President Trump said law enforcement was investigating alleged vandalism at the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Now the case has taken a very strange turn. U.S. Park Police reportedly arrested David Hearn, a 67-year-old former U.S. Olympic canoeist, near the pool on a misdemeanor allegation tied to destruction of government property. Hearn denies vandalizing the site. The Washington Examiner reported that U.S. Park Police arrested Hearn after the Reflecting Pool became the center of a national fight over algae, peeling blue material, and alleged vandalism at the newly renovated site. The report identified Hearn as a former Olympian and said the allegation involved destruction of government property, a misdemeanor tied to the same monument President Trump had just flagged publicly. The Examiner also placed the arrest in the larger controversy over the pool renovation, including the new blue surface, visible peeling, and federal workers trying to clean up the water. That context matters because President Trump had already accused vandals of trying to damage the surface and said law enforcement was actively working the case. The first widely shared video from the scene came from journalist Emily Miller, who posted footage of the arrest encounter and alleged that a man had been cutting out blue sealant. EXCLUSIVE: Sabotage the Lincoln Reflecting Pool! Man arrested for cutting out a big piece of blue sealant. Watch: pic.twitter.com/b9EmM8Qdw4 — emily miller (@emilymiller) June 19, 2026 The New York Post reported that Hearn competed in three Summer Olympics as a canoeist and was cycling past the monument when he says he stopped near the Reflecting Pool. According to that report, Hearn said he noticed a piece of the pool liner already floating or detached in the water and reached in to touch it. Hearn’s version is that he did not destroy, break, peel, or remove anything from the pool, and that he was taken into custody before he understood what was happening. The Post reported that Hearn was detained for nearly five hours at a U.S. Park Police facility at Hains Point and that it was unclear at the time whether formal charges would move forward. The Washington Post’s X account also reported the arrest and noted Hearn’s denial. Breaking news: U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” https://t.co/EkLvCHvbKR — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 20, 2026 President Trump’s public warning was specific: he said vandals had been trying to hurt the pool’s newly installed interior surface and that law enforcement was investigating. He also tied the pool damage to recent damage on the National Mall grass and said repairs were already underway. That is why this arrest matters. The vandalism claim is no longer just a political fight over algae, paint, and a renovation. That investigation now has a name attached to it, but the allegation still has to be handled through the legal process. Hearn is accused, not convicted. The strange part is the contrast: President Trump described a deliberate attack on a freshly repaired national landmark, while the man reportedly arrested says he only touched material that was already loose. Either way, the Reflecting Pool story is no longer only about algae and peeling blue material. It is now an arrest story. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Takes A Strange Turn appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump just pulled the wraps off a new Air Force One, and this one does not look like the old blue-and-white fleet Americans have seen for decades. The new VC-25B Bridge aircraft was shown at Joint Base Andrews on June 19 wearing a bold red, white, and dark blue livery, with “United States of America” stretched across the side and the presidential seal beneath the forward cabin. THE NEW AIR FORCE ONE UNLOCKED. ✈️ pic.twitter.com/5BVOH84Y9h — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 20, 2026 Fox News reported that the aircraft is a refurbished Boeing 747-8i donated by Qatar and modified for presidential use. The plane is expected to serve as an interim Air Force One while Boeing continues work on the two delayed permanent VC-25B replacements. That bridge role matters because the current presidential airlift fleet is aging, and President Trump has been openly frustrated with the delays. Fox reported that the president touted the jet’s size, luxury, and updated paint scheme while standing with Air Force leaders and service members at the rollout. The new design scraps the longtime Kennedy-era light blue look in favor of a sharper red, white, and dark blue scheme President Trump approved. The point was obvious: America’s presidential aircraft is getting a Trump-era visual reset before the country’s 250th birthday. President Trump made the inaugural exit from the new aircraft himself, and the administration shared the moment from Joint Base Andrews. .@POTUS makes the inaugural exit from the BRAND NEW AIR FORCE ONE! pic.twitter.com/jBciB2atAV — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 19, 2026 The official Air Force details are even more important than the paint. The U.S. Air Force announced that the VC-25B Bridge aircraft had arrived at the Presidential Airlift Group and would begin initial commissioning flights. Those flights are the final validation phase before the aircraft can join the active executive airlift fleet for presidential missions. The Air Force said the aircraft has completed its final government modifications and was built around mission capability, safety, secure communications, trained personnel, logistics support, and spare-parts readiness. That means the new plane has to do far more than look good on camera: it has to function as a flying command platform for the commander in chief. The bridge aircraft is designed to relieve pressure on the older VC-25A fleet while the long-term Boeing replacements remain in the pipeline. Once commissioning is complete, the new plane can be used alongside the existing VC-25A and C-32 aircraft depending on the mission. Air Force officials also described a fast buildout behind the scenes, including crew training and readiness work intended to make the transition practical instead of ceremonial. The service framed the project as a way to move quickly while still meeting the security demands attached to any aircraft carrying the President of the United States. And President Trump is already tying the jet to America 250. .@POTUS says the new Air Force One will lead a historic flyover above Washington, D.C. on the 4th of July: "This will be a flyover, on July 4th, I think I can say the likes of which we've never seen before." https://t.co/cff9LWNE4W pic.twitter.com/QXxEHbxmjw — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 19, 2026 Fox reported that President Trump said the aircraft could lead a massive July 4 flyover over Washington featuring fighter jets and other military aircraft. That is a fitting assignment for a plane that looks built for a national celebration. It also gives the rollout a bigger meaning than a fresh coat of paint. Boeing still has to deliver the permanent replacements, but President Trump now has a bridge aircraft that looks unmistakably American and is being prepared for real presidential service. If the commissioning flights clear, the new Air Force One becomes more than a hangar photo op. It joins the working presidential fleet, and its first major public showcase may come with the whole country looking up on July 4. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post NEW AIR FORCE ONE: President Trump Unveils Massive 747 Ahead Of Historic July 4 Flyover appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump’s new UFO push just took a very interesting turn. The administration has now stood up a new UAP Governance Board, pulling together federal muscle from the intelligence community, law enforcement, and the Pentagon side of the house. In plain English: the government is no longer treating this as a scattered side issue. It is being moved into a coordinated interagency lane, with national security, transparency, and hard data all on the table. The New York Post reported that the Trump administration has launched the new panel to help resolve Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena sightings and encounters, with the fresh board already holding its first meeting this week. The board is described as a coordinating body that brings together military, intelligence, law enforcement, and civilian agencies, giving the government one lane for information that used to move through separate departments. That matters because UAP reports have long bounced between agencies, classification walls, and competing bureaucracies, leaving the public with fragments instead of a full process anyone can evaluate. The new setup is designed to streamline investigations and data analysis while treating the issue as a national-security question, a transparency question, and a science question at the same time. The Post said Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will advise the effort through a UAP Science Advisory Council. The same report notes that the work is expected to use declassified information, which keeps the effort tied to public transparency instead of disappearing behind classified briefings. It also points to the unresolved orb material that has kept this subject alive well beyond cable-TV speculation. That combination is the hook here: a President Trump transparency push, an interagency board, and a credentialed science council aimed at evidence instead of folklore. Cosmic Council: Trump creates UFO panel to be advised by Harvard's Avi Loeb https://t.co/oN354fLdYi pic.twitter.com/95CNUM2cGd — New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2026 Loeb is not a random name in this space. He has been one of the loudest academic voices arguing that unexplained objects should be studied with better instruments, better data, and less institutional eye-rolling. The government is not announcing aliens. It means the Trump administration is putting the question into a formal process where scientists, skeptics, and national-security officials can all test what the evidence actually shows. DefenseScoop reported that Loeb and officials described the science council as supporting President Trump’s interagency UAP Governance Board, giving the new scientific group a direct role in the federal review process. An ODNI official said the board was established alongside the FBI and DOD to coordinate guidance and recommendations across agencies, with military, law enforcement, intelligence, and civilian capabilities all feeding into the same structure. The same report said the board met for the first time this week, making this more than a vague campaign promise or another batch of documents dropped on a government website. Its mission includes improving the investigation of UAP incidents and the collection procedures used to analyze UAP data, which is the practical step needed before anyone can make credible claims about what these objects are. DefenseScoop also noted that President Trump indicated in February he would direct Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files tied to alien life, UAPs, UFOs, and related material. That gives this new board a clear timeline. The directive came first, then the files started moving, and now the government has a formal structure to handle whatever those files and future data show. Three batches of UAP files have already been released through that initiative, according to the report: May 8, May 22, and June 12. DefenseScoop also reported that the science council will advise the government while working with unclassified data, a key detail if the public is ever going to see more than vague official statements. Why do we need a UAP Scientific Advisory Board? As has been widely reported, the US government has asked Professor Avi Loeb, of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University (see the main announcement at the end of this posting), to create a UAP Advisory Council. The members… — Garry P. Nolan (@GarryPNolan) June 20, 2026 One of the stranger pieces of the new material involves an AARO report dated June 5. DefenseScoop reported that the material includes an October 2023 incident in which law enforcement officials observed an orange “mother” orb launching smaller red orbs. Loeb said roughly 40 percent of the reported phenomena in that material lacked a reasonable explanation. Again, this is evidence of an unresolved case, not evidence of an extraterrestrial conclusion. Still, it is exactly the kind of data point that makes this more than late-night radio chatter. In his own write-up, Loeb said he was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, the FBI, and the intelligence community to assemble the UAP Science Advisory Council in support of President Trump’s transparency directive. He listed experts in data analysis, AI tools, physics, instrumentation, psychology, biology, oceanography, anomaly identification, anthropology, numerical analysis, communications, and more, making the council broader than a narrow astronomy panel. Loeb also emphasized the importance of including skeptical voices so the process does not collapse into groupthink, a crucial guardrail for a subject that attracts both serious questions and wild speculation. His council includes names from different lanes of science and analysis, including people focused on instruments, anomaly identification, quantitative psychology, molecular biology, and the study of anomalies, all aimed at separating explainable cases from genuinely unresolved ones. That range matters because UAP reports can involve sensors, eyewitnesses, physical objects, biological interpretation, and human perception at the same time. Loeb’s pitch is not to chase a preferred answer. It is to build a process that can separate bad data, explainable objects, and truly unresolved cases. That is a healthy sign for a topic where certainty often arrives long before evidence. If the government is going to deal with UFOs seriously, the answer cannot be blind belief or blind dismissal. It has to be evidence. Loeb also framed the issue as a national-security problem. If some UAP turn out to be unknown adversarial technology, then America’s defenses against espionage around strategic assets may already have been compromised. That is the serious version of the UFO conversation, and it is the one this new board appears built to answer. Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet is among the experts connected to the science council, and he weighed in publicly after questions about his involvement. Many have asked about my thoughts on joining the new UAP Science Advisory Council. @GarryPNolan sums it up perfectly… https://t.co/Hl9UeKUMp0 — Tim Gallaudet (@GallaudetTim) June 20, 2026 This is the key point: President Trump is not asking Americans to blindly accept a conclusion. He is forcing the process into the open, pushing the government to release files, and putting scientists in position to test the data. For decades, the UFO issue lived in the fog. Now, under President Trump, the fog may finally have to answer to evidence. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post President Trump’s New UFO Investigation Just Got Very Interesting appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Ever since Vice President JD Vance has gone on a media run promoting President Trump’s recent MOU with Iran, the Vice President has received heat from several Jewish lawmakers. One of the biggest lawmakers to target Vance is Rep. Randy Fine. On Saturday, Fine who has previously criticized Vance on his stance on Israel went a step further and posted “ABJD2028.” Which means “Anyone But JD Vance” in the 2028 presidential election. Take a look: ABJD2028 — Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) June 19, 2026 The Hill reported more on Fine’s criticism of Vance: Republican Rep. Randy Fine (Fla.) criticized Vice President Vance on Friday morning over his stark warning to Israel during a White House press briefing on Thursday. “I thought JD’s comments yesterday were absolutely inappropriate and frankly disgusting,” Fine said on conservative network Real America’s Voice. Vance criticized Israel’s leadership for speaking out against the memorandum of understanding signed by President Trump on Wednesday. The agreement opened a 60-day period for peace deal negotiations and brought a halt to hostilities, which was to include Lebanon. “If I was in the Cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Vance said. Israel, which has been closely allied with the U.S. for decades, has carried out military actions targeting Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah since nearly the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in a Friday morning statement that the Israeli military had struck Hezbollah “with force” on Thursday evening after a “heinous attack” from the militant group. Iran has repeatedly stressed that a ceasefire with the U.S. is contingent on a halt in fighting between Israel and Lebanon. “What the president has grown frustrated, sometimes, is that we seem to be right on the cusp of a major breakthrough in the agreement, and then all of a sudden there’s a major explosion that goes off in a civilian population center in Beirut, and a lot of people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah lose their lives. That’s not acceptable,” Vance said during his Thursday briefing. Fine, who is Jewish, suggested Vance “would be wise to go back and learn his history.” Other Jewish political voices have also been targeting Vance. Here’s Ben Shapiro: Ben Shapiro: "This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning … in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president" pic.twitter.com/4b5FGXLa7G — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 17, 2026 The Times of Israel reported more on Vance’s recent comments about pro-Israel Americans: As he continues his interview blitz to promote his new book and the deal with Iran, US Vice President JD Vance asserts that pro-Israel American supporters of Israel “make two critical mistakes.” “On the one hand, is [them] not delineating between America’s interests and Israeli interests, because they’re not always the same, but the second is always conflating criticism of a particular government with Jew hatred, because if everything is Jew hatred, then nothing is Jew hatred,” Vance tells conservative podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. “I actually think Jew hatred is very bad, which is why I think we have to be very careful about not calling every[thing Jew hatred]. It’s kind of like how progressives for 20 years called everything racist, and if everything’s racism, nothing is racism. We have to be very careful not to, in order to serve a certain foreign policy objective, try to criticize somebody as antisemitic when they’re just not.” He is then asked, “but the obsession to blame Israel in the GOP seems like a bigger problem than the Israel first crowd, no?” “I see both, and I think both are bad. I’m probably particularly sensitive to the [second] thing because of the last two days I’ve been defending the president’s decision to [enter] the Iran deal, and I find often the arguments are, ‘Israel doesn’t think this is good, therefore it’s bad,’” claims Vance. “And my reaction is that Israel’s opinions matter, but fundamentally they are separate. But you’re right, there are certainly people who take every frustration with the Trump administration, every policy disagreement becomes because of Israel, and that is absolutely wrong. I think that is one of those things that can bleed into some very dark places.” He adds: “I think that it’s upon us as leaders, as public commentators, to just try to be very rational about this, to try to distinguish what is legitimate disagreement from ethnic hatred… I actually think both the Trump administration, but the right generally is in a place of figuring this stuff out. Every debate has excesses on either side, but that’s part of the process of figuring this stuff out together.” This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post GOP Rep. Randy Fine Says He’s Supporting Anyone But Vance In 2028 appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump’s Justice Department has referred Major League Baseball to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over how the league handled three San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps. Fox News reported the referral on June 18, 2026. This started on the field. The Giants held Pride Night on June 12 against the Chicago Cubs, and starter Landen Roupp along with relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wrote Scripture on their caps for the game. Roupp wrote Gen 9:12-16 on his, with part of the reference running over the rainbow-colored SF logo the team used for the event. Employers who treat their employees differently because of their religious beliefs risk enforcement action by @CivilRights or @USEEOC—the MLB is no exception! Discrimination & harassment based on religion are unlawful, & will not be tolerated! pic.twitter.com/gEAwWNl2pt — AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) June 18, 2026 That post came from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the DOJ Civil Rights Division. Her message was blunt: employers who treat workers differently over religious belief risk enforcement from her division or the EEOC, and MLB is not exempt. Dhillon’s June 18 letter to Commissioner Rob Manfred said DOJ had referred the matter to the EEOC for further investigation. According to Fox News, the DOJ framed this as a potential Title VII problem, citing an employer’s duty to reasonably accommodate religious beliefs or practices unless doing so creates a substantial burden. The letter leaned on MLB’s own history. DOJ pointed to the league’s 2020 decision allowing Black Lives Matter patches on jersey sleeves along with other social justice messaging on league-authorized apparel. That is the heart of the federal complaint. The league found room for one kind of message and then warned players over another. MLB’s defense is that the issue was not the content. The league said the warning concerned future uniform violations and that its rules prohibit writing or displaying personal messages on apparel or equipment unless the league authorizes it. MLB later added that the warning was not disciplinary. The problem for the league is the obvious comparison. If BLM patches were authorized expression in 2020, players reading a Bible verse can fairly ask why their message is the one that drew a warning. Florida moved next. Do you practice religious discrimination in Florida, @MLB? You’ll be hearing from my office soon. https://t.co/znUcRXH8p6 — Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) June 16, 2026 That warning from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier landed on June 16, and his office did not stop at a tweet. The Florida Attorney General’s Office announced on June 19 that it had opened a formal investigation into MLB for alleged religious discrimination and issued a subpoena demanding records on selective enforcement. The subpoena was issued under the Florida Civil Rights Act and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The release says the state is examining whether MLB punished Christian expression while permitting secular, social-justice, and ideological messages. The document demand is wide. MLB must turn over its uniform and equipment rules, its enforcement history since 2020, and any approvals or relaxations for permitted expression, including the BLM patches and social justice messages. The state also wants policies on Pride Night and themed apparel expectations, plus any documents on religious accommodations or objections. MLB has until July 23, 2026 to produce the records. The national mood around all this was set early by Vice President JD Vance. Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore https://t.co/Dsl5DH2obf — JD Vance (@JDVance) June 16, 2026 Vance’s reaction captured the political shift around this fight. The old one-way rule, where progressive messages get institutional protection while Christian expression gets treated as a problem, is now running into federal and state scrutiny. Nobody has been found liable here. The federal action is a referral and an EEOC investigation, and Florida’s move is an investigation backed by a subpoena. But the question MLB now has to answer in writing is the simple one it likely never expected to face: why was one message welcome on the uniform while another drew a warning? This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post President Trump’s DOJ Puts MLB On Notice Over Pride Night Bible Verse Warnings appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.