Posts

Trump Hints at Agreements With Syria After Meeting Jihadi President: ‘I Think This Leader Can Do It’

/0 Comments/in , /by

President Donald Trump hinted that Syria could possibly join several agreements, which include joining an anti-ISIS coalition and the Abraham Accords, after meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday.

While taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked how his meeting went with Sharaa. Trump described Sharaa as a “very strong leader” and a “tough guy.” Trump also indicated that his administration wanted to “see Syria be successful.”

“Could you update us on your meeting? Did you come to any agreements?” a reporter asked Trump.

“He’s a very strong leader, he comes from a very tough place, and he’s a tough guy,” Trump said. “I like him. I get along with him — the President, the new President of Syria. We’ll do everything we can to make Syria successful, because that’s part of the Middle East.”

Trump also noted that there was “peace now in the Middle East” for the first time that people could remember, and described Syria as being a “very big part of the Middle East.” (Read more from “Trump Hints at Agreements With Syria After Meeting Jihadi President: ‘I Think This Leader Can Do It’” HERE)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Trump Touts Affordability While Inflation Rages Across America on Everything From Food to Furniture to Cars

/1 Comment/in , /by

With a social media post that said “STOP LYIN” about there being an affordability crisis, President Trump claims he’s whipped inflation.

But consumers are still feeling the squeeze.

Target’s prices are up 5.5% nationwide this year and Walmart’s are up 5.3%, according to an analysis by DataWeave, which looked at roughly 16,000 items across each retailer’s website.

Amazon’s price hikes have averaged more than 12%, according to a report.

After seven months under Trump’s tariffs, Americans are paying more for nearly everything — from a cup of joe and plush living room sofas to children’s toys.

Inflation for food has been tamed to 3.1%, according to September’s Consumer Price Index — a far cry from the double-digit increases under President Joe Biden. (Read more from “Trump Touts Affordability While Inflation Rages Across America on Everything From Food to Furniture to Cars” HERE)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Trump Says He Wants To Give $2,000 Tariff ‘Dividends’ To Every American

/1 Comment/in , /by

President Trump announced Sunday that his administration will send $2,000 checks to Americans using money collected from tariffs.

“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He called opponents of tariffs “FOOLS!” and said the country is taking in “Trillions of Dollars” that will help pay down the national debt.

The proposal would require Congressional approval to become reality. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri introduced similar legislation this summer that would provide $600 tariff rebates to most Americans and their children, The Hill reported.

“My legislation would allow hard-working Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to this country,” Hawley said at the time.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC in August that the administration plans to use tariff revenue to reduce the $38.12 trillion national debt. Trump also said Sunday the revenue would pay down the “ENORMOUS” debt. (Read more from “Trump Says He Wants To Give $2,000 Tariff ‘Dividends’ To Every American” HERE)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Ex-Jihadist Syrian President Due at White House for Landmark Talks

/2 Comments/in , /by

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for unprecedented talks just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist.

Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, will be the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since the country’s independence in 1946.

Formerly affiliated with Al-Qaeda, Sharaa’s group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), was itself only delisted as a terrorist group by Washington in July.

Since taking power, Syria’s new leaders have sought to break from their violent past and present a more moderate image to ordinary Syrians and foreign powers. (Read more from “Ex-Jihadist Syrian President Due at White House for Landmark Talks” HERE)

Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Sending Troops to Portland

/0 Comments/in , /by

A federal judge has permanently blocked President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued the 106-page ruling on Friday for the lawsuit filed after Trump sent troops to secure U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.

The state of Oregon, the city of Portland, and the state of California sued Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Defense Secretary Kristi Noem.

The ruling said that there wasn’t enough violence at the protests to require the National Guard, and local police broke up the fights.

“While violent protests did occur in June, they quickly abated due to the efforts of civil law enforcement officers,” the ruling said. “And since that brief span of a few days in June, the protests outside the Portland ICE facility have been predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence, largely between protesters and counter-protesters.”

(Read more from “Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Sending Troops to Portland” HERE)

Photo credit: Flickr

If Arctic Frost Perpetrators Don’t Go To Jail, Conservatives Will

/35 Comments/in , , /by

Arctic Frost was never the inquiry into Donald Trump and Jan. 6 that Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith said it was. Rather, it was an unprecedented, illegal conspiracy of partisan prosecutors and FBI agents to surveil, harass, and prosecute “the entire Republican political apparatus” for the crime of being conservative.

There has never been anything like it in American history — a sweeping, open-ended, fishing expedition conducted by the regime against the opposition party. Arctic Frost weaponized the federal criminal justice system not just to defeat Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but to permanently rig the U.S. political system against the GOP.

The details are mind-boggling. Smith secretly surveilled the telephones of at least eight Republican senators without any reason to believe any of them committed a crime. He issued 197 subpoenas to 430 individuals and organizations, none of whom had anything to do with the J6 trespassers. Indeed, some of targeted groups didn’t even exist, or hadn’t even started operations, on Jan. 6, 2021!

The abuses compound from there. Smith got a left-wing federal judge to gag phone companies from telling senators about the subpoenas — possibly a federal crime in its own right. Nor were Smith’s subpoenas restricted to information relevant to J6. On the contrary, Smith demanded wholesale access to private donor information, banking records, and even contacts with the media. Subpoenaed groups and individuals spent millions of dollars in legal fees just trying to comply.

Never mind that this two-year rectal exam of the conservative movement yielded zero evidence of wrongdoing. The investigation — the harassment, the spying, the legal fees, the intimidation — was the punishment. (Read more from “If Arctic Frost Perpetrators Don’t Go To Jail, Conservatives Will” HERE)

5 Months Later, Elon Wins The War Over NASA

/0 Comments/in , /by

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he is nominating Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator after previously withdrawing his nomination.

Trump previously nominated Elon Musk ally Isaacman for the position, but pulled him in May because of “prior associations.” Days later, Musk lashed out at Trump as he exited the administration, which insider sources told the Daily Caller was caused in part by Isaacman’s nomination being yanked. Trump nominated Isaacman again months later, after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy covered as interim administrator.

“Sean Duffy has done an incredible job as Interim Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This evening, I am pleased to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, as Administrator of NASA,” Trump wrote in a TruthSocial post.

“Jared’s passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and advancing the new Space economy, make him ideally suited to lead NASA into a bold new Era. Congratulations to Jared, his wife Monica, and their children, Mila and Liv. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” the president added.

(Read more from “5 Months Later, Elon Wins The War Over NASA” HERE)

Photo credit: Flickr

Trump Tells New Yorkers To Back Andrew Cuomo Over Socialist Zohran Mamdani

/0 Comments/in , /by

President Donald Trump told New Yorkers on Monday to back Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race instead of Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he would withhold federal funding from New York if Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani wins, calling the socialist state assemblyman a “total failure” who would lead the city into “complete and total economic and social disaster.”

“He [Mamdani] was nothing as an Assemblyman, ranked at the bottom of the class and, as Mayor of potentially, again, the Greatest City in the World, HE HAS NO CHANCE to bring it back to its former Glory! We must also remember this — A vote for Curtis Sliwa (who looks much better without the beret!) is a vote for Mamdani,” Trump said. “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!

Trump said Mamdani is a “Communist Candidate” who would drive the city toward collapse.

“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!” Trump wrote. (Read more from “Trump Tells New Yorkers To Back Andrew Cuomo Over Socialist Zohran Mamdani” HERE)

Judges Order Trump Admin to Use Emergency Funds to Pay for SNAP Benefits

/1 Comment/in , /by

A pair of federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration must use emergency funding to restore at least some SNAP food benefits — one day before the US Department of Agriculture had warned money for the program would run out due to the ongoing government shutdown.

The judges in Boston and Providence, RI, both said that the USDA could decide whether to fund the entitlement commonly known as food stamps in full or in part for the month of November — but a full cutoff was unlawful.

The SNAP program serves approximately 42 million Americans and costs about $8 billion per month nationally.

Leaders of 25 Democratic-run states and the District of Columbia sued the USDA in Boston federal court Tuesday after the executive agency warned that the “well has run dry” for SNAP benefits.

Senate Democrats, led by House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have voted to reject the funding bill 13 times in hopes of forcing concessions from Republicans that would extend pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire Dec. 31.

The Trump administration argued that a contingency fund with about $5 billion in it set aside for emergencies could not be used even if it wanted to. The states — along with a coalition of cities and nonprofits who brought the Rhode Island case — argued not only that the money could be used, but that it had to be used under the Food and Nutrition Act, which requires that “assistance under this program shall be furnished to all eligible households.” (Read more from “Judges Order Trump Admin to Use Emergency Funds to Pay for SNAP Benefits” HERE)

Trump: ICE Raids ‘Haven’t Gone Far Enough’

/0 Comments/in , /by

On Sunday, CBS released a preview clip of President Donald Trump’s interview, scheduled to air later on “60 Minutes,” in which he discussed his immigration policy.

Trump, who campaigned on immigration and closing the border, said he believes the tactics Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using on the streets of cities like Chicago and Los Angeles “haven’t gone far enough” to remove people who are in the country illegally.

Host Norah O’Donnell said, “More recently, Americans have been watching videos of ice tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows.” . . .

She asked, “Have some of these raids gone too far?”

Trump said, “No, I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.”

(Read more from “Trump: ICE Raids ‘Haven’t Gone Far Enough’” HERE)