CNN decried the president banning the cable news network from the White House, and the Trump team responded with a crushing reply.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, prompting a defiant response from CNN.

‘The public deserves to hear about its government from independent voices, not just its leader’s loyalists and allies.’

“CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting,” read the statement from CNN.

“We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do that reporting without hindrance or interference from the government,” the network added. “Should the ban which President Trump threatened go ahead, it would be an illegal assault on that fundamental and constitutionally protected right.”

The official White House rapid response team fired right back with a list of hoaxes perpetrated allegedly by the CNN network.

Among those were the Jussie Smollett case, the NASCAR noose hoax, and the Russia collusion hoax.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression objected to the ban in an official statement.

“When the White House opens its doors to the press, it must comply with the First Amendment,” read the statement.

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“The president is as free as any other person to criticize media coverage. But he can’t ban outlets from the White House just because he doesn’t like their reporting or commentary,” they added.

“Press credentials aren’t a reward for loyalty to the government. A free, even adversarial, press is a sign of our country’s strength. The public deserves to hear about its government from independent voices, not just its leader’s loyalists and allies.”

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Activist, journalist, and Unite the Kingdom rally organizer Tommy Robinson chatted with Nick Freitas to warn about the dangers of the Islamic invasion of the West. As the Muslim population pushes out Christian communities, there’s plenty to worry about in the United States and abroad, Robinson believes, but hope lingers on the horizon.

Robinson was born in 1982 in Luton, a small but dense borough in Bedfordshire, England. At the time, Robinson recalled on an episode of “Making the Argument with Nick Freitas” that aired on Friday, only one mosque stood tall in town — a stark contrast to the 45 mosques now in the 17-square-mile region today.

’Muhammad was a war leader. He was a barbarian. He was a rapist. He murdered, beheaded 600 people in one day.’

It’s not just the religious layout of the town that’s changed, though, Robinson claims. It’s the culture.

“White English are now a minority in Luton,” Robinson declared, and he might be right.

Luton census data from 2021 shows that at the time, the white population still held the majority position at 45.2%, with “Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh” coming in second at 37%. However, the data makes no distinction between white English citizens and white non-English citizens.

Even more alarming, census numbers from 2021 and 2011 show a clear trend of the white population decreasing in Luton while all other ethnic categories have made mild to significant gains. Even if the white population isn’t the minority on paper yet, it is clearly on the decline.

Office for National Statistics – 2011 Census and Census 2021/ons.gov.uk

Diversity isn’t necessarily the main problem, Robinson explained to Freitas. After all, he is the son of an Irish newcomer and had school friends from as far away as Italy and Bulgaria.

Instead, he is more concerned about the proliferation of Islam and the Muslim culture over Christianity in his hometown and the Western world at large.

“There’s never been racial tensions in Luton,” Robinson professed. “There’s been religious tensions” with no assimilation.

He went on to highlight an important distinction between the Muslim population and everyone else: “Go into the [Luton] town center and find me any Muslim that’s with a non-Muslim as a friend. You won’t find one.”

According to Robinson, Muslims don’t mingle with non-Muslims in town. Instead, they push other groups out of their communities as they grow from within.

The census data highlights this, as well. In 2021, Christianity fell by 9.5% while the Muslim population grew by 8.3%.

Office for National Statistics – 2011 Census and Census 2021/ons.gov.uk

Robinson views Islam as a primary threat, not just to Luton but to the United States, as well.

“[Islam is] not just another religion. Muhammad wasn’t just another leader. Muhammad was a war leader. He was a barbarian. He was a rapist. He murdered, beheaded 600 people in one day. He’s a very different man. He should not be compared in any sort of way to Jesus Christ.”

In both the U.K. and the United States, the “racist” label, in particular, has become a popular weapon for the left in cases involving Muslims.

“Fear is paralyzing,” Robinson admitted. “And the fear of being branded a racist — these words become so powerful that they paralyze an entire nation of men. The toughest men in the world were scared.”

Britain Is Gone, and America Is Next w/ Tommy Robinson

Today, the West is under attack, Robinson insists. The Islamist threat is already inside the walls of the U.K. in hubs like Luton, and once those are conquered, the United States is next. And if anyone pushes back?

“They’ll go mad,” Robinson issued an ominous warning. “They’ll burn the place. Violence is coming … whether we like it or not.” Luckily, he believes that hope is on the horizon, at least for America.

“If I was Americans, I’d be optimistic, because you’ve got Trump. When you voted for Trump, it wasn’t a vote to save America. It was a vote to save Western civilization. You give us hope.”

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A Washington state high school student made a disturbing mockery of the death of Charlie Kirk, and the school is facing backlash for letting it happen.

A image of the student shows him in a white shirt reading “FREEDOM” but with bloodstains on the left side of the shirt.

‘PASD supports students’ rights to express their views. However, those rights exist alongside our responsibility to maintain safe, respectful learning environments.’

The image led to disgust and outrage against the district, which eventually released a statement stating that celebrating violence was against district policies for students.

“Port Angeles School District is aware of a photo circulating showing a student wearing clothing that did not meet District dress code expectations or the community standards we expect in our schools,” read the statement from the Port Angeles School District.

“We first want to be very clear that clothing that depicts, promotes, or celebrates violence is not permitted or tolerated in our schools,” they added. “We take this issue seriously and have a responsibility to respond thoughtfully, consistently, and with appropriate due process.”

The district went on to say that officials could not comment on the specific actions taken against the student owing to privacy requirements.

“We can share that appropriate corrective action is being taken consistent with district policy on this matter,” the district added. “PASD supports students’ rights to express their views. However, those rights exist alongside our responsibility to maintain safe, respectful learning environments and to enforce District policies.”

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A Blaze News request for comment from the district superintendent was not returned in time for publishing.

Other far-left activists planned disturbing celebrations of Kirk’s death for the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Utah Valley University.

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After a suspicious three-month absence due to health concerns, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) finally made it back to Capitol Hill — though his team ensured that he was hardly heard or seen at all.

In some short audio from his re-emergence, McConnell is heard saying, “I wasn’t sure how many of you would be here today. I’m glad to see you.”

While some senators claimed that McConnell looked “great” during his return, those watching the scarce footage aren’t so sure.

And now, BlazeTV host Pat Gray is shocked to find that he’s missing again.

“Mitch McConnell didn’t show up for work yesterday,” Gray says.

“Just remember that took a lot out of him,” Jeff Fisher comments.

“Took three months to get that body double to look just right on the C-SPAN camera,” executive producer Keith Malinak jokes.

“Exactly, and they did,” Gray says. “So now, missing in action again.”

And Malinak isn’t having it, adding, “This man is not qualified to be a Walmart greeter.”

“No Walmart store manager would put that guy in the front of their store greeting people when they come in. And yet this man holds one of 100 votes in the United States Senate. Get out of my face. This guy should leave now,” he says.

“We were outraged by Biden,” Pat agrees. “If you’re going to be consistent, you’ve got to be outraged by this as well.”

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The overlap between conservative Christians and the Make America Healthy Again movement — which seeks to reverse America’s chronic-disease epidemic by tackling its root causes — is a natural fit, according to Vice President JD Vance.

“A lot of the most committed MAHA people are Christian conservatives because, I think, Christians, we recognize that our bodies are temples created by God. … We’re supposed to be respectful of God’s creation, and obviously our bodies are the act of God’s creation we have the most direct control over,” he tells Steve Deace.

But there are other “Christians” in this country who support the very policies that spit on the sanctity of the human form and even seek to destroy it.

“You’re kind of seeing frankly theological heretics from church denominations that they’ve basically broken and shattered into a thousand pieces,” says Deace.

Leading the charge in Texas is Democrat Senate candidate and professing Christian James Talarico — a man who treats gender ideology for children, unrestricted abortion, and kids in drag as if they were gospel.

To combat the moral confusion people like Talarico cultivate, Deace believes Republicans need a theologically rooted counter-strategy.

“What it means to be in a country that is governed by God-given rights and what that God demands, expects, and has done for us — I think we have to be way more comfortable in having these sorts of deeper conversations on the campaign trail, given how openly heretical a lot of Democrats are with what they’re espousing these days,” he says.

“If we just return fire with technocratism, people are going to choose a bad theology over no theology,” he adds.

Vance calls Deace’s proposal “exactly right.”

“It’s the churches that aren’t afraid of what the Bible actually says that are actually the most energetic and the most vibrant,” he says, “and I think, frankly, those churches are going to be the foundation for rebuilding the center of the United States of America.”

Talarico, in Vance’s telling, represents the opposite.

“I don’t know what this guy is up to. … He’s well-versed in liberal political theology, but he also has a weird obsession with children in drag,” he says.

“People who are particularly concerned with drag queens and particularly focused on the beauty of 11-year-olds dressed in drag or how wonderful it is that you have a 10-year-old who’s taking puberty blockers, very often you peel back the onion, and those people I think have some pretty sick sexual fetishes.”

While Vance acknowledges that he doesn’t “know that that’s true of James Talarico,” the progressive’s comments and record on children in drag and puberty blockers give him serious pause.

“All I know is that it’s very odd when you have a grown man talking about the beauty of 11-year-olds in drag,” he tells Deace. “I would rather a grown man focus on literally anything else.”

To hear the full interview, which covers upcoming midterm elections, AI and data centers, and economic health, among several additional topics, watch the interview above.

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The president has announced that he banned three news outlets from the White House after accusing them of peddling fake news.

President Donald Trump issued the proclamation Friday on Truth Social against CNN, MS Now, and Politico.

‘Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States.’

“I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW … and Politico … from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” he wrote.

He mocked MS NOW for rebranding from MSNBC over a lack of credibility and viewership and referred to canceled subscriptions from the federal government for Politico.

“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” he added. “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”

The president had previously banned the Associated Press from the White House after the organization refused his order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. That ban is being challenged in the courts.

RELATED: Appeals court reinstates Trump ban on Associated Press from White House

The president mocked the AP in comments with other reporters.

“We’re going to keep them out until such time that they agree that it’s the Gulf of America,” the president said to reporters in February 2025.

“I do think that some of the phrases they want to use are ridiculous, and I think, frankly, they’ve become obsolete.”

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Canada isn’t joining the European Union. But Prime Minister Mark Carney has embraced an unprecedented proposal to make Canada the EU’s first “associate member” — and exactly what that means has yet to be decided.

The proposal could draw Canada much more deeply into Europe’s economic and strategic orbit, with closer cooperation on defense, energy, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, digital trade, and even opportunities for Canadians and Europeans to live and work across the Atlantic.

While that’s not an explicit call to adapt European migration policy, it seems fair to ask: How far does Carney ultimately intend that mobility to extend?

And it comes as Canada’s relationship with its overwhelmingly largest trading partner, the United States, remains strained.

Vague ‘ambition’

In a speech Thursday to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Carney publicly welcomed a proposal unveiled a day earlier by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

“Yesterday, President von der Leyen spoke of moving beyond CETA to an alliance for the future — opening the door to Canada becoming the European Union’s first associate member,” Carney said. “Canada welcomes this ambition.”

But “associate member” does not currently describe an established category of EU membership that Canada can simply enter. Carney acknowledged that the two sides would have to determine what the new relationship actually entails.

“An alliance for the future is a unique, positive approach that we will define together, building on our common strengths and based on our shared values,” he said.

That ambiguity raises an obvious question: What exactly would Canada be signing up for?

If “associate membership” ultimately means adopting elements of the EU’s regulatory regime without receiving the voting rights of a member state, Canada could conceivably wind up with some of the obligations of membership but little say in writing the rules.

Migrants welcome?

Immigration is another unanswered question. Carney explicitly called for deeper “people-to-people ties,” including allowing young people “to live, work, and study where they want on either side of the Atlantic.”

While that’s not an explicit call to adapt the EU’s freedom-of-movement rules or to accept European migration policy, it seems fair to ask: How far does Carney ultimately intend that mobility to extend?

The same questions apply to regulation. Would closer integration require Canada to conform to more EU rules on technology, trade, climate, or other areas? Would Canada contribute financially to European programs? Would Ottawa have any formal role in making rules it agreed to follow?

None of those questions has an answer yet. That’s precisely the problem with celebrating “associate membership” before anyone has defined what it means.

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Jumping the gun

Carney nevertheless offered a sweeping description of the relationship he wants.

“Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defense industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space, and payments,” he said.

“We should move towards seamless digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.”

The proposal would build on an economic relationship that already includes the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, as well as Canada’s participation as the first non-European country in the EU’s Security Action for Europe defense initiative.

But there is an enormous economic reality hanging over Carney’s European ambitions: The United States remains by far Canada’s largest export market.

Europe may offer Canada opportunities to diversify. Geography and decades of economic integration, however, aren’t easily wished away.

Tempting tariffs

President Donald Trump has already warned that he could respond with tariffs if he concludes Canada’s closer relationship with the EU is directed against the United States.

When asked about possible Canadian associate membership Wednesday, Trump responded, “If I think it’s at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs” on Canada.

Carney did not name Trump in the passages of his European Parliament speech dealing with Canada’s desire for greater economic independence. But he repeatedly argued that the changing international order requires Canada and Europe to become less vulnerable to pressure from more powerful countries.

“The objective is not self-sufficiency. It is collective resilience,” Carney said.

He argued that Europe offers Canada “market power,” research, advanced manufacturing, and a growing defense industry, while Canada offers Europe energy, critical minerals, and expertise in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space, and finance.

“Where our strengths differ, they complement,” Carney said. “Where they overlap, they create scale.”

Crucial omission

Carney also invoked Canada’s historic ties with Europe and described the two as natural partners in defending democracy and the rule of law.

“We are not fair-weather allies. We do not pursue zero-sum deals,” he said. “Our commitment to the rule of law, and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the same deep roots.”

At one point, Carney credited European resistance movements and European institutions with preserving the continent’s freedom.

“Freedom was won thanks to the heroism of the European resistance during the war,” he said.

That account conspicuously omitted the enormous American contribution to the liberation of Western Europe — not to mention that of Canada itself, Britain, and the other Allies — as well as the postwar American role in European security through NATO and the Marshall Plan.

Carney ultimately framed the proposed partnership as a means of insulating Canada and Europe from coercion by larger powers.

“Canada and Europe are each strong. Europe and Canada are stronger together,” he said.

The goal, he continued, is to ensure that “no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.”

Carney sees Europe as Canada’s path toward greater “strategic autonomy.” His critics may wonder whether Canada is reducing its dependence on one enormous neighbor only by binding itself more closely to a distant political and regulatory bloc.

And until Carney and the EU define what “associate membership” actually means, Canadians won’t know what obligations come with the invitation — or what their country would be getting in return.

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The NFL has already expanded to broadcasting on paid services, and when it expands the league, games might be physically out of reach for fans too.

Prior to the Thursday night game between the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions on Amazon Prime, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell revealed that the league’s global reach could expand into time zones American fans won’t be happy about.

‘We’re looking at how we continue to grow our media exposure globally.’

Is it the return of NFL Europe? Not exactly, but Goodell said the other side of the ocean is the most likely target for any league expansion that may happen.

“I think if we continue to grow, continue to get the kind of reaction, I do think a franchise will be international at some point in time,” Goodell stated, per Fox News.

“I think Europe is the most likely [place], for a lot of reasons. One, the length of time we’ve been playing there. But also, the scheduling is going to be a lot easier.”

The NFL’s European league existed in different forms from 1991 until 2007 with teams in countries like Germany and Spain.

Now the NFL is playing almost 10 games this season on foreign soil, including a game last week in Melbourne, Australia. However, Goodell did reveal that Australia is likely too far.

“Australia might create a few complications for us,” the commissioner admitted.

Furthermore, adding just one team to the 32-franchise league would likely throw things off — leagues don’t typically like to have odd-numbered teams for ease of conferences or games played — and Goodell said he believed more than one expansion team is possible.

“I also believe we could have more than one team, which I think, ultimately, the support is there,” Goodell said, according to Fox News. “Two more teams.”

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In an interview with CNBC, Goodell said, however, 34 teams is “not first on our list,” and the league hasn’t “really spent any time studying it.”

Do players like it?

During that discussion, Goodell was asked if he thought players enjoyed participating in international games, to which he claimed they do take pride in carrying “the mantle” for the league and becoming ambassadors for the sport.

“[They’re] helping to expand the game on a global basis,” Goodell said, adding that players are expanding their own brands at the same time. “I think they see the opportunity.”

Former NFL coach and Super Bowl winner Jon Gruden recently rained on the expansion parade, telling a fan that he thinks the game should be grown in America first.

In fact, Gruden yelled at the fan who was supportive of international play, saying, “If you want to grow the game, grow it in the United States. We got a lot of kids that aren’t playing football. So let’s play games where we need to grow the game in our country. And let’s start and end with that.”

In a response that was as hilarious as it was passionate, Gruden mocked the idea that it was more difficult to travel and play games across the United States generations ago than it is to play internationally today.

“I didn’t see Red Grange playing in Australia. And I never saw Ray Nitschke play in London! OK?! So take that and stick that in your pipe,” Gruden heckled.

RELATED: NFL makes social justice announcement fans probably aren’t going to like

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In terms of when an expansion might happen, Goodell’s contract ends in 2030, so it is conceivable he would want to see the global expansion by that time.

He told CNBC that it is “very possible” to have an international team “someday,” but he purposely did not put a timeframe on it.

“We’re looking at how we grow the number of games. We’re looking at how we continue to grow our media exposure globally,” he said.

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