President-elect Donald Trump met with President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday, a strikingly cordial reunion between the longtime political rivals. 
“Well, Mr. President-elect, and former President, Donald, congratulations,” Biden said in the Oval Office, noting that he was “looking forward to … a smooth transition.”
“So, welcome,” Biden added. “Welcome back.”
Trump was similarly cordial in his response.
“Politics is tough, and in many cases, it’s not a very nice world. But it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much,” Trump said. “A transition that’s so smooth, it’ll be as smooth as it can get.”
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After Trump finished speaking, members of the media — who were only allowed in the Oval Office for these brief opening moments — began shouting questions at the two presidents, who shared a knowing smirk amid the cacophony.
Trump arrived at the White House after a triumphant meeting with House Republicans, where he touted Republicans’ electoral victories and threw his support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Wednesday’s meeting comes at the end of an often-fiery relationship between the two presidents. Biden successfully campaigned against Trump in 2020 by repeatedly calling him a threat to democracy. Biden’s successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, picked up and intensified in the final days of her presidential campaign, calling Trump and his supporters “fascists.”
Biden, who repeatedly claimed that he was the only candidate capable of defeating Trump, withdrew from the presidential race over the summer after a disastrous debate performance against Trump highlighted the president’s age and faltering mental state.
Trump handily defeated Harris at the ballot box, sweeping all seven swing states and 312 electoral votes.
Though it is tradition for outgoing presidents to meet with their successors in the White House, today’s meeting was unique. Not since Grover Cleveland’s 1892 defeat of Benjamin Harrison has an outgoing president handed power over to a former president.
While Trump and Biden kept with tradition, their First Ladies did not. Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation to the traditional First Ladies’ tea, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/11/us-news/melania-trump-declines-to-meet-with-jill-biden-at-white-house-citing-mar-a-lago-raid-source/">reportedly</a> a response to the Biden administration’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.

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President-elect Donald Trump met with House Republicans Wednesday morning, the first stop on his post-election tour of Washington, D.C.
Trump struck a triumphant tone from the outset, touting his and Republicans’ recent electoral victories.
“It’s always nice to win,” Trump began, before celebrating the “historic kind of numbers” he and House Republicans put up on Election Day.
“The House did very well,” Trump said. “We could have lost by quite a bit,” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4987984-house-senate-republicans-leadership-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump said</a>, before noting that Republicans wound up gaining four or five seats in the House. The president-elect noted that this was a small margin, but that, “when you get used to” controlling the chamber by a single vote, “you can get used to anything.”
Trump also commented on his recent slew of Cabinet appointments, joking about the fact that he has so far tapped two House Republicans — Reps. Elise Stefanik (NY) and Michael Waltz (FL) as United Nations Ambassador and national security adviser, respectively.
Addressing concerns that he is chipping away at an already-slim majority, Trump joked that he wanted at least 15 House Republicans in his administration, and that he might come back for more later, The Hill reported.
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Trump also threw his support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson, <a href="https://x.com/juliegraceb/status/1856718932465328518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> him a “tremendous guy” and saying that he was with him “all the way.” Johnson introduced Trump to the conference, calling him a “singular figure in American history” and the “comeback king.”
Trump is set to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House later today.

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Peanut the Squirrel was more than just a social media sensation. He was also the namesake of an animal rescue run by the New York couple that adopted him.
Last year, Mark and Daniele Longo <a href="https://www.pnutsfreedomfarm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened</a> P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary, “a haven where neglected and homeless animals receive a second chance at life” named after their pet squirrel, who they rescued seven years ago. The sanctuary, which they say has helped 350 animals, was made possible in a large part by donations gathered through Peanut’s viral social media accounts.
Now that Peanut has been euthanized by New York State, Mark Longo worries the sanctuary may be in trouble.
“We’ve relied heavily on PNUT and his internet family to gather donations to help more animals,” Longo <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBwhVpdymnG/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=2d974739-6fb5-45c5-b805-ffd3a6adc4ce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote on Instagram</a>. “I don’t even know how [we] will continue to fundraise for this nonprofit.”
Longo says he is uncertain why the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) chose to seize and euthanize Peanut after seven years, during which time there had been no complaints about Peanut. But according to Center For Consumer Freedom Managing Director Will Coggin, the DEC’s actions are inline with the misguided approach of the animal welfare movement.
“The death of Peanut appears to track with a broader trend in the animal rights movement of killing animals,” Coggin told The Daily Wire. “Sadly, many of these people have a ‘better dead than fed’ mentality.”
Coggin pointed to one “shocking” case of Maya the Chihuahua, who PETA employees allegedly took from a Virginia family’s front porch and euthanized.
Maya’s owner, Wilbur Cerate, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141116095105/http://wavy.com/2014/11/12/man-claims-peta-stole-killed-family-pet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told WAVY</a> at the time that security footage from his home shows two women exiting a PETA van that pulls up to his property, putting Maya in the van, and driving away. Cerate told WAVY that the women returned three days later with “a fruit basket and terrible news — Maya had been euthanized.”
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Accomack County Sheriff Todd Godwin charged the workers with larceny, but the local commonwealth’s attorney dropped the charge.
According to Coggin, Peanut and Maya are just two of many animals who have suffered such fates.
“PETA euthanized 79% of the dogs and cats it took in last year at its ‘shelter,’ which state inspectors likened to a ‘euthanasia clinic,’” Coggin said.
Though PETA has national recognition, Center For Consumer Freedom data suggests that it’s smaller animal rescues like P’Nuts Freedom Farm that do the majority of actual rescuing.
The group <a href="https://consumerfreedom.com/2023/04/petas-25-year-anniversary-of-killing-pets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that PETA only adopted 58 animals in 2022, a 2.1% adoption rate. The nearby Norfolk Animal Care &amp; Adoption Center, it said, took in 4,337 animals that year, and had a euthanasia rate of just 10%.

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Peanut The Squirrel’s Killing Points To A Larger Problem, Expert Says

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Peanut, an orphaned squirrel who became a social media sensation after being rescued by a New York couple, was euthanized by the State of New York this week.
His crime? Being a squirrel.
“Peanut was an indoor squirrel, not harming anybody,” Mark Longo, one of Peanut’s owners, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-sensation-peanut-the-squirrel-euthanized-by-new-york-state-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told TMZ</a> on Friday. “He’s been with us for seven years. Not a single complaint was ever filed,” he added.
You can’t say the same about President Joe Biden’s German Shepherds, Major and Commander, whose history of attacking innocent bystanders has long cast a pall over the White House.
Major, the older of the dogs, “attacked” a Secret Service agent “unprovoked” in 2021, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/commander-biden-secret-service-bites-white-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. That incident “caused a breach of trust” between the Bidens and the Secret Service, according to the CNN report. Major was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/politics/president-joe-biden-white-house-dogs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent permanently</a> back to Delaware in May 2021, shortly after the incident.
But that was only the beginning. In December 2021, the Bidens <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/welcome-to-the-white-house-bidens-adopt-new-puppy/2915411/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">welcomed</a> Commander to the White House.
That’s when the trouble began.
As of February 2024, Commander had bitten Secret Service personnel in at least 24 separate incidents, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/commander-biden-secret-service-bites-white-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Commander reportedly bit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bad-dog-or-bad-owner-bidens-dog-cant-stop-biting-people-records-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seven people</a> in a four-month stretch of 2023 alone. Biden reportedly witnessed several of Commander’s attacks himself, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-witnessed-his-dog-attack-multiple-secret-service-members-document" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The document also revealed that Secret Service agents would wish each other a “safe shift” before heading to work with Biden and the dog. Commander <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bad-dog-or-bad-owner-bidens-dog-cant-stop-biting-people-records-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> bit one agent so hard, he had to go to the hospital.
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg attempted to laugh off Commander’s attacks in February, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-host-laughs-off-bidens-bite-happy-dog-what-did-he-see-that-nobody-else-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Goldberg joked that perhaps Commander was able to “see” something “that nobody else saw.”
But Commander is so violent, even liberal media outlets have begun to draw attention to the problem. Days after Goldberg’s comments, Slate <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/joe-biden-dog-commander-white-house-secret-service.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> an article headlined “How Is Joe Biden’s Dog Not Dead Yet?”
“Aggressive dogs have been put down for far, far less,” the piece notes.
Aggressive dogs, yes. But also, as we now know, peaceful squirrels.

US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden, look at their new dog Commander, after speaking virtually with military service members to thank them for their service and wish them a Merry Christmas, from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 25, 2021.

Peanut The Squirrel Never Hurt Anyone. That’s More Than You Can Say About Biden’s Dogs.

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Democrat-led New York State came under fire Saturday following the state killing of beloved social media sensation Peanut the Squirrel, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-sensation-peanut-the-squirrel-euthanized-by-new-york-state-government?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire reported</a>. And while Peanut’s death may be shocking, it shouldn’t be surprising — Democrats have a history of animal cruelty.
In 2022, Capitol Police euthanized a wild fox affectionately — though unoriginally — nicknamed “Capitol Fox.” The Capitol Fox quickly became a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/us/politics/fox-capitol-hill.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viral sensation</a>, with reporters jostling for a sight of the vixen, and even asking Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) if he had seen the creature.
But after the Capitol Fox allegedly attacked Democrat Rep. Ami Bera (CA) and POLITICO reporter Ximena Bustillo, Capitol Police <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/health-officials-murder-fox-who-allegedly-bit-democrat-journalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> the fox along with her three children. After the alleged “incident,” Bera <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/capitol-hill-fox.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a photo</a> of himself smiling and holding up a picture of the fox, and expressed his wishes that the fox “and its family are safely relocated and wishing it a happy and prosperous future.”
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Thanks everyone for the well wishes! I feel healthy and am glad to be back at work.
Despite the dustup, I hold no grudge or ill will against <a href="https://twitter.com/thecapitolfox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@thecapitolfox</a>. Hoping the 🦊 and its family are safely relocated and wishing it a happy and prosperous future. <a href="https://t.co/ys9aifa2MN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/ys9aifa2MN</a>
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As of this writing, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has not commented on Peanut’s untimely demise. But she is not the first New York Democrat on whose watch harm has befallen famous creatures.
In 2014, then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio infamously <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/bill-de-blasio-regrets-groundhog-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> Charlotte the Groundhog at a Groundhog Day ceremony in the city. Asked by The Guardian about the incident years later, de Blasio <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/bill-de-blasio-regrets-groundhog-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted</a> to pass the buck.
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Everyone acting like it&#8217;s a mystery where the duck is when we all damn well know. That 9 ft tall monstrosity de Blasio cracked its neck and spiked it on the ground the same way he did to the groundhog.
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“It was idiocy. Why would you want an elected official to hold a groundhog?” de Blasio said. “I don’t know anything about holding groundhogs. So the whole thing is just insane.”
Nor are elected Democrats the only people on the Left with poor animal track records. Activist Sean King spent over $40,000 of donor funds to purchase a thoroughbred guard dog, the Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/blm-activist-vows-revenge-after-free-beacon-report-on-his-40k-show-dog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, only to return the dog to the breeder.

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Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro joined former President Donald Trump in New York Monday to mark the first anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel with a trip to the tomb of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chabad.
Trump and Shapiro visited the Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch in Queens, the final resting place of one of the most influential Jews of the 20th century. Schneerson, affectionately known as the “Rebbe,” led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which tries to promote religious observance to Jews worldwide.
“October 7 was the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” Shapiro said. “It was an honor to join President Trump in NY today to pay our respects and remember the lives lost in the horrific terrorist attack one year ago today.”
“I had the additional honor of being accompanied by Yael, Adi, and Roy Alexander whose son and brother, Edan, an American citizen, is still held captive by Hamas,” Shapiro added. “Today and every day we pray for the swift return of all the hostages and a victory over those who sponsored and perpetrated October 7.”
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October 7 was the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It was an honor to join President Trump in NY today to pay our respects and remember the lives lost in the horrific terrorist attack one year ago today. I had the additional honor of being accompanied by Yael, Adi,… <a href="https://t.co/DdcFwnrWYl">pic.twitter.com/DdcFwnrWYl</a>
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One year ago, Hamas terrorists launched the largest-ever attack on Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and wounding countless others. Hamas also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/1-year-later-families-demand-action-as-hamas-holds-nearly-100-hostages-from-october-7-attack">kidnapped</a> around 254 people, 64 of whom are still held captive in Gaza alongside the bodies of 33 other hostages.
Trump laid a blessing calling for the safe return of all hostages to the pile of prayers and blessings that surround Schneerson’s grave
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President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> leaving a blessing in hopes that all the Hostages come home <a href="https://t.co/7tID53g9eT">pic.twitter.com/7tID53g9eT</a>
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Schneerson’s tomb is a pilgrimage site for Jews around the world, and politicians frequently visit the ohel to honor the Rebbe. Argentine President Javier Milei <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/argentinas-president-elect-to-visit-grave-of-world-famous-rabbi-where-he-had-asked-for-electoral-victory">visited</a> the tomb last year, just before his inauguration.

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With just 34 days until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris is pulling out all the stops. She’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-plays-border-hawk-in-first-border-visit-as-democratic-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">going to the border</a>. She’s busting out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-new-campaign-accent-has-people-comparing-her-to-classic-cartoon-character" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously-unheard accents</a>. And she’s telling voters that former President Donald Trump is coming for their booze.
Earlier this month, the Harris campaign <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/harris-alcohol-prices-trump-tariff-plan-1235113532/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> “Trump’s Tequila Tax,” a social media push aimed at convincing voters that Trump’s tariff proposals would cause imported alcohol prices to skyrocket.
“He wants to tax your tequila, and your Coronas, your Modelos, your Hennessy, all of it,” a campaign surrogate says in a TikTok.
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Have you heard of the Trump Tequila Tax?
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If one wanted to engage in a little armchair psychology, one might say that Harris is projecting. Because if she wins the White House in November, there might not be any tequila to tax in the United States.
Under Harris and President Joe Biden, an obscure bureaucratic committee has been drafting new guidance, which, if adopted, would recommend that Americans never drink — at all. While these guidelines would not ban alcohol outright, they could, as <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/10/the-secret-committee-behind-americas-prohibition-comeback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reason reports</a>, lead to a wave of bad press and a slew of class action lawsuits against alcohol companies. Together, that could cripple an already-faltering alcohol industry.
This is hardly the first instance of the Biden-Harris administration attempting to meddle in Americans’ lives in the name of “public health.” Biden proposed banning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-reverses-course-on-banning-menthol-cigarettes-over-fear-of-angering-black-voters-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">menthol cigarettes</a> early in his term, only to reverse course earlier this year when it became clear the ban would make then-candidate Biden unpopular among black voters. And the White House has come under fire for its attempt to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-official-who-supports-gas-stove-crackdown-has-a-gas-stove-in-his-own-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban gas stoves</a> in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
But unlike the Biden-Harris administration’s attempts to ban gas stoves and menthol cigarettes — both of which received ample media coverage and public scrutiny — the effort to change alcohol guidelines has taken place behind closed doors.
Federal dietary guidelines are updated every five years by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. For the current revision, HHS has <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/06/alcohol-dietary-guidelines-congress-koob/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kicked</a> the alcohol question to something called the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD). The committee is, <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2024/08/03/dietary-guidelines-alcohol-consumption/74595108007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a “secretive, six-person panel” that “operates deep within” HHS, far from the public eye.
Currently, the federal government <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/about-alcohol-use/moderate-alcohol-use.html#:~:text=to%20not%20drinking.-,Moderate%20drinking,or%20less%20in%20a%20day." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines</a> “moderate drinking” as two daily drinks or less for men, and one for women. But <a href="https://tomwark.substack.com/p/no-amount-alcohol-healthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sources</a> close to the ICCPUD say the committee is close to adopting the World Health Organization’s 2023 <a href="https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a>: “No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health.”
It may seem strange that an American agency would so wholeheartedly embrace the WHO’s position, particularly since it’s at odds with longstanding federal recommendations.
But it’s less shocking when you consider that three members of the six-person committee are literally Canadian — like, they live in Canada. It’s even less shocking when you realize that those three Canadian panelists were instrumental in imposing similar guidance at home, <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/10/the-secret-committee-behind-americas-prohibition-comeback/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slashing</a> Canadians’ recommended weekly drink intake in 2013 from 15 for men and 10 for women to two across the board.
That recommendation was so controversial it came under fire in Canada, a country where shady, unelected bureaucrats already govern what kind of drugs <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/patented-medicine-prices-review.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">patients can take</a>, and whether or not someone is eligible for <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html#a2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elective euthanasia</a>. Imagine how it’ll play in the United States, a country that almost started a whole <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/whiskey-rebellion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second Revolutionary War</a> two years after the first one ended because the government tried to tax whiskey.
In fact, the ICCPUD maneuverings are already so unpopular that they’ve spurred waves of bipartisan opposition. In April, Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Lisa McClain (R-MI) <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Letter-to-HHS-re-alcohol-review.pdf">wrote</a> to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing concern that the Dietary Guidelines revision may be violating federal law. By September 5, Becerra had not responded to Comer and McClain’s request for information, prompting the lawmakers to send a follow-up <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-issues-subpoenas-to-hhs-and-usda-for-docs-related-to-development-of-alcohol-consumption-guidelines%EF%BF%BC/">letter</a>.
In the intervening months, two separate bipartisan groups of lawmakers wrote to Becerra, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and NIH Director George F. Koob, to express concern about the opacity and legality of the revision process and request further clarification on what the ICCPUD would decide and when.
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So far, they haven’t heard back.
It’s unclear if Harris will allow the committee to impose its new guidelines should she win the White House — but signs indicate that she will. She was presumably on board with her administration’s plans to ban menthols and gas stoves, and has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-campaign-says-she-will-not-push-medicare-for-all-she-fully-supported-it-5-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> remaking the American healthcare system to look more like Canada’s.
She certainly won’t face any pushback from Tim Walz, who imposed a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3118502/zynsurrection-walz-zyn-tax-minnesota/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">95% tax on Zyn nicotine pouches</a> as Governor of Minnesota. Nothing goes better with no drinks like unaffordable nicotine.
It’s ironic that Harris, who has made so much hay about Trump’s “secret” plan to remake the federal bureaucracy, is currently overseeing a behind-closed-doors push to completely upend American dietary guidelines. Of course, unlike Project 2025, the ICCPUD’s proceedings are not public, nor the subject of any headlines. And, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-again-addresses-project-2025-says-dems-are-engaging-in-pure-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unlike Trump</a>, Harris has not disavowed, nor even acknowledged, this effort to stop Americans from enjoying the occasional drink.
That’s about as ironic as her saying Trump’s coming for your tequila.

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Hollywood star Zachary Levi endorsed former President Donald Trump on Saturday, saying he would “take back this country” and “make it great again.”
The “Shazam” actor made his endorsement on stage at a Trump rally in Michigan, telling audiences how he came to embrace Trump after first supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“For a long time, I was like, ‘Man, I really want to find a politician that represents all of the things that I want and I want to see in a presidential candidate,’” Levi said, “And this year, I found Bobby Kennedy, and I thought, ‘Man, this guy is it. He’s the real deal.’ And in a perfect world, whatever that would look like, perhaps I would have voted for Bobby.”
Levi, who rose to fame as the titular character in NBC’s “Chuck,” told audiences that Kennedy&#8217;s and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s support of Trump made him realize that the former president was the best choice to lead the country.
“I stand with Bobby, and I stand with Tulsi, and I stand with everyone else who is standing with President Trump. Because I do believe, of the two choices that we have, and we only have two, Donald Trump, President Trump is the man that can get us there,” Levi said, before introducing Gabbard and Kennedy.
In his remarks, Levi noted that he was raised in a “Christian conservative” household and recalled learning from his parents “to have a healthy level of distrust for the government and a healthy level of distrust for industry that runs amok.”
“We’re here to make sure that we are going to take back this country, we are going to make it great again, we are going to make it healthy again,” Levi said.
A growing number of voters are turning to Trump after the former president took up Kennedy’s pledge to tackle chronic disease and other health issues that plague the country. A number of otherwise apolitical health and wellness influencers followed Kennedy’s lead in endorsing Trump, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/make-america-healthy-again-how-trump-and-rfk-are-making-wellness-a-winning-issue">reported</a> earlier this month.

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When Rob Schneider calls you from the car, you can’t help but wonder where he’s going.
The set of Happy Gilmore 2? A Los Angeles comedy club? One of the few bars on the West Coast where they still let David Spade drink for free?
I never did learn where Schneider was headed during our conversation — we had bigger things to talk about. Things like the First Amendment, Saturday Night Live, the Khmer Rouge, vaccine mandates, Alexis de Tocqueveille, and Shane Gillis.
If you think that’s a random smattering of topics, you may not be ready for Schneider’s new book. “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Do-Speak-America/dp/1546007865">You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America</a>,” is equal parts memoir, historical survey, and political polemic, all wrapped up in Schneider’s trademark irreverent humor. At times it feels like Schneider is trying to make the case for free speech through sheer force of will: his stream-of-consciousness narrative plows forward at a breakneck pace, flitting from childhood reminiscence to an exploration of Soviet propaganda and back to a funny Chris Farley anecdote all before you can say “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Fk_mDem4o">makin’ copies!</a>”
That the book is funny isn’t surprising. After nearly a decade on Saturday Night Live, Schneider moved to the big screen, starring in hit films like “The Hot Chick” and “The Benchwarmers,” and making countless memorable appearances alongside his close friend and former SNL cast mate, Adam Sandler.
The humor is a given. It’s everything else that’s shocking.
Schneider is hardly the first celebrity to get political, nor the first to get in trouble for doing so. That he moved from left to right is a bit more shocking, but not without precedent. What’s truly strange about Schneider is just how seriously he’s taking his political turn. “You Can Do It!” doesn’t just have arguments — it has information. It has citations and statistics and digressions on Stanley Milgram and Mikhail Bulgakov. At times it feels more like a college lecture hall than a 30 Rock soundstage.
What made Deuce Bigelow get so serious?
“I got into show business to avoid having to do stuff like writing a book,” Schneider told The Daily Wire, adding that doing so was “a pain in the ass.” It was after witnessing the “egregious attack on our civil liberties and the attack on free speech” perpetrated by Democrats and their media allies that Schneider decided to pick up the pen. But even then, he didn’t lose his sense of humor.
“We&#8217;re kind of f***ed as a country,” Schneider said. “And so I do feel a responsibility, even though it cost me money and cost me work, I feel like it is my comedic-patriotic duty to at least bring these things to attention.”
The importance of protecting free speech may be the stated focus of “You Can Do It!” But Schneider’s understanding of this “comedic-patriotic duty” is perhaps the most essential — and certainly the most interesting — thread of the book.
“As de facto intellectuals, comedians are the cultural rearview mirrors,” Schneider writes. “Our jokes reflect the essence of a particular time, place, and attitude, to remind us of the context of where we just came from.”
This is why it felt so wrong when, following Donald Trump’s election in 2016, and then the coronavirus pandemic 2020, comedians by and large abandoned their craft and began echoing liberal talking points.
“I think the low watermark of comedy in the 21st century was late night television, with these hosts who all had interchangeable monologues,” Schneider told The Daily Wire.
“Nothing to me was more egregious than the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xP6c9UqPcU">dancing syringes</a> on Colbert&#8217;s show. That to me, it wasn&#8217;t cringe. It was Soviet bloc. It seems like something out of the Khmer Rouge.”
Schneider says the preservation of free speech in America depends in a large part on the flourishing of comedy — honest, equal-opportunity, no-holds-barred comedy.
“If you can get people to see the absurdity” of a given figure or issue, Schneider told The Daily Wire, “and mock it and laugh at it, it is the best way to move its natural path towards tyranny so that it collapses.
“When the public is comfortable laughing at the government, then they are no longer in fear of the government,” he said.
This is what makes Schneider’s activism so refreshing. Unlike many celebrities who jump in the arena, he doesn’t think his fame entitles him to serve as a moral arbiter for the rest of us. Rather, he sees himself as a member of the comedian class, a role that comes with a certain obligation to challenge authority and speak truth to power.
“I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m 100% right in these things,” he says, “but the fact is we need to have discourse, we need to not shout each other down.”
That humility doesn’t mean Schneider is pulling punches. He says that “the Democratic Party needs to lose this election — and maybe two or three more — so that they can regroup and become a political party that isn&#8217;t undemocratic and authoritarian.” Republicans, he tells The Daily Wire, “are going to have to put on their big boy pants and change legislation” should they win in November.
If this doesn’t happen — if Democrats keep power and continue their assault on free speech, or if Republicans win but resort to ad hominem attacks — Schneider worries about what will come next.
“Western civilization is committing suicide,” Schneider tells The Daily Wire, adding that “the United States is the last bastion of freedom in the world.”
“If we go, so goes the world,” he says. “There will be no Marines to rescue the United States from another country, there will be no food drop. There is no Marshall Plan for the United States. We are it.”
Dire as that sounds, Schneider has hope for the future of the country. His spirits are buoyed by, among other things: Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission that the Biden-Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor content (“I don’t think Zuckerberg’s a bad actor”); Saturday Night Live’s decision to have Shane Gillis host after firing him for politically incorrect jokes (“How great was Lorne Michaels to do that?”); and The Daily Wire’s own Matt Walsh (“The one, rightful heir to Sacha Baron Cohen. I think Matt Walsh is a genius. I really do”).
But more than anything, Schneider is optimistic because he believes in America.
“This imperfect union was founded under God with a belief that we have done something special,” he says. “It is a union deserving of our forgiveness and deserving of our thanks, deserving of our gratitude and deserving of every attempt we can [make] for its preservation.”
To do that, “we must call out injustice. But in that call…we should have a reconciliation.”
“We have to be generous, and if our fault is that we are too generous, that is the price that we must pay, that is what this great nation calls upon us now to do,” Schneider says.
Before we spoke, I was ready for Schneider to go deep on all sorts of subjects — I had read the book, after all — but I wasn’t expecting such a serious meditation on American democracy. Thoroughly impressed and hoping for a good kicker, I asked Schneider if he had any parting thoughts he wanted to share. He didn’t even hesitate.
“The book’s also pretty funny.”

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The Daily Wire’s “Am I Racist?” starring Matt Walsh was the third-highest-grossing film on Friday, out-earning a major studio release showing in more than 2,500 theaters.
“Am I Racist?” which premiered Friday, outgrossed Lionsgate’s “The Killer’s Game,” and was the second-biggest new release of the day. “Am I Racist?,” one of only 15 documentaries ever to open in over 1,500 theaters, also had the third-highest opening day gross for a documentary in the last decade.
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Audiences are raving about the film, in which Walsh goes deep undercover to expose the inner workings of the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry. The film has a <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/am_i_racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">99%</a> Rotten Tomatoes audience score, and earned an <a href="https://www.cinemascore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“A” rating from CinemaScore</a>, which grades movies based on audience response. No other new release received an A.
By the end of its second day in theaters, “Am I Racist?” will already be the biggest documentary of the year.
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Off to a very strong start. Top three in the box office on opening day, coming in third and easily beating “The Killer’s Game.” That’s a mainstream Hollywood film that opened in a thousand more theaters. Thank you to everyone who supported the film. Let’s keep the momentum going.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834994105736192413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Ninety-five percent of audience members said “Am I Racist?” met or exceeded their expectations, according to PostTrak exit polling. Nearly 70% of viewers said the film was “excellent,” and 57% said they would tell their friends to see it in a theater.
Just over 40% of opening day viewers were under 35. And nearly 40% of the opening day audience was non-white, a fact that may come as a shock to anti-racist activist Saira Rao, who has privately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/saira-rao-privately-slams-am-i-racist-as-nazi-white-supremacy-film?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> “Am I Racist?” as a “Nazi White Supremacy Film.”
Rao is one of several anti-racist activists featured in the film. Another, “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robin-diangelo-breaks-am-i-racist-silence-says-she-got-played-by-borat-style-mockumentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told followers</a> that she got played by the “Borat-style mockumentary.” In the film, Walsh convinces DiAngelo to pay his black producer $30 out of her purse as reparations for slavery.
DiAngelo says that “Am I Racist?” is “designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.” Walsh responded to her critique on X, saying, “She couldn’t be more correct in that assessment.”
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Robin DiAngelo has issued a statement denouncing our film. She claims that the movie is “designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.” She couldn’t be more correct in that assessment. Thank you, Robin!<a href="https://t.co/xOvMUFnuTk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/xOvMUFnuTk</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1834351644198289717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire entered the entertainment space in 2021 with a mission to disrupt Hollywood. The company has since released six films, including the acclaimed “What Is A Woman?” starring Walsh, one of the most-viewed documentaries of all time. “Am I Racist?” is The Daily Wire’s first theatrical release and is already defying industry expectations with its box office performance.
“Am I Racist?” is <a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*1orjxp8*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3MjE3NTYxNzAuQ2p3S0NBandxZjIwQmhCd0Vpd0F0N2R0ZFgyTkE1Z3RmazgwZXNuY1QyRVVvMXBOZEhxRzAwdWRGS0ozTFMzWWNsUzVnVkswSmFtdTlCb0M5R1FRQXZEX0J3RQ..*_gcl_au*MTU5NzI4NjQ0Ny4xNzIxMTYzNDAz*_ga*MTY5NTQ0MDk1Ny4xNzIxMTYzNDAz*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTcyNjMzMzM0Ni4xMDEuMS4xNzI2MzM0NDQyLjU5LjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">now playing</a> in over 1,500 theaters.

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Drea de Matteo doesn’t understand why people care about celebrity endorsements.
“In the past, I understood the value,” &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; star told The Daily Wire in a wide-ranging interview Thursday. “There was a rock and roll aspect to it, you know, you had all these musicians, there was a celebration of the country. I know now that there is no celebration of this country, and there&#8217;s no patriotism.”
Consider Robert De Niro, who held a press conference in March outside former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York City. De Matteo called it “one of the worst acting jobs” the “Goodfellas” star “ever did.”
“I really was like, do they have s*** on him? Because I don&#8217;t believe him right now. Even if he&#8217;s genuine and he really does mean what he is saying — why do people care?”
De Niro was one of many Italian-American celebrities who joined last weekend’s virtual  “<a href="https://paisansforkamala.com/">Paisans for Kamala</a>” event, the latest in a string of celebrity-studded, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dnc-held-an-irish-americans-for-harris-walz-event-it-was-awkward">ethnically-focused</a> Zoom calls hosted by the Harris-Walz campaign.
It was that event that inspired de Matteo to speak on the absurdity of celebrity endorsements.
“Look who became MADE men [and] women in the Corporate Mafia today,” she wrote on Instagram. “Congrats Paisans, Mussolini would be proud.”
De Matteo finds it hard to believe that any American, celebrity or not, would cast their lot with Kamala Harris. But she’s particularly shocked to find such support in Hollywood “Paisans.”
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“What&#8217;s interesting is Italians are generally known as being conservative,” she says. “They fought against the Sopranos, they picketed, they hated us, because they don&#8217;t like being associated with such corruption like that because they have a subculture, which is the mafia.”
But “we are now being dominated by…a sort of mafia government,” who “shake us down and govern like a mafia does in a neighborhood,” she told The Daily Wire.
“I made a snarky joke, but I mean, it is the truth, right?”
Snark and the truth. That’s pretty much what you get from de Matteo, a self-proclaimed  “hardcore liberal” who in recent years has found herself joining an increasingly large number of Americans dissatisfied with, and suspicious of, both American political parties.
It began for her, as it did so many others, during the COVID pandemic, when Americans found themselves with “nothing but time on our hands but to ask questions.”
“I don&#8217;t know what people were doing at home aside from baking bread. But for me…I really wanted to know what the hell was going on.”
“I feel like a lot of these celebrities are either tone deaf, and they don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on,” de Matteo says. And, like most “well-intentioned liberals,” if celebrities only understood the stakes of our current political moment, de Matteo is sure they would “abandon ship.”
That’s what she did, abandoning the Democratic Party after casting her first ever presidential vote for President Joe Biden in 2020.
“I had Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she admits. “I believed the hype. I listened to the real news! I didn&#8217;t do my own research.”
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But once she did, she realized that the Democratic Party she knew had changed. It was not the working class party of her childhood, which earned the support and respect of her family, including her mother, who canvassed for Geraldine Ferraro. It has become, she says, “the party of the wealthy.”
But wealth isn’t why de Matteo thinks so many celebrities support Democrats. To her, it’s really just a matter of groupthink.
“I feel like a lot of these celebrities are either tone deaf, and they don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on,” she says, adding that, like most “well-intentioned liberals,” these celebrities would “abandon ship” if they understood what was going on.
“It feels sad to see how misinformed [celebrities] are,” she says. “If they&#8217;re not misinformed, then it makes me question their integrity as a human being and why they would want to hurt people on that level,” by endorsing Harris.
“We&#8217;ve been watching them try to dismantle anything from God to country to human sovereignty,” she says. “So I do feel like the celebrity aspect of it this time around is a clown show.”
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For her part, de Matteo is trying to make Americans realize there’s an alternative to this “clown show.” She endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s third-party candidacy, and is now raising awareness for <a href="https://jointheresistance.org/">Rescue The Republic,</a> a movement for political unity that features heterodox political figures like Kennedy, Russell Brand, and former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
In Rescue The Republic — which is holding a massive Washington, D.C., rally on September 29 — de Matteo found the kind of old school patriotism that has animated her throughout her life.
“Since I was a little kid, if you asked me what my favorite colors are and I was like ‘red, white and blue!’ Everything is American flags,” she told The Daily Wire. “I think I might have been Betsy Ross in another life.”
To de Matteo, it seems like both parties have lost sight of what that flag represents: a radical, unprecedented freedom that goes above and beyond the petty partisan squabbles that define contemporary Washington and the party system. Freedom to her is rock and roll — it’s “psychedelic.”
She’s tried to recapture this spirit in <a href="https://ultrafree.co/">Ultrafree</a>, a streetwear line she launched in 2023 to “make freedom cool again.” She’s quick to note that Ultrafree is not another brand geared at conservatives, but rather any American who feels as she does: adrift, frustrated, but still hopeful about what this country can be.
“The pronoun for the whole movement is ‘we, the people,’&#8221; she says. “It&#8217;s not red, it&#8217;s not blue, no more labels … Ultrafree is really about critical thinking and not allowing your mind to be hijacked.”
If anything, de Matteo hopes to bring her fellow “hardcore liberals” into the fight for freedom by making them realize it isn’t a partisan issue.
“This isn&#8217;t just a conservative movement,” she says. “This is a movement by hippies and wild cards and lunatics like us as well. We wanna be free.”

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The leaders of America&#8217;s two largest teachers unions, which fought to keep public schools closed during <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> and have pushed to bring radical leftist ideology to the classroom, spoke at the final night of the Democratic National Convention Thursday.
American Federation For Teachers president Randi Weingarten <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6_mEFVYca0">claimed</a> that former President Donald Trump and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance &#8220;can&#8217;t claim they&#8217;re pro-child while gutting funding for public schools,&#8221; and that &#8220;being pro-family means we support access to good union jobs, affordable housing, health care, and higher education.&#8221;
Weingarten, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teachers-union-boss-randi-weingarten-mocked-for-unhinged-politicized-speech-warning-of-fascism">claimed</a> last month that Trump was an &#8220;existential threat to democracy,&#8221; heads the nation&#8217;s second-largest teachers union. The labor leader has come under fire in recent months for asserting that she fought to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/randi-weingarten-is-gaslighting-us-she-fought-to-keep-schools-closed-not-open">keep schools open</a> during the coronavirus pandemic, when in fact she did the exact opposite. Weingarten in 2020 called the Trump administration&#8217;s push to reopen schools “reckless,” “callous,” and “cruel.”
Though research showed as early as 2020 that children could safely return to the classroom, teachers unions fought to keep schools closed. School closures caused significant learning loss across the country, studies have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teachers-union-exec-suggests-learning-loss-made-us-all-equal">shown</a>.
Joining Weingarten on stage was National Education Association President Becky Pringle, who told the crowd in Chicago that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the best hope for American students.
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&#8220;They will strengthen our schools, support our educators, and help our students live into their brilliance,&#8221; Pringle said, hours before the vice president is slated to officially accept the Democratic presidential nomination. &#8220;Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are not just wrong — they&#8217;re dangerous,&#8221; Pringle said.
Pringle last month was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teachers-union-head-mocked-for-totally-unhinged-speech">slammed</a> for delivering a &#8220;totally unhinged speech&#8221; in which she said &#8220;we have to transform&#8221; the public education system &#8220;into something it was never designed to be — a racially and socially just and equitable system that prepares every student!&#8221; A known partisan, Pringle heads the nation&#8217;s largest teachers union, which in 2022 gave <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-largest-teachers-unions-dump-at-least-2-25-million-on-michigan-gov-whitmer-re-election-campaign">$1 million</a> to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s (D) re-election campaign.
Whitmer was one of several Democratic governors who pushed to keep schools closed during COVID. She was joined in those efforts by Walz, who as Minnesota governor instituted some of the nation&#8217;s strictest COVID lockdowns.
Walz, who in March 2020 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flashback-walz-implemented-covid-hotline-to-snitch-on-neighbors">established</a> a hotline and encouraged Minnesotans to snitch on neighbors who violated lockdowns by attending worship services, kept schools closed and mandated students wear masks well into the COVID pandemic. Critics <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walzs-covid-emergency-powers-were-challenged-as-overreaching">challenged</a> those restrictions in court, though the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled they were constitutional.
Pringle pointed to Walz&#8217;s work as a public school teacher to underscore her claim that the Harris-Walz ticket is the best thing for American students.
The Daily Wire reported this week that Walz has made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walzs-misleading-claims-about-winning-teaching-awards">misleading claims</a> about winning &#8220;teacher of the year awards,&#8221; just days after he caught flak for making similarly misleading claims about his military service and his wife&#8217;s use of in vitro fertilization.
The Harris campaign has emphasized Walz&#8217;s work as a teacher, though his positions on education as governor have come under scrutiny. As governor, Walz signed legislation requiring that Minnesota public schools put <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-tim-walz-really-put-tampons-in-the-boys-bathroom">tampon dispensers</a> in boys bathrooms, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-public-teacher-walz-attacked-school-choice-schemes-that-leaves-our-teachers-in-the-short">slammed school choice</a> as a &#8220;scheme&#8221; that &#8220;leaves our teachers in the lurch.&#8221;

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