Politics

Matt Gaetz may want to invest in a privacy screen for his mobile phone ... 'cause a fellow passenger on a plane spied on his text messages, recording his convo with his mom and blasting the video out on the Internet!

The mole later posted the clip on TikTok ... showing Matt seated in a chair and scrawling through messages from his mom on his cell phone. And Gaetz's momma, Victoria, had some stern advice for her son regarding President Donald Trump, Iran and more.

Check it out for yourself ... Victoria seems adamant if her boy publicly criticizes Trump over his recent strike against Iran, Matt's gonna lose the MAGA fan base. Victoria also scoffs at the idea of Matt going back to practicing law. She warns him ... "Let's not mess up this media gig."

Diego Luna is onboard with making America great again, but not the way President Trump wants to do it -- while guest hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" he said it's immigrants, not Trump, who'll get the job done.

Check out the clip ... the "Andor" star questions how someone like POTUS could come into a place of so much power while spewing so much hate -- in a country that's been so welcoming to generations of immigrants.

During his monologue, Diego pointed to the country's track record as evidence, noting ... "The multiple times that this country has had to rebuild itself, immigrants were always there to pick up the slack."

President Donald Trump unleashed his wrath on Iran and Israel Tuesday morning for breaking their ceasefire just one day after he announced they reached an agreement.

Check out the clip -- he held nothing back as he ripped into the warring nations, slamming ... "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing, do you understand?"

He made the no-bars-held comment after specifically calling out Israel for dropping "the biggest load" of bombs he's seen ... adding they need to "calm down."

President Donald Trump's gone from "America First" to imagining a new era in Iran ... and, he's using a very familiar slogan to encapsulate his goals.

POTUS has been firing on Truth Social all day in the wake of Saturday night's shocking bombing ... and, he just dropped two big words he says might not be totally politically correct -- "Regime Change."

The prez says if the current leaders in Iran can't "MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!"

Pete Hegseth said the United States has dealt a crippling blow to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, just hours after a massive military operation targeted three of the country’s key enrichment facilities.

The Defense Secretary spoke to the nation Sunday morning, saying Iran’s nuclear ambitions had been "obliterated" by the precision airstrikes, which he credited to President Donald Trump’s decisive leadership.

"The president authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to our national interest posed by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally Israel," he said.

Iran is vowing a forceful response after the United States airstrikes targeted three of its nuclear sites over the weekend -- an operation ordered by President Donald Trump that has triggered swift backlash from Tehran.

Late Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued a stark warning, condemning the strikes as a flagrant breach of international norms and threatening the repercussions would be long-lasting.

"The United States, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT by attacking Iran’s peaceful nuclear installations," Araghchi wrote on X.

President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States attacked Iran drew strong reactions from around Washington, D.C. ... and, they didn't always follow party lines.

As you know ... POTUS took to social media to reveal the U.S. military dropped a "full payload" of bombs on three nuclear facilities in the Middle Eastern country.

While the president called the attack a total success, outrage sparked among Democrats like Bernie Sanders -- who called the action "unconstitutional" and shared a video of his supporters at a rally after he told them of the attack.

President Donald Trump says the United States has just dropped bombs on Iran.

POTUS shared the news via Truth Social Saturday evening ... telling Americans the U.S. military dropped bombs at three nuclear sites -- Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, which he spells "Esfahan" -- in the country.

Trump says the planes have left Iranian air space, and he expressed his congratulations to the "great American Warriors" who carried out the attack. Despite the bombing, President Trump says now is the time for peace.

President Donald Trump just addressed the nation after the U.S.A.'s attack on Iran ... putting Iranian leadership on notice with an ultimatum -- make peace or face the consequences.

POTUS spoke at around 7 PM PT ... just a couple hours after revealing on Truth Social that the military had successfully attacked three nuclear sites in Iran. He stood alongside of Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

During his short remarks, Trump congratulated the military once again on the successful attack ... revealing the uranium enrichment facilities in Iran were "completely and totally obliterated" in the attack.

Kamala Harris was considering Mark Cuban as her running mate, but the billionaire flat out rejected the campaign, explaining he wasn't the type to play second fiddle ... saying for that reason, I'm out!

Cuban recently joined "The Bulwark" podcast ... when host Tim Miller asked him about "some green room gossip" he'd heard suggesting Mark was on the short list for the veep gig.

The former "Shark Tank" star confirmed the rumor, and revealed why and how he told the Harris campaign he wasn't interested.

Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier just cooked up the wildest plan yet -- turning the gator-infested Everglades into an immigration detention center for Trump’s mass deportation mission.

In a video posted to X on Thursday, Uthmeier chomped into his bold plan -- building a holding center right in gator territory, proudly calling it "Alligator Alcatraz." His pitch? Who needs barbed wire when you’ve got built-in bite patrol from Florida’s finest reptiles? Y'know, a bit like the sharks circling Alcatraz!

The 39-square-mile site -- a remote, dormant airport facility called the Miami-Dade Collier County Training Facility, about an hour due west of downtown Miami -- offered to the Trump administration comes with its own landing strip for flying in undocumented immigrants and, according to Uthmeier, could cage up to 1,000 people in just 30 to 60 days once construction begins.

Never-before-seen footage from the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally has just been released ... including drone overviews, close-ups of crowd reactions and the Secret Service response.

The previously unreleased videos are featured in the latest episode of Fox Nation's "Art of the Surge: The Donald Trump Comeback" ... and there's drone footage showing the roof where alleged shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks squeezed off shots at Trump.

Footage shows the chaos in the crowd after the gunshots rang out ... there are new angles from the crowd close to the stage, where panicked Trump supporters duck for cover.

1:55 PM PT -- ICE is fact-checking the Dodgers' statement ... saying its agents were "never" at the stadium. But as Homeland Security said, CBP vehicles were present "very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement."

1:05 PM PT -- Homeland Security tells TMZ Sports the agents' presence at the stadium had nothing to do with the Dodgers.

Federal agents were denied access to Dodger Stadium on Thursday ... after the team confirmed it refused to allow the government vehicles from entering the venue's parking lots.

ICE vans and masked agents were spotted posting up outside one of the stadium lot's gates ... although it's unclear why exactly they were there. According to the L.A. Times, agents declined to comment on the details of their presence.

The outlet went on to say the federal vehicles attempted to move inside the stadium grounds ... but were rejected.

Cuba Gooding Jr. didn't mince words when asked about the escalating tensions between Israel and Iran potentially dragging the USA into war -- saying when you put everything in perspective, war is just flat-out ignorant.

TMZ caught up with the actor at LAX Wednesday ... he remarked on the brutality of war being propelled by men in powerful positions who are making decisions to wipe people off the planet, just to make their point.

Cuba points out how we're all constantly exposed to the anger and devastation from all corners of the world now thanks to the internet -- what used to be a one-sided view of heroes and villains has morphed into something far more personal.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is on the move ... because she's been released from a hospital stay.

Noem was discharged from a Washington, D.C. hospital on Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.

As we reported ... Noem was rushed to a hospital by ambulance Tuesday after suffering an allergic reaction.

The viral video of fans being dragged out of SoFi Stadium over the weekend was NOT a result of the anti-Donald Trump attire they were wearing during the game ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Footage was shared on TikTok this week ... showing Apex Security Group staffers removing several spectators from the upper deck during the Mexico vs. Dominican Republic Concacaf Gold Cup opening match on June 14.

The social media user captioned the video, "SoFi Stadium security brutally remove young man and woman over FDT Shirt!!" ... FDT, of course, an abbreviation for "F*** Donald Trump."