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There's no statement greater than X!

[Worldwise 212 @J2datv]

I'd rather look at the Toys R Us Book of awesome remember those than read Jeffrey Epstein's Birthday Books of nasty real talk!

[🌏Henry Ross @Lincolnabe123]

@NancySinatra Nancy says - get out and vote- Do not say later “I wish I had voted”

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

Because Congress is complicit.
VOTE THEM OUT.

[Worldwise 212 @J2datv]

What a demo can't wait for the full game dropping this month.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Bob Hope performed within mortar range every Christmas for twenty-three years. The man America dismissed as a harmless joke-teller voluntarily saw more front-line combat than most generals.

Christmas Day, 1967. Long Binh base, South Vietnam. Hope was mid-punchline when the first rocket hit the perimeter. The explosion shook the stage. Soldiers in the front rows dropped flat. Military police moved toward Hope's position. Protocol was clear. Evacuate the performer. Get him to a bunker.

Hope did not move. He waited for the noise to stop, looked at the audience, and said, "If they're going to shoot, at least they'll get the best audience in the world." The soldiers laughed. He continued the show.

He had been doing this since 1941. That first audience was a few hundred servicemen at March Field in California, months before Pearl Harbor. Hope told jokes. The men laughed. He looked at their faces and understood something no agent or studio executive had ever told him: these men needed to laugh more than any civilian audience ever would.

By 1943, he was performing in North Africa. By 1944, he was in the South Pacific. By 1950, Korea. By 1964, Vietnam. He went where the war went. He flew on military transports. He slept on cots. He ate what the soldiers ate. He performed on aircraft carriers, jungle clearings, hospital wards, and forward operating bases close enough to the fighting that his crew could hear small arms fire during the shows.

He brought women. That was deliberate. Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Jayne Mansfield. Hope understood that a woman in a sequined dress standing on a plywood stage in the middle of a war zone was the closest thing to home most of those soldiers would see for months. The laughter when the women appeared was different from the laughter at his jokes. It was relief.

The military never ordered him to go. No contract required it. He funded portions of the trips himself. He turned down holiday specials, family Christmases, and network money every December for twenty-three consecutive years because he had decided that Christmas belonged to the soldiers.

At his final USO show in 1990, after the Persian Gulf deployment began, he was eighty-seven years old. A reporter asked why he kept going. Hope said he didn't have a complicated answer.

"I looked at them, they laughed at me, and it was love at first sight."

He performed for over eleven million servicemen and women across four wars. Nobody asked him to. He went anyway. Every Christmas. For twenty-three years.

[David 777🇺🇸🇺🇦🇱🇺 @Vegasdave59]

@MrPitbull07 Bob Hope was an American Hero. I saw his show at the 1973 Boy Scout Jamboree West in Idaho. Donated so much to America during its difficult times. Rest Easy Bob. You did your duty.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: MAGA is losing their minds over this AI video showing a construction crew forcibly removing Trump’s name from the outside of the Kennedy Center.

Share it everywhere just to annoy them. This will soon be a reality.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

18 years ago today, I launched on Space Shuttle Discovery for my first flight as shuttle commander. Our mission was to deliver Kibo, the Japanese experiment module, to the @Space_Station. In the years since, that laboratory has been home to advances in medicine, materials science, Earth observation, and technology.

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

"A Turkish proverb says: when a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king. It is the palace that becomes a circus."

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Excellent! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Shawna 🇺🇸 @shawna_a_vet]

A UFC fight on the White House lawn is THE MOST redneck, trailer trash, idiocratic way to celebrate Independence Day.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Today…

Judge orders Trump’s name OFF Kennedy Center.

Iran “deal” blasted as defeat.

Musicians bail on his concert on the National Mall.

DHS agent arrested for MN shooting in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Approval rating hits low 30%.

Have a great weekend, DJT.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NOW: A federal judge has ordered that Donald Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center and that officials halt their plan to close the venue for two years.

“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper said in his ruling.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

An appropriate birthday present on my uncle's birthday today. A federal judge ruled that President Trump and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Center. The judge held that only Congress can change the Center's name and blocked the planned two-year closure. I know they'll probably appeal and the story isn't over, but for today let’s celebrate a great birthday gift.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

Excellent statement by Cecilia Vega. What’s happening at 60 Minutes is beyond belief and should concern everyone who wants to live in a country with a free press.

[Worldwise 212 @J2datv]

@Suzierizzo1 1. Yes

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.

[Worldwise 212 @J2datv]

@Suzierizzo1 Johnny Carson hands down

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Boycott @CBS, everyone!!

[Worldwise 212 @J2datv]

https://t.co/YnbjXUmelp

[Worldwise 212 @J2datv]

@Martina It's gonna make the 🍯 industry suffer.