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National Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- National Post
U.S. Christian musician Sean Feucht show set for Alberta legislature grounds in Edmonton
A pro-Trump and Christian singer whose events on his east coast Canadian tour have had to be moved to alternate venues after being cancelled is slated to play at the Alberta legislature grounds in August. Article content U.S. musician Sean Feucht has faced protests and cancellations this week on the first leg of his cross-country tour which is slated to stop on Aug. 22 in Edmonton for a performance at the grounds' south bandshell. Article content Article content Article content A spokesperson for Alberta Infrastructure said in a statement tour organizers had submitted an incomplete event permit application for the event. Article content Article content 'We are taking steps to help organizers submit a complete application,' it reads, noting the event must comply with 'security protocols, public safety, and venue guidelines.' Article content The guidelines for use of the Alberta Legislature Grounds state applications must be submitted four weeks in advance, with applicants mandated to have at least $2 million in liability insurance, a security plan, and proof of permits and licences, among other requirements. Article content Feucht describes himself as a musician, missionary, author and activist, and has drawn opposition for his affinity for U.S. President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again Movement as well as his views on abortion, gender, and the LGBT community. Article content Article content He was scheduled to play at the York Redoubt National Historic Site in Halifax last Wednesday but Parks Canada revoked the event's permit, citing 'evolving safety and security considerations' amid potential protests and following consultation with police. Article content The event later went ahead when a local farmer opened his field for the singer and his audience. Article content Since then, events in Charlottetown, Fredericton, Quebec City, Moncton, and Gatineau, Que. have been cancelled with organizers citing security concerns, permitting issues, or local codes of conduct. Article content On social media, Feucht said his shows went on after alternate venues were found. Article content 'Venues have now been replaced and these cities will hear from lawyers soon,' he posted late Thursday. Article content On Friday night, his event in Montreal went ahead amid protests and a smoke bomb being thrown on stage despite a warning from the city that the church he was performing at hadn't secured the proper permit. Article content He stated on social media that organizers had secured a permit that was later cancelled, and claimed to be bringing his experience to the attention of the U.S. president.
Daily Mail
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Meet Barron Trump's 'best friend' Bo Loudon: The MAGA influencer who loves to flaunt his lavish lifestyle
Barron Trump's best friend Bo Loudon has been loudly supporting President Donald Trump and the Republican Party for years - and has managed to nicely nestle his way into the First Family's inner circle. The 18-year-old social media star describes himself as a 'pro-Trump influencer' and has recently taken pride in getting TikTok personality Khaby Lame deported. When Bo's not acting as the political party's mouthpiece - or wearing an ICE-emblazoned cap, he's busy showing off his lavish lifestyle, including hanging out with celebrities and traveling by private jet. Here, Femail takes a closer look at Bo from his upbringing with his ultra-Republican parents to his 'inseparable' friendship with 19-year-old Barron. Bo, who hails from Palm Beach, Florida, was born to Gina Loudon and John William Loudon in August 2006 and is one of their five children. His mother is a conservative media personality and former co-chair of Women for Trump in 2020, while his father is a former Republican member of the Missouri State for the 7th District and former member of the Missouri House of Representatives. Both parents are members Mar-a-Largo, Trump's notorious private members club located in Palm Beach, Florida, and they have been outspoken about their support for the President. Notably, Gina and John appeared in an episode of the reality television show Wife Swap in 2013, where they swapped with polyamorous and bisexual family, the Envys. At the end of the two-week swap, Gina and John refused to participate in the roundtable discussion with the other couple, the first time in the show's history. Bo's parents' affinity for right-wing politics meant that he was only a youngster when he attended his first Republican National Convention, with reports claiming he attended his first rally in 2016 at just nine years old. Three years later, Bo made his first social media post, a photo of himself and his brother with Trump and Melania. In May 2024, a source told Daily Mail that he and Barron are 'inseparable' when they are both at home in Florida. 'Bo is very ideological and extremely Pro-Trump,' the insider said. 'He's over at Mar-a-Lago every night that Barron is home. The two of them are inseparable.' Together, the duo are said to be key players in organizing Trump's media appearances, and reportedly set up his 90-minute interview with Kick influencer Adin Ross, which was watched live by 500,000 people. The duo have also pressed him to forge close links with their favorite content creators, from YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul to billionaire business mogul Patrick Bet-David, host of the PBD podcast. 'Trump rates the boys and sees their input as an asset,' an insider said. 'He has no issues turning to them for advice on a subject that many of his middle-aged campaign aides wouldn't have much of a clue about.' Although Barron has remained out of the limelight and off social media, Bo has amassed close to 350,000 followers across Instagram, TikTok and Twitter – where he proudly declares 'Gen-Z stands with Trump.' His feed is filled with pro-Trump videos, critiques of the 'fake news' media and photos taken with leading conservatives such as Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson and UFC mogul Dana White. In one snap, Barron and Bo standing stand either side of the 45th President at Mar-a-Lago, Barron towering over both due to his 6ft 7in stature. Bo is often rubbing shoulders with celebrities too. In recent years, he has uploaded photos of himself hanging out with famous faces, including the likes of Snoop Dogg, Dennis Quaid, Jake Paul, and Chris Brown. As a MAGA influencer, Bo is often singing Trump's praises. In a social media post uploaded on Thursday (July 10), he said: 'I've been around many elites from Satanic Hollywood. 'President Trump is nothing like them. Trump is a stand-up guy that treats everyone around him the best he can.' And according to insiders, Bo is 'determined to win more of Gen Z for Trump.' 'He even got in trouble once at school for wearing so much Trump gear,' a source told Daily Mail last year. 'The boys are business minded; they're patriots. But they are also normal, good kids who are finding their way.' Last April, Bo and Barron teamed up to host an April 'power summit' banquet for Bet-David, MMA fighter Colby Covington, and the entrepreneur Justin Waller, a business partner of the controversial internet personality Andrew Tate. The guests came away purring about the boys' business acumen and social skills with Bet-David praising Barron as a 'freaking stud of a kid' in clips that soon went viral. 'Bo reached out to me and told me that Barron watches my content and would like to invite me to dinner at Mar-a-Lago,' Justin told Last month in June 2025, Bo bragged that he was responsible for getting the world's biggest TikTok star, Khaby Lame, deported out of the United States with the help of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Taking to X (formerly Twitter) on June 6, he wrote that Khaby is an 'illegal alien' in all caps before proclaiming that he has 'been working with the patriots at Trump's DHS' to deport the Senegal-born influencer. ICE confirmed Lame was detained at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on June 6, the same day Bo made his supposed involvement public. Khaby, who has over 162 million TikTok followers, overstayed his visa after entering the country on April 30, according to an ICE spokesperson. He was granted 'voluntary departure,' a bureaucratic euphemism for being kicked out. 'Serigne Khabane Lame, 25, a citizen of Italy, was detained… for immigration violations,' the spokesperson confirmed in a statement. 'Lame was granted voluntary departure… and has since departed the US.' Bo claimed Khaby was detained at Henderson Detention Center, southeast of Las Vegas proper, though it's unclear how long he may have been in custody before leaving. ICE have not confirmed whether Bo was involved in reporting Khaby to authorities, but Bo has continued to celebrate his alleged role in the TikToker's removal. In the aftermath of the deportation, Bo denounced various media outlets' coverage of this incident, who reportedly called him a 'rat' and a 'rat extraordinaire.' 'Why? Because I helped President Trump's DHS deport TikTok's biggest star, Khaby Lame, for being in the U.S. illegally,' he asked.
Washington Post
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
In London, theatergoers reenact storming of the U.S. Capitol
LONDON — In a city well-known for political theater, the show at Stone Nest, a performance venue in the heart of London's West End, took the concept to a new level. For the last month, audiences have been reenacting the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in one of the most violent and divisive days of modern American democracy.
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame'
On Saturday, as a crowd of thousands of people near the Washington Monument listened, a loudspeaker dramatically announced the names of the US secretary of defense, vice-president and president. The final name received a modest roar that surely flushed the watching commander-in-chief with validation. With that, and with the boom of a 21-gun salute, the military parade that Donald Trump had coveted for years finally began. A protester, Nicky Sundt, kept a lonely and mostly silent vigil at the side of the road. She held a sign depicting a cartoon Trump brushing back his comb-over to reveal a swastika emblazoned on his forehead. The placard said 'Save our democracy'. Standing near her – as a 'counterprotest to the counterprotest to the protest, or something,' as one of them put it – a group of pro-Trump men held court. One was draped in an American flag. Another had a giant picture of Trump, in a crown, with the exhortation 'Trump for king'. Related: Gathering stormclouds can't wipe smile from Trump's face as long-held dream of military parade is realised For the next couple of hours, in heat and occasional drizzle, spectators watched as the US army celebrated its 250th birthday – and, although he claims it is a coincidence, Trump's 79th – with America's largest and most controversial military parade in decades. Troops marched. Tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled. Helicopters clattered. Paratroopers plunged out of the overcast sky. Yet, for all of it, the parade was somehow neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of Maga nationalism that Trump's most diehard fans craved. It was just a parade – and a parade that was, for all its millions of dollars spent, controversy engendered, and exhausting security precautions, a little underwhelming. Since his first term, when he saw and was deeply impressed by a Bastille Day parade in Paris, Trump made no secret of his desire to hold a grand military review of his own. Military leaders, cognizant of the high costs and reputational issues of the idea, have in the past been resistant. Now, no longer. The event was not without problems, however. For one, the weather kept threatening to literally rain on the parade. For another, recent news developments have both distracted the world's attention from the parade and cast an ugly pall on it. In California, national guardsmen and US marines have been deployed against the will of state authorities after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deportation raids have sparked widespread protests. In the Middle East, Israel's attack on Iran has led to deadly retaliation. And early Saturday morning, an assassin impersonating a police officer shot two Democratic lawmakers and their families at their homes in Minnesota, killing a state representative and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife. Trump's plans for a military parade also sparked protests in many cities, including in Washington DC, where a few hundred gathered to chant, 'Deportations, we say no / Now's the time for Trump to go / Ice Gestapo, we say no / Now's the time for Trump to go…' Armed with signs declaring 'All hail Commander Bone Spur' (Trump was medically excused from serving in the Vietnam war) and 'History is watching', they marched to the White House. Trump's attitude to the rule of law 'is scary', explained one marcher in her 20s, who asked to be identified only as Madison. 'I would like to see Donald Trump impeached and imprisoned.' As she and the other leftists marched, a young man, bare chested and wearing a bucket hat, approached a demonstration marshal. He seemed confused. He wanted to know where the protest for the opposite point of view could be found. Downtown Washington was, in fact, thronged with people representing both points of view, and they could be distinguished, much of the time, on sight – with preppy attire and the occasional Maga accessory marking Trump's fans, and Covid masks, dark clothing, and a general glower designating anti-Trumpers. The mood at the actual army parade was cordial enough, in part because the overwhelming majority of attendees seemed to be either Trump supporters, military families or mostly apolitical daytrippers who just wanted to see a parade. Yet the crowd was on the smaller side, given the magnitude of the event. Similarly, although the army's marching went smoothly, the larger public event seemed less than well-planned. The garbage cans, few and far between, were overflowing. There weren't enough exits. The only food source for thousands of people was a handful of food trucks with lines of 40 or 50 people waiting at each. Because the parade closed down blocks and blocks and there was a dearth of signs with clear directions, it was also extraordinarily difficult to find one's way in or out. A secret service officer, trying to explain the general confusion, just sighed. 'Nobody knows what's going on.' A tent managed by a beverage company handed out room-temperature bottles of an energy drink, Phorm. The flavor, called Screamin' Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water, and an advisory on the cans warned that they were not to be consumed by minors or pregnant women. Although the military has agreed to cover the estimated $25m to $45m price of the parade, including the costs of reinforcing streets to protect them against so much heavy machinery, residents of Washington have been less than thrilled. The parade's attendees seemed to be tilted toward people who had traveled from suburban Virginia or Maryland or even further afield. At one point a young girl walked by wearing a Mennonite bonnet. It wasn't quite Maga Woodstock, but it was close. Chelsea, a woman in her 30s wearing a Maga hat, came all the way from New Jersey. Asked what she thought of Trump's decision to deploy the military in LA, she said, 'You don't have leadership in that state. The [Democratic politicians there] don't seem to have a fire in them.' Trump, she argued, was taking a risk to try to help California out of a lawlessness created by the cowardice of its local politicians. This was a common sentiment. A group of women from Pennsylvania were sitting on the grass. One wore a red-white-and-blue blouse, the other a flag-printed dress. 'Trump wants to keep us safe,' she said. 'He's not Hitler.' Related: Trump's military parade taps an ancient tradition of power: from Mesopotamia to Maga 'Or a king!' one of her friends said. She defended Trump's decision to ban transgender troops from the military, and complained that Biden had subjected the military to political correctness and DEI initiatives. 'The military is not a social experiment.' A little over an hour into the parade, which was still going strong, the crowd was beginning to show some signs of restlessness. Even a few people in Maga hats appeared to be packing up their things and heading home. The first wave of hundreds of people slowly funneled through the gates, and past entrepreneurs hawking Maga gear and baseball caps with Ice written on them. A young man, asked what he thought of the parade, remarked that he was not impressed. He felt that Trump's close association with the celebration had politicized it and 'made a mockery' of the army, though it wasn't the army's fault. More to the point, he added, the event was 'just kind of … lame'.
The Guardian
15-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame'
On Saturday, as a crowd of thousands of people near the Washington Monument listened, a loudspeaker dramatically announced the names of America's secretary of defense, vice-president and president. The final name received a modest roar that surely flushed the watching commander-in-chief with validation. With that, and with the boom of a 21-gun salute, the military parade that Donald Trump had coveted for years finally began. A protester, Nicky Sundt, kept a lonely and mostly silent vigil at the side of the road. She held a sign depicting a cartoon Trump brushing back his comb-over to reveal a swastika emblazoned on his forehead. The placard said 'Save our democracy'. Standing near her – as a 'counterprotest to the counterprotest to the protest, or something,' as one of them put it – a group of pro-Trump men held court. One was draped in an American flag. Another had a giant picture of Trump, in a crown, with the exhortation 'Trump for king'. For the next couple of hours, in heat and occasional drizzle, spectators watched as the US army celebrated its 250th birthday – and, although he claims it is a coincidence, Trump's 79th – with America's largest and most controversial military parade in decades. Troops marched. Tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled. Helicopters clattered. Paratroopers plunged out of the overcast sky. Yet, for all of it, the parade was somehow neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of Maga nationalism that Trump's most diehard fans craved. It was just a parade – and a parade that was, for all its millions of dollars spent, controversy engendered, and exhausting security precautions, a little underwhelming. Since his first term, when he saw and was deeply impressed by a Bastille Day parade in Paris, Trump made no secret of his desire to hold a grand military review of his own. Military leaders, cognizant of the high costs and reputational issues of the idea, have in the past been resistant. Now, no longer. The event was not without problems, however. For one, the weather kept threatening to literally rain on the parade. For another, recent news developments have both distracted the world's attention from the parade and cast an ugly pall on it. In California, national guardsmen and US marines have been deployed against the will of state authorities after Ice deportation raids have sparked widespread protests. In the Middle East, Israel's attack on Iran has led to deadly retaliation. And early Saturday morning, an assassin impersonating a police officer shot two Democratic lawmakers and their families at their homes in Minnesota, killing a state representative and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife. Trump's plans for a military parade also sparked protests in many cities, including in Washington DC, where a few hundred gathered to chant, 'Deportations, we say no / Now's the time for Trump to go / Ice Gestapo, we say no / Now's the time for Trump to go…' Armed with signs declaring 'All hail Commander Bone Spur' (Trump was medically excused from serving in the Vietnam war) and 'History is watching', they marched to the White House. Trump's attitude to the rule of law 'is scary', explained one marcher in her 20s, who asked to be identified only as Madison. 'I would like to see Donald Trump impeached and imprisoned.' As she and the other leftists marched, a young man, bare chested and wearing a bucket hat, approached a demonstration marshal. He seemed confused. He wanted to know where the protest for the opposite point of view could be found. Downtown Washington was, in fact, thronged with people representing both points of view, and they could be distinguished, much of the time, on sight – with preppy attire and the occasional Maga accessory marking Trump's fans, and Covid masks, dark clothing, and a general glower designating anti-Trumpers. The mood at the actual army parade was cordial enough, in part because the overwhelming majority of attendees seemed to be either Trump supporters, military families or mostly apolitical daytrippers who just wanted to see a parade. Yet the crowd was on the smaller side, given the magnitude of the event. Similarly, although the army's marching went smoothly, the larger public event seemed less than well-planned. The garbage cans, few and far between, were overflowing. There weren't enough exits. The only food source for thousands of people was a handful of food trucks with lines of 40 or 50 people waiting at each. Because the parade closed down blocks and blocks and there was a dearth of signs with clear directions, it was also extraordinarily difficult to find one's way in or out. A secret service officer, trying to explain the general confusion, just sighed. 'Nobody knows what's going on.' A tent managed by a beverage company handed out room-temperature bottles of an energy drink, Phorm. The flavor, called Screamin' Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water, and an advisory on the cans warned that they were not to be consumed by minors or pregnant women. Although the military has agreed to cover the estimated $25m to $45m price of the parade, including the costs of reinforcing streets to protect them against so much heavy machinery, residents of Washington have been less than thrilled. The parade's attendees seemed to be tilted toward people who had traveled from suburban Virginia or Maryland or even further afield. At one point a young girl walked by wearing a Mennonite bonnet. It wasn't quite Maga Woodstock, but it was close. Chelsea, a woman in her 30s wearing a Maga hat, came all the way from New Jersey. Asked what she thought of Trump's decision to deploy the military in LA, she said, 'You don't have leadership in that state. The [Democratic politicians there] don't seem to have a fire in them.' Trump, she argued, was taking a risk to try to help California out of a lawlessness created by the cowardice of its local politicians. This was a common sentiment. A group of women from Pennsylvania were sitting on the grass. One wore a red-white-and-blue blouse, the other a flag-printed dress. 'Trump wants to keep us safe,' she said. 'He's not Hitler.' 'Or a king!' one of her friends said. She defended Trump's decision to ban transgender troops from the military, and complained that Biden had subjected the military to political correctness and DEI initiatives. 'The military is not a social experiment.' A little over an hour into the parade, which was still going strong, the crowd was beginning to show some signs of restlessness. Even a few people in Maga hats appeared to be packing up their things and heading home. The first wave of hundreds of people slowly funneled through the gates, and past entrepreneurs hawking Maga gear and baseball caps with Ice written on them. A young man, asked what he thought of the parade, remarked that he was not impressed. He felt that Trump's close association with the celebration had politicized it and 'made a mockery' of the army, though it wasn't the army's fault. More to the point, he added, the event was 'just kind of … lame'.
