The ability of any US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated. Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global monarch and grand arbiter of war and peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, omnipotence and divine right. Intoxicated by such ego-inflating delusions, he pledged before taking office to swiftly end the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Perhaps, in his vanity and hubris, he truly believed he could.
As if speaking with NATO members, he said: "It greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia." Since 2023, NATO member Turkey has been the third largest buyer of Russian oil, after China and India. according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. Other members of the 32-state alliance involved in purchasing Russian oil include Hungary and Slovakia.
This was a particularly fraught decision for Trump because his idea of "policy accomplishments" involved a vast expansion of presidential power, an inevitably controversial mass-deportation program, a return to protectionist economic strategies, and relentless threats of Mafia-style retribution against his enemies and critics. Given his incredibly high regard for his own uniqueness and his history of disdain for the Republican Party, it would have been the most natural thing in the world for Trump to write off the midterms
On Saturday, the president posted an image of himself as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, the Wagner-blasting cavalry officer in Apocalypse Now. "I love the smell of deportations in the morning," the meme said, paraphrasing the famous quote from the movie. In case the implication was unclear-little about Kilgore or Trump is subtle-the meme added, "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." The image replaced the film's name with "Chipocalypse Now," superimposing the city skyline on a fiery sky.
I'm not happy, I'm not happy, he said when asked if he was becoming less trustful of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. I'm not happy about the whole situation. Trump's remarks came hours after Russia launched what is said to be its largest attack on Ukraine since the conflict began, as peace talks between the nations falter. Four people were killed, and a key government building in Kyiv was damaged in the Russian strike, the Associated Press reported.
Screenshot President Donald Trump is not just serving as commander in chief. He's also running a content studio. This week, he bragged about extrajudicially killing alleged cartel members on a boat in the Caribbean a boast that landed less like a policy declaration than a deleted scene from Narcos. Then he doubled down with an AI-generated photo of himself as Robert Duvall's Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. Aviators, chiseled jaw, the whole bit. It was either shamelessly embarrassing and hilariously over the top,
By SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will host next year's Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Doral. In his first term, Trump tried to host a separate global summit at the club but backed down after criticism from his own party about the propriety of doing so. "Well, I think everybody wants it there," Trump said Friday when asked if the global summit would be at his golf club and spa.
So we really beat them by much more than you think, Trump joked. This is the 201st executive order, sir. This relates to hostages and wrongfully detained Americans. This provides a new legal mechanism to declare foreign countries to be countries that engage in those sorts of practices and gives your administration powerful tools to get American hostages out, Scharf added as he moved on to the next EO.
Despite the excitement of the weekend, Trump is very much alive, which we know because he gave an hour-long press conference on Tuesday afternoon, which began with his announcement that he's moving Space Command from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama and ended with him rambling about how the U.S. is the hottest and the best and that we'd be a third world country right now if it weren't for tariffs.
I inherited this war. And all I'm trying to do is put out the flame, you know. And I thought I had it done. I did it seven times with other, I did it with wars that were tougher than this in terms of nobody. So three of those wars are going on for more than 30 years, and I got them all done.
Conway hosted Friday's Hannity, where she pointed to recent comments by the restaurant's founder, who cast the ill-fated logo change in grim terms. If they don't get back to keeping the country, then it ain't gonna work, he said. Conway's guest went even further, stating that the failed logo change was part of a much larger sinister undertow of our culture led by the radical Marxist left.
With one peculiar and complex thing - the supreme leader of the world's greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He functions as an asset,
When Mark Zuckerberg cozied up to Donald Trump at the beginning of this year, lots of folks chalked it up to fear. After all, they pointed out, Trump had previously threatened to throw the Meta CEO in jail. More prosaically, the US government that Trump was about to head up again was suing to break up Zuckerberg's company. But as we've pointed out here multiple times, Zuckerberg - and the rest of Big Tech's leaders - aren't just trying to stay off Trump's list of targets.
PSAKI: Trump has surrounded himself with people who already treat him like a dictator. And I was going to try to describe for you just how sycophantic this cabinet meeting today was, how much it would make North Korean leader Kim Jong Un or Russian President Putin blush. But my attempt to summarize this meeting, just no matter how hard I tried, just could simply not do it justice. And this is one of those things you really have to see for yourself.
Everything Donald Trump says or does can be plotted on a three-dimensional graph where the axes are: fascist, stupid, and unconstitutional. I try to focus my attention on things that are flagrantly fascist and patently unconstitutional, but Trump's recent flag burning executive order-ridiculously titled "Prosecuting Burning of The American Flag" -exists in the rare quadrant of flagrantly fascist, patently unconstitutional, and utterly stupid.
"The games the administration is playing with re-releasing already public documents while withholding the Trump-Epstein files and other key information is another betrayal of survivors," former Amb. Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund said. "In a democracy, transparency isn't optional. It's the law, and it's the bare minimum the American people are owed." The White House and the Justice Department did not respond to Axios' request for comment.
"There appeared to be a kind of vortex in the middle of the table in the meeting room; it sizzled and gave off sparks. Some paper clips flew into it and disappeared. "Her? Who?" "Melania Trump!" the voice yelled. "The future first lady!" "Future?" "First lady?" "There's no time to explain! Just put her on it! Put her on as many of them as you can! Trust us, you don't want to know what they'll do to get a cover!
Since the beginning of his second administration, Donald Trump has been pursuing opportunities to make a quick buck in cryptocurrency at nearly every chance he can get. He and his team have already taken care of the obvious stuff, like meme coins and stablecoins and Trump-branded exchange-traded funds, which have earned him billions. So to keep the good times rolling, the Trump crypto brain trust needed to get more creative.
The Kennedy Center Honors were always a populist affair, not to be confused with the somewhat more upscale National Medal of the Arts (which Presidents are also traditionally associated with). But under Trump, who shunned them entirely in his prior term, the announced next recipients are an almost comically MOR roundup: Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford, "I Will Survive" singer Gloria Gaynor, cartoon metal act KISS, cartoon movie machismo exemplar Sylvester Stallone, and veteran country star George Strait, who couldn't be any straiter.
And so, in a desperate attempt to cut through the red tape, new-ish Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan on Friday conceded 10 percent of his company, about 433 million shares, to Uncle Sam in exchange for $8.9 billion of funding held hostage by the current administration. Remember, Intel has already spent tens of billions of dollars on fabs with the understanding its investments in US manufacturing would be rewarded.
Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the World, aren't paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES. They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!! Crooked 'journalism' should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!
