Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) advised his constituents to pass on the new $1,000 seed investment from the U.S. Treasury for children simply because it has President Donald Trump’s name attached to it. A Daily Wire analysis found that Trump Accounts have the potential to turn into $362,000 by the time a child turns 18, but Thompson wants people in Mississippi, America’s poorest state, to stay away from the president’s new economic initiative. “It’s safe to say, I would pass on a Trump account,” Thompson said on Monday. “Trump University already taught us what happens when his name is on the brochure. Does a $25 million settlement ring a bell?” Thompson’s recommendation on Monday was based on Trump University, a for-profit wealth institute created by Trump in 2005 that was shut down in 2010. Trump University educated people on real estate and wealth creation with attendees paying for bootcamps and mentorship programs from $1,500 to $35,000. Trump Accounts, which launched on July 4, are investment accounts for children created by the United States government that will be around long after Trump’s presidency.  The White House shot back at Thompson, saying, “Telling your constituents to pass up on wealth because you hate President Trump is a seriously deranged — but not surprising — move from you.” Thompson, who represents one of the poorest districts in America, did not respond to a request for additional comment on the matter from the Daily Wire.  Thompson has about $3 million in assets with fixed annuities, bank accounts, real estate, and exchange-traded funds being the largest concentrations of his wealth. Trump Accounts also invest in exchange-traded funds. Once children with a Trump Account turn 18, they can withdraw the money they accumulated penalty-free to purchase a house or pay for college. They can also choose to keep the money invested. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes watching the accounts grow will teach American children financial literacy. The Treasury Department called Trump Accounts a real-time laboratory of financial literacy, with children and parents able to check the daily status of the Trump Account through the official app and ask questions of why the account is up or down that day.  Parents are able to contribute $5,000 a year to help grow the account with employers able to help up to $2,500 of the total amount. Grandparents, other relatives, friends, and even the child themselves can also help make contributions to the account. Based on historical figures from 2007, if the account was invested in the S&P 500, a fund made up of the 500 largest American companies, the Trump account would be valued at $5,900 if left untouched. With the yearly employer contribution the accounts would have grown to $183,933, and with the maximum $5,000 contribution, the account would rise to $361,959.  If the account had stayed invested until age 65, it would be worth nearly $45 million. Parents can set up an account for their children on the official Trump Account webpage. All children under the age of 18 are eligible for an account, and children born between 2025 and 2028 qualify for the $1,000 seed investment.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr isn’t buying what ABC is selling. The agency head fired back at the network’s insistence that “The View” deserves protection as a legitimate news program, pointing out that co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin have brushed aside sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. ABC is arguing to the FCC that ‘The View’ qualifies as a “bona fide news program” under the law — saying in filings that the program’s decisions are based on newsworthiness, rather than partisan purposes. pic.twitter.com/uLKLiTExo6 — Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) July 7, 2026 The dispute centers on whether “The View” qualifies for an equal-time exemption under a 2002 FCC ruling, or whether the daytime gabfest has morphed into a partisan cudgel masquerading as news. ABC insists nothing about the show has changed — only “the political climate around it” — and accuses the Trump administration of trying to muzzle free speech. The network notes that of more than 77,000 public comments submitted, the overwhelming majority support the show. But the show’s history of unhinged, one-sided commentary keeps piling up. Just this month, Hostin baselessly suggested Americans have reason to doubt the 2024 election results, while co-host Sara Haines falsely claimed election skepticism only cropped up after Trump returned to office — ignoring years of Democratic doubts dating back to 2000. Hostin went further still, floating a conspiracy theory tying the Minnesota shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti to an alleged scheme to steal the 2026 midterms. Back in January, Behar declared it was time for Americans to “step up” and force Trump out of office, insisting protests and voting weren’t enough — while warning the president’s ego could spark World War III. Hostin, not to be outdone, speculated Trump might invade Greenland to seize rare earth minerals. That same month, Whoopi Goldberg practically pleaded for a foreign government to swoop in and remove Trump from power, ranting that America effectively had no functioning government while he was in office. In May 2025, Goldberg dismissed mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline as no big deal, shrugging off a bombshell book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson by asking why it mattered “now” — an echo of Hillary Clinton’s infamous Benghazi deflection. And in March 2025, Goldberg all but confessed the show functions as a Democratic mouthpiece, sparring with Stephen A. Smith over the party’s 2024 wipeout before proudly taking credit for helping spread the party’s messaging herself. An FCC spokesperson shot back that ABC should worry less about labels and more about “complying with its public interest obligations.” With Carr’s FCC digging in and Disney refusing to budge, the fight over whether “The View” is news — or just a liberal echo chamber with a studio audience — isn’t over yet.

An Uzbek truck driver who couldn’t speak English allegedly killed a star college soccer goalie over the weekend after the Biden administration let him into the country, according to Fox News. Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, is accused of ramming his truck into the back of University of Massachusetts Lowell men’s soccer goalie Tobias Christopher Forsythe’s vehicle on Interstate 71 in Madison County, Ohio, on July 5. Asrarov came to the United States via the diversity visa lottery program in 2024 before obtaining an Ohio commercial driver’s license, Fox News reported. He is charged with tampering with evidence after he “ripped out his dash cam and hid it in his pocket,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, adding that the trucker “failed his English language proficiency test” and that “state troopers had to use Google Translate to talk to him.” Forsythe, 21, an economics major, played for Ashland University and Shawnee State University, where he started all 17 games during the 2025 season, before joining the UMass Lowell team in 2026. Tobias “Toby” Forsythe was just 21, a star goalie for the UMass Lowell soccer team with his whole life ahead of him. On Sunday, his life was stolen. A massive semi-truck driven by Bekhzod Asrarov rammed the back of Toby’s car on I-71 in Madison County, Ohio, killing him… pic.twitter.com/diNqfujrRc — Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) July 7, 2026 “We cannot let truckers like Asrarov, who can’t read our road signs or speak to law enforcement, drive 80,000-pound rigs on America’s highways,” Duffy said on X Tuesday. “I am praying for Toby’s family and loved ones after this horrible loss. We will never stop fighting to keep these dangerous truck drivers OFF THE ROAD so no other parents have to endure this unimaginable grief,” Duffy added. The Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to a request for comment. Kyle Zenoni, head coach of the UMass Lowell men’s soccer program, described Forsythe as the ideal athlete and an “even better person.” “He was humble, honest, selfless, and the definition of hard work,” Zenoni said. “Every single day, he showed up ready to compete, improve, and do whatever was asked of him. He never looked for shortcuts and never expected anything to be given to him — he simply wanted the opportunity to earn it,” Zenoni added. In response to a recent string of crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers, the Trump administration has pushed to enforce English-language requirements for truckers and has threatened to withhold federal funding from states issuing licenses to illegal immigrants. The latest such collision involved a Haitian semi-truck driver who allegedly killed a Pennsylvania State Trooper in a devastating crash. The Biden administration allowed the foreign trucker, who obtained a Massachusetts commercial driver’s license, into the country through its signature humanitarian parole program.

A part-time conductor at a famous Tennessee railway has been fired after a viral video captured him spreading an Independence Day message to passengers.  Jack Peterson, the now-fired conductor for Chattanooga’s Inclined Railway, can be heard in the viral TikTok video wishing the easily-offended passengers a “Happy Independence Day.” “To the very, very few Americans in here, Happy Independence Day,” Peterson said in the video, while one of the passengers told him to “shut up.” “To the rest of you. Welcome to the greatest country on the face of the planet, and if you disagree, you can leave,” Peterson said. The video was taken and uploaded by Nathan Scherer, who traveled with his family from Florida to Chattanooga for July 4. @natescherer Had an interesting train operator on The Incline in TN today #lookoutmountain #racism #xenophobia #theincline #tennessee ♬ original sound – Nathan Scherer Scherer used hashtags such as “racism” and “xenophobia” on TikTok, where the video has been viewed over 600,000 times. “It just really upset me, the whole time riding down,” Charles Scherer, Nathan’s father, told Katie Glanton with WTVC. “And I kept thinking the company needs to know about this because he was the only one representing the company and I just had a feeling that they don’t know that he is saying this.” Scherer reported the incident to the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA), and Peterson was fired immediately, according to the New York Post.  “He will not work for CARTA or the Incline Railway again,” CARTA said in a statement reported by News Channel 9. “I want to apologize directly to the passengers who experienced this and to everyone who has seen the video and felt its sting. It should never have happened,” said CARTA Chief of Staff Scott Wilson in an emailed statement. “We have zero tolerance for language that demeans or excludes anyone who rides with us.” “For 131 years, the Incline Railway has welcomed visitors from Chattanooga and from around the world,” Wilson said. “Every passenger who boards our railway deserves to feel respected and welcome, and we are committed to making sure that is always the case.” Peterson responded with his own statement and backed up his remarks, Fox 17 reported.  “I’m very patriotic, it was the USA’s Independence Day. I was celebrating with my fellow Americans (native or non-native). I truly do believe we are the greatest country on earth. My statement about if you don’t like the country and don’t believe we are the best, then you can leave is a freedom of the ISA that many other countries do not have. It is not a racist or xenophobic thing to say. If you don’t believe in making this country better, then why are you here?”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, skipped America’s 250th birthday festivities to co-host a women-only “spiritual” getaway that recast the mother of Jesus as a modern-day Palestinian political symbol. The event at a monastery retreat in Corsica was organized by the Muslim travel outfit The Women Sanctuary, The New York Post reported. Tickets for a private cottage run as high as $5,260. Organizers say the gathering will “honor” Mary as a figure revered in Islam, with one past attendee going so far as to describe her as a “Palestinian woman who gave birth under occupation” — the kind of framing critics justifiably call a wholesale rewrite of first-century history. Duwaji’s own history adds fuel to critics’ fire: she has previously liked social media posts celebrating Hamas and produced illustrations for anti-Israel pieces. Historians note the claim about Mary collapses under basic chronology. Jesus and Mary were Jews living in Roman-controlled Judea; there was no Palestinian nation, people, or identity in existence at the time. The very name “Palestine” wasn’t applied to the region until the second century, when Rome rebranded Judea as “Syria Palaestina” specifically to erase its Jewish association after crushing a Jewish revolt. In 2013, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Jesus “a Palestinian messenger,” and in 2019, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shared a social media post that stated, “I was once asked by a relative who is a Palestinian Christian why the Christian right in America largely supports their oppression. ‘Don’t they know we’re Christian too? Do they even consider us human? Don’t they know Jesus was a Palestinian?’” As former Republican speechwriter Peter Wehner has written, “In fact, although many Palestinians today are Christians, Jesus himself was not one. He was born to Jewish parents in Judea, he lived as a Jew, and he died as a Jew. In the time of Jesus, Palestine didn’t exist — as a place, an entity, a word, or a concept. In the second century, Judea, which was the epicenter of large-scale Jewish rebellions against Roman rule, was renamed Syria Palaestina — later simply Palaestina — by the Romans.” This isn’t the first time the Holy Family has been repackaged as Palestinian. In December 2024, the Vatican itself courted controversy when Pope Francis toured a nativity display created by Palestinian artists that dressed the infant Jesus in a keffiyeh. A Palestine Liberation Organization official used the occasion to thank the pontiff for backing the Palestinian cause. Francis had already drawn fire for calling Israel’s military response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre “immoral” and for suggesting an investigation into whether Israel’s conduct in Gaza amounted to genocide — remarks that fueled accusations he was tilting against the Jewish state.