Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck sat down with President Donald Trump Wednesday for an exclusive look at the first 100 days of his return to office — the first such presidential return after a loss in more than 130 years. They touched on a range of topics, including Mexico’s rocky status as a failed narco-state, the potential need for military intervention, the onslaught of executive orders, the ongoing battles in the courts, and, of course, the unsteady, barbed status of Ukraine war negotiations. The interview has been edited for clarity.

“Mr. President, your first 100 days,” Beck began, holding up a thick stack of executive orders. “This is the first 89 days.”

“Yeah,” Trump grinned. “We work hard.”

Glenn Beck: So, I remember when I was at Fox [during President] Barack Obama. … It was shock and awe. We couldn’t keep up with it; it was going too fast. You have put that to shame. Blew them all away. Blew them all away. Was that by design?

Donald Trump: No, there were just so many things that the country needed. I mean, honestly, this country? What [the Biden administration] did in four years was so disastrous for the country. I wish I didn’t have to do so much! But they did things that were just horrible.

With energy: They terminated [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge], which is the biggest [oil] find in the world, in the whole world, in Alaska. They terminated it.

‘I don’t have to negotiate. I don’t have to negotiate. I’m talking to people out of respect, but I don’t have to.’

They did things on the border that are shocking, just absolutely shocking. You know, we have the best border we’ve ever had now, and three months ago it was the worst border in history — probably for any country, not just here.

There was no border! There’s never been a border like that, where prisons and gangs and drug dealers and murderers are allowed to walk in without being checked or vetted. So it wasn’t by design. It was just that they have so many things. I mean, we’re doing a lot more. There [is] a lot more to come.

GB: I want to get into this a little later, but this seems appropriate to bring it up here. Where the hell is Congress? Where are the Republicans?

DT: Well, I think they’re working hard. I think you’re going to see that if we pass the — as I go — the big, beautiful bill. You know, we’re talking about one bill. As you remember, it was a debate on: Should we do one big one, or should we do three or four? Or two? And we’re doing it in one bill, which I thought was much more beautiful, because it’s everything — it’s everything. It’s tax cuts, it’s regulation cuts, it’s things that you wouldn’t believe. … It’s big, and we get that done. It’s beautiful, and we are getting along very well.

I will tell you: The Republicans? We had a majority a few months ago of one in the House [of Representatives]. Now we have seven. That’s a lot. We won two races and picked up a couple of others, in addition. But we’re up to seven. That’s a big difference.

GB: Will all your work go away, however, if they don’t codify?

DT: So we’re going to codify, and we’re going to wait till after the bill is passed, and then we’re going to work on nothing but codifying. As an example, the other day I did shower heads and sinks. Isn’t it nice? You go into a new building, a hotel, and no water comes out, no water comes out of the sink. All of that’s done …

And we did a little thing, very little thing, but it was a big thing to some people: straws. We are now making … plastic straws, as opposed to paper that melts in your mouth. And so many different things. It’s been really amazing. A lot of them [are] common sense.

GB: What is the one thing that you think is maybe overlooked, that you think is the most significant thing that you did?

DT: I really think we’ve done a lot … the biggest tax cuts. We had a tremendous four years.

GB: But I mean the thing that you think yourself, “Why isn’t this getting more attention? This is big!”

DT: Well, if you look at — and this is not the biggest thing, but it’s a big thing: men in women’s sports. How these people can be promoting it even now is unbelievable. The men playing in women’s sports. When you know, we put a whole thing out on that, and that’s no longer a part of our fabric, hopefully.

We have a couple of people like … the governor of Maine, who wants to play the game, and she’s going to lose an election if she runs. I don’t know if she runs. I couldn’t care less, but she was one that wanted to take it on …

… Open borders, to me, are amazing. We had open borders. We have nice, closed borders. Now, people can come into our country, but they have to come in legally. But how amazing is that when you have — because you’re asking about things that I see that are amazing — that’s amazing that you can have an open border, where prisoners from all over the world are allowed to come into a country.

We had 11,888 murderers allowed into the country. We’re taking them out as rapidly as we can. And by the way, we’re being met with strong resistance from judges that are — I don’t know where they come from.

GB: So let me go there. There are some amazing stats that I looked up. I don’t think most Americans know this. Bill Clinton turned away 12.3 million people; formally returned home 1 million. …

George W. Bush: 10.3 million people; 2 million, he turned around formally. Six injunctions.

Barack Obama: 5.5 million; 3 million, he formally turned around, and he had 12 injunctions.

You have 60, yeah. Thirty last time, 30 this time. You’re 100 days in, and you have 190 cases against you.

DT: It’s obstruction, and what they’re doing to the country is unbelievable, but we’re getting it done, and we’re winning. But it’s so much more difficult than it should be when you have a murderer that people are protecting. … You read so much about the wonderful man from Maryland, who was just wonderful, but he had on his, he had on his knuckles, tattooed, MS-13. Like we didn’t know he was MS-13? And the Democrats are working hard to protect him.

And … I don’t want to get into his reputation, but it’s not exactly stellar, and when they do that, that’s like … how they protect open borders, as I said, or so many of the other things, you know — transgender for everybody!

GB: What does it tell you that the Democrats are trying to protect him, stop you at the border, and when you shut down USAID, which a lot of their money was coming from — all the color revolution money was there and coming back here for color revolution — that they immediately respond to that, to Tesla, or to Elon?

DT: Well, they don’t want to do anything about it. When you look at the kind of money that we found, fraud, waste, abuse; when you look at billions of dollars given to people that had nothing. I mean, Stacey Abrams was given $2 billion into an environmental account where she had $100. Two billion! Now, $2 million is a lot; $200,000 is a lot, right? Giving $2 billion out of that grouping? … And that was nothing compared to some of the ones that we found, and the press doesn’t want to write about it, by the way.

GB: I hear from … my audience … every day. They’re concerned about tariffs … but they’re also concerned about justice and not seeing the wheels of justice turn. Like, Stacey Abrams, if she did something illegal, she should go to jail. Is [the Department of] Justice going to be pursuing these people in Russiagate or whatever the crimes might be?

DT: Well, I think [Attorney General] Pam Bondi is doing a fantastic job. She’s our law enforcement person who’s doing outstanding work. I really think so. I think [FBI Director] Kash [Patel] … is doing a really great job. Now, it’s very early, so I can’t really tell you, but I think a lot of the things that you’re talking about have to be looked at. They have to be looked at.

GB: Let me go back to the border here for a second. Mexico. It seems that it is a failed narco-state. Is Mexico a failed state? A narco-state?

DT: I would say, with all due respect, and I really like [Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum] a lot. I’ve gotten to know her, and I really like her. She’s an elegant, beautiful woman. But I think it’s run by the cartels, yeah, and they have so much control over it. And I think the politicians are … they’re afraid. I think the police are probably afraid. A lot of them are shot!

GB: I had a guy, an ATF agent, reach out to me, and he said, Glenn … people in our ATF actually trace the numbers. He said they keep talking about all these guns that are in the hands of cartels and how they get them across the border from America, right? All of those numbers correlate with the numbers that come from the Pentagon, from the arms that we officially ship to their military. And he said it: They’re taking the military guns and using those.

DT: Nothing surprises me. When you see the kind of drugs coming in, it comes in from China. You know, we tax them 20% because of what they’ve done with fentanyl. But it goes through Mexico, largely. And it goes through Canada too, by the way, right? A lot goes through Canada, but it comes through Mexico and Canada. But when you watch Mexico, what’s happening, it’s pretty amazing.

And we’ve shut down the border! We’ve shut it down. And I didn’t need laws passed; we just needed a new president. He said, “shut down the border”; we shut it down, and we shut it down tight. But yeah, Mexico has got some very big problems.

GB: If I were in Mexico, and I was living in a failed narco-state, and everybody I voted for was being killed, and my family was being threatened, I would try to get across the border as well. It would only make sense! But when your government won’t do anything about it, or can’t do anything about it, honestly, I would be in bed at night next to my kids, praying that special forces might just pay some people some visits in the middle of the night.

DT: And I’ve asked. I said, “Would you like some help? I’d be glad to give you help.” “No, no, no, we don’t want help.” They really don’t want help. But, “Please, please, we do not want help.”

GB: But isn’t it, at some point, doesn’t it —?

DT: Well, I can’t tell you about that, because that would be breaking news, but you know, you could say at some point maybe something’s gonna have to happen. It can’t go on the way it is.

Look, when we closed the borders, that was a big deal, and we had to fight very hard to close. That was not just as simple as I said. It happened, but there were lots of skirmishes that went on because that was a big revenue source for some people, a lot of people.

But we’re here to help Mexico, if we can. I like the president very much. I like the people, so many of their representatives, but it can’t be easy for them. Really, I think it’s a very dangerous job.

GB: The last administration — they didn’t want to check anybody’s ID or ask any questions on the way in. In the height of COVID, we don’t even check them for that. Don’t check them; bring them in! Now they all seem to want to check them on the way out. And the judges are — I think it was Sen. Mike Lee who said this is a “judicial insurrection.”

I’m not a big fan of Andrew Jackson. I know you are. Andrew Jackson took care of this constitutionally, right? Would you consider taking care of this some way or another with the judges in a constitutional way?

DT: I hope we don’t have that problem, and I hope we don’t have to get into it, but I will say we have millions of people in this country right now that are criminals, and you see how fast we’re getting them out, and we’re going to get them out even faster.

But when you have to get out and do court cases for individual people, and you would have, in theory, millions of court cases, you know what that means? If you had one court case, it takes forever. Millions of court cases? They’re really saying you’re not allowed to do what I was elected to do? I was elected, for a very big part of it, [to address] the border and get people out, because I said — and the stats reveal it — when you look at Tren de Aragua, when you look at MS-13, when you look at these gangs and just really bad criminals coming in.

You know, we have many murderers — 50% of them killed more than one person. They put them into our country through open borders, and now we have to go to court to get them out. I don’t think the people of our country are going to stand for it.

GB: You were elected for several things, one of which was to reduce the size of the government. And thank you for the Department of Education. Thank you for USAID. Thank you for the things you’re doing on that.

It was announced, I think, yesterday, that Elon [Musk] is possibly reducing his role — not leaving, but reducing his role in May. [The DOGE’s goal] was to cut $2 trillion. It was reduced to $150 billion. Are lawsuits [cutting that number]? Is that the deep state?

DT: Well, that’s money found, and it’s a lot of money, you know? It’s $150 billion, and think of it: That’s a lot of money. Now that’s continuing, and it will continue. You know, it’s not easy. These are thieves. In many cases, thieves. In some cases, it’s incompetence and all, but it’s also thieves. The number [of cuts] is continuing.

But if you just stopped at that number, that’s a tremendous number. We found things that you wouldn’t believe, and then there’s others that you look at, certain roles of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, where people who don’t exist are on … a ride. That’s just building up. That number’s building up very rapidly.

GB: I think you’re going to be remembered as the AI president. I don’t know if you feel this way at all, but AI is going to define the next [generation], and you are the first one to really talk about it, really take it on, and surround yourself with people who know what this is. Has Elon been helping you at all on AI?

DT: He probably knows more than anybody else that I know about it. We have some great people here. I don’t know if that’s how I’m going to be defined, but AI is certainly very important. And we’re pressing it very hard.

We have trillions of dollars being invested, and whatever it is, it’s big, because the biggest people are coming in and companies with more money than anything else you can imagine — more than even the car plants.

But AI is one of the biggest things I’ve ever seen. You know these places that they’re building, if you said $200 million, $300 million, that’s for a corner of the building, right? These are the biggest things, and I’m making it possible, as you probably know, with AI.

The one thing is you need massive amounts of electricity, and I’m getting it for them … and I’m letting them build their electric plant. In other words, they’re becoming a producer of electricity. They can use nuclear if they want for the energy they need to create electricity,

GB: As Sen. Eric Schmitt [R-Mo.] said, we use 3% of the power. They’re going to need, by 2027, 99% of the power.

DT: They need more electricity than we have right now in our country powering everything.

GB: And you’re going to cut all of the red tape and get that built?

DT: We’re going to get it done very quickly. We’re going to let them become utilities, actually. We’re going to let them build their own electric plant. Because when they first came to me, I heard this number — that we have to double electricity.

And we’re way ahead of China right now. … Way ahead on AI, and they don’t have the problem with electricity, because, you know, that takes one person’s approval, right? We have to go through a process, and I call it a national emergency. We have to be — we’re going to be — number one. We’re going to be number one on everything. We have to be everything — we have to be, or we’re going to lose our spot.

That’s not going to happen if we have competent presidents. We will do great if we don’t have competent presidents. We just witnessed four years of the most incompetent human being anyone’s ever imagined, and it really hurt this country. But we’re bringing it back fast.

GB: You say “if we don’t have competent presidents.” You and I have talked before about tariffs, and I give you the benefit of the doubt, because you’re the best negotiator this country has ever had, probably the best the world has seen. And you’ve earned the right. It concerns me that Congress is not stepping up. Regulations and tax cuts — those things have to go through to be able to complete all of this.

DT: I think you’ll be surprised! Now, when I say Congress, [I mean] Republicans. Because we have majorities. They’re not big majorities. In the Senate, we’re up three, which is OK. And in the House, we’re up seven, as I said, and we are going to be coming forward with the biggest bill, I think, in history. And I think you will say that if we get that passed, you’re going to give them very good marks. Good, because everything’s in that, OK? And then all we have to do is work the bill; work the magic.

But it’ll be the biggest tax cut in history, but it’ll be the biggest regulation cuts in history. It’ll be so many other things. … We will get no votes from Democrats. It’s horrible. The divide is so incredible when you look at what’s going on. I mean, [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.] did the right thing, and he ends up being excommunicated from his party when you think about it, right? Well, the level is just so bad. Their policy is so bad.

They’re great at cheating and they’re great at certain things, but they are so bad on policy. They’re so far off when I watch them trying to prosecute the same things that they’ve just lost an election in a landslide [over], and they’re still going through the same things. It’s crazy, and they don’t know who their leaders are. They have a new one, [Rep. Jasmine] Crockett [D-Texas]. Have you ever seen her talk? This is going to be their leader!

GB: Oh, I hope she’s the next candidate for president.

DT: We can hope in one way. … It’s demeaning to our country. But you don’t see anybody out there [leading].

GB: This is pure conjecture here, but in trying to understand you and the moves that you made, when you called the tariff day “Liberation Day,” that hearkened to me back to the end of … World War II.

And I’m wondering, because of all of the moves you’ve made — NATO, the endless wars, everything else that goes along with this — are you signaling to the world that this is not just tariffs — this is an end to the order that we built after World War II? Because it might have been good after World War II for everybody, but we’re not the suckers any more. That’s long past. It’s time to transform.

DT: You’ve said it so well, because people don’t talk about that. Even I don’t mention it enough. We helped countries after World War II. We helped them rebuild. And the Korean War, [we rebuilt] with South Korea. And we never stopped. And they became very successful. And they stole our businesses.

Look, South Korea took our car business, our shipbuilding business — so many different businesses, technology, electronics. If you look at Japan — and I’m not knocking them, I think it’s great what we did for them. The one I’m knocking, and the people I’m knocking, are our presidents and our leaders — that we allowed all of that to happen.

GB: I was talking to somebody last night who’s around the economy and knows it quite well, and I said to them, “I’m not a fan of tariffs. I’ve talked to the president about it. However —”

DT : You might be.

GB: I might be, in the end. However, I don’t see anyone else with another option, and I feel like this is our last chance. And if you can’t get it done, if we can’t make this turn, then we’re done. And this individual reached out and put their hand on my shoulder and said, “No, Glenn, we’re done.” How serious is the situation that America is in if we don’t turn this corner?

DT: So we have one big chance to become really amazing, and that’s on me, whether we like it or not. I hate to put that weight on my shoulders, but that’s what we have, because we were ripped off by every country. I always say, friend and foe — and honestly, the friend was oftentimes worse than the foe — ripped us off on trade, ripped us off on the military too.

Hey, Glenn, when I got involved with NATO, I wasn’t a big expert in NATO, but I have a lot of common sense, and I figured it out in about two minutes: Nobody was paying. I mean, they weren’t paying their bills.

So we were defending Europe, and we were getting ripped off by Europe with trade. It was massive — no country can sustain that. We were paying most of the bill. When I say most, I mean, 80%-90%, and maybe 100%. And I got involved, and I said, “You’re going to have to pay your bills, or we’re not going to be here for you any longer.”

And they said, “Well, does he really mean that?” And they said, “You mean, if we don’t pay the bill, you’re not going to be here?”

“Nope, I’ll be gone.”

GB: Good for you.

DT: And they said, “Hmm.” The secretary general of NATO, [Jens] Stoltenberg — good guy — said he has done something that I’ve never witnessed before, because [George W.] Bush would come in, give a speech, and leave. Obama would come in, give a speech, and leave.

Joe Biden let it get out of control. But he said, “Trump came in, didn’t give a speech, made a nice speech, but he didn’t care about it. What he cared about was the fact that nobody was paying.” They weren’t paying their bills.

So we were ripped off. We were defending them, and they were killing us with the European Union, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States. And I said, “This isn’t going to go on.” And so I’m not so popular in Europe because of what I’ve done, but in many ways I am popular. People don’t want to see.

GB: I think if it wasn’t for their press, which is worse than ours because most of it is state-run, I think you would be popular because the people are in the same position.

DT: They get it.

GB: Yeah, they get it. It’s happening in their country. And I don’t understand how —

DT: It is happening over there.

GB: Oh, I mean, I just read a report that they said Sweden, the Netherlands, could be out by 2030. You know, I talked to [former British Prime Minister] Liz Truss just a couple of weeks ago, and she said, “Glenn, England is a failed state.” How are the —

DT: She’s been very nice. She’s been saying good things about me. Yeah, you know, she got —

GB: The shaft.

DT: I think so. I mean, she basically said, “I want to reduce taxes.” And they threw her out. And she was right. You know, I reduced taxes. It’s one of the things that made us do so well, because we had the strongest economy in history during my first four years. You know, my first four years were incredible. I think we’re going to do even better now. But we have a chance to do something that’s monumental, and I’m in the process of doing it.

GB: But how do you negotiate with a group of elites who were for the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset”?

DT: I don’t have to negotiate. I don’t have to negotiate. I’m talking to people out of respect, but I don’t have to.

So we’re this giant store that people want to come in and buy from. We’re the United States. We have the richest consumers, etc., right? But we’re not going to be that way for long if we don’t do something. But we’re this giant store, and they all want to come in and they want to take our product, but to take our product they’re going to have to pay, and we’ll either make a deal with them or we’ll just set a price.

Because some countries are worse than others. Some countries have ripped us off really badly, and some countries have just ripped us off a little bit, but almost all of them have ripped us off, because we’ve had really poor leadership.

We’re negotiating with 70 different countries. We’re negotiating; we’re showing great respect. But in the end, we may make deals — but either that, or I just set a price. I said, “Here’s what you’re going to pay for the privilege of servicing the United States of America.”

And they have an option. They can maybe talk to me a little bit or they cannot shop. You know, they don’t have to shop at this big store, or they can shop. But in any event, they’re going to have to pay.

Look, we owe $36 trillion for a reason. The reason is trade. Also the endless wars, the stupid wars that we fought — we go into the Middle East, we blow it up, we leave, we don’t get anything. And you, you’re a big fan of exactly what I’m saying.

GB: Let’s not do that. It doesn’t work.

DT: It’s stupid. Endless wars, endless wars that — they don’t even want us. So — all of that stuff. You know, when I left four years ago, we had no wars. We had no Israel and Hamas [war], and by the way, it would have never happened because Iran was broke. They were broke. I had sanctions that were so strong on Iran. They were totally broke. They had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah.

We didn’t have Russia-Ukraine. That would never have happened, either.

We didn’t have the Afghanistan embarrassment, one of the great embarrassments in the history of our country.

We didn’t have any inflation. Don’t forget, I charged China hundreds of billions’ worth of tariffs. They talk about inflation — we had no inflation because that doesn’t cause inflation. Stupidity causes inflation. High energy caused inflation. When they took over my energy, we were making it like nobody’s ever seen. And then the prices doubled. By the way, because of that, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin went in. … You see what’s going on with —

GB: Yeah, I do.

DT: It makes it much harder for Putin to prosecute the war. So we have a lot of great things on the horizon.

GB: One of your spokespeople came out today and said that you’re tired, getting fatigued, with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy. I think he treated you poorly in the Oval [Office], myself. He’s kind of a punk. But is he the problem?

DT: You said it.

GB: Yeah, is he the problem? Is Putin the problem? Or is Europe the problem?

DT: So, look: Russia is a very big military force, and Ukraine isn’t. Without Ukraine — and I’m the one that supplied the Javelins [anti-tank missiles] to them, so, you know, I did a lot for them, because the tanks got stuck in the mud, and then they got Javelined, right? And they always say, “Trump gave the Javelins,” and it was, in that case, “Obama gave sheets.” He gave sheets! They said nothing.

But Biden gave money like nobody’s ever seen — $350 billion! He gave military equipment, gave storage. We had massive storage bins full of ammunition — buildings as long as the eye could see.

… But this war is so bad. And it’s — and remember this — I say it here. I say it every time. This is Biden’s war, not my war. I’m just trying to end it. And I’m actually ending it. Yes, for money, but I’m not ending it for that. Number one, I’m ending it because they’re losing 5,000 people a week. Young soldiers are being killed, Russian and Ukrainian both. But in the end, Russia has a lot of soldiers, and they have a very big military.

And things were said, like when Zelenskyy was in the Oval Office, I was talking about getting it done, and he starts screaming, “But we need security!” Meaning: security after the fact. I said, “Security? I don’t even know if we can get this deal done.” He’s asking for more, just more and more and more. And he doesn’t have the cards, as you know, because you see what’s happening over there. He doesn’t have the cards. So hopefully he’s going to get it done.

Because I don’t believe that Vladimir Putin would be doing this for anybody else but me. A lot of people have said it too. I think he had the idea of going all the way through. I think he’s willing to make a deal, and I would say thus far he’s been easier to deal with than Zelenskyy. Thus far.

GB: Mr. President, I have to tell you, I didn’t understand why gold was going up so fast until I walked into the Oval. You have transformed the Oval.

DT: It’s good. And I think I’ve transformed it — maybe more importantly — in what we’re doing with our ideas, our policies, because we had some really bad things happening to our country. And we now have a strong border; we’re now respected.

When you take a look at the money that’s pouring in through the tariffs, you’re going to see. … That would be an ambition: I’m going to make you a fan of it.

GB: I would love to be a fan.

DT: Not that I want to do, you know, tariffs.

GB: Yes.

DT: But I want to save our country. Yes, we were losing $5 billion a day. You can’t do that. It’s not sustainable. So we’ll be doing another interview in a year or two years from now, and you’re gonna say, “You know, you were right on that.” I’ve been right about a lot of things.

GB: I have been corrected by your actions before, so thank you.

DT: It’s a great honor to be with you.

GB: Always. Thank you.

DT: Thank you. Thank you very much.

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My grandfather was born on a farm in the American West.

This was during WW1. No phone, no cars, no electricity, no indoor toilet. Today we’d describe it as “third-world conditions.”

One day you’re a kid plowing a field behind an ox, then you’re cruising 40,000 feet above the Arctic Ocean piloting a killing machine with the power to vaporize cities.

He was one of 10 kids. Somehow he and all his siblings made it to adulthood.

He was tap dancer. Worked in vaudeville (which means he opened for a stripper). That’s how he paid for college during the Depression. First member of the family to go.

He was a pilot in the war. Learned to fly, operate radios — skills that barely existed before he was born.

After the war he got married and started a family. He worked as a stockbroker for a time, but his old boss asked him to come back during the Berlin Airlift. So he joined the U.S. Air Force.

Eventually he went back to school and got a master’s in international relations. For a time he worked for the NSC in the Eisenhower White House. He wrote the president’s daily intelligence brief. He was very proud of that.

Mostly he was stationed in Europe. That’s where my mom mostly grew up. Earning U.S. dollars in postwar Europe made for a good lifestyle. Servants, vacations on the French Riviera, nice things.

He ended his career flying B-52s for Strategic Air Command.

The 20th century was an odd time. One day you’re a kid plowing a field behind an ox, then you’re cruising 40,000 feet above the Arctic Ocean piloting a killing machine with the power to vaporize cities.

I became his caretaker at the end of his life. He was 101 years old. His doctors were amazed he was still alive.

He’d outlived his wife, outlived three out of four children, and outlived most of his siblings. But he kept hanging on. And nobody could figure out why.

He kept asking to go home, near the farm where he grew up.

I didn’t want him to go, because there was no one there to take care of him. No close family. I didn’t want to put him in a nursing home in another state.

But he kept insisting. So finally I relented. I found a nursing home that would take him.

He was too frail for the drive, so we got an air ambulance. It was a little Learjet. I went with him.

The pilots asked if he was a vet. I told them that he was indeed, that he was a retired colonel.

Both the pilots were Air Force Reserve. The addressed him as Colonel. Gave him a salute. He was weak, but he saluted back.

He had tachycardia by that point. His resting pulse was typically about 130. But as we took off, his pulse came down to the 70s. It hadn’t been that low in years.

He felt at home in the sky. Flying was something he could only dream about when he was a kid. He was relaxed and calm, and he slept.

We made it to the assisted living facility in his home state. I got him settled in his room, met the nurses, then walked down the street to grab a fast-food dinner.

I came back an hour later, and he was dead. He wanted to come home to die, and that’s what he did.

Our grandparents lived in a world of what must have been mind-boggling change. But it was also a world of opportunity, where a poor farm kid could grow up to fly jets and have European servants and work in the White House.

That world is gone, and it’s not coming back. The question is what we will build in its place.

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On Wednesday, Glenn Beck sat down with President Donald Trump to go over the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. Glenn is the first member of the media to get a 100-day retrospective sit-down. And until Thursday night,
you can only see it on BlazeTV. So join now and watch!

In his first nearly 100 days in office, President Trump has moved faster to fix America than anyone expected. He created the DOGE, shut the border down, dismantled USAID and its wasteful spending, and put the world on notice that it can’t take advantage of America any more. But there’s still much more to do, and Americans have questions about what’s next.

Glenn sat down with the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for this interview. He asked Trump what the real goal of his tariffs is, whether Elon Musk is really stepping back from the DOGE, whether Mexico is a failed narco-state, what his plans are for the cartels, and how he may react to the “judicial insurrection” of judges blocking his deportation orders.

Trump also revealed his game-changing plans for AI and American energy, why he’s not “negotiating” with Europe or the world, whether Putin or Zelenskyy has been easier to deal with, and why he believes Glenn will “be surprised” by congressional Republicans soon.

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With the NFL Draft set for Thursday, it’s the perfect time to ask: What if we drafted politicians instead of players? Let’s go!

Welcome to the 2025 U.S. Politician Draft, where Republicans and Democrats roll into the arena hoping to rebuild for seasons to come.

Some are calling this the most lopsided deal since the Colts traded John Elway for a bag of footballs and a guy named Bob.

A big thank you to tonight’s sponsors: Tunnels to Towers, Balance of Nature, and My Pillow — three great companies that, unlike Congress, deliver results.

The Republicans are on the clock

With the first overall pick, the GOP selects Donald J. Trump.

After a few seasons off the field — and away from Twitter — Trump returns to the draft in miraculous shape. His personal physician called him “the healthiest player in the history of modern sport.” No drug test necessary.

Trump remains the only player in the league who audibles before the snap, calls a completely different play mid-huddle, and still somehow scores — while the defense tears itself apart yelling at each other on MSNBC.

Financial upside? Huge. If the team goes bankrupt, Trump just buys it. He’s also promised to play for free, though some say the locker room minibar may take a hit.

Critics say he’s not coachable. Trump disagrees: “I know the playbook better than the coaches. Frankly, I wrote the playbook. I am the playbook.”

He guarantees four straight championships — plus a fifth if the league lets him contest the fourth.

Democrats are up next

With pick number two, they select Gavin Newsom.

He looks the part. Photogenic, polished, and press-conference-ready — even when his team loses by 40, he convinces fans that the scoreboard was hacked.

Newsom’s draft stock rose after he pledged to donate his signing bonus so fans could get free concessions and merch. But analysts warn he’s a high-risk pick. Late-game drives? He panics. Crisis management? He disappears. His turf demands? “I’ll only play on artificial grass — I don’t like getting dirty.”

Originally drafted as a quarterback, Newsom has struggled. Scouts note he throws everything to the far left — often out of bounds. If he can’t adjust, the team will switch him to punter, where he already excels at kicking responsibility downfield.

The mid-draft sentimental pick

With pick 199, the GOP selects JD Vance, hoping for a Tom Brady-style miracle.

Vance enters the league late. He didn’t even start playing until recently. But he brings grit, a lunch pail, and a dramatic pivot to the Trump playbook that showed elite flexibility. He once tackled Trump in print — now he blocks for him in prime time. And he didn’t even pull a hamstring during the flip.

Republicans say he’ll back up Trump for four years, unless he gets traded to Fox News first.

Now for the blockbuster trade

In a shocking move, the GOP trades aging locker-room distractions Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney to the Democrats in exchange for Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard. Some are calling it the most lopsided deal since the Colts traded John Elway for a bag of footballs and a guy named Bob.

As a bonus, the Democrats throw in RFK Jr.’s free-agent rights, though insiders suspect that was more of a liability dump.

The final pick: Mr. Irrelevant

With the last selection, the Democrats take Tim Walz — a high school assistant football coach turned political long shot. Walz hyped himself as the toughest guy in the draft, but fell hard after investigators revealed he exaggerated his college stats and padded his practice reps.

He claims he’s ready to lead, but even his huddle thinks he’s more clipboard than quarterback.

One name, however, never gets called.

Pete Buttigieg, who expected his middle-school junior varsity experience to carry him through the draft, watched the board in disbelief. His old coach didn’t help, saying, “Pete took off half the season — and no one noticed.”

As it turns out, “transportation” isn’t a position.

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Upon its release earlier this month, “A Minecraft Movie” exploded onto the scene in more ways than one. On a positive note, the film has drawn large audiences to once-empty cinemas and is on track to earn more than $1 billion globally — a welcome vital sign for the American film industry after its decline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unfortunately, “Minecraft” has also sparked literal explosions of chaos in theaters. Fans, overcome with excitement at scenes like a baby zombie riding a chicken or the introduction of Jack Black’s character, Steve, have reportedly screamed, hurled popcorn and toilet paper, and even tossed live chickens at the screen — leaving staff with colossal messes to clean up afterward.

For most Zoomers, passionate moments of shared interest and fun are virtually nonexistent.

According to my high school students who watched the movie and could explain this bizarre behavior, these outbursts came from people who actually liked the movie. Reading through the mediocre movie reviews, I assumed that fans were disappointed and consequently engaged in shameless hooliganism. Quite the opposite. They were expressing their excitement at the movie’s many references and Easter eggs to the beloved video game.

Reckless or simply fun?

Of course, causing a public ruckus raises concerns about today’s youths who react so strongly to an otherwise silly movie. Such outbursts suggest that the younger Zoomers have pent-up rage, lacking healthy outlets for their aggression. The recent TV series “Adolescence,” which controversially portrayed radicalized youth engaging in violent acts, may have struck closer to the truth than we’d like to admit.

Then again, there might be a good reason to see these rampant outbursts as a salutary development. Not only are young people going to movie theaters and thereby reviving a moribund entertainment industry, but they are also charging a previously stagnant environment with some much-needed energy. This isn’t the glassy-eyed, TikTok-scrolling crowd we’ve come to expect. These lively crowds of young people are sharing an intense moment with a piece of entertainment they all love — not Beatlemania, but “Minecraft mania.”

Dwindling social outlets

Older generations, which have their own experience with various social crazes that brought them and their peers together in effusive exuberance, may not understand just how special this is for young people today.

Previous generations enjoyed countless concerts, movies, video games, and even books that routinely brought together fan communities that frequently became rowdy and occasionally chaotic — and hardly any of it, even for Millennials, was coordinated through online social media.

As a Millennial myself who’s about to turn 40, I remember the insanity at the cinema when the original “Star Wars” trilogy was re-released in anticipation of the prequels. People gasped and cried when they saw a remastered Han Solo or Luke Skywalker. I can also recall driving by bookstores — before Amazon put most of them out of business — observing the long lines of “Harry Potter” devotees decked in their Hogwarts uniforms, eagerly anticipating the next book in the series. More recently, similar fan frenzies were seen with the latest Taylor Swift concert or “Avengers” movies.

At the time, I pitied these nerds who, for all appearances, lost their minds over something seemingly insubstantial. Now, I envy them and yearn for a return to this kind of enthusiasm.

These days, pop culture has become hyper-individualized and mediated through online streaming and social media platforms. Algorithms, not authenticity, inform everyone’s taste. Nothing about it is natural or real. For most Zoomers, passionate moments of shared interest and fun are virtually nonexistent.

Zoomers don’t realize that physically gathering with fellow fans is normal and that such events add up to more than the sum of their parts. They represent rare moments of authentic public celebration. Yes, they usually center around some shallow piece of pop-culture fluff, but they generate a collective spirit that only happens when fans are allowed to “nerd out” and let go with one another for a little while.

Welcome ‘Minecraft mania’

The “Minecraft” chicken jockey mania continues this tradition. One of my students told me that watching “Minecraft” in the theater was the most fun he’s ever had at the cinema. He conceded that the movie is mostly Hollywood slop, but the audience’s reactions made it worth the annoyingly high price of admission.

He and his peers should understand the value of sharing experiences with friends and fellow fans. Active participation beats passive consumption on the couch every time.

Let the next cultural craze bring the same energy and excitement — minus the chicken feathers.

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Yale College announced on Wednesday that an anti-Israel student group would lose their rights as a registered student organization over “disturbing anti-Semitic” actions at a protest Tuesday evening.

The Yalies4Palestine group had met with college officials and had been warned about violating their conduct rules, but the protest led to officials taking action.

The investigation into the demonstration is ongoing and may result in additional penalties that include probation, suspension, and expulsion.

The protest at Beinecke Plaza lasted only about four hours, beginning at 8 p.m., and the Yalies4Palestine denied having any part of it, but a press release from the college cited social media posts taking credit for the demonstration.

“Repost! Share! Join the students!” read one post with video of students erecting tents, while another read, “HAPPENING NOW YALE STUDENTS RELAUNCH ENCAMPMENTS.” Another video showed protesters not allowing Jewish students to access college buildings.

Without official student group registration, the group won’t be able to reserve spaces at Yale, participate in the student activities bazaar, or request Yale funding.

“Because Yalies4Palestine has flagrantly violated the rules to which the Yale College Dean’s Office holds all registered student organizations, Yale College today notified Yalies4Palestine that the College is withdrawing its status as a registered student organization,” the statement reads.

The college went on to say that the investigation into the demonstration is ongoing and may result in additional penalties that include probation, suspension, and expulsion.

A statement from the Yalies4Palestine group accused the college of caving to demands from President Donald Trump.

“Several peer institutions including Harvard and Columbia had federal funding stripped from them by the Trump administration soon after suspending student organizations protesting the genocide in Gaza,” reads the statement. “Attacking students and alienating community members didn’t save Harvard or Columbia. It won’t save Yale.”

One report said about 100 people joined the protest that included only eight tents. The protesters chanted, “We are here, and we are staying all night!” until officials threatened them with disciplinary action.

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A Highland Park, Michigan, city councilman threw down in a big way during a public meeting Tuesday night, issuing four-letter words during a two-minute rant and daring his foes to “make me step down” following a drunk driving charge against him earlier this month.

Khursheed Ash-Shafii was arrested April 7 after refusing to take a breathalyzer test at the scene of a crash he was involved in, WJBK-TV reported, adding that officers suspected he had been drunk while driving.

‘I don’t give two s**ts if a person likes me or doesn’t like me.’

When police arrived, Ash-Shafii told officers he didn’t have vehicle insurance or registration, the station said, adding that bodycam video shows officers telling Ash-Shafii that if he refuses to take the breathalyzer test, a $200 civil infraction will result.

A police report notes that officers smelled alcohol before finding an open bottle of liquor in Ash-Shafii’s vehicle, WJBK said, and that he became aggressive toward police while being taken to a hospital. He later complied with officer’s orders and was taken to the Highland Park jail.

Ash-Shafii faces four charges: resisting an officer, obstructing police, operating while under the influence of alcohol, and driving with a suspended license, the station said.

During Tuesday’s council meeting, a resident criticized Ash-Shafii over an interview in which he defended calling police officers “white Nazis” during an incident separate from his drunk driving arrest.

“I feel as what Khursheed did was very impolite and rude, and I think he needs to apologize and step down,” the resident said, according to WXYZ-TV.

When it was Ash-Shafii’s turn to speak at the council meeting, he went on a rant.

“In case you don’t recognize who I am, in case you don’t see the rage behind the face that you’re looking at here, you want me to move? You want me to step down? Make me step down,” he began angrily with a voice that growled at times.

“I’m not here for a popularity contest,” he added. “I don’t give two s**ts if a person likes me or doesn’t like me.”

He continued, “Now granted, the news hasn’t been pretty. But anybody who can’t see this for the setup that it is, is a flipping idiot.”

Ash-Shafii added that “anybody who got a problem with me, tough. You want me to move, come move me. I’m sitting right here. And I’m gonna be here until my term is up or until the Lord calls me back, one of the two. So anybody that don’t like Khursheed Ash-Shafii, that’s just tough titties for you. Deal with it.”

He concluded by saying that “you know they didn’t do nothing but pour gasoline on an already enraged inferno. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and I love a good f**king fight. So pardon my language, and you all have a good evening.”

You can view video reports here and here showing Ash-Shafii’s arrest, as well as parts of his city council rant. You can watch his entire rant here.

Highland Park Mayor Glenda McDonald released the following statement to WXYZ:

“I do not condone the behavior demonstrated by Councilman Ash-Shafii. The language he used is unacceptable for any elected official and reflects a lack of professionalism and respect — both for the audience and for fellow members of the Council. There are always more constructive and appropriate ways to express disagreement or convey a point. Regarding his use of the word ‘revenge,’ I am unclear on who or what he was referring to. However, suggesting or threatening revenge in any context is entirely inappropriate for someone in public office.”

In regard to Ash-Shafii’s “white Nazis” statement, WXYZ said it was caught on police bodycam video during a March 10 argument with officers at the corner of Oakman Boulevard and Hamilton Avenue.

Police were in the area to ask a bar employee about a child found wandering nearby, WXYZ reported, adding that Ash-Shafii said he got a call to make sure citizens were treated fairly.

Last week, Ash-Shafii defended his “white Nazis” comment to WXYZ and said, “I stand by that statement.”

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump added to the mountain of executive orders he has issued in his second term, with orders on “commonplace” school discipline, artificial intelligence, and other policies.

The order on school discipline ended policies imposed in 2014 that “effectively required schools to discriminate on the basis of race by imposing discipline based on racial characteristics, rather than on objective behavior alone.”

‘Disciplinary decisions should be based solely on students’ behavior and actions.’

The order cited a 2018 report from the Federal Commission on School Safety that said schools merely covered up bad student behavior and kept students in class, putting all students at risk. The policies were rescinded that year but then implemented again in 2023, resulting in an increase in school violence and classroom disorder.

Trump’s order called on schools to discipline students based purely on their behavior, with no regard to racial disparities as a result of disciplinary action.

“President Trump is taking historic and commonsense action to boost school safety standards. Disciplinary decisions should be based solely on students’ behavior and actions,” said Linda McMahon, the U.S. education secretary.

Another order called for students to receive instruction in the utilization of artificial intelligence.

“The basic idea of this executive order is to ensure that we properly train the workforce of the future by ensuring that school children, young Americans, are adequately trained in AI tools, so that they can be competitive in the economy years from now into the future, as AI becomes a bigger and bigger deal,” said White House staff secretary Will Scharf.

Another order aimed to cut out diversity, equity, and inclusion policies from college accreditation and return to focusing on merit and performance.

Other orders will provide aid to historically black colleges and universities, as well as highlight a law about disclosures on foreign gifts.

“The Department will work with the Initiative and HBCUs to expand partnerships and share best practices for institutions to become hubs of opportunity and economic engines for local industries and employers,” McMahon said.

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In a late-night order, the Supreme Court on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal aliens. The administration had relied on the law to expedite removals of some of the most dangerous individuals in the country, including alleged MS-13 gang members.

This wasn’t a final ruling on the statute, but it froze current deportation efforts and signaled a likely loss for the White House. Once again, Donald Trump faces betrayal from the very justices he appointed — only Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The president now finds himself at odds with a politically driven judiciary that seems to believe unelected lawyers, not the commander in chief, should run the executive branch.

The implication is clear. If Biden can import millions without due process, but Trump can’t deport them without it, then the system has no future.

Mass deportations remain essential if the United States hopes to remain a functioning nation. But the legal system isn’t the only obstacle. Mass democracy — often hailed as a bulwark against tyranny — turns out to be remarkably easy to rig.

When the ruling classes can’t depend on the current electorate to keep them in power, they simply replace it. Democrats understand that new immigrants overwhelmingly support the party that promises wealth redistribution — from the established population to the newly arrived.

Illegal immigrants may not vote immediately, but many will gain amnesty or eventually naturalize. Their children will all receive birthright citizenship. That’s the plan: long-term voter replacement to eliminate serious opposition in national elections.

The crisis at the southern border never threatened Democrats. They designed it. It wasn’t a policy failure. It was an electoral strategy.

And the Supreme Court saw no urgency in stopping a border policy designed to rig American elections for generations.

The Biden administration ran a cell phone app that fast-tracked illegal entry. It didn’t just leave the southern border wide open — it flew planeloads of Haitian migrants directly into the United States and dumped them in small Midwestern towns, where they overwhelmed local infrastructure. At no point did Chief Justice John Roberts step in, despite the administration’s blatant disregard for federal law and its constitutional duty to protect citizens.

When government officials at every level violated core constitutional rights during the pandemic — freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and more — the Supreme Court barely stirred. When federal intelligence agencies colluded with social media platforms to censor Americans and manipulate the outcome of a presidential election, the justices stayed silent. No emergency orders. No late-night rulings.

Even when January 6 defendants were charged under a statute that clearly didn’t apply to them, the court dragged its feet for years before taking up the case.

But when MS-13 gang members faced deportation under a long-standing federal statute, the Supreme Court sprang into action — issuing a midnight order to protect their due process rights.

Different rules for different people. And we’re all supposed to pretend not to notice.

The situation has become so absurd — so transparently political — that Justice Alito called it out in a blistering dissent, highlighting the irony of denying due process in an emergency order supposedly aimed at protecting due process:

In sum, literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order. I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.

The absurdity doesn’t end with the timing. Millions of illegal immigrants already lived in the U.S. before Biden took office. Since then, more than six million (at least) have entered illegally — an estimate even generous analysts won’t dispute.

Now consider the implications: If each of those six million requires a full court hearing before deportation, Trump could devote every waking moment of his presidency to the task and still fall short of removing even that cohort.

The implication is clear. If Biden can import millions without due process, but Trump can’t deport them without it, then the system has no future. Democrats get to flood the electorate with a new dependent voting class during their terms, while Republican presidents get bogged down in endless legal entanglements trying to undo the damage.

Every Republican president becomes a man with a bucket, bailing water from a cruise ship with a hole the size of Mexico.

The left keeps warning that Trump’s battles with the courts risk plunging us into a constitutional crisis. But that crisis began tens of millions of illegal immigrants ago.

Federal judges have already blocked Trump administration efforts to reform the military, reduce spending, and rein in foreign aid. They act as though they — not the president — command the executive branch. Now, the Supreme Court has taken the absurd position that the due process rights of illegal alien gang members matter more than the rights of American citizens.

A government that fails to secure its borders or remove those who violate them abandons its most basic responsibility. No country that tolerates mass illegal presence can long remain a country at all — certainly not for long.

The judiciary isn’t defending the rule of law. It’s eroding it — obstructing legitimate executive action, undermining democratic accountability, and weakening national sovereignty.

The Trump administration has ambitious and vital goals: restoring American industry through tariffs, ending the globalist drift in foreign policy, removing progressive rot from universities, and dismantling the administrative state.

But none of it will matter without mass deportations.

Tens of millions of people live in the United States in defiance of our laws. They must be expelled. The only question is how far the courts will go to damage their own credibility trying to stop it.

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Professional football Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst Shannon Sharpe is facing a $50 million civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault, battery, and emotional abuse. The plaintiff, referred to as “Jane Doe” in court documents, alleges that during their two-year “rocky consensual relationship,” Sharpe raped her twice, recorded sexual encounters without consent, and threatened her.

In an audio clip released to the media by the plaintiff’s attorney, a woman says, “Don’t manipulate me,” to which Sharpe responds, “Oh, Lord have mercy, if you say that word one more time, I’m going to f*****g choke the s**t out of you when I see you.” The woman then sheepishly replies, “I don’t want to be choked.”

Sharpe has vehemently denied the allegations, alleging that the clip was intentionally edited to misrepresent a consensual interaction.

In a recent public statement, he called the lawsuit “a shakedown,” identified the plaintiff as OnlyFans model Gabriella “Gabbi” Zuniga, and claimed that it was “all being orchestrated by Tony Buzbee,” Gabbi’s attorney.

“Tony Buzbee targets black men, and I believe he’s going to release a 30-second clip of a sex tape that tries to make me look guilty and play in to every stereotype you could possibly imagine,” Sharpe said.

He went on to allege that the sex tape was actually “10 minutes” and that the encounter took place “at her invitation.” He accused Gabbi of coordinating “a deliberate setup” and Buzbee of editing the video to “manipulate the media,” promising to meet their lawsuit with a defamation countersuit.

Jason Whitlock and “Fearless” guest Shemeka Michelle dive into the scandal.

Jason believes that Sharpe’s public persona is a significant factor in this controversy. He puts two and two together: If the phone call was consensual, as Sharpe insists it was, then the choking threat must have meant he was playing a character, as he often does on television.

“A lot of times, a character takes on a life of its own that’s out of control and will get the real person in a lot of trouble,” says Jason.

“It’s not the first time I’ve heard a woman — a young woman — claim [she was] choked by Shannon Sharpe,” he adds, noting that he used to work with Sharpe at Fox Sports a few years ago.

But that doesn’t mean he’s on team Gabbi necessarily. Tony Buzbee’s lawsuit record does include the names of several high-profile black men, including Jay-Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Deshaun Watson.

But Jason doesn’t assume Buzbee is just “out to get black men.” What he’s actually after is “doing the bidding of women,” he says.

Shemeka agrees, acknowledging that it’s true that women engage in these relationships with celebrities for the explicit purpose of getting rich.

“I am going to be one of these people to wait to see what information comes out,” she says, noting that if the full context of the phone call between Gabbi and Sharpe is released, it could very well prove that the exchange was part of a role-playing game.

Even if that’s true, Jason thinks Sharpe should know better.

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation and see the footage of Sharpe’s public statement, watch the clip above.

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Police bodycam video shows a Florida man offering cops alcohol during a miles-long car chase that ends with the suspect being tasered and charged with DUI, according to law enforcement officials.

Around 3 p.m. Saturday, employees at the Spring Lake Market reported that a man had stolen several items, including alcoholic beverages. Police later identified the suspect as 39-year-old Richard Christopher Smith of Miami.

‘You guys had fun, though, right?’

Deputies with the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the crime scene to reportedly find a man driving a black minivan in circles around the store. However, the suspect sped off when police arrived.

The sheriff’s office released bodycam video showing a man slowly driving a black minivan near a police officer.

The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office noted that Smith was holding a can of Ketel One vodka spritz out the window of the minivan as he drove by a deputy attempting to pull him over.

Smith is heard in the bodycam footage telling the officer, “I was just going to give you a drink, that’s it.”

The sheriff’s office said in a statement, “We don’t know if he was expecting us to just say ‘Cheers!’ and let him go, or what.”

“After his toast, Smith attempted to ram two patrol vehicles in the midst of getting all four tires flattened by spike strips,” police stated.

The police bodycam footage shows the spike strips deflating the tires and hindering the vehicle from driving at a high rate of speed.

The police pursuit reportedly ended several miles away in the parking lot of a business at the Sebring Airport.

Bodycam video shows the minivan stopped and its front smashed by an unmarked police SUV.

As Smith exits the minivan, officers have their guns drawn and order the suspect to get on the ground. The suspect does not adhere to the commands and casually walks around as he smokes a cigarette.

As the shoeless Smith continues to advance toward a deputy, the officer tases the suspect, who violently falls headfirst on the pavement.

Smith is seen on police bodycam video asking what he’s being arrested for, after which the deputy responds, “A lot of stupid s**t, right now.”

The bodycam footage shows blood pouring from Smith’s head as he asks the arresting officers, “You guys had fun, though, right?” The officers do not appear to be entertained by the suspect’s query.

The sheriff’s office remarked in regard to the incident, “Strange things happen all the time when you’re in law enforcement. This one, however, might make the books.”

“We would be very interested to hear from anyone else who has been offered a vodka spritzer by their suspect in the middle of a vehicle pursuit,” police added. “Or that the same suspect calmly tried to walk away from a crash, puffing on a cigarette, despite being surrounded by deputies.”

According to jail records, Smith faces a litany of charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer, two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, driving under the influence, refusal to submit to a DUI test, and petty theft.

Smith’s bond was set at $120,000.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was lambasted by critics online for a strange question she asked during arguments over parents rejecting controversial books in public schools.

The lawsuit accused the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland of violating the religious rights of parents with students in the school district. They objected to books that included transgender and gay characters being taught to their children.

‘I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parents disagrees with.’

The parents, which included Muslim and Christian Orthodox adherents, asked for an opt-out for their children from any exposure to the left-wing content, but they were denied by the district.

Attorneys for the parents argued that the school district was “compelling instruction designed to indoctrinate petitioners’ children against their religious beliefs.”

While most court watchers agreed that the court appeared to be sympathetic to the parents’ demands, one liberal justice appeared to be critical of the argument in favor of parental rights. Jackson simply said that parents had the option to pull their children out of school if they didn’t like the curriculum.

“I guess I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent’s religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with,” she added. “You have a choice. You don’t have to send your kid to that school. You can put them in another situation. You can homeschool them. How is it a burden on the parent if they have the option to send their kid elsewhere?”

Video of her comments went viral on social media, where many disagreed with the position.

“You’re forced through your tax dollars to fund education you fundamentally disagree with for everyone else’s children and now incur the costs of educating your children on top of that instead of being granted a quite simple accommodation. Wow. Just wow,” read one popular post.

“I shouldn’t have to invoke a religious exemption for simply wanting to protect my child’s innocence while they’re still in preschool or grade school,” said another user.

“I’m sure she did NOT mean for the Parents to put their kids in ‘another situation’ and stop paying their school taxes,” said another.

Other snippets from the hearing led many to suspect that the court would rule on the side of parents asking for an opt-out.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett opined that the books didn’t merely assert the existence of LGBTQ people but included advocacy on the part of the LGBTQ agenda.

“It’s not just exposure to the idea, right?” she said. “It’s saying this is the right view of the world. This is how we think about things. This is how you should think about things. This is like 2 plus 2 is 4.”

The ruling is due by the end of June.

Here’s the video of Brown’s comments:

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