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Priscilla Presley's Son Fires Back At Critics Over GoFundMe Backlash For Pizza Company Based In His Driveway
Priscilla Presley's son Navarone Garibaldi Garcia, Priscilla Presley's son with her second husband, music producer Marco Garibaldi, is in hot water online after starting a GoFundMe to cover start-up costs for his new pizza business.
The backlash was swift, and in a since-deleted Instagram post, Garibaldi Garcia clapped back hard at what he called "haters" who kept telling him to "ask your mom."
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Deleting the post hasn't seemed to make the flap die down.
It all began when he announced that he'd found a perfect brick pizza oven with which to start his business, but he was $5,500 short of the price.
As he wrote on his GoFundMe:
"...I would like to make and serve affordable organic pizza for my community and sell it from my driveway to the large foot traffic in my neighborhood."
"I have found a large industrial pizza oven and negotiated it from $14,000 down to $8,500."
"I have 3,000 saved up for this… I would truly appreciate any help."
You can probably guess how well that went down online. People were furious at the very notion that, in today's economy, a rich celebrity's kid would be taking up space on a tool often used by regular people who've lost everything they have.
Torrents of angry comments quickly flooded in, many of the "go ask your mom" variety, and many others from people furious that amid everyone else's financial struggles, they were being asked to donate to a celebrity kid's flight of fancy.
Garibaldi Garcia was quick to clapback at "the haters." In his follow-up post, he wrote in the caption:
“Haters gonna hate. I’m sure I’ll have to explain this many more times to ignorant people who think I should ‘ask my mom’ or that I have money….."
"YEAH, I also have a lot of bills, I also have a budget, I also donate to other causes... I also give to the homeless. I just don't film and put it on YouTube."
He went on to explain why asking Presley for money was a bad idea:
"I also have crazy ADD and try to do lots of things… if I just went all in every time I thought I had a great idea… I’d be broke in 2 days."
This seemed to only make people angrier.
Of course, the flip side to this is that a celebrity's kid posting a GoFundMe does not exactly destroy people's free will! As Garibaldi Garcia himself said, nobody has to donate if they don't want to.
And there were a few people online who felt similarly.
And others applauded him for taking initiative to make his own way in the world instead of just resting on his gazillionaire mother's laurels.
Anyway, you know what they say: There's no such thing as bad publicity, and Garibaldi Garcia has been leaning into the uproar.
And it's been a huge success: his GoFundMe has exceeded his goal by nearly $300 as of this writing, so it looks like his LA neighborhood will be getting those pizzas after all. Think it's safe to assume the haters won't be invited.
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Trump Says He'll Take A 'Look' At Making American The Official Language—And People Have Jokes
Referring to an April opinion piece penned by Republican Rob Lockwood, who is a former senior adviser to Trump's Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Hewitt told Trump:
"...there was an essay in 'The Washington Post'—make American the official language of America, not English. I think you ought to look at that, because it’s a good idea."
Trump responded in the affirmative to the suggestion.
You can watch the moment here:
People across social media mocked both men for their ignorance.
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Lockwood's original Washington Post essay contended that for the semiquincentennial of the founding of the United States, Trump should rename the English language—which, like most languages, is named for the people, country, or region it originated in—American.
But that's not how languages work.
American English—like Canadian English, Australian English, and New Zealand English—is a specific dialect of the original, not its own separate language. Through the physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous populations, English became the primary language in each of these former British colonies, but none deviate enough from their common root to be considered a separate language.
To declare the English spoken in the United States is its own language would be as ignorant and arrogant as ignoring the fact the Americas already have their own unique languages.
Linguists estimate that over 300 distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in what is now the United States prior to European contact. As of 2026, between 150 to 175 of those languages have survived colonialism and genocide.
For the 23 independent countries and 22 dependent territories of North America, approximately 500 distinct languages existed. For all of the Americas, between 1,000 to 2,000 languages were spoken by Indigenous peoples prior to European contact.
Those languages are uniquely American.
American English is just English spoken in different time zones.
Treasury Secretary Shows Off New $100 Bills With Trump's Signature—And Critics Have Thoughts
Bessent, appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, said:
“As Treasury Secretary, I only have two mandates: The currency has to say, ‘In God We Trust,’ somewhere on it, and there cannot be an image of a living person. But, we have the president’s signature, which again, I think it is appropriate for the 250th."
"During that 150th, there was a Calvin Coolidge coin. So, we can put living people’s images on a coin.”
The segment included footage of newly minted $1 coins bearing Trump's likeness.
The coin Bessent displayed to Watters did not appear to be the 24-karat commemorative gold coin approved by the federal Commission of Fine Arts in March, which depicts Trump from the waist up with his fists resting on a desk. Instead, it appeared to be the legal-tender $1 coin slated for general circulation as part of the nation's 250th anniversary commemorations.
Bessent then showed off bills featuring Trump's signature that he said were "hot off the presses" and when Watters touched them, Bessent cautioned:
"Don't smudge it [Trump's signature]."
You can watch what happened in the video below.
An image of the bills in question can be seen below.
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Critics quickly shared their disdain for the change, saying it offers further evidence of Trump's narcissism.
This is the latest development in Trump's effort to place his name and face at the center of American governance.
It recently emerged that Trump approved a proposed design featuring his portrait on a new $250 bill bearing his signature, despite longstanding federal law barring living people from appearing on U.S. currency.
According to four current and former Treasury Department employees who spoke to the Washington Post anonymously out of fear of retaliation, two political appointees at the department repeatedly pressed Bureau of Engraving and Printing staff beginning last year to develop prototype designs for the bill.
Bureau staff ultimately produced several mockups, including one depicting Trump’s face at the center of the $250 note between the signatures of the president and Bessent, according to one employee. The Post, which broke the story, said it also reviewed documents supporting the account.
Scathing 10-Foot 'Iran War Participation Trophy' Appears In DC To Mock Trump For 'Enthusiastic Involvement' In Iran War
U.S. Central Command said it would resume its naval blockade later in the day, while an Iranian security official warned Tehran would deliver a "devastating response" if the U.S. targeted the suspected underground nuclear facility at Pickaxe Mountain.
Meanwhile, the conflict has spread beyond Iran, with Tehran launching strikes against U.S. allies in the region, including Kuwait. The renewed hostilities have rattled energy markets, sending benchmark Brent crude to its highest level in more than a month.
The "Iran War Participation Trophy" can be seen on the National Mall near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Painted gold and embossed with a "#1" on one side, it bears the word "Participant" in raised block lettering across its base.
A plaque below reads:
"We hereby award President Donald J. Trump this participation trophy for his enthusiastic involvement in the Iran War. While some concern themselves with military strategy, diplomacy, or measurable outcomes, President Trump demonstrated the courage to participate regardless of the final score.”
“President Trump joins the ranks of children everywhere who received recognition for simply showing up. We join you in celebrating this remarkable achievement.”
You can see the photos below.
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The group behind the installation, known as The Secret Handshake, has declined to identify its members in interviews with The Washington Post. The collective has previously staged a series of provocative public art displays across the nation's capital.
Among its past installations are a statue depicting Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands, a mock monument portraying Trump as celebrated by authoritarian leaders, and a replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk topped with fake excrement that satirized the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters.
Each of the group's previous exhibits received permits from the National Park Service and was displayed at high-profile locations on the National Mall, including sites directly overlooking the west front of the U.S. Capitol.
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly criticized the installation, saying the artists "should stick to their ugly ‘art’ and refrain from weighing in on foreign policy — which they clearly know nothing about, given the fact that the United States Military achieved all of its objectives during Operation Epic Fury."
It was exactly the sort of scathing satire we need right now—and people had much to say about the installation.
A new Economist/YouGov poll found that most Americans oppose U.S. military involvement in Iran, with 57% saying going to war was the wrong decision and 27% saying it was the right one.
Opinion remains deeply divided along partisan lines. MAGA Republicans overwhelmingly support the decision, with 77% backing the war and just 5% opposing it. By contrast, only 5% of Democrats approve while 89% say it was the wrong move. Independents also oppose the conflict by a wide margin, 85% to 13%. Among Republicans, attitudes differ depending on political identity.
While 63% of Republicans overall support the war, Republicans who do not identify as MAGA are more likely to oppose it than support it, with 51% calling it the wrong decision compared with 31% who say it was the right one.
The poll also shows opposition has grown since April. At that time, 51% of Americans said going to war was the wrong decision and 30% supported it. The latest results widen that gap, with net support falling from -21 points to -30.
