Amid over 147,000 fans, many adorned with Southern crowns, pastel tones, and bejeweled accents, Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby. On the home stretch, jockey Junior Alvarado rode the 3-year-old past the Derby favorite, Journalism.
While the headlines varied from Alvarado following in the family business (his dad was a winning jockey) to the beloved trainer Bill Mott, 71, winning his first at Churchill Downs, another place outside Louisville started making its headlines—Washington D.C.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth began the viral domino fall with this note on X:
Sovereignty > Journalism.
On the track. And in 2025 America.
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) May 3, 2025
t’s no secret that the Trump Administration maintains an antagonistic relationship with most of the national media. The president’s defense secretary’s public acknowledgment isn’t surprising, but pouncing on the provided wordplay was rather astute.
The tweet also references Trump’s latest executive order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission. Following the Kentucky Derby results, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was thinking along the same lines.
In the Trump Administration, sovereignty will ALWAYS win.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 4, 2025
However, journalist Logan Clark Hall from The Blaze and Frontier magazine created most of the interest in the wordplay by using the religious-fueled keyword: “omen.”
Sovereignty beating Journalism at The Kentucky Derby is just too perfect.
Powerful omen
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) May 3, 2025
The claim that “Sovereignty” beat “Journalism” is a powerful omen may be entertaining to write and read, but was it catering to the core of Trump’s base, the White Evangelicals?
A substantial part of politics involves routine shots in the arm for rally cries and sustained support.
Yet, if Sovereignty was the omen in 2025’s Kentucky Derby, the winners of Trump’s other years in office could be slightly prophetic as well:
- 2017 – Always Dreaming
- 2018 – Justify
- 2019 – Country House
- 2020 – Authentic
What are the odds?
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