Kitchen Briefs - April 28, 2026 AM

• Iran has opened 6 airports amid the ceasefire yet Trump posted that they called him and said they’re in a state of collapse
• UAE has left OPEC
• Two more people have been killed in Gaza city after Israeli attacks
• Kid Rock and Secretary Hegseth went on some Apache helicopter joy rides
• The DOJ has filed a motion overnight against the National Trust, the lawsuit trying to shut down the ballroom construction
• Trump is accelerating the deportation of unaccompanied migrant children, speeding up the process by weeks and even months. Children as young as 4 years of age are having to appear in court, at times without legal help. The spokesman for DHHS says many of the children were at risk for trafficking and exploitation, so this should disrupt those systems
• A series of raids on businesses are being conducted in the Minneapolis area as part of an ongoing fraud investigation
• I want to share with you a quote I read last night in Theo of Golden that I posted about: “Every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow, I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.”

Kitchen Briefs - April 27, 2026 PM

• Katie Phang, who is an independent journalist, legal analyst and trial lawyer and whom I call friend is the first journalist to sue the DOJ for violating the Epstein files transparency act. The suit claims the DOJ missed deadlines, did excessive or improper redactions without explanation and withheld key documents. The suit calls for all documents released and all unnecessary redactions removed
• More good news is that National Trust will not back down on their suit against Trump and his $400M ballroom even after the DOJ pressured them
• Trump and his top security people are reviewing Iran’s proposal
• Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen was charged today with the attempted assassination of Trump. He was also charged with transportation of a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence
• Karoline Leavitt delayed her maternity leave to give a press conference and covered how Melania and Trump are upset over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments and how despicable it is that Americans refer to Trump as a fascist and compare him to Hitler
• King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived for a 4 day visit kicking off with tea with Trump and Melania
• Taylor Swift has filed to trademark her voice and image after AI concerns

Kitchen Briefs - April 27, 2026 AM

• Iran’s Foreign Minister has left Pakistan and is now in Russia visiting with Putin
• Iran has offered to open the Strait if the US lifts the blockade and ends the war
• Lebanon’s death toll due to Israeli attacks now stands at 2,521
• Melania Trump is now mad at Jimmy Kimmel and is urging ABC to take a stand after he made a joke about her being an "expectant widow"
• Shooting suspect Cole Thomas Allen is due to be arraigned in court today
• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing a new House map for Florida in order to gain 4 seats
• A Trump lover has proposed renaming Immigration & Customs Enforcement to National Immigration & Customs Enforcement so that they are referred to as NICE agents and Trump is promoting the change
• Trump went on 60 minutes last night since CBS now bows down to him. He thinks social media has made people mentally sick

Kitchen Briefs - April 26, 2026

• Last night at the White House Correspondentss dinner, there was a shooter. The suspect arrested is Cole Thomas Allen.
• Iran’s top diplomat has returned to Pakistan and Israel continues to strike Lebanon with Netanyahu ordering the Israeli army to "vigorously attack" Hezbollah in Lebanon
• Republican Thom Tillis says he’ll approve the nomination on Kevin Warsh despite last week saying he wouldn’t.
• In financial disclosures, Trump bought $51M in bonds in March. He’s now invested in Meta, Boeing, Nvidia, Microsoft, and has equity stakes in Bank of America and Wells Fargo
• My latest read is Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Kitchen Briefs - April 25, 2026

• The A team is heading back home per Trump’s orders. He said it’s too much traveling and too much work
• At least a dozen people, many children and women, have been wounded in south Lebanon due to Israeli strikes
• Technically Trump has until May 1st before he has to get approval from Congress to go past his 60 days of deployment under the 1973 War Powers Act yet there’s no actual clear legal avenue for Congress to force him to abide and past presidents have gone around it
• The US military has killed 2 more people and blown up a boat in Latin American waters claiming it was ferrying drugs. This brings their total to 183 people they’ve killed and yet they haven’t provided a single piece of evidence of actual drugs being trafficked
• Well, the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool has been drained and painting has begun.
• Tonight is the White House Correspondents dinner
• Many are gathering to honor the life of Virgnia Guifree on the one year marking her death. I’d encourage you to pick up Virginia’s Book, Nobody’s Girl in her honor

Kitchen Briefs - April 24, 2026 PM

• The A team is enroute back to Pakistan
• A US Circuit of Appeals Court has blocked Trumps executive order which suspended asylum access at the southern border of the US. The court said that immigrants have the right to apply for aslyum at the border
• The DOJ has announced that they are bringing back federal execution methods that include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, saying it’s become too difficult to get the drugs for lethal injections
• TMZDC reporters attended a press conference with Secretary Hegseth and asked when the Dept of War would be called the Dept of Peace
• Today on my Substack I did a deep dive into AI and the recent video of Reese Witherspoon saying women need to learn AI so we aren’t left behind

Kitchen Briefs - April 24, 2026 AM

• Overnight Trump was posting from after midnight until 3am calling for the arrests of Obama and Clinton for treason, reposting AI images and demanding Chuck Schumer resign
• Trump attended a dinner hosted by David Ellison
• Secretary Hegseth said that the War In Iran is a gift to the world
• Israeli strikes have killed 3 more people in Gaza and yet the ceasefire has been extended by 3 weeks
• Netanyahu has revealed he underwent treatment for prostate cancer
• The US has sent a 3rd aircraft carrier to the Middle East
• Iran’s Foreign Minister is heading to Pakistan for consultations over peace talks
• The DOJ has dropped its investigation into Jerome Powell over Trump’s accusations of improper costs to renovate a Federal Building
• Trump is now wanting to spend a couple million on redesigning the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool
• The FDA is now fast tracking psychedelics for mental health after Trump and his podcast bros pushed for it
• A marathon runner collapsed with just 1000 feet to go and two other runners helped him cross the finish line
• A baby koala hiding in it’s mom’s pouch at a Florida zoo
• In Palm Beach Florida, George Poncy is suing the State of Florida, Densantis and others for renaming Palm Beach airport to Trump

Kitchen Briefs - April 23, 2026 PM

• Breaking News - Soldier arrested in Nicholas Maduro capture
• Trump claims to have total control over the Strait of Hormuz and rambles on about Iran
• The Gold Card visa program where you pay $1M you to become a citizen of the US has had one person do it
• At least 10 people have been injured during a shootout at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana mall
• Iranian media has released video footage of masked soldiers boarding one of the ships they seized earlier. It was staged
• The Justice Department’s inspector general’s office is launching an investigation on the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Epstein files
• Back in 2022 Zach Witkoff was arrested in Miami on cocaine possession charges. The bodycam footage was just released it's epic
• In 2005 the first YouTube clip was uploaded

Kitchen Briefs - April 23, 2026 AM

• Warner Brothers shareholders approves the Paramount merger
• Lebanon says no deal without Israeli withdrawal while US and Iran talks stall.
• Trump has ordered the US Navy to fire on any Iranian boats placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz while the US has boarded a ship carrying Iranian oil
• Navy Secretary John Phelan has been fired
• The DOJ has reclassified state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug
• Senate Republicans have advanced a $70Billion to fund ICE and Border Patrol. It now heads to the House
• The price of condoms is about to increase 20-30% because of Trump’s War in Iran
• Ghislane Maxwell wants her conviction overturned and apparently some Republican Congresspeople think she should be pardoned
• Eric Trump went on Fox News and shared that one of his companies just landed a $24M Pentagon contract
• Kash Patel also went on Fox with Sean Hannity and in regards to his girlfriend said, “here’s the thing: me and mine are like you and President Trump. We’re as tough as we come.”
• Megyn Kelly had Russell Brand on her show and she’s now saying that Trump isn’t loyal to anyone and isn’t even a good husband

Kitchen Briefs - April 22, 2026 PM

• Israel has killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry had earlier said Israel “pursued” journalists Khailil and Zeinab Faraj by “targeting” the house where they took shelter after an Israeli attack in a southern Lebanese town. Israel is intensifying their attacks on Lebanon
• The HHS rejects a new study that showed Covid 19 vaccines prevented hospitalizations
• Spirit Airlines is close to finalizing a a $500M bailout from the Trump administration
• Trump claims last night’s Virginia election results were rigged and now one of his Republican appointed judges has tossed out the results and claims the redistricting was unconstitutional and void from the start
• RFK Jr says that Trump has alternative ways of doing math, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was asked about how his comments and the administrations' insulting Canada are ok and he said but Canada doesn’t put US spirits on their shelves
• Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signed legislation which prohibits counties and cities from funding or promoting DEI initiatives
• I posted a video earlier about the shareholder vote taking place tomorrow for Warner Brothers and Paramount. This is dangerous especially when we also have FCC Chair Brendan Carr now wanting to issue warnings on children’s programming if any gender identity themes are in a show