Mehdi Hasan Has Tantrum As Americans Inform Him They Don’t Want Islamic Call To Prayer In Their Neighborhoods

 Daily Caller  

"Hasan also posted a sweeping historical claim. “One in three of the slaves who built this country were Muslims. They were here long before the Walsh family arrived." 

"Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan lashed out online after Americans pushed back against his defense of the Islamic call to prayer being played in U.S. neighborhoods.

The Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, is broadcast five times daily and serves as a prominent auditory reminder of faith across Muslim communities. Hasan went on an extended rant on X, blasting what he called right-wing intolerance and claiming Muslim Americans face growing hostility from conservatives.

“I think that if you can play church bells you can pray the [Islamic] call to prayer. We are as American as anyone else and don’t take any BS,” Hasan can be heard saying in a video that was circulated on social media Tuesday. Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill quoted the video showing Hasan making those comments on the same day, sparking an exchange between the two.

"Hasan responded by pointing out that Gill’s wife is Indian American and the daughter of an immigrant. The congressman’s father-in-law is prominent Christian conservative documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza.

"Gill in return responded to Hasan, pointing out that his wife is a Christian who “doesn’t Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan lashed out online after Americans pushed back against his defense of the Islamic call to prayer being played in U.S. neighborhoods.

"The Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, is broadcast five times daily and serves as a prominent auditory reminder of faith across Muslim communities. Hasan went on an extended rant on X, blasting what he called right-wing intolerance and claiming Muslim Americans face growing hostility from conservatives.

“I think that if you can play church bells you can pray the [Islamic] call to prayer. We are as American as anyone else and don’t take any BS,” Hasan can be heard saying in a video that was circulated on social media Tuesday. Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill quoted the video showing Hasan making those comments on the same day, sparking an exchange between the two." . . .

Dems’ Hysterical Fits Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Remodel Shows There’s No Bottom To TDS

 Issues & Insights 

 "Of all the things that Democrats have tried to tar President Donald Trump with, none is as petty, stupid and inconsequential as the current flap over remodeling the East Wing of the White House"

. . . "Democrats’ ginned-up outrage (we could list literally dozens of caustic quotations and even threats from a congressional leader and a former Biden speechwriter about Trump’s project) shows their desperation, as their federal government shutdown didn’t turn out to be the political boon they thought.

"Meanwhile, Democrat do-nothings look awfully pathetic, screaming from the sidelines like children about a remodeling job as Trump addresses serious global problems the nation faces, one by one:

• Illegal immigration slashed by closing the border and deporting criminals.
• Ending or temporarily halting eight armed conflicts around the world during the first eight months in office, including those between Israel and Iran; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Armenia and Azerbaijan; Thailand and Cambodia; India and Pakistan (nuclear powers); Egypt and Ethiopia; Serbia and Kosovo and, most recently, Israel and Hamas.
• Addressing the threat of narco-terrorists by direct military action on the open seas, and by hardline diplomacy with cartel-backed socialist governments in Colombia and Venezuela.
• Fending off continuing geopolitical challenges from Russia and China, as each tries to disrupt , occupy and bully neighboring nations.
• Shrinking the budget deficit, something none thought would be possible but, with more revenue from tariffs and cost-cutting by government, is now a reality.
• And keeping tax cuts in place through Republican passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will save taxpayers literally trillions of dollars in the coming years, according to the Tax Foundation.

"How’s that for two-thirds of a year? None of this, of course, will stop desperate Dems from throwing rhetorical rocks at Trump’s new ballroom. But those who throw rocks, as our pre-woke mothers wisely warned us, shouldn’t live in glass houses." . . .  More...

Anger over the White House ballroom is purely performative 

 . . . "So, here’s a little background. The East Wing of the White House was nothing fancy. It was hastily built in 1942, when D.C. was inundated with people working on WWII-related matters. (If you’d like to see a charming 1943 romantic comedy about the housing shortage this flood of people caused, I highly recommend The More The Merrier.) In other words, the East Wing was not a historically significant architectural gem. It was a hastily created office space." . . .

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures

 California Political Review   

" . . .CEOs continue to cite high taxes, regulatory burdens and rising costs of living as major obstacles.”

"What could possibly make someone leave Laguna Niguel and Coachella Valley, California for a move to Goodyear, Arizona? According to our latest interview with Barri on Leaving California, California’s highest-in-the-country cost-of-living, and “quality of life.”

"Everyone is piling on California these days, and for many valid reasons. California is always ranked as one of the worst states in the country in which to run a business, while many other states are ranked at the top of the chart. People leave because of the exorbitantly high cost of living, leftist politics, and ever encroaching government.

"California even ranks as one of the bottom five least free states – a dismal 48th – on CATO Institute’s Freedom in the 50 States ranking. New Hampshire, Florida, South Dakota, Nevada, and Arizona are the five freest states in the country.

"The Globe interviewed Barri, who left California 6 months ago and moved to Goodyear, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. Barri is a native of Coachella Valley where her agriculture family were growers. She was living in Laguna Niguel when she decided to take the plunge and leave her home state.

"Interestingly, we’ve been doing this series since 2019, and will update some of the states’ offerings. Sadly, California still ranks at the bottom on so many of the important categories – income and corporate taxes, regulations, education, right-to-work, unemployment and freedom.

"Chief Executive’s annual CEO survey of the best and worst places to do business reflects the impact of transformed global trade environment, changing regulatory frameworks and massive demographic and technological shifts taking place across the nation and they always rank California in an embarrassing last place at 50th. Back in 2019 when we first started this series, Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, ranked number 7, with a booming business environment. It is now ranked at 10th, but notably in the top 10, and still 40 slots above California.

"This year, 2025, Chief Executive reports Texas and Florida once again top the list, with Texas retaining its long-held No. 1 position. “Both Texas and Florida are growing states, in people and infrastructure,” said one CEO respondent. “I think the policies there invite business and make it easy to do business.”tax and property taxes, although they are a little less than California.”

“ 'Illinois, New York and California maintain their position as the bottom three states. Despite their economic scale and cultural capital, CEOs continue to cite high taxes, regulatory burdens and rising costs of living as major obstacles.” . . .What could possibly make someone leave Laguna Niguel and Coachella Valley, California for a move to Goodyear, Arizona? According to our latest interview with Barri on Leaving California, California’s highest-in-the-country cost-of-living, and “quality of life.”

Everyone is piling on California these days, and for many valid reasons. California is always ranked as one of the worst states in the country in which to run a business, while many other states are ranked at the top of the chart. People leave because of the exorbitantly high cost of living, leftist politics, and ever encroaching government.

California even ranks as one of the bottom five least free states – a dismal 48th – on CATO Institute’s Freedom in the 50 States ranking. New Hampshire, Florida, South Dakota, Nevada, and Arizona are the five freest states in the country.

The Globe interviewed Barri, who left California 6 months ago and moved to Goodyear, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. Barri is a native of Coachella Valley where her agriculture family were growers. She was living in Laguna Niguel when she decided to take the plunge and leave her home state.

Interestingly, we’ve been doing this series since 2019, and will update some of the states’ offerings. Sadly, California still ranks at the bottom on so many of the important categories – income and corporate taxes, regulations, education, right-to-work, unemployment and freedom.

Chief Executive’s annual CEO survey of the best and worst places to do business reflects the impact of transformed global trade environment, changing regulatory frameworks and massive demographic and technological shifts taking place across the nation and they always rank California in an embarrassing last place at 50th. Back in 2019 when we first started this series, Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, ranked number 7, with a booming business environment. It is now ranked at 10th, but notably in the top 10, and still 40 slots above California.

This year, 2025, Chief Executive reports Texas and Florida once again top the list, with Texas retaining its long-held No. 1 position. “Both Texas and Florida are growing states, in people and infrastructure,” said one CEO respondent. “I think the policies there invite business and make it easy to do business.”tax and property taxes, although they are a little less than California.” . . . More...

There’s No Going Back If NYC Elects Zohran Mamdani

New York elected de Blasio, they are capable of wanting Mamdani. TF

 Victor Davis Hanson

"No, no, no. You can’t deal with Mamdani. You cannot deal with him. If he wins, he’s going to target all of you. And New York is not going to be New York as we knew it."

The Glorious Coming Lessons of the Mamdani Landslide

. . . "You would never get on a plane that was built ignoring the laws of physics and aerodynamics, yet people are going to vote for a person who espouses ideas that have never worked in the history of man. I can’t stop you from eating dirt if that’s what you really want to do, but don’t expect much sympathy from me when you cry that your stomach hurts."

 "John Conlin is an expert in organizational design and change. He also holds a BS in Earth Sciences and an MBA and is the founder and President of E.I.C. Enterprises. He has been published in American Greatness, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, and Public Square Magazine among others."

Jeffries Warns That Donors Behind Trump White House Ballroom Will be Investigated

 Legal Insurrection

“And all of this is going to have to be investigated. It will. All of this will have to be uncovered. It will.”

"In case you haven’t noticed, Democrats are in full-on meltdown mode over Trump’s addition of a ballroom to the White House. Tweets on X accompanied by pictures of the construction decry the project as an assault on the White House and America itself. As usual, it’s completely over the top.

"The rhetoric from Democratic leaders is just as deranged. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on MSNBC this week and vowed to investigate the donors who are funding this project.

"Democrats constantly claim that Trump is targeting his enemies, then, in the same breath, vow to do the same."

From Townhall:

Jeffries said, without evidence, that the donors were probably using the donations to curry favor with the Trump administration.

“More likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has been doing since day one of his presidency: running the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country. And probably soliciting donations from people who’ve got business before the United States government,” Jeffries said. . A CNN report from 2010:

$376 million White House renovation during the Obama Administration.

Where was the Democrat outrage then? pic.twitter.com/MvLVDFcTru

— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) October 22, 2025

Trump the Builder Improves the White House; Time for his critics to read up on White House history.

I posit that those who condemn Trumps actions seem to be the very crowd chanting that the villains of Oct 7th are the Israelis massacred and raped by Gazans. TD

 The American Spectator  

"Which is to say, all the outraged hoopla over Trump’s reconstruction of the East Wing is nothing more than hoopla from a collection of historical ignoramuses who have zero idea about the changes over the decades — centuries! — to the White House."

"Suddenly — make that again — the Trump critics are aghast.

The reason this time?

"President Trump — the only president in history whose private sector career was centered around building buildings and buying real estate — has gone ahead with a decided upgrade of the East Wing of the White House.

The Trump objective, of course, is to improve the building by replacing the suite of East Wing rooms generally associated with the Office of the First Lady with a serious, major-league ballroom that Presidents will be able to use for official entertainment of good-sized crowds. And, as noted, his critics are, but of course, crazed.

"As a former White House staffer myself, I can certainly attest that, as the old building is currently structured, there is a decided limit to the size of crowds a president can welcome at a time. The famous East Room is not as big as some appear to think, and crowds of visitors, of necessity, spill out into the adjacent Green, Blue, and Red Rooms along with the State Dining Room and the grand Cross Hall.

"Trump, as noted, the sole builder to hold the presidency, has envisioned a considerably larger-sized ballroom that will allow presidents to entertain on a larger scale — something that is routine in the residences of various global heads of state.

"What is remarkable, if not surprising, is the apparent complete lack of knowledge by Trump critics of previous architectural changes to the building by Trump’s many predecessors.

"No one today gives a second thought to the endless flow of stories that reference the Oval Office or the West Wing without understanding that neither was part of the original White House.

"It was all the way back there in the turn of the 20th century — 1902 — that President Theodore Roosevelt authorized the razing of greenhouses that were eventually replaced by what we now know as the “West Wing.” The Oval Office as America has come to know it came to be in the term of TR’s successor, William Howard Taft.

"As the 20th century moved on, it was the polio-stricken President Franklin Roosevelt — for whom swimming was a doctor-recommended method of exercising his paralyzed legs — who had the first White House swimming pool installed. Later — oh the horror! — the pool was drained and covered over by President Nixon, who had it redone into what Americans now see frequently as the White House press room.

"In 1948, during the Harry Truman presidency, a leg of daughter Margaret Truman’s piano fell through the floor in her room. The end result was the realization that the ancient interior of the building — supported by the original wooden beams of the 1800s — would have to be removed, and the original wooden beams holding the building together replaced with modern steel beams.

"Thus began the most massive reconstruction of the building during the Truman era." .More ...

Jeffrey Lord, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is a former aide to Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. An author and former CNN commentator, he writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com. His new book, , is now out from Bombardier Books.

Trump Team Eviscerates Schumer After He Tries to Deceive American People About Ballroom

Hoo Boy: Chelsea Clinton Jumps Into the White House Ballroom Debate, and She Really Shouldn't Have

"The White House became my home when I was twelve years old. I always understood that it wasn’t my ‘house’; it was The People’s House."

. . . "The most obvious example of desecration came from Chelsea's father, then-President Bill Clinton, who decided to use the Oval Office for less than moral acts involving an intern and a cigar. The Monica Lewinsky affair would go on to be one of the most remembered scandals in presidential history. But to be sure, the disrespect of "The People's House" under the Clintons went far beyond that. 

"During that time, the Lincoln Bedroom was used as a personal fundraising apparatus, with overnight stays being given out to big Democrat donors as a reward. The Clintons also stole furniture and other household items, having claimed them as "gifts" before leaving the White House. It took a mountain of pressure in the following year for them to eventually return the items. Then there was the stealing of the "W" keys off the keyboards after then-President-Elect George W. Bush won the 2000 election." . . . 

Trump Team Eviscerates Schumer After He Tries to Deceive American People About Ballroom  "How far gone are Democrats? 

"They're focused on protecting illegal aliens and flipping out about renovations at the White House. Not on anything that they're supposed to be doing, like helping to enforce the law or doing things that benefit the American people. 

"President Donald Trump managed to get private donors to agree to help build a ballroom at the White House - a much needed space to hold events. Right now, such events are held in temporary tents. So, you're getting needed permanent space that we, the taxpayers, don't even have to pay for. Democrats should be thanking Trump, but they only know how to attack. 

"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a reporter during the press briefing on Thursday that this was Trump's main priority, as far as renovations. 

"But then what she said was twisted by a leftist influencer without the qualifier that they were talking about in terms of renovations." . . .   

Democrats Losing It, Issuing 'Warning' to Anyone Funding Trump's Ballroom

Dems Are Mad About Trump's Ballroom Because They're Miserable Scolds Who Hate Fun

 . . . "Democrats are perpetual grievance seekers and grievance mongers. They
love being miserable. They greet sunny days with anger and cloudy days with hopeful scowls. It's in their political DNA. Happy, fulfilled people don't gravitate towards the Democratic Party unless they are concussed." . . . 

No issue is so sinister that the Babylon Bee cannot have a laugh over it:  White House Construction Crew Finds 1,357 More Cocaine Stashes   . . . "Secret Service agents later determined that the powdery substance was actually cocaine and that the construction crew was "as high as a kite." A spokesman revealed that a full investigation was now underway to determine the source of the narcotics. 

" 'I'm just glad it wasn't asbestos," said Carlos Antoine, one of several construction workers on site. "That stuff is dangerous.". . . 

At publishing time, the $250 million White House ballroom renovation had been fully paid off by selling all of the stashed cocaine.