Fact-Check: False
“Democrats are not woke and weak. We are a great party and should be proud of that.” —Rep. Ro Khanna
Lack of Self-Awareness Award
“Dems have fully embraced far right eugenics.” —Taylor Lorenz, who apparently has not heard that the eugenics advocacy of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, reads like a page right out of Hitler’s playbook
The BIG Lie
“Far right extremists want to take your healthcare away.” —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries
Shot/Chaser I
Don Lemon: “You often make fun of liberals and Democrats online. Don’t you think that’s divisive, maybe hate speech?”
Elon Musk: “I don’t roast liberals; I roast idiots. It’s not my fault they overlap so often.”
Shot/Chaser II
Don Lemon: “You have offended a lot of people by saying diversity hires ruin companies. Please explain yourself.”
Elon Musk: “Imagine assembling a rocket team based on skin color rather than skill. That’s not diversity. That’s idiocy.”
Reality Check
“Democracy cannot function — in fact, democracy does not exist at all — if each action the president takes — foreign policy, diplomatic, military, national security — has to be individually approved by 700 district court judges. That’s democracy?” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller
“If we wanted judges to continually make all these decisions on behalf of the American people, we could just do away at that point with Congress and the presidency.” —Rep. Kat Cammack
Re: The Left
“The greatest example of the Democrat Party’s misunderstanding of men, of course, was its choice of Gov. Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate. They chose him because he perfectly fit their woke, womanly image of a real man.” —Michael Reagan
For the Record
“Without Congress actually enacting the DOGE cuts into law, history will show this entire exercise to have been largely futile.” —Josh Hammer
“We should not want a president to have the power to impose, at will, tariffs on every nation.” —Erick Erickson
“We should feel no patriotic imperative to fund speech we dislike, which is very different from the imperative of protecting speech we dislike. This distinction seems to be lost on many.” —David Harsanyi
“True academic freedom … should not be construed to mean allowing the promotion of propaganda over facts, manipulation over informed persuasion, indoctrination over instruction, or intolerance of rigorous inquiry masked as ‘compassion,’ ‘sensitivity’ or other popular buzzwords contorted beyond recognition.” —Laura Hollis
Make America Healthy Again
“I want to point out something, senator. You presided here, I think, for 32 years. You presided over the destruction of the health of the American people. Our people are now the sickest people in the world because you have not done your job. … What have you done about the epidemic of chronic disease?” —Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Sen. Patty Murray
Re: Russiagate
“I just want to remind the American people of one thing. When that man was a leader of the FBI, he perpetrated the largest criminal conspiracy, packaged political information from overseas, took it to a federal FISA court, and illegally surveilled a political opponent. So, I won’t be lectured on how to run this FBI from that man.” —FBI Director Kash Patel on James Comey
“As reported in the BBC: ‘Comey said he had “no doubt” that he was fired by Trump to “change” the Russia investigation, and called his sacking a “very big deal.”’ Which is to say, Comey was using the FBI to target Trump over the Russian investigation and what would prove to be a bogus allegation that Trump had partnered with Russia to steal the 2016 election.“ —Jeffrey Lord
Grandstanding
“Is this a commencement address in 2025 or the introduction to a 1950s late-night horror movie? The theme song of ‘Jaws’ would have made a fitting backdrop, with Trump as the frightening Great White. … Neither Pelley nor any of his colleagues saw the slightest hint that Joe Biden was suffering from serious cognitive decline. To admit it would have helped Trump, so they looked the other way. You know, to save democracy.” —Michael Goodwin on Scott Pelley’s commencement rant at Wake Forest University
