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Trump Will Start Nominating Federal Judges ‘Rapidly,’ He Says

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President Donald Trump will nominate federal judges “rapidly,” he told The Daily Signal on Sunday night.

“We’re putting them in rapidly and trying to get very good ones, but we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant,” Trump said on Air Force One. “We have millions of people that have come here illegally, and we can’t have a trial for every single person, that would be millions of trials.”

Trump is off to a slower start in nominating judges than his first term, having only nominated one federal judge, Whitney Hermandorfer, who will serve on the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

About 100 days into Trump’s first term, the Senate had already confirmed a new Supreme Court justice, Trump had nominated an appeals court judge, and several other prominent judicial nominees were in the queue to be announced within days.

But according to the president, his slow start to judicial nominations is about to morph into a sprint. . .

“The people elected me in a landslide… We won every swing state… by big numbers… not only swing state, but the popular vote by millions of votes… they elected me, this was the number one issue,” Trump said, “and now we have judges that are radicalized, and they’re crazy because … if you believe this, they want us to have a trial for every person that came illegally into our country.” (Read more from “Trump Will Start Nominating Federal Judges ‘Rapidly,’ He Says” HERE)

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ICE Nabs Rapists, Child Predators, Gang Members In Deportation Blitz

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During the week marking President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, ICE agents carried out a series of high-profile arrests of migrants with criminal records, according to a document first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Starting the week of his 100-day mark, booking photos of illegal migrants with convictions or pending charges were displayed along the White House north lawn’s perimeter. Throughout the week, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) made major arrests across the country, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) releasing details and photos of five of their most significant cases.

“Every single day I receive a report on my desk of the murderers, rapists, child abusers, and other sickos that our ICE enforcement agents are arresting around the country,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on a social media post while showing additional arrests. “Under President Trump, we have arrested over 150,000 aliens—including more than 600 members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang. If you are here illegally and break the law, we will hunt you down, arrest you and lock you up.”

ERO Detroit arrested Ludwig Ivan Castaneda-Gonzalez, a 33-year-old Mexican national, this week in Holland, Michigan. According to DHS, Castaneda-Gonzalez’s criminal history includes a conviction for criminal sexual conduct involving a person aged 13 to 15, which encompasses all sex offenses under Michigan law. (Read more from “ICE Nabs Rapists, Child Predators, Gang Members In Deportation Blitz” HERE)

Trump Names Possible Successors And Gives Answer On Third Term

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President Donald Trump hinted at who might carry the torch after his administration, offering praise for Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — while saying he’s not eyeing a third term.

In a May 4 interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump was asked about his political future and the next generation of Republican leadership.

“It’s far too early to say that. But, you know, I do have a vice president … and JD’s doing a fantastic job,” Trump said. “I don’t want to get involved in that. I think he’s a fantastic, brilliant guy. Marco is great. There’s a lot of them that are great. We have a lot of good people in this party.”

While some corners of the conservative movement have pushed for Trump to explore a third term — despite the clear constraints of the 22nd Amendment — the president appeared to downplay the possibility. (Read more from “Trump Names Possible Successors And Gives Answer On Third Term” HERE)

White House Budget Features ‘Historic’ Increases In Defense Spending, Slashes Woke Funding

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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released President Donald Trump’s discretionary budget request for the fiscal year 2026 on Friday, showing big increases in border and defense spending as well as massive cuts to woke funding priorities instituted by President Joe Biden’s administration.

The new budget reduces non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion, or 23%, from the 2025 enacted level. That is the lowest non-defense spending level since 2017, according to OMB.

At the same time, defense spending will be increased by 13% under the proposed budget, and appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security will be increased by almost 65%, OMB said. In a release, OMB said that the increases in funding are “to ensure that our military and other agencies repelling the invasion of our border have the resources they need to complete the mission.”

The funding increases will be achieved if the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passes. OMB said in a release that it will be enacted “with a simple majority in the Congress,” and warns against Democrats holding it hostage “for wasteful spending increases that have been the status quo in Washington.”

“For decades, the biggest complaint about the Federal Budget was wasteful spending and bloated bureaucracy,” Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement on Friday morning. “But over the last four years, Government spending aggressively turned against the American people and trillions of our dollars were used to fund cultural Marxism, radical Green New Scams, and even our own invasion.” (Read more from “White House Budget Features ‘Historic’ Increases In Defense Spending, Slashes Woke Funding” HERE)

White House Budget Proposes 65% Increase in Border Security Spending

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President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal would increase border security funding by 65%, marking the largest investment in homeland security in history, a senior White House official said.

The White House unveiled its $1.7 trillion budget for the 2026 fiscal year, proposing about $163 billion in cuts to domestic programs, as well as a 13% increase in defense spending and that 65% increase in border spending. Fiscal 2026 begins Oct. 1. The federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2025 was $1.83 trillion.

On average, federal agencies will face budget cuts of 35%.

The budget commits $175 billion to fully secure the border. For defense spending, the president proposes an increase of 13% to $1.01 trillion for fiscal year 2026, an amount on par with the defense spending of the Reagan administration and the first Trump administration.

The budget cuts also reduce foreign aid by $49 billion. Foreign aid was destabilizing the countries receiving it because nonprofits receiving funding pushed radical woke ideology and sometimes advocated for regime changes, a White House official said on a background call for members of the media. (Read more from “White House Budget Proposes 65% Increase in Border Security Spending” HERE)

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Trump Mocks Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports to Roaring Applause at Commencement

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President Donald Trump stirred the hearts of the University of Alabama graduates when he reaffirmed his promise to “keep men out of women’s sports.”

During a commencement speech at the university’s graduation ceremony on Thursday night, Trump gave a shutout to the school’s SEC champion women’s track and field team before igniting a raucous applause by “vowing to defend women’s sports.”

“As long as I’m president, we will always protect women’s sports. Men will not play in women’s sports,” Trump said before the crowd erupted in cheers for its loudest and longest applause of the night.

“No way. They say it’s an 80-20 issue. No, it’s a 97-3 issue, I think,” Trump said. “No, men will not be playing in women’s sports. I said that, and I classified it with a very powerful executive order, as you know. It’s done.”

(Read more from “Trump Mocks Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports to Roaring Applause at Commencement” HERE)

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‘Chilling’: Trump Officials Kill Biden’s Persecution of Ranching Family

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The administration of President Donald Trump has killed a Joe Biden plan that involved persecuting a multi-generation South Dakota ranching family with huge legal fees and even threats of jail.

“No family farmer or rancher should have to go through what the Maude family did,” explained Buck Wehrbein, a Nebraska cattleman and president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. “The targeted prosecution of the Maude family was way out of line for the U.S. Forest Service, and this was a clear example of government overreach that had direct, catastrophic impacts for a hardworking fifth-generation ranching family.”

It was under Biden’s administration that a dispute arose over a fenceline on land the family had ranched for more than a century.

Family members actively were involved in discussions to do an assessment of the problem, if there was one, and reach a resolution.

But then the U.S. Forest Service dispatched armed federal agents to serve each Maude family member with a federal summons for theft, even though the management of the boundary line and parcel in question hadn’t been changed since the early 1900s. (Read more from “‘Chilling’: Trump Officials Kill Biden’s Persecution of Ranching Family” HERE)

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Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members

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A federal judge on Thursday has prevented the Trump administration from deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members from South Texas using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th-century law.

U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., whom Trump nominated in 2018, said, “Neither the Court nor the parties question that the Executive Branch can direct the detention and removal of aliens who engage in criminal activity in the United States.”

Rodriguez continued, “the President’s invocation of the AEA through the Proclamation exceeds the scope of the statute and is contrary to the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute’s terms.”

Rodriguez is the first judge to argue that the president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport those the administration claims are gang members invading the United States.

In March, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was invading the United States, citing the 18th-century law as his special power to deport these migrants without the typical court proceedings. (Read more from “Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members” HERE)

3 Democrats Withdraw Support for Rep. Thanedar’s Trump Impeachment Proposal

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Just one other Democrat is supporting Rep. Shri Thanedar’s (D-MI) proposed impeachment of President Donald Trump after three other representatives asked for their names to be removed from it.

Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), and Robin Kelly (D-IL) all submitted official requests to have their support withdrawn from the India-born congressman’s impeachment proposal on Tuesday, stating they had been mistaken on certain aspects of it.

“Congressman Mfume removed himself as a co-sponsor from H. Res. 353 because he was made aware it was not cleared by Democratic leadership and not fully vetted legally — and he preferred to err on the side of caution,” a spokesperson for Mfume said in a statement obtained by the Hill.

Kelly’s office gave the same reason, stating that she “was under the impression that the resolution was drafted and reviewed by both the House Judiciary Committee and Leadership when she originally signed on during a vote series on the floor,” Kelly’s spokesperson said in a statement to the outlet. (Read more from “3 Democrats Withdraw Support for Rep. Thanedar’s Trump Impeachment Proposal” HERE)

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Embracing MAHA, PepsiCo to Move Away from Artificial Dyes in Snack Foods

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The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda is moving forward after PepsiCo Inc., one of the nation’s largest producers of processed snack foods, announced this week it would be phasing out artificial dyes from many of its products by the end of the year.

In addition to its eponymously named cola soft drinks, PepsiCo produces many popular brands of snack foods and beverages, including Doritos, Cheetos, Fritos, Tostitos, Lay’s, Gatorade, and Mountain Dew, among others.

“We’ve been leading the transformation of the industry now for a long time on sodium reduction, sugar reduction, and better fats,” PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta said in a conference call on April 24.

“When we talk about the U.S. food business, 60%-plus of our [portfolio] today doesn’t have any artificial colors, so we’re undergoing that transition,” Laguarta explained. “For example, brands like Lay’s will be out of artificial colors by the end of this year, and the same with Tostitos—some of our big brands. So we’re well underway.”

PepsiCo’s move comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at an April 22 news conference that he would be taking action against petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the American food supply. (Read more from “Embracing MAHA, PepsiCo to Move Away from Artificial Dyes in Snack Foods” HERE)

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