Mark Zuckerberg meets with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.
Zuckerberg’s visit to Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, club was confirmed by Trump adviser Stephen Miller during an episode of “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News Channel.
“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading,” Miller said to guest host Brian Kilmeade.
“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.”
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Miller added that the tech CEO “has his own interests,” but sees Trump’s second term as a chance at “national renewal.”
“Mark, obviously, he has his own interests, and he has his own company, and he has his own agenda,” Miller said. “But he’s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under President Trump’s leadership.”
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In July, Zuckerberg lauded Trump for his fist-pumping reaction to the July 13 assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most bada – things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg, just days after the shooting took place.
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“On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy,” he added.
Zuckerberg’s visit to Mar-a-Lago is not the Facebook founder’s first interaction with the Republican leader. In August, Trump told FOX Business host Maria Bartiromo that Zuckerberg called him to apologize over an error.
“So, Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me two times. He called me after the event and he said that was really amazing,” Trump said during an Aug. 1 “Mornings with Maria” interview on FOX Business. “It was really brave.”
“And he actually announced that he’s not going to support a Democrat because he can’t because he respected me for what I did that day,” the Republican continued. “I think what I did… to me, was a normal response.”
Trump added that Zuckerberg apologized after Facebook mislabeled a photo of him that went viral.
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“He actually apologized. He said they made a mistake… and they’re correcting the mistake,” Trump said.
Elon Musk warns Americans bankruptcy is coming ‘super fast’
Business magnate Elon Musk, who has been sounding the alarm about America’s gargantuan, ever-expanding national debt, claimed that many people are unaware of the problem.
“A significant % of people don’t even know that there is such a thing as a national debt!” Musk declared in a post on X.
“Those that do often don’t know how big it is or that our interest payments now exceed what we spend on our military. Only a small % understand that government overspending causes inflation,” he added.
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The national debt has soared past $36 trillion.
“America is going bankrupt fast,” Musk warned in another post.
“The excess government spending is what causes inflation! ALL government spending is taxation. This is a very important concept to appreciate. It is either direct taxation, like income tax, or indirect via inflation due to increasing the money supply,” he asserted in a tweet earlier this month.
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In another post, Musk said, “If we don’t tackle the national debt, all tax revenue will go to paying interest and there will be nothing left for anything else.”
If the issue isn’t addressed “the dollar will be worth nothing,” Musk warned in a tweet earlier this year.
President-elect Trump tapped Musk and former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to helm the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an effort meant to root out government waste.
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Trump said in a statement that DOGE “will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.”
In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Musk and Ramaswamy noted that they will work “as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees.”
Women hold group screaming event to release ‘frustration’ after Trump victory
Remarkable footage shows Wisconsin women screaming in unison towards Lake Michigan in the wake of Vice President Harris’s Nov. 5 loss to President-elect Trump.
The footage, which recently went viral on social media, was originally posted by a Facebook user named Tamara Gibbs. The event took place at Klode Park in Whitefish Bay on Nov. 9.
The extraordinary video shows around two dozen adult women screeching at the water. The screams eventually reach a crescendo, as video shows the shrieks getting gradually louder and louder until the group stopped.
“What a gorgeous morning to gather at Klode Park in Whitefish Bay to engage in a Primal Scream in order to release our pain and frustration after the election,” Gibbs wrote in a Facebook post. “If you zoom in you will see Trump supporters proudly waving their flag on top of the hill.”
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The Wisconsin resident also thanked the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) for standing by, but the department told Fox News Digital that Whitefish Bay was not in their jurisdiction.
Gibbs also shared video of the women standing in a circle and attempting to cheer themselves up after the election.
“We need to start organizing… We have the opportunity to, in-state, in two years, take back the legislature,” one woman said to roaring applause.
The “primal scream” event took place days after Trump won the election by a landslide. The Republican leader swept all battleground states, including the Badger State.
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The recent video echos the notorious footage of protesters screaming towards the sky when Trump first won in 2016. Many of the protests were organized by a group called Refuse Fascism.
At the time, a Refuse Fascism organizer said that their screaming protests showed “unity and solidarity.”
“We are screaming in rage, we are screaming in pain, but we are screaming in unity and solidarity ’cause we have a plan and a way forward,” Eva Sahana said to Patch.com in 2017.
Another Refuse Fascism member who organized a 2017 demonstration in Philadelphia likened their screaming to “a pack of wolves.”
“We don’t want to scream helplessly at the sky,” Samantha Goldman explained. “We want to scream like a pack of wolves [to bring down the administration].”
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Gibbs did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Trump critic recounts recent meeting with president-elect after avoiding him for 8 years
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan spoke about her recent encounter with President-elect Donald Trump after purposefully avoiding him for eight years, revealing the concern she had that his “charming” personality would cloud her judgment.
“I never met Trump until two or three weeks ago,” Noonan said in a recent conversation with The Free Press founder Bari Weiss released Tuesday. “In 2015 and 2016, when he was deciding to or had decided to run for president- was running, his office and his aides did what they would do with anybody else in journalism, which was reach out and say, ‘We want to know you. We want to meet you. Come on in, meet the boss, have lunch.’ And I always said, ‘No, I don’t want to.'”
“And the reason was, I had a feeling that up close he would be charming and funny, and that there would be something endearing, and that it would mess with my swing as an observer,” she explained. “I didn’t want to see him up close. I didn’t want to see him far away. I wanted- had this intuitive sense [to] see him at a middle distance. And I felt I saw him clearly at a middle distance.”
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Noonan, a vocal Trump critic, acknowledged the war of words she and the former president have had over the years and the attacks she received through tweets and at his rallies, telling Weiss, “I’ll look back on it kind of warmly, in a weird way.”
“So two or three weeks ago, he came to the Wall Street Journal for an editorial board meeting, and my instinct kicked in again. ‘Don’t go.’ But then I corrected myself,” Noonan said. “I’ve been writing about him for eight years. I have occasionally clubbed him like a seal. He has occasionally clubbed me. And it would be so wrong if he came to my newspaper, and he couldn’t go there and take retribution or do whatever he wanted to do. It just struck me as the fair, right thing. And so I went.”
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“And so we’re waiting for him… I’m sitting next to [Wall Street Journal editorial editor] Paul Gigot, and in a silence as we nervously wait, Paul says, ‘How many times have you met Trump?’ And I said, ‘I’ve never met Trump.’ And he said, ‘You’ve never met Trump?!?’ And he went, ‘Whoa,’ like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna have a drama here.’ And suddenly I thought, ‘Oh, gosh, maybe it will be a drama.’ You know how Trump acts, like, when he’s gonna be horrible- I mean, up close,” she continued. “So anyway, at a certain point, the doors fly open and the entourage comes in, and there’s Trump, who in person in that blue suit and the tie is huge, and the hair is huge, everything is huge. And he, like, blows by others, and he just says to me, ‘You are wonderful. You are the most remarkable woman.’”
“And then he sat down with us… He went on and off the record. But off the record, he was hilarious, rude, inappropriate, said things about foreign leaders that should not be said to a bunch of journalists. And I just sat back and thought by the end, ‘Honey, your intuition was right. If you’d met him in 2015, you would have loved him and not seen him,'” Noonan added.
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Noonan, the former Reagan speechwriter and author of “A Certain Idea of America,” recently told Fox News‘ Bret Baier that the country is “in the middle of something very big” following Trump’s victory.
“I have a feeling that people are thinking that they don’t really like all that they’ve seen of the 21st century, and they had a sense that Mr. Trump didn’t like it either. That’s why they elected him twice. And more than half the country, I think, is just in a major pushback against the establishment,” Noonan said.
Rogan’s two-word response after top TV exec calls him ‘deeply repulsive’
Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman Kim Williams gave a frank and critical opinion of Joe Rogan on Tuesday, suggesting the podcast host was taking advantage of the American public.
When asked to offer his thoughts on Rogan during his address to the Australian National Press Club, Williams admitted that he was not a consumer of “The Joe Rogan Experience” — a comment that drew laughter from the audience.
“I think people like Mr. Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities,” he said. “They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety. They prey on all the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society.”
He also suggested that Rogan pushes the idea that entrepreneurial and conspiratorial “fantasy” outcomes are a normal part of the “social narrative.”
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“I personally find it deeply repulsive and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief,” he said.
Williams said he was shocked that Rogan could be considered a source of entertainment when he and other similar figures are “treating the public as plunder for purposes that are really quite malevolent.”
The Williams video quickly drew the attention of Rogan, who posted, “LOL WUT,” on X.
Fox News Digital reached out to Rogan’s publicist for further comment.
After President-elect Trump won the election, many Democrats realized the power independent podcasters like Rogan have with modern voters. Vice President Kamala Harris, for various reported reasons despite being invited, failed to do an interview with Rogan in a move widely regarded as an avoidable blunder.
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Rogan has espoused liberal views at times and expressed support for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in 2020 when he sought the Democratic nomination. However, in 2024, Rogan endorsed Trump shortly before the election.
Several media personalities have suggested Rogan and other podcasters handed Trump the election by spreading “misinformation” and urged Democrats to cultivate their own podcast that rivals “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
Rogan referenced complaints on the left that they need their “own Joe Rogan” on Tuesday.
“I think these ‘Call Her Daddy’ shows and all these different shows that [Harris] went on — I mean I’m sure they had an impact, but I think that in the future… I’m sure they’re scrambling to try to create their own version of this show,” Rogan said. “This is one thing that keeps coming up like, ‘We need our own Joe Rogan,’ right? But they had me, I was on their side!”
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‘Squad’ Dem worries party will take wrong lesson from election defeat
Progressive “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., worried that the Democratic Party would abandon its far-left policy goals in response to its defeat in the 2024 election.
In comments to the Boston Globe, Pressley suggested that this would be the wrong approach to winning back voters’ confidence.
“I am concerned that we will reflexively, in this moment, moderate our policy aspirations,” she said. “If we are to say, ‘Come on home and let’s do the work of getting the gavel back and being in power, getting the House, getting the Senate, getting the White House,’ the real question is, Democrats, you want the power, but to do what? And this has been an issue that we have struggled to overcome.”
In the aftermath of the election, moderate members of the Democratic Party have suggested that the party’s focus on identity politics had contributed to the exodus of blue-collar and minority voters from the party over the past few years.
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Fellow Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton drew backlash after telling the New York Times earlier this month that the Democratic Party’s stance on the transgender athlete issue was out-of-touch with most Americans.
“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” Moulton said to the Times. “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
In the Times report, Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y. also said his party needed to stop “pandering to the far left” on the transgender issue.
Pressley, however, argued that voters largely supported progressive policies this election, citing support for abortion rights and paid leave expansion at the ballot box.
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In the 2024 election, seven states voted to amend restrictions on abortion rights, while three states defeated similar measures, leaving in place existing restrictions.
Expansions to paid leave also passed in Missouri, Alaska and Nebraska, according to the 19th News.
Pressley also said Republicans were the party fixated on identity politics, when asked about the fight on Capitol Hill over whether openly transgender Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride should be allowed to use women’s restrooms.
“They are the ones obsessed with identity, and they show that every day,” Pressley said of Republicans.”Sarah McBride was elected by Delawareans because she was an effective legislator in Delaware who did extraordinary work on issues like paid leave legislatively, who is here on the strength of her ideas, not her identity.”
Pressley’s comments come after she torched her Republican colleagues for proposing legislation that would weaken diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the government.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing last week, Pressley called the Dismantle DEI Act an “utter disgrace” and accused the GOP of not understanding America’s history of racism and discrimination.
The legislation was approved by the House Oversight Committee on a party-line vote, 23-17.
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New twist in Peanut the squirrel saga as New York family lawyers up
The owners of Peanut the squirrel, which took the internet by storm after his “illegal and improper killing,” along with his raccoon pal Fred, by New York authorities, are planning to sue the state, accusing officials of government overreach and abuse.
Mark Longo and Daniela Bittner filed a notice of claim against the state after both animals were taken from the couple’s upstate home and animal sanctuary in rural Pine City, near the Pennsylvania border, during a raid by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Oct. 30.
The claim accuses authorities of violating the couple’s rights by taking the animals, invasion of privacy and trespass, among other claims.
Peanut, or P’Nut, and Fred were killed to be tested for rabies, which was “unfounded” and “unjustified,” according to the filing. Authorities knew the animals didn’t have rabies, it said.
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The state said an agent was bitten during the raid, sparking the need for the tests, the New York Post reported.
In their notice, the couple called that an “excuse” and alleged the “fabrication of evidence,” the court documents said. Even if there was a risk of rabies, “which is near impossible and disputed,” DEC agents should have known how to handle wild or other animals without getting bitten, the documents state.
“It appears as though there were multiple constitutional law violations here — or at the very least, there are many questions as to why the government chose the actions that they chose,” the couple’s attorney, Nora Constance Marino, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Entering someone’s house and searching it is such an extreme violation of that person’s right to privacy, and that’s why we have a Fourth Amendment, to protect us from unreasonable searches and seizures.”
“Likewise, there are many questions as to why Peanut and Fred were killed. There was no reason, whatsoever, to believe that either animal had rabies, and killing the animals was outside the scope of the warrant,” she added. “My clients have suffered greatly and continue to suffer, from what appears to be egregious government conduct. Government wields great power, and if left unchecked, can have disastrous results for citizens. That’s what makes our United States Constitution so precious, and it needs to be honored.”
The DEC said it doesn’t comment on potential or pending litigation.
The filing further alleges that “the notion that a DEC agent and/or other respondents’ agent was ‘bitten’ by Peanut may be false and/or manufactured.”
“It is further submitted that even if an agent was in fact bitten, killing Peanut would still be unnecessary, unjustified, improper, and illegal, it is further submitted that there is no claim that Fred the raccoon bit anyone, and thus, the killing of Fred was unnecessary, unjustified, improper, and illegal,” the filing states.
Peanut was an internet sensation before his death. An Instagram page dedicated to him has more than 915,000 followers.
Longo and his wife established the animal sanctuary, called “P’Nut’s Freedom Farm,” last year, inspired by the squirrel. Longo told his followers that he had taken the rodent in after he witnessed the squirrel’s mother being hit by a car. The squirrel refused to return to the wild and became attached to the couple.
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In a previous interview with TMZ, Longo said Peanut’s death tore his family apart.
“Peanut was the cornerstone of our non-profit animal rescue,” he said. “And 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom.”