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Social media stars commend Kanye West for speaking out on his support for president. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network…

Tom Cruise has toppled competitors at the box office and performed death-defying stunts, but there’s one thing that appears to be "mission impossible" for him: talking politics. The Hollywood megastar was in Washington, D.C., to attend the premiere of his new film, "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" on Sunday. Asked if he might join the list of media titans — including Kanye West, Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — who have flirted with a 2020 presidential run, Cruise responded: “I’m here to talk tonight about ‘Mission: Impossible.'" The action star ducked and dodged any political talk as impressively as the lead character he plays in the popular franchise, fictional Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt. “I’m just happy to be here tonight in this beautiful museum. The Academy Award nominee spent more than two hours chatting with reporters and posing for snapshots with fans on a massive red carpet outside the museum. The sixth “Mission: Impossible” installment, which hits theaters Friday, finds Cruise’s character in a race against time to stop a terrorist group from obtaining nuclear weapons and setting off a series of attacks around the world. “It’s kind of fun to come back to the political heartland of America,” Simon Pegg, who provides some comic relief in the film as Cruise’s IMF teammate, said of touching down in the nation’s capital as part of an international promotional tour. “Whatever’s happening now is going to be done six months from now, and I’m trying to make a movie forever.” “I get a kick out of people trying to read into ‘Mission: Impossible.’ They’re always trying to outsmart it,” McQuarrie added. “I’m excited for people to see it.”

And the idea of all politics being local has been especially wrong for the last three years. Since June 16, 2015, all politics has been neither local nor national. And both Democrats and Republicans are following the news closely. The question of who controls Congress next year is driving votes. Sixty-one percent of Democrats see their vote as a vote against President Trump. A majority of Republicans see theirs as votes for him. Trump looms larger than Obama in the media landscape despite coverage that is overwhelmingly hostile to him. Trump's polarization of the electorate explains a lot. Then there is the larger question of what America might look like after four—and very possibly eight—years of Trumpitude. When all politics is Trump, politics assumes Trump's characteristics.

At the heart of Mr. West’s message is the idea that all of us—no matter our race, religion or background—have the right to be more than one thing. I grew up in poverty during the Great Depression, the son of blue-collar parents who passionately defended Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. I can be the son of working-class parents and also a pro-business Republican. I can be an ally to the transgender community and also a committed Christian. Identity politics is tribalism by another name. Under this cynical program, the identity of the group subsumes the identity of the individual, allowing little room for independence, self-realization or free thought. Identity politics turns the American idea on its head. Rather than looking beyond arbitrary differences in color, class and creed, identity politics separates us along these lines. In doing so, identity politics conditions us to define ourselves and each other by the groups to which we belong. Identity politics is cancer on our political culture.

-Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) Today in 5 Lines During an address to the annual NRA convention in Dallas, Texas, President Trump assured voters that he would protect the Second Amendment, criticized the special-counsel investigation, and thanked rapper Kanye West for his support. President Trump told reporters that Rudy Giuliani needed to “get his facts straight” after the former mayor said that Trump reimbursed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. Hours later, Giuliani walked back his comments. Jennifer Pena, the White House physician assigned to Vice President Mike Pence, resigned after fallout over President Trump’s doctor and former pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ronny Jackson. CNN reported earlier this week that Pena had raised concerns about Jackson’s workplace conduct last fall. The Department of Homeland Security ended a program that allowed 57,000 Honduran citizens to temporarily live and work in the United States. The U.S. added 164,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent. Today on The Atlantic Absurd in Every Way: The Iran Deal was a cover for American inaction and former President Obama’s paralyzing fear of war, argues Reuel Marc Gerecht. Changing a Sacred Text: Some of France’s most prominent political leaders are calling to strike particular verses from the Quran. The idea doesn’t sit well with the country’s Muslims.

Pete Marovich/Getty Images News/Getty Images While some of his fans are trying to make sense of his recent comments about politics and President Donald Trump, one popular lawmaker recently weighed in on Kanye West. California Rep. Maxine Waters called West "a very creative young man who has presented some of the most revolutionary material in the African-American community," but who sometimes "talks out of turn." On that day, West tweeted, "You don't have to agree with Trump but the mob can't make me not love him. I like the word 'prison' because 'slavery' goes too direct to the idea of Blacks. Slavery is to Blacks as the Holocaust is to Jews. Prison is something that unites as one race." Bustle has reached out to Waters for further comment on West's controversial comments. "We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said, for our people, was a choice," Lathan said. Drew Angerer/Getty Images News/Getty Images It's hard to say how West has reacted to Waters' gentle criticism (if at all) but it's no surprise that the California lawmaker had her own thoughts about the recent Trump-West friendship. After all, Waters is considered one of the most outspoken critics of Trump and his administration.

Panelists joined Don Lemon on CNN Tonight to discuss rapper Kanye West’s recent comments saying that slavery “sounds like a choice.”

Read the Full Transcript And you say that there’s a connection between all of that and what’s happening with North Korea. Explain. We know that in the past we’ve had deals where the United States has become Charlie Brown and North Korea has been Lucy with the football. So the president has his first state dinner this week and the word ‘state’ is key because in that role the president’s not a politician or a party leader, he or someday she is the embodiment of the state. Then you look to Capitol Hill where the House chaplain resigned under pressure from Speaker Ryan. Well, if you have a family man as chaplain that rules out the Catholic clergy, whereupon the Democrats took to the floor to denounce this, and now the issue of who’s going to be the House chaplain becomes a political issue. And finally Jeff, we want to get your take on that White House Correspondents Dinner last night. You know, I’m so old fashioned that I think it is possible to be generally very critical of Donald Trump and still take umbrage at some of what was said last night. And I was struck by the fact that after some criticism of Michelle, there was this outpouring on Twitter — Oh, I see you people are silent about all the terrible things that Donald Trump has said and done and you’re criticizing a comedian.

Among the artist’s recent stream of tweets were endorsements for President Donald Trump and other conservative voices in media. These comments didn’t sit well with quite a few of his followers on the platform as many of them pointed to his 2005 appearance on NBCUniversal’s "A Concert For Hurricane Relief" telethon, where he said sitting President George W. Bush did not care about Black people. Abdul Hakim-Shabazz, a political commentator in Indianapolis and the moderator for the fourth and final Indiana Republican U.S. Senate debate said he never subscribed to the mindset that artists should stay away from talking about politics. And no matter where you stand on his comments then and now, he has a right to free speech. “There’s probably something your favorite artist is going to have a position on that you will not agree with,” said Shabazz. “If we’re going to start basically disavowing people because of their politics, we might as well turn off every electronic device we have right now.” I love when people have their own ideas. You don't have to be allowed anymore. That's free thought. I'm not even political. I'm not a democrat or a republican — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018 Wednesday, a tweet from West addressed the backlash he was getting about his seemingly conservative-leaning support.

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