Charlie Sheen, who has historically been known for having more than a mild case of Trump derangement syndrome, recently opened up about changing his political views after taking a long look at the media he consumed.
The famous actor joined Megyn Kelly in an interview published last Friday to discuss his turn away from the left and his embrace of the right.
'I'm going to do my own research like I've done with everything my entire life. I'm going to listen to other voices.'
Kelly asked Sheen if he was getting more comfortable with expressing his political views, to which he replied: "I had to feel something different. Because I think we all, or a lot of us, remain beholden to the structure of the house that we were raised in with politics, with religion, with the arts, with culture."
To a round of applause from the audience, Sheen then explained his shift in political views: "And I thought, 'All right, I'm going to conduct an experiment.' Literally, I'm going to change the channel. I'm going to do my own research like I've done with everything my entire life. I'm going to listen to other voices."
Sheen continued: "I'm going to explore just hearing both sides of the goddamn story."
During this process, Charlie Sheen realized the problem with the media he was consuming: "What I was so hypnotized by, in some ways, can be described as state-run media. I'm sorry, but it can. Legacy media is very much like that."
After months of listening to alternative voices outside legacy media and doing his own research, Sheen had to admit that he had been stuck in an echo chamber.
Then came his moment of realization: "I felt really stupid. Just some of the stuff I'd bought into and some of the stuff I was worshipping and some of the people I was hating because I was told I was supposed to hate them."
Though Sheen voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, he said it was a vote he wishes he could "have back" following his shift to the right.
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Two West Virginia National Guardsmen patrolling the national capital were shot the day before Thanksgiving, allegedly by a 29-year-old Afghan national who Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem indicated "was one of the many unvetted, mass paroled into the United States under Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021, under the Biden Administration."
While 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe is reportedly still fighting for his life, Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom succumbed to her wounds on Thursday evening.
"My baby girl has passed to glory," the fallen guardsman's father, Gary Beckstrom, noted in a Facebook post on Thursday. "... This has been a horrible tragedy."
'Apologize and repent.'
Amid the general outpouring of prayers and support for the victims and their families, the New Yorker magazine's chief Washington correspondent, Jane Mayer, decided to publicly trivialize the military members' sacrifice.
"This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed," wrote Mayer. "I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was a political show and at what a cost."
Mayer's apparent suggestion that the National Guardsman who died and others overseeing a historic and transformative decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C., were glorified garbage pickers did not go over well with the American people and their White House.
White House communications director Steven Cheung, responding on X from his official account, wrote, "Jane, respectfully, shut the f**k up for trying to politicize this tragedy.
"They were protecting DC and trying to make the nation's capital safer," continued Cheung. "People like you who engage in ghoulish behavior lose all credibility. Not like you had any to begin with."
The official White House rapid response account similarly castigated the liberal journalist, writing, "You sick, disgusting ghoul. Two of these heroes were just SHOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. The Guard has saved countless lives — backed up by evidence (which you’re clearly too stupid to notice). They are American patriots."
In August, President Donald Trump federalized the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., and deployed the National Guard there in order to "re-establish law, order, and public safety" to a city that had a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 states.
D.C. immediately witnessed a dramatic drop in crime.
There was a 44% decrease in violent crime in the first three weeks of the anti-crime initiative when compared to the same stretch the previous year and a 27% drop in crime from Aug. 11 through Oct. 15 relative to the same period in 2024. In addition to saving lives, the reduction in crime led to savings of over $450 million as of Nov. 4, according to the America First Policy Institute.
The White House was not alone in its disgust over Mayer's remarks.
Georgia Rep. Mike Collins (R) responded, "Apologize and repent."
"Stop supporting the murder of American soldiers," wrote BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) wrote, "All these sick people on the Left do is blame the victims. I’m thankful for our guardsmen and praying for them and their families as they keep protecting the peace."
While others similarly bashed Mayer over her rush to politicize the attack on the guardsmen by a suspect apparently imported by the Biden administration, some critics refuted the New Yorker writer's narrative by providing accounts of critical actions taken by the National Guard in the District of Columbia.
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For instance, Wallace White, a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation, noted, "On my walk back from work a few weeks back, a man was dangling off the ledge of the metro tracks at Farragut West clearly trying to commit suicide by train. If two national guardsmen weren’t there at the time, he’d be dead. These people are heroes."
Logan Dobson, vice president of the political advertising agency Targeted Victory, noted that he lives in D.C. and that the city is safer thanks to the National Guard, adding on the basis of murder statistics, "Dozens of Washingtonians are alive today that wouldn't be if not for the Guard."
When confronted by Dobson with evidence of the drop in crime following the National Guard's deployment to D.C., Mayer said, "I've covered crime in Washington since 1981- let's skip the mansplaining. You can play with the stats but homicides were dropping before the troops got here."
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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed earlier this week that it was initiating a review of the hundreds of thousands of refugees imported by the Biden administration, citing evidence that many of the migrants were rushed into the homeland without adequate vetting.
While activists clutched pearls over the Trump administration's new initiative to ensure that Americans today aren't further endangered by decisions made by the previous administration, a 29-year-old man whom Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed was among the horde of migrants admitted from Afghanistan in 2021 allegedly drove across the U.S. and gunned down two members of the National Guard.
'The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.'
After the death of one of the victims, 20-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services indicated that it had halted the processing of all immigration requests pertaining to those Afghans previously brought into the U.S. "pending further review of security and vetting protocols."
President Donald Trump made clear, however, that he intended to go far behind just pausing immigration requests, announcing that he will cut off the flow of migrants to the U.S. from third-world backwaters, seek to remove all noncitizens presently squatting in the homeland who are not presently making a positive contribution, and denaturalize those radicals who threaten American peace.
The president noted in a Truth Social post on Thursday evening that the country has been "divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being 'Politically Correct,' and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration."
Trump suggested further that the foreign population — Current Population Survey data indicates that as of January 2025, the foreign-born or immigrant population was 53.3 million, 15.8% of the total — is not only heavily reliant on U.S. taxpayer-funded benefits but greatly contributing to "social dysfunction in America" as manifest in "failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits."
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The president pointed to the Gopher State for evidence of the "refugee burden," noting that "hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota."
Trump added:
Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc.
Trump announced last week that he was terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for Somalia following a report by BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo and investigative reporter Ryan Thorpe on the alleged fraud perpetrated by numerous members of the Somali community in Minnesota as well as on the alleged direction of stolen Minnesota Medicaid and welfare funds by members of the Somali community to terrorists abroad.
'Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.'
Minnesota Rep. Omar, who claimed last year that the "U.S government will do what [Somali-Americans] tell the U.S. government to do," vowed in response to help members of her community avoid status revocation and removal.
Trump, however, emphasized in his Thanksgiving message that he is deadly serious about seeing America unyoked of its imported problems.
"I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden's Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization," wrote the president.
"Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation," wrote Trump. "HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won't be here for long!"
Joe Edlow, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, noted Thursday in a post on X that at the direction of the president, he has "directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern."
When asked for clarification, USCIS stated the countries of concern are those listed in Trump's June 4 proclamation, namely: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!President Donald Trump has spent the last decade producing some of America's most iconic political moments. Some were divisive, some were historic, and many of them were hilarious.
Here are the top five Trump moments that make me thankful for his presidency.
Trump had many memorable moments during his first presidential campaign, earning a reputation for being a totally candid and unapologetic candidate. Almost a decade ago at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, Trump put his personality and political talent on full display, turning a technical hiccup into a chant with countless rallygoers.
The stage lights abruptly went off in the middle of his campaign speech, prompting Trump to quip that the venue "didn't pay the electric bill," sending applause and laughter through the audience. To Trump's dismay, the lights quickly blared back on, and he began to shout, "No! Get those lights off!"
"Turn them off! They're too bright! Turn them OFF!"
Trump later encouraged audience members to join him in chanting, "Turn off the lights!"
"That's the way we have to negotiate for our country," he added.
During Hurricane Florence in September 2018, Trump posted a video in which he thanked first responders and all those involved in mitigating the pain inflicted by the natural disaster. Although this would have been a routine exercise in any other administration, the orator in chief delivered one of his most iconic Trump lines that never fails to make people chuckle.
While Trump has several memorable one-liners, this one was uniquely pre-approved and posted to a personal social media account.
"I just want to thank all of the incredible men and women who have done such a great job in helping with Florence," Trump said. "This is a tough hurricane."
"One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water. Rarely have we had an experience like it, and it certainly is not good," he added.
Some of the most iconic Trump moments were entirely unscripted, and 2018 Halloween was no exception.
The White House was hosting the annual trick-or-treat festivities where the president and first lady Melania Trump hand out candy to kids dressed up in their Halloween costumes. One such trick-or-treater showed up in a Minion costume from the well-known "Despicable Me" films, which quickly proved to limit the child's candy-collecting abilities.
The child's costume seemingly obstructed his hands, but Trump didn't want to deprive the Minion of his Halloween harvest. Instead, Trump opted to simply place the candy bar on top of the Minion's head as onlookers erupted in laughter.
Trump's unprompted one-liners are usually the most controversial, but also the most entertaining. His speech to military brass at Quantico earlier this year was no exception, after Trump veered off script and produced one of the most viral moments so far in his second term.
"It was really a stupid person that ... mentioned the word 'nuclear,'" Trump said during the address.
"I moved a submarine or two ... over to the coast of Russia, just to be careful, because we can't let people throw around that word," he continued.
"I call it the N-word," Trump added. "There are two N-words, and you can't use either of them."
Campaigning as the peace president and working around the clock to end conflicts around the globe, his play on words was both in line with the administration's agenda and with Trump's comedic instincts.
One of Trump's most iconic political feuds was with none other than failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The two sparred on a number of issues and exchanged many notable insults at each other, but few are as memorable as the October 9, 2016, presidential debate.
This mic drop speaks for itself.
"Last time, at the first debate, we had millions of people fact-checking, so I expect we'll have millions more fact-checking because, you know, it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country," Clinton said.
Trump picked up the mic and simply said, "Because you'd be in jail."
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