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Former Donald Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks that the reelected president is hurting himself by welcoming racist staff into the administration.

Speaking on "The View" Monday, the panel of co-hosts attacked a 25-year-old Elon Musk staffer who admitted in past social media posts that he was racist. However, another person who was fired during the previous Trump administration for attending a white nationalist event — Darren Beattie — was brought back to be acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, she pointed out.

Ana Navarro, a Republican communications strategist and Never Trumper, rattled off a list of Trump's recent targets.

"What they're signaling is this," she said. "FBI agents who worked on January 6th, bad. DEI employees, bad. DOJ Civil Rights employee, bad. USAID employees who help the poor and sick all over the world, bad.

"But racists are welcome in the Trump administration."

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Griffin said that Vice President J.D. Vance's statements are what struck her because she, too, doesn't "believe in cancel culture. I believe in consequence culture."

"This is different," Griffin continued. "We're trying to gauge if this Trump administration is the same as the first. In the first, somebody who attended a white nationalist rally — and that came to light, he was fired. In this Trump administration, he's a spokesperson for the United States State Department."

She recalled the 2024 election, in which Trump "built a multiracial coalition" of supporters from Black and Latino voters.

"Doubling his numbers with young black men, five points higher with Asian Americans. He seeks to understand those gains he made by having people espousing these hateful, bigoted views associated with him," said Griffin.

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Despite his willingness to praise Trump at times, Polis has also been a harsh critic of the president, slamming his tariffs among other recent moves.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an order directing the Trump administration to immediately obey a previous restraining order halting a funding freeze for the National Institutes of Health and two Biden-era laws.

In a Friday filing, 22 state attorneys general accused the administration of not obeying McConnell's order to unfreeze federal spending for grants and loans. The White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) claimed that the order did not apply to specific federal programs.

On Monday, McConnell sided with the state attorneys general.

"The broad categorical and sweeping freeze of federal funds is, as the Court found, likely unconstitutional and has caused and continues to cause irreparable harm to a vast portion of this country," McConnell wrote in a five-page order.

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McConnell's order instructed the OMB to "take every step necessary" to restore funding for the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs Act, the National Institutes of Health, and other agencies covered by the restraining order.

MAGA activist Steve Bannon pressed President Donald Trump to have the so-called J6 Choir of formerly imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters perform at the Kennedy Center after the commander-in-chief installed himself as chairman of the performing arts institution.

"That's the high church of the administrative state deep state," Bannon opined during his Monday War Room broadcast. "He's appointed himself chairman. The J6 Choir should come and have it. We should have a special program there."

"They're crushed over there," he continued. "President Trump, now as chairman, ought to fire them all and ... just reprogram the whole thing."

"I strongly believe you start off with the J6 Choir having them in the evening's entertainment and invite all the first guests that should be invited — should be the J6 prisoners. Invite them and their families," he continued. "Just watch the meltdown of the Washington elite. Watch the meltdown."

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"Oh, by the way that, the premium ticket holders down front, you're giving up your seats for the J6 families. Think that [would] get their attention? That culturally, you'd break them."

This week's Kennedy Center schedule was set to begin with a "Dance for Parkinson’s Disease" program.

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Donald Trump intends to exclude Palestinians from the "beautiful" development he envisions after the U.S. occupation of Gaza.

The president announced last week that the U.S. should take control of the region after nearly a year and a half of Israeli bombardment, and he told Fox News host Brett Baier in an interview that aired Monday morning that displaced Palestinians would not have a right to return.

"We'll build beautiful communities for the 1.9 million people," Trump said. "We'll build beautiful communities, safe communities. Could be five, six, could be two, but we'll build safe communities a little bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is. In the meantime, I would own this. Think of it as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land, no big money spent."

Baier asked specifically whether the Palestinian people would be allowed to return to their homeland.

"No, they wouldn’t," Trump said. "Because they’re going to have much better housing, much better – in other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them because if they have to return now it would be years before you could ever – it's not habitable. It'll be years before it can happen. I'm talking about starting to build, and I think I could make a deal with Jordan. I think I could make a deal with Egypt. We give them billions and billions of dollars a year."

Trump has mused about developing beachfront property in Gaza for years, and he said Tuesday afternoon during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would turn the devastated area into the "Riviera of the Middle East."

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