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President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is helping China at the expense of Americans, according to an editorial from one of America’s premiere right-leaning publications. “Iran’s regime hasn’t hid its intentions for the Strait of Hormuz: Iranian ownership, with passage by toll and permission,” wrote The Wall Street Journal , which has previously criticized Trump for being soft on China , in a Monday editorial. “The regime claims its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. gives it that right, and it has used force to get its way. The latest step is an admission that ‘friendly’ nations such as China could get special treatment in the international waterway.” The editorial board added that Iran’s Ambassador to China said that that nation, along with others considered to be friends to Iran, may be given “special considerations” even as the Iranian government plans on charging “service fees” to all countries that go through the Strait. “That isn’t the free passage or open Strait t...
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Trump was betrayed by world leaders he never should have trusted: analysis

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has had a gradual falling out with President Donald Trump , motivated by everything from his belligerent rhetoric toward Europe to him falsely claiming that she had begged him for a photograph together. Now, according to an opinion piece by the editors at Newsweek, Trump is being widely betrayed by the international coalition of nationalists he has supported — and the break up was entirely predictable. “Trump has sought to cohere a loose orbit of leaders, parties, conferences and media figures into a larger patriotic, sovereignist movement—one hostile to liberal internationalism and multilateral institutions, and one that is capable of winning seats in power,” Newsweek’s Editors wrote on Monday . “His own National Security Strategy encouraged America's European political allies to promote ‘unapologetic celebrations’ of national character, welcomed the growing influence of ‘patriotic European parties,’ and called for Europe to operate as a gr...
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Trump press secretary who insulted Gen Z is losing MAGA support

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President Donald Trump’s 27-year-old White House press secretary is losing support within the Republican’s MAGA movement — and, according to a top political analyst, it is all because she insulted her own generation. “My generation — I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me —have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” Karoline Leavitt told Fox News host Jesse Watters last week. A columnist for MS NOW offered a sharp observation as to why this is happening. “Poll after poll has shown that President Donald Trump’s support among young people has plummeted since he retook office, with his economic policies being a major reason,” wrote MS NOW political analyst Ja'han Jones on Monday . “And Trump hasn’t helped his likability by describing the affordability crisis as a ‘hoax’ and downplaying the need to lower housing costs.” Jones added that “as a 27-year-old member of the most corrupt and shamelessly self-enriching administ...
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Inside Trump's secret weapon to remake the courts in his favor

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Since returning to the White House 17 and one-half months ago, President Donald Trump has made a concerted effort to fill the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with MAGA loyalists. And according to the New York Times, Trump is determined to overhaul the federal judiciary as well. Reporter Mattathias Schwartz, in the Times, details Trump's push to fill the federal courts with MAGA judges. A prime example, according to Schwartz, is Emil Bove — a former personal attorney for Trump who is now a federal appeals court judge. Bove, the Times reporter notes, "has drawn public criticism" for attending one of Trump's "campaign-style rallies." And some of the criticism is coming from Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge. Gertner told the Times, "When he was nominated, my concern was that he was not just the president's lawyer. He was doing and saying things that were inappropriate. And he's continuing to do so now." Bove isn't the only MAGA R...
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Trump's out of ammunition — and nobody's buying his new 'scary' excuse

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Trump has run out of cards to play in the midterm elections, which is why he’s now talking about the “communist menace.” He can’t talk about the economy, because prices continue to rise faster than wages, which means most Americans are getting poorer. He can’t talk about foreign policy, because his war in Iran has been a debacle, his tariffs are an utter failure, and he obviously hasn’t settled the war in Ukraine on “Day 1.” He can’t talk about immigration, because his raids and mass deportations have become so unpopular. So, facing the midterm elections, what’s left? He’s resorting to the oldest of right-wing tropes — accusing Democrats (especially a rising generation of new, young, vigorous Democratic politicians) of being commies. He kicked off America’s 250th anniversary celebrations on Friday with a speech at Mount Rushmore extolling American culture and warning of a resurgence of the “communist menace.” With the granite faces of four of his predecessors behind him, Trump took ai...
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The earthquake is real as Trump's worst nightmare unfolds

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On Tuesday night, the establishment wing of the Democratic Party got a message it would prefer to pretend it didn’t hear. In New York, Mamdani-backed progressives swept the congressional primaries , ousting two sitting Democratic congressmen and taking an open seat in a single evening. Former city comptroller Brad Lander beat Rep. Dan Goldman by more than thirty points. A 32-year-old democratic socialist named Darializa Avila Chevalier knocked off five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat , the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and state Assembly member Claire Valdez won the seat Nydia Velázquez is vacating. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (a recipient of dark money and AIPAC money ) campaigned hard against all three and watched all three win anyway. As Bernie Sanders put it afterward, the message is pretty clear : Americans are sick to death of a rigged economy and of billionaires buying their elections. The corporate press and just about every Republican in the country will ...
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Trump just proved how easily the system can be weaponized

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Okay, we’ve now gone through the bitter-sweet 250th anniversary. Now let’s get to work. Every day brings more news of Trump’s greed, incompetence, cruelty, and criminality. Raking in $2.2 billion in his first year in office, much of it siphoned off from taxpayers and gullible followers. His Iran debacle. His malignant narcissism, putting his face and name everywhere. His cruel mass deportations. His use of the Justice Department to prosecute anyone he feels has wronged him. And so on. As journalist Tom Edsall writes, “The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.” I think it important to separate the loathsomeness of Trump as a person from the horrendous things he’s doing. Trump won’t change, but we can begin seeking changes in our system to prevent such awfulness in the future — especially if/when we boot out the Republican cowards and sycophants from Congress. What basic reforms are necessary to ...
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