Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
WHITE HOUSE REPORTER FOR NDTV IN JAPAN EXPLAINS HER EXPERIENCE WITH WASHINGTON DC CRIME, AS SHE WAS PISTOL WHIPPED DURING A ROBBERY ATTEMPT NEAR THE CAPITOL.
From Gunther Eagleman™
3:08 PM · Aug 26, 2025
·29.7K
Views
2:12
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1960419017640042561
CNN 8/26/2025
After right-wing backlash, Cracker Barrel says it will get rid of its new logo(it’s not right wing it’s all wings idiotsat CNN)
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
7:54 PM EDT, Tue August 26, 2025
After days of intense backlash, most recently from President Donald Trump, Cracker Barrel is scrapping its new minimalist logo.
“We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the company said in a statement.
“At Cracker Barrel, it’s always been – and always will be – about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon.”
Last week, Cracker Barrel received a barrage of criticism when it unveiled its modernized logo, which got rid of the namesake barrel and the “old-timer” figure. Some loyal fans feared the 56-year-old chain was drifting too far from its bucolic roots, and the company’s shares (CBRL) nosedived more than 12% days after the announcement.
Trump congratulated the company on its reversal Tuesday.
“All of your fans very much appreciate it. Good luck into the future. Make lots of money and, most importantly, make your customers happy again!,” he said on Truth Social.
A deputy White House chief of staff posted on X that he received a call from Cracker Barrel earlier on Tuesday, saying “they thanked President Trump for weighing in on the issue.”
On Monday, the struggling country-themed restaurant chain and roadtrip staple signaled that it had messed up with the minimalist logo, saying, “We could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”
The company noted that its “old-timer” figure would return, a major point of contention online. Many people over the years believed the company’s ambassador Uncle Herschel was the figure seen leaning against the barrel in the logo. (The company refers to the figure as “our old-timer” in the logo created by Nashville designer Bill Holley on a napkin in 1977.)
Hours before before Cracker Barrel walked back the minimalist logo, Trump posted on Truth Social that Cracker Barrel should return to its previous logo.
“Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll) and manage the company better than ever before,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday.
After Cracker Barrel announced its initial logo change last week, a social media firestorm began and the debacle quickly became another culture war topic stoked by right-wing influencers.
“WTF is wrong with @CrackerBarrel??!” Donald Trump Jr. posted on X. Right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk posted a side-by-side comparison of Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle ad and the original Cracker Barrel logo, with the new minimalist one and a woman who weighs more than Sweeney.
The drama was a setback for the chain’s $700 million transformation plan. The 56-year-old chain has new TV commercials, a redesigned menu and several new fall-themed foods.
“The way we communicate, the things on the menu, the way the stores look and feel … all of these things came up time and time again in our research as opportunities for us to really regain relevancy,” said Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino in 2024.
Shares of Cracker Barrel rose more than 3% in after-hours trading Tuesday upon the announcement.
“They got a Billion Dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right,” Trump continued on Tuesday. “Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. Have a major News Conference today. Make Cracker Barrel a WINNER again.”
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/08/26/business/cracker-barrel-old-logo
Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government
On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican.
He reported from Washington. Aug. 26, 2025 Updated 8:03 p.m. ET It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington’s top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.
The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, was waiting for an elevator in the lobby when he bumped into Dr. Mehmet Oz, the surgeon turned daytime TV star now in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, was bouncing around the Library bar upstairs. Scott Bessent, the secretary of the Treasury, was wandering around up there too.
Sitting in a brown leather armchair in the center of this social whirl was a high-ranking official at the Department of Energy named Charles Moran. His abstruse-sounding title is associate administrator for external affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration. What this means is that he works in the part of the Energy Department that develops, tests and keeps safe America’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
But that’s not why administration officials kept approaching his armchair to schmooze, or why some of the cabinet secretaries at the Ned that night seemed to be so chummy with him.
Mr. Moran, 44, is the pasha of a new power tribe in the capital: the gay men of the Trump administration.
These are the A-Gays. They’re (mostly) out, they’re proud (to work for President Trump) and they have big jobs inside (or alongside) this administration. They wield influence all over town, from the Pentagon to the State Department to the White House to the Kennedy Center.
“We’re like Visa,” Mr. Moran said. “Everywhere you want to be.” ..
Mr. Moran said as the aide walked away. He laughed and added, “I hang out with my straights just as easily as I hang out with my gays.”
The most powerful out gay man in the Trump administration is Mr. Bessent. There are a handful of others in the Treasury Department. Other A-Gays include Tony Fabrizio, the president’s longtime pollster; Trent Morse, a departing deputy assistant to the president; Richard Grenell, who was put in charge of the Kennedy Center; and Jacob Helberg, an under secretary of state. These are just some. There are lots of other lesser-known men who make up the tribe.
They’re overwhelmingly white and tend to have a certain kind of look. Close cropped haircuts. Windowpane suits. Golf shorts. They’re not the type to be telling anyone their pronouns or using the word “queer.” And they aren’t the least bit offended that the leader of their party continues to stoke a moral panic about transgender people.
They’re gay. But they’re still Republicans.
Life in Hostile Territory
Mr. Moran knows a lot of them because he’s been “on the Trump train,” as he put it, from the beginning.
In 2015, back when the Republican establishment was still trying to thwart Mr. Trump, Mr. Moran said that he and some other gay Republicans he knew became intrigued by the brash New Yorker’s history of saying nice things about gay rights. These men had experienced homophobia from their fellow Republicans at one point or another, so they saw Mr. Trump’s ascendance as something new, especially after the 2016 Republican National Convention, when Peter Thiel was given a prime-time speaking slot and used it to endorse Mr. Trump, saying: “I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all I am proud to be an American.”
Along the way, he met the various members of the Trump family, all of whom treated him with a respect that couldn’t always be expected from Republican power brokers of the past, he said.
There were some gay appointees during the first Trump administration, but it wasn’t like now. Mr. Trump initially arrived in Washington as a true outsider; This time around, he has his own establishment. And it turns out that the MAGA establishment has a lot more openly gay men than the Republican establishment that came before it. …
“I love it when I find out there’s somebody new,” he said. Part of the A-Gays’ power comes from the fact that they (mostly) stick together.
“Even within the bureaucracy, the bureaucracy is overwhelming,” Mr. Moran said. “I love having this community as a resource.
Back in the day, these groups had to be closed off and hidden, but now we use it as a tool.” …
==This time around, he has his own establishment. And it turns out that the MAGA establishment
has a lot more openly gay men than the Republican establishment that came before it….==
https://archive.is/vyv6l#selection-813.0-837.375
Birth control pills created gay people, it’s not their fault. I can prove it
Watters: This isn’t a trap, it’s an invitation
Fox News host Jesse Watters breaks down President Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting, crime in Chicago and more
13:25
https://youtu.be/zkUlVGptatw
Jaw-dropping video shows migrant Uber driver 'sucker punching' rider
TC BioPharm CEO Bryan Kobel joins 'America's Newsroom' to share details on the attack that left him unconscious and his experience with Uber following the incident.
4:36
https://youtu.be/CVUwT0gg-hg
(I had 3 uber drivers two weeks ago, two were from Ethiopia and the other from the Middle East somewhere. I think they mostly foreigners. But we had great conversations. I guess I was lucky)
4:36
https://youtu.be/CVUwT0gg-hg
Gutfeld!’: Trump was right about this guy
Fox News contributor Tom Shillue and the panel discuss the Democratic Party’s struggle for survival on ‘Gutfeld!’
15:03
https://youtu.be/ZagvQ8zJa04