Lekutei Moharan (28:2)
מִתַּלְמִידֵי חֲכָמִים שֵׁדִין יְהוּדָאִין, כִּי תַּלְמִידֵי־חֲכָמִים שֵׁדִין יְהוּדָאִין הֵם מְקַבְּלִים תּוֹרָתָם מֵהַשֵּׁדִין, שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהֶם תּוֹרָה נְפוּלָה מְאַלְפִין נְפוּלִים.
There are mitnagdim (oppositionists) who disgrace and vilify <the tzaddikim and> those who fear God. This stems from their receiving Torah from Jewish scholar-demons. For the Jewish scholar-demons receive their Torah from demons who have fallen Torah from the fallen alephs
Documents show terror group moving armed-wing chiefs into civil roles that will let it hold power via technocratic administration, while also girding for fresh round against Israel
I recently had a discussion with a top student in Israel regarding the idol worship of the Jews in Egypt. He had never heard such a thing and would not accept my assertion. Assuming that this is viewed as false by many others I thought it would be helpful to list traditional sources which clearly state it.
Chazon Ish (Letters I:208) Responded to the assertion that the Jews in Egypt were on the highest level in Torah, Mitzvos, faith and piety. The assertion was based upon the medrashism which said that the righteous women went to the fields and gave birth and left their children and there were many miracles done for them…The deduction being that surely because of these righteous women and these miracles – the entire Jewish people must of have been totally devoted to G-d and his mitvos. A further foundation of this assertion was the medrash which states that the Jews were only enslaved for 86 years and that this is insufficient time to become significantly dissolute and debased. The Chazon Ish said that these deduction have no basis since they are all against what Chazal themselves say on the subject. He concludes that the assertion that it was impossible for the Jews to become ruined since they saw miracles is not valid. In fact the Jews saw miracles when they were redeemed from Egypt and at the Sea, as well as the Maan and at the giving of the Torah – and yet they made the Golden Calf. Furthermore there were 10 miracles at the Beis HaMikdash and many miracles and wonders done by the Prophets – nevertheless this did not prevent them from having free will to serve idols. one should not interpret the early generations in such a way that it is impossible for us to comprehend and learn from them. In fact they had free will and this is main thing in avodas HaShem.
Chazon Ish (Letters I:209) States a rule that for major widely stated facts one should should not interpret them significantly from the clear simple meaning. Only isolated things can be occasionally explained differently then their simple meaning. In the Torah we see much effort to save the Jews from deserting the entire Torah and running instead after idol worship something which according to our present condition where the Yetzer harah has been killed is totally incomprehensible.The reality of the desire for idol worship is really beyond our comprehension is the same way a blind person can’t comprehend colors
Shemos Rabbah (13:20) ONE MALE OF THE GOATS FOR A SIN-OFFERING. This was in allusion to the Paschal sacrifice which G-d commanded them to offer from the goats as a token of withdrawal from idolatry. For Israel were idol-worshippers in Egypt, and the divine Attribute of Justice would not allow of their being redeemed until they had withdrawn therefrom. On account of the withdrawal from idol-worship which they had effected and for which they had been redeemed--as you read, When I see the blood, l will pass over you --they brought a corresponding sacrifice of a male of the goats as a sin-offering. For a he-goat was offered as a sin-offering on account of the sin of idol-worship.
Rabbeinu Bachya (Vayikra 17:7) so that they will no longer offer their sacrificial offerings to the demons. While the Israelites were exiled in Egypt they were enthusiastic followers of that particular cult in order to gain some advance knowledge of what was in store for them in the future. This particular cult was known by the name gots because the people worshipping it either dressed up as he-goats or because people’s hair would stand on edge from fright when they beheld the worshippers of that cult. Alternatively, these apparitions were known as, demons, because they would dwell in regions which are not inhabited by man such as wildernesses, deserts, regions too cold for humans to be comfortable in.
Rambam (Idolatry 1:1) When the Jews extended their stay in Egypt, however, they learned from the Egyptians' deeds and began worshiping the stars as they did, with the exception of the tribe of Levi, who clung to the mitzvot of the patriarchs - the tribe of Levi never served false gods. Within a short time, the fundamental principle that Abraham had planted would have been uprooted, and the descendants of Jacob would have returned to the errors of the world and their crookedness. Because of God's love for us, and to uphold the oath He made to Abraham, our patriarch, He brought forth Moses, our teacher, the master of all prophets, and sent him to redeem the Jews. After Moses, our teacher, prophesied, and God chose Israel as His inheritance, He crowned them with mitzvot and informed them of the path to serve Him, teaching them the judgement prescribed for idol worshiper and all those who stray after it.
Ibn Ezra (Shemos 2:23) THAT THE KING OF EGYPT DIED. Moses was now able to return to Egypt. The Israelites repented. Ezekiel notes that the Israelites worshipped the idols of Egypt. It was because of this that the Lord afflicted them. As a punishment for not serving God they served cruel masters.
Ibn Ezra (Leviticus 17:7) UNTO THE SATYRS. Se’irim are the demons. They are so called because the body of one who sees them “storms.” However, it appears that they are so called because the insane see them in the form of goats. The word “more” teaches that the Israelites did so in Egypt.
Shir HaShirim Rabba (4:17) THOU ART ALL FAIR. R. Judah and R. Nehemiah and the Rabbis gave different reasons why the genealogies of the other tribes are not given R. Nehemiah said: It was because all the other tribes worshipped idols in Egypt, but those of Reuben, Simeon, and Levi did not worship idols in Egypt.
Rabbeinu Bachya (Shemos (06:13) “He commanded them concerning the Children of Israel,” as a warning to tell the Israelites to desist from idolatrous practices. The Midrash bases this interpretation on Genesis 2,16 where the word ויצו is also understood as a warning against idolatrous practices. Ezekiel 20,5-9 also makes clear reference to the Israelites serving idols while they were enslaved in Egypt, and their being warned to desist prior to the redemption. He warns his compatriots not to commit the same errors made by the Israelites then.
Mechilta DeRabbi Yishmael (Pischa 5:10): It is written "And they would not hearken to Moses as to G–d's delivering them, for shortness of spirit, etc." Now is there anyone who is given glad tidings and does not rejoice? "A son has been born to you — Rejoice him!" His Master is freeing him from bondage and he does not rejoice? What, then, is the intent of "And they would not hearken to Moses, etc."? It was difficult for them to abandon their idolatry "And I said to them in Egypt: Let every man cast away the detestations of his eyes and not defile himself with the idols of Egypt." This is the intent of "And the L–rd spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and He charged them to the children of Israel. He charged them to abandon idolatry.
Mechilta DeRabbi Yishmael (Beshalach 7) And the ministering angels were astounded at Israel's survival, saying: "Idolators walking on the dry land in the midst of the sea!"
Sforno (Shemos 01:14) They ruined their own lives not only by improper deeds, but also by succumbing to alien philosophies. This is described in Ezekiel 20,8 “and they rebelled against Me and did not want to listen to Me. No Man!- the idols of their eyes they did not cast out and the idols of Egypt, they did not forsake.”
Shemos Rabbah (21:07) WHEREFORE CRIEST THOU UNTO ME? It is written, Hast thou prepared thy prayer before thy trouble R. Hama b. Hanina said: When Israel departed from Egypt, the angel Samael arose to accuse them. R. Hama added the following explanation in the name of his father: It can be compared to a shepherd who was leading his sheep across a river when a wolf came to attack the sheep. What did the shepherd, who knew well how to deal with such emergencies, do? He took a large he-goat and threw it to the wolf, saying to himself, Let him struggle with this till we cross the river, and then I will return to bring it back. So, when Israel departed from Egypt, the Angel Samael arose to accuse them, pleading before God: ' Lord of the Universe! Till now they have been worshipping idols, and now Thou dividest the sea for them? ' What did God do? He delivered into his hands Job, one of the counsellors of Pharaoh, of whom it is written, And that man was wholehearted and upright, and said: Behold, he is in thy hands. God reckoned: While he is busily occupied with Job, Israel will go through the sea! Afterwards, I will deliver Job; this is why Job said, I was at ease, and He broke me asunder. ‘I was at ease in the world,’ said Job, but He broke me asunder, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces, in order to make me the target for His people, for it says, He hath also set me up for His mark, God delivereth me to the ungodly, He hath delivered me into the hands of Satan; and in order that Israel may not emerge guilty from the trial, He hath delivered me into his hand’; hence, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. It was then that God said to Moses: Moses, behold I have given Job over to Satan. It is for you to Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.
Yalkut Shimoni (234) And the water was a wall for them. When Samael came down he spoke to G-d and said before him, Lord of the world, didn’t Israel worship idols in Egypt, and yet you do miracles for them. And his voice was heard by the ruler of the sea,who was filled with anger against them and sought to drown them. G-d immediately said to him, "You are a fool. You think they freely worshipped idols? In fact they only did it because of the pressures of slavery and thus they are viewed as sinning accidentally and unintentionally and not deliberately as you have mistakenly decided. When the ruler of the sea heard this the anger he felt to the Jews was redirected to the Egyptians
Yehoshua (24:14) “Now, therefore, revere GOD and render service with undivided loyalty; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve GOD.
Zohar (2 170b) When the Israelites stood on the shore of the Red Sea and the Holy One was about to divide its waters for them, Rahab, the angel-prince of Egypt, appeared, and demanded justice from the Holy One. He stood before Him and said: Lord of the world, why dost thou desire to punish Egypt and to divide the Red Sea for Israel? Have not all sinned against Thee? Thy ways are according to justice and truth. Those are idolaters and so are these. Those are murderers, so are these. Then was it difficult for Him to waive justice, and had not the Holy One called to mind Abraham's obedience in rising early (Gen. XXII, 3) to sacrifice his only son, they would all have perished in the Red Sea, because all that night God was weighing Israel in the scales of Justice, as we have been taught that the expression, “so that the one came not near the other all the night” (Ex. XIV, 20) indicates that the supernal angels appeared on that night to sing hymns of praise to the Holy One, and the Holy One said unto them: The works of My hands are about to sink into the depths of the sea, and ye desire to sing unto Me hymns of praise? But it came to pass that in the morning watch the Lord looked... (Ibid. v. 24); that is to say, He looked for Abraham's sake, He looked upon Abraham's merit, who rose up early in the morning to accomplish the will of the Holy One. Then it was that the waters went back, they fled before Israel.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/21/politics/tariffs-ruling-supreme-court-trump-gop
In the long run, the court might have saved him from himself — at least politically.
That’s because, while the decision is clearly a major setback for Trump’s agenda, it also strips him of tools that seemed to cause short-term economic damage to the country, and that were clearly doing short-term political damage to Trump’s party.
It was fortuitous that the Supreme Court’s decision came Friday. Just 90 minutes before it landed, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced the gross domestic product had grown at just a 1.4% annualized rate in the fourth quarter. That made 2025 the second-worst year for GDP growth since 2016.
In other words, the stock market aside, the economy isn’t doing great.
At the very least, they gave Americans a reason to blame Trump for economic hardships. Trump voluntarily took ownership of a struggling economy, using a method that economists widely predicted would cause more problems, at least in the near term.
Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East.
Huckabee made the comments in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired Friday. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.
Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.” Huckabee added, however, that Israel was not looking to expand its territory and has a right to security in the land it legitimately holds.
His comments sparked immediate backlash from neighboring Egypt and Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would impose a 15% global tariff on US imports from all countries, the maximum level allowed under the law, after the country’s Supreme Court struck down his previous tariff program.
The move came less than 24 hours after Trump announced a 10% across-the-board tariff on Friday after the court’s decision. The president on Saturday upped the rate to 15%.
The ruling found that Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed an array of higher rates under an economic emergency law.
The new levies are grounded in a separate but untested law, known as Section 122, that allows tariffs up to 15% but requires congressional approval to extend them after 150 days. No US president has previously invoked Section 122, and its use could lead to further legal challenges.
In a social media post on Saturday, Trump said he would use the 150-day period to work on issuing other “legally permissible” tariffs. The administration intends to rely on two other statutes that permit import taxes on specific products or countries based on investigations into national security or unfair trade practices.
Tremors in Washington: The targeted campaign to turn Christians against Israel
In countries across the region, Christian communities are persecuted and even massacred. By contrast, Christians in Israel are protected by law with full civil rights, representation, and security.
In several meetings at Republican offices, I was unexpectedly asked about an online campaign targeting Christians, claiming Israel discriminates against them, and that Israel did nothing to protect Christians from being killed in Syria I was stunned. While only a handful raised the issue, the fact that multiple members independently flagged it suggested a coordinated pattern. One congressman even asked me directly to investigate further, warning of tremendous political damage should this narrative spread.
The concern is real. One member put it plainly: Should a bloc of Republican representatives be swayed by this misinformation enough to vote with Democrats against legislation that includes funding for Israel, it would not only harm the Jewish state, it would hurt America. Many security and defense bills serve core US interests as well; voting them down to not "support" Israel also weakens America strategically.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/law-america-trump-constitution/682793/
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a government of laws, not of men, so that they and future generations of Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a tyrannical king. As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
https://etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/torah/sefer-shemot/parashat-ki-tisa/ki-tisa-golden-calf-and-mishkan
When was the command to build the Mishkan issued? The commentators struggled with the question of whether the command to build the Mishkan (chapters 25-31) was given during the period of Moshe's first ascent to Mount Sinai – before the sin of the golden calf (chapter 32) – or perhaps only during the period of his third ascent in order to receive the second set of tablets – in the wake of the sin of the golden calf. In practice, the building of the Mishkan began only after Moshe's third descent from the mountain, but when was the command to build the Mishkan issued? This question is related to another question: Is the Mishkan a reaction to the sin of the golden calf, or did the idea of the Mishkan precede the golden calf, such that there is no connection between the two?
Sforno (Shemos 25:08)And so should you make [it]. Hashem’s presence would dwell among them only by means of the Tabernacle. This was a step down from what He had promised them before the sin of the Calf, “In every place that I permit My Name to be mentioned I will come to you and bless you” (20:21).
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified.”
What began as a comedy routine has become one of the most viral pieces of social satire during President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. The kindergarten video has been watched more than 20 million times on TikTok and exploded across Facebook, Reddit and YouTube, where one commenter called it “one of the most creative, nonviolent and effective acts of resistance” they’d ever seen.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5748394-republicans-supreme-court-trump-tariffs/
The Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down the sweeping global tariffs at the heart of President Trump’s economic policies has produced enormous cracks in the GOP’s outward show of party unity.
After spending the past year rallying behind Trump on virtually every facet of his second-term agenda, Republican lawmakers spanning the ideological spectrum are publicly praising the decision as a victory for free trade, the separation of powers, or both.
Many Republicans, however, have been reluctant to voice their concerns with Trump’s tariffs out loud, for fear of becoming a target of the president and the army of MAGA loyalists he still commands. Indeed, many GOP lawmakers abandoned their previous free-trade positions to support the tariffs over the last year. A vote last week in the House condemning Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods, for instance, won the support of only six Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/02/17/keto-diet-schizophrenia-rfk-jr/
Ketogenic diets do show promise for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but the research is preliminary and not backed by randomized controlled trials.
Kevin Klatt, an assistant professor in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, said Kennedy’s comments about the keto diet illustrate the contradiction between the extremely high bar the health secretary sets for evidence of vaccine efficacy and the low bar for nutritional advice.
“Gold-standard science for them is the science they like,” said Klatt, who is also a registered dietician. “You can take a single study or anecdote, and that gets to be called gold-standard science.”
He joined President Donald Trump in connecting Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism based on research that shows an association but not causation. He has criticized the fluoridation of drinking water as lowering the IQs of children, citing studies in areas with levels far above the acceptable threshold in the United States. He also touted Vitamin A as a measles treatment, which has not been proven in the U.S., based on the experiences of malnourished children abroad.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-887264
Upon the announcement, Israel’s representative Noam Cappon immediately objected, calling the Iranian regime “the world’s leading state sponsor and the largest proliferator of terrorism.”
Iran was elected as vice-chair of the UN Charter Committee on Wednesday, drawing fury from Israeli and American representatives to the UN.
The American representative, Dorothy Patton, also condemned the move to elect Iran and Venezuela’s election as Chair.
“The bureau selection further solidifies our longstanding concern that this committee continues to be a forum for politicized accusations, which we firmly reject, rather than serious, practical discussion,” Patton said, further calling on the committee’s leadership to act in “good faith.”
The updated import taxes have received flak from Republicans, with Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) signaling on Friday that they likely will “be defeated” in Congress. Lawmakers under the 16th amendment have broad authority over federal taxes, including tariffs.
“It may not have a veto-proof majority, but it will have a majority that will go against that 10 percent global tariff, so I think the president is making a mistake here,” he told CNN in an interview.
A 6-3 Supreme Court majority on Friday struck down President Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs (Learning Resources v. Trump) in a monumental vindication of the Constitution’s separation of powers. You might call it the real tariff Liberation Day.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the Court’s decision for the law and the economy. Had Mr. Trump prevailed, future Presidents could have used emergency powers to bypass Congress and impose border taxes with little constraint.
Indeed, some well-known Democrats — including Clinton — said Trump’s 2016 victory was fishy. They mostly cited events that happened during the campaign, such as Russian hacking of campaign information and Comey’s announcement that the FBI was reopening an investigation into Clinton’s emails. They also complained that many states had passed laws that suppressed voter turnout.
But Youngkin’s contention that the Democratic response in 2016 equates with the Republican response to 2020 runs into trouble. The Democrats, while questioning events that occurred during the campaign, didn’t contend there was widespread vote-counting fraud that flipped the election.
The Democratic leaders cited by Youngkin’s office also made a distinction about 2016 that Trump and his followers did not about 2020. While the Democrats rejected the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency based on the oddities of the campaign, they acknowledged that he won the election.
https://www.alternet.org/george-will-trump-2675280992/
A conservative columnist is blasting President Donald Trump for continuing to spread the baseless conspiracy theory that he actually won the 2020 presidential election.
“Donald Trump’s belief in widespread fraud in the casting and counting of 2020 ballots is entailed by his belief that it is theoretically impossible for him to lose at anything,” wrote George F. Will, a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan and columnist to The Washington Post. “His certitude infects millions of Americans, some of whom think it inconceivable that he could ever be mistaken. Others doubt that anyone could win the presidency while obsessing about a complex conspiracy for which there is no evidence.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/5747935-trump-tariffs-supreme-court-ruling/
“This was an important case to me,” Trump said during a White House press briefing, where he also made rare remarks lambasting conservative justices, including two he nominated, who ruled his use of emergency powers was unlawful.
It’s a massive legal loss for the president, who has repeatedly described the case as one of the most important in the history of the country. The decision left the president publicly enraged.
A major question that remains is whether importers will obtain refunds for the billions of dollars in tariff revenue already collected — and how.
https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/trump-administration-tariffs-iran-news-02-21-26
• Trump doubles down: President Donald Trump says he’ll increase his new global tariffs to 15%. The president is digging in on his trade war after yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling that duties he issued using sweeping emergency authorities were illegal.
https://time.com/7380123/donald-trump-supreme-court-tariffs-press-conference/
Hours after the Supreme Court struck down a cornerstone of his economic policy, President Donald Trump personally attacked Supreme Court justices who ruled against his claim that emergency powers gave him sole authority to impose tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump singled out Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, who he appointed in his first term and joined with the majority, as “a disgrace to our nation.”
In the 6-to-3 decision released Friday morning, the court found that Trump had overstepped Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates some of the powers granted to Congress. ”The Framers gave ‘Congress alone’ the power to impose tariffs during peacetime,” the Court’s majority opinion stated.
Over a sprawling press conference in which he veered from complaining about the ruling to downplaying its impact, Trump lambasted the justices and questioned their motivations. He repeatedly stated without evidence that the Supreme Court had been influenced by "foreign interests.” He said that Barrett and Gorsuch were “just being fools and lap dogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats,”—using an acronym for “Republicans in name only’—and called them “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-swath-of-trumps-global-tariffs/
The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
The decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.
The conservative-majority high court ruled six-three in the judgment, with Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissenting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/21/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-presidential-power/
The Supreme Court spent a year signing off on nearly every policy of President Donald Trump that came before it, but in a sharp reversal Friday, the justices struck down what is arguably the centerpiece of his agenda — his sweeping tariffs.
That decision along with a ruling in late December blocking Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago marked the justices’ first significant rulings against the president. More may be on the way. Last month, the justices expressed skepticism during arguments on Trump’s efforts to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board.
The concept of divine election – the theological claim that God has singled out a particular community for covenant, mission, and metaphysical favor – has been so thoroughly associated with Judaism that most people assume it begins and ends at Sinai. And historically, there is reason for this association. The Hebrew Bible, particularly Deuteronomy 7:6, declares Israel an am segulah, a treasured people, set apart not for numerical greatness but for an inexplicable divine love.
Yet the concept metastasized. Christianity built an entire supersessionist theology on the claim that the Church had replaced Israel as Verus Israel, the true people of God, inheriting the covenant the Jews had supposedly forfeited. Mormonism located chosenness in the lineage of Ephraim. Rastafari re-localized it in Ethiopia. The Maasai believed Ngai granted them custodianship over all cattle on earth. Christian Identity movements in America constructed an elaborate racial theology in which Anglo-Saxon and Nordic peoples were the real descendants of Abraham and Jews were the cursed seed of Cain. Chosenness, it turns out, is the most contagious idea in the history of religion. Anthropologists rightly note that chosenness almost always functions as a legitimizing narrative: it explains why “we” possess truth, authority, or destiny while others do not.
Now here is what almost no one discusses with sufficient seriousness: Islam did not reject the concept of chosenness. It absorbed it, universalized it, and in many ways intensified it to a degree that would make the most triumphalist reading of Deuteronomy seem modest by comparison. The Quran does not whisper its claims. It declares, with the force of unmediated divine speech, inna al-dina ‘ind Allahi al-Islam – the only religion acceptable to God is Islam (3:19). Not one religion among many. Not a path among paths. The singular, exclusive, final dispensation.
And yet Muslims have developed a peculiar amnesia about this. They will criticize Jewish chosenness as ethnic supremacism while reciting, five times daily in their liturgical consciousness, a worldview that positions Islam not merely as true but as the only truth, and its adherents not merely as faithful but as the finest community in human history. The concept of kufr – disbelief – is not a neutral theological category; it is a moral verdict.
Donald Trump Says He’s ‘Won Affordability’ Amid Slipping Approval Rating
Trump said during his speech, which largely centered around the U.S. economy, "I have to listen to the fake news talk about 'affordability. Affordability.' Do you notice, what word haven't you heard over the last two weeks? Affordability. Because I've won. I won affordability. We inherited a mess."
Trump said later in his speech, "We inherited a mess with high prices and high inflation, and we're turned it around and made it great. They don't mention the word 'affordability.' I haven't heard the word in two weeks. It's all a con job. Airfares, hotels, car payments, rent, sports events, groceries -- everything is down. Everything is down. Dairy. Eggs. Potatoes and Chicken."
Meanwhile, Trump’s approval has been sliding steadily since the start of his second term, with recent surveys showing him deeply underwater across multiple polling firms at the same time.
Taken together, four recent polls place Trump between 19 and 26 points underwater, a range that CNN polling analyst Harry Enten described as unprecedented for this point in a second term.
