Trump News for Sunday, July 5, 2026

Trump takes hard stance against communism during July 4 speech

Yahoo Entertainment

Venezuelan leader marks Independence Day with message of ‘no social unrest’

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Interim President Delcy Rodriguez once again defends her government's handling of the deadly earthquakes on June 24.

Interior secretary says administration will use the same company to repair Reflecting Pool

Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News

The administration has faced scrutiny for awarding a multimillion-dollar, no-bid contract to a company that previously worked on Trump properties.

From Saints To Founders: The Long Road To Church-State Split

The Conversation, Crooksandliars.com

By Steven K. Green, Willamette University The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released its report on June 26, 2026, on the state of religious freedom in the United States, declaring it to be under attack. The commission was established in…

“We have many friends”: Netanyahu rejects Vance claim that US is Israel’s “only ally”

Alex Galbraith, Salon

The prime minister blamed anti-Israel sentiment on "bot farms" and malicious actors.

Is N-able (NABL) One of the Best Value Penny Stocks to Buy According to Hedge Funds?

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

N-Able Inc. (NYSE:NABL) is one of the best value penny stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On June 23, N-able launched Shadow AI Visibility across its N-...

Kosmos Energy (KOS) Completes Sale of Equatorial Guinea Interests to Panoro Energy

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NYSE:KOS) is one of the best value penny stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On June 17, Kosmos Energy announced the completed sale o...

There’s Now a Depressing Tally of Winners and Losers in the Trump Memecoin Story

Mike Pearl, Gizmodo.com

No surprises here, but that's still sad.

National Guard troops fatally shoot a man in downtown Memphis

Joel Rose, NPR

Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. State investigators will handle the case.

'Antifa In Costume': Famous Racist De: Famous Racist Denies Friendly Fascists

John Amato, Crooksandliars.com

U.S. Interior Sec. Doug Bergum lost his temper when CNN host Dana Bash refused to buy into the multitude of lies Trump and his minions have spewed while trying to cover up for the shoddy work done by Trump's no-bid reflecting pool contractor. BASH: I want to…

Russia says Ukraine rejects local ceasefire in dispute over Kostiantynivka

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Russia says its forces have taken the city of Kostiantynivka in Donestk, Ukraine denies that.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Leigh Beadon, Techdirt

This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to the German court ruling that Google is liable for false claims in its AI overviews. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment about Bruce Schneier’s reaction to the ruling: In second place…

Sons of Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei attend funeral, but Mojtaba is absent

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Massive crowds gathered in Tehran to mourn Khamenei’s death, with chants calling for revenge against the US and Israel.

Clarity and Congress's summer break: State of Crypto

Nikhilesh De, CoinDesk

All parties are still optimistic that Clarity can happen before the midterms, but time is really starting to run out.

Trump Misquotes Declaration Of Independence During Speech At National Mall

Heather, Crooksandliars.com

As always, just imagine what the reaction in the right-wing media would be if Joe Biden had done something like this. Trump delivered a venom-filled speech this Saturday for America's 250th anniversary: President Donald Trump marked the 250th anniversary of t…

14 claims about Trump's Iran war statements, fact-checked

Emery Winter, Snopes.com

Rumors about what Trump has said and posted about the Iran war have spread regularly since the war's start in February 2026. Not all of them are true.

The New Trump OMB Rule: How People, Organizations Are Pushing Back

Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor, Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/, Forbes

The new White House Office of Management and Budget rule would give Trump and his administration significantly more power to select, award, cut and terminate grants,

D.C. Air Quality Reaches ‘Code Purple’ After Fireworks And Heat Wave

Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff, Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/, Forbes

The Fourth of July fireworks display in the capital impacted the amount of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.

Doug Burgum'News's Response To Patriot Front: Very Fine People On Both Sides

Heather, Crooksandliars.com

Why do these people always have such a hard time condemning white nationalists? We all know why. As we discussed here, Trump's fascist friends showed up for his big party in Washington DC this weekend and marched throughout the city: Hundreds of masked member…

Burgum defends cost of fixes to Reflecting Pool: 'It's going to be a small number'

Isabel Danzis, Abcnews.com

On "This Week," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said additional renovations to the Reflecting Pool will be 'a small number.'

Bribe Paying For More Pavement On White House Grounds

Lisa Needham, Crooksandliars.com

Are you having trouble keeping track of all of the ways that President Donald Trump is desecrating Washington, D.C., with his signature blend of shoddiness, cronyism, bad taste, and grift? There are many, so we should all forgive ourselves for not catching hi…

Everything Is Communism Now On Fox 'News'

Heather, Crooksandliars.com

Who knew Mitt Romney's healthcare plan is now a secret communist plot to get us to Medicare-for-all? The red-baiting on Fox continues unabated. They've been attacking Democrats non-stop since a few members of the DSA won some primary races across the country,…

Extreme weather disrupts US’s 250th anniversary celebrations

Al Jazeera English

Extreme weather disrupted the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations, forcing evacuations, cancellations and delays.

Kevin Warsh Must Explain That The Fed Simply Cannot Fight Inflation

John Tamny, Contributor, John Tamny, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/, Forbes

The Fed couldn’t fight what economists incorrectly deem inflation even if it wanted to.

New York Times report roasted after complaining about Fourth of July flyovers in DC: ‘Feels like the apocalypse’

Ryan King, New York Post

A famed New York Times podcaster ignited a social media firestorm for railing against the dozens of military flyovers roaring across DC's skies and what became a record-breaking fireworks show.

Europe is ‘Third World’ – Trump

RT

The European nations have been degraded to the status of Third World countries due to failed migration policies, US President Donald Trump has said

Is Gilead (GILD) One of the Most Undervalued NASDAQ Stocks to Buy Right Now?

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) is one of the 10 Most Undervalued NASDAQ Stocks to Buy Right Now. On June 25, Gilead Sciences announced FDA approval for T...

Checkout.com Partners with Booking Holdings’ (BKNG) Agoda to Optimize Global Payment Processing

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) is one of the 10 Most Undervalued NASDAQ Stocks to Buy Right Now. On July 3, Checkout.com announced a new partnership wit...

How Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) Is Expanding AI Deployment Channels Across Government and Enterprise

Habib Ur Rehman, Yahoo Entertainment

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is one of the stocks with rising earnings estimates and fresh catalysts. Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is...

Chinese pastor released from prison after Trump raised his case with Xi Jinping

Elmira Aliieva, The Associated Press, NBC News

An underground church pastor has been released from prison in China and has arrived in the United States, less than two months after President Donald Trump publicly raised his case with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A President With More Control, but Less Power

Philip Hamburger, The Atlantic

Slaughter is a necessary corrective to our age of unaccountable bureaucracy.

Trump praises US military as it marks 250 years of independence

Al Jazeera English

Trump praises US military as it marks 250 years of independence

Comment Of The Week: 'If It's Anything Like 'America's State Fair...'

Claire Guinan, Jezebel

We hold these truths to be self-evident: no amount of fireworks can salvage the shitshow that was Trump’s Great American State Fair.

How Trump is turning NATO into a cash machine

Paul McLeary and Stefanie Bolzen, Politico

The U.S. president has refashioned the alliance into something far different from its original intention.

10 Sunday Reads

Barry Ritholtz, Ritholtz.com

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Surveillance Tech Company Is Pitching An Unholy ALPR/Stingray Hybrid To Law Enforcement: Here’s something no one but cops and the tech firms that love cops wanted: an A…

Reform UK’s Farage failed to disclose funds from convicted criminal: Report

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

George Cottrell provided funds for Reform UK leader's security, drivers, staff and accommodation, Sunday Times reports.

Graham Platner Has Already Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem

Eoin Higgins, The Intercept

Alex Scheel is running an anti-war campaign to unseat incumbent Rep. Marilyn Strickland. He’s also a longtime member of the DSA in Washington state. The post Graham Platner Has Already Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem appeare…

Three sons of Iran's slain leader Khamenei appear at funeral, not his successor

Reuters, Yahoo Entertainment

TEHRAN, July 5 (Reuters) - Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunda...

China releases underground church pastor after months in detention

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Ezra Jin’s family says the Zion Church founder arrived in the US after months in detention in China.

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release

Associated Press, New York Post

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri arrived in Los Angeles and “is finally reunited with his family.”

Trump offers to help end Russia-Ukraine war in Putin call, Kremlin says

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov says Trump made the offer during a nearly 90-minute phone call with the Russian president.

NATO's eastern flank prepares to fend off Russia — with or without America

Insider Inc., Business Insider

Reporters traveled to three exposed stretches of Europe's eastern frontier and found varied strategies and uneven progress to deter Russia.

Chinese underground church figure Jin Mingri freed from prison

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews, BBC News

The Zion Church founder's release comes after a direct plea to Xi Jinping from Donald Trump.

How Iran's new regime is very different to what came before

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews, BBC News

Khamenei's funeral is another reminder of the change Iran has seen, but what does its new leadership want?

Trump lauds Americans in storm-delayed 250th anniversary speech

Al Jazeera English

President Trump has praised Americans as ‘a historic and heroic people’, in a speech on the nation's 250th anniversary.

For “Half the World,” Khamenei Funeral a Declaration of Independence – from Trump

Juan Cole, Juancole.com

Russia's NTV said that the "the global majority" is at the side of the "barbarically killed" Khamenei's coffin

I spent years building a life in New York. Losing my job meant leaving my cats, my apartment, and the US.

Aditi Bharade, Business Insider

After losing her job on an H-1B visa, Vivienne Yang spent months searching for work and went through more than 20 unsuccessful interviews before exploring a different path.

Two Scorpions in a Jar: Netanyahu and Trump

Middle East Monitor, Juancole.com

Trump and Netanyahu need each other more than they trust each other — which the only thing still holding the alliance together.

Vessel forced out of New York ship parade over 'politically charged' banners

By Nicole Jao, Yahoo Entertainment

By Nicole Jao NEW YORK, July 4 (Reuters) - The U.S.

Mamdomino Theory: Democrats Struggle to Contain the Spread of Communism in Their Party

Americanthinker.com

Photo Credit:Zohran Mamdani in front of a city Karamccurdy via wikim cc4By William SullivanUgandan-born, socialism-loving New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has emerged as a “kingmaker” in the Democrat party, says one pundit.

Asymmetric Lawfare

Americanthinker.com

Photo Credit:ChatGPT ChatGPTBy August HarrimanThere’s actually a small window of time to completely break the Left, and this opportunity will not come again.

Two Hundred Fifty Glorious Years

Americanthinker.com

Photo Credit: Clarice FBy Clarice FeldmanThe United States enters its 250th year in fantastic shape. Elsewhere, not so much.

Trump has one of the country’s first flags on stage, dating from 1777, during Fourth of July speech

Emily Goodin, Samuel Chamberlain, New York Post

President Trump had one of the country’s first flags on stage with him for the Fourth of July celebration.

Severe weather disrupts US’s 250th celebrations

Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English

Trump says he will still speak in Washington, DC, after a thunderstorm delayed celebrations in the US capital.

WATCH: Brandi Carlile performs "America the Beautiful" to honor America's 250th birthday

ABC News, Abcnews.com

Before performing "America the Beautiful" at the Statue of Liberty, Grammy-award winning artist Brandi Carlile speaks with David Muir about the meaning of the song and the power of the words.

WATCH: Americans gather to celebrate the historic 250th birthday of our nation

ABC News, Abcnews.com

From big cities to small towns, Americans gathered together to celebrate America's 250th birthday. Whit Johnson reports on the festivities across the country and the extraordinary images of the day.

Storm threat triggers chaotic evacuation ahead of Trump’s speech (VIDEOS)

RT

Crowds were ordered to evacuate the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Saturday evening after severe storms threatened to derail President Donald Trump’s Independence Day speech and the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

OpenAI wants to give the US government a piece of the company — but don't assume you'll get a slice too

ESchwartzwrites@gmail.com (Eric Hal Schwartz) , Eric Hal Schwartz, TechRadar

OpenAI's reported proposal to give the US government a stake in the company raises questions about who should profit from AI.

This immigrant served in the US military. Now he faces deportation

Anna Oakes, Al Jazeera English

Benito Miranda Hernandez completed three tours during the Iraq war but now faces removal from the US to Mexico.

Trump mixes patriotism with partisanship as he celebrates America's 250th anniversary

CBC News

Speaking in Washington after storms prompted a roughly two-hour evacuation of the National Mall, Trump honoured veterans, including several from World War II and one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat in Vietnam.

National Mall Evacuated In Advance Of Donald Trump Speech Due To Severe Weather

Ted Johnson, Deadline

Severe weather has postponed, for now, the Salute to America celebration on the National Mall that was to feature Donald Trump’s speech followed by fireworks. After a sweltering hot day of record breaking temperatures in the region, the scattered storms moved…

DAN HODGES: I'm shocked at what the Westminster elite are plotting against Burnham. Even Labour MPs are part of this attack. These hypocrites MUST heed my warning before voters pay the price

Dan Hodges, Dailymail.com

We are still almost three weeks away from Andy Burnham setting foot inside Downing Street . But elements of the Westminster establishment have already made up their minds.

Iran war live: Huge crowds mourn Khamenei, Trump vows calm during funeral

Zsombor Peter, Al Jazeera English

Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and members of his family were killed in a US-Israeli air strike in February.