Trump Calls On Fox News To Fire Two Top Personalities

President Donald Trump expressed his frustration with two Fox News hosts in a Truth Social post directed at the network’s executives, reacting, in part, to a recent interview on “Fox News Sunday” featuring Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss.

Trump accused anchor Shannon Bream of failing to correct Democrats when they spread “propaganda and lies” on her program. Additionally, he criticized Jessica Tarlov, a liberal panelist on both “The Five” and the Sunday show, calling for her to be removed from the air, labeling her as “a real loser.”

“Tell Shannon Bream of FoxNews that it’s not the Save Act, it’s the Save America Act, a big difference! Also, when she insists on having lightweight Democrat Congressmen, such as Jake Auchincloss, on her not very hard hitting show, she should correct them when they spew out Democrat propaganda and lies. She never does! I always close deals, unlike the Dems, and did great with China in every way, also, unlike the Dems!” Trump said.

“For Fox executives only, take Jessica Tarlov off the air. She is, from her voice, to her lies, and everything else about her, one of the worst ‘personalities’ on television, a real loser! People cannot stand watching her. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump continued.

Auchincloss told Bream on “Fox News Sunday” that the war in Iran has been a “failure” and has given Iran leverage through its control of the Strait of Hormuz, neither of which is true.

Trump has previously criticized Fox News, especially after the network’s early projection that former President Joe Biden would win Arizona in the 2020 election. In March, he expressed his disapproval of Tarlov, who often criticizes him on air, during an appearance on “The Five.” He stated that the show would be better off without her, the Daily Caller reported.

“I watch Jessica, and I’m not a fan,” Trump said. “And she uses fake numbers. She’ll give, ‘Well, he’s only polling 42%.’ That’s not right. Polling very high, actually.” He went on to blast “bad journalists” who write “fake stories,” adding, “I’m sure I’d like her. I’m sure she’s a lovely person.”

Trump fired a verbal salvo at CNN earlier this week after the little-watched cable network published a statement from Iran that the commander-in-chief labeled a “fraud.” As it has done throughout the U.S. conflict with the Islamic Republic, CNN readily published a statement from Tehran claiming that Iran was victorious and “forced” Trump to accept a 10-point cease-fire agreement.

“Iran says it has achieved a great victory and forced the United States to accept its 10-point plan, according to a statement from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council” that was reported “by Iranian state media,” CNN’s report began.

The network also claimed that, as part of the plan, the U.S. “has in principle agreed” to lift all sanctions against Iran and withdraw all US forces from all bases in the region.

The report also said the Trump administration has agreed to “accept Iran’s nuclear enrichment and recognize its control over the Strait of Hormuz, while “controlled passage through the waterway” would be conducted in coordination with Iran’s military.

The report from the Iranian regime was clearly propaganda, which led to questions as to why CNN would treat it as legitimate, especially considering that Trump’s primary objective was to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities and deny the regime nuclear weapons.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to write, in part:

The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows. The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a “legitimate” headline. The Official Statement by Iran was just released, and posted on TRUTH. … Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the Fake CNN World Statement, or was it a sick rogue player?

Thousands of Americans are gathering at the National Mall TODAY for a day of prayer.

A person prays during Rededicate 250, a mostly conservative Christian prayer gathering in honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary, on the National Mall, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall for a daylong prayer rally Sunday billed as a “rededication of our country as One Nation under God.”

Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that made clear the event’s Christian focus. Arched stained-glass windows, set underneath grand columns resembling a federal building, depicted the nation’s founders alongside a white cross.

Most speakers celebrated Christianity’s ties to American history, a blending of ideas that critics flagged ahead of the prayer gathering as supporting Christian nationalism.

President Donald Trump read a passage of Scripture in a video shown at the rally. Filmed in the Oval Office, it was the same footage used during a marathon Bible-reading event last month. The verses from 2 Chronicles are often cited by those who believe America was founded as a Christian nation.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways,” Trump read, “then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Other top Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., were also on the schedule as part of the celebrations this year marking 250 years of U.S. independence.

Many names on the Rededicate 250 program were among Trump’s longtime evangelical supporters, including Paula White-Cain of the White House Faith Office and evangelist Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse.

“We are deeply concerned that what is really being rededicated is a nation to a very narrow and ideological part of the Christian faith that betrays our nation’s fundamental commitment to religious freedom,” said the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, a Baptist minister who leads the progressive Christian organization Sojourners.

The conservative Christian lineup featured guests who often argue that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, a narrative disputed by many historians and other religious traditions.

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, noted the religious diversity of early America, including Jews, Muslims and Indigenous people. “I want to shine a light on America’s history as a nation that welcomes, celebrates, and protects people of all faiths and those of no faith,” Pesner said.

Attendees believe prayer event is significant

Many in the crowd wore Trump hats and patriotic colors, joining the festivities under a sweltering sun.

“It’s all about Jesus,” said Denny Smith, 72, of Rhode Island, who rented a motorized scooter to traverse the National Mall.

Retha Bond, 58 and from southern Illinois, also heard Trump speak not far away on Jan. 6, 2021. She said she did not join the protesters who rioted later that day at the Capitol but has remained a steadfast Trump supporter.

“I’m not saying Trump is the savior,” Bond said. She added that “this is one of the most important things that could be going on in the world, for us to rededicate our nation back to God.”

Speakers mentioned the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk from the stage. Kirk’s activism has been a powerful example for Alessandra Seawright, 15, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who came to Rededicate 250 with her mother.

“I think we just need more of this in our country, and we just need to share the word of the Lord,” she said. “We love going to events like this.”

They also attended Kirk’s memorial service, which mixed Christian worship and political messages. Events like these, Seawright said, help her feel less alone in her conservative Christian beliefs.

Prayer event spurs protest

Hegseth, who has infused Christian language and worship with his role leading the Pentagon, asked the gathering in a video to pray to “our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Referencing George Washington’s faith, he said, “Let us pray without ceasing. Let us pray for our nation on bended knee.”

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Meir Soloveichik was the only non-Christian religious leader listed on the program. To applause, he told the crowd, “Antisemitism is utterly un-American” — a seeming reference to debates dividing the right.

Soloveichik serves on the Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission along with White-Cain, Graham and Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron, Catholic clerics also featured on the program.

The event was organized by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership backed by the White House. Congressional Democrats have questioned the nonprofit’s structure and finances, which they see as a Trump-controlled end run around a separate commission charted by Congress a decade ago to prepare semiquincentennial events.

Progressive groups staged counterprogramming. Among them were the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates a strict separation of church and state, and the Christian organization Faithful America. The two groups displayed a large balloon near the mall of a Trump-like golden calf, in a biblical reference to idolatry.

On Thursday evening, the Interfaith Alliance projected protest slogans onto an exterior wall of the National Gallery of Art. “Democracy not theocracy,” said one. Another said: “The separation of church and state is good for both.”

After Our Divorce, I Secretly Carried His Child Until the Day I Went Into Labor and the Doctor Lowered His Mask

The contraction hit so hard it split the world in two.

One second I was gripping the plastic rails of the hospital bed in Hartford Memorial’s labor and delivery room, my palms slick against the ridged plastic, the air sharp with antiseptic and warm sweat under fluorescent lights. The next, every bone in my body seemed to catch fire at once.

I was not a woman anymore.

I was pain.

Pain and heat and panic and the thin, terrified sound of my own voice tearing loose in the room while the fetal monitor kept beating out its small, steady rhythm beside me.

“Breathe, Chloe. Slow, slow.”

Someone held my shoulder. Someone adjusted the monitor strapped across my belly. Someone said the baby’s heart rate looked good, and I tried to believe that sentence because it was the only sentence in the room that didn’t feel like it might kill me.

Then the doctor stepped in.

He sanitized his hands at the wall dispenser, reached for his mask, and tugged it down.

And I forgot how to breathe at all.

Ethan.

Dr. Ethan Chen.

My ex-husband.

For one terrifying second, I thought labor had finally broken my mind. Maybe after nineteen hours of contractions, the brain started dragging old ghosts out of locked rooms just to see what else it could survive. But he was real.

Same dark eyes. Same sharp jaw. Same tiny scar near his chin from the mugging he had insisted wasn’t a big deal in med school. Same man who once kissed me in a campus coffee shop parking lot while snow melted in my hair and promised, laughing, that life with him would never be boring.

Same man who had served me divorce papers in our kitchen while I was frosting his mother’s birthday cake.

Some betrayals do not arrive screaming. They arrive folded into legal paper, placed beside a cake spatula, while someone you love says your name like he is already rehearsing your absence.

“Chloe,” he said.

His voice cracked on the second syllable.

Another contraction surged through me. I screamed and crushed the nurse’s hand in mine. Her badge said Linda Kowalski, RN, and somewhere through the blur I heard her breathe in hard, but I couldn’t let go. The room smelled like latex gloves, alcohol wipes, and fear.

Linda looked between us.

“You two know each other?”

“We were married,” I said through clenched teeth. “Until he divorced me because his mother was offended I asked for a boundary.”

Ethan went pale.

“Chloe, I—”

“Don’t.” I sucked in a breath that scraped my lungs raw. “Just deliver my baby.”

His eyes dropped to my belly.

That was when the full truth landed on him. I watched it happen in real time. The calculation. The dates. The nineteen hours on my chart. The intake bracelet on my wrist. The fetal monitor paper spilling from the machine in a white curl of proof.

“You were pregnant,” he whispered.

I laughed, and it came out like something broken. “Congratulations, Doctor. You can still do math under pressure.”

He took one involuntary step toward the bed. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

The contraction swallowed my answer. I bore down hard, biting the inside of my cheek until copper flooded my tongue. Linda coached me through it while Ethan moved automatically into place, professional instinct trying to outrun personal catastrophe.

His hands were trained.

They were also shaking.

I saw him glance at the wall clock. 3:42 AM. I saw him check the hospital chart clipped at the foot of my bed, where my name still read Chloe Bennett, not Chloe Chen. I saw his eyes catch on the admission form, the emergency contact line I had left blank because there are some empty spaces a woman refuses to fill with a man who abandoned her.

Not anger. Worse than anger.

Precision.

When the pain receded enough for speech, I looked him dead in the face.

“You didn’t ask.”

The room went still around us. Linda stopped adjusting the IV for half a second. The second nurse froze with one gloved hand hovering over the tray. Even the monitor seemed louder, that steady pulse filling the silence Ethan had built and suddenly had to stand inside.

He opened his mouth.

Closed it.

Then another contraction gripped me so violently my back arched off the bed.

“Chloe,” Linda said, her voice sharpening. “Listen to me. You’re crowning.”

Ethan’s face changed. The ex-husband vanished under the doctor, but not completely. Not fast enough. His eyes were red now, and when he reached for the sterile drape, his wedding-ring finger flexed like it remembered something his mouth had forgotten.

“Okay,” he said, too softly. “Chloe, I need you to push on the next one.”

I wanted to hate him cleanly. I wanted the rage to stay hot, simple, useful. But labor is cruel that way. It strips everything down to bone. Love. Grief. Shame. Pride. The body does not care what papers were signed. It only demands survival.

I gripped the rails until my knuckles went white.

For one ugly second, I imagined telling Linda to get him out. I imagined Ethan standing in the hallway while a stranger brought his child into the world. I imagined letting him feel even one inch of what it meant to be shut out without warning.

I didn’t.

Because this was not about him.

It was about the baby fighting its way into the world between us.

The next contraction rose, huge and merciless. Linda counted. The monitor raced. Ethan’s voice steadied because it had to.

“Push, Chloe.”

I pushed.

The pressure became a ring of fire, bright and impossible. My scream cracked through the room. Ethan leaned closer, and for the first time since our divorce, I heard him say my name without defense in it.

“Chloe, look at me.”

I did.

His eyes were wet.

And that was when he saw the line on the inside of my wristband.

The hospital had printed it beneath my date of birth.

Mother: Chloe Bennett.

Father: Not listed.

Ethan stared at those two words like they had reached up and struck him across the face.

Then the baby’s heart monitor gave one sudden, sharp change in rhythm.

Linda’s smile vanished.

Ethan looked from the screen to me, all the blood draining from his face.

“Chloe,” he said, reaching for the emergency call button, “I need you to trust me right now—”