A black hole of nothing: Why Trump is running the show before 2025



When even Politico is admitting that Joe Biden couldn’t possibly be the man currently in charge of the United States, you know it’s gotten bad.

“Politico finally noticed this,” Blaze Media senior editor for politics Christopher Bedford tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “And I think the reason for that is because Democrats are finally willing to talk about it. There’s been a complete absence of leadership in the White House for four years now.”

“It’s not just that Joe Biden is absent, it’s that the new president-elect, not his vice president, but former President Donald Trump, seems to be everywhere at the exact same time,” he continues.

And Trump isn’t just “everywhere,” but he’s receiving warm welcomes from leaders all around the world.


“I mean he’s going over to France; he’s going to the grand, beautiful, really moving reopening of Notre Dame. Royalty from England, people who used to snub their nose at him, Canadian Prime Ministers, or I guess governors as he would call them, French leaders, they are bustling to get into shaking his hand,” Bedford explains.

“When people wonder what American policy is, they’re much more interested, they’d be much better suited, talking to Donald Trump, the mean, old orange man, than they would be talking to the sitting president of the United States, if they’re even able to get him on the line,” he adds.

Peterson is in full agreement.

“Everyone’s seen it. They’ve seen him act as president since really a few weeks after he won. He’s already in the lead,” he says. “It speaks to something very deep that is lurking here, and that is: Where is the leadership in the Democratic Party, period?”

“There’s just a black hole right now of nothing,” he adds.

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Mental health and religion: Why men need God now more than ever



American men have been suffering in silence through an unprecedented mental health and suicide crisis — while women’s rights have taken center stage.

Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice, believes it’s high time this changes.

“Nationwide, we are experiencing the highest suicide rate, the highest depression rate, ever in recorded American history. And unfortunately, men are hit hardest when it comes to suicide,” Sheffield tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” adding that 80% of suicides are committed by men.

“More than 90% of occupational deaths on the job are men. We don’t talk about this. The life span on average of men is far shorter than for women, and so we don’t talk about men. All the left loves to do is to demonize men,” she explains.

However, Sheffield believes there’s an answer for the men suffering in silence.


“Coming to faith, being in faith practice, religious community, religion. This is extremely tied with strong mental health, lower suicide, low substance abuse, and so it was an encouragement to men because men are far more likely to be atheist and agnostic,” Sheffield explains.

“Why aren’t people talking about what men would need in terms of mental health?” Peterson asks.

“In general, I think our culture has become divorced from truth,” Sheffield says. “Postmodern society is truth is whatever the wind is telling us. Whatever is trendy, whatever is hot, whatever is buzzy, and when our society falls away from that, it’s no wonder that then you fall into this situation.”

“I’ve experienced it myself as a recovered agnostic, where if you don’t believe in an eternal truth or purpose, then your mental health suffers. And so, I think for a lot of men, as the quote-unquote ‘feminist movement’ demonized men and tried to sever them from their purpose, which is to serve God, to serve people,” she continues.

“Part of that is this idea that a man could be a provider or a protector or create a family,” she says. “The feminist movement was trying to undermine all of that.”

However, there’s some good news.

“I looked at a headline that came out, I think, last week, and Bible sales are actually up 22% in America,” Savage comments.

“The Bible sales, the 22% increase, which is phenomenal, that you mentioned, this is being driven by first-time Bible-buyers,” Sheffield says. “They’re discovering it by themselves, they’re being, in some ways, pioneers in their own family. And it’s being led by young men.”

“And so that’s a glimmer of hope,” she adds.

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Gavin Newsom's INSANE electric vehicle policy could impact YOU



If your plan was to make cars more expensive for everyone, then you would do exactly what Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing with his extreme emissions regulations.

“No matter where you live,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments. “We’re talking about impossible quotas, massive fines for automakers, and even a new gas tax. It’s going to make drivers furious.”

Automotive expert and journalist Lauren Fix isn’t thrilled with the plan, either.

“There’s a lot going on,” she tells Savage and Matthew Peterson. “Right now, California currently has from the California Air Resources Board a mandate that by 2026, 35% of all vehicles sold in the state of California should be all electric.”

“By 2030, all electric,” she continues. “No vehicles will be allowed to be sold in the state that are gasoline powered. That’s going to be a problem, considering the cost of electricity there is the highest in the country.”


But it gets worse.

“Every car sold today, as we speak, has a $20,000 fine on top of it for not meeting the California air resources board,” Fix explains. “So every manufacturer is paying a loss of $20,000 on every car that’s sold.”

Starting the first of the year, California will also be adding a 68-cent tax on every car that’s sold.

“That’ll make it even more expensive. So the idea is to incentivize you to give up your gasoline-powered vehicle, but then you have a car payment, higher insurance rates, and no place to charge,” Fix says, noting that it will not only be California affected.

“It’s going to actually affect the whole country, because car manufacturers are not going to build a car just for the state of California. They’re going to build a car for the entire country,” she explains.

While 17 states, including New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, unsurprisingly side with California — Fix believes Trump can stop them.

“If I had his ear, I would tell him to go after the California Air Resources Board, get them to dissipate, because President Obama gave them even more power. So whatever California says, the entire country is forced to follow it,” Fix says.

“Car manufacturers can’t afford to have billions of dollars in fines. Instead, they’re taking millions of dollars in losses, and we’re all paying for it,” she adds.

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How MAGA is winning the culture war



While Kamala Harris stuck to interviews with the outdated mainstream media, Donald Trump ventured out to alternative media like podcasts and Twitch — which many Americans appreciated.

Gates Garcia, president and CEO of Pine Hill Capital management, is one of them.

“He spoke to me,” Garcia tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “By ‘me’ I don’t mean that fancy title that you just read, that’s not as fancy as it sounds. I mean ‘me,’ the regular guy sitting on the couch wanting to know who he is as a human.”

“In linear broadcast television, you’re sort of spoken to. And with podcasts and alternative platforms, networks like the Blaze, you’re able to sort of participate in the conversation,” he continues. “It feels like they’re talking to you on a personal level, that sort of is able to humanize the person.”


“If you look at every demographic that swung in Trump’s direction, I think it was a direct result of him actually speaking to those people directly,” he adds.

While the left has historically dominated the media and all cultural institutions, Garcia believes that’s about to completely change.

“I think we’re in the first inning of an absolute takeover of the media, and by that, I mean the right, the conservative movement, is taking over that institution. We’re probably in the first inning, but it’s been happening for a while, and I think that when over half the country elects Donald Trump, it means that they either don’t watch mainstream media, or they don’t believe it,” he explains.

And Garcia isn’t the only one who sees it. After Trump’s landslide victory, Elon Musk posted on X: “You are the media now.”

“We’ve been given control, we the people. And we can curate what we want to consume, and so, it’s now sort of owned in a way by the people,” Garcia explains, adding, “You can take an institution down, or you can build a linear one. The great part is, we’re building the linear one. They took themselves down.”

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Biden opened the door for AVALANCHE of Trump pardons



Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, which covers every federal crime that he’s committed in the past decade, is taking the news cycle by storm — and for good reason.

“It is absolutely unprecedented,” Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “We believe this is the most expansive, the most broad and wide-ranging pardon ever issued in American history.”

Even Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal was only for five years of crimes, while Hunter’s spanned a whopping eleven years.

“You can go back even further, if you want to look at pardons given to Confederate generals after the Civil War, people who literally waged war against the United States, theirs were not as expansive as this,” Davis explains, adding that “to see his son get the biggest, most widest-ranging pardon in American history, it’s shocking to me.”


While it’s shocking — and blatantly corrupt — Hunter’s pardon isn’t all negative.

“If they were worried about J6 protesters maybe being pardoned before this happened, they don’t need to worry about that any more, because that’s 100% going to happen. By doing a pardon of this nature for the president’s son, it basically makes it impossible for Democrats to complain or argue about any pardons going forward,” Davis says.

However, Democrats like Gerry Connolly seem to be catching on and are already insisting that there should not be sweeping pardons like Hunter’s in the future.

“It’s interesting that this is coming from the Democratic side, because they know at some point,” Savage says, “Republicans are going to be back in office.”

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Trump should follow Biden’s lead— and PARDON January 6 prisoners



Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter despite numerous pledges not to do so while some January 6 protesters whose crimes don’t even hold a candle to Hunter’s are still sitting in jail.

Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters numerous times that this wouldn’t happen, even going so far as to act exasperated when she was asked.

“It’s still a no, it will be a no. It is a no, and I don’t have anything else to add,” she said in one of many press conferences, and in another, she said, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.”

Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute, believes this “decades worth of grace for Hunter” has created “grace and space” for Joe Biden himself.


“These are business dealings in which Joe Biden wouldn’t have just been adjacent,” he tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “Joe Biden was considered an employee of some of Hunter Biden’s businesses when he wasn’t the vice president. So I think by pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden essentially has pardoned himself.”

“We all knew this was going to happen, it’s not a surprise. If it is a surprise, you kind of need to check yourself,” Peterson comments. “But at the same time, actually watching it happen is interesting because there’s fallout politically.”

“And I would love to see actual justice occur in some way,” he adds.

Savage agrees, noting that a large part of the conservative response on social media platforms like X was focused on January 6.

“If they’re going to do that, then Donald Trump should push for the pardons for J6ers immediately,” Savage says.

“Yeah, and I mean, I don’t think they’re comparable. One is terrible injustice and the other is the government acting in a way that’s not compatible with the Constitution. If it helps, great. Like, if it helps people make the case, yeah, let’s do it,” Peterson adds.

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The REAL reason Joe Biden pardoned Hunter



Joe Biden isn’t leaving the White House quietly.

With less than two months left in his term, the president issued a full and unconditional ten-year pardon for his son Hunter Biden.

This includes any of the crimes he may have committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.

“This covers Hunter’s felony convictions for gun charges, tax offenses, and even overlaps with his time with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. But we were told by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly that this wouldn’t happen,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments.

“Let’s be clear: This isn’t a pardon. This is a decade's worth of salvation and forgiveness,” Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute, responds. “This is also an affront to the integrity of our democracy, and it’s just the latest admission that Joe Biden and the Biden administration have been lying to the American people for the last four years.”


“It started in the fall of 2020, when the FBI worked in conjunction with Big Tech to help suppress the accountability of the Hunter Biden business dealings in the first place, which allowed Joe Biden to even become president, so he could later pardon Hunter Biden,” he continues.

“What are the big crimes that are actually being covered up here?” Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson asks Eggers, who cites the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

“Joe Biden begins this period of grace for his son, January 2014; the month before that, Hunter Biden rode on Air Force 2, with his then-vice President father, Joe Biden. Together, they travel to China,” Eggers explains, noting that at the time, Hunter had zero international business experience.

“He gets this $1.5 billion private equity deal, a joint partnership with essentially the communist government of China, never been done before,” Eggers continues. “This began this international ravaging of the dark corners of shady businesses that wanted to curry favor with American political elites. It’s called ‘elite capture.’”

“These are business deals that would have involved Joe Biden. So by creating this decade's worth of grace for Hunter,” he concludes, “this is the closest Joe Biden has come to creating grace and space for himself.”

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Some states STILL COUNT late mail-in ballots after Election Day



The Pennsylvania Senate race was finally called when Democrat Bob Casey conceded that the Democrats were attempting to count ballots that had no date or the wrong date. Luckily, the Supreme Court sided with the RNC.

But how do we prevent voting in a federal election from getting to this point in the future?

“What we need is a voter’s election integrity bill of rights, because these crazy laws are really infringing on the voting rights of people who go to the polls, do it right,” Cleta Mitchell, senior legal fellow for the Conservative Partnership Institute, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“There are a number of principles that we’re sort of coalescing around that need to be both in federal law and in state law,” she continues. “Only citizens vote, voter ID for every kind of voting, make sure that all ballots are received by the time the polls close on Election Day, make sure that there’s transparency and accountability.”


“This situation needs to be corrected. It’s way past time to do that,” she adds.

Illinois is one state that has pushed the boundaries regarding election integrity, allowing mail-in ballots to be counted up to fourteen days after the election.

“Do you think that this is something where the Supreme Court, or the courts, might not ultimately decide in the right direction? It just seems so egregious, but people now, they’re kind of used to it, in our corrupt system, allowing these mail-ins to come in after the fact,” Peterson comments.

“Judicial Watch has filed suit in both Illinois and also Mississippi, and the Fifth Circuit ruled that receiving ballots after the time the polls close on Election Day violates the federal statute,” Mitchell responds.

“I think that one of the things that we need to do is say that there’s a beginning and an end when we as a country vote, pretty much at the same time,” she continues. “We might have to make some accommodations for people to vote in person early if they’re going to be out of state.”

“I think we need to get rid of this universal vote by mail, this universal sending of ballots to people whether they requested them or not,” she adds.

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Denver mayor vows to blockade mass deportations. Will he go to jail?



The answer to that question is yes, Mike Johnston will likely go to jail if he opposes the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.

But it looks as if Johnston is okay with that.

In a recent article, Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas outlined Johnston’s plans to resist mass deportations, even if it means he winds up behind bars.

“I’m not afraid of that,” he said when asked about potential incarceration.

Now, Rosas joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to shed light on how far-left Democrats plan to buck the will of the people when it comes to illegal immigration.


Rosas says that Democrats may act shocked and horrified about mass deportations, but they should know that this is what happens when an administration opens the borders for years, creating a border crisis.

From financial strain to human trafficking and immigrant gangs, mass deportations are the only logical solution, but still, Democrats plan to protect those who broke the law to be here at the expense of their own citizens.

It’s this very mentality that caused deep blue cities to shift toward Trump during the election.

And that shift from blue to red might increase when they see their leaders continue down the same path of making Americans second-class citizens behind illegal immigrants.

“If they want to continue doing this, that's fine, but they're going to continue to do it at their own peril in the next upcoming elections,” says Rosas.

However, a different kind of peril awaits them in the meantime, and his name is Tom Homan.

“[Homan] just announced states refusing to follow the federal mass deportation plan could lose federal funding. Do you think that that's going to happen? Do you think these states are going to go toe-to-toe and fight the feds on this?” Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson asks.

The answer to that is possibly. Johnston did threaten to deploy local law enforcement to the county line to stop the feds from carrying out mass deportations in the Denver area.

If he proves good on these words, he’s going to come face to face with Homan, who Rosas says is “a very serious individual.”

“As someone who knows Tom, he's been chomping at the bit for this for many years now,” he tells Jill and Peterson. “If Democrat leaders and cities want to actually take that extra step and obstruct them … from doing [mass deportations], you're doing it to someone who's Tom Homan, and that's someone that I would take very, very seriously.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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‘They’re in a bubble’: How Jaguar TANKED an already-failing brand



Not only did British auto manufacturer Jaguar release a bizarre ad campaign featuring androgynous models — but the ads featured no cars.

“I have no idea what Jaguar is trying to sell us in that ad and who thought this was a good idea,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” tells Matthew Peterson and WILL agency founder Isaac Simpson.

Simpson notes that in order to understand the ad, we also have to understand that Jaguar is a “failing brand” and that the brand has “been really struggling for a very long time.”

“So they’ve decided to switch everything over to EV, and they’re going to be 100% electric vehicles, and then not only that, they’re going to charge twice what they’re already charging for their cars,” Simpson explains.


This is where an ad like the one just released comes in as well as its rejection of its iconic logo that features a jaguar to one that just says “Jaguar” in futuristic handwriting.

“Clearly, they asked their marketing team to create a radical new approach to their branding,” Simpson says.

“I don’t think this was an ‘any publicity is good publicity situation,’” he continues. “I think that they’re in a bubble, and I think that the people that create the ads for this particular brand are just living in a bubble as we’ve seen so many times, time and time again with Bud Light and so many other brands.”

According to Simpson, the brand director, who was in charge of this campaign, is “the kind of guy who goes on stage, and he’s wearing a sheer, see-through shirt.”

“You could imagine the type of guy this is,” he says, adding, “They’ve just chased away all the people who would say, ‘Don’t do this.’”

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