Kaitlan Collins HUMILIATES Trump over TV flop

Trump's six-day war on the free press ended before dawn Thursday, when U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly — a Trump appointee — issued a 14-day temporary restraining order restoring White House access to CNN, MS Now, and Politico. Kelly ruled the ban was likely unconstitutional, rejecting the DOJ's argument that press access is "a privilege, not a right."

The DOJ's court filing, which cited national security concerns, attached unsigned letters on no official letterhead that didn't actually contain any evidence the offending stories contained classified information.

Meanwhile, Kaitlan Collins used her own show to twist the knife.

Trump had rolled out a 100-foot red carpet and arranged a military flyover to impress Xi Jinping. Thanks to his own ban, none of the five major networks were there to film it.

"It was a landmark scene made for television that had trouble finding a screen," Collins said. "While the moment may have been historic, it certainly wasn't prolific."

His biggest photo op of the week played to an empty room. Conservative “news outlets” Real America's Voice and Lindell TV had to fill the void — until the feed cut out while Trump was talking.

Trump responded to the ruling with a midnight meltdown calling reporters "sick, treasonous, and demented" and attacking the judge.

The judge he appointed.

Just in time for Xi Jinping's Washington visit, Bloomberg reported that sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft components — a cockpit canopy and a weapons-bay door, both coated with radar-absorbing material manufactured by Lockheed Martin — were mysteriously diverted to Hong Kong during transport from Australia to the U.S. and are now in Chinese government hands.

The timing could not be worse: Trump is simultaneously trying to negotiate trade terms with Beijing, flattering Xi at Joint Base Andrews, and running a war in Iran that has already strained global energy supplies.

But nonetheless, Trump gave him a grand welcome: a 100-foot red carpet laid by Marines (the same setup Putin got in Alaska), a 21-gun salute, both national anthems, six F-16s and six F-22s, and then two B-1 bombers.

Xi did nothing like this for Trump when Trump went to Beijing in May. He walked into those meetings holding a piece of America's most advanced stealth technology. Trump walked in wearing black gloves in 64 degree weather and wincing at his own airshow.

While Benjamin Netanyahu was shrinking his New York visit to a few hours, Zohran Mamdani was calling bingo numbers with the Irish prime minister.

The mayor spent UN week as the unofficial host of the world's left. On Monday he met Brazil's Lula da Silva. On Wednesday he hosted a breakfast with Spain's Pedro Sánchez, Barbados's Mia Mottley and EU Council President António Costa, where Sánchez said it plainly: "The powerful are afraid of us."

After that, Mamdani rode the G train to Bed-Stuy with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, talking housing the whole way.

Netanyahu faces an ICC arrest warrant, and the mayor once promised to enforce it. He landed in New Jersey instead of JFK, giving his speech and getting out of dodge by nightfall. He didn’t even meet with Trump, because the president was already gone too.

Republican support is growing for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over a lavish wedding gift he received from a businessman with Kremlin ties.

Utah Sen. John Curtis's call for a subpoena is picking up backing from within the GOP — a notable fracture given how carefully most Republicans have avoided touching anything with the Trump family's name on it. The source doesn't detail the gift's value or the businessman's identity, but the fact that Republican senators are publicly calling for subpoenas of the president's son, during a state visit from Xi Jinping, while F-35 parts are in Chinese hands, suggests the Russia question has not gone anywhere.

The architect Trump hired to design his new White House ballroom quit in October after Trump refused to follow building safety codes — specifically, adequate emergency exits and fire containment measures.

Trump's response to the architect's safety warnings, per Washington Post sources: "I am the code."

Trump has reportedly been personally annotating ballroom designs in black Sharpie, bypassing the federal agencies legally required to enforce national building safety standards.

Separately, Trump announced the ballroom will include a rooftop drone port — despite the Secret Service already operating one next door.

New polling shows MAGA voters turning against Trump's tariffs — a significant erosion given that the base has absorbed nearly everything else. After U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed in late August, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded with counter-tariffs on American steel and aluminum, with additional duties set to take effect September 29.

GOP candidates in competitive races are now publicly breaking with Trump over the Iran war as gas prices climb and service members die. Sen. Tommy Tuberville's response to constituents facing skyrocketing gas prices: "People will deal with that."

They are, Senator. At the ballot box.