President Trump
Trump should ignore hawks and withdraw from Syria
Donald Trump was mostly correct in his recent social media post on Syria, in which he argued in block capitals: “This is not our fight. Let it play out.” The United States “should have nothing to do with” Syria’s mess, at least in a military sense. Leaving US forces there, whether or not Bashar al-Assad’s fall ends the civil war, is pointless and dangerous.
But the question remains whether the President-elect, this time around, will enact foreign policies consistent with his sensible rhetoric. His record on Syria, after all, is typically unpredictable. As president, he famously announced in 2018 that he was pulling out troops.
Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda, says CNBC survey
Americans say they are ready to support President-elect Donald Trump in his second term and majorities give a green light to some of his controversial promises on the campaign trial. Yet the CNBC All-America Economic Survey also finds the public is flashing yellow and red warning lights on some parts of the Trump agenda.
Lukewarm on Tariffs, Gung Ho on the Borders.
Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.
Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.
Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations.
An idea whose time has come?
RFK Jr wants daughter-in-law as CIA deputy to ‘prove’ JFK conspiracy
Trump’s pick for health secretary claims the agency killed his uncle, President John F Kennedy. Now he wants Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former agent, to prove it
At about 12.30pm on November 22, 1963, President John F Kennedy was shot in the back and the head while riding in a motorcade through Dallas.
Speculation about who was behind the assassination began almost from the moment the bullets struck him and continues to resonate 61 years later, from the darkest corners of the internet to the highest echelons of power.
“The day that his brother died, my father’s first phone call was to the CIA desk officer at Langley,” one of Robert F Kennedy’s sons told the director Oliver Stone for a documentary in 2021. “And he asked them: did your people conduct this horror?”
The great trolling of Justin Trudeau: Why Donald Trump won’t leave Canadian PM alone
Donald Trump waited just three weeks after his election victory last month to restart one of his favourite hobbies during his first administration: trolling Justin Trudeau.
On Nov 26, he pledged to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on Canada, alongside Mexico the US’s largest trading partner, unless the country agreed to crack down on border security.
Cue panic in Ottawa. Mr Trudeau was at Mar-a-Lago three days later to discuss the issue with the president-elect and put on a brave face to tell the media the two men had an “excellent conversation”.
Trump to Europe: Overseeing a Ukraine Cease-Fire Would Be Your Job
The outlines of President-elect Donald Trump’s initial efforts to end the war in Ukraine from his visit to Europe last week are starting to emerge for the first time. The main takeaway: Europe would have to shoulder most of the burden of supporting Kyiv with troops to oversee a cease-fire and weapons to deter Russia.
At a meeting in Paris on Dec. 7, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron that he doesn’t support Ukrainian membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but that he wanted to see a strong, well-armed Ukraine emerge from any cessation of fighting, according to officials briefed on the meeting.
Trump said that Europe should play the main role in defending and supporting Ukraine and that he wanted European troops present in Ukraine to monitor a cease-fire, according to the officials. He hasn’t ruled out U.S. support for the arrangement, although no U.S. troops would be involved, the officials said.
LA Times Says Blame Orange Man! Housing crisis, economic woes and Trump – How Canada turned against immigrants
TORONTO — Canada long sold itself as a beacon for immigrants, who were widely viewed as key to economic growth in a vast nation with a small and rapidly aging workforce.
“Study, work and stay” was the slogan of a government campaign to lure international students, part of a broader push that included recruiting temporary workers and resettling refugees. After President Trump banned travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries in 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada’s doors were open.
“To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” he wrote on the platform now known as X. “Diversity is our strength.”
But in recent months, Canada has changed course.
Don’t harsh my mellow man!
Trudeau presents premiers with plan to address Trump’s border concerns as tariff threat looms
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Canada’s premiers on Wednesday to discuss Ottawa’s plan to address U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about the Canada-U.S. border.
This is the second time Trudeau has met with premiers since Trump threatened to hit Canada with steep tariffs last month — and the first meeting since the prime minister’s dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
John Ivison: With our ‘post-national’ leader it’s no wonder Trump thinks we aren’t a real country
While taking part in a geography student awards ceremony in 2016, Vladimir Putin corrected a schoolboy who said Russia’s border with the U.S. ended at the Bering Strait.
“Russia’s borders have no end,” Putin said, before clarifying. “This is a joke.”
It was the same kind of mirthless, menacing crack that permeates Donald Trump’s repeated reference to Canada as the 51st state of America .
Trudeau will have to ‘kiss the ring’ to achieve smoother bilateral relations with Trump: John Bolton
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to get on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s good side for the sake of a smooth bilateral relationship, he’ll likely have to be openly deferential, says former U.S. National Security Advisor, John Bolton.
“It’s always possible, if somebody kisses the ring. I mean, that’s what Trump likes,” Bolton told CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Wednesday, when asked if he thinks it’s possible for Trudeau and Trump to forge a better relationship than during the former president’s first term.
Trudeau’s dingbat feminist comments on Kamala Harris ’not helpful,’ premiers say
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments likening Kamala Harris’s election loss to an attack on women’s rights and progress earned him criticism from the country’s premiers on Wednesday.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
This was likely a deliberate act of sabotage.
Trumpism Goes Global: America’s Peaceful Citizen Uprising Inspires Political Rebellion Across the World
Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites.
We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion — man against the self-serving, out-of-touch political machines that ignore the will of the governed.
The Coming Fight to Abolish DEI
There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Political operatives, policy wonks, and opposition figures are all planning for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration.
I’ve spoken with many of the people in the president-elect’s orbit who are planning how to staff Cabinet departments and set a new tone on the administration’s first day. Much of our discussion has focused on the approach to DEI, or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Trump shooting task force unveils bombshell final report on ‘preventable’ assassination attempt
The House Assassination task force released its final and longawait report on Tuesday.
The 180-page report claims the deadly shooting at Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 was ‘preventable and should not have happened.’
It was released just days after its final public meeting last week where Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe got into a screaming match with Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas).