President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had terminated most members of the Board of Trustees at the Kennedy Center — including Chairman David Rubenstein — and had taken over the role himself.
Trump made the announcement in a post to his social media platform Truth Social, and added that he also planned to make immediate changes to some of the events that were held there — beginning with drag shows that were intended for an audience of children.
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&#8220;At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. , GREAT AGAIN,&#8221; Trump began. &#8220;I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.&#8221;
&#8220;We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, Donald J. Trump,&#8221; the president&#8217;s post continued, and he then pivoted to give some insight as to why he had made the call to change the center&#8217;s direction.
&#8220;Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across out Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!&#8221;
News broke around the same time that, in another similar post to Truth Social, Trump had revoked former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-revokes-bidens-security-clearance-cites-poor-mental-acuity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s security clearance</a>. Citing Biden&#8217;s obviously deteriorating mental acuity, Trump mentioned the report compiled by Special Counsel Robert Hur — in which Biden was described as forgetful at best.
&#8220;The Hur Report revealed that Biden suffers from ‘poor memory’ and, even in his ‘prime,’ could not be trusted with sensitive information. I will always protect our National Security — JOE, YOU’RE FIRED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!&#8221; Trump&#8217;s statement read in part.

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Dr. Stephen Quay does not believe President Joe Biden was only just diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer, telling The Daily Wire, &#8220;there is a mismatch between the standard of care [Biden] should have been getting, and what we&#8217;re hearing about now.&#8221;
Quay, a University of Michigan-educated doctor, author, and <a href="https://drquay.com/">renowned scientist</a>, spoke to The Daily Wire just days after the former president&#8217;s office announced that he had been diagnosed with an &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to his bones. He said he&#8217;s received death threats since he began speaking out about Biden&#8217;s diagnosis, calling the experience &#8220;quite bizarre.&#8221;
But Quay made it clear that he is simply offering thoughts &#8220;based on peer-reviewed papers that address large populations.&#8221; To that end, he notes that 85 to 90% of all cases, the disease progression from localized in the prostate to advanced metastatic disease is a process that plays out &#8220;over the course of five to seven years.&#8221;
Quay made it clear that while a rapid onset of advanced disease was certainly possible, that was only the case in perhaps one or two percent of patients. He also noted the fact that Biden&#8217;s cancer is &#8220;hormone sensitive&#8221; could potentially explain the former president&#8217;s physical and cognitive decline.
&#8220;The standard treatment would be to deprive the body of testosterone through <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/treating/hormone-therapy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Androgen Deprivation Therapy,&#8221;</a> Quay said. For a man of Biden&#8217;s age, such a precipitous drop in testosterone could lead patients to lose muscle tone and become noticeably weaker.
&#8220;Out of 100 men, nearly 40% will have a serious fall within six to 12 months of ADT treatment,&#8221; he said, adding that another common side effect had to do with patients seeing cognitive issues.
&#8220;Some of that will be self-reported, where they just notice that maybe they&#8217;re not as sharp as they have been in the past,&#8221; Quay said, also noting that the people around the patient might also notice cognitive decline even when the patient himself did not.
While Quay said that he had no knowledge of whether Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">knew of his diagnosis</a> prior to his office&#8217;s public announcement, he said that it was possible that the former president&#8217;s noticeably awkward gait and obvious cognitive issues were side effects of the standard treatment for his cancer.
If that were the case, he added, he could understand why someone in Biden&#8217;s position might have made a &#8220;calculated decision&#8221; not to release the information to the public.
&#8220;He might have not had the cognitive issues when he decided to go ahead with a campaign,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s true that he probably couldn’t be elected with cancer or cognitive issues, so at some point, he would have to make a calculated decision whether or not to tell people. But to speak to whether or not that was the right course of action, I stop being a doctor with an opinion and start being a voter with an opinion — and that’s fine as long as I can keep them compartmentalized.&#8221;
A Biden spokesman has said that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/joe-biden-psa-screening-2014-prostate-cancer-rcna208120" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nothing was hidden</a> from the public and that the former president did not receive his prostate cancer diagnosis until last Friday. The spokesman also said Biden&#8217;s last known prostate cancer screening — called a Prostate Specific Antigen test — was in 2014.
Quay discussed the efficacy of PSAs in an X post shortly after Biden&#8217;s diagnosis was made public.
&#8220;Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.&#8221;
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&#8220;If you can believe what they say, that it is hormone sensitive, that means that it would be detectable in PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) levels,&#8221; he said, noting that PSA testing is not always recommended after age 69, but that for someone in Biden&#8217;s position it seemed unwise not to go ahead with the test.
&#8220;There is a mismatch between the standard of care that he should have been getting and what we’re hearing about now.&#8221;

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Why A Top Cancer Doctor Says Biden’s Diagnosis Story Doesn’t Add Up

&#8216;Welcome To The Party&#8217;: Peter Doocy Hits Back At Claims Reporters Didn&#8217;t Ask About Biden&#8217;s Decline
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy weighed in on the conversation surrounding &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the new book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which digs into former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive and physical decline — and the lengths to which the White House went to keep the situation under wraps.
Doocy responded specifically to those who were wondering why &#8220;nobody asked&#8221; about Biden&#8217;s condition or whether it was being covered up by his family and his White House.
&#8220;I have some unique insight on President Biden, having dedicated six years of my life to covering him,&#8221; Doocy wrote on X. &#8220;If you are wondering why nobody asked about his mental fitness, and why nobody asked if White House staffers were covering up his decline … then you weren’t paying attention. Here are 7 times I did just that.&#8221;
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I have some unique insight on President Biden, having dedicated six years of my life to covering him. If you are wondering why nobody asked about his mental fitness, and why nobody asked if White House staffers were covering up his decline… then you weren’t paying attention.…
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Doocy then shared a series of news clips, primarily from 2023 and 2024, in which he had directly challenged members of Biden&#8217;s administration.
In the first clip, Doocy is seen asking about Biden&#8217;s ability to handle any situation that might arise, even if it happened to be past his bedtime. &#8220;Say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke. It&#8217;s 11:00 p.m. Who do you call? The First Lady?&#8221; he asked.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brushed off the question, saying only that Biden had a team of the best people around him to handle emergencies.
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In the second clip, Doocy presses Jean-Pierre about a fundraiser at which Biden had told a story about white nationalist riots in Charlottesville inspiring his campaign — and then repeating it in a way that suggested he&#8217;d already forgotten telling the story the first time.
A third clip shows Doocy asking about a similar lapse, saying, &#8220;How is President Biden ever going to convince the three-quarters of voters who are worried about his physical and mental health that he&#8217;s okay even though in Las Vegas he told a story about recently talking to a French president who died in 1996?&#8221;
Jean-Pierre dodged the question entirely: &#8220;I&#8217;m not even gonna go down that rabbit hole.&#8221;
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Citing Franklin Foer&#8217;s book &#8220;The Last Politician,&#8221; Doocy asks in the next clip about reports that Biden was treated &#8220;like a baby&#8221; by his staffers. Jean-Pierre waved that claim off as well, saying it was &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;
Quoting former Special Counsel Robert Hur, Doocy pressed Biden directly on Hur&#8217;s assessment that he was a &#8216;well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,'&#8221; and then pressed him on how bad his memory actually was.
Biden claimed he was fit to serve, and then jabbed at Doocy, &#8220;My memory is so bad I let you speak.&#8221;
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He also included a clip from 2019 in which he confronted Biden about whether or not there was a pledge in place for him to serve only a single term as president. There was not one.
The last clip shows Doocy once again in the White House briefing room, where he asked Jean-Pierre about medical testing that could provide new information about Biden&#8217;s condition.
&#8220;And are you guys just not — since February, testing President Biden for Parkinson&#8217;s or for dementia because, if he gets a bad result, it&#8217;s all over that day?&#8221; Doocy asked, later adding, &#8220;I know that especially as adults get into their 80s, health conditions can pop up more than just once a year when he&#8217;s getting his physical &#8230; Why doesn&#8217;t anybody in the President&#8217;s family urge him just to go to get checked out to say the coast is clear?&#8221;
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&#8220;To everyone that missed the first few years of questions about whether or not President Biden’s inner circle mislead the American people about his acuity: welcome to the party,&#8221; he concluded.
In addition to the Fox News White House correspondent, numerous conservative reporters and outlets covered Biden&#8217;s missteps and raised questions about his overall health and cognitive acuity. During a recent interview, Tapper was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-flails-when-confronted-with-his-role-in-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to concede</a> that they had been right about the former president from the beginning.

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‘Welcome To The Party’: Peter Doocy Hits Back At Claims Reporters Didn’t Ask About Biden’s Decline

Former FBI Director James Comey embarked on a media tour to save face after an Instagram post landed him in hot water, and he doubled down on claims that he&#8217;d had nothing to do with creating the shell formation he&#8217;d photographed during a casual &#8220;beach walk&#8221; — and that he&#8217;d had no idea the term &#8220;86&#8221; might imply a threat.
Comey first found himself at the center of heated conversation when he shared a photo from the beach, showing seashells that &#8220;someone&#8221; had arranged to form the numbers &#8220;86&#8221; and &#8220;47.&#8221; Critics immediately noted that &#8220;86&#8221; was generally understood to mean &#8220;get rid of&#8221; and &#8220;47&#8221; was a clear reference to President Donald Trump, the 47th president — and they pointed out the fact that Comey should have known better than to post something that so many would interpret as a threat.
The former FBI chief, who was fired by Trump in 2017, claimed at the time that he did not realize the term implied violence and deleted the post — but not before it caught the attention of current FBI Director Kash Patel, and it earned Comey a visit from the United States Secret Service.
Comey doubled down during an appearance on CBS&#8217; &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; with Stephen Colbert, saying again that he and his wife had simply stumbled on the arrangement of seashells — and that he&#8217;d interpreted the message as entirely political.
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&#8220;My wife and I were walking on the beach, and saw those numbers in shells on the beach,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Somebody else did it!&#8221;
&#8220;We were on a walk, preparing for this week,&#8221; Comey continued. &#8220;And she said, &#8216;Why&#8217;d somebody put their address in the sand?&#8217; We looked at it, trying to figure out what it was. She&#8217;d long been a server in restaurants. She said, &#8216;You know what I think it is? A reference to restaurants. When you&#8217;d 86 something at a restaurant.&#8217; I said, &#8216;No, I remember as a kid, you&#8217;d say &#8217;86&#8217; to get out of a place. This place stinks, let&#8217;s 86 it.&#8217; So I said, &#8216;I think it&#8217;s a clever political message.'&#8221;
Comey then tossed his wife under the bus, saying that she was responsible for encouraging him to take the photo and post it to his Instagram page. &#8220;She said, &#8216;You should take a picture.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Sure.&#8217; She said, &#8216;You should Instagram that.&#8217; And then, boom.&#8221;

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Damage Control: Jim Comey Insists He Found Trump Threat On Beach, Didn’t Know What ’86’ Meant

After years of dismissing the Hunter-centric scandals that plagued former President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House, CNN anchor Jake Tapper unloaded on Hunter Biden during a recent interview with longtime journalist Katie Couric.
Tapper spoke with Couric alongside Axios reporter Alex Thompson — with whom he wrote the new book, &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; about the obvious physical and cognitive decline of the former president and the lengths to which those around him went to cover that up. But when the conversation turned to Hunter Biden, Tapper said that he&#8217;d found former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son to be &#8220;unethical, sleazy, and prone to bad decisions.&#8221;
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COURIC: &#8220;Tell me how you really feel.&#8221;
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&#8220;How big a factor was the Hunter stuff?&#8221; Couric asked, referencing the now-infamous laptop, which the Biden White House and dozens of former intelligence community officials had repeatedly tried to pass off as &#8220;Russian disinformation.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it was considerable,&#8221; Tapper began as Thompson nodded in agreement. &#8220;I think Hunter was driving the decision-making for the family in a way that people — he was almost like a chief of staff of the family.&#8221;
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&#8220;Does that strike you as pretty bizarre?&#8221; Couric pressed.
Tapper agreed: &#8220;It&#8217;s bizarre because I think he is provably, demonstrably, unethical, sleazy and prone to horrible decisions, I mean —&#8221;
&#8220;Tell me how you really feel,&#8221; Couric interjected.
&#8220;Well, I — Just look at the record: after his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother’s widow and then got her addicted to crack,&#8221; Tapper continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s just one thing I could say. I mean, there — I don&#8217;t have a lot of personal regard for him, and just based on — having nothing to do with — I barely have ever met him, I&#8217;ve met him once or twice. But I knew Beau. Beau was a great, upstanding guy.&#8221;
&#8220;I knew him too,&#8221; Couric said. &#8220;A really —&#8221;
&#8220;A real loss,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;For the country too, not just for his family, for the country. But Hunter is not that, and the idea of letting him drive the family car, as it were, is just really, really questionable.&#8221;
Nearly five years earlier, however — as Joe Biden neared the finish line of the 2020 presidential election and shortly after the New York Post had dropped the bombshell that was the Hunter Biden laptop story — Tapper had dismissed the allegations against Hunter Biden as &#8220;wildly unhinged&#8221; and &#8220;too disgusting&#8221; for him to repeat on air.
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On Oct. 22, 2020, CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper declared that the growing allegations made against Hunter Biden following the NY Post&#8217;s reporting on Hunter&#8217;s laptop were &#8220;too disgusting&#8221; to repeat on-air and &#8220;wildly unhinged.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/djhFlDK8kz">pic.twitter.com/djhFlDK8kz</a>
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Jake Tapper Unloads On ‘Sleazy’ Hunter Biden After Dismissing Scandals During Biden Admin

Vice President JD Vance made it clear on Monday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration was far from finished fighting t to enforce federal immigration laws and deport illegal aliens from the United States en masse.
During an interview with The New York Times&#8217; Ross Douthat, Vance addressed the injunctions and lower court rulings aimed at preventing the Trump administration from enforcing federal laws and delivering on one of the the president&#8217;s chief campaign promises.
“You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for.” — <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/Ls2eEgw3Ly">pic.twitter.com/Ls2eEgw3Ly</a>
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&#8220;You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s where we are right now.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna keep working it through the immigration court process, through the Supreme Court as much as possible,&#8221; Vance continued.
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&#8220;And look, success to me is not so much a number, though obviously I&#8217;d love to see the gross majority of the illegal immigrants who came in under Biden deported. That actually is a secondary metric of success. Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with, and that we have the infrastructure to do what allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens when large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country. That to me is real success.&#8221;
Vance went on to defend Trump&#8217;s decision to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected criminal illegal alien gang members, arguing that the people who have opposed it have never seen the impact of allowing unfettered illegal immigration to flood their communities.
&#8220;One thing I&#8217;d love for the American media to do a little bit more is really go to a migrant community where you have, say, 60% legal immigrants and 40% illegal immigrants. The level of chaos, the level of violence, the level of, I think, truly pre-modern brutality that some of these communities have gotten used to — whatever law was written, I think it vests us with very serious power to take very serious action against this,&#8221; he explained.
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Vance Blasts Courts For Blocking Trump Admin Immigration Policies

Jake Tapper scrambled to respond when confronted directly over his new book — written with Axios reporter Alex Thompson — and the assertion that any &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious cognitive and physical decline would only have been possible with the help of journalists.
Tapper and Thompson&#8217;s book, &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; details Biden&#8217;s decline and his decision to run again despite that – and Tapper struggled to defend the fact that he, like many others in media, had failed to report on what was obvious to so many in Right-leaning media and to the American people.
Tapper was ultimately forced to admit that the conservative journalists — who&#8217;d been reporting on Biden&#8217;s obvious impairment for months, if not years — had been right all along.
&#8220;Alex and I are here to say the conservative media was right and conservative media was correct and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently 100 percent,&#8221; he said.
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The admission came during an interview with Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly, who said Biden&#8217;s decline was &#8220;obvious&#8221; to the actually curious media.
&#8220;Over here in my ecosphere, we were covering all of these things,&#8221; Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly began. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just falling down, it was getting lost. It was some of the stuff you report in your book, we knew and we were reporting on. Like the multi jump-cuts in the videos of him, where it was obvious he couldn&#8217;t get through a one minute take.&#8221;
&#8220;It was clear to us that he was using a teleprompter, and there was some reporting on that at the time — all of which the White House was denying,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Now, the current White House, I have some connections. With the Joe Biden White House, I had none — but you did. There was an attempted cover-up. It could only ever work if you allowed it, if the press allowed it. Some of us tried not to and some of us were complicit.&#8221;
Tapper pushed back then, saying that the Biden White House had not been terribly fond of him either — but Kelly argued that he&#8217;d gotten some 200 people in Biden&#8217;s orbit to talk to him for the book. Tapper noted that they spoke to him after the election, but Kelly said that he could have &#8220;called and worked&#8221; them before that.
&#8220;No, that&#8217;s the point, they were not being honest,&#8221; Tapper protested. &#8220;That&#8217;s the point.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, how did The Wall Street Journal get it in June of 2024?&#8221; Kelly asked. &#8220;And Jake Tapper and CNN couldn&#8217;t find sources for this story then, before he dropped out?&#8221;
Tapper noted that he&#8217;d had the reporters who broke the story for the WSJ — Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes — on his show to discuss their reporting after the debate he&#8217;d hosted alongside Dana Bash. However, he was forced to admit the fact that he didn&#8217;t have them on when the story broke – and had instead had them on after Biden&#8217;s disastrous debate performance.
Tapper claimed that he was &#8220;sure&#8221; he&#8217;d wanted to have them on when the story broke, but that he wasn&#8217;t aware of what the &#8220;booking situation&#8221; was at the time. Kelly noted that he&#8217;d instead booked a Democrat who spent the time smearing the WSJ report as propaganda from Rupert Murdoch.
&#8220;If we&#8217;re going to do this, let&#8217;s stick to the facts here, okay?&#8221; Tapper said.
&#8220;Jake, I&#8217;ve — that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing all along,&#8221; Kelly shot back. &#8220;One of us didn&#8217;t miss the story of the century when it comes to presidential politics, and one of us did.&#8221;
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&#8220;One of us didn&#8217;t miss the biggest story of the century when it comes to presidential politics, and one of us did.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MegynKelly</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeTapper</a> debate Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline and the media&#8217;s role.
FULL interview out soon:<a href="https://t.co/YJPxz5Gu8d">https://t.co/YJPxz5Gu8d</a><a href="https://t.co/F96HgI7HIW">https://t.co/F96HgI7HIW</a> <a href="https://t.co/0GBVN29mZR">pic.twitter.com/0GBVN29mZR</a>
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