Trump sends out a politically incorrect – and widely popular – video; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims victory; Homan says migrant kids trafficked to pedophiles under Biden being rescued by ICE; Vatican prelate calls for Korea’s unification; a Maryland Latin and English grammar teacher explains what Cdl. Burke and Hobbits have in common and more —
NATO leader heaps praises on Trump for ‘decisive action’ on Iran
President Donald Trump was hailed at the 2025 NATO Summit after the U.S. struck Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised Trump as a “man of strength” and a “man of peace.”
“I just want to recognize your decisive action on Iran,” Rutte said at the start of his joint remarks with the president. “You are a man of strength, but you are also a man of peace. And the fact that you are now also successful in getting this ceasefire done between Israel and Iran — I really want to commend you for that. I think this is important for the whole world.”
Read more at Fox News
Top 5 moments from Trump’s NATO trip
World leaders gathered in the Netherlands on Tuesday for the 2025 NATO summit, where defense spending, alliance unity, and headline-making moments from President Donald Trump dominated the agenda.
Here are the top five moments from Trump’s appearances at NATO …
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Trump Nukes His Enemies With This Meme
Trump posted a politically incorrect “Bomb Iran” video. Michael Knowles argues that the video, joking about bombing Iran, is an effective PR strategy in a number of ways and harkens back to a precedent set by none other than Julius Caesar …
Watch at Michael Knowles on YouTube (IN: 0:01 OUT: 8:02)
Ayatollah Claims ‘Victory’ Over Israel Which ‘Almost Collapsed’ In 1st Public Appearance Since Ceasefire
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday issued his first comments since the Trump-backed ceasefire with Israel took effect, congratulating “the great nation of Iran” for its “victory over the fake Zionist regime.”
“Despite all that noise, and with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic,” he said, according to the national IRNA news agency. He also claimed to have “delivered a slap to America’s face.”
Read more at Zerohedge
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why the Iranian regime needs to be ‘brought down’
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali says why this particular Iranian regime needs to be “brought down” is because it is committed to exporting the Islamic revolution beyond Iran’s borders,” Ali told Sky News host.
“The regime change is going to come from the Iranian people. They are ready for change.”
Watch at Sky News Australia (6 min.)
CNN Host Says There Is ‘Friendliness’ To Iranians Who Chant ‘Death To America’
CNN host Erin Burnett said on Tuesday that there is a “friendliness” to Iranians who vehemently chant “Death to America.”
While reporting from Iran, Burnett said on “Inside Politics” that Iranians chanting “Death to America” have been “happy” to talk to her and other Americans. Despite Iranians calling for the “death” of the U.S., the CNN host said that the blatant anti-American slogan and the “friendliness” of Iranian citizens coincide.
Read more at msn.com
Leavitt SLAMS CNN’s ‘fake news’ about leaked Iran strike intel: ‘No coincidence’
White House press secretary Karoline Levitt praised the ‘decisive leadership’ of President Donald Trump regarding the strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites and destroys media’s spin with facts.
She announces FBI launching investigation into leaker.
Watch at Fox News
Trump calls for firing of CNN reporter over Iran nuclear damage report
President Trump on Wednesday called for the firing of CNN correspondent Natasha Bertrand, who reported on air that an internal U.S. intelligence assessment found Saturday’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites set back Tehran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out “like a dog,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Read more at The Hill
How and where Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayor’s primary – a borough by borough breakdown
Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) rode a wave of strong support from his home borough and Brooklyn en route to his apparent and stunning upset victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday.
Assuming Mamdani officially clinches the Democratic nomination, he will face off against Mayor Eric Adams, who is running in the general election as an independent, and Curtis Sliwa, who is the sole Republican nominee. Cuomo has said he is exploring the option of an independent run, though he has not made his intent to run in November official yet.
Read more at AMNY
Trump weighs in on Mamdani’s apparent win in NYC mayoral primary
President Trump on Wednesday derided progressive Zohran Mamdani as a “communist lunatic” after Mamdani was poised to win the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City.
Trump offered his first comments on the New York City mayoral primary, which took place on Tuesday and saw Mamdani, a 33-year-old New York State Assembly member, on track to secure the Democratic nomination.
Read more at The Hill
See Trump’s reaction on Truth Social
Border Czar Tom Homan sends a STRONG message to Zohran Mamdani after the mayoral candidate says he’ll ban ICE from NYC
“Good luck with that! ICE is going to TRIPLE DOWN. Federal law trumps state law every day, every hour, every minute”
Watch at Nick Sortor on X
Justice Department Sues All Federal Judges in Maryland over Deportation Order
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland this week over “an order that pauses any deportations under legal challenge in the state for 48 hours” …
The lawsuit represents an unprecedented move after many of the legal challenges against the Trump administration’s policy have been litigated in Maryland courthouses.
Read more at Breitbart
Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census
Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.
President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.
Read more at Real Clear Investigations
Migrant kids trafficked to pedophiles under Biden are being rescued by ICE, border czar Tom Homan says
“Thousands” of migrant children who disappeared after being smuggled across the US-Mexico border under the Biden administration have been rescued from grim fates such as being sex-trafficked to pedophiles, according to border czar Tom Homan — who revealed that a 14-year-old pregnant girl was found living with adult men just two weeks ago. …
Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have also located minors who were forced into servitude on ranches and chicken farms, as the agency searches for hundreds of thousands of migrant children unaccounted for during President Joe Biden’s four-year illegal alien invasion.
Read more at the New York Post
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Rage is a Symptom of a Movement in Decline
The Democrat reaction to the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites exemplified all that’s wrong with the Left today. Suddenly, the same Democrats who cheered Obama’s endless airstrikes were invoking the War Powers Act and demanding congressional approval. Why? Because this time it was Trump’s America that hit back. Their volatile, inconsistent messaging isn’t new.
VDH unpacks the deeper story behind the chaos of how the Democrat Party has surrendered to its most radical base …
Watch at The Daily Signal
Top Biden aide admits to Congress she directed autopen signatures without knowing who gave final approval
A former top aide to President Joe Biden said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president’s inner circle was giving her final clearance, according to a source familiar with the aide’s closed-door testimony in front of Congress Tuesday.
Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, testified for hours Tuesday during an interview in front of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the former president’s mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden’s behalf.
Read more at Fox News
For more information about Neera Tanden, see Influence Watch
Testy exchange between Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen re: Budapest pride parade
Orbán: “I urge the European Commission to refrain from interfering in the law enforcement affairs of Member States, where it has no role to play,”
Von der Leyen: To the LGBT global community – “I will always be your ally.”
Read/watch more @Orbán Viktor on X
“The last straw.” Polish Leader: Germans have lost all inhibitions
We will call for the resignation of Minister of Internal Affairs in connection with the situation on the western border … At the moment, it is clear that Germany has lost all inhibitions – announced Krzysztof Bosak, member of the Polish parliament.
It seems that the procedure of transferring immigrants from Germany to Poland with Warsaw’s consent is gaining momentum. PiS and Confederation politicians are calling on the government to immediately stop allowing African and Middle Eastern citizens into Poland, but subsequent recordings, observations and information, not only from larger Polish cities, confirm that foreigners are being brought into the country.
Read more at Do Rzeczy (English translation available)
Vatican prefect calls for Korean reunification
At the conclusion of an interview devoted primarily to the Jubilee of Priests, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy called for Korean reunification.
Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, the former bishop of Daejon, South Korea, told L’Osservatore Romano that “June 25, 1950 is a date that has profoundly marked the history of the Korean people. That day began a war that caused immense suffering, family separations and wounds that have not yet completely healed” …
Read more at Catholic Culture
Catholics in Seville reduced to tears by botched Virgin Mary restoration
Catholics in Seville have been left distraught by the attempted restoration of an acclaimed 17th-century statue of the Virgin of Macarena that included the effigy being given extra-long eyelashes before having to be removed due to the scale of the backlash.
The 17th-century image of the Virgin of the Macarena, one of Spain’s most famous and beloved Catholic effigies – also known as Our Lady of Hope – has survived war and more, but a “botched” restoration has given it a look akin to someone who has “undergone plastic surgery” …
Read more at The Catholic Herald
Returning to the Heart: Ireland’s Sacred Heart Consecration Draws Thousands to Knock Shrine
Archbishop Eamon Martin renewed Ireland’s consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday “to secure refuge from all dangers, visible and invisible” — 152 years after the Emerald Isle’s first consecration.
The primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh presided over the solemn Mass at the Eucharistic and Marian pilgrimage site of Knock — in the northwest of the country, where a Marian apparition took place in August 1879 — on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
Read more at the National Catholic Register
On Cardinal Burke and Hobbits
In a world and at a time when men have discarded the idea of intellectual truth, it is through the soul and in the imagination that they can, and must, be reached. …
Read more at Crisis
Hero church security guard from Wayne, Michigan shares his story of taking down the active shooter
“Im doing okay. Still processing … Heard automatic rifle fire.. By the Grace of God he missed me … I engaged him and took care of the threat.”
Watch @Benny Johnson on X
Teen makes huge statue of doctor-saint to be canonized
At the end of May, 16-year-old Josue Benjamin Figueroa revealed his 20-foot sculpture of the legendary Venezuelan doctor Blessed Jose Gregorio Hernandez, an iconic figure in many South American countries who will be canonized along with seven other Blesseds on World Mission Sunday, October 19. …
The completed statue was a fulfillment of the promise the artist made on Instagram on Holy Thursday, “to create the largest statue of Blessed Jose Gregorio Hernandez in the world” – a reel of his work went viral, receiving over 71k shares.
Read/see more at Aleteia
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