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President Donald Trump has made a point to make himself the center of the national conversation on countless topics. But it turns out the president’s insistence on inserting himself into sports may be spoiling the popularity of even that.

“Young people are getting very into the World Cup, hosting watch parties, making fan-edits, and leaning into sideline fashion,” wrote Gen Z analyst Rachel Janfaza on her “Up and Up” substack. “And while Team USA is out, many young Americans still have a team to cheer for because they weren’t rooting for the US men’s national soccer team in the first place.”

“The U.S. kind of seems like they don’t really need the support right now,” said Nicholas, 18, from Arizona in a survey.

After he heard that Trump had appealed directly to FIFA President Gianni Infantino to overturn American striker Folarin Balogun’s red card (the White House maintains the phone call between Trump and Infantino was just an inquiry and didn’t exert any pressure), Nicholas said he was even less interested in backing his home team.

“Trump calling FIFA and getting it dropped like that’s just really embarrassing on a world stage. This is why people don’t really like the U.S. for a lot of reasons,” said Nicolas. “It seems like we have this power imbalance over the rest of the countries. It’s kind of like the parallel with Trump having a lot of corruption problems right now in his administration. It’s just, it’s a bad look for the country.”

“Poll after poll has shown that President Donald Trump’s support among young people has plummeted since he retook office, with his economic policies being a major reason,” wrote MS NOW political analyst Ja'han Jones on Monday. “And Trump hasn’t helped his likability by describing the affordability crisis as a ‘hoax’ and downplaying the need to lower housing costs.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made no improvements on things Monday when she blasted her own generation for having no love for the privileged billionaire president –because of their sense of privilege.

“My generation — I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me — have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” Leavitt told Fox News host Jesse Watters last week, ignoring the fact that Trump derived his own wealth from his father. And despite surveys showing the generation has less access to money and housing than their parents and grandparents.

Jones added that “as a 27-year-old member of the most corrupt and shamelessly self-enriching administration in modern U.S. history — and someone who has used her taxpayer-funded job to spread lies and launch childish insults on its behalf — Leavitt is arguably the epitome of entitlement.”

But Janfaza reports young Americans’ choice to back a foreign team comes amid a growing generational gap in national pride, with only 34 percent of young Americans 18–29 being proud of being American. Meanwhile, 43 percent of Americans ages 30–49 a proud of their status and 59 percent of Americans ages 50–64 are proud of being American.

These numbers appear to reflect the younger generation’s financial insecurity.

Other young Americans speaking with Janfaza said they felt the sting of a missed opportunity by disliking their own team and its connection to such a decisive president.

“I feel like, in a country where so much division already exists, it’s unfortunate to put aside an event like sporting, which can unite a country so much,” said Marianna.

A new report reveals that tradwives — or women who willingly dedicate their entire lives to serving their husbands, usually for religious and political reasons — are starting to regret their decision.

Enitza Templeton, a former tradwife, is urging other tradwives to protect themselves from potential abuse, exploitation and depression by choosing that lifestyle without fully understanding the implications, reported The New York Post’s Asia Grace on Tuesday. “By 36, the mother of four found herself feeling like “a prisoner” in her marriage, ultimately leading to a divorce.

Grace added, “And Templeton shared that her biggest challenge post-divorce was navigating life without a solid education, professional résumé or real-world experiences.”

Templeton told Grace about feeling “dead inside” as a result of a life that entirely revolved around catering to her husband’s wants and needs, with the New Jersey native claiming that one rarely sees tradwives over the age of 35 talking publicly about how much they love their marriages because they are often deeply unhappy. Instead they are “keeping their heads down, gritting their teeth and waiting to die because that’s all there is left for them. That’s their only escape.”

Templeton told Grace, “At a certain age, I got to a point in the marriage where I was like, ‘Oh my god, is this really what I want to do with my life? What comes after this?”

Similar to Templeton is Christine, a 40-year-old ex-tradwife in the southeast who said that she had been “taught to submit to my husband no matter what, and if there was infidelity in the marriage, it was probably because of something I’d done wrong. But if I prayed harder, and contorted myself to his will, he’d become a true man of God.”

She added, “If there was cheating, I justified it by saying, ‘Well, it’s just sex. I have the ring. He comes home to me. He takes care of me and our kids.' He became my identity. I was solely an extension of him.”

Eventually Christine decided she needed to leave the marriage because, after being diagnosed with Lyme disease, her husband refused to alleviate any of her marital and motherly duties such as solely raising the children, cleaning the home, cooking the meals and “enthusiastically” being available for sex at any time. When she began saying “No” to his demands, it led to “severe tension,” as well as Christine regularly praying “God, if you want this marriage to work, then please change his heart,” by her own account.

Grace also spoke with a 36-year-old former tradwife, Sansa, from Columbus, Ohio, who said she gave up a college scholarship to get married in her late teens.

“My marriage wasn’t some lovey-dovey partnership,” Sansa told Grace. “The house and kids were my responsibilities. I had to have dinner waiting on the table every night, I had to dress modestly outside of the house so that I didn’t draw attention to myself, but dress sexy for him when he came home from work.”

The New York Post’s story is not alone in profiling tradwives who abandon the lifestyle. In August The New York Times reported that Lauren Southern, a prominent tradwife influencer, had also left the fold.

“Being an antifeminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power,” columnist Michelle Goldberg explained, citing Southern’s new self-published memoir “This Is Not Real Life.” Describing it as a lesson of “conservative ideology colliding with reality,” Goldberg detailed Southern’s “painful attempts to contort herself into an archetypical tradwife” until she became suicidal.

“Her story should be a cautionary tale for the young women who aspire to the domestic life she once evangelized for,” Goldberg wrote.

Meanwhile in 2024, Salon's Amanda Marcotte covered how the tradwife movement is linked to Christian nationalism, and specifically the desire to remove women from public life. Explaining that the online tradewife content is "often interwoven with fundamentalist Christianity," she noted that it contradicts most women’s lived experiences — as well as ongoing trends toward women’s emancipation.

"The ubiquity of this content, especially on TikTok, has created widespread anxiety that this is a real-life trend of everyday women rejecting feminism for 'happy housewife' fantasies," Marcotte wrote. "In the real world, however, women are not turning their backs on decades of women's progress. The data shows the opposite."

She added, "More women than ever are embracing financial independence, delaying motherhood, and choosing single life over unsatisfactory relationships. Tradwives are a silly online fantasy, and in many cases, overt propaganda." Indeed, a 2023 study from Pew Research found wives make as much money or more than their husbands in 45 percent of marriages.

"About half of women are unmarried, which is a record high,” Marcotte said, citing data from the Pew study and the Census Bureau. “Single women are more likely than single men to own their home. Single women without children have as much wealth on average as their male counterparts."

She concluded, "Young women complete college at higher rates than young men, with 47 percent of women ages 25 to 34 having a bachelor's degree, compared to 37 percent of men that age. The birth rate has hit a record low, largely driven by the collapse in teen pregnancy rates. There's no real-world tradwife trend. It's better understood as an online fantasy, which attracts so much attention precisely because it's so foreign to people's lived experiences."

A Republican sheriff in South Carolina, a deep red state, was reamed out by a judge after being convicted — and sentenced to 41 months in prison — for a torrent of corrupt behavior.

“South Carolina ex-sheriff Chuck Wright of Spartanburg County was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum recommended sentence — 41 months in prison,” reported The State’s John Monk. “The sentence to Wright, 61, by U.S. Judge Timothy Cain was delivered before a packed courtroom at the Greenville federal courthouse. In the audience were FBI and State Law Enforcement Division agents. The hearing lasted more than three hours.”

Monk then quoted Cain, who was appointed by President Barack Obama but was a former law associate of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), harshly denouncing Wright.

“Over time, the defendant did not honor his oath,” Cain told Wright and the rest of the courtroom regarding the former sheriff’s extensive theft. In addition to the lengthy sentence, which Cain said he hopes will deter other wrongdoers in the police department, he also forced Wright to pay $462,866 in restitution for the money he stole through his office.

“I wish the guidelines would have been more because Chuck Wright deserved more,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said after the sentencing. “He was a total embarrassment, not only to sheriffs, but to all law enforcement in the state. For anyone who wears the badge, he betrayed them all.”

Wright was proved to have stolen $89,000 from his police department’s Benevolence Fund charity, as well as to charge the government for thousands of dollars worth of personal items. Additionally, Wright bullied employees to give him prescription drugs like oxycodone that they or their families were taking legally and put a cousin on his payroll for a $57,000-per-year job in which he did not do anything. Because he had so much power and was proved to have abused it, Cain sentenced him to the greatest extent legally possible, even though traditionally he would not have been given the maximum potential legal punishment.

“Sentences for nonviolent federal crimes are usually much less than the 41 months that Wright wound up getting, even though he hired two experienced criminal defense lawyers to organize and plead his case in the most sympathetic manner possible,” Monk reported on Tuesday.

“On the surface, Chuck Wright was the squeaky-clean sheriff of Spartanburg County, one of South Carolina’s largest and most prosperous areas,” Monk wrote for The State on Monday. “He had risen from deputy to the county’s most popular elected official, and he oversaw a department of 600-plus deputies, detention officers and civilian staff. But beneath the above-reproach image and below the radar of public oversight, Wright was crooked — stealing from a charity fund, giving his cousin a no-work job and bullying employees to turn over to him painkilling drugs they got for legitimate medical purposes.”

The Daily Mail reports Trump favorite and U.S. Rep. Congressman Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) allegedly cornered a Florida mom in a Florida grocery store and vowed to 'crush' or 'finish' her, she has claimed in a new lawsuit.

The Trump-backed frontrunner in the Republican race for governor is accused of threatening and assaulting Kelly Mason in a gourmet Naples store in August 2022 according to her civil assault lawsuit, which comes just over a month before the state's primary election. Daily Mail reports the incident stems from a watch party for the local school board race, which Mason later won.

“Video of the altercation shows a visibly angry Donalds confronting Mason, who was suing his wife following a dispute over a local school,” reports Daily Mail. “… Mason, her husband, and her two children – 13 and 12 at the time – had left the upstairs dining area of Seed to Table to go downstairs to buy lunch meat. The store, which describes itself as 'the happiest place in the universe', is a MAGA hub that occasionally hosts political events.”

That, she claims, is when one of Donalds' aides called her over to speak with Donalds. She told her children to wait and walked over to where the Republican and his two staffers were standing with her husband.

"End it Kelly," Donalds is seen shouting, according to the video nabbed by Mason’s daughter. “... Kelly, you want to end it? Stop the lawsuits."

“[Then] … tell the truth,” Mason responded in the video.

“I'm going to go, but I'm tired of this,” Donalds said. “Don't do it in court, do it right now.”

“Byron becomes very belligerent, raising his voice, yelling at me; it was about dropping this lawsuit,” Mason told Daily mail. “… 'He was threatening me, and then saying he's going to crush me and come after me, and that I should drop the lawsuit with his wife, and he was very angry about the lawsuit against Erica.”

At the time, Mason was suing Erika Donalds over what she claims was a “hostile takeover” of a local charter school Mason founded in 2012, Mason Classical Academy. After the school opened in 2014, the Congressman was added to the academy's governing board and his wife was added to its advisory board.

Mason told Daily Mail that the Donalds attempted to gain control of her school, seeking to expand it into a chain of schools to turn a profit.

“They saw dollar signs, so they want to start a bunch of schools, and I said, 'No, we're not ready to start a bunch of schools,’” Mason claimed. “‘You want to start a school, go do that, but you're not taking Mason's success.’”

Donalds’ campaign spokesman Gates McGavick told the Daily Mail that the suit is “a baseless, politically motivated attack and shameful publicity stunt designed to damage Byron Donalds in the 2026 election.”

Mason alleges in the interview that Donalds attempted to gain control of the school she founded, accusing them of wanting to expand the newly minted and successful charter school into a chain of schools to turn a profit.

'They saw dollar signs, so they want to start a bunch of schools, and I said, 'No, we're not ready to start a bunch of schools,' Mason claimed. 'You want to start a school, go do that, but you're not taking Mason's success.'

One of President Donald Trump’s most prominent defenders in the mainstream media, British broadcaster Piers Morgan, got into a tense exchange with an American conservative commentator on Tuesday after he was accused of sucking up to Trump.

“You have decided you know better than me what you think is important, and I would say that is not necessarily true,” Morgan told The Bulwark’s Tim Miller in a podcast that appeared on Tuesday. Morgan, who met Trump when in 2008 he appeared on the future president’s reality TV show “The Celebrity Apprentice” (Morgan ultimately won), went on to say that “a lot of the woke issues actually are things of legitimate mass concern. I'll give you an example: the ongoing furor around trans athletes in women's sports.”

When Miller asked “Who cares?” to Morgan’s concern, the broadcaster replied that “if you actually go out in the street and ask a thousand people what they think about that, (a) they would care, and (b) they think it's complete nonsense. And what my liberal friends do — the terrible mistake you make, I'm afraid, when you try to say nobody cares — is you're missing the fact that they do care. And, you know, it was people like Joe Biden — when he made it clear he thought it was fine for trans women to compete in women's sport, Americans actually went, ‘This is nonsense,’ which is why he lost.”

Miller responded by saying, “My point is not that nobody cares. My point is that, in the grand scheme of things, you're covering a news show, having so many segments about the fifth-place performer in a women's high school swim match.” To illustrate his point, Miller accused Morgan of creating “false balance” between Trump’s policies and Biden’s policies.

“On one hand, Trump got us into a stupid war,” Miller said. “On the other hand, oh my goodness, there was a lacrosse match that had a girl in it, in West Virginia.” When Morgan tried to change the subject, Miller accused him of “walking past my criticism” of how Morgan focused on “crazy liberal s——” while ignoring “crazy, random conservative s——” such as that happening in Miller’s state of Louisiana. Then the two men pivoted to discussing Trump.

Miller pointed out that in November, Morgan wrote a New York Post editorial in which he claimed Trump is “ready to be one of America's great presidents,” asking if Morgan still believes that. While qualifying his defense by saying that Trump “unfortunately has reverted to type” and compromised his legacy by breaking his promise to not start new wars, he then insisted that Trump could still be remembered as a great president. He also repeatedly insinuated throughout the interview that those who harshly criticize the president have “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Miller eventually admitted he was “frustrated” with the conversation.

“My counterpoint to that is: okay, what do you want me to do, be a liar?” Miller asked Morgan. “Shine his turds? Pretend like he's something that he's not? I mean, look — the honest truth is, everybody who goes to work for Trump and then has a falling out with him and leaves sounds like me in the end. I mean, [former chief of staff] John Kelly — thought he's a fascist. [Former Secretary of Defense Jim] Mattis. [Former communicators director Anthony] Scaramucci. We go down the list, they all sound like me, because I'm saying the truth about him.”

After initially citing the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and a variety of Muslim-majority countries (including Bahrain, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco) but failed to address the Israel-Palestine conflict, Morgan replaced that policy with praising Trump for shutting down the US southern border.

“You said the thing you wanted to say, Piers,” Miller told Morgan. “The numbers are so great because at the border they came in and got turned around, and that counts as one. What Trump is doing is not only shutting down the border, but also menacing people in cities, in the interior of the country.”

Ultimately Morgan declared that Trump should not be judged until the end of his second term.

“If you had a referendum aspect to your presidential system, fine,” Morgan said. “You don't, you elect a president for four years, and I think presidents should be judged at the end of four years.”

This is not Morgan’s first flirtation with controversy over his opinionated takes on American politics. For instance in February he defended Trump’s suppression of the Epstein files, which include details about his longtime friendship with the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, by saying Trump has not been proved to have done anything criminal and that “a lot of stuff in those files that are clearly fantastic and malicious.”

President Donald Trump displayed a bruised hand during his Tuesday trip to Turkey, which is occurring in advance of his upcoming summit at NATO. By doing so, he raised further questions about his physical health.

“Trump’s troublesome appendage has become one of the most prominent and longest-running health concerns amid an array of worrying symptoms,” wrote The Daily Beast’s Harry Thompson on Tuesday. “A neck rash has also been spotted poking out of the top of his collar, and, as was the case in Turkey, he has appeared unsteady on his feet, particularly on stairs.”

Describing Trump’s persistent swollen cankles and arguing that they are part of the same perceived series of health problems as his bruised hands, Thompson characterized Trump’s claim that these are caused by innocuous blood pooling, hand shaking and aspirin taking as dubious.

“Questions were raised over the plausibility of the latter when another bruise popped up on his left hand, too,” Thompson wrote. “Trump has also appeared to struggle to stay awake during public events, from meetings in the Oval Office to the NBA playoffs.”

Earlier this month clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison speculated that Trump’s July 4th speech revealed that he is aware of his looming mortality. This was evident, he said, by Trump’s regard for a 107-year-old American who was present at the ceremony.

“You see actual sadness on his brow, which you almost never see from President Donald Trump,” Garrison explained. “Right now he’s joking about health, but as you’re seeing, there seems to be real sadness in his eyes as he’s talking about that.”

In May, speaking with this journalist about Trump’s seeming cognitive decline, a former psychiatry professor at Tufts University said that the president’s age seems to be catching up with him.

“There has been a frightening progression of symptoms,” Dr. Henry Abraham, the chief signatory of a letter to Congress warning about Trump’s perceived cognitive decline, told AlterNet. “These include grandiosity without moral safeguards, paranoia, impulsivity, vindictiveness, easy misperception of being harmed, moments of omnipotence, uncontrolled rage, and sole control over the use of nuclear weapons in a time of war. As a psychiatrist reviewing these, I can only say Yikes!”

Also in May psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee, formerly of Yale University, argued that Trump is showing troubling symptoms such as “marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings”; “grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot—dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited—with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his ‘own morality’”; and “severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions—judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers—against political opponents and others who disagree with him.”

A Tennessee church thinks that it's fighting Satan when it's fighting the political culture war, and the modern crusade has turned a "charismatic" movement into politics.

Extreme churches and beliefs that trend toward the more bizarre are those that often get ignored by politicians who don't want to be associated with something far outside of the mainstream. But the Tennessee church is using its charisma to turn culture wars into a very real battlefield where Satan is active in public life and Christians are called to fight back through prayer, prophecy and political engagement.

An extensive report from The Atlantic details the journey of Andrea and Mike Brewer, the founders of the Well, where they promote their belief that the Earth is the battlefield on which Heaven and Hell fight. Mike Brewer tells a story about his addiction to adult videos and was leading an unhappy life. While praying, he heard voices calling to him and felt what he believes was a demon being removed by God and replaced with the Holy Spirit.

"He and Andrea came to believe that God was unleashing new signs and wonders and raising up modern-day apostles and prophets, including, it turned out, them," the report said.

The couple belongs to a group of ministries called "Global Awakening," and Andrea has begun "studying demon history and hierarchies." The couple then started a demon hunt, finding it in a local bookshop and cafe. The owner discovered that the Brewers were accusing her of demonic activity when a customer flagged it. It happens to be across the street from the Brewers' new church.

Mike Brewer released several videos of himself sitting behind a desk and "he explained in a calm and methodical manner that the bookstore had been identified as a 'regional demonic stronghold.' A high-ranking demon named Lilith was involved, [owner Lisa] Misosky would learn, and the bookstore was being targeted for something called 'strategic-level spiritual warfare,' the goal of which was to 'remove the enemy.'"

Misosky was born in the town, she's a Catholic, a Democrat and she's gay. It might be the reason that the Brewers didn't first approach her to offer help or conduct their own blessing. They simply went to war.

“This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” said Misosky.

These are the same phrases coming from President Donald Trump, however. His ally, far-right firebrand Steve Bannon called Lutheran and Catholic people helping immigrants "demonic." His vice president, JD Vance thinks that "aliens" and "UFOs" are actually demons. One FEMA official claimed that he was transported through time and space to a Waffle House.

"In that beginning moment, though, Misosky was simply wondering what the accusations meant for her bookstore and the people who went there. Why was she being targeted? What, precisely, was demonic about Southland? The mah-jongg? The romantasy section? A drag performer called Icky Stardust? Her? She wondered if she needed to worry about security," the story read.

Misosky looked up her own demonology for answers and to prepare for what she could expect. A group known as the New Apostolic Reformation has devised its own "end times" narrative where they believe the Bible's tales of an afterlife are wrong and they're supposed to build their own Heaven on Earth while they await the return of Jesus Christ.

The Atlantic story noted that the narrative follows the political goals of the MAGA movement. "The Kingdom would have limited government, free markets, two genders, one kind of marriage, and one kind of God." The movement is no longer a marginal one. There are now Tens of millions of American Christians drawn into these kinds of ideologies and the explicit goal is to "dismantle the secular state," the American government itself.

Churches are no longer a place of peace but a "war room" and services are rallying cries. There are maps and battle themes and prayers that constantly focus on "victory over evil" language, the latter of which is government, education, the media, and businesses.

Trump's political victories have become signs of divine triumph over those they consider to be not fellow citizens but enemies in some kind of cosmic struggle.

The group has become a politically potent force, and the conflict between the Tennessee church and the local bookshop is only the beginning.

A Texas bakery caught hard MAGA feelings for daring to attack President Donald Trump and calling MAGA “a cult.”

The New York Post reports backlash kicked off after a July 3 Facebook post declaring the owners were “not wanting to celebrate the 4th this year [and] embarrassed, afraid, and disappointed” in what the United States has become. They also called the MAGA movement “a cult” and denounced the Trump administration.

“MAGA is adversarial,” Flower Mound-based Hive Bakery wrote. “It’s a cult of unintelligent, rabid, immoral sycophants. Those conservatives who still have rational thought have left the MAGA movement. Those who remain and continue to support the most corrupt administration in our nation’s history, are here, wishing for our bakery to burn to the ground. Enjoy a little taste of this Americana.”

The New York Post reports owners concluded their post saying: “We are open tomorrow from 10-6 as we refuse to observe this holiday.”

“F—— this fa$ci$t regime and every single person perpetuating the downfall of our country,” they said. “Still holding out hope for an AOC revolution.”

Owners say MAGA bushwhacked them online, and they re-circulated the vicious responses.

“Hope your place burns to the ground.” said one critic, according to the bakery.

Another commenter said, “With a post like this, I will never patronize your business, and I will make sure to let my friends and family know your thoughts as well. If you’re that embarrassed, pack your s—— and leave. You won’t be missed. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.”

Still another heckler adopted a toned-down approach, writing: “I will celebrate this amazing country because it is still a great place to live. Instead of everyone being so negative, try some kindness. I always say, no one is stopping you from leaving and finding a better place to live.”

But other online commenters jumped behind the owners and their opinions, with one writing, “… tempted to get in the car and drive 12 hours for some Hive goodies …”, according to the bakery.

“Lol … I just said to my husband where’s Hive bakery, let’s go support them … then I saw they are all the way in Texas,” said another. “That’s way more than 12 hours for me… but go Hive Bakery I stand with you!”

The NYPost reports the owners are largely unaffected by the negative comments, having posted July 4^th photos from the bakery showing iced cookies decorated with an upside-down American flag and the words: “UNDER DURESS” in icing letters.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) recently found himself under fire by President Donald Trump’s supporters for posting a physically affectionate photograph on X. They demanded to know the identity of the woman in the picture… but were not prepared for the answer.

“For Republicans, the real soccer scandal of the weekend had nothing to do with Trump at all,” wrote The Bulwark’s Will Sommer on Tuesday. Sommer referred to Trump because the president controversially contacted the head of FIFA to reverse a ban on one of America’s star soccer players as they prepared to face Belgium, a game they ultimately lost.

“They were fuming about Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) wearing a Mexico jersey to watch the England-Mexico game with Mexico fans at a Tucson watch party,” Sommer added.

In addition to complaining that Kelly sided with Mexico over England in the World Cup, pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer tried to sic the MAGA movement against Kelly by asking why he had his arm affectionately draped around a slender blonde woman.

“A US Senator who represents a BORDER STATE wearing Mexico’s jersey is bad enough, but I thought he was ‘super loyal’ to his medically brain dead wife who was shot in the head?” Loomer wrote on X, referring to how Kelly’s wife — the former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) — nearly died in a 2011 assassination attempt.

Loomer’s post, which has been viewed 1.8 million times as of this writing, was quickly rebutted by Giffords herself.

“Well, she looks pretty great to me @captmarkkelly 😘” Giffords posted, confirming that she is the woman in the picture.

Kelly has found himself in the Trump movement’s crosshairs before. When he joined a number of other Democratic lawmakers in urging members of the military to not follow illegal or unconstitutional orders, Trump accused Kelly of “sedition” that is “punishable by death.” Similarly, while delivering a special address to Congress in February, the president engaged in a stare down with the senator after demanding lawmakers stand up to express their support for his immigration agenda… and Kelly remained seated.

Speaking to NOTUS in June, Kelly said that Trump’s ire does not phase him personally.

“I don’t get angry about it; I don’t lose any sleep,” Kelly told NOTUS. “They’re going to do s—— like this. They’re flailing. They know the law’s on my side, and they want to shut people up. This is a corrupt administration, and it’s clear to everybody."

He added, “If they’re going to go after the rights of 2 million retired service members, it might as well be me.”

CNN reports a federal judge blocked a grand jury subpoena for information about 2020 election workers in Georgia, which amounts to a hard rebuff to the Justice Department’s investigation into how the election was handled in the Atlanta-area.

But MAGA is furious at the legal drop-kick of one of the arguments buttressing Trump’s fragile claims of 2020 election tampering in Georgia.

“I’m not even surprised anymore,” posted one MAGA account with a history of racism.

“It never ends,” lamented another conservative X account speaking on the federal judges slate of Trump betrayals.

“This feels like judicial overreach,” complained another.

CNN reports The Georgia election “had been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s election-rigging claims,” but US District Judge William Ray called the breadth of the subpoena seeking information about Fulton County election workers “staggering.” He said that the use of the subpoena power to investigate the 2020 election was not legitimate, given the statute of limitations for any potential crime.

“In this Court’s view, the DOJ does not possess a need to enforce the Subpoena greater than the burden of disclosure on Fulton County, and as such, the Court will not enforce it,” he said.

MAGA remains furious at the decision, however.

“The effort to hide what happened in 2020 continues,” another complained on X. “It’s all theater.”

Another roared: “Rogue judge who thinks he’s above the law,” while calling the judge a “POS.”

The Republican hold on the U.S. Senate is under threat and President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump and “Left Hook” podcaster Wajahat Ali are demanding hard proof of life.

“The man is dead and no one is talking about it and I'm sitting here feeling like am I crazy?” demanded Ali. “[Sen.] Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) is dead. His wife — who most likely looks like she's a Chinese spy — has gone back to the homeland. His daughter deactivates her Twitter account. I'm, like, clearly this man is dead and Democrats are like ‘this is not main news’. Where's Mitch McConnell? No one wants to ask this? Am I crazy, Mary?”

Mary Trump, a frequent critic of her uncle ave beat the issue into the ground had roles been reversed.

“A Republican senator has disappeared for three weeks. We know he's in a hospital. We hear from one of the most vile people on the planet, who's a Republican insider, that Mitch McConnell is indeed brain dead,” raged Trump. “His wife flew off to China three days after he collapsed and needed CPR … we know that she is she's having meetings with the people in the upper echelons of the Chinese government … his wife is a billionaire shipping magnet from China and they are they just going to keep him on life support until the election so the Republicans don't have to deal with a special election? If Democrats did this — like, Republicans are still talking about Joe Biden’s [age], for god's sake.”

Republicans in Congress have largely remained quiet on suspicions surrounding former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's health, with one heavily MAGA-aligned senator this week claiming Republicans “are ALL in on it together.”

“Let's just say, God forbid, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer dies. Like, literally he's dead and everyone knows that he's dead and the Republicans find out that he's dead but the Democrats are hiding his death from the American public by keeping his Weekend at Bernie’s corpse somewhere just to delay … an election where someone might replace him, what would Republicans do, Mary?”

“They would lose their minds and they would go scorched earth,” Trump confirmed.

“Mitch McConnell is most likely dead,” Ali repeated, seemingly fascinated by the prospect of it. “Let me just listen to the words coming out of my mouth: Mitch McConnell — one of the former leaders of the Republican Party and a sitting senator — is most likely dead. He’s dead. Right now his corpse is [laying] somewhere and the Republican party is like ‘la la la la la la la, what Mitch McConnell?’ They're literally Weekend and Bernie-ing” Mitch McConnell and the Democratic Party is like ‘let's go kill progressives! That's our job! Our job on Twitter is to beat up progressives.’”

McConnell became infamous as majority leader for his brute-force tactics to stonewall Democratic legislative goals, which included blocking an Obama appointee upon false grounds that McConnel utterly ignored after President Donald Trump took office.