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By Wayne Allyn Root
Here it is. I just heard the final proof Democrats are now too far gone. There is no compromise possible. We are not going to sing “Kumba-ya” together.
We can’t live with these crazy people anymore- we have absolutely nothing in common. We certainly can’t live with them in power, or having any control of our lives.
This is proof positive that if they ever regain power, America is finished. They will destroy our country forever, and we are all DOA.
So, what is this powerful new proof?

Rasmussen just announced the results of their latest poll…71% of Democrats and 80% of self-described “liberals” believe Elon Musk should be put in prison for his work at DOGE.
Prison.
Just let this sink in: According to Democrats, anyone who wants to cut insane levels of spending, debt, waste and looting of taxpayer money is a criminal who should be arrested and sent to prison.
Oh my God.
Democrats now believe it’s a crime to cut government. It’s a crime to cut waste. It’s a crime to identify theft and looting by government employees. It’s a crime to prove millions of Americans are stealing billions of dollars with fake Social Security numbers.

It’s a crime to prove we are spending taxpayer money on terrorist organizations, and on promoting DEI and the transgender agenda in foreign countries. It’s a crime to close government agencies who serve no purpose, or who have failed miserably for decades.
It’s a crime to lay off government employees who are so useless and lazy, they refuse to write on a piece of paper what they actually do every day.
Here’s what makes this such big news. Even though I’m 180% opposed to everything Democrats believe in, in most cases, on most issues, I can at least understand their crazy arguments.

Take open borders.
Of course, its national suicide to want to invite the whole world in. Of course, it’s the intentional destruction of America. Of course, it will lead to the collapse of our economy under the weight of the insane spending and debt necessary to pay for millions of criminals and lazy freeloaders. Of course, it destroys our healthcare and public school systems. Of course, Americans will be murdered, robbed and raped by these foreign invaders.
But at least I can understand the ignorant liberal argument. Democrats want us to have compassion for people merely looking for “a better life for their families.” They believe all these diverse foreigners make America a better country.
And of course, the big bonus for Democrats is these millions of foreign invaders will all vote Democrat and turn America into a one-party state forever more. So, I understand why they want open borders.

Take green energy.
Sure, it’s a fairy tale. It doesn’t work. It’s a failure. It’s unaffordable. It’s national suicide- it will kill millions of good high-paying jobs, produce massive inflation, and quadruple energy bills. In short, it will destroy the great American middle class.
But at least I can understand the ignorant liberal argument. They think the world is ending due to climate change caused by humans. They think mankind can save the planet by reducing greenhouse gases. They think they’re doing good- while they fly around the world in private jets.
Take socialism.
Socialism and high taxes have wrecked every economy in world history. We have proof right now inside America- blue states are dying economically and bleeding population, while red states are thriving, economies soaring, jobs exploding, and populations increasing dramatically.

But at least I can understand the ignorant liberal argument. They believe government can spend your money more wisely than you can. They think high taxes create “equality.” Of course, as usual, they’re wrong- it creates “shared poverty and misery.” But I understand their stupid argument.
Take DEI.
The result of DEI is DIE- it kills whatever it touches. And of course, it’s “racism” to hire someone based on skin color- even if the color is black or brown.

But I understand that white liberals are weak, pathetic, self-destructive, guilt-ridden fools who hate themselves for being born white. So, I understand why they believe their own foolish argument.

The list goes on and on. Democrats are wrong about everything, but I can at least understand their pathetic, foolish, faulty reasoning.
But sending Elon to prison for cutting waste, fraud and looting? That one has no argument.
if 71% of Democrats and 80% of liberals want Elon Musk arrested and put in prison for daring to expose the waste, corruption and looting of government, then they aren’t just ignorant, foolish, or insane. They aren’t just delusional or naïve. They aren’t just like Kamala- dumb as a box of rocks.

They’re evil, corrupt, brainwashed radical communist suicide bombers.
They hate us, and they hate this country. They worship Satan. And they’re too far gone for us to ever live under their rule again.
This story is proof they are dangerous. They want to commit suicide and take us with them. They cannot ever be allowed near the seat of power ever again; and we can’t live with them. We’re kidding ourselves.

These are bad people- not only the Democrat leadership, but with numbers like 71% and 80%, it’s almost all Democrats.
If Democrats ever regain power, and control of our lives, we are DOA.
Expect Big Brother on steroids: 15-minute cities; climate change lockdowns; forced experimental vaccines filled with poison to kill us; banning cars; banning meat; banning free speech; arrests for criticizing government on social media; open borders at unimaginable levels- inviting every evil murdering scumbag possible into America; massive inflation caused by 100% transition to green energy; prison terms for “misnaming” transgenders; everyone jobless and living on welfare, food stamps and universal government paychecks; and our every move controlled by China, the CCP, the UN and the WHO.

In short, we can never, never, never, EVER allow Democrats to regain power, or control of our lives.
Because our lives depend on it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “Raw & Unfiltered” at UntamedNation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats! […]

In a historic policy shift, Germany’s new Merz-led government has effectively abolished open-border asylum entry by ordering immediate pushbacks of all illegal migrants at its national borders, ending nearly a decade of de facto mass migration policies that critics say have destabilized Europe.
Anyone seeking asylum must now apply in the first E.U. country they enter, in many cases, Greece. If they do not, they are to be turned back or deported.
3,000 additional officers will be sent to patrol and police Germany’s borders as well.
Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) issued the sweeping directive at midday Tuesday, authorizing German Federal Police to tighten border controls and escalate pushbacks for any non-citizen attempting to enter the country without valid documentation, even those requesting asylum.

Dobrint was quoted as saying they want to ‘send a signal’ to the world that the open borders policies of the past no longer apply to Germany.
Friedrich Merz, the newly installed Chancellor and longtime leader of Germany’s center-right CDU, has positioned himself as a course-correcting alternative to the Merkel era, pledging to restore order, enforce national sovereignty, and reclaim conservative voters disillusioned by years of open-border policies and technocratic globalism.
The German government has been trying to stop the rise of the “Alternatives for Germany” party, which the government labels as ‘far-right’ but which has opposed the country’s suicidal open borders policies.

AfD has quickly become Germany’s most popular and powerful party, and deep state elites in the German government have tried to shut it down with a variety of illegal tactics.
German elites were paralyzed with fear that AfD was going to win enough votes to take control.
Germany’s population of 84.7 million include 13.1 million foreign-born, of whom nearly 3.5 million were considered refugees. 42% of individuals under the age of 15 in Germany were either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent, according to 2022 government data.

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged in recent years by capitalizing on widespread frustration over uncontrolled migration, crime, inflation, and a political class seen as aloof and unaccountable. Once dismissed as a fringe movement, the AfD now polls in second place nationally and holds governing power in multiple localities, with its strongest support concentrated in the former East Germany. The party’s relentless focus on immigration, national identity, and EU overreach has made it the primary vehicle for dissent against the Merkel-era policies, forcing establishment parties like the CDU to adopt tougher rhetoric and policy shifts, such as the recent border pushback directive, as a defensive maneuver.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently denounced the surveillance and tyranny used to suppress the AfD party. In response, German leftists said Rubio was acting like Hitler.
This change on German immigration revokes a controversial 2015 order from former Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (CDU), which instructed German authorities to admit all undocumented third-country nationals who requested asylum, regardless of their legal status or point of EU entry. That decade-old verbal order became the legal foundation for Germany’s open-border policy under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

AfD, by contrast, had campaigned on mass deportations.
Tensions over immigration, often encouraged by far-left non-profits and open borders supporters, has led to major political tensions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and across the western world.
Crime by refugees and foreign-born immigrants was a common flash point, as well as the escalating social benefit cost to house, clothe, feed, and educate the foreigners.

Again a Syrian “refugee” (came to Germany in 2016, never worked a day) knife killed another man in Berlin.
Every day. Every fucking day. https://t.co/bw6yyDfnMc pic.twitter.com/3foAwAZXjR
— Kaiser (@eagleeye2805) April 17, 2025

President Trump is widely credited with his stunning 2024 victory because of his strong and principled stance against illegal immigration.
Dobrindt’s reversal, which takes immediate effect, restores enforcement of the long-ignored “Dublin Regulation,” which is a European Union policy stating that asylum seekers must apply for protection in the first EU country they enter. Merkel famously discarded this rule at the height of the 2015 migrant crisis to ease pressure on countries like Greece and Italy, a move that many say triggered an unprecedented wave of uncontrolled migration into Germany.

According to BILD, more than 3 million migrants have crossed into Germany since the policy began, many of whom destroyed their identity documents to avoid deportation, taking full advantage of generous German welfare systems while bypassing asylum eligibility rules.

“From today, ALL migrants will be prevented from crossing Germany’s land borders illegally, even if they claim asylum,” BILD reported, marking what could be the most significant immigration policy rollback in modern German history.
The political consequences are just as explosive. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party CSU have hemorrhaged support in recent years to the populist-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party that surged in popularity by slamming Merkel’s migration policies and demanding border controls. Insiders suggest the new directive is a last-ditch effort to recapture voters defecting to the AfD, now polling at record highs in multiple German states.
CDU parliamentary leader Jens Spahn confirmed that the pushbacks will go forward even if neighboring countries object. Under EU treaties, countries like Austria are obligated to accept rejected migrants if Germany refuses them entry. Though Austria has already issued a sharp rebuke, German leaders are reportedly undeterred.

Legal experts note that unless reversed by EU courts, the German government is within its rights to reassert its border authority. If Germany remains firm, observers expect a domino effect, with other EU countries following suit potentially restoring the long-collapsed security framework at Europe’s external borders.
That, however, hinges on political will. Activist protests, legal challenges, and aggressive media opposition are certain to follow. Left-wing groups are already framing the policy as a human rights crisis in the making, despite the fact that migrants entering Germany from neighboring countries like Austria, France, or Poland are not fleeing warzones.
In reality, critics argue, the past ten years have exposed a broken asylum system, where economic migrants exploit humanitarian loopholes to gain entry to countries with generous social services and left-wing governments played along.

The German political class spent years insisting “nothing could be done.” Dobrindt just proved otherwise.
Despite telling the public that these policies were impossible to change, they were, instead, able to be changed at any moment.
The pushback order, if maintained, may not only mark the end of ‘Merkelism’, it could also signal the collapse of one of the most self-destructive political eras in European history.
The prior neoliberal policies of low birthrates and open borders was leading to a demographic collapse across western nations that some label a ‘national suicide.’ […]

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By Wayne Allyn Root
RFK Jr. is fantastic. A breath of fresh air. He is the boldest and most important HHS Secretary in history, and perhaps the most important Cabinet Secretary of our lifetimes.
I’m proud to report that I urged President Trump way back in June of 2023, and again in August of 2024 (right here at The Gateway Pundit), to give RFK Jr. the role of HHS Secretary or “Health Czar.” See:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/wayne-root-make-america-healthy-again-how-rfk/
RFK Jr. has worked out exactly as I’d hoped. I did not know his views on most political issues or policies. But I knew one thing- I absolutely agreed 100% with Bobby Kennedy’s views on health freedom, the Covid vaccine, the autism epidemic, a healthy distrust of Big Pharma, and a hatred for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Because of all of that, I argued he’d be the perfect choice to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Boy was that opinion a bullseye!
In just a 48-hour period last week, RFK Jr. admitted that chemtrails are real; we are being poisoned from the skies; he named the agency behind this geoengineering nightmare (DARPA); he accused Biden’s HHS of being complicit in child sex trafficking; and pointed out the so-called “measles epidemic” is a media exaggeration that pales in comparison to the autism epidemic. Bravo.
That’s certainly the best 48 hours by any Cabinet Secretary in my lifetime!

Yet we’re all still waiting for the biggest and most important truth bomb ever- when will RFK Jr. announce the Covid vaccine was a combination of pure fraud, get-rich-quick scam, the worst healthcare disaster in history, the biggest coverup in history, mass murder and crimes against humanity.
We’re waiting Bobby.
And he should also throw in a statement urging a modern-day “Nuremberg Trials” for everyone responsible for killing and injuring millions with this deadly poisonous experimental vaccine- starting with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Back in the 1970’s, the swine flu vaccine program was cancelled after over 50 million Americans were given the shot. Why? Because 30 Americans died after getting the shot. THIRTY.

The famous rule for doctors applied: “Physician first, do no harm.”
Of course, it’s unacceptable for any “cure” to result in the death of perfectly healthy patients. Yet the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) has clearly reported since early 2021 the Covid jab is the most deadly vaccine ever. Keep in mind, we don’t have 30 dead from the Covid vaccine…
VAERS reports about 20,000 suspected dead from the Covid vaccine.

But that’s misleading. Harvard studied VAERS a decade ago and reported only 1% of vaccine deaths are ever reported by medical professionals. So, multiply 20,000 deaths by 100. That would estimate as many as two million Americans killed by the Covid vaccine.
Dr Peter McCullough, one of America’s most brilliant cardiologists and vaccine experts, says at a minimum the Covid vaccine has killed 500,000 Americans.
That’s as many deaths as the Civil War. 

Just think about this…What if any company in America sold a defective and deadly product- a car manufacturer, food company, or vitamin maker. And despite trials showing thousands of deaths and injuries; and then upon product launch, hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries; yet America experienced a total blackout by mainstream media, making billions of dollars off the advertising buys by Big Pharma. Just picture that.
What would happen to the CEO and all the executives involved?

How quickly would that car, or vitamin, or food product be pulled off store shelves?

How quickly would that CEO and all executives involved be indicted for fraud and mass murder?
Every liberal in America would scream for the death penalty.
Why is the response to the Covid vaccine deaths and injuries so different?

Here are just a few studies about the deadly Covid vaccine that I’ve found in recent days… 
New study reports Americans 6x more likely to be hospitalized from Covid vaccine than Covid infection:
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-new-ucsf-study-shows-vaccinated
New study of deaths from 2020 to 2023 reports deaths skyrocketed after Covid vaccine:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-mccullough-sounds-alarm-after-study-shows-covid-deaths-skyrocketed-after-vaccinations/
Study in Italy reports those who took Covid vaccine are 2.4x more likely to DIE than the unvaccinated:
https://slaynews.com/news/all-cause-deaths-surging-covid-vaxxed-study-warns/
Japanese study reports repeated Covid vaccines damages immune system and promotes cancer growth:
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/bombshell-repeated-mrna-cov-19-vaccination
Scientists confirm Covid vaccines responsible for surge of heart attacks and heart deaths:

https://slaynews.com/news/bioinformatics-scientists-confirm-covid-vaccines-caused-sudden-heart-deaths-surge/
New study reports those who took two or more Covid vaccines are likely to lose three DECADES off their lifespan:
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/3-decades-wiped-from-life-expectancy
German study shows Covid vaccine leads to genetic changes, immune damage and increases cancer:
https://discernreport.com/mrna-vaccines-linked-to-genetic-changes-that-can-cause-cancer-autoimmune-disorders/
Worldwide study of 2.3 million people reports Covid vaccine damages immune system:

https://slaynews.com/news/study-2-3-million-covid-vaccines-destroy-immune-system/
UK government data shows Covid vaccinated adults have 40% loss of immune system:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/uk-govt-data-shows-covid-vaccinated-have-suffered-40-collapse-in-immune-system-capability/

New evidence from Yale links Covid vaccine to alarming syndrome:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/yale-scientists-link-covid-shot-rare-alarming-syndrome/
Japanese study reports children are dying after taking Covid jab:

https://slaynews.com/news/japan-issues-alert-as-vaccinated-child-deaths-surge/
Oxford doctors report vaccinated children are dying suddenly, while unvaccinated children are healthy:
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-oxford-study-shows-only-the-kids

New study reports children are 6x more likely to die after getting Covid jab:
https://slaynews.com/news/children-6-times-more-likely-die-covid-vaccine/
The latest life insurance numbers report life expectancy plunges for those who received Covid vaccine:

https://www.truth11.com/insurance-data-shows-life-expectancy-plunging-mortality-rates-soaring-among-the-covid-vaccinated/
AUTOPSIES show deaths caused by Covid vaccine:
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/breaking-news-twice-censored-landmark

This is just a small sampling of recent studies.
I have compiled hundreds of more studies and data proving the Covid vaccine is the worst healthcare disaster in history, yet government isn’t taking action. Why?

It’s time for big, bad, bold RFK Jr. to announce this experimental Covid vaccine is akin to mass murder and crimes against humanity.
It’s time for RFK to announce he is suspending or cancelling the Covid vaccine program effective immediately.
At the very least, it’s time for RFK Jr. to announce he is banning the Covid vaccine from the childhood vaccine schedule.
And it’s time for RFK Jr. to call for modern-day “Nuremberg Trials.” 
What did Big Pharma’s CEOs, politicians, and government officials know, and when did they know it? And why did the media choose to cover-up the deaths and injuries?
It’s time to act. RFK Jr. was born to be the bold and honest man to do it.
Just be sure he has plenty of Secret Service protection around him!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “Raw & Unfiltered” at UntamedNation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats! […]

Trump’s Department of Energy has fired 114 federal employees at a Colorado ‘Green Energy’ Lab. They worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and laid off last week as a result of funding cuts under the Trump administration, which is moving to dismantle Biden-era energy subsidies to low-return fields such as solar and wind programs.
The cuts represent roughly 3% of the lab’s workforce, and the individuals were terminated with the lab citing federal budget constraints, new priorities from the Department of Energy, and specific stop-work orders.
On its website, however, it still listed 60 open and unfilled jobs.
Trump has been widely cutting waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government since being sworn into office.

The layoffs come amid the Trump administration’s proposed FY2026 budget, which includes deep cuts to the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the office that oversees NREL. According to Reuters, the proposed budget would slash EERE taxpayer funding by roughly 80%, from over $4 billion to just under $800 million.
Located in Golden, Colorado, NREL is a government-funded research lab that focuses on developing renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, hydrogen, energy storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure. It employs roughly 3,700 people and is managed for the Department of Energy by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, a partnership between Battelle and MRIGlobal.
The organization operated 696 in 2015, going through massive expansion in the past decade.

Major roadblocks exist to wide-scale adoption of these technologies. Wind energy is intermittent and transmission lines degrade much of its power generation. Solar is appropriate in the southwestern states, but due to the tilt of the planet and weather patterns, is not productive in most of the country. Electric vehicle infrastructure requires major upgrades to the nation’s energy transmission lines prior to widescale adoption.
The Department of Energy confirmed that stop-work orders had been issued across several clean energy programs, including those at NREL.
A spokesperson from the DOE told Reuters that the agency was undertaking a broad review of all energy-related spending and had directed reductions to align with its current policy priorities.

The administration’s new direction marks a sharp departure from the Biden administration’s approach, which directed hundreds of billions of dollars toward climate and green energy initiatives through legislation such as the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s energy policy platform, by contrast, has emphasized domestic fossil fuel production, a rollback of net-zero emissions policies, and a stated intention to withdraw from international climate agreements.
Biden’s administration was also caught by Project Veritas trying to divert over $20 billion to friendly left-leaning ‘green’ energy non-profits in its last weeks. In a video release, an EPA official Brent Efron described the funds transfers as “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.” The new EPA Director Lee Zeldin has said that he identified, seized, and canceled the last minute Biden grant transfers and recovered the funding.
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan attempted to block the funds seizure and force Trump to fund these green energy efforts. She was reversed by the Appellate court.

‘Green’ funding has been a major source of funds for left-leaning organizations and provides staffing for a large number of activists.
The global renewable energy market is estimated to be $1.19 trillion in 2025. The global oil market, by contrast, is estimated to be $3.21 trillion.
Renewable energy sources accounted for approximately 21% of total U.S. electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). This includes energy from wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, and geothermal projects.

Several left-wing run states, such as California and Michigan, have passed renewable energy mandates requiring the state’s total energy generation to come only from renewables by certain deadlines.
As of 2025, 28 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have enacted Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)—legally binding mandates requiring utilities to source a specified percentage of their electricity from renewable sources by set deadlines. An additional seven states have established voluntary renewable energy goals. These command and control top-down political policies are driving the expansion of clean energy across the nation. California mandates 60% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% clean electricity by 2045. Minnesota requires 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040, with interim targets of 80% by 2030 and 90% by 2035. New York requires 70% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% zero-emissions electricity by 2040.

There is no state that could currently shift to all-renewable energy.

According to KDVR News, the layoff notices were issued last week, with some affected employees escorted off the premises. The outlet reported that while some layoffs were anticipated, the sudden scale of the terminations came as a surprise to many within the organization.
A spokesperson for NREL confirmed the figure of 114 layoffs but did not comment on specific departments or projects that were affected. The lab stated that it remains committed to its core mission and that it will continue working on key areas of energy innovation.
However, the lab’s ability to maintain its current research output is now in question. Many of the programs housed at NREL, particularly those in early-stage development or those without immediate commercialization prospects, are likely to be on the chopping block as funding contracts and directives shift.

The layoffs are part of a broader trend across the Department of Energy. According to Reuters, other federal energy programs focused on long-term decarbonization goals have also been halted or scaled back. In some cases, contracts with outside energy consultants and universities have been paused or cancelled.
Colorado politicians reacted swiftly to the developments. Democratic Senator Michael Bennet and Governor Jared Polis criticized the funding reductions, citing Colorado’s role as a national leader in renewable energy research and warning of potential long-term damage to the state’s economy.
Despite those objections, the Trump administration appears committed to prioritizing what it calls “energy independence through realistic investment,” with a preference for infrastructure projects that deliver near-term returns and reinforce U.S. energy security.

The 114 layoffs represent one of the most significant workforce reductions at NREL in recent years. The lab has seen rapid expansion over the past two decades, particularly during the Obama and Biden administrations, when renewable energy programs received lavish levels of federal investment.
Critics of the funding cuts argue that the layoffs will set back U.S. competitiveness in the clean energy sector and cause lasting harm to climate innovation. Supporters argue that bloated and underperforming federal labs should not be immune from fiscal discipline and that research spending must yield measurable returns to taxpayers.
NREL’s portfolio includes a wide range of programs, from advanced solar cell development to electric grid optimization and hydrogen fuel deployment. While some of these projects may continue with scaled-down funding, others may be shelved indefinitely.

The cuts also reflect a broader political realignment of federal science spending, with emphasis now being placed on applied research, economic competitiveness, and infrastructure resilience over speculative or ideologically driven climate models.
The Department of Energy has not yet issued a comprehensive list of programs affected by the stop-work orders or whether more layoffs are expected. NREL’s website still reflects ongoing work across a number of renewable platforms, though it is unclear which of these remain fully funded.
Left-wing policy groups have claimed that all of Trump’s firings, layoffs, and reductions in force are illegal. […]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has removed a controversial anti-gun exhibit from its national headquarters.
The memorial display, called the ‘Faces of Gun Violence,’ consisted of 120 portraits of individuals killed in gun-related incidents and was installed under the Biden administration and was taken down earlier this year by Trump-appointed officials.
The decision, confirmed by the Department of Justice, marks yet another reversal of subversive gun control messaging embedded into federal agencies during Biden’s term.
The ATF has still kept the anti-gun propaganda video on its YouTube page.

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DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin stated that the removal was not a political act but part of broader efforts to “balance agency messaging” with the Second Amendment values affirmed by recent Supreme Court rulings.
The display included images of high-profile victims such as Robert Godwin Sr., who was murdered in Cleveland in 2017, and portraits of children killed in school shootings, alongside slain law enforcement officers. While originally presented as a neutral tribute, critics long argued that the exhibit was a thinly veiled anti-gun propaganda, intentionally placed in a federal law enforcement building to reinforce a narrative in favor of further firearm restrictions.
Gun control activists and Biden-aligned interest groups reacted with outrage. Kris Brown, president of Brady United Against Gun Violence, accused the ATF of being “politicized” and called the removal “a gut punch to every American family affected by gun violence.” Brenda Haymon Joiner, mother of one of the victims featured in the exhibit, also issued a statement calling the action “cruel and deeply disrespectful.”

Elderly left-wing Star Trek actor George Takei, on Facebook, denounced the change and claimed it re-traumatized the victims’ families.

But to many Second Amendment supporters, the removal was long overdue.
Ammoland, a prominent firearms news outlet, posted a video applauding the decision, calling the exhibit “a taxpayer-funded guilt trip” that cast suspicion on law-abiding gun owners by implying collective responsibility for criminal violence. The outlet’s editorial noted that many of the highlighted deaths had no connection to legally-purchased firearms or ATF-regulated activity, raising questions about the exhibit’s relevance to the agency’s mission.

During the Biden years, the ATF came under fire for increasingly partisan messaging, including partnering with groups such as Everytown for Gun Safety and appearing at activist events. The memorial exhibit was one of several initiatives quietly pushed into public view without input from Congress or the firearm-owning public.
ATF leadership has indicated it is exploring other ways to honor victims of crime without conflating tragedy with political ideology. Gilmartin noted the agency will “seek a more inclusive and respectful approach” that doesn’t alienate millions of responsible gun owners.
ATF leadership has been undergoing a significant change since the departure of Joe Biden. ATF’s Chief Counsel Pamela Hicks was fired by the Trump administration and escorted out of the Washington, D.C. headquarters on February 20th.

The current Acting Director of the ATF is Daniel Driscoll.
Left-wing activists deliberately use the phrase “gun violence” as a way to include suicides, accidental shootings, and shootings by law enforcement as a way to inflate their statistics. The older phrase “gun crime” more than halves the amount of annual incidents involving a gun. In 2022, for example, there were approximately 48,204 firearm-related deaths in the United States but suicides were 27,032 deaths, accounting for about 56% of all gun-related deaths. Homicides involving a gun, by contrast, were approximately 19,651 deaths, making up about 41% of the total of “gun violence” in the year.
Meanwhile, left-wing outlets like National Public Radio and Hyperallergic are framing the exhibit’s removal as a ‘cruel erasure’ of victims’ memories — ignoring the broader context of politicized federal overreach. Their coverage fails to mention that no such exhibit ever existed honoring victims of knife violence, gang shootings, or border-related crime — all of which statistically eclipse the types of incidents highlighted by the display. […]

This weekend in Rapid City, South Dakota, a life-size bronze statue of President Trump was officially unveiled as part of the “City of Presidents” project, a privately-funded art initiative that places full-sized statues of every U.S. president throughout downtown Rapid City.
Trump takes his rightful place alongside Reagan, Coolidge, Taft, McKinley, Jefferson, Washington, and the rest.
The statue was designed by South Dakota sculptor James Maher, and it captures Trump mid-speech. The statue, which was completed prior to Trump’s 2024 historic election victory, will be housed in the city’s Elks Theater over the summer before being installed permanently outdoors.
“The City of Presidents is a vital part of Rapid City and a story of American history,” said Ally Formanek, interim CEO for Visit Rapid City. “We look forward to introducing the latest installment of this art project to the public.”

Local leaders were in attendance, including U.S. Congressman Dusty Johnson and Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun, both of whom acknowledged the significance of the moment. Maher, the sculptor, called Trump “a consequential figure in American history,” and noting the care that went into the decision to include him.
The inclusion of Trump in this trail of presidential statues is controversial only because media, academia, and the Left have waged a nonstop campaign to demonize him since 2015.
The left even has an ongoing project to make grotesque and ugly short-lived statues of Trump, called the “Trump Statue Initiative.”

Despite the statue’s addition being consistent with the project’s original mission to represent every American president without political bias, leftist protesters gathered outside. Holding signs and shouting, the protestors were a small but noisy presence, desperate to remind the world that even a nonpartisan art installation cannot exist without their interference.
President Trump won a historic re-election in 2024 with a majority of the popular vote, and a resounding electoral mandate. Trump won the state of South Dakota by a 63-34 margin.
Congressman Johnson, brushing off the protests, emphasized that the City of Presidents is about unity and history, not division. “These statues are meant to honor the office and remember what each president brought to the nation. This is not about political sides,” he said.

The City of Presidents project began in the year 2000 and has placed statues of every past president throughout the city, each one funded by private donations. Unlike taxpayer-funded art installations elsewhere, this trail is built by citizens and small donors who want to preserve history and attract tourism to the state’s second-largest city.
The Trump statue was funded by donor Paul Bradsky.
Sculptor James Maher acknowledged that creating Trump’s statue was a political challenge. “There’s a lot of passion surrounding him, good and bad,” Maher said. “But he was elected president. Twice, arguably.” The crowd chuckled at the line, which drew a subtle nod to the ongoing controversies surrounding the 2020 election.

While many local outlets covered the event with subdued headlines, national media largely ignored it. CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times had no front-page stories on the statue’s unveiling.
Trump’s popularity in America’s heartland remains strong. And for the millions who voted for him, not once, not twice, but three times in a row, this statue is more than bronze and stone.
The statue will be on display at the Elks Theater through the summer before taking its permanent place downtown, where visitors from across the country can stand face-to-face with the man who shook Washington to its core.

Trump has personally said in March that he wants to make it a priority to restore statues and memorials to America, after years of leftists tearing down historical objects because of various historical thoughtcrimes. Leftists have torn down around 100 confederate statues, over 40 Christopher Columbus statues, as well as a Theodore Roosevelt statue.
Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly proposed the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes, a large outdoor park that would feature 250 statues of notable figures from U.S. history. Framed as a counter to the wave of monument removals across the country, Trump described the garden as a tribute to “the greatest Americans to ever live.” His executive order called for statues of a wide range of figures, from George Washington and Frederick Douglass to Amelia Earhart and Billy Graham. The idea emphasized celebrating patriotic accomplishment and historical legacy through physical monuments, though the garden was never funded or constructed. Trump has said recently that he plans to use the funding from scrapped grants from the National Endowment from the Humanities to fund these statues.

A similar effort to that in Rapid City was the Virginia Park of Presidents, more formally known as ‘Presidents Park’, which was once an outdoor sculpture park near Williamsburg, Virginia featuring 43 massive concrete busts of U.S. Presidents. Each sculpture stood about 20 feet tall, modeled with striking detail by artist David Adickes. The park opened in 2004 but closed in 2010 due to financial difficulties. Rather than being destroyed, the busts were relocated to a private farm in Croaker, Virginia, where they now sit weathered and cracked, scattered in a field with some missing chunks or bearing water damage. Though decaying, the statues have developed a cult following and have been the subject of photo essays and documentaries. […]

Christopher Schurr was a Grand Rapids Police Officer who got into a fight with Patrick Lyoya in the early morning of on April 4, 2022. During the struggle, Lyoya fought Schurr for control of Officer Schurr’s Taser and was fatally shot by the Officer during the scuffle.
The jury, deliberating on the trial today, have reported to the judge that they are deadlocked in the case. The judge has asked them to continue deliberating.
Officer Schurr originally stopped the car driven by Lyoya because the license plate did not match the make and model of the vehicle. The case has become a media sensation because the victim, Lyoya, was a black immigrant, and the law enforcement Officer Schurr, is white.
At the time of his death, Lyoya’s driver’s license had been revoked and there was an active arrest warrant for him for a domestic violence case, details his family and supporters call “irrelevant.”

The local chapter of the NAACP agrees, Cle Jackson, President of the Greater Grand Rapids NAACP said, “Whatever he had, warrants, past run-ins with the law, it has no bearing on what happened in this case.”
Officer Schurr was charged in June 2022. The jury in his criminal case, chosen at random, is made up of 10 women and 4 men. 10 of the jurors are white, 3 are latino, and 1 is black. 1 juror is an immigrant.
It’s undisputed that Lyoya ran from and fought with the police. The main argument by defenders of the deceased is to complain that the fatal shot was to the back of the head. Their logic is that by shooting him in the back of the head, he was no longer resisting.

“He shot him in the back of the head … When you put a gun in somebody’s back of the head, there’s an intent to kill there,” Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker told the jury. The prosecutor has alleged that even though Lyoya was fighting for the Taser, that the fight was not worth the use of deadly force because Tasers are not lethal and did not pose a ‘dire threat’ to the officer and that there was ‘no evidence that Lyoya intended to harm’ Officer Schurr.
Tasers are lethal and have been connected to a significant number of deaths.
Officer Schurr claims he acted in self-defense.

The political left has a long history of trying to defend obviously guilty black criminals against white law enforcement officers, by creatively cherry-picking facts and using narrative framing to racialize common police encounters. In this way, the media and activists lied for years about the 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida where activists lied about the background of Martin and the fight he started with George Zimmerman resulting in Zimmerman’s bloody head injuries. Similarly, the 2014 Mike Brown shooting in St. Louis was defined by lies about Brown saying “Hands up, Don’t Shoot!” which was not true. Radical left activists and judges were able to jail the McMichaels family in Georgia on both state and federal charges after the 2020 death of Ahmaud Arbery despite video evidence showing Arbery grabbing a shotgun and starting the fight that ended with his death. The 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off riots across the country that resulted in an estimated $1-2 billion in damages, after activists claimed Floyd was suffocated by Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee to the back of his neck, even though Floyd had injested a fatal dose of Fentanyl and asked to be laid on the ground prior to Chauvin’s knee being put on Floyd’s shoulderblade. Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, and 22 1/2 years in state prison.
Left-wing activists have been busy building a narrative of perceived injustice against law enforcement based on these incidents that later prove to be factually flawed.
Surveys show that police recruitment is down 10% nationwide, and 70% of jurisdictions report significant trouble recruiting officers, the effect, many claim, to the left-wing racialization of law enforcement.

Bodycam footage of the shooting has been available and makes clear that:

Lyoya resisted arrest
Lyoya ran from Officer Schurr
Lyoya fought with Officer Schurr
Lyoya ignored commands to ‘stop’

The bodycam deactivated prior to the final, fatal, shot fired by Schurr at Lyoya and restarted when emergency medical technicians were trying to revive Lyoya.
The decision to try Officer Schurr for second-degree murder, though the juror can consider a charge of voluntary manslaughter. The two crimes, under Michigan law, can carry penalties of life imprisonment, or, in the case of manslaughter, up to 15 years in a state prison.

Demonstrators outside the courthouse have already gotten physical today.
Every officer called to the stand has said that Schurr’s actions were reasonable.

Schurr’s police captain Chad McKersie testified and said, “We don’t have to wait for someone to hurt us to do something.” 

The media is trying to set the stage for another race hoax and city riots by stoking racial anger about the case.
Lyoya’s family is also suing Schurr for $100 million in a related civil case.
Judge Christina Mims
Judge Christina Mims has ignored the law to allow what state right-leaning blogs call “the rabid cop-hating prosecutor”, Chris Becker, to run a “circus.”
Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker
The judge has allowed hostile and aggressive questioning from the prosecution. The judge has also oddly allowed questions from the jurors to witnesses, but would block questions favorable to the defense. Observers also say that the judge has blocked every motion favorable to the defense of Officer Schurr. […]

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By Wayne Allyn Root
Long before I got into politics and political talk radio and TV, I was a Tony Robbins-like motivational speaker. I traveled across the globe, giving speeches on “Success American Style” in over 25 countries. I wrote books about creating success and prosperity.
My central message was “always see the glass as half full.” Be positive. Be thankful for what you have. Because those who “see the glass as half empty” rarely succeed.
I told the story of two salesmen from America who are sent to Africa by their respective shoe companies. They both land, walk off the plane, and get on the phone back to their home office.
One says, “No one has shoes. There are no customers. I’m coming home.”

The other says, “No one has shoes. This place is amazing. Send all the shoes we’ve got in the warehouse. I’m gonna make millions!”
Two salesmen saw the exact same situation and reacted completely differently. One saw poverty and no chance to sell anything. The other saw nothing but opportunity, and a chance to get rich.
Positive thinking. The glass is half full vs. half empty. The only way to succeed is to focus on the positive. Negative people get nowhere in life.

Let’s apply that mindset to President Trump’s first 100 days.
You can either see these past 100 days as amazing…spectacular…fantastic…phenomenal…
magical…a breath of fresh air…the greatest and most consequential 100 days in history…and say…

Thank God for President Trump.
Or you can nit pick and complain about the few things you disagree with…or the few things you see as not moving fast enough.
I’ve read and heard the criticisms by supposed Republicans. I’ve heard the grumblings by the MAGA faithful. I’ve even read a critical column by MAGA darling Marjorie Taylor Green. She says the MAGA base is unhappy.

And I get it. I agree with some of the things they’re critical of. The man isn’t perfect, no man is. But for gosh sakes, give the man a chance. Look at what’s been accomplished.
Anything that hasn’t happened yet, or hasn’t happened fast enough, certainly isn’t from a lack of trying. President Trump is relentless. He’s fighting the entire world- the DC Swamp, Deep State, establishment of both parties, RINOS in the House and Senate, the entire mainstream media, virtually every government bureaucrat, and globalists around the world, including the UN, WHO, WEF, and NATO.
And thanks to “resistance judges” in our country, he’s fighting with one leg and both arms tied behind his back.

But just think what could have been…
We could have been stuck with four more years of Joe Biden, a brain-dead dementia zombie.

We could have been stuck with Kamala- the dumbest, most incompetent and most radical person ever allowed near the Oval Office.

We could have been stuck with Michelle Obama – if Barack had enough time to rally the troops after Biden dropped out.
We could have been stuck with RINOS like Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, or anyone with the seal of approval of the Bush family, or Mitt Romney.
In any of those cases, you could have kissed America goodbye.

Instead, we got President Donald J. Trump. Thank your lucky stars. Kiss the ground. Kneel in prayer. No matter how many things you disagree with, no matter how slow you think things are going, we dodged a bullet with America’s name on it.
And no matter how many things Trump has done that you disagree with, I dare you to find anyone better. Or anyone better, who could have been elected three times with 214 million combined votes. Good luck.
What Donald J. Trump has done in 100 days is incredible and unimaginable.

First, Trump has secured the border- it’s as sealed and safe as any time in history.
Second, Trump has put the fear of God into the Cartel gangbangers.
Third, Trump has begun (as promised) the mass deportation by going after “the worst of the worst” criminals. Bravo.

Fourth, Trump has ended the DEI madness in government, colleges, the military and corporate America.
Fifth, Trump has ended transgender madness in our schools and banned boys from girl’s sports.
Sixth, Trump has ended the green energy madness and replaced it with “Drill, baby, drill,” to make America energy independent.

Seventh, Trump and Elon have used DOGE to dramatically cut the size of government, the waste and fraud, the looting, and the number of lazy, useless, overpaid, under-performing government employees.
Eighth, Trump has completely changed the US economy- transitioning from an economy centered around government spending and jobs for illegal aliens, to a private sector economy, built for American citizens.
And Ninth, Trump has started the process of completely changing the world economy to benefit American industry, American workers, and America First, with the threat of tariffs.

This all happened in 100 days.
Trump has done more in 100 days than my old hero Ronald Reagan accomplished in eight years.
And you’re complaining?
Is Trump perfect? No. Would I have done a few things differently? Sure. I wish he would cancel the Ukraine deal. I wish he’d condemn the Covid vaccine. I wish he’d arrest more of the traitorous bad guys (and bad judges).

Do we have a right to point out things he could do better, or faster? Absolutely. But always understand and appreciate that President Trump is better, by a mile, than any other alternative.
He’s the best we’ve got. He’s the best we’ve ever had. And I’m betting he’s the best we will ever get. Thank God we have him. Thank you, President Trump.
Start seeing the glass as HALF FULL. Because it is!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “Raw & Unfiltered” at UntamedNation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats! […]

President Donald Trump has announced plans to rename Veterans Day as “Victory Day for World War I” and designate May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II,” asserting that the United States deserves greater recognition for its military achievements in both world wars.
In a late-night post on Truth Social, Trump stated, “We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything.” He emphasized the need to “start celebrating our victories again.”
Armistice Day was established to commemorate the end of World War I, marking the moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918—“the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.”
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day, describing it as a day of solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in service and a commitment to peace. It became a federal holiday in 1938.

World War 2 ended in Europe on May 8th, called at the time as “V-E day” for “Victory in Europe” and in the Pacific Theater in August, which at the time was called “V-J Day” for “Victory over Japan.” The discredited and disgraced Daily Beast is calling Trump a ‘moron’ for not being clearer in the distinction between the two.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, V-E Day and V-J Day were widely celebrated with spontaneous street parties, parades, and national rejoicing in Allied nations. V-E Day, commemorated on May 8, became an annual remembrance in Europe, particularly in the U.K., while in the U.S., it was noted but never established as a recurring federal holiday. V-J Day, August 15 (or September 2, the date of the formal surrender), prompted even larger celebrations in the United States—famously captured in the Times Square kiss photograph—but over time, formal observance faded.
Polls show that “American pride” is at record lows after years of the Biden presidency.

President Trump has repeatedly worked to restore American pride.
In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed the creation of the “National Garden of American Heroes,” a sculpture park intended to honor 250 prominent figures from American history. Announced during a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore, the initiative was framed as a response to the removal of historical monuments amid nationwide protests, aiming to celebrate individuals who contributed significantly to the nation’s heritage.
In 2023, approximately 15.8 million individuals identified as veterans in the United States. This number represents about 6.1% of the total civilian population age 18 and over. Fewer than 15% of veterans are generally considered to be “combat” veterans. As of 2011, there are no known surviving veterans from World War 1, and as of January 2025, only 66,000 veterans from World War 2 are estimated to be alive. 

4.8 million Americans served in World War 1, and an estimated 16 million served in World War 2.
May 8th is the date that the German troops offered their unconditional surrender. The German troops had been willing to surrender much earlier after Hitler’s suicide on April 30th, but wanted additional time to allow civilians to flee west to avoid the Soviet military and their notoriety for brutal mass rapes and mass killings.
The Japanese surrendered on August 15th, 1945 after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the declaration of war and invasion by the Soviet Union. Japan formally signed their surrender on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2nd. Though they had, too, unconditionally surrendered, Japan was allowed to keep their Emperor as a figurehead. The Japanese had been offering unconditional surrender terms since late 1944.

Trump has used the same pro-America arguments when renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and also in renaming ‘Denali’ back to Mount McKinley, after President William McKinley who was assassinated by a far-left lunatic in 1901. McKinley is associated by historians as promoting American expansion and greatness, as well as aggressively using the President’s tariff powers, both priorities of the Trump administration.
The left is predictably opposed to this renaming, complaining that this does not include all veterans. The New York Times editorialized in their news coverage complaining, “…the focus of the new names on winning overlooked veterans who served in more recent wars that had more mixed results” and quoted veterans from various conflicts.
The Times complained that this change puts the blame on veterans for not winning America’s wars. Luckily for the Times, America has always won its military conflicts, though the withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 was categorized as a defeat, and the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan by Joe Biden in 2021 was classified as a defeat.

The 50th anniversary of the withdrawal from Vietnam was this past week, on April 30th.
Veterans Day, observed on November 11, was originally established as Armistice Day in 1938 to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1954, following World War II and the Korean War.

WW1 had nearly 40 million casualties. There were 10 million military KIA. The United States lost 53,402 in about 18 months, being in the war from April 6, 1917 through November 11, 1918.

The United States was baited into the “Great War” with false war propaganda, including the alleged “rape of Belgian nuns” by Germans, which were later proven to be false. In May 1915, the British produced “The Bryce Report” and described savagery by Germans in Belgium. After the war, all the original depositions used to justify the report, which were supposed to be kept in perpetuity, disappeared.
The British claim they reappeared, but just happened to be destroyed by a German rocket in WW2. 40,000 copies of the Bryce Report were immediately mailed to the United States. The American media republished the fake report and its fake atrocities. Modern historians believe that the affidavits used to support the Bryce Report were likely faked or wildly exaggerated.
The American public was also pulled into the war by the sinking of the HMS Lusitania, which took the lives of 128 Americans, among a death toll of 1,200. The Germans claimed the Lusitania was carrying war munitions, and the British said it was purely civilian. Later revelations have uncovered that it was, indeed, carrying a significant amount of military munitions.

Re-examinations of America’s role and record in past military conflicts has been undergoing a significant revision lately. An ongoing cultural debate is ongoing as to whether ‘revisionists’ should be allowed a public platform on popular broadcasts such as the Joe Rogan podcast. British author Douglas Murray has encouraged Rogan, and others, to deplatform writers and authors who have contrarian views to the mainstream on America’s past and current wars.
Estimates that include both the war dead along with their never-born descendents put the total impact of the war’s losses in population terms, into the millions. […]