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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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President Donald Trump gestures from the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

America don’t need no stinkin’ Qatar plane

President Trump confirmed he is accepting a luxurious Boeing 747-8 plane from the royal family in Qatar that he will use as Air Force One -- a $400 million gift that he promised would be received as a "very public and transparent transaction." As if that makes it OK. It doesn't.

May 12, 2025
Southern Baptist Convention President J. D. Greear speaks during the denomination's annual meeting Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Southern Baptists gathering at their next annual meeting June 11-12, 2024, in Indianapolis will vote on whether to enact a constitutional ban on churches with women pastors. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Bold & Blunt: Bold but humble, one of God’s hardest lessons

It's tough to be a Christian and live out that godly principle of being bold in the faith, yet at the same time, submissive and humble to God. It's especially hard to live that concept as an American raised to believe that winning at all costs is the way to go.

May 7, 2025
Former U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled conference in Chicago, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Democrats shocked — shocked! — Biden had mush for brains

Jen Psaki, the former mouthpiece for the Biden administration, doubted there was a "cover-up" of the ex-president's mental incapacities. And for no particular reason at all, here's a headline from an outlet called Forensics College: "Top 10 Signs That Someone Is Lying."

May 6, 2025
David Hogg, center, speaks at the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Greg Jackson, right, and Brenda Moss, left, listen. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Democrats fundraise on a desperate f-bombing wing

David Hogg, the Democrats' 25-year-old pick for vice chair of their party, has a new strategy to raise money for upcoming campaign and election seasons: it's called Drop F-Bombs To Show We're Angry. And not just angry. Really, really angry. Yeah. That should do the trick.

May 5, 2025
Clemene Bastien and Theslet Benoir stand outside of their Eben-Ezer Haitian food truck in Parksley, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. The married couple is suing the town in federal court over allegations that their food truck was forced to close. The couple also says a town councilman cut the mobile kitchen's water line and screamed, "Go back to your own country!" (AP Photo/Ben Finley)

Oh, for a government of humble public servants

A couple of small business owners just learned from court documents that the town officials who closed down their food truck did so because the couple spoke to the media in negative terms about local government ordinance. Yet another government body run amok on arrogance, pride and power.

May 2, 2025
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump is right to ignore polls

A new survey from Decision Desk HQ for NewsNation shows 56 percent of registered voters disapprove of President Trump's job performance. But Trump is quite right in ignoring the numbers and plowing ahead with his agenda. It's what principled leaders do: They lead.

May 1, 2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and White House border czar Tom Homan, speak with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Adults are back on border patrol

It's with heavy sighs of relief that Americans can say the adults are definitely back in charge of border patrol and enforcement.

April 29, 2025
FILE - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker waits to speak during a Democratic National Convention security briefing at the U.S. Secret Service's Chicago Field Office, in Chicago, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Gov. J.B. Pritzker latest Democrat to lose mind

Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker called for fellow Dems to get in the streets, get in the MAGAs' faces, get out and about and leave no Republican stone unturned in the hunt to eradicate all things President Donald Trump. Marxists, unite!

April 28, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a swearing-in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz, background right, to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The stupidity of guessing deaths

A study from the far-left Centers for American Progress concluded with this title: "Congressional Republicans' Proposals To Slash Medicaid Could Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives." Or could not. Either-or. Maybe, maybe not. Welcome to science and sound argument, Democrat style.

April 24, 2025
Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during a session on Climate Trace, a database that monitors emissions, at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Al Gore wouldn’t know a Nazi if it bit him on the butt

Al Gore of gimme-all-your-money-so-I-can-feign-fighting-climate-change fame, likened President Trump's administration to Nazi Germany by saying both brought massive assaults on liberty. Sigh. Don't you have a chad to go hang or something, Mr. Gore?

April 23, 2025
The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

America adrift as Americans warm toward communist China

For the first time in five years, the number of U.S. adults who possess what Pew Research Center labeled as an "unfavorable opinion" of communist China has dropped -- meaning fewer now in the land of the free are regarding communism as an evil. This is China's long-term strategy at work.

April 22, 2025
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, in a hotel restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Press Office Senator Van Hollen, via AP)

Democrats would rather destroy America than support Trump

Hillary Clinton called for her fellow Democrats and for all Americans who care about the state of the Constitution to stand fast against President Trump's border control agenda and demand a return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia -- of MS-13 gang fame -- to the United States.

April 18, 2025
A reveler marches along Fifth Avenue during the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

#Winning, as LGBTQ camp scrambles for corporate Pride sponsors

LGBTQ community leaders say the current political tide called President Trump and his anti-Diversity, Equity, Inclusion campaign has led corporations around the country to pull funding for Pride marchers. And this is a good thing.

April 17, 2025
A man talks on his phone as he looks through the wall separating Mexico and the United States where the border reaches the Pacific Ocean, days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Democrat histrionics do nothing but divide

The Democrat Party's penchant for hysterics and histrionics to make political points has to stop. It not only makes Democrats appear stupid -- stupider than stupid -- it also tears apart the nation.

April 16, 2025
In this Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, file photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

CDC on COVID shots: What did it know and what did it delete?

Sen. Ron Johnson has asked three federal agencies to take a look at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who is in charge of monitoring COVID-19 vaccine adverse events and determine whether he deleted or destroyed agency records. Come on, federal health bureaucrats. The jig is up. The cover-up is uncovered.

April 15, 2025
President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump: ‘We need God’ — and like that, all’s right with America

In a country that's founded on the core ideal of individual rights coming from God, and governments only existing as a means of preserving and protecting the rights and liberties granted each individual at birth -- it sure is comforting to have a president who recognizes the importance of God.

April 14, 2025
Tiny Tots U Learning Academy has multiple measles cases, as seen Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)

Measles and illegals: the story Democrats want hidden

The best way for America to keep the country measles-free is to shut down its borders to illegal crossers. That's the quiet part. That's the part open border advocates don't want spoken out loud.

April 11, 2025