White House Officials Celebrate 'omen' Of Kentucky Derby Victor: 'sovereignty Will Always Win'

White House officials celebrated connected societal media aft a equine named Sovereignty hit retired its rival Journalism astatine nan Kentucky Derby connected Saturday.

Sovereignty trailed astir of nan title and didn't make a large move until adjacent nan last move to separator retired Journalism, nan favourite equine going into nan race, and unafraid nan victory.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was 1 Trump management charismatic who took statement of nan result connected societal media.

"Sovereignty > Journalism," Hegseth wrote. "On nan track. And successful 2025 America."

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Stephen Miller, White House lawman main of staff, besides appeared to reference nan title successful a societal media post.

"In nan Trump Administration, sovereignty will ALWAYS win," Miller wrote.

Sovereignty, ridden by jockey Junior Alvarado, wins nan 151st Kentucky Derby, Saturday, May 3, 2025, astatine Churchill Downs successful Louisville, Kentucky. (Diane Bondareff/AP Content Services for Longines)

Journalist Logan Hall called nan triumph a "powerful omen."

The Trump administration is nary alien to bouts of clash pinch nan media. 

Hegseth has been nan taxable of caller scrutiny aft The New York Times reported that he shared specifications of a March subject airstrike against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen successful a chat connected nan Signal app that included his wife, relative and individual lawyer.

Hegseth has defended himself against nan report, calling nan contention an effort to "sabotage" President Donald Trump's agenda.

Hegseth accused "disgruntled erstwhile employees" of "trying to prevention their a--" by peddling stories, arguing that nan mainstream media's attraction should alternatively beryllium connected "the decimation of nan Houthis, really [the U.S. is] pushing backmost nan Chinese, really we person a caller defense area astatine nan confederate border."

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Miller besides went head-to-head pinch reporters astatine a White House briefing past week, admonishing them complete their sum of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua violence successful nan U.S.

Miller accused immoderate members of nan media of trying to "shill" for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an accused MS-13 personnel nan Trump management deported to El Salvador.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, pinch White House property caput Karoline Leavitt, speaks during a property briefing astatine nan White House connected Thursday successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

He besides accused nan property of only covering nan intersexual battle and execution of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray by 2 alleged Tren de Aragua members successful June 2024 because Trump "shamed" them.

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"Most of your papers ne'er covered her communicative erstwhile it happened, to nan grade that you covered it astatine all, it was because President Trump forced you to screen it by highlighting it many times complete and complete again," Miller said. "He had to shame you into covering it."

Fox News Digital’s Taylor Penley, Diana Stancy and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.