The Kennedy Center kicked off June by continuing on their mission of offering family friendly content for visitors of all ages. The Washington, D.C.-based entertainment venue debuted the Angel Studios hit film, “The King of Kings,” on June 1. “This animated film is the perfect family experience, and we are thrilled to bring a special viewing to the Kennedy Center,” Ambassador Richard Grenell, President of The John F. Kennedy Center, said in a press release. “When I saw the advertising campaign for ‘The King of Kings,’ I immediately knew we needed to have it come to the Kennedy Center. Coincidentally, I was asked to be on a panel with the CEO of Angel Studios, so I cornered him. This is family-friendly programming that we will be doing more of in the future.” Jordan Harmon, President of Angel distribution company, added, “The success of the film proves that when you give the audience the power to choose, they’ll elevate stories that matter and that will amplify light to families around the globe. The Kennedy Center has the pulse on art and entertainment that is impacting our culture, and to see this film celebrated there is a victory for faith, family, and the future of storytelling.” Both shows were completely sold out and the on-site prayer wall was totally full, a rep from the Center confirmed with The Daily Wire. The theater included people of all ages and from all backgrounds applauding the animated film about the life of Jesus. As of May 22, “The King of Kings” has grossed a total of $66.9 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful bible-based films in history. Get 40% Off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships A synopsis of the film says, “A father tells his son the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vivid imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus, witnessing His miracles, facing His trials, and understanding His ultimate sacrifice. The King of Kings invites us to rediscover the enduring power of hope, love, and redemption through the eyes of a child.” Film critics and theatergoers were both effusive with their praise of the film. It currently has a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Trump made headlines earlier this year when he promised to reform the Kennedy Center, which began when he replaced its board and was elected chairman. Trump also tapped Special Envoy Richard Grenell to serve as the Center’s president. “At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote in February. “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.”

CNN data analyst Harry Enten voiced his disbelief on Monday as the latest polls show that Republicans have eliminated the Democratic Party’s double-digit advantage in one key metric: which party looks out for the middle class? Enten laid out several polls — including one from CNN and one from Reuters — showing that Republicans held the advantage when it came to the economy, even after four months of what Democrats and media have repeatedly painted as economic upheaval and the stock market “going bonkers.” WATCH: ?HOLY SMOKES: CNN veteran pollster is completely FLABBERGASTED by new polling that reveals how Democrats are failing even FURTHER behind. “How is that possible, Democrats?!” “Democrats have traditionally been the party of the middle class. NO MORE…! Adios, amigos!” BRUTAL. pic.twitter.com/WPlUhfQpu3 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 2, 2025 “After the first five months of the Donald Trump presidency — the first four months of the Donald Trump presidency, you’d expect that Democrats would have this massive lead on the economy,” Enten began. “It ain’t so, it ain’t so! The party that is closest to your economic views, in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points. Now, it’s still within that range, still within that margin of error — plus eight point advantage for the Republican Party.” “How is that possible, Democrats?! How is that possible after all the recession fears After the stock market’s been doing all of this, after all the tariffs that Americans are against, Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy? Are you kidding me?” Enten continued. Get 40% Off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships He went on to note that multiple polls were telling the same story  — with some even showing Trump’s numbers going up despite the erratic markets. “Despite all of that, the Democrats are down by 12 points on the economy,” he said, “This speaks to Democratic problems on the economy.” He finished with the key question — “Which is the party of the middle class?” — on which polling has traditionally skewed Democrat by double digits, and showed how Republicans had chipped away that lead dramatically since Trump was first elected in 2016. In 1989, Enten explained, Democrats had held a 23 point advantage. They only lost six points over nearly three decades — dropping only to a 17-point lead after 27 years in 2016. The Democrats’ lead dropped to just four points in 2022 and as of 2025, has disappeared entirely. “This, I think, speaks to Democratic ills more than anything else,” he said. “Democrats have traditionally been the party of the middle class. NO MORE! Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away and now a key advantage for Democrats historically has gone. Adios, amigos!”

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Last month marked the 40th iteration of Operation Tradewinds, a multinational security exercise hosted by U.S. Southern Command in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Operation Tradewinds brought together 100 personnel from 26 nations, six regional organizations, and multiple U.S. agencies. The goal of the operation: to advance multinational efforts to safeguard international law and maintain a free and open maritime environment.   Operation Tradewinds 2025 gave U.S. and Caribbean forces an opportunity to address some of the most pressing issues that plague the Western Hemisphere. For example, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service conducted a military exercise on firearms trafficking investigations. That’s an issue that is fueling increased violence and crime throughout countries like Trinidad and Tobago, which tops the charts for the highest murder rates. More than half of murders in the Caribbean involve guns that can be traced back to the U.S. Between 2018 and 2022, 7,399 guns were recovered from crimes, of which 5,399 came from the U.S. By partnering with friendly countries in the Caribbean, the U.S. can help stem the flow of guns to those countries, even as it works with them to stem the flow of drugs heading to the United States. Operation Tradewinds isn’t Southern Command’s only recent cooperative exercise in the Western Hemisphere, though. U.S. special operations forces attached to the command also recently trained with their Canadian, Jamaican, Barbadian, Bahamian, Belizean, and Guyanese counterparts through Exercise Tropical Dagger, an exercise that prepares military personnel to combat crime and terrorism in jungle, maritime, and urban domains within the Caribbean. Canada first initiated this exercise with the hope that Jamaica would grow as a special operations forces leader in the Caribbean basin and become more capable of taking the lead in countering drug trafficking and terrorism in the region. These two exercises highlight Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s commitment to strengthening relations with the Caribbean and with the Western Hemisphere as a whole. Before this year’s operation commenced, Rubio visited Jamaica and discussed America’s position on security assistance and cooperation. There, he stated that American assistance “should be geared towards looking for opportunities to increase skill training … [and] for opportunities to expand on [Jamaica’s] own domestic intelligence capabilities.” Exercises like Tropical Dagger and events like Operation Tradewinds provide upgraded training to the Caribbean islands, better preparing them to manage their own security problems. Visits from Rubio and exercises like Operation Tradewinds are critical steps in strengthening relationships with Caribbean countries and boosting efforts toward keeping American borders safe. Reflecting on his time at Operation Tradewinds 2025, Ecuadorian Army Lt. Francisco Andres Saenz stated, “Sharing different military and cultural experiences allowed us to strengthen our camaraderie and successfully complete all the missions we were assigned.” There is a great need for the Western Hemisphere to come together in defiance of transnational criminal organizations. In Haiti, armed gangs increasingly assert control over key infrastructure, jeopardizing the global supply chain. Using ongoing terror tactics, gangs leverage their stronghold on the region to shut down shipping lanes, increasing the cost of shipping. Operation Tradewinds combined the naval forces of Mexico, Canada, the U.S., Jamaica, and others, conducting exercises to enhance the ability to defend exclusive economic zones that could be a target for transnational criminal organizations. The region also faces rampant drug trafficking. Millions of dollars in drugs are found smuggled into the United States through seaports on small boats, commercial shipping vessels, or commercial airlines. On Feb. 27 alone, the U.S. Coast Guard offloaded 12,470 pounds of cocaine worth $141.4 million in the Caribbean. The drug bust was a result of six interdictions involving Canada and the Netherlands. In the closing speech of Operation Tradewinds 2025, Southern Command Commander Adm. Alvin Holsey stated, “Partnerships are our best deterrence to shared security concerns across the region.” Rubio and Southern Command’s efforts both represent a strong step in the right direction as the United States seeks to refocus its attention on security and prosperity in the Western Hemisphere. The post Why the Western Hemisphere Should Cooperate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill moves to the Senate, one major question remains: What exactly does President Donald Trump want in it? Trump has consistently pushed for the bill’s passage, despite saying he doesn’t view it as perfect. “It’s an unbelievable bill,” Trump said in an Oval Office event with Elon Musk on Friday.  Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill means we get One Big Beautiful Tax Cut.Making President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent will ensure American families can keep more money in their pockets for generations to come. IT'S TIME TO GET THIS DONE! ?????? pic.twitter.com/T1gHWb9GeP— RSC (@RepublicanStudy) May 30, 2025 He added that he would like to see some changes, such as deeper cuts to taxes, and possibly to spending, although he did not say that explicitly. “There are things I’d like to see, maybe cut a little bit more. I’d like to see a bigger cut in taxes. It’s going to be the largest tax decrease or cut in the history of our country. I’d like to see it get down to an even lower number,” he said. Beyond his core priorities of extending his first-term 2017 tax cuts and raising the debt ceiling to avoid a default on debt, Trump has mostly been happy to leave it to Congress to negotiate its way through a quagmire of issues. Those issues include how aggressively Republicans want to reform Medicaid, as well as disagreements between leadership and fiscal hawks on overall deficit levels. Trump has occasionally stepped in to draw red lines and encourage the speedy passage of the bill. For example, before the bill’s passage through the House of Representatives, Trump told House members not to cut Medicaid, but to focus on waste, fraud, and abuse. Different members have found a variety of ways to interpret that.  Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. for example, took that to mean that House Republicans should cool their jets in implementing their cost-saving changes to the program.  “We ought to just do what the president says,” Hawley said after the House passed its bill. No Republican should be supporting Medicaid benefit cuts – We’re the Party of the working class. Time to start acting like it pic.twitter.com/rPFhlQlqxR— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 14, 2025 That was after members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus appeared to take the same message from Trump as encouragement to continue fighting for a more thorough restructuring of the program. “He said, ‘Stick to the waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid,’” Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., told The Daily Signal after emerging from a House Republican Conference meeting with Trump before the bill passed.  “He’s right. Everyone agrees that there’s waste, fraud, and abuse. And I think it’s inappropriate for us to say we’re not going to touch it, and then leave all of this fraud that’s happening.” All in all, Trump has been respectful in his second term of the way debates are being carried out in Congress. For one thing, his second term is a vastly different situation from the first, in which a Republican-controlled Congress denied him a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and even the funding levels he requested for a border wall—his most iconic 2016 campaign promise.  Republicans were only able to break through this legislative gridlock to deliver a definitive win with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—passed shortly before Republicans handed over the speaker’s gavel to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Now, the political reality has changed, with Trump having delivered a resounding popular vote victory for Republicans and generally outperformed down-ballot candidates in November. In short, Trump is the undeniable ideological leader of the GOP, and Congress is under much more pressure to find a legislative agreement to his liking. Trump has allowed Congress to resolve many of its debates on its own in the 119th Congress. (Hu Yousong/Xinhua via Getty Images) On Sunday, he offered some encouragement to the deficit-hawk wing of the party. Trump praised Freedom Caucus members for lobbying for deeper spending cuts and encouraged the Senate to support their work. “Congratulations to ALL on a job well done. Proud of you! Hopefully the Senate will be there with you!” he wrote. The Senate presents its own challenges, some of which might test Trump’s patience. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who voted against the Senate’s initial budget plan—which made possible the consideration of a budget reconciliation bill in the first place—is a likely “no” without major deficit reductions.  Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has called for a fresh start in the process, where Congress would split the bill into a multistep process in which both houses would work to make much deeper cuts. Of the possibility of backlash from Trump over his reluctance to sign off on the bill, Johnson has said he “couldn’t care less if [Trump is] upset.” GOP Senator Ron Johnson rips Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill": "I couldn't care less if he's upset. I'm concerned about my children and grandchildren. $37 trillion in debt and we're going to add to it? There is no way I'm going to vote for this bill in its current form." pic.twitter.com/uTFyi7JK8m— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 23, 2025 Meanwhile, there is also a large camp of Medicaid defenders, such as Hawley and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who could raise objections in the Senate. Republicans, who hold a 53-47 Senate majority, can afford no more than three “no” votes within their ranks to pass this bill, though in the case of a 50-50 vote, Vice President JD Vance could cast the tie-breaking vote. The post The ‘Big, Beautiful’ Question: What Does Trump Want in the Bill? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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