Welcome back, Wake Up Right fam! Over the weekend, Democrats tried to launch the sequel to the 2020 summer riots, set in Los Angeles. But if masked thugs waving foreign flags is the trailer, I don’t think Americans are gonna support this flop.

Dems didn’t get the message. Americans are tired of reboots. Let’s break it down below…

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Dems launch summer riots 2.0

Over the weekend, anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles devolved into violent riots while Democrat lawmakers looked the other way — forcing President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard.

The details: The violence began after ICE conducted coordinated raids that led to the arrests of roughly 45 illegal aliens. Rioters were filmed hurling objects at ICE, setting cars on fire, vandalizing property, looting, blocking highway traffic, and waving foreign flags [mostly the Mexican flag].

The organizers: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), one of the lead organizers of the demonstrations, received nearly $34 million in grants from California and has strong ties to the Democrat party.

• Signs seen at the demonstrations were printed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which has been linked to Elias Rodriguez, who shot and killed two Israeli staffers last month in D.C.

What the left is saying: LA Mayor Karen Bass blamed Trump for the riots, saying: “What we're seeing in Los Angeles is chaos that is provoked by the administration."

• The politicized LAPD called the riots "peaceful protests."

• Senator Cory Booker repeatedly characterized the chaos as “peaceful protests.”

Trump sends in the troops: Trump activated the California National Guard, deploying 2,000 to Los Angeles on Sunday morning to end the violence. On Saturday night, Trump wrote on Truth Social:

• “If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”

• The U.S. Northern Command also said it had 500 U.S. Marines ready to quell the riots if needed.

• Newsom responded on X, writing: “Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis in LA County — deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos.” When he wrote this, LA had already been burning for 48 hours.

Zoom out: The illegal aliens that were arrested by ICE in the raids that sparked the riots included murderers, sex offenders, and other violent criminals.

The latest: Sunday night, the LAPD had to declare an “unlawful assembly” as rioters refused to disperse. And late Sunday night, President Trump urged Los Angeles to “BRING IN THE TROOPS.”

Reuniting the right: After a week-long public fight with Trump, Elon Musk took to X to share the president’s Truth Social posts with “🇺🇸🇺🇸” as the caption.

Real talk from G: I know violence and chaos are key tenets of the Democrat playbook. But most Americans will not sympathize with thugs waving Mexican flags while they bash police with pieces of concrete. The left played this hand in 2020, and now they’re overplaying it — empowering President Trump to send in troops to end the mess.

[Source: Fox News, The Post Millennial]

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Simone’s vile

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles hurled personal attacks against former college swimmer-turned-activist Riley Gaines over her criticism of a Minnesota girls’ softball title won by a trans-identifying male athlete.

Back up: Last week, the Champlin Park girls’ softball team — led by transgender biological male — won the Minnesota State High School League state championship.

• The league disabled comments on its X account following online backlash.

• Gaines responded, writing: “To be expected when your star player is a boy.”

Enter Simone Biles: The championship gymnast responded to Gaines on X, writing: “You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive.”

• Gaines responded, saying: “This is not my job as a woman — to include men in our spaces.”

• Biles then got personal, commenting on Gaines’ looks, writing: “Bully someone your own size — which would ironically be a male.”

Biles' own words bite her: In a 2017 tweet, Biles wrote: “ahhhh good thing guys don't compete against girls or he'd take all the gold medals !!"

• Gaines amplified her old tweet, writing: “How has 2025 Simone reconciled with the fact 2017 Simone was a 'truly sick bully' by her own standard?"

Quote: Former female NASCAR champion Danica Patrick commented on the ordeal, writing: “Defending men in women’s sports is the woke mind virus and/or another issue that requires therapy,” and said she was “grateful for people like Riley Gaines.”

What Americans think: 79% of Americans believe that men "should not" be allowed to compete in women's sports.

The last word goes back to Gaines, who wrote: “This is so disappointing… Simone Biles being a male-apologist at the expense of young girls’ dreams? Didn’t have that on my bingo card.”

[Source: Daily Wire]

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