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The Trump Administration endured a few jabs during last night's Oscars, but they're not taking it lying down ... in fact, they made up their own award to hand out.

In a post Monday on X, the White House wrote, "And the Academy Award goes to... the Democrats. For yet ANOTHER PERFORMATIVE SHUTDOWN -- putting political theater over the American people. Fund @DHSgov!"

The message captioned an edited picture of an Oscar statuette wearing a sombrero.

President Trump laughed out loud when he was briefed about Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei possibly being sexually attracted to other men ... at least according to a new report.

Trump was shocked and amused when given intel on the Ayatollah's alleged sexual proclivities ... according to a new report Monday in the New York Post.

POTUS was also told Khamenei's father, who was killed in a missile strike at the outset of the Iran war, was concerned about his son taking over for him.

President Donald Trump announced Monday his White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

According to the president, her prognosis is "excellent," and she'll continue to work full-time at the WH during treatment.

POTUS posted ... "Her Strength and her Commitment to continue doing the job she loves, and does so well, while undergoing treatment, tells you everything you need to know about her. Susie, as one of my closest and most important advisors, is tough and deeply committed to serving the American People."

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are living their best lives in NYC while her father, President Donald Trump, continues Operation Epic Fury in Iran ... they were spotted heading to a boozy dinner with James Rothschild and Nicky Hilton on Sunday.

Check out the pics ... Jared and Ivanka left separately to meet up with their high-society friends. Kushner was seen carrying a bottle of wine, while Ivanka clutched a phone and pocketbook on the way to her waiting car.

As you know ... U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last month, initiating a new all-out war in the Middle East.

The conflict has risen to a fever pitch as Iran has virtually closed the Strait of Hormuz -- a critical passage for global trade -- and sparked the "largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market," according to the International Energy Agency.

An insane video is going viral right now of a man appearing to chomp on a cigarette live on television during a news report on President Trump's Ohio visit.

Watch the video ... a man smoking a cigarette creeps up behind a reporter during a news segment. He's all smiles as he appears to flip the cigarette around, place the lit end in his mouth and chew!

We're not sure who's the butt of the joke here, but this guy immediately became an internet sensation.

One X user wrote, "And a legend is born.

Another added, "Florida man's got nothing on Ohio man."

Some seemed to have seen this type of stunt before ... “He doesn’t eat it bro. We use to flick cigarettes in our mouth and back out with our tongue when we were young. I did it a bunch of times. Saliva protects from the initial burn and you have time to take it out,” one commenter posted.

Tucker Carlson says the CIA read his text messages with people in Iran and claims the agency is trying to get him charged as a foreign agent.

The conservative commentator made the allegation in a video posted to X Saturday, saying the CIA is preparing a criminal referral to the Department of Justice tied to conversations he had before the recent conflict with Iran.

"The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me," Carlson said. "What's the crime? Talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts."

A member of Jasmine Crockett's congressional security detail was shot to death by police during a standoff in Texas, according to CBS News.

The violent encounter unfolded in Dallas Wednesday night, when Mike King reportedly ran inside a hospital parking garage and then barricaded himself inside a vehicle while being pursued by SWAT officers.

CBS reports the cops then tear-gassed King, prompting him to jump out of the vehicle and pull a gun before he was fatally shot by police.    

Law enforcement sources told CBS ... King was wanted for impersonating law enforcement while running a platform online, Off Duty Police Services, which finds off-duty gigs for North Texas cops. 

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's bodyguard -- who was killed in a standoff with police this week -- reportedly had a checkered past.

The bodyguard went by Mike King ... but CBS News is now reporting that was an alias -- and his real name was Diamon-Mazairre Robinson.

The outlet reports Robinson was using aliases while running a business that put cops in off-duty security jobs ... and, he reportedly found himself in the crosshairs of a federal investigation for allegedly impersonating an officer.

Donald Trump went full "City Slickers" in the Oval Office ... when he slipped on a super pricey cowboy hat in front of some rodeo pros.

POTUS played host to the 2025 World Champions of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association Friday afternoon ... and they presented him with a keepsake accessory.

The real cowboys gave the prez a $10,000 Resistol 1776 hat -- a limited edition hat celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary.

Donald Trump's hotel in Chicago failed a recent food inspection ... TMZ has confirmed.

The Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago's main kitchen, room service and Terrace 16 restaurant failed food inspections by the Chicago Department of Public Health on December 17, 2025 ... according to records obtained by TMZ.

PEOPLE reports the inspection found small insects in the bar area and the dish area ... plus a dish machine that was not properly sanitizing, and a sink in the prep area that drained wastewater onto the floor.

Kyrsten Sinema says she did in fact sleep with her bodyguard while he was still married ... admitting as much in legal docs -- though she says his estranged wife shouldn't be allowed to sue her in North Carolina for it.

The former Arizona senator filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which she's being sued by her lover's estranged wife in North Carolina on Thursday. In the papers, she admits she and Matthew Ammel began an affair about five months before he separated from his wife, Heather Ammel. The filing was first reported on by an Arizona reporter named Brian Anderson.

Sinema says she and Ammel became "romantic and intimate" in late May 2024 ... engaging in physical intimacy for the first time on May 27 in Sonoma, California ... adding that they were also physically intimate in New York City, Washington, D.C., Aspen and Phoenix in subsequent months.

A prison guard working the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide has been called to testify before the Congressional House Oversight Committee.

The committee sent Tova Noel -- the guard who was fired from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City after Epstein was found dead in his cell -- a letter requesting her to testify on March 26 at 10 AM ET.

The House Oversight Committee has members who believe Noel has "information that will assist in its investigation" into Epstein's shocking death.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is daring Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, to show his face ... accusing him of hiding amid claims he's been disfigured, instead of speaking publicly.

Hegseth ripped into Khamenei after the 56-year-old’s first message since taking power aired on Iranian state TV ... a written statement calling for unity that was read aloud by a presenter.

In a Friday briefing, the Pentagon chief questioned why Khamenei didn’t appear on camera himself ... suggesting he’s scared, injured, or on the run after the recent strikes that killed his father.

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Former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller is going scorched earth on President Donald Trump after getting booted from a White House religious post ... saying the "witch hunt" against her tramples the very free speech he once defended on her behalf.

The ex-beauty queen was fired from the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission after clashing with Jewish witnesses during a hearing on rising antisemitism after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas.

The Department of War has a bone to pick with how the media’s covering the U.S. conflict with Iran ... and Pete Hegseth let it fly during a Pentagon press briefing.

Speaking Friday, the Secretary of War accused some reporters of missing the point ... adding he knows how the game works -- since the former Fox News anchor used to be in the business -- saying headlines are often written with misleading intention.