Trump fires back at Michelle Obama over ‘beautiful’ $300M White House project
President Donald Trump responded to former first lady Michelle Obama’s criticism of his White House renovation plans in an interview with Laura Ingraham, boasting that the new ballroom replacing the East Wing will be “one of the greatest” in the world.
“The East Wing is being spent by private donors. It’s a $250, $300 million building. It’s going to be the most beautiful anywhere in the world,” he said Monday.
“They had an event [at the White House] the other day. With tables, they could hold 79 people. Now, if you have President Xi from China, or if you have some big state event, we have no place to have it. You know what they did? …They will put a tent on the lawn. It was a low section because that’s the only section you have… If it rained, you were sitting in six inches of water. It was a disaster.”
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Trump’s remarks came in response to Ingraham’s question about the former first lady’s recent remarks criticizing his East Wing demolition to embark upon the project, which has drawn ire from a swath of Democratic critics, including Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and others.
Obama alleged the move “denigrate[s]” the East Wing, where the first lady’s office traditionally sat, and where the “heart” of her work took place.
“When we talk about the East Wing, it is the heart of the work [of a first lady],” she said, according to Vanity Fair.
“And to denigrate it, to tear it down, to pretend like it doesn’t matter, it’s a reflection of how you think of that role.”
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She also took a swipe at Trump for demolishing the East Wing during an NBC appearance.
“There’s no guidebook,” Obama said of the challenges of being first lady.
“There’s barely a staff. Now we don’t have a building,” she added.
Acknowledging broader criticism from those who insist on the building’s historical value, Trump pointed to prior renovations made to the East Wing.
“That building was renovated 20 times, including adding a floor to the top, which was terrible,” he said.
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“It looked like hell. It had nothing to do with the original building, and I didn’t want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an okay ballroom by leaving it right smack in the middle.”
The sprawling 90,000-square-foot development, which would give the White House a formal ballroom for the first time in history, is slated to adhere to the classical design of the White House.
Bloody brawl breaks out as agitators stage chaotic protest outside TPUSA event
A bloody fight broke out near the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday afternoon, ahead of a Turning Point USA event on campus.
The event, which featured Dr. Frank Turek and Rob Schneider, marked the end of the “This Is The Turning Point” tour.
It took place just two months after TPUSA’s founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a campus event in Utah on Sept. 10.
The confrontation erupted at around 4:30 PST. During the brawl, two men were seen fighting each other, one of whom had blood gushing from his face.
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Video taken by Fox News Digital also shows a crowd of agitators gathering around the fight. Many demonstrators wore keffiyehs and carried signs with left-wing messages.
Local police had difficulty containing the agitators and were seen putting on shield masks and gathering batons.
It is unknown how many participants were injured.
The Berkeley Police Department told Fox News Digital that at least two people have been arrested as of 6 p.m. local time.
“I do not have the specific details of what the arrests were for,” the police spokesperson said. “At this point, I can share that one of the parties was arrested for battery.”
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A spokesperson for UC Berkeley told Fox News Digital that the altercation did not take place on campus grounds, and did not elaborate further.
Dr. Frank Turek, a mentor of Kirk’s, spoke with Fox News Digital last week about the upcoming Berkeley event.
During the interview, Turek said that he told Kirk that the UC Berkeley stop was the one he wanted to attend.
“If I could go to any one event with him, it would be that one,” the Christian author said.
“I wanted to go to UC Berkeley because it is so progressive and liberal in their views, and I wanted to provide evidence that Christianity was indeed true.”
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After the event, protesters surrounded all the exits, heckled attendees and shouted obscenities as they filtered out.
House races to end 42-day shutdown nightmare as air travel chaos mounts
The House of Representatives appears to be on a glide path to ending the longest government shutdown in history, with lawmakers racing back to Capitol Hill after six weeks out of session.
The House Rules Committee will meet to consider the Senate’s amended federal funding plan sometime after 5 p.m. Tuesday, two sources told Fox News Digital.
In other words, the 42-day shutdown — which has led to thousands of air travel delays, left millions of people who rely on federal benefits in limbo, and forced thousands of federal workers either off the job or to work without pay — could come to an end before the end of this week.
The House Rules Committee is the final hurdle for most legislation before it sees House-wide votes. Lawmakers on the key panel vote to advance a bill while setting terms for its consideration, like possible amendment votes and timing for debate.
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The funding bill at hand is expected to advance through the committee on party lines. Democrats on the panel are likely to oppose the measure in line with House Democratic leaders, while Republicans have signaled no meaningful opposition.
Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., the two Republicans on the committee who have most often opposed GOP leaders’ legislation for not being conservative enough, both suggested they would be supportive of the funding measure.
Roy told Fox News Digital on Monday night that he would vote “yes” on the bill on the House floor, meaning he would likely not oppose it in the House Rules Committee.
The Texas Republican is currently running to be attorney general of the Lone Star State.
Norman told Fox News Digital via text message Tuesday morning, when asked about both his Rules Committee and House floor votes, “My support is based on READING the FINE PRINT as it relates to the 3 bills especially VERIFYING the top line spending limits as we previously passed.”
“If ‘THE FINE PRINT MATCHES’ what’s being reported, I will be a yes,” Norman said.
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The South Carolina Republican, who is running for governor, was referring to three full-year spending bills that are part of the latest bipartisan compromise passed by the Senate on Monday night.
Terms of the deal include a new extension of fiscal year (FY) 2025 federal funding levels through Jan. 30, in order to give congressional negotiators more time to strike a longer-term deal on FY 2026 spending.
It would also give lawmakers some headway with that mission, advancing legislation to fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration; the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction; and the legislative branch.
They are three of 12 individual bills that are meant to make up Congress’ annual appropriations, paired into a vehicle called a “minibus.”
In a victory for Democrats, the deal would also reverse federal layoffs conducted by the Trump administration in October, with those workers getting paid for the time they were off.
It also guarantees Senate Democrats a vote on legislation extending Obamacare subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which are set to expire at the end of this year.
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Extending the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was a key ask for Democrats in the weekslong standoff.
No such guarantee was made in the House, however, so Democrats effectively folded on their key demand in order to end the shutdown — a move that infuriated progressives and left-wing caucus leaders in Congress.
The full House is expected to take up the measure sometime after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a notice sent to lawmakers.
There will first be a “rule vote” for the bill where lawmakers are expected to green-light debate on the House floor, followed by a vote on the measure itself sometime Wednesday evening.
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House schedules for both Tuesday and Wednesday were left intentionally fluid to allow for lawmakers to return to Washington amid nationwide flight delays and cancellations, mostly imposed by the shutdown.
The House was last in session on Sept. 19, when lawmakers passed legislation to keep the government funded through Nov. 21.
It passed with support from one House Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and opposition from two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Ind.
No further House Republicans have signaled public opposition to the new measure so far.
Dem who lost run for Congress over salacious allegation scores big in court settlement
A sexual harassment allegation in the 11th hour of a congressional campaign that derailed a Virginia Democrat has resulted in two settlements from defendants in a defamation lawsuit he filed after the campaign ended.
“The matter was settled to the satisfaction of the Parties, and the terms are confidential,” Virginia House of Delegates member Dan Helmer said in a press release in late October.
The press release stated Helmer reached a settlement with two of the three defendants he sued for defamation: Avram Fechter and attorney Charles King. The statement described these settlements as “an important step in finally closing the dark chapter for Delegate Helmer” and said his defamation case against the woman who he claims made the allegations, the third defendant Lissa Savaglio, is still open.
Two weeks before the Democratic primary for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District last June, Helmer was leading in several polls and looked to be the frontrunner heading into the general election in the Democrat-heavy district.
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But, just a week before the election, that changed after a media report revealed that members of the Loudoun County Democratic Committee were accusing Helmer of sexual harassment. Days later, King, an attorney for the alleged victim, released the following statement.
“After a political event in 2018, Mr. Helmer groped my client’s breast,” King wrote. “In later conversations with others, Helmer sexually described the woman’s physique and talked about different sexual positions he wanted to try with her and other women.”
Helmer denied the claims, but ultimately lost his race for Congress by four percentage points to Democrat Suhas Subramanyam. After the election, Helmer filed a defamation lawsuit in Fairfax County Circuit Court against King, Fechter and Savaglio.
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In Helmer’s $15 million defamation lawsuit, he alleged a coordinated effort by Helmer’s political opponents and Loudoun County Democrats to push allegations of sexual misconduct they knew were false. Helmer’s suit claims that the alleged groping could not have physically taken place because photographs from the evening in question showed he and Savaglio did not attend the same political event. The suit also alleges that Savaglio told Helmer after the fact that he had “never acted inappropriately toward her.”
“Because of a mix of personal, political, and financial motivations, Savaglio intentionally published known falsehoods to harm [me],” the lawsuit states.
An attorney who spoke to Fox News Digital suggested that the settlements represented a political victory for Helmer.
“They must have had enough black and white to force them to the table and force them to settle and that’s pretty remarkable,” Virginia attorney Jeffrey Breit told Fox News Digital. “It’s unusual to see that in political cases”
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“What makes it interesting in this case is defamation cases are very very hard to win nationwide and in Virginia because of so much you have to show for intent, truth, lots of issues that you have to do in a defamation case which makes them very, very hard,” Breit explained. “And so the fact that he could file a suit having lost because of what was said and force these people, one to the table, and two to settle, to me shows they had real evidence that this was false.”
When reached for comment by Fox News Digital, Fechter said the terms of the settlement prohibit him from commenting on the matter.
King told the Loudon-Times Mirror that he is limited on what he can comment on but did tell the outlet he is “very, very satisfied.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Savaglio for comment but did not receive a response.
Democrats had a big night in Virginia last Tuesday across the board on election night, including the House of Delegates where they expanded their majority control. Helmer won re-election in District 10, defeating a Republican challenger.
Common cleaning chemical tied to spike in liver disease across US, researchers say
Exposure to a common chemical used in dry cleaning and some consumer products has been linked to triple the risk of a dangerous liver disease, a new study suggests.
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), which is also used in some adhesives, spot cleaners and stainless steel polish, was associated with three times greater odds of significant liver fibrosis in U.S. adults, according to research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Liver fibrosis is a buildup of scar tissue that can progress to liver cancer, liver failure or death, a press release stated.
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The researchers also identified a dose-response relationship — meaning greater exposure to PCE led to a higher likelihood of developing liver fibrosis.
To arrive at the findings — published in the journal Liver International — the team analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a nationally representative survey of the U.S. population.
To measure PCE exposure, the team analyzed blood samples in 1,614 adults aged 20 and older between 2017 and 2020, finding that about 7% of the population had detectable levels of the chemical, the release stated.
Next, the group looked at which individuals with PCE in their blood showed signs of significant liver fibrosis. Those exposed to the chemical were three times more likely to have notable liver fibrosis than those without exposure.
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“We were surprised that so many people have detectable PCE in their blood, and that the link with liver scarring was so strong,” lead author Brian P. Lee, M.D., hepatologist and liver transplant specialist with Keck Medicine of USC, told Fox News Digital.
“Since prior studies have mainly focused on people who are exposed to PCE for work (e.g. work at the dry cleaners), I think people will be surprised by their exposure, even when they don’t directly work with PCE.”
“No doubt there are other toxins in our environment besides PCE that are dangerous to the liver.”
People from higher-income households were most at risk of PCE exposure, the study found.
“People with higher incomes may be more likely to use dry cleaning services, which could increase their exposure to PCE,” said Lee.
“However, people who work in dry cleaning facilities may also face elevated risk due to prolonged, direct exposure to PCE at work.”
Other health factors such as alcohol consumption and obesity-related liver fat accumulation did not seem to contribute to significant liver fibrosis when PCE was detected in the blood.
“Patients will ask, how can I have liver disease if I don’t drink and don’t have any of the health conditions typically associated with liver disease — and the answer may be PCE exposure,” said Lee.
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In addition to liver disease risk, long-term PCE exposure has been linked to neurological impairment, mood and behavior changes, kidney damage, developmental and immune system effects, and heightened cancer risk, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Short-term exposure could lead to upper respiratory irritation, neurological symptoms (dizziness, headaches, fatigue and impairment) and kidney dysfunction.
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Pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to the developmental effects, per the EPA.
Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA determined that PCE presents an “unreasonable risk” under certain use conditions.
In December 2024, the EPA issued a Final Rule restricting the “manufacture, import, processing, distribution, use and disposal” of PCE for many applications.
In January 2025, the agency released compliance guidance for dry-cleaning and energized electrical cleaning.
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“In 2024, the EPA announced a ban on PCE for consumer and commercial uses with a 10-year phaseout — however, this ban is now being reconsidered,” Lee told Fox News Digital. “This current study provides data to inform policymakers.”
Study limitations
The authors noted several limitations of the USC study.
Because it was cross-sectional and looked at PCE levels at one point in time, it couldn’t prove a causal relationship between chemical exposure and liver fibrosis.
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The findings also may not apply to people in other countries, as the study included only U.S. adults, the researchers added.
More research is needed to confirm the role of environmental toxins in liver disease risk, the authors acknowledged.
“No doubt there are other toxins in our environment besides PCE that are dangerous to the liver,” Lee added.
The hope is that this research will help improve patient outcomes.
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“Liver disease is growing in the United States at an alarming rate — the problem is that liver disease doesn’t normally cause symptoms until you have very advanced disease,” Lee said.
“Knowing the contributors to liver disease — on top of alcohol, diabetes and being overweight — can help you know whether you need to talk to your doctor about getting screened.”
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The study was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institutes of Health.
Fox News Digital reached out to several PCE manufacturers requesting comment.
Top teachers’ unions slapped with scathing report on ‘indoctrination’
FIRST ON FOX: A top parents’ rights organization is sending a “Lookout” warning to parents urging vigilance against two of the top teachers unions in the United States, making the case that they are “prioritizing radical agendas” at the “expense of educational outcomes.”
The warning, sent by the American Parents Coalition, targets the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA) and, in addition to concerns about student outcomes not being the priority, highlights a report that it says shows the unions “have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in woke organizations.”
The APC warning hits the NEA and AFT for pushing a variety of far-left causes, including boycotts in support of DEI, legal and activist campaigns against the Trump administration, denouncing a Supreme Court ruling that “enabled parents to opt their children out of age inappropriate and one-sided LGBTQ+ content,” and climate activism.
“Teachers’ unions were created to support educators and improve classroom instruction. Instead, they have transformed into radical political organizations that exploit their influence to push far-left ideology instead of prioritizing student academic success,” APC Executive Director Alleigh Marré told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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“Parents should be aware of the outsized influence these unions have on their child’s school, because these organizations may be pushing policies that undermine parental trust and do nothing to further a child’s education. Every year the teachers’ unions funnel millions of dollars into campaigns and activist causes that almost exclusively favor Democrats, while students continue to fall further and further behind on foundational subjects. Families expect schools to teach reading, writing, and math, not political slogans. It is time for teachers’ unions to prioritize academic teaching, restore transparency, and refocus on the purpose of education to prepare children for success, not indoctrination.”
The warning also focused on the NEA 2025 Handbook, which the APC claims “exposed the organization’s radical beliefs” and “attacks homeschooling.”
“The handbook touted the use of preferred names and pronouns as of the ‘utmost importance’ while blaming ‘white supremacy culture’ as the ‘primary root cause of institutional racism,’” the APC warning states.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the NEA and AFT for comment.
The warning also provided templates for parents to formally file complaints and call on their local school boards to take action prioritizing student performance.
“Parents have the right to know what their children are taught, approve sensitive content, see who influences the classroom, and hold decision-makers accountable,” the report states.
“It’s time to reclaim parental authority, and to demand teachers’ unions focus on academic success and not divisive ideologies.”
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Fox News Digital reported earlier this year that the NEA and AFT have poured tens of millions into far-left causes, including left-wing philanthropic behemoths like the Tides Network, New Venture Fund, Sixteen-Thirty Fund and Future Forward.
The unions also forked over significant amounts of cash for groups that focus on supporting left-wing candidates for public office, such as the Democratic Governors Association, Democrat’s House Majority and Senate Majority PACs.
27-year-old woman stabbed in chest while sitting at blue city train station
Chicago police are on the hunt for a man who they say stabbed a woman in the chest without provocation on a train platform near the University of Illinois Chicago Saturday night.
The victim, a 27-year-old woman, was sitting on a bench at the train station when he allegedly approached her and plunged the knife into her chest at the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform.
The woman suffered a minor injury and was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, a police spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The suspect, described as a Black male who stands about 6 feet tall and weighs between 160 and 180 pounds, left on foot, headed northbound on South Morgan Street, according to city police.
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He was last seen wearing white pants and sneakers, an orange hoodie, brown jacket and pink beanie, carrying a knife and a gray backpack at around 11:15 p.m. on Nov. 8 in a surveillance image obtained by FOX 32 Chicago.
The suspect remained at large as of Tuesday morning.
The case echoes the unprovoked murder of 23-year-old pizzeria worker Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte commuter train in August.
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On Aug. 22, a mentally ill suspect with a history of more than a dozen prior charges named Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, allegedly stabbed Zarutska from behind in the neck, in another unprovoked attack caught on video.
More recently, a North Carolina man is accused of stabbing another man on a commuter bus in Charlotte, leaving him seriously injured on Nov. 6, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Separately, federal authorities are touting results from the Trump administration’s crackdown on Chicago crime and illegal immigration.
According to Homeland Security officials, Customs and Border Protection’s Operation Midway Blitz campaign has resulted in a 16% drop in murders, 35% reduction in shootings and 20% fall in transit crime in the Windy City since it kicked off in the second week of September.
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Anyone with information on the train station stabbing is asked to call Area 3 detectives at 312-744-8261 or submit a tip anonymously at CPDTip.com.
Americans finally catching a break as DoorDash spots major shift in the economy
Americans are finally catching their breath. A new DoorDash report shows that after years of rising prices, families are spending smarter, small businesses are holding steady and paychecks are beginning to go further.
The inaugural “State of Local Commerce” report, based on millions of DoorDash transactions, offers a look at how the U.S. economy is shifting on the ground.
To track those shifts, DoorDash analyzed affordability trends through three of its key measures: the Everyday Essentials Index, the Cheeseburger Index and the Breakfast Basics Index, which reflect price changes across household goods, restaurant meals and groceries.
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The Everyday Essentials Index, which monitors the prices of staples like toothpaste, shampoo, toilet paper, laundry detergent, pain medicine and diapers, found that the average cost of these household items has remained largely flat over the past 12 months.
While household costs have held steady, fast-casual spending has inched slightly higher.
DoorDash’s Cheeseburger Index, which tracks the cost of a classic meal of a burger, fries and a soda, found prices up just 3.8% over the past year, rising from $17.90 to $18.58 nationally. But the picture looks very different from city to city. In Lincoln, Nebraska, the meal averages $10.75, while in Anchorage, Alaska, it jumps to $25.55.
In an analysis of its Breakfast Basics Index – which tracks items like eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel and an avocado – DoorDash found that prices fell 14% between March and September, due in part to declining egg prices. Over the past year, however, the national index has slipped only 1.7%, a gap that highlights how local trends can differ from national averages.
That variation, said Jessica Lachs, DoorDash’s chief analytics officer, is a key takeaway from the company’s data.
“I think it’s interesting to see that the national averages for a lot of the metrics that we put out, things like the Cheeseburger Index and the Everyday Essentials Index, those national averages are one data point, but when you actually look city to city, there’s a ton of variation,” Lachs told FOX Business.
“I think that variation from city to city paints a picture that is reflective of just how complicated and how nuanced all of this is,” she added.
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Lachs said that DoorDash aimed to go beyond raw data by using indexes to help people visualize what price changes actually mean in everyday life.
“We wanted to come up with indicators that could translate really complex price data and price trends into something that is relatable and something that is an easily understood measure of affordability,” Lachs said. “Things like the Cheeseburger Index take a common meal and paint a picture of what’s happening with prices in the overall economy in a much easier way to understand,” she added.
The DoorDash report also shows that paychecks are finally gaining ground. Since early 2024, wages have been rising faster than restaurant prices, meaning Americans’ dollars are stretching further. Across much of the country, wages are outpacing prices, especially in Port St. Lucie, Florida, where pay is up 6.1%, and in Madison, Wisconsin, up 4.1%.
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The DoorDash findings come as the White House touts progress in bringing down inflation and boosting take-home pay.
“After inheriting an economic catastrophe, President Trump quickly stopped Joe Biden’s inflation crisis with the Consumer Price Index at its lowest levels in four years,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to FOX Business.
“President Trump’s pro-growth policies will continue to supercharge wage growth and drive down costs as the president remains laser-focused on continuing to Make America Affordable Again,” Rogers added.
Brett Favre calls for artist who ‘loves this country’ to perform at Super Bowl
NFL legend Brett Favre named the musical act he would like to see perform the Super Bowl LV halftime show in Santa Clara, California, next year instead of Bad Bunny.
The NFL’s selection of Bad Bunny for the show drew backlash last month as the Grammy Award-winning artist has been critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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Favre said during an episode of his “4th & Favre” podcast he would pick someone else.
“I’d pick someone who … maybe Jason Aldean, or, you know, someone who loves this country and that everyone could relate to,” Favre said. “I think Jason Aldean right now is as big a patriot and has a great voice. But I like George Strait – that’s old school. There’s a lot of choices out there.
“I remember when Whitney Houston sang the national anthem and I was blown away. If you didn’t have tears in your eyes watching and listening to that, something’s wrong with you. I envision a national anthem and a halftime show, they’re two different things but, it really grabs you.”
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Despite the backlash against Bad Bunny, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell held firm that the Puerto Rico native would still be in the spotlight.
“It’s carefully thought through,” Goodell said of the decision-making process for the halftime show last month. “I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. It’s pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching.”
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“We’re confident it’s going to be a great show,” Goodell added. “He understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.”