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"If," by Redyard Kipling, "if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same, if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools, if you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and booze and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss, if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but a none too much, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man, my son.

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Scan of the front page of the Ravalli Republic newspaper (Bitterroot Valley, Montana), dated Thursday, October 15, 2026. The main photo shows a large crowd of people, many in jackets and some in red, white and blue, walking across a grassy field toward the camera, with mountains and a blue sky behind them. The caption says they are attendees lining up outside Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell ahead of a rally hosted by President Donald Trump. Other items are a top story on a judge halting a Forest Service reorganization, a sidebar on wolf protections, a story on a Stevensville student who is a National Merit semifinalist (with a photo of a young person with long hair standing in front of a school entrance labeled YELLOWJACKETS), and two small teaser photos at the top (football players, and a children's book cover).

Text in image: SERVING THE BITTERROOT VALLEY SINCE 1889 RAVALLI REPUBLIC CORVALLIS • DARBY • FLORENCE • HAMILTON • STEVENSVILLE • VICTOR Idaho Vandals to visit Missoula for second straight year. PAGE B1 Spooky reads for kids, adults as fall chill hits the air. PAGE A5 A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated Newspaper — Majority shareholder, David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group Thursday, October 15, 2026 RavalliRepublic.com Judge halts Forest Service reshuffle SAM WILSON sam.wilson@missoulian.com The ongoing reshuffling of the Forest Service, along with much of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was paused Tuesday after a federal judge in Northern California found the reorganization was "almost certainly" violating federal law by diverting funds without congressional approval. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria granted a temporary stay that bars the department and many of its agencies from closing any more offices or relocating employees, pending action by Congress. "Congress did not contemplate USDA using its appropriated funds to shut down offices or relocate employees," wrote Chhabria, with the U.S. District Court of Northern California. "To the contrary, Congress was actively working to restrict the agency's ability to do so." The USDA announced a sweeping plan in 2025 to reorganize the massive department, with an eye toward reducing its footprint in Washington, D.C., and staffing up regional hubs across the country. The USDA employs 3,100 full-time workers in Montana, according to the federal Office of Personnel Management. Of those employees, 2,700 work for the Forest Service. Forest Service officials are planning to eliminate the agency's longstanding Please see USFS, Page A2 TRUMP IN KALISPELL 'WE LOVE TRUMP' BEN ALLAN SMITH, MISSOULIAN Hundreds of attendees line up outside Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell ahead of the rally hosted by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Big crowd turns out for rally in GOP stronghold SEABORN LARSON, CARLY GRAF, GRIFFEN SMITH AND BEN ALLAN SMITH A star-spangled spectacle was brewing in the Flathead Valley on Wednesday afternoon as thousands descended on Majestic Valley Arena to see President Donald Trump. Trump was in Montana to campaign for GOP candidates, namely conservative radio host Aaron Flint, who is running to replace U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke as the representative in Montana's 1st Congressional District. Democrat Sam Forstag is running a tight race against Flint; polling has shown the race in a statistical tie for the last several weeks. Those in line to see the president on Wednesday came from nearby communities and from as far as California. At least eight sitting or hopeful legislators had been spotted at the rally as of 2 p.m. "I've been to over 30 of these Please see TRUMP, Page A4 Feds, wolf advocates duel over species' future SAM WILSON sam.wilson@missoulian.com When is a gray wolf "significant" enough to earn federal protections? And after a decades-long recovery returned the species to one-third of its historic range, is it time to remove the protections that brought them back? A panel of three appeals court judges visited Missoula's federal courthouse Wednesday afternoon as the bottom of those questions — along with a multitude of others — in a trio of lawsuits that could shape the future of the iconic species in the contiguous United States. In one case, the Center for Wildlife Biology, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other environmental groups are suing to overturn the federal government's rejection of their petition to relist wolves under the Endangered Species Act across the entire Lower 48 states. The lawsuit previously played out in the same courtroom in Missoula's Russell Smith Federal Courthouse, where District Judge Donald Molloy last year ruled against the Fish and Wildlife Service and found the agency failed to apply the best available science in its analysis and ignored the predators' historic range. Wolves once roamed across most of the North American continent, but were nearly eliminated south of Canada Please see WOLVES, Page A3 Stevi scholar drums up success Svaren is Bitterroot's only National Merit semifinalist NICOLE GIRTEN nicole.girten@ravallirepublic.com Stevensville senior Zane Svaren's ultimate dream is to be a rock star, drumming on the biggest stages. So far, though, one of Svaren's biggest accomplishments is being the only student in the Bitterroot named a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist. He will compete with about 16,000 other kids around the country next spring for 6,700 merit scholarships worth about $24 million. He said it "feels cool" to be among such an elite few. "Sometimes going to a school like Stevensville, it almost feels like maybe it's a 'big fish, little pond' thing because our school's kind of underfunded," he said. To qualify to be a semifinalist, applicants have to first score high on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Applicants also need an "outstanding academic record" and to submit an application Please see SCHOLAR, Page A5 YELLOWJACKETS Stevensville senior Zane Svaren is the Bitterroot's only Merit Scholar semifinalist in the 2027 cohort. He will go on to compete for one of more than 6,000 scholarships totaling more than $24 million. NICOLE.GIRTEN@RAVALLIREPUBLIC.COM GET THE FULL BENEFITS OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION! Activate your digital account to get updated stories, videos, and hundreds of additional puzzles and comics. Visit ravallirepublic.com/activate and download our app for the E-edition and breaking news on the go! 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The Trump administration in one year has grown personal incomes more than Biden. In four years, real median household income hit more than $80,000 last year. That's the highest level on record. This is a boom. Not air Americans richer than ever before. The poverty rate has plunged to the lowest level in American history. To just over 10 percent. That is a historic load. It hasn't been lower ever in our history.

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[Crowd cheering]

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For the first time ever, we're going to give every newborn American child a financial stake in the future. A tax-free investment account for every newborn American child. Head start life and a fair shot at the American dream. We're going to put three to four trillion dollars of wealth into the hands of young Americans who otherwise would have really started out with nothing. We're doing something much better than giving the next generation a handout. We're giving them ownership of America's future so that they can grow up, chart their own destiny, and make our nation greater and stronger and better than ever before. Decades from now, I believe the Trump accounts will be remembered as one of the most transformative policy innovations of all time, and I've done a lot of them.

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A food-price infographic with a green banner header and a cream background. It shows eight food items, each drawn as an illustration with a green price-tag shape below it holding a percentage change. Top row: olive oil (glass bottle), grapes (purple cluster), cheese (wedge with holes), chicken breast (grilled). Bottom row: oatmeal (bowl), butter (stick on wrapper), tomatoes (single red tomato), eggs (fried egg). Every percentage is negative. A small footnote at the bottom gives the data source and notes that the egg figure is a wholesale price. It reads as a political graphic claiming that grocery prices have fallen.

Text in image: REAL FOOD, REAL SAVINGS OLIVE OIL GRAPES CHEESE CHICKEN BREAST -18% -8.4% -5.8% -7.0% OATMEAL BUTTER TOMATOES EGGS* -2.2% -15.7% -2.0% -90% Source: USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) using Circana Retail Scanner Data (not seasonally adjusted), Multioutlet + convenience (MULO+) between January 2025 and week ending Sep 27, 2026, 16 oz. * Wholesale prices for a dozen of eggs

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Yeah, Kristen, like you said, outside here at the Menard Center, just a few moments ago, the doors officially open. People are starting to make their way in and get themselves situated still a couple hours before the start of the actual rally itself, but people are raring to go. As you can see, there are lots of people here waiting in line, many more than the initial barriers that were installed could hold people all the way out into the parking lot and more arriving literally by the bus load every 20 minutes or so. We're seeing folks getting dropped off, and we've talked to people who just came a few miles down the road to be here. We've talked to people from Anchorage, from the peninsula, even a few from off the road system. So, safe to say, lots of people here from all across Alaska are excited to see President Trump. And before there was this sea of humanity, as you saw, there was a small dedicated few at the front door. A lot of them volunteers helping this rally go smoothly, a chance they were excited to receive. I'm glad the weather is cooperating. I don't think they're ready for what they're going to experience here. What do you mean by that? I think there's going to be more people here than what they anticipated. I didn't realize he was going to come here. My daughter called me and let me know, and I thought it was either a rumor or a hoax. It makes me feel great that all these supporters could come out today, actually. I know we've got more people coming in, and there's young people coming in, too. So I think it's just great.

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He's acting like he's on the ballot. He is campaigning so hard. He has not stopped. And that is something that I think when all of this is said and done, when his term is over, we're gonna miss what a hardworking president looks like, 'cause I don't think we'll ever see anyone work as hard as that man. - But you know, obviously the headwinds are very much going against Republicans just because of the nature of politics. It's the second midterm for a sitting president. That's always a very difficult time. But the big picture, sort of historical moment here is, you know, 20 years ago, Democrats were romping in states like Michigan by double digit points. Donald Trump walks in and takes all of these states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, puts them back into play, and then wins them. And what's significant about that is what was the Democrat response to it? You would think the Democrat response to that would be to moderate and become, and try to get those working class voters back to their side of the aisle, but that's not what they did. They took off and went crazy.

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Lots of talk about affordability, or is there? I don't even hear a lot of talk about it anymore, but still, there's a lot of grumbling about it on the internet, there's a lot of people talking about it. And one of the things they're saying is, if you understood the mindset of young people, you would understand what the problem is. They're leaving Trump by the zillions, and they expect us to do something to help them. And so you have some people proposing sort of socialism-like. These are from so-called conservatives who become pseudo-conservers. The populists, of course, are all over this, because in many ways, they're the socialists. And so more government and more spending, despite the $40 trillion debt going to $50 trillion, and despite, at some point, the need to do something about Social Security and Medicare, Social Security in six years, say the trustees, is going to lose money and go broke, and in seven years, followed by Medicare. So Washington proposes what Washington's best at, spending more debt, redistribution of wealth, stealing from you and the private sector. So let's get into this. I want the Democrats, specifically, to answer a few questions, and the media hosts, particularly on these Sunday network magazine shows or news shows, maybe they'll try asking some actual questions when they have Democrat Party guests. Please specifically spell out your affordability agenda. You raised gasoline prices when Biden was president. How will you lower them when you raised them last time? You raised food prices when Biden was president. How will you lower them when you raised them last time? You raised inflation when Biden was president. How will you lower it when you raised it last time? You raised the cost of living for average Americans. How will you lower it when you raised it last time? You raised healthcare costs when Obama was president by passing Obamacare, not a single Republican voted for that. How will you lower it when you raised it under Obama by expanding it and calling it Medicare for all? Well, they don't have any answers, you know, they'll just say tax billionaires or something like that. But I want to take a little bit of a deeper dive here and talk some turkey with you. People talk about in the 1950s and '60s, people could afford a home, they could afford a car, they had modest incomes, not anymore, not anymore. We need to get back to that. So I looked, in the 1950s and '60s, young adults in their early 20s and 30s, well, they had lower average incomes, more family-based households and less access to credit. This meant that while they might have spent a larger share of income on certain categories, like cars or housing, the absolute dollar amounts that they spent were generally lower than today's young adults in their 30s and 40s. Young adults in the 1950s and '60s by today's age had lower total spending than today's young adults in their 30s and 40s due to lower incomes in different economic conditions. Core spending takes up the greatest share of income for the youngest and oldest generations. Core spending, that trend can be explained in part due to changes in income. Peak earning occurs in middle age, obviously not when you're just starting out and obviously not when you're retired or retiring. Even in the dollar value of household spending, that goes up as someone approaches middle age. The increase in household income on average outpaces the increase in spending. So when you're really kicking into your career or your business or whatever it is you're doing. Medical expenses are the smallest percentage of budgets for the youngest adult generation. So they're paying lower than any other generation when it comes to medical expenses. Young adults today are much more likely than their counterparts 30 years ago to be college graduates. But that comes with a cost. College tuition is expensive. Most students wanna live away from home and go to schools away from home. So in addition to tuition, you have room and board on top of tuition. That said, those with college degrees over the course of their lifetime, they earn significantly more than those without. Although for many at the start of their career, they have college loan debt and perhaps other debt they've acquired, such as cars and credit cards for eating out or vacations that put great pressure on their incomes. Again, when they're starting out, their incomes are those of junior employees. Young women have made greater gains at attending college than young men. From 1993 to 2023, the share of young women, ages 25 to 34, with at least a four-year college degree rose from 23 to 47%. And among young men, the increase was smaller, 24 to 38%. Therefore, the debt spending income scenario can be even more widespread among young women and especially among single women. So in other words, much of this has nothing to do with government, nothing to even do with government policies. These are lifestyle decisions. In other words, the benefit for many young people in going to college doesn't actually come until several years or even a decade or more after they graduate. They pay down both student debt and other expenses they've incurred. So in the long run, the degree is typically beneficial. In the short run, depending on lifestyle decisions and spending habits, it can create more financial difficulty. The 1950s and '60s, fewer Americans went to college. Young people started work early. They didn't make big purchases requiring lots of debt, no student loans, not new cars. They lived more modestly in the types of homes and vehicles they might buy. They ate home at home more often than going out to restaurants. They didn't travel as much, so they didn't use airlines. They didn't go to hotels and that sort of thing. Maybe they drive for a three-day vacation or something like that. Family expectations were different. In limited consumer goods were available. Goods like sugar and meat were still rationed in the early 1950s, and refrigerators were a luxury for some households. Colored TV didn't even exist for most households until starting in the early '60s and beyond. Leisure was often local and low cost. Kids played outside, not a whole bunch of computers and video games. Clothing was practical and modest. While the 1950s and '60s saw economic growth, many young people's lives were marked by modest living. And so some young people had brought these circumstances onto themselves. It's not the system, it's not capitalism. It's not even government. We have gotten so good at producing so many consumer products, leisure products, and so forth and so on, that people wanna partake of them. They wanna acquire them. But sometimes they outpace their income, particularly when they're young people, particularly if they go to college, particularly if they take out student loans, and they live away from home with tuition and board. And all those expenses pile up. It's a bigger percentage of young people than 30, 40, 50 years ago. And I wanna talk about gas prices. We're told that a gallon of gasoline, if we can get the price of gasoline down, we Republicans will win the midterm elections. Gas prices may feel like a record in 2026, but adjusted for inflation, they are not, writes Dr. Randall Olson. We're told gas is the most expensive it has been in years. The war headlines are everywhere. And he says the record gas prices, it's back in everyone's feed. The pump number stings, but adjust for inflation and the record evaporates. US gas costs more in 1981 than it does today. More in 2008 than it does today. Again, inflation adjusted. More in 2022 under Biden than it does today. The number on the pump is near an all-time high. What a gallon actually costs you in real money is nowhere near an all-time high. 2008 is still the one to beat, he writes. The real all-time high was June 2008 at $6.20 a gallon in today's money. 1981 was worse too. 1981 held the record before 2008, took it. March 1981, regular gas hit, again, inflation adjusted. Regular gas, $5.32 a gallon in today's dollars. Oh yes. Even in 2022, a few years back, the most recent peak is the one people remember. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the national average set an all-time record just above $5 a gallon in June 2022. That was the highest price ever at the pump in plain dollars adjusted for inflation. It works out to about $5.50 for a gallon of regular gasoline still above spring 2026 and still short of 2008. And if you live in California, my son, our son took a picture of the prices at the pump. They are unbelievable. You got 72 cents a gallon sales tax in California, the highest in the nation by far. Other expenses that they add on to gasoline and oil out there, it is nuts. And they want you to blame Trump and they want you to blame the Iran war and on and on and on. No, I've said it before and let me underscore it again. The prices for gasoline, the prices for everything when it comes to energy is higher due to what we call Democrats. What about housing prices? As of June 2026, the last information that is comparative, the inflation adjusted US home price index is 170.2 up from 169 in May of this year. But that's 3.8% below the highest May 2022. That was the record 176.9. This is the number they use to compare income to housing prices. So the highest it's been was in May 2022, 3.8% higher than it is today. That means that when stripped of inflation housing prices, they're still near an all time high. And by the way, for investors, they like that. For first time buyers, they obviously don't, but it's not at the peak that it was under Biden in 2022. I just told you that gasoline at its peak was higher in the 1980s and highest under Joe Biden. I just told you that housing prices were highest, highest under Joe Biden. But you don't hear this. You don't hear it anywhere really. The two highest points were 2006, the housing bubble and 2022, the post pandemic surge. Now there's no accounting for what Democrats do in these blue states and these blue metropolitan areas. Take Mondami, the Marxist Islamist. Oh yes, socialism he supports. Well, let's take rent control. What does rent control do? Let's think for a second. They lock in rent prices back to a given year or time. Now people who are renting and are older, they love it. They love it because they're gonna have a fixed rental price whether the landlord likes it or not, whether his or her expenses go up or not, whether utility prices and taxes go up or not, they don't care. It's just wonderland. We love socialism, rent control. But what does that do? It limits the number of units. You have to be nuts to be a developer and go in and say, you know what, I'm gonna build a whole bunch of new rental properties just so I can have rent control at some point. No, because if a government can put in rent control today it can put it in tomorrow. That's not Trump's fault. That's not Israel's fault. That's Mondami's fault. That's the fault of the socialists who drive up the cost of everything. And not only is affordability an issue, but availability is an issue. Okay, I wanna address another topic before we go to our guests and that is Iran. I wanna be very blunt about this. This is not a war between the United States and Iran or the United States and Israel versus Iran. This is a civilizational war. You see, we don't quite understand the enemy. We can't seem to get our heads around it. I'm afraid some of our generals can't, some of our advisors can't. This is a civilizational war, certainly from the perspective of the enemy. Khomeini in 1979, he was not interested merely in taking over a nation state, a country. He is spreading an ideology. He is spreading Islam. He seeks to conquer the West. He seeks to conquer obviously an entire Middle East. He and his followers. Israel is a big problem to that agenda because the Jews don't intend to go easily. In fact, they don't intend to go at all. They have a serious military, one of the most powerful on the face of the earth and certainly one of the most experienced on the face of the earth because they're facing enemies, they're surrounded day in and day out. We are war hardened too, but not in the same way. Not in the same way. My concern is this. We've heard from generals talking about off-ramps. We've heard generals say that we have limited munitions, whether they've said it anonymously or however, same with advisors who said the same thing. They're leaking to the media. We had an MOU that was never going to work. The enemy, you know, they have an agreement and two minutes later they violate it. So we're constantly looking for ways to negotiate our way out of this. You wanna end this war? I will give you my best thought on this. I want us to win. I want the administration to succeed. I want my friend, President Trump, to be the greatest president, including wartime president in American history. And what he's done so far is unparalleled. Seven prior presidents, you know, chose to do next to nothing. Some of them even subsidized the enemy. Some of them subsidized their nuclear program. The fact is that this president had to act, did act. He couldn't wait. The enemy told his envoy that we could make 11 nuclear bombs in 10 days. Our intelligence said we needed to act and it was imminent. But it is a civilizational war. You can't contain the enemy no matter what's negotiated if it's ever negotiated. The enemy will not comply. The enemy will not agree to anything. The enemy views us as a bump in the road. Whether it's the first tier, the second tier, the third tier, or the 10th tier of this regime. If we want to defeat this enemy, we've got to use all that's available to us to destroy it. That includes arming the Iranian people, as I've said for half a year, as was the Reagan doctrine. Now there may be generals and advisors telling the commander in chief, "No, the risk averse and so forth and so on." There is no effective off-ramp. Arming those people with the help of the Israelis, who we've sidelined, with the help of Mossad, working with the CIA, will make a huge, huge difference as it has in the recent past in other countries, among other things. There is no reason Karg Island is off the table in some of these other infrastructure facilities. I don't care what the Arabs say, ignore them. I don't care what Erdogan says, ignore him. This is a civilizational war that we must win. It is a righteous war. We have a courageous president. I don't think we'll see another one like him. It's now or never.

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(crowd cheers)

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A digitally edited image. A large photo of a man's face (light blond-gray swept hair, orange-toned skin, half-lidded eyes, downturned mouth, dark suit collar and white shirt) is composited into a blue sky with clouds above a Greenland-style coastal settlement of brightly colored wooden houses (red, green, blue, yellow) with a small white-spired church, dirt roads, and rocky mountains. His fingers appear to hold or peel back the mountain ridge like a sheet, as if lifting the landscape toward his mouth. A white banner across the top carries the greeting in large dark green text. It looks like a meme or edited graphic about Greenland, with the face of a figure resembling Donald Trump looming over the town.

Text in image: Hello, Greenland!

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-President Trump kicking off another busy week at the White House. -It has been yet another eventful week in Washington. -The activity level is off the charts. The president dialed in. He is executing his agenda at a lightning fast pace. Here's something we rarely see in American politics. President Trump is actually keeping his campaign promises, and he's doing them as quickly as possible. -This administration's moving at political light speed, and they're just getting started. -Well, it's official. Former President Donald Trump will be willing for president again in 2024. -Has Donald Trump got the stamina and the will to do this again? He's come under such tremendous -- -Everything is on the line in this election. -A busy day in the campaign world up in Butler today, former President Trump holding a rally at 5 o'clock. -Oh, my God! -He just tried to kill President Trump. -Not even an assassin's bullet could stop him. -It feels like the climax of a superhero movie. The first act of 2016, the second act of 2020, the third act, he almost dies, and then what happens? -Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States. -Rare in American politics, a presidential sequel. -He believes he has a "mandate" to bring common sense back to the country. -It's our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country. -This will be our greatest era with God's help over the next four years. We are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this Earth. -He has the opportunity to reset everything around the world. -Under President Trump's leadership, the message to America's enemies is loud and clear. -Peace through strength is back. -No amount of hysteria, no amount of fear-mongering is going to shake the president's resolve. -This is the wholesale destruction of the liberal state. He is gutting liberal Washington, D.C., in a way that they say could be permanent. -47 means business. The White House is holding all the cards. -I return to the presidency confidence and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. -The bottom line is whether you like Trump or you don't like him, you can't say that he's coming and not try to deliver, and he's doing so in historic fashion. -He's tired of change and sweeping the country. Sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.

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A wide-angle photograph of a waterfront path beside a broad river or bay under a blue sky with scattered white clouds. In the foreground, a section of the shoreline walkway has collapsed or eroded: broken, tilted concrete slabs and bare dirt sit inside an area fenced off with black metal barricades and sagging chain-link fencing. A white metal railing runs along the water's edge, partly bent. Grass and a large leafy tree are on the left, a concrete path is on the right, and a distant shoreline with buildings is across the water. A person's dark blue trouser leg is visible at the bottom left edge. No people are shown in full and no text is visible.

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A color photograph of a wide river or tidal waterfront under an overcast sky. Water has risen over a paved waterside path and part of the grass bank, leaving puddles and mud in the foreground. A chain-link fence with metal railings runs along the path and is partly submerged. A weeping willow stands at upper left. Three people stand near the fence in the far left distance, one holding an orange umbrella. A far shoreline with low buildings is visible across the water on the horizon. There is no caption or overlaid text.

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A color photograph of a waterside path flooded by a wide river. A black metal barricade stands in the shallow water across the path, which runs along a white railing and chain-link fence beside the river. Water flows over the path and past a concrete barrier in the foreground, behind a chain-link fence. Green leafy trees hang over the right side. A distant city skyline and a long bridge appear across the water under an overcast, cloudy sky. No people are visible.

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Color photograph, wide-angle, taken from under the covered porch of a tan stucco building with dark green shutters. Water has risen over a grassy strip and is pooling against a black chain-link fence, partly submerging the fence base and the vegetation. Beyond the fence is a harbor or marina with moored boats and large multi-story buildings along the far shore. Construction cranes stand in the background under a partly cloudy sky. On the porch floor, wet debris (twigs, scraps, and a pile of white plastic sheeting) lies near an orange traffic cone. At the left edge, a person is partly visible from the shoulder down, wearing a gray short-sleeved uniform shirt with an arrowhead-shaped patch and dark green trousers. A white pickup truck is parked in the distance by the trees. The image looks like a photograph of flooding or high water at a waterfront site.

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President Trump proves every day he's the greatest president in my lifetime and I mean that. God bless President Trump for giving us the authorities, the resources to do this job. President Trump is the greatest president in my lifetime, I say it all the time, based on facts and data. The less ICE agents on the street, the more angel moms and dads are gonna be coming. And that's why this is important that we support President Trump. - It's always an honor for me to be in the Oval Office with the greatest president of my lifetime. Yes, I said it and I meant it. I toured the border in California, Arizona, Texas. I did it in four-wheel drive, I did it on the river, I did it from the air. Hundreds upon hundreds of miles of border. I didn't see one illegal alien, not a single one. I worked for six different presidents. No one has done more than President Trump. What he has done is gave us the most secure border in the history of this nation. Hard to stop, secure border saves lives.

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- Retribution will be through success. ♪ I wanna heal ♪ ♪ I wanna heal ♪ ♪ What I thought was never real ♪ ♪ I wanna last your world ♪ ♪ The pain I felt so long ♪ ♪ Race over pain till it's gone ♪ ♪ I wanna heal ♪ ♪ I wanna feel ♪ ♪ Like I'm close to something real ♪ ♪ I wanna find something ♪ ♪ I want it all alone ♪ ♪ Somewhere I belong ♪ ♪ I wanna heal ♪

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Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) from the account "Breaking911" (@Breaking911), which has a gold verification badge and a red-and-white "BREAKING 911" logo avatar. A black "Subscribe" button, a slashed-circle icon and a three-dot menu appear at the top right. The post text is a quote attributed to President Trump claiming that the last time Democrats had power they produced the worst inflation, highest energy prices, worst trade deficit and allowed 25 million people across the borders, and that they would do it again if given the chance. The post has no attached photo and shows no engagement counts.

Text in image: Breaking911 @Breaking911 Subscribe PRESIDENT TRUMP: The last time the Radical Dumocrats had power, they gave us the worst inflation, highest energy prices, and worst trade deficit in American history, and allowed 25 million people to pour across our borders... If given the chance, they'll do it all again.

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Screenshot of a social media post (appears to be from a Truth Social-style or X/Twitter-style platform) by a user named "Gina" with handle @springstorm24, whose profile picture shows an eagle. The post text criticizes an unnamed "she" for wanting amnesty for people who crossed the border illegally. Timestamp shows 6:31 PM · Sep 24, 2026, with 8 views.

Text in image: Gina @springstorm24 She wants amnesty for the ppl how criminally crossed our borders defying our laws 6:31 PM · Sep 24, 2026 · 8 Views

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The Trump administration in one year has grown personal incomes more than Biden. In four years, real median household income hit more than $80,000 last year. That's the highest level on record. This is a boom. Not air Americans richer than ever before. The poverty rate has plunged to the lowest level in American history. To just over 10 percent. That is a historic load. It hasn't been lower ever in our history.

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It's an incredible story It seems I mean I can relate the story, but you're better off getting it from him But by this time I guess they have a lot of fake stories out there, and you know you never know what's happening but I did speak to Bibi Netanyahu at length about this event and it seems as though the co-pilot was perhaps a terrorist or perhaps a wack job and he stabbed the pilot The pilot was in very bad shape And I guess he still isn't very bad shape But he had the sense to amazing to in a way. He was a hero To open the door you know those doors are solid steel. You can't get them open from it he was able to fall back and get the door open and scream and a plumber an Israeli plumber Never flew a plane was really in planes very rarely flew An Israeli plumber, so what was happening and strong you know when you live pipe all day you're strong And he saw what was going on. He heard the screaming He was toward the front Where you had security in the back you know you had? Security and you had another flight crew But they didn't have time the plane was going sharply down at an unbelievable angle so sharp that the rudder ripped off the back of the plane plane wasn't designed to go at a speed anywhere near that and So it was well beyond its limits and he ripped With his g-forces as they were he ripped this guy out of the seat throw him back the crowd got him the passengers got him grabbed him and Having never flown apart a plane. He took the stick lifted it up and Leveled out the plane before it crashed Now this is the story that I heard I don't know if it's true but that's the story that I got from BB and from a Couple of probably early. I don't know if you've heard that story yet I think it's an amazing so a plumber never flew a plane strong guy

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If you're up late with us on the west coast, Donald Trump is on the verge of returning to the White House, said to Sauer. What you are seeing is Donald Trump on the precipice of the greatest comeback in American political history. We've never seen anything like this. Who's here? He has risen from the ashes, yet again. The Fox News decision desk can now officially project that Donald Trump will become the 37th president of the United States. The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.

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>> President Trump marking six months in the White House. >> It is my honor to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. >> Donald Trump immediately getting to work with a remarkable show of the use of executive power. >> This is, we've never seen anything like this. >> There's 20,000 people cheering for every executive order sign. >> President Trump comes in and immediately begins taking action to fix each and every one of these fires that the Democrats started. >> He's delivering on the agenda. This ultimately is promises made, promises kept by the president. >> This is a message to the rest of the world. The days of ripping off America and Americans are officially over. >> The Trump archives are a series of near impossible feats. >> We are the safest, most secure border in the history of this nation. >> Border crossings have dropped so much that federal agents now outnumber illegal crossroads. >> He had a mandate and he's delivering on it. >> The American economy is better for it. >> Now Dak and Hassell, he's both hitting all time highs. >> President Trump is racking up one win after another. >> Retail sales are up and record terror, president. >> The USA is on a roll, culminating in the signing of the one big beautiful bill on July 4th. >> A bill for and by the people. >> Thanks to this bill, Trump, who resigned tomorrow, still points to an enduring legacy. >> And he's full steam ahead for America. >> This movement that President Trump has started is only getting bigger. It has more energy, more enthusiasm. >> What he's going to do is show up and work hard and deliver every day for the American people. Buckle up. You're watching history.

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Front page of the California Post newspaper, Late Edition, dated Monday, August 3, 2026. A large photo shows an older man with light blond hair, a dark suit, white shirt, blue tie and a small lapel pin, looking at the camera with a stern expression. The photo is credited to Getty Images. The headline says Trump is to campaign for common sense against 'failed' Newsom in a California visit, and the large banner reads GOLDEN STATE WARRIOR. A small inset text box summarizes the story and points to page 8. The caption and headline identify the subject as President Trump. This is a news front page, and its framing is favorable to Trump and critical of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Text in image: CALIFORNIA POST Page Six Hollywood MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 / Mostly sun, 89° / Weather: P. 22 LATE EDITION californiapost.com R $3.75 Trump to campaign for common sense against 'failed' Newsom in Calif. visit GOLDEN STATE WARRIOR President Trump is hitting the Golden State on Tuesday, The Post has learned — to tout his wins for California, including middle-class tax cuts, a secure border and falling crime rate. The president also fired a pre-trip salvo at Gov. Newsom, declaring his leadership had "failed." "The President will draw a sharp contrast between his common sense agenda and the radical policies of Democrats like Gavin Newsom," the White House said. Trump's last visit was in January 2025, after the fires that ravaged Los Angeles — and led to an executive order that's supercharged the rebuild. PAGE 8 Getty Images

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