{"id":40613,"date":"2025-05-04T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/white-house-officials-celebrate-omen-of-kentucky-derby-victor-sovereignty-will-always-win\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:54:28","slug":"white-house-officials-celebrate-omen-of-kentucky-derby-victor-sovereignty-will-always-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/white-house-officials-celebrate-omen-of-kentucky-derby-victor-sovereignty-will-always-win\/","title":{"rendered":"White House officials celebrate ‘omen’ of Kentucky Derby victor: ‘Sovereignty will ALWAYS win’"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House officials celebrated on social media after a horse named Sovereignty beat out its rival Journalism at the Kentucky Derby<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty trailed most of the race and didn’t make a big move until near the final turn to edge out Journalism, the favorite horse going into the race, and secure the victory.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> was one Trump administration official who took note of the outcome on social media.<\/p>\n

“Sovereignty > Journalism,” Hegseth wrote. “On the track. And in 2025 America.”<\/p>\n

HEGSETH, SIGNAL QUESTIONS DOG WALTZ AS POTENTIALLY PERILOUS UN AMBASSADOR CONFIRMATION HEARINGS LOOM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Miller, White House<\/a> deputy chief of staff, also appeared to reference the race in a social media post.<\/p>\n

“In the Trump Administration, sovereignty will ALWAYS win,” Miller wrote.<\/p>\n

Journalist Logan Hall called the victory a “powerful omen.”<\/p>\n

The Trump administration<\/a> is no stranger to bouts of friction with the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hegseth has been the subject of recent scrutiny after The New York Times reported that he shared details of a March military airstrike against the\u00a0Iran-backed Houthis<\/a>\u00a0in Yemen in a chat on the Signal app that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.<\/p>\n

Hegseth has defended himself against the report<\/a>, calling the controversy an attempt to “sabotage” President Donald Trump’s agenda.<\/p>\n

Hegseth accused “disgruntled former employees” of “trying to save their a–” by peddling stories, arguing that the mainstream media’s focus should instead be on “the decimation of the Houthis, how [the U.S. is] pushing back the Chinese, how we have a new defense area at the southern border.”<\/p>\n

WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF RAILS AGAINST REPORTERS OVER MS-13, TDA COVERAGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Miller also went head-to-head with reporters at a White House briefing last week, admonishing them over their coverage of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua<\/a>\u00a0violence in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Miller accused some members of the media of trying to “shill” for Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a>, an accused MS-13 member the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.<\/p>\n

He also accused the press of only covering the sexual assault and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray by two alleged Tren de Aragua members in June 2024 because Trump “shamed” them.<\/p>\n

“Most of your papers never covered her story when it happened, to the extent that you covered it at all, it was because\u00a0President Trump<\/a>\u00a0forced you to cover it by highlighting it repeatedly over and over again,” Miller said. “He had to shame you into covering it.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Taylor Penley, Diana Stancy and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White House officials celebrated on social media after a horse named Sovereignty beat out its rival Journalism at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. Sovereignty trailed most of the race and didn’t make a big move until near the final turn to edge out Journalism, the favorite horse going into the race, and secure the victory. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}