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Conservative host Tucker Carlson denied calling President Donald Trump the “antichrist” when pressed by New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro during a deep-dive sit-down for the paper’s show, The Interview.

Carlson has had a recent very public falling-out with the president over issues like the Iran war and memes depicting himself as Jesus Christ.

In one recent show, Carlson asked if Trump could be the antichrist, and on another show with accused rapist-turned-Christian Russell Brand, the two discussed Bible passages about the antichrist, with Carlson calling one passage, “Ripped from the headlines.”

“You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the ‘antichrist,'” Garcia-Navarro said during the interview, to which Carlson replied, “I have not said that.”

“On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony as president —”

“Correct,” Carlson agreed.

Garcia-Navarro continued, “— and you said, and I’m quoting, ‘Maybe he didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what’s inside that book.’ And then on a recent show, you went further, saying: ‘Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them. Could this be the antichrist?’”

“I actually did not say, ‘Could this be the Antichrist,'” Carlson maintained. “I don’t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I’m not sure I fully understand what the antichrist is, if there’s just one. I actually tried to understand it. I may have said some are asking that. I am not weighing in on that because I don’t understand it.”

“So to be clear, though, that was not what you were suggesting?” Garcia-Navarro asked.

“If I thought Trump was the antichrist, I would just say so. If I understood what the antichrist is, I’d say so, and I don’t really,” Carlson answered.

“You’ve been discussing it repeatedly on your show, so I’m just trying to understand why,” Garcia-Navarro continued. “What do you want your audience to be considering?”

“I just want to make the point repeatedly again and again that there are unseen forces that act, that there is a spiritual realm, and we are subject to those forces for good and bad, and I don’t think that any person can deny that,” Carlson said.

Garcia-Navarro pressed one more time, saying, “I just want to make the point that you did say, ‘Could this be the antichrist?’ And then you said, ‘Well, who knows? You did use those words.”

This time, Carlson backed down.

“Man, then my apologies to you if there’s a video of me saying that,” he said. “I guess what I’m expressing to you is it doesn’t reflect exactly how I feel. It suggests a precision that I haven’t arrived at, that Trump is the antichrist. You’d have to define antichrist, and I know that I can’t define it, and it’s not clearly defined in the New Testament or Old Testament.”

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told Fox News host Jesse Watters everything that’s wrong with his own Democratic Party during a discussion about May Day demonstrations across the country on Friday.

“There’s a big problem when one party can’t love their own country unless it’s in charge. That ends badly for everybody, and Democrats seem to be heading in that direction,” Watters said before introducing Fetterman and asking, “How big of a threat do you think this communist movement is?”

“Well, I mean, you know, there’s that phrase where terrible or bad ideas refuse to die. And it’s very sad to see that kind of thing being revisited in this kind of way,” Fetterman said.

The senator continued:

And a lot of these, you know, these terrible groups like Code Pink and a lot of the other ones that are strongly aligned to the CCP, without a doubt, they’re being financed. I mean, it’s ironic. I mean, these kinds of protests are being funded by billionaires against billionaires. I mean, I don’t know if they realize the irony in many of those things right now.

And now there is kind of a small communist takeover in Maine, you know, [Graham] Platner? Platner, he’s already announced that he’s an avowed communist. He’s made that statement and he put that online. Now he’s going to be the Democratic nominee. So, there is a resurgent about the socialism, and that’s becoming more and more a part of it. And now there’s more, it’s like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish ICE, and now turning it in to like an orgy of socialism here.

That statement drew a laugh from Watters.

Fetterman continued, “And that’s sad because it’s supposed to be about labor, like, unions. I am an absolutely, I’m a proud pro-union Democrat. But the kinds of mess that you see are showing up in many of them. I mean, that’s, that is the worst impulses that are our party continues. We just seem to can’t resist those things.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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President Donald Trump took questions from reporters while departing the White House on Friday and made clear that the negotiations with Iran have yet to result in a deal he is happy with.

CNN’s Dana Bash cut from her show to the live feed of Trump, noting the president is “leaving for Florida. He’s on the South Lawn of the White House taking questions on Iran as he leaves. Let’s listen.”

“Can you tell us about the new Iranian proposal?” a reporter shouted.

Trump replied, “So they want to make a deal, but I don’t — I’m not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happens. Iran wants to make the deal because they have no military left, essentially. And they want to make a deal, but I’m not satisfied.”

Another reporter then asked if Trump will seek congressional approval for the war and he replied, “Because it’s never been sought before. There’s been numerous, many, many times, and nobody’s ever gotten it before. They consider it totally unconstitutional. But we’re always in touch with Congress. But nobody’s ever sought it before, nobody’s asked for it before, it’s never been used before.”

“Are you willing to send anybody to Islamabad?” followed up another reporter.

“We have great respect for Pakistan and Islamabad and tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the Field Marshal. And they’re working with us. They continue to work with us, but the trip is a very long one, and we’re doing everything in terms of negotiating right now in terms of the negotiation telephonically. They’ve made strides, but I’m not sure if they ever get there. There’s tremendous discord, there’s tremendous — they’re having a tremendous problem getting along with each other in Iran. The leadership is very disjointed. It’s got two to three groups, maybe four, and it’s a very disjointed leadership. And with that being said, they all want to make a deal, but they’re all messed up,” replied Trump.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed on Thursday that the United States is not at war with Iran, the day before a potential deadline to involve Congress in foreign military action.

The 1973 War Powers Act sets a 60-day deadline to conduct military strikes without Congressional approval. In regard to the strikes in Iran that began on February 28, the deadline would be Friday.

When approached by NBC News on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Johnson said the Iran conflict does not apply to the deadline because “we are not at war.”

“I don’t think we have an active, kinetic military bombing, firing, or anything like that. Right now, we are trying to broker a peace,” Johnson told NBC News. “I would be very reluctant to get in front of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive negotiations, so we’ll have to see how that plays out.”

When asked about the deadline, Johnson told the network, “We are not at war.”

He added: “We’re policing the Strait of Hormuz and trying to get a peace. The president and the administration are moving as aggressively as possible. There’s nothing Congress can do to move that along any further, so we’ll see how it plays out. That is my position.”

Under the War Powers Act, President Donald Trump can request a 30-day extension. It remains unclear whether he has or will. Trump himself has repeatedly called the conflict a “war.”

As he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. is currently not subject to the 60-day deadline while a ceasefire is in effect in the region

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Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) confronted Pete Hegseth on a fake Bible quote that the defense secretary read during a Pentagon prayer service earlier this month, which was lifted from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction.

The moment came on Wednesday as Hegseth faced Carbajal and the rest of the House Armed Services Committee to testify on the Pentagon’s 2027 budget.

As Carbajal began his questioning, he said, “I recently realized that we have something in common. I’m also a fan of Pulp Fiction. And no, the movie is not an accurate portrayal of the Bible.”

Smirking, Carbajal added: “You know what I’m talking about.”

During the prayer service on April 15, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness, a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he said was delivered at the beginning of a mission to rescue a downed pilot in Iran during the early days of the war.

“They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17,” Hegseth said at the time.

He went on:

So the prayer is CSAR 25:17 and it reads, and pray with me please, “The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen.

In the King James Bible, Ezekiel 25:17, simply reads, “And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”

But Hegseth’s words bore a strong resemblance to the fake version of Ezekiel 25:17, strikingly delivered in Pulp Fiction by Samuel L. Jackson in a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination.

Carbajal went on to rebuke Hegseth over rising costs related to the Iran war and flu shots for soldiers.

It’s not the first time that Hegseth and Carbajal have clashed on Capitol Hill.

Last year, Carbajal called Hegseth “an embarrassment to this country” as the former Fox News host testified before the committee, adding, “You should just get the hell out and let somebody competently lead this department.”

Invoking those remarks during Wednesday’s hearing, Carbajal told a smiling Hegseth, “You were incompetent then, you’re incompetent now, and you’re the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to incompetence.”

Watch above via C-SPAN3.

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