Donald Trump has made his strongest bid yet to take over Canada, offering the Canadian people a 60 percent tax cut if they agree to join the US and become the 51st US state.
The president-elect has in recent days suggested a territorial expansion into Canada, Greenland and Panama, and has mocked prime minister Justin Trudeau by calling him ‘governor.’
More Trump on Panama
Awesome! h/t XC
“China and the United States can together solve all of the problems of the world, if you think about it,” President-Elect Donald Trump said on December 16, at a Mar-a-Lago press conference.
He also called China’s President Xi Jinping “amazing” and confirmed he had invited the Chinese leader to his inauguration.
Earlier in the month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris and stated this in connection with efforts to end the war in Eastern Europe: “China can help.”
On Sunday evening, President-elect Donald Trump wrote that the United States owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity.”
Trump made the remark in a lengthy post announcing Ken Howery as his nominee to serve as ambassador to Denmark. Howery previously served as ambassador to Sweden.
The propaganda merchants badly want to drive a wedge between Trump and Musk.
The corporate media and other Democrat advocacy groups have been desperately casting about for a way to create tension between President-elect Trump and Elon Musk. They know that much of the progressive agenda is in serious danger if the affinity that exists between these two men endures for very long. Beginning well before the election, numerous “news” stories alleged that Musk’s support of Trump created horrendous conflicts of interest. No one outside the Beltway paid any attention. Then, the demise of the 1,547 page “continuing resolution” last week inspired a new narrative — the senior partner in the alliance was Musk rather than Trump.
It is certainly possible to hope that the inauguration of Donald J. Trump will be greeted by a resurgence of the American spirit, from new inventions to a revival of entrepreneurial drive and the renewal of American industry and crafts. Trump may well be right that the mere threat of tariffs may reverse the flow of blue-collar jobs abroad while helping ensure the safety and integrity of vital supply chains that are essential to 21st-century industrial production.
He is certainly right that restoring competitive balance between America and its trade partners abroad, and between monopolistic corporations and small producers at home, is essential to growing and maintaining healthy communities where Americans can work and raise children, who in turn might better their communities. It is hard to argue with the idea that reforming the country’s disastrous attempts at trade and industrial policy while getting poisons out of its food, water and air are necessary steps towards a better American future.
Aw, now you've gone and done it: I think I'm starting to love this guy. @fancypants_s https://t.co/kFSFpUGkvV
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 22, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Right on the heels of PolitiFact declaring President-elect Donald Trump’s line about immigrants eating dogs and cats as the “Lie of the Year,” CBS Saturday Morning profiled legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, suggesting they would somehow suffer because of Trump’s promised mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
Donald Trump could demand Nato allies increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, more than doubling the current target.
The president-elect’s team told European officials they will be expected to increase military budgets after he takes office on Jan 20, as he passes the burden of the war in Ukraine on to Europe.
Only 23 of the 32 Nato members meet the alliance’s spending target of 2 per cent, including the UK.
Trump’s legal action against the media is not about revenge, payback, or getting even — it is justice.
Every American to the right of Ocasio knows that the mainstream media lie and lie. Even much of truth and facts can be honestly, inadvertently tilted. Other facts can be deliberately slanted, though technically true. That is why Kellyanne Conway was right when she uttered her much-mocked assertion that there are “alternate facts.” Certainly, facts are facts, and they do not care about your feelings. But facts indeed can be slanted into alternate facts. Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure. And the media often go beyond reporting facts into concocting outright lies. Think of the Charlottesville lie. It will never stop being spread, even though the video exists all over YouTube, even though left-wing Snopes declared it a lie. Yet, Biden lied, saying that the Charlottesville press conference was why he ran for president. Such a liar, from his first gulp of mother’s milk to his future final injection of morphine. Then Harris repeated the same debunked lie in her presidential debate with Trump. The moderators, who kept fact-checking Trump throughout the debate, never fact-checked Harris, even though Charlottesville is the most famous lie since Gamal Abdul Nasser announced in June 1967 that Egypt had just wiped out the Israeli air force. So, even “fact-checking” often is rooted in and based on lies.
President-elect Donald Trump is several weeks away from taking the oath of office, but his influence on the world stage is already making life difficult for embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The longtime premier of Canada has become a favorite punching bag for Trump, who has mocked Trudeau as the “governor” of the “great state of Canada” and repeatedly insinuated that Canada should become the 51st state of the United States.
In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent.
He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure.
No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval.
A Georgia appellate court Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and removed her from prosecuting Donald Trump and co-defendants in a case she brought over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision is likely to cripple the case and bring a halt to the efforts to try Trump and his allies for their efforts to overturn his loss. Federal prosecutors have already dropped Trump’s federal criminal case related to the 2020 election in the wake of his winning the presidency.
h/t DS
Trump’s media assailants not only lost their ability to control the political narrative, but now must make a sizable contribution to his presidential library.
Shortly before 8 p.m. Eastern time on Election Night on CBS News (America Decides: Election ’24), anchor Lindsey Reiser cut away to Philadelphia, where polls were just about to close in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. CBS had good news for Democrats and Kamala Harris. “The Harris campaign says tonight that they are feeling confident,” CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang told the network’s viewers.
America’s enemies can’t dismiss Trump’s threats.
If they have any instinct for self-preservation, Iran and Hamas should be monitoring President-elect Donald Trump’s communications closely these days.
A couple of weeks ago, there was the Truth Social post promising “ALL HELL TO PAY” if Hamas didn’t release its hostages by Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
As the Christmas holidays and the year end approach, I respectfully take it upon myself to recommend that thoughtful Americans reflect upon how close the United States came in recent years to roaring through and over the guardrails of its constitutional democracy like a derailed express train.
Call it the James Comey-Andrew Weissmann-Merrick Garland-Marc Elias school of fervent and illegal agitation for America as a one-party socialist state, inundated with the teeming masses of the world but governed always from the elitist left inflated with sanctimony while hyperactively dishonest and hypocritical.
