7 Things: Trump returns to Alabama, dumb South Alabama kids ruin lives over social media, and more …

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October 5, 2026

7. President Donald Trump said at his Mobile rally that he will attend next week’s No. 7 Alabama versus No. 2 Georgia game at Bryant-Denny Stadium, between undefeated national-title contenders, marking his third football visit to the stadium after Alabama’s 46-41 loss to LSU in 2019 and the 2024 Tide win over Georgia.

6. Former Auburn men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl rightly criticized the school’s Turning Point USA chapter for inviting fringe GOP figure James Fishback, writing, “His racist comments about my friend Byron Donalds’ ‘being a slave to his donors’ or whether ‘he was really black’ are unacceptable,” after Fishback, who finished third in Florida’s primary with 10.5 percent, told a Black man, “You should be lynched.”

5. Alabama Democratic Party has a “Rudolph Drake problem” because Senate District 2 nominee Rudolph Valentino Drake, who won the runoff with 53 percent and campaigns on “integrity, service, and real results,” was the subject of a 2022 Florida final injunction for protection against stalking that ordered him to stay 500 feet from a woman who alleged he said, “deserved a bullet in her head.”

4. State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) warned that growth in Madison, Jefferson, and Shelby counties is shifting the vote, saying, “This state has changed,” that newcomers “think more like Northern Virginians,” and that while the investment is “good economically, that may not be as good politically for Republicans,” with some House races “tighter than they otherwise would have been.”

3. Alabama Republican Party Chairman State Rep. Scott Stadthagen (R-Hartselle) told President Donald Trump’s Mobile rally, “Here in Alabama, we know exactly what a woman is,” backed State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) against extreme Democrats like U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile), and said Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, “cast a vote in the United States Senate that a five-month baby in a woman’s womb is not a life.”

2. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) welcomed President Donald Trump to Alabmaa by saying, “He loves this state,” while U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) said Democrats “don’t love this nation” and are “the most radical group of candidates this country has ever seen,” Lt. Gov. nominee John Wahl called November 3 election “a spiritual battle” and “between light and darkness,” and Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, answered Britt with “Come on Katie” and challenged Tuberville to a debate knowing it will never happen.

1. Three University of South Alabama students, Amare Jemal Woods, Cameron Lamark Lewis, and Kayla Leaann Smith, were arrested and charged with threatening President Donald Trump on TikTok and X ahead of his campus rally, with Woods’ attorney Jason Darley saying the 18-year-old’s comment “was NOT a threat” and was “in poor taste, and with terrible timing,” while the university said it “unequivocally condemns any form of threats directed at elected officials.”

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