perseverance unleashed a dynamic of history that led to the creation of the greatest, freest, and most just Nation in history.  We are forever indebted to his courageous voyage, and we will never allow his legacy to be erased by radical extremists.  For this reason, earlier this year, I was proud to install a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds — an exact replica of the statue that stood for more than three decades in Baltimore, Maryland, from its dedication by President Ronald Reagan in October 1984 until rioters tore it down and threw it into Baltimore Harbor on July 4, 2020.  Now placed at the White House, this magnificent monument stands as a testament to the resilient legacy of one of history’s greatest heroes.

Columbus Day also holds special significance for our incredible Italian-American citizens.  Like Columbus, they have embodied a steadfast love of country and faith in God, and they continue to strengthen our communities and propel our country to even greater heights.

In 1892, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ epic voyage, Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical hailing “the greatness of his mind and heart,” which “can be compared to but few in the history of humanity.”  The Pope continued:  Columbus “looked for a something greater and higher than did these others.”  Today, as we celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World, we honor his unrivaled greatness.  We embrace our duty to prove worthy of the inheritance he left us, to match his courage with our own, and to never abandon, forsake, or forget the beauty of our faith, the glories of our culture, and the stories of our heroes.

In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 12, 2026, as Columbus Day.  I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.  I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of the great Christopher Columbus and all who have contributed to building our Nation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifty-first.

The post White House Remembers Christopher Columbus as a “Hero” – Trump Says Radical Left’s “Days of Plunder Are Over” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Note: The information provided here or in any related communications is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. We do not provide personalized investment, financial, or legal advice. Gateway Pundit benefits from purchases made through our sponsors.

Every month you pay interest on a credit card balance, that’s money straight out of your pocket … and it adds up fast.

Our credit card experts reviewed dozens of cards and found one worth your attention right now: This 0% intro APR card lets you pay no interest until 2028 on purchases and balance transfers.

But here’s the part some people miss — this card also lets you earn a generous bonus just for hitting a simple spending threshold you’d probably meet anyway, plus up to 5% cash back on everyday purchases.

No annual fee. No gimmicks. Whether you’re paying down a balance or planning a bigger purchase, this card could save you hundreds on interest.

Don’t sleep on this — click here to learn more.

The post Earn A Generous Welcome Bonus And Pay No Interest Until 2028 appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

The Atlanta Dream, featuring the perpetually controversial Angel Reese, will host their home games in the 2026 WNBA Finals in a venue that seats just 3,500 fans, roughly the size of a large high school gym, after failing to secure anything bigger.

According to USA Today, the Dream’s efforts to move Games 3 (October 22), 4 (October 24), and a potential Game 6 (October 29) to State Farm Arena, which holds more than 17,000, have collapsed.

State Farm is already booked for singer Sombr’s concert and two Atlanta Hawks regular-season games, including the Hawks’ home opener.

Attempts to secure Gas South Arena (up to 13,000 seats) or Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion (about 8,600) also hit roadblocks.

Barring a last-minute miracle, the games stay at Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia, the Dream’s regular home since 2021.

This comes days after the franchise announced a multi-year deal to play all home games at State Farm Arena starting in 2027, touting “record growth,” a 400% jump in season-ticket members, and the “passion of our fans.” The timing is awkward.

The Dream hosted several regular-season and earlier playoff games at the larger arena this year, drawing strong crowds, yet the championship series gets the tiny building.

This comes days after the franchise announced a multi-year deal to play all home games at State Farm Arena starting in 2027, touting “record growth,” a 400% jump in season-ticket members, and the “passion of our fans.” The timing is awkward. The Dream hosted several regular-season and earlier playoff games at the larger arena this year, drawing strong crowds, yet the championship series gets the tiny building.

In recent weeks, TGP reported that viewership cratered after Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever were eliminated, dropping sharply as the “wokest league in professional sports” continued its pattern of favoring drama, questionable officiating, and preferred personalities over the one player who actually filled arenas and drove ratings.

The post WNBA EMBARRASSMENT! Angel Reese and Atlanta Dream Forced Into Tiny 3,500-Seat Arena for Championship Finals After NBA Games and Concert Take Priority appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

President Trump and Putin Show that They Control Supply and Demand of Oil and Gas and the Endgame Is Near

Last Refuge shared the following:

All of the energy traders, speculators et al, now have to cope with Russian diesel being shipped at lower prices than their speculative manipulation.

Trump and Putin are working around the system.

The reality is that ‘western market prices’ are not an outcome of supply, demand or even availability or production capacity. Western market prices are determined by speculators, traders and regional benchmarks created by “independent agencies.”

Remember those pesky housing loan bond rating agencies, Standard and Poor’s and/or Moody’s during the lead-in to the 2008 financial crisis. That type of rating ‘independence’ is akin to the benchmarks of these regional independent agencies within the energy markets; which is to say, they are not independent at all – they are part of the manipulated western financial system that determines ‘market pricing’.

Behind that curtain are the traders, speculators, ideological banks and financial systems who create the finance system for the energy market. Want to stop oil exploitation, change the lending requirements to favor windmills and solar panels etc. Not coincidentally changing these lending rules and regulations was Mark Carney’s former job. Does that sound like an open market approach?

Thus, when you really understand how this pricing is structured you begin to realize the price of diesel has nothing to do with the supply of it and the price is more controlled by those who wish to generate financial -or political- outcomes from it.

https://t.co/e5hH32fg8d

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 9, 2026

Here’s another incredible viewpoint…

“Leverage” is such a beautiful thing.

Trump and Putin control the energy supply in Europe.

They made a huge deal for diesel and Zelensky attacked more Russian refineries.
He walked right into the TRAP.

Next, Trump calls for Zelensky’s removal because he doesn’t want peace.

At the same time, (behind the scenes) Trump and Putin threaten to shut off the energy to Europe.
The EU and NATO get the message and tell their puppet Zelensky to “immediately” agree to an “energy ceasefire.”

Trump and Putin just “isolated” Zelensky, which REINFORCES the fact that Zelensky is standing in the way of a peace deal and MUST be removed.

Zelensky’s days are numbered.

If he breaks the “energy ceasefire,” the EU and NATO will have no choice but to END all aid.
And if he holds to the “energy ceasefire,” WITHOUT signing a peace deal, he loses more territory every day.

And guess what?

Zelensky doesn’t have long to come to the “surrender” table.

Why?

Because Trump also told the EU and NATO (behind the scenes) that he’s about to declassify all the evidence proving Zelensky’s corruption and THEFT of taxpayers money, at the APPROVAL of the Biden administration AND the EU/NATO.

The isolation and removal of Zelensky is on the clock and I bet he is ALREADY negotiating his asylum in another country.

But he will find out AFTER he signs the “surrender” agreement, that there is no place in the world to hide for his crimes.
I believe he will face justice in Ukraine for what he’s done to that country. He’s committed war crimes against his own people.

It’s not a coincidence that Trump and Marco Rubio just sanctioned the shit out of the ICC ( International Criminal Court).
Removing them from the “narrative” equation.

No “cover” from the ICC for Zelensky by claiming Putin is the war criminal.
The truth will come out.

Timing is everything.

Trump fully controls the narrative now.

— JoeLange (@JoeLange) October 11, 2026

The post President Trump and Putin Show that They Control Supply and Demand of Oil and Gas and the Endgame Is Near appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

New Jersey Republican Senate nominee Justin Murphy delivered a blistering, no-nonsense response on the war against the Iranian regime during his only debate against longtime Democrat incumbent Cory Booker, bringing the house down at Rider University and leaving the usually verbose Booker looking stunned.

Asked by New Jersey Globe moderator David Wildstein what he would advise President Trump if the president called and said he would do whatever Murphy wanted on Iran, the Navy veteran didn’t hesitate.

“Finish it,” Murphy declared.

“Finish that war in a positive manner. We can’t wait halfway through and decide we don’t want to do this anymore. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a radical terrorist organization that has deprived the Iranian people and the Persian people of their history and of a decent life. They have murdered, raped, tortured, assassinated, promoted, and promoted terrorism all throughout the world, especially in the region of the Middle East. They are a cancer on human existence.”

Murphy then reached back to the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis that many Americans still remember vividly.

“I remember as a young boy watching those walls of our— November of 1979, watching the radical Islamic terrorists storm over the walls of our embassy and 52 Americans held for 444 days. And ever since November of ’79, the IRGC in Iran has done nothing but export terror, murder, rape, oppression, and assassination to the region and to the world. And it’s time it stops. Four decades is enough. The Iranian people have suffered enough.”

He closed with the line that has since gone viral: “And I would say, Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some ass and get this done and done right.”

The crowd’s reaction was immediate and enthusiastic. Booker’s expression, by contrast, told the story of a Democrat who has rarely faced this kind of direct, unapologetic pushback from a Republican challenger on the stage.

Booker had just finished attacking Trump’s decision to confront the regime, calling it “one of the most colossally stupid things the president has ever done” and claiming the United States is now stuck in “another Middle East quagmire.” He later dismissed Murphy’s stance as “yahoo cowboy foreign policy” and “false bravado,” insisting military force should only be a last resort after diplomacy.

Murphy, who served four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Comte De Grasse (including time in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War) and previously served as Tabernacle Deputy Mayor, rejected the quagmire framing outright.

He has argued the regime’s nuclear ambitions make delay catastrophic and that the IRGC’s decades-long export of terrorism must end.

WATCH:

Now this is how you field the questiond about the war in Iran. The crowd’s response is epic.

GOP Senatorial candidate Justin Murphy’s response was pure gold. Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker’s face tells the entire story as Democrats have seen no one come Out swinging like this.

“Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some
a$$…and get this done and get this done right”

— KJofTikTok (@TheKJofTikTok) October 11, 2026

The post WATCH: Navy Vet GOP Senate Candidate Justin Murphy Stuns Cory Booker in NJ Debate — Tells Trump to “Finish” Iran War, Put on Cowboy Hat and “Kick Some Ass” as Crowd Erupts appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Guest post by Banafsheh Zand at Iran So Far Away

The growing influence of Islamists linked to the Khomeinist Regime in the United States was shown on September 23, 2026, when a University of Michigan student of Iranian heritage named Iman Dashti asked Michigan’s Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he opposed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

Confronting El-Sayed with his words from earlier this year that he would not comment on the death of Regime leader Ali Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today,” Dashti asked him “if you renounce the people who held vigils that supported this terrorist for all the stuff that he’s done.”

El-Sayed meandered and didn’t give a direct answer, instead criticizing US foreign policy and stating he didn’t believe the US government should engage in regime change.

He didn’t address the suffering faced by Dashti’s family, who had said “my cousin was hunted in the streets of Iran by the IRGC because her hijab wasn’t on right,” (Dashti later added that his cousin’s uncle had been sentenced to death and received 50 lashes.) Instead, Dashti became the victim of an online harassment campaign, which included the publication of his personal information.

El-Sayed went on to double-down on his apologia for Tehran during a debate with his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, on October 8. He equated the Islamic Regime to Israel, stating that “both of them have proven dangerous in their own way,” while condemning the US’s ongoing conflict with Tehran as “a war we shouldn’t be fighting, because here we are fighting this stupid war because people like him (Rogers) have been pushing for it for 20 years.”

This unwillingness even to appear to be opposed to the Khomeinist regime would have been shocking only a few years ago. The fact that El-Sayed feels he be can so frank about his opinions results from the reality that he has a voting base of Michiganders who share his views.

The Khomeinist-Backed Candidate

A strong case can be made that the thin margin by which Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Party primary on August 4 came from Muslims voters energized by Tehran-supporting clerics.

On July 31, Shi’a cleric Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Institute of America, gave a Friday prayer sermon in Dearborn calling on congregants to vote for El-Sayed; “The way to deal the Zionist a bigger blow is to go and cast your vote on Tuesday, and don’t allow the Zionist candidate to win.”

El-Sayed himself had previously spoken at Qazwini’s Institute on June 6. The Qazwini family, several of whom are now serving as clerics in Michigan, are a religious dynasty from Karbala, Iraq, who relocated to Qom, Iran. Hassan Qazwini himself is a graduate of the same Qom hawzeh (seminary) where the regime leadership is educated.

Also on July 31, in Canton, Michigan, cleric Mohammad Qazwini, a relative of Hassan, gave a sermon demanding votes for El-Sayed.

Mohammad Qazwini’s congregation (named MECCA) was founded by Saleh Qazwini, another Qom seminary graduate who has been recorded uttering statements repeating Khomenist conspiracy theories. Mohammad Qazwini himself has been filmed celebrating the death of Senator Lindsay Graham and asking his congregation to pray that God strikes down President Trump.

On August 3, cleric Husham Al-Husayni gave a sermon in Dearborn endorsing El-Sayed and telling congregants to send a message to “Zionist lowlifes.”

El-Sayed himself was at the mosque, and claimed there that the reason Michiganders don’t have adequate social services is because the US government spends money fighting Muslims overseas. In 2022, Husham Al-Husayni had said “Thank God we have the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

On June 23, Hojatoleslam Mohammad Ali Elahi told his Dearborn congregation that it was a religious obligation to vote for El-Sayed, in order to stop “this war against Iran.”

Hojatoleslam Elahi participated in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and served as the Director of the Iranian Navy’s Political-Ideological Department beginning in 1982. Elahi afterwards worked as head of research and documentation for the Martyrs Foundation and was on the editorial board of the English-language newspaper Tehran Times.

According to a 1993 report from the US Institute for Peace, he came to the US in 1991 in order “to inspect American branches of Hizbullah.” In 2018, he praised the regime’s ideology of Guardianship of the Jurist as being superior to the American presidency.

In 2025, Elahi was photographed meeting President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the United Nations, while in 2026, he received press coverage for holding a mourning ceremony after Khamenei’s death.

Elahi continued to campaign for El-Sayed after the primary victory. On September 4, he gave another sermon in which he appeared to connect El-Sayed’s election to the survival of the Islamic Republic.

A Growing Community

Michigan’s Muslims are heavily clustered in the Metro Detroit area. Their presence is most notable in the cities of Dearborn and Hamtramck. A growing Muslim population has also brought with it a use of the political system to enforce Islamic norms.

For example, in 2004, the Hamtramck city council allowed mosques to broadcast the call to prayer from loudspeakers, and in 2023 it allowed halal animal slaughter – a practice some animal rights activities consider cruelty.

From Qom to Detroit

Many of Michigan’s Muslims are Twelver Shi’as. When discussing Shi’a Islam, it is important to note that the Shi’a clergy are an organized hierarchy, akin to that of the Roman Catholic Church.

Thus, it is easy for the Khomeinist elite to introduce clerics into American society simply through the pattern of immigrants building a mosque and asking Shi’a authorities to send them a prayer leader.

The largest mosque in the USA, Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America, is Shi’a. Hassan Qazwini was the prayer leader of this mosque until leaving in 2015.

The next imam, Ibrahim Kazerooni spent years delivered sermons lauding the Islamic Regime before achieving some notoriety in January 2020 after holding a vigil to mourn Qassem Soleimani. Weeks later, he endorsed revenge operations against American soldiers.

Another cleric spouting Khomeinist rhetoric is Haj Hassanain Rajabali. On June 15, 2026, he spoke at Hojetoleslam Elahi’s mosque, and claimed that the (Jewish) Rothschild family has controlled the world since the XVIIIth century. This conspiracy theory was mentioned by Ruhollah Khomeini in the first chapter of his Islamic Government.

In 2015, Sheikh Usama Abdulghani – an African-American convert to Islam who spent decades studying in Qom – established the Hadi Institute in Dearborn.

This institute contains a school, publishing company, and a service called the Light of Guidance. On Light of Guidance’s YouTube channel, one can watch Sheikh Abdulghani’s Moharram lecture dedicated to Ali Khamenei or his commemoration of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hadi Publications, meanwhile, has printed a children’s book praising the Palestinian intifada entitled “The Echo of Stones”.

When the Twelve-Day War began in June 2025, Abdulghani told his followers to “trust our leadership” while another Hadi Institute representative described Khamenei as the “leader of the resistance” and going to on explain “they are speaking about attempting to kill our beloved (Khamenei), are we just going to sit back idly…we have a role to play.”

Tarek Bazzi, another of Abdulghani’s deputies, led a public demonstration in 2024 praising “Imam” Khomeini, shouting “Death to America” and calling for the annihilation of Israel.

Political Implications

With a polarized electorate in a ‘swing state,” the Muslim vote is of extreme importance. Thus, instead of investigating these clerics, local politicians have embraced them.

Hojatoleslam Elahi gave an invocation at the second-term inauguration of Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2023, and his mosque was visited by then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021.

Michigan Muslims gravitated toward voting for Democrats, and formed an alignment with the “anti-imperialist” left. Thus, in 2018, Rashida Tlaib was elected to Congress representing Dearborn. Abdul El-Sayed is following her path.

As they’ve gained in power, however, Michigan Muslims’ views have begun to differ from those of most Democrats. In 2022, Muslim groups advocated for banning teaching LGBT in public schools. In 2023, the now all-Muslim Hamtramck city council banned public display of gay pride flags. Liberal LGBT groups who had helped Muslim politicians later stated they felt betrayed.

After the Gaza conflict began, due to their anger over what they perceived as former President Joe Biden’s support for Israel, many Michigan Muslims refused to vote for Kamala Harris, thus helping Donald Trump return to the White House. This sent a message to Party leaders: you can’t win without us.

For Iranians, these developments bring back painful memories.

The Alliance of the Red and the Black – and the Fate of the Left

The Islamic Revolution in Iran was won by a coalition of Islamists and Leftists. This coalition did not emerge by accident. While clerics could bring crowds from the mosques into the streets, they did not have the skills of modern political organizing.

Likewise, the left had the skills to launch a successful international propaganda campaign, and build guerilla warfare units in Iranian cities, but their intellectual base was too small to form a mass movement. Only by working together could the clerics and the left achieve their shared goal of overthrowing the Shah.

The intellectual left had assumed that clerics, unable to manage a modern state, would defer to their abilities, but instead Khomeini quickly inaugurated his vision of Islamic law and leftists were either executed, imprisoned, or exiled.

For decades, the Iranian Diaspora has been telling the West that what happened in Iran could occur to them too. Today’s Michigan is a vivid example of what can happen when warnings are ignored.

The post The Islamic Republic of Michigan appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.