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‘Safe Space’: Trump Again Pushes Some of His Most Divisive Claims in Fox’s Women Town Hall

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In what is being called a “safe space,” Donald Trump in a Fox News town hall for women voters revisited some of his most divisive claims and lies as host Harris Faulkner presented some selective edits of his highly-controversial remarks. CNN’s fact-checker reported Trump “made at least 19 false claims in his one-hour Fox News women’s town hall.”

“If you want to know why this Fox News town hall focusing on women voters is so over-the-top Trump-friendly, it’s because only Republicans were invited to attend. Fox and Harris Faulkner went out of their way to give him a safe space,” observed Zeteo News media columnist Justin Baragona.

“This is a Trump campaign event with an audience of his supporters and a moderator who is doing everything possible to help him out, which makes sense since Fox News is a Republican propaganda outlet,” noted Media Matters’ senior fellow Matthew Gertz. He added, “Fox’s women voters town hall is very obviously packed with Donald Trump supporters, opens with a standing cheering ovation for him.”

“The hackwork is unbelievably obvious, you’ve got attendees asking questions while wearing Trump merch and talking about how they support him.”

Emily Harris, the vice president of the Republican Women of Forsyth, told The Independent: “We got a personal invitation from Fox News.”

“We were ecstatic,” she said. “We were we were all very, very excited.”

“I feel like when he when he came out, everybody was so excited to see him and his enthusiasm,” Harris added. “It was just great to be in the room with him.”

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The Independent noted that when “Trump arrived in the rustic barn with its wood panels, he received rapturous applause,” and the “questioners seemed enraptured by him.”

Trump appeared unaware of or unconcerned by his recent scandal, threatening the U.S. Armed Forces should be used against Democrats or anyone who does not support him on Election Day.

“Vice President Kamala Harris is playing some comments that you made to Maria Bartiromo on Sunday,” Faulkner told Trump. “I don’t know if you’ve seen this.”

“They’re using your words to say that you are not for crime and keeping particularly women safe in ads,” she said as the highly-edited clip began to play.

“We have to have two enemies, we have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within,” Trump says in the playback video. “And the enemy from within, in my opinion is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries, because if you have a smart president, he can handle them pretty easily.”

“But the thing that’s tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff, I call him the enemy from within,” Trump says in the clip.

“Mr. President,” Faulkner began, “Kamala Harris has said you sounded unhinged and unchecked power is in our future. What what what do you say?”

“I thought it was a nice presentation, I wasn’t, I wasn’t unhinged,” Trump insisted. “Know you know what they are? They’re a party of sound bites. They’re — somebody asked me, can they be brought together, you know, it was very, I never thought really, I wasn’t thinking like they could, because they are they’re very very different, and it is the enemy from within, and they’re very dangerous.”

“They’re Marxists and communists and fascists, and they say, I use a guy like Adam Schiff because they made up the Russia Russia Russia hoax. It took two years to solve the problem, absolutely nothing was done wrong, et cetera, etc. They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries.”

“If you have a smart president, they can all be handled, the more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick and they’re so evil, if they would spend their time trying to make America great again, we would have it would be so easy to make this country great. But when I heard about that they were saying, I was like threatening. I’m not threatening anybody. They’re the ones doing they’re threatening. They do phony investigations. I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone was the greatest guy.”

As Faulkner tried to bring Trump back, he insisted on continuing.

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“No, it’s true. We don’t think of it. It’s called weaponization of government. It’s a terrible thing. They’re the threat to democracy. This is a question. I’m glad I got that out.”

Trump also walked right into his disastrous and highly-criticized remarks falsely claiming Haitian immigrants were eating the cats and dogs of residents in Springfield, Ohio.

“You know the word is ‘probation’,” Trump told Faulkner.

The discussion had been about immigrants using a federal program called “humanitarian parole” to pay their own way to enter into the United States, where they must have a sponsor. These immigrants are fleeing violence and other threatening situations in countries including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and are here under temporary, not permanent, status.

Trump falsely suggested they were prisoners, before once again making false and dangerous claims about the Haitian community and Springfield.

“They use a word, ‘probation’,” Trump said. “In order to get the people in, legally, they call them probation. Probation is for prisoners. So they use this in Springfield, Ohio. So you have 32,000 people coming into a 50,000 community. You can’t get into the hospitals, you can’t get your kids into school. They’re taking over the school, and they’re looking for interpreters cause the people that came in don’t speak the language. I mean, other than that, it’s a wonderful situation, it’s it’s — they’re destroying our country.”

Watch the video above or at this link.

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This article has been updated to include the statement from CNN’s fact checker.

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Trump Stumbles Over ‘God Bless America’ Lyrics at Veterans Day Ceremony

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At Veterans Day events at Arlington National Cemetery, President Donald Trump, dressed in a long winter coat, with a scarf and gloves, put his hand over his heart as the band played, “God Bless America,” a patriotic song popularized during World War II, and sung by Kate Smith.

But as the assembled crowd sang the famous American tune, President Trump sang, “God bless America” — but stopped after those three words, seemingly unfamiliar with the lyrics or choosing not to sing the rest. His Vice President, JD Vance, next to him, sang the song.

During Tuesday’s ceremony, Trump also declared, “Today is not only Veterans Day, but it’s my proclamation that we are now going to be saying and calling [it] Victory Day for World War I,” The New York Post reported.

“I saw France was celebrating ‘victory day’, but we didn’t. And I saw France was celebrating another ‘victory day’ for World War II, and other countries were celebrating. They were all celebrated. We’re the one that won the wars,” Trump also said.

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This appears to not be the first time the President has had difficulty with “God Bless America.”

“Donald Trump, the president, either does not know or does not care about the lyrics to ‘God Bless America,'” Mashable reported in June 2018, during Trump’s first term.

That same day, The New York Times reported that Trump had stumbled through the lyrics of “God Bless America.”

“The president closed his ‘Celebration of America’ event with a rendition of the patriotic tune, but didn’t quite get all the words.”

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White House Says Inflation’s ‘Way Down’ — Americans Aren’t Buying It

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Kevin Hassett, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, insists that despite five months of rising prices, inflation is actually “way down.” But polls and recent election results suggest voters see things differently.

Hassett on Tuesday told CNBC, “we’re comfortable that inflation has come way down — the 5% on average, for Joe Biden.”

“It’s probably a little less than half of that right now,” he continued. “And the trajectory is really, really, really good.”

Inflation for the month of December 2024, President Joe Biden’s last full month in office, was 2.9%. It increased to 3.0% in the month of January 2025.

Inflation for the month of September 2025, the last month for which there is Bureau of Labor Statistics data, was 3.0%.

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Hassett went on to say that “inflation is one of those things that has a lot of momentum, if you look at the charts…”

“Even though it’s been increasing for five straight months as of September?” CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla asked.

“Well, I guess if you look at it from January, there’s ups and downs and seasonals, but yeah, it surprised on the downside, people were expecting it to accelerate it and it didn’t.”

Economist Justin Wolfers on Tuesday appeared to mock Hassett’s claims by posting a graph.

Voters one week ago took to the polls and delivered a resounding message to Republicans and President Donald Trump. Exit polls show that voters’ number one concern was the economy and affordability, as they decided to put Democrats into office.

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And national polls show the same result: the high cost of living, the state of the economy, and affordability are all top of mind for voters, who give President Trump low marks in those areas.

One week ago on Monday, the day before the election, CNN reported, “61% of Americans think Trump has made the economy worse. Could that impact tomorrow’s elections?”

The New York Times shows President Trump’s current average approval rating is 42%, and disapproval rating is 55%.

In mid-October, CNBC reported that on the economy, Trump’s approval was “the lowest of any CNBC survey during either of Trump’s two terms.”

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White House Denies Post-Election Pivot as Trump Prepares New Affordability Push

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In the days following last Tuesday’s sweeping Democratic victories, Trump administration officials fanned out across news outlets to highlight the administration’s focus on affordability, assuring Americans that prices have fallen under President Donald Trump. The president himself reiterated his claim—made many times before—that grocery prices are “way down.”

Critics say that overall, prices largely have not come down, and inflation remains around 3%—roughly the same level as when President Trump took office earlier this year.

Last Wednesday, Politico reported that a person close to the White House told the news outlet that “The President hasn’t talked about the cost of living in months.”

And White House deputy chief of staff James Blair told Politico, “You’ll see the president talk a lot about cost of living as we turn … into the new year.”

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But now the White House is insisting the focus has been there all along, and denies any post-election ramp up.

“It’s not something where we called a meeting Wednesday morning after the election and said, ‘We have to get stuff on the board now,’” an unnamed White House source told Politico on Tuesday. “At both a systemic level and more targeted micro examples, we have been consistently focused on addressing affordability.”

Late last week, the Associated Press confirmed the President’s new messaging focus.

“President Donald Trump is adjusting his messaging strategy to win over voters who are worried about the cost of living with plans to emphasize new tax breaks and show progress on fighting inflation,” the AP reported. “The messaging is centered around affordability, and the push comes after inflation emerged as a major vulnerability for Trump and Republicans in Tuesday’s elections, in which voters overwhelmingly said the economy was their biggest concern.”

Politico on Tuesday also noted the increase in messaging.

“In the wake of last week’s bruising off-year elections that underscored just how vulnerable the GOP is heading into 2026, Trump has announced a bevy of policies that may ease the pressure on household budgets.”

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Those include a claim he will send low- and middle-income Americans $2,000 tariff dividend checks, and a deal with pharmaceutical companies to sell popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs at reduced prices.

On Sunday, he also proposed sending Americans money for health savings accounts in what appeared to be an attack on Obamacare and insurance companies.

CNBC reported on Tuesday that economists say some of these ideas “are not likely to become policy anytime soon.”

As prices remain high at grocery store checkouts, President Trump, however, has been pushing back on Americans’ affordability focus, while insisting his job is already done.

Last week, Trump “bragged that the price of Walmart’s pre-assembled Thanksgiving Dinner has been reduced by 25% this year,” a Monday USA Today opinion piece by Chris Brennan noted. Also reduced were the number of items in the meal.

“I don’t want to hear about the affordability,” Trump said on November 6, Brennan noted, as he “defended his administration’s attempts to resist a judge’s order to make full federal food assistance program payments, known as SNAP, to 42 million Americans, during the federal government shutdown.”

One day later, “Trump insisted that the recent focus on ‘affordability’ was a ‘con job’ by Democrats.”

Trump repeated his “con job” claim Monday night on Fox News, along with some other incorrect claims, such as the price of gas.

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