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Trump Says Saudi Arabia to Get F-35 Jets Under Arrangement Similar to Israel

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By CNA. US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (Nov 18) that the United States would sell advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, signalling that Riyadh would receive the same top-tier defence equipment long reserved for Israel.

“As far as I’m concerned, I think they are both at a level where they should get top-of-the-line F-35s,” Trump told reporters at the White House, calling Saudi Arabia and Israel “great allies”.

The comments came as Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks aimed at deepening defence cooperation and expanding a growing US–Saudi security partnership.

Trump said Washington and Riyadh had reached a “defence agreement”, though he offered no details. Saudi Arabia is seeking stronger security guarantees from the US amid heightened regional tensions and has been pushing for access to advanced military hardware.

The crown prince, making his first White House visit in more than seven years, said security cooperation was a core priority of the trip. He also announced that Saudi Arabia would increase its planned investments in the United States to nearly US$1 trillion, up from a US$600 billion pledge made during Trump’s visit to Riyadh in May. (Read more from “Trump Says Saudi Arabia to Get F-35 Jets Under Arrangement Similar to Israel” HERE)

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Israel’s ICC appeal is not about Karim Khan, but Trump – analysis

By The Jerusalem Post. Israel’s appeal to the International Criminal Court’s highest chamber to cancel the arrest warrants outstanding against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant on the basis of disqualifying ICC’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has much more to do with US President Donald Trump than with Khan.

If the only questions were: “Can Israel get Khan disqualified, and can this lead to the arrest warrants being tossed?” the answer would surely be that the arrest warrants won’t be nixed, even if Khan is.

But there are broader issues at stake here, and, though unlikely, the ICC could choose to use disqualifying Khan as a way out from its nearly year-long conflict with the Trump administration.

Since Trump returned to power in January and gave the ICC a brief ultimatum to withdraw the arrest warrants against Israel, the US government has escalated sanctions against ICC officials, one move after another.

Cumulatively, the ICC has lost employees, funding, and general flexibility in operations due to its stance on maintaining the arrest warrants. (Read more from “Israel’s ICC appeal is not about Karim Khan, but Trump – analysis” HERE)

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Trump-Appointed Judge May Have Just Cost Republicans Nearly Half A Dozen House Seats

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A three-judge federal panel ruled on Tuesday that Texas can’t use the GOP-drawn redistricting map designed to boost Republican chances in the 2026 midterm elections.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the new map into law in August, which would add up to five additional House seats for the Republican Party in the midterms, The Texas Tribune reported. However, the 2-1 Tuesday ruling asserts the map was “racially gerrymandered.”

A judge appointed by President Donald Trump joined a judge appointed by former President Obama in the ruling. A judge appointed by former President Ronald Reagan dissented.

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map,” the ruling states. “But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

Texas is anticipated to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press. (Read more from “Trump-Appointed Judge May Have Just Cost Republicans Nearly Half A Dozen House Seats” HERE)

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Trump Says H-1B Workers Needed Because Americans Don’t Know How to Make Microchips

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President Donald Trump said Monday that H-1B migrant workers are essential for the U.S. because Americans currently lack the skills to produce microchips, a key industry he says is returning to the country after decades overseas.

Speaking to reporters following a Nov. 10 interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump emphasized that while the U.S. once led the world in chip manufacturing, much of the industry was lost to Taiwan due to poor policy decisions.

“For instance, if you’re going to be making chips — we don’t make chips too much here anymore, but we are going to be in a period of a year, we’re going to have a big portion of the chip market,” Trump said. “But we have to train our people how to make chips, because we didn’t get — we used to do it, and then foolishly, we lost that business to Taiwan, very, very foolishly… But it’s all coming back.”

Trump criticized the CHIPS Act, which he argued gave billions of dollars to foreign countries rather than bolstering domestic production. “Chip makers are all coming back, and I think within a very short period of time, we’re going to have maybe even the majority of the chip making in the world right in the United States, where it should have been all along,” he said.

Despite asserting that the industry is returning, Trump stressed the need for H-1B visa workers to fill the gap, saying Americans currently do not possess the required expertise. “But because we had people that didn’t believe in tariffs — if they believed in them, they didn’t know how to use them — we would have had nobody leaving our country right now, and instead, you have almost 100% of the chips made in Taiwan. It’s so disgraceful. The good news is it’s all coming back,” he added.

The president’s comments on H-1B visas have drawn criticism from some in his political base. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a rival for the 2024 Republican nomination, seized on the remarks to call for legislative action. “Republicans have a majority in Congress and could legislate elimination of H1B (and any programs designed to import cheap foreign labor). Deeds, not words, are what matter,” DeSantis wrote in a Nov. 13 response to a tweet criticizing Congress for not moving faster on H-1B reform.

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GOP Lawmaker Hits Back After Donald Trump Appears To Knock His Marriage

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By USA Today. Rep. Thomas Massie hit back at President Donald Trump this week, accusing the president of “trying to be a bully” after he appeared to criticize the Kentucky Republican’s recent marriage.

Trump on Friday, Nov. 14 shared a post on Truth Social asking if Massie got “married already,” saying “His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!” Massie married Carolyn Moffa, a former congressional staffer for Sen. Rand Paul, last month. Massie’s late wife, Rhonda Massie, died in June 2024. They were married for over 30 years.

Massie and Trump have most recently been at odds because the Kentucky lawmaker and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, introduced legislation that would force the Justice Department to release a full version of the government’s files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration has fought against the move. . .

But when asked about Trump’s comments during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Nov. 16, Massie joked that his wife said “we should have invited Donald Trump. He’s mad that he didn’t get an invitation.”

“We’re taking it with a grain of salt,” Massie said. “He’s being a bully, or trying to be a bully.” (Read more from “GOP Lawmaker Hits Back After Donald Trump Appears To Knock His Marriage” HERE)

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‘Full on crash out’ as Trump pal implies dissenting GOP lawmaker ‘killed his wife’: report

By Raw Story. MAGA influencer Laura Loomer is under fire Sunday after calling the death of Rhonda Massie – the wife of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – a “mystery” and “bizarre,” with one independent journalist alleging Loomer to be “implying Massie killed his wife.”

In a social media post Saturday, Loomer posed what she called a “serious question” regarding the passing of Massie’s wife.

“How did Massie’s wife die? Is there a police report? Is there an autopsy report?” Loomer wrote in a social media post on X. “Why is this such a mystery? I’d like to know. I find it to be bizarre and I always have. Now there’s a much younger woman in the picture.”

Massie’s wife died last year due to “respiratory complications of chronic autoimmune myopathy,” according to coroner Amy Cox, and Massie has since remarried. Loomer has frequently targeted Massie for his efforts to release files on Jeffrey Epstein in direct opposition to President Donald Trump, whom she remains a strong ally to.

Independent journalist and documentary filmmaker James Li, however, tore into Loomer for what he described as her having a “full on crash out.”

(Read more from “‘Full on crash out’ as Trump pal implies dissenting GOP lawmaker ‘killed his wife’: report” HERE)

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Trump Reveals When ‘Moderate Income’ Americans Can Expect To Get $2K Tariff Checks

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President Trump vowed to issue tariff dividends sometime before the 2026 midterms during an Oval Office event touting his administration’s work bringing the FIFA World Cup to the US.

“We’re gonna be issuing dividends later on, somewhere prior to — the middle of next year, a little bit later than that,” he said, noting it would include “Thousands of dollars, for individuals of moderate income.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent previously revealed that the proposed $2,000 tariff dividend checks for American citizens would be awarded, but noted that the idea was only “in discussion.” . . .

The remittance would require approval from Congress, where even the president’s own Republican allies have expressed skepticism and encouraged Trump to focus on decreasing the federal budget deficit instead.

“It’ll never pass. We have a $37 trillion debt,” Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio told reporters in July, according to Business Insider. (Read more from “Trump Reveals When ‘Moderate Income’ Americans Can Expect To Get $2K Tariff Checks” HERE)

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In Search of Donald Trump

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I’m looking for Donald Trump. The one I voted for three times.

I knew he wasn’t perfect, and wouldn’t be anywhere near close to following the Constitution. No president is, even those we admire most, like Washington, Jefferson and Madison. We all have to “pick our poison” when we vote. I was pleasantly surprised by his first term. I defended him when they stole the election from him in 2020, and when they put him through lawfare for four years. The Democrats have proven that they are the party of death. Voting for Trump was a no brainer.

I have known that the Deep State existed since I read None Dare Call It Treason and None Dare Call It Conspiracy decades ago. I knew that the John Birch Society and Joseph McCarthy were demonized because they were too close to the truth. The Deep State is much, much more evil than most people realize.

Aside from murdering the Kennedys, they cleverly compromised the youngest one, Teddy, into being their obedient servant. They completely control Alaska, they stole the GOP nomination from Ron Paul. Trump knows all this by now, and the four years of horrendous suffering he has had to undergo, and the close calls with death, has made him a lot more truculent than before.

I don’t blame him for putting his enemies under the microscope, and the Republican congress must expose the Deep State and globalists while they possess a majority, for the sake of all Americans. Calling it “Partisanship!” rings hollow, considering what the Democrats were doing.

But Trump is selling out his own coalition with his war-making. The Left has discovered that the Zionist Lobby controls American politics, and it is the one thing that might unite them with the authentic patriots on the Right. The Left has already forfeited the Left-Right coalition that opposed Big Pharma, with their Covid hypocrisies, and they have completely sold their souls over forced vaxes. “My body, my choice” only applied to killing babies for them.

But many on the Right have their own blind spot. It is the Jerry Falwell/Scofield Bible crowd, that would pander to the Zionist Lobby, as if that alone would save America. That is about as Pharisaic as I can imagine: the idea that God is more interested in form, than He is in hearts.

Trump is a New Yorker and New Yorkers have always been pro-Zionism. He has yet to discover that those times are over. His denunciation of Marjorie Taylor Green, Thomas Massie, Tucker Carlson and Rand Paul demonstrates that he really does not understand basic limited government principles. He is throwing all that out for the sake of marrying us to the corrupt and murderous Israeli State.

And now we have Venezuela. It is as absurd a militaristic venture as we could conjure. They have been a communist government for a long time. We haven’t invaded Cuba, which is a lot closer and potentially more dangerous. The so-called “War on Drugs” is a shopworn, useless program, pretty much like LBJ’s “War on Poverty”.

Give it up, Donald. We voted for you to keep us OUT of wars, and all of yours have been, of course, undeclared. You’ve got bi-partisan company: Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I & II, Clinton, Obama and Biden. Venezuela’s contribution to America’s drug problem is nothing compared to Mexico, and they are a lot closer. But that would be a very costly and impossible war to wage, and you wouldn’t get the votes in Congress. We were unjust in invading Mexico in 1846. Maybe not in 1916, but that went nowhere into a wild goose chase.

Venezuela is a softer target, but the War on Drugs cannot be won by military action.

No, it must be done by dealing with the problem that creates the market for drugs, meaning our own feckless and indifferent citizenry. It crosses all economic and racial classes. Marijuana, cocaine, opioids, heroin, all damage our health, our heads and our spirits.

The problem of fatherless families, drugs, sex and self-gratification will never be cured by government. Blasting drug boats and napalm-bombing poppy plantations won’t end it. It will be ended when the market dries up. And even benign government actions, like anti-drug and STD posters and leaflets, school curriculums and programs, will do nothing but make people feel good, without solving the problem. It cannot change those “Hearts and Minds of the people.”

No, that belongs to religion. And all religions tell us that 1) there is a supernatural world, 2) we are all going to die, 3) there is a Natural Law, 4) we will be called to account, 5) there is hope for every individual.

Once the government supported religions with stamps that said, “Pray for Peace”, commercials that said, “The Family that prays together, stays together,” and “Worship together this week”. Presidents called for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, something that the people of Nineveh discovered actually works. That is about all it can do. Hand off the ball and let religion run with it.

There is an incredible thing about repentance. Individuals can begin it any time, and it works. But for a whole society to repent, it needs a leader, and a humble one. I did not expect Trump to be humble. But if he repented, it would set the table for us all, just as his denunciation of abortion, transgender surgeries and defense of women’s sports has already done, and world wide.

It would show that the best thing government can do is to turn some things over to God.

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Report: Man Who Attempted to Kill Trump Had Furry Obsession, Online ‘They/Them’ Profile

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New reporting reveals disturbing details about Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. The allegations raise serious questions about Crooks’ ideological shift, online life, and possible intelligence or security failures around his rise.

According to a New York Post investigation, Crooks once expressed pro-Trump views but dramatically flipped his ideology in 2020, becoming virulently anti-Trump. Over a span of months, he channeled extremist language, praised mass violence, and floated terror-style tactics — including bombs and assassination — against political figures.

One chilling online post read:

“IMO the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks … sneak a bomb … track down any important people/politicians/military leaders … try to assassinate them.”

According to the Post’s source, Crooks was not a “lone actor” with no footprint — his online presence left a “digital trail” across multiple platforms: YouTube, Discord, Snapchat, Quora, and more. That trail reportedly includes extremist ideology, admiration for violence, and threats.

Adding a strange layer to the story, investigators trace Crooks’ online activity to two DeviantArt accounts, “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave,” where he used “they/them” pronouns. DeviantArt is a major hub for “furries” — people interested in anthropomorphized animal characters. According to the report, at least some of his artwork and commentary leaned sexual, featuring muscular male bodies and female heads.

Some commentators see parallels with Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was also reportedly involved in furry-related porn and subculture.

What’s fueling even more concern: why Crooks slipped under the radar. A former senior FBI agent, Rod Swanson, said Crooks may have already caught the bureau’s attention.

“If they investigated that kid there’s a record of it … but some leader made that this was not a threat … or they ‘did something else,’” Swanson told the Post.

Swanson’s remark hints that Crooks’ online extremism might not have been entirely secret — or that agencies misjudged its seriousness.

Trump Reverses Course on Epstein Files: Supports Release After Previously Calling It a ‘Democrat Hoax’

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In a dramatic turnaround, President Donald Trump on Sunday called for House Republicans to support the full release of Jeffrey Epstein documents — a marked shift from his prior stance labeling the battle a left-wing “hoax.”

The surprise reversal came as the House neared a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bipartisan effort led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Trump wrote on Truth Social: “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.”

He doubled down, blaming his earlier criticism on what he called “Radical Left Lunatics” trying to distract from the Republican Party’s “great success.” But he also confirmed he wants a criminal-style investigation: he said he will ask the Department of Justice and the FBI to probe Epstein’s ties to major Democratic figures — including Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, and J.P. Morgan Chase — while notably leaving out any Republican names from his target list.

Newly Released Emails Raise Troubling Allegations

Trump’s shift follows a fresh eruption of documents from the House Oversight Committee, which on Wednesday released over 20,000 pages from Epstein’s estate. These files include damning statements in Epstein’s own emails, once shared with House Democrats, that appear to tie Trump more deeply to conversations about Epstein’s underage victims.

According to Factually, a fact-checking site, analysts reviewed the House Oversight Committee materials and estimated that Trump is mentioned in more than 1,600 of the 2,324 email threads in that batch.

In one 2011 exchange between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein writes:

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump … [Redacted] spent hours at my house with him … he has never once been mentioned. … im 75 % there.”

— Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwel

In a separate 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein states:

“Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

In a separate 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein states:

“Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Trump’s reversal has raised eyebrows from both sides of the aisle. Critics say his change of heart comes only after the newly released documents make his past denials harder to sustain publicly.

The timing may also have political motives. Earlier in November, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in secured the final signature needed to force a House floor vote on the Transparency Act — meaning Trump risks being on the wrong side of a formal congressional majority.

Nevertheless, Trump and his allies are pushing back. The White House dismissed the newly released emails as a politically driven leak, insisting the president has nothing to hide.

In a statement, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that Democrats are “selectively leaking emails” to create bad-faith narratives, adding that Trump already distanced himself from Epstein years ago — and even kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago for inappropriate behavior.

With a House vote imminent and the pressure mounting, all eyes now turn to how many Republicans will side with Trump — or break from him. As he calls for renewed investigations into Epstein’s connections with powerful figures, his reversal draws fresh attention to exactly what kind of relationship he once had with the disgraced financier.

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WATCH: Epstein Files Fallout: Trump Turns on Greene, Labels Her ‘Wacky Lunatic’

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In a stunning rupture between two of the most outspoken figures in the Republican Party, President Donald Trump on Friday publicly withdrew his endorsement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, accusing the Georgia firebrand of drifting “Far Left” and obsessing over the release of Jeffrey Epstein–related documents.

“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” Trump declared on Truth Social in an early-morning broadside that stunned GOP insiders.

He called Greene “wacky,” a “lunatic,” and said she has become consumed with “COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”

Greene, once one of Trump’s most loyal allies on Capitol Hill, has deviated from the president on several issues in recent weeks — including supporting an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies and joining a bipartisan push to force public release of Epstein files.

The tension, Trump said, began when he advised Greene not to seek higher office.

“It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor — she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!),” Trump wrote.

He also mocked Greene for allegedly complaining that he no longer took her calls:

“With 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries… I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day.”

Trump hinted strongly that he is prepared to back a primary challenger in Georgia’s 14th District.

“I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie… if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support,” he said.

He blasted Greene for making an appearance on The View, calling the hosts “Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”

Greene is one of only four House Republicans who signed a discharge petition led by Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna to force a vote compelling the Department of Justice to release unclassified Epstein documents.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed Democratic efforts around the Epstein investigation as a “hoax,” but on Friday signaled he would direct DOJ and the FBI to probe Epstein’s ties to “Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many others.”

The president did not mention any investigation into Republicans or Trump associates who appear in flight logs or other records.

Within hours, Greene responded like a jilted ex — by posting her private text messages with Trump.

“President Trump just attacked me and lied about me,” she wrote on X.

“I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today.”

The texts, addressed to “DJT,” show Greene urging Trump to “check the flight logs of Epstein’s plane,” alleging Bill Clinton flew with Epstein “26 times! Hillary too!!”

She argued that releasing the full Epstein files is necessary “for the women who were victims” and to expose “Democrat bad guys.”

Another text to a Trump aide, Natalie, shows Greene insisting she has defended Trump tirelessly for years and that the Epstein case is “not a hoax.”

“Apparently this is what sent him over the edge,” Greene concluded. “The Epstein files.”

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Trump Signs Bill to Reopen Government After 43 Days of Democrat Shutdown

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President Donald Trump signed legislation to reopen the government on Wednesday, ending the 43-day Democrat shutdown.

The clean continuing resolution (CR) funds the government through the end of January and includes three of twelve appropriations for Fiscal Year 2026–agriculture, military construction-Veterans Affairs, and legislative branch–with funding for those through the end of September.

Trump, flanked by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and cabinet officials, blasted Democrats for refusing to open government ahead of the signing.

“For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens and people that came into our country illegally,” Trump said.

“Today, we’re sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that’s what it was. They tried to extort–the Democrats tried to extort our country,” he added. (Read more from “Trump Signs Bill to Reopen Government After 43 Days of Democrat Shutdown” HERE)

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