“Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him,” reads a Reuters headline from this week. In the piece, a range of Muslim Americans who voted for the President-elect lament that he has chosen several cabinet officials who favour a strong security relationship with Israel and who have downplayed the rights of the Palestinians.
Woke academics funneling scientific funding toward political activism are terrified President-elect Donald Trump is about to Make Science Great Again.
We are witnessing a sea change of political currents both in America and in Europe. Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has sent shock waves through the liberal establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. But it is a salutary shock.
It forces the European political class , and the German in particular, to abandon some of their illusions and forces us to become more grown up and self-reliant in matters of economic and security policy. Trump’s brutal way of formulating American national interests is refreshing. It tears away the veil of fake moralising and ideological kitsch that have obscured our perception of realities and actual global power issues.
The incoming Donald Trump administration and Republicans in Congress still see Canada as a friend and ally, but will continue to press Ottawa on addressing border security and defence spending, a prominent conservative advisor says.
Georganne Burke, who has worked in both U.S. and Canadian politics and supported Trump’s return to the White House, says those two issues in particular will be major sticking points in the Canada-U.S. relationship unless the Liberal government shows it’s willing to act in the ways Trump wants.
Few people in history have had more words written about them than Donald Trump. And perhaps it is in the nature of things that much of what is written is uninformed, half-informed or mal-informed.
But reading British reactions to Trump’s historic re-election landslide this month, it is still striking how little effort there is in this country actually to understand what Trump is about or what he wants to achieve.
Just one reason why this is strange is that Trump tends to say what he wants in very plain English. And then he does what he says he’ll do.
People have good reason to doubt the veracity of campaign promises because they have good, abundant evidence that politicians hardly feel honour-bound to keep them.
For many politicians, making promises you can’t keep is as natural as breathing on the campaign trail. In turn, the electorate is conditioned to expect political promises to be like piñatas: designed to be broken.
But it looks like the Donald Trump’s victory may be ushering in a new era.
What will Donald Trump’s foreign policy look like in his second term?
This is the question currently making the buzz in the commentariat around the world.
Western European pundits claim that Trump will abandon the Ukrainian lamb to the Russian wolf or, at least, force the European shepherd to foot the bill for keeping it half alive.
The liberal media swears they’re unbiased. According to them, it’s just a weird, inexplicable quirk of fate when conservatives perpetually get the dagger and liberals are always pampered, propped up, and protected. Still, they’re adamant: “There is no media bias!”
Robert F Kennedy Jr was pictured eating McDonald’s on Donald Trump’s private plane as they made their way to watch the UFC in New York on Saturday night.
RFK Jr, who Mr Trump has tapped as America’s next health secretary, struck an awkward pose as he sat with his McDonald’s burger, fries and Coca Cola – the president-elect’s favourite meal.
Canada’s public safety minister says he’s confident in the work of agencies tasked with detaining and removing people in the country illegally and preventing security threats crossing into the U.S., but will boost enforcement resources if necessary.
Dominic LeBlanc says that work by the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) should prove to the incoming Donald Trump administration — whose newly appointed “border czar” has called the Canada-U.S. border a “huge national security issue” — that Ottawa shares their concerns about border security.
Donald Trump has announced that he will appoint Karoline Leavitt, his campaign spokeswoman, to serve as White House press secretary in his next administration.
At 27, Leavitt will be the youngest White House press secretary in US history.
Can Trumps New Press Sec get an pic.twitter.com/cBiBRUbcPv
— Greta_USA (@DEI_Greta) November 16, 2024
h/t Mauser
She is the flamethrower they describe.
Okay, Liberal, White House, Press Corespondents, don’t bother stressing over creating ‘gotcha questions’, take a deep breath and brace yourselves for Karoline Leavitt, a nice 27 year old, educated, Catholic girl, who breathes fire.
Trust me, don’t mess with us educated Catholic… pic.twitter.com/6xY0dNoPlV— & ℂ… (@bud_cann) November 16, 2024
Last night, Donald Trump signalled a seismic shift in American science and public health. Fulfilling his campaign promise, he endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest federal department with a $1.7 trillion annual budget and over 80,000 employees. Kennedy’s statement in response vows to “bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic”, as well as to “clean up corruption” and return the health agencies to “gold-standard, evidence-based science”.
The entire political atmosphere in the United States has miraculously changed: the ludicrous lamentations about possible violence have come to nothing, and there have not been any allegations of election irregularities. The new administration has a clear majority, and a seat change has occurred down to sweeping out the criminal-coddling district attorney of Los Angeles and evicting the inept Democratic mayors of San Francisco and Oakland. The ballots are still being counted, but so far, it appears that the Democratic majority in California has shrunk by more than two million in 2024, and, in New York, by almost one million, and the Republican majorities in Texas and Florida have both grown very substantially. More tellingly, although Trump’s vote has increased by almost two million since 2020, the Democratic popular vote has decreased by approximately eight million, which may be partly explained by the extensive use of harvested ballots in 2020. We will never know for sure but I would argue Trump may be the only U.S. president except Franklin D. Roosevelt to have won three consecutive elections.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been nominated to be our next attorney general. It’s triggered all the right people, as he would take a baseball bat to the Department of Justice. It’s a clear sign that the era of gangster antics from the rogue officials and agents here is over. Gaetz is indeed the king of controversy. He wallows in it so that this confirmation fight will be bloody. It just is since there are more than enough squishy Republicans who could make this fight a slog.
Trump seduced the #MeToo generation
The days when most young voters, whether male or female, would reliably vote Democrat are over. Among the axiomatic election patterns smashed by Donald Trump, young men have swung to the Republicans by nearly 30%.
Cue the scorn. The Left-leaning press has derided the shift as merely the rise of “toxic masculinity” and the hatred of women’s rights. The New York Times described something even more sinister, calling it creeping “hegemonic masculinity”.
This reflexive contempt may unintentionally provide an explanation for the reversal. Many young men believe they live in a liberal-leaning society that actively despises them, treating them with disdain rather than empathy as their struggles have mounted.
