The Pope’s revenge: why the new Archbishop of Washington is such a controversial choice

Cardinal McElroy – looks like he belongs in a Star Trek episode. (Original)

For an 88-year-old man who has spent only five days in the United States and doesn’t speak English, Pope Francis is a surprisingly partisan observer of American politics. For most of his life he was, like a typical Argentinian, viscerally but vaguely anti-American.

But by the time he became Pope in 2013 both he and the Democratic party had embraced the ideology of the globalist left. And so they became allies. In 2016, Francis gave his blessing to the Hillary Clinton campaign’s Catholic front organisations, motivated not just by a shared obsession with anti-racism and climate change but contempt for Donald Trump.

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Mexico risks Trump’s wrath as it BLOCKS packed illegal migrant deportation flight from landing

Mexican authorities blocked a US military plane from deporting illegal migrants on Thursday after Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown began.

American officials told NBC News a packed jet never took off after authorities south of the border rejected the move.

The flight was one of three that were set to take off on Thursday, alongside two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s carrying over 150 people, as part of what Trump has described as the largest mass deportation effort in US history.

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Trump calls for voter ID laws, water policy reform for California ahead of federal wildfire aid

President Donald Trump said that allowing more water to flow down to California and implementing voter ID laws are necessary before federal aid is distributed to Los Angeles for wildfire relief.

h/t XC

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Denmark in ‘crisis mode’ after ‘horrendous’ phone call from Trump demanding to buy Greenland

Denmark is in “crisis mode” after Donald Trump made a direct play for Greenland in a “horrendous” phone call with the country’s prime minister.

The US president spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week and made clear he wanted to place Greenland under American control.

The autonomous Arctic territory has been owned by Denmark since 1814, but Mr Trump thinks it would be a valuable asset in the US’s strategic competition against Russia and China.

h/t XC & Mauser

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Davos elite nod along as Trump delivers ultimatum

World leaders, the bosses of the world’s biggest companies and a sprinkling of celebrities gathered in the small Swiss mountain town of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum this week.

On the other side of the Atlantic, President Donald Trump was starting his political comeback as the new US president.

“Nothing will stand in our way”, he declared, as he vowed to end America’s “decline”.

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Trump to WEF: America First

On Thursday, Donald Trump delivered to the World Economic Forum his speech for his second inauguration, this time as leader of the free world—a duty no Democrat president has embraced since JFK. President Trump did not bother to fly to Davos because he has better things to do than waste 8 hours flying there and 8 hours back. He sent a video.

He not only says and acts America First, he lives it.

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Trump cuts off security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci had his taxpayer-funded security detail pulled, President Trump confirmed during a press conference Friday.

“I think when you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off, and you know, you can’t have them forever,” Trump told a reporter at a hurricane response briefing in Asheville, NC

h/t XC

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Donald Trump interview highlights: immigration, TikTok and wildfires

President Trump gave the first sit-down interview of his second term to Sean Hannity, the Fox News primetime host, on Wednesday.

Here are a few key moments from the interview.

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Has Trump killed Davos Man?

The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) arrived in Davos, Switzerland this week with unusually little fanfare. The world’s eyes were instead fixed on Washington, DC and on Donald Trump’s second inauguration as US president. Even those at the WEF were focussed primarily on the United States. As Reuters observed, ‘Davos becomes the world’s most exclusive watch party’.

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ICE arrests irate Haitian gang member, murder and rape suspects in Boston: ‘F–k Trump, Biden forever!’

Obama fan.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hit the ground running this week, arresting multiple violent offenders in sanctuary cities, including a hostile Haitian gang member with a lengthy rap sheet who said he “ain’t going back to Haiti” and raged “F–k Trump, Biden forever!”

ICE officers in Boston made eight noteworthy arrests, including multiple MS-13 gang members, murder and rape suspects and the Haitian gang member, with 18 recent convictions, according to Fox News, who rode along with ICE for the arrests.

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Trump skewers Bank of America boss for ‘BANNING conservatives’ in excruciating Davos exchange

President Donald Trump attacked Bank of America for failing to lend to conservatives during a sudden attack during a livestream speech to execs and elites in Davos.

The sudden blast came in an angry speech where Trump vowed to slap tariffs on countries that don’t manufacture inside the U.S. and demanded OPEC lower oil prices.

During a question-and-answer period, the bank’s CEO Brian Moynihan asked a softball question about how his executive orders would impact his push for economic growth and market growth.

Full address.

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Trump takes on the climatecrats

Donald Trump has pulled America out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement for the second time. The new US president signed an executive order following his inauguration yesterday, reversing the decision of his predecessor, Joe Biden, to drag the US back into the agreement in 2021. Bizarrely, like some dodgy insurance scam, the rules of the climatocracy say it takes a year to withdraw from the deal, so not until next winter will America be free of its obligations to reduce its emissions.

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