Former President Donald Trump reacted to leftists calling him a “threat to democracy,” saying, “Last week, I took a bullet for democracy” while speaking at his campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday.

“They keep saying, ‘He’s a threat to democracy.’ I’m saying, ‘What the hell did I do to democracy?’ Last week I took a bullet for democracy. What did I do against democracy? Crazy,” Trump said.

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Last week, shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate President Trump while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Notably, Crooks’ assassination attempt came after nearly ten years of Democrat Party members, left-wing activists, celebrities, and the mainstream media calling Trump a “threat to democracy” and comparing him to dictators, as well as openly fantasizing about his death.

As Breitbart News reported, President Joe Biden’s social media alluded to Trump as a “dictator” just minutes before the shooter tried to take the 45th president’s life, firing eight bullets at him from a rooftop less than 500 feet away from the stage on which Trump was speaking.

President Trump was was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of his right ear before Secret Service agents descended upon the former president behind the podium. When Trump rose to his feet, he was seen with blood on his face as he addressed his supporters by pumping his fist in the air and shouting, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

The assassination attempt was condemned by Democrats, including the “Squad,” the most progressive members of Congress, although some were hesitant to specifically mention President Trump by name.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wished Trump a “speedy recovery,” which to many was evidence that the congresswoman, who constantly accuses the 45th president of being a purveyor of “fascism,” doesn’t actually believe her own rhetoric. AOC then went back to calling Trump a “neo-Nazi” less than a week after he was nearly assassinated.

Two days after the assassination attempt, President Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and made his first public speech since the attack on Thursday, after officially accepting the GOP nomination for president.

Meanwhile, questions about what went wrong with the Secret Service during Trump’s July 13 rally continue to mount, as it is revealed that the agency spotted Crooks on the rooftop ten minutes before the former president’s speech was set to begin, but let Trump go on stage anyway.

Several other Secret Service failures have been reported and can be read about here. Multiple investigations are now underway.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle — who is facing calls for her resignation, but says she has no intentions to step down — is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

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Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes talked to Breitbart News Saturday about how former President Donald Trump’s social media platform is about keeping world-wide lines of communication open.

Nunes explained that Truth Social was created “to make sure” that the lines of communication were “open for not only all Americans,” but everyone “around the globe.”

Nunes appeared with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday.

“We had to create Truth Social in order to make sure that we can keep the communication lines open for not only all Americans but people around the globe. And, we’ve successfully been doing that, and I think it’s something that, you know, President Trump is very proud of it. I mean, we’re all very proud of it. The left likes to say, ‘Oh, you guys are business guys. Just go learn to code and just do it yourself.’ Well, we did it, and we did it without  Amazon, without Microsoft, without CrowdStrike. We did it all on our own, and we’re up. It works. Every day we grow, and we’re getting ready to launch a streaming service,” Nunes said.

Boyle noted how Trump had broken some “major stories” on Truth Social, including announcing that he was picking Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, adding that it was a “big deal.”

“Absolutely. As you can imagine, after the assassination attempt traffic’s just been high. It was already going to ramp up anyway because of the convention, but the fact that he uses it for so many things….but, that we’re able to do it with very few problems. I mean, we actually continue to get faster, the quality of the platform gets better.”

Nunes added that people ask him, “Well, what’s the difference between the platforms?”

“It’s real simple. We’ve tried to take the best of all the platforms, whether it be – everybody knows Trump for mean tweets and all that. But, I tell people, Truth Social is not a replacement for Twitter. Truth Social is taking the best of Twitter, the best of Facebook, the best of Instagram, the best of Reddit, the best of all the platforms. And, we try to make it simple and easy to use.”

“The most important part is that we don’t allow the bots and the fake accounts. We don’t have community notes, we’re not censoring people. The only requirement we have is, is that you follow the laws that are out there. You can’t break federal or state laws, and that you’re family-friendly.”

Nunes continued to point out that the Biden-Harris campaign has an account on Truth Social, as does Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

“We let Gavin Newsom on the platform, we let Biden and Harris on the platform, and we don’t kick them off. They post fairly regularly. So, we really are a free speech platform and we’re protecting people’s rights and access to the internet, so they can communicate with one another.”

A massive crowd of supporters gathered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, early Saturday morning to attend former President Donald Trump’s first rally since surviving an assassination attempt one week ago.

Videos taken over six hours before Trump is set to take the stage show thousands of people eagerly waiting in line, OANN’s Daniel Baldwin reported:

Another video taken later inside the venue shows the 12,000-seat Van Andel arena at full capacity:

WZZM13 spoke with several fans of the former president, who is also taking new vice presidential nominee JD Vance out on the rally stage for the first time. 

Edward X. Young, of New Jersey, came straight to Grand Rapids from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

He spent the night in a folding chair outside the arena. 

“It was kind of cold at three in the morning, and I was dressed light, but it’s worth it,” Young, who has already been to 80 Trump rallies, said.

“The humor is out of it now. This is very serious. This is the first rally since the attempt to kill him and we have to get here to show our support,” he continued. “We didn’t flinch. We didn’t run and we’re not going to stop coming to the rallies.”

Kathleen Smilie also drove into the city early to get a chance to see Trump and Vance. 

“We missed out on the last one in Muskegon, so we left early. We packed our snacks. We’re here. We really want to see Trump and see Vance. We watched the movie,” she said in reference to Hillbilly Elegy, the movie based on Vance’s memoir.

The Ron Howard-directed film has been trending on Netflix since Trump announced the book’s author as his running mate earlier this week, Breitbart News reported.

“Good movie, so we’re interested in Vance now,” Smilie said. 

Randy Ritsema brought his children to see the rally. According to him, Trump’s triumphant reaction to being shot during last Saturday’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally makes him a “shoo-in” to win the election. 

“He’s going to be the president. That’s my opinion, but I think it’s a wrap. I don’t think Biden stands a chance.”

Taylor Swift just wants to enter Arrowhead Stadium through the main gates.

Ahead of Thursday’s NFL opener, Chiefs team president Mark Donovan revealed what went into hosting the 14-time Grammy winner — who nearly broke the internet when she attended her first game at Arrowhead Stadium last September — and how the club prepared for her second year as a member of Chiefs Kingdom.

Swift and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce began dating last summer, and she attended most of his games, including when the Chiefs beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl in February.

“We’ll be prepared for her, and obviously welcome her with open arms,” Donovan said about Swift in an interview with Front Office Sports.

Swift, 34, will be in attendance when the Chiefs play the Ravens in an AFC Championship rematch Thursday night in Kansas City, The Athletic reported.

Donovan recalled speaking with Kelce numerous times last season to plan for Swift’s arrival in order to keep her safe and manage the crowd reaction.

He explained that Kelce was nonchalant about Swift coming to support him, and said the All-Pro emphasized that Swift wanted to enter the stadium through the main entrance like other Chiefs fans.

“We’ve adopted her in Chiefs kingdom. Now, with Taylor, she brings a lot with her and it’s pretty valuable targeted demographic when you look at the makeup of her fanbase,” Donovan said.

“And we’ve looked at ways we can be respectful. I had a great conversation with Travis the first game that Taylor came to [against the Bears on Sept. 24]. 

“It was prior to the game and I grabbed Travis after practice and just said ‘Hey, I’m hearing through the grapevine Taylor is coming to the game.’

“He said, ‘Yeah, she wants to come to the game and that’s on her. I’m going to focus on the game.

“And I was like, ‘OK that’s fine. Um, it’s Taylor Swift. So we’re going to have to plan for this and make sure we’ve got a plan for her. We’re going to take her through the certain entrances and make sure that she’s safe and we manage the crowd reaction.

“And Travis’s response was ‘She wants to come as a fan. She doesn’t want all this stuff. Deal with her, I’m playing football.

“And I was like, OK, but she can’t come through the main gate. That’s not gonna work,” Donovan said, laughing.

The pair went back and forth and then Donovan explained the “intricate plan” the Chiefs’ security and Swift’s security came up with.

“Her security team came the day before and we had this great way of getting her in and out. Everything was great.

“So, the day of the game [Sept. 24] I get a call from my head of security saying ‘Taylor doesn’t like the plan. She’s going through the main gate.’

“And she did. She put on a hat and a Covid mask and some sunglasses and brought her group of people and they all came together he main gate.

“Because that’s what he wants. She wants to be a fan, right. This is her off time. She wants to be there to support travis and were going to create that opportunity and we’re going to provide that opportunity.”

Donovan went on to explain that the Chiefs aren’t trying to capitalize on the Taylor Swift effect.

“This is another conversation we had with Travis. We did our very best to respect their relationship. So every week you see every single game broadcast that we have — they’re looking for Taylor.

“We made a conscious decision to respect the relationship. Not unlike any other player and their relationship. I think it’s telling that it’s a conscious decision to the point where [at Arrowhead] we didn’t play a single Taylor Swift song during the games. That was a sign of respect.

“We’re not trying to capitalize on this. We’re trying to celebrate it, but it’s not about doing too much or showing her every touchdown or anything like that. She never appeared on our big board. We had one day when we had six or seven big celebrities in the stadium. Prior to the game we show them on the big board… We show them on the big board and the fans will react.

“And I went to Travis afterwards and I was like, ‘it’s a little odd to me that we [showed all these celebrities on the big board] and Taylor’s in her suite watching, but we’re not showing her.

“He’s like, ‘Let’s just keep on doing it the way we’re doing it.’”

In a separate interview on the “Today” show, Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said he doesn’t know where Swift will be sitting during the season opener.

“No, it’s always a little bit of a surprise, but I’m sure the TV cameras will find her,” he said ahead of Thursday’s game.

Swift was at a majority of Kelce’s games last season, including the team’s entire run through the playoffs that ended with a Super Bowl victory in Las Vegas.

The Chiefs have three home games before Swift’s Eras Tour picks back up in October.

If the Chiefs end up in the Super Bowl in their quest to complete a three-peat, Swift will be able to attend, as her tour concludes in December.

Super Bowl 2025 will take place in New Orleans and airs on Fox on Feb. 9..

Are we tired of watching rich people be terrible to each other? It certainly doesn’t seem that way, given how many shows there have been in this genre in the past few years. There’s no shortage of novels that involve wealthy families whose perfect facades are cracked by some sort of event, usually one that’s violent. A new series on Netflix, based on a Elin Hilderbrand novel, is about just such a scenario.

THE PERFECT COUPLE: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: Beach scenes on Nantucket.

The Gist: We see scenes from the rehearsal dinner for Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson) and Benji Winbury (Billy Howle). Benji comes from an old-money Nantucket family; his very control-oriented mother, Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman) married into it almost 30 years ago when she wed Benji’s father Tag (Liev Schreiber).

Everyone looks happy at the rehearsal dinner, from Amelia’s bestie and maid of honor Merritt Monaco (Meghann Fahy), to Greer and Tag, to Benji’s best man, Shooter Dival (Ishaan Khattar). Well, Benji’s older brother Thomas (Jack Reynor) seems miserable, but he might be under a bit of pressure because his wife Abby (Dakota Fanning) is pregnant and wants them to move to a much more expensive apartment. And he’s miserable because he’s an a-hole.

The next morning, a scream peals out over the beach, and Summerland police chief Dan Carter (Michael Beach) gets a call about a “floater” on the water, i.e. a body has washed up. It’s definitely someone from the wedding party, as he informs his cater waiter daughter Chloe (Mia Isaac) that the ceremony is cancelled.

Carter and Detective Nikki Henry (Donna Lynne Champlin), sent by the DA’s office to assist in the investigation, start questioning all of the non-relatives, including Abby, catty wedding planner Roger Pelton (Tim Bagley), flirtatious family friend Isabel Nallet (Isabelle Adjani) and house manager Gosia (Irina Dubova). Amelia, who found the body while wearing her wedding dress, is brought in for questioning, but is too traumatized to say anything.

They don’t paint a pretty picture. Greer, a famous novelist, mistrusts Amelia, a free-spirited and down-to-earth zoologist who works at the Central Park Zoo. Her “perfect couple” marriage to Tag isn’t as perfect as it seems. For his part, Tag is a huge pothead who hasn’t seemed to do much to maintain his family’s fortune. Youngest son Will (Sam Nivola) gets some welcomed but unwanted attention from Merritt. Thomas feels financially squeezed and goes to his father for help.

And things aren’t all great with Amelia and Benji, as Amelia admits to Merritt that while she loves Benji, she doesn’t burn as hot for him as she wants to. Merritt ascribes the feelings to cold feet, but Amelia’s actions with Benji in bed indicate otherwise.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Created by Jenna Lamia and based on the book by Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple has shades of plenty of other recent rich-people-being-awful shows — some of which starred Kidman. You know which ones we’re talking about: The White Lotus, Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Apples Never Fall, Expats, etc.

Our Take: The first episode of The Perfect Couple, directed by Susanne Bier, is a beautifully-shot mess. Lamia and Bier purposefully keep the identity of whose body was found until the end of the episode, and the tired narrative-building method of having story be built via flashbacks and people talking to the police doesn’t yield a ton of clues. Even so, we nailed just who the body was about 2/3 of the way through the episode, because we realized exactly who wasn’t shown being interviewed by the cops.

It’s a frustrating storytelling method because, even though a lot of the story is being told in flashback, it didn’t really seem all that necessary to hide whose body it was. Sure, it makes for twist at the end, but the series is more about the murder and the family secrets it reveals more than anything else.

What we’re also tired of seeing is a wealthy white family swanning through their well-appointed homes doing everything they can to hide the roiling trauma underneath the perfect facade. It feels like being the matriarch of these kinds of families has become Kidman’s stock-and-trade of late, and while her accent may change, she plays all the roles with the same pained expression and barely-controlled despair. And whoever plays her husband generally has none of the raw emotional power that the actor usually has; this is one of the most passive roles we’ve seen Schreiber play in ages.

But there are aspects of the first episode that give us hope. For one, it has a sense of humor that other shows of this type — except for maybe The White Lotus — just don’t have. If we’re going to examine the cracks under the surface of yet another rich family, at least we can get some laughs out of it, right?

For two, we like Dakota Fanning as the deceptively cunning Abby. But we’re really intrigued by Hewson as Amelia. Sure, Hewson has wowed before, in shows like Bad Sisters and Behind Her Eyes. But here, she’s the audience’s representative into the horror that is the Winburys’ existence. Despite Hewson’s background (she’s Bono’s daughter, after all), she seems to bring an earthy vibe to her roles that help the audience connect with her. We see that here, and we want to watch more of her interacting with her awful in-laws for the duration of the series.

Sleeper Star: Jack Reynor is an A-1 a-hole as Thomas.

Most Pilot-y Line: Gosia complains to the cops that Amelia washes her own dishes, which she calls “rude.”

Our Call: STREAM IT. The only reasons we’re recommending The Perfect Couple are Hewson, Fanning, and our fervent hope that the series continues to be more irreverent than most shows in this annoyingly persistent genre.

Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.

Rapper Rich Homie Quan has died, Page Six can confirm. He was 33.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office tell us that Grady Memorial Hospital notified them of the death of the “Type of Way” rapper, whose real name was Dequantes Devontay Lamar, on Thursday.

The spokesperson also said an autopsy has been scheduled for Friday.

Fellow rapper Boosie BadAzz, whose real name is Torrence Ivy Hatch Jr., was one of the first to confirm the news, writing via X Thursday, “JUST TALKED TO YOU BRA 😓 #tipQUAN Never go forget yo smile n the way talked n of course yo music 💯.”

The “Wipe Me Down” rapper, 41, also appeared to reveal the suspected cause of death, sharing in a separate X post Thursday, “JUST GOT WORD @RichHomieQuan JUST OD ‼️”

Quan’s official cause of death has not been confirmed.

Podcaster Adam Grandmaison, known as Adam22, took to his Instagram Stories Thursday to post a photo of him and Quan writing over it, “RIP Rich Homie Quan.”

TMZ reported Thursday that Quan’s relatives are “shattered and heartbroken by his sudden death.”

The outlet also reported that the “Lifestyle” rapper died at his home in Atlanta. His family is reportedly still “searching for answers” on his cause of death.

Page Six has reached out to reps for Quan but did not immediately hear back. The rapper’s social media has also not released any official statements.

Quan’s last post on Instagram was shared Monday and featured him wearing a football jersey and eyeglasses.

The slideshow, which also showed him performing, was captioned, “Vision clear even through the BS 🤫.”

Quan’s alleged drug use had gotten him in trouble in the past.

In May 2017, he was charged with felony drug possession with the intent to distribute but the case was then dismissed in 2019 due to lack of evidence, according to TMZ.

Quan, who was born in Atlanta, was famously known for being a member of Cash Money Records.

His 2015 single “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)” topped the Billboard Charts at No. 26.

Quan’s death comes just days after the rap world lost another one of its stars.

On Aug. 30, Fatman Scoop died at age 53 after collapsing onstage during a performance.

He was given CPR backstage and then rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Scoop’s official cause of death has not yet been revealed.

Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musician Frank Zappa, says she was “conditioned” to believe a bizarre date she once had with Woody Harrelson was “perfectly normal.”

The pair, who went on a handful of dates after being set up by Michael J. Fox in 1989, were out for a meal when Harrelson used her finger to remove food stuck between his teeth.

Moon described being a human toothpick in her new memoir, “Earth to Moon,” but exclusively tells Page Six she wasn’t at all bothered by the unsanitary behavior.

Moon says growing up with her famous father — who was known for his bohemian lifestyle — made her think the unusual moment was just “what quirky artists did.”

She adds that on one of their first dates, her father blew his nose into her mother’s skirt.

“I was conditioned to think that was perfectly normal,” she explains.

A rep for Harrelson, 63, did not immediately return our request for comment.

Moon, 56, became a star at age 14 when she appeared on her father’s hit single “Valley Girl.” The song featured Moon’s “valley speak,” popularizing expressions like “grody to the max” and “gag me with a spoon.”

Her book briefly mentions the hoopla around the novelty song, but mostly centers on her dysfunctional childhood and often-fraught relationships with her parents and siblings, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva.

“This really is a story about feeling like a fish out of water in your home and in the world and I think it’s a chance for women to examine their projections,” she explains to us.

Moon wrote in her memoir, which came out Aug. 20, that following her father’s death in 1993 at the age of 52 from prostate cancer, her mother, Gail, disregarded Frank’s final wishes regarding his estate.

Instead of it being split up evenly, Gail gave Ahmet and Diva control of the Zappa family trust with shares of 30 percent each, while Moon and Dweezil were each given 20 percent.

“I could never reconcile the actions that were taken in the name of my father but not doing his wishes,” she tells Page Six.

“The thing is it’s not the money,” Moon explains. “It’s not the stuff, it’s that I had a mother that at the end of her life, she wished two of her children well and two not so much.

“That is something as a parent that I cannot comprehend and it’s taken me a long time to get bigger than her final word.”

Gail died in 2015 at the age of 70.

Moon, who shares a daughter with ex-husband Paul Doucette, has been estranged from her siblings for many years but says that the “door is always open,” although relations seem to be improving with Ahmet.

“We just did a podcast and he actually read the book and he really loved it,” she happily adds.

Moon is doing a Q&A with Molly Jong-Fast at Oaks Church in Brooklyn on Sept 5.