The White House: Reports that President Trump has ordered a delay of 30 days to the Tariffs on Canada, thus to allow Canada to clean up the drug problem on its border.
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This was a silly trade war started due to problems on the Southern border with Mexico, over immigration and with Canada over drugs, Mexico promised to send ten thousand troops to the border, will this pause make a difference, we shall see, the EU is next, what of the UK, who will they support in a trade war.
BBC News: Reports in its 4.35pm post that UK PM has stated more support for the Ukraine this year.
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The policy on the Ukraine will test the unity of the EU and the UK, if Trump 47 pulled the plug on funding, then Europe will have to decide, welfare or military support for the Ukraine. As with the Tariffs battle, Trump is not afraid to hit allies badly in the pocket. The Kremlin will look on and bounce on weakness. Interesting time ahead for NATO.
The Hill: Reports " Trump initial second-term approval rating among lowest in decades "
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The facts is that Trump 47 has done more in his week and half in the job than Biden did in 4 years as President. The Executive Orders out of the White House have been never ending, Trump really wants to change Washington D.C, the usual suspects in the SWAMP have been in usual in their negative reaction, that is not to say that Trump is right, quite reverse, but at least he is acting tough, from placing illegal immigrants in GITMO, to trying to curb government spending, even if stalled by the Courts, tough action on the border, even if it is following Biden's policy. The interesting bit, he has talked tough on the Ukraine, but has not done a lot. The interesting news will come if he meets Putin, one can see the headlines, a FELON MEETS A WAR CRIMINAL. That is how the liberal press will run the story. Never boring on Trump watch, as long as you ignore the crazy talk, depends what you think is crazy.
Sky News: Reports " Trump says he is preparing migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay "
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The liberals at CNN and the NYT will go bonkers over this, Bush 43 opened Gitmo to look after captured terrorists, it is still open in 2025. The liberals do not like Gitmo, they think that terrorists have rights, they don't in the view of this blog. The illegal immigrants will be held separate from the old terrorists there, but one can expect in the left in Congress to go bonkers, they consider the issues will become merged in the public mind, illegal aliens and terrorists, it will scare those thinking of crossing the border in an illegal manner.
BBC News: Reports " Five takeaways from RFK Jr's first confirmation hearing "
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The choice of Bobby Junior has split the Kennedy family, the views of Junior is out of the mainstream to be fair, but the late Ambassador Kennedy would have been appalled, it was family first and second. One can argue about the merits of his views, but one thinks that Kennedy family have given enough to the US, the deaths of President Kennedy and his brother Robert F Kennedy, so on this this blog is in favour of the nomination, its is not like Bobby would be close to the Presidency, should anything happen to Trump and Vance at the same time, the next in line is the Speaker of the House. The hearing was as expected, the Democrats attacked, while the Republicans were supportive. This blog would not be shocked if the nomination failed, that is the game of politics.
CNN reports that Pete Hegseth has been confirmed by the US Senate. The tied vote was broken by VP Vance, who voted in favour of the nomination.
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A win for Trump, let's see how Hegseth does in the role, all that Trump wants is loyalty, no matter what, one hopes it does not cost the US in the future.
Sky News: Reports on President Trump's ultimatum to Russia, end the Ukraine War or face High Tariffs or sanctions.
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This is a change, for the past couple years people have thought that Trump, was a pawn of Putin, now back as President, he takes this tough stand, its like a personality change, or is it just faint, in other words he gives the impression of being tough, then appases Putin. This will be interesting to follow, life does bring surprises, what is Trump 47 really up too.
Guardian Reports on the Pardons and sentences commuted by President Trump on his first day in office.
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The so called J6 hostages were legally in jail. They rioted on Januarty 6th or planned it. BIDEN in one of his last acts, gave full pardon to all his adult relatives,,WHY, one does suspect the worse, maybe Trump was right about President Biden all along, if you include the Pardon of Hunter Biden. At least Trump has kept his word about the J6, even if outrages the Liberal Media and political writers such as the blog. Thus we enter a new dawn, it won't be boring.
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CNN: Reports " Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump critics and Biden family members "
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I noticed so far that CNN on air has not made reference to these family pardons, if you thought Trump was hyper about President Biden and his supposed family crimes, these very late pardons might make you think that he had a point, Biden has covered his son and now his adult family, one can expect Fox News and more moderate channels will discuss theses pardons. The inaugural address as stated was America First on steroids, from tough immigration rules to renaming Mountains, the very liberal media will go on the attack, that is all they have, so except no coverage in the liberal media, just sob stories about immigration and the defence of the cultural wars.
Guardian: Reports in its 5.38pm post that President Trump will retake the Panama canal.
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The Inaugural address was America First on steroids, going after immigrants, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, also returning the name President McKinley to a Mountain that President Obama renamed to its original native name. Old President Biden looked like he would rather had root canal or on a rocket to Mars, that was also a Trump promise. The Liberal media will have a field day, the Trump supporters will be happy, the rest of us will have to look at results.
Sky News: Reports in its 2.38pm post that President Trump will declare a State of Emergency at the border between the US and Mexico.
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Thus Trump will appeal to his base, he promised on day one that he would massive arrests of illegal immigrants who have broken US law. IT has been leaked that Chicago will be hit first, a blue State, Democratic Mayor and Governor, let's see how the Democrats react, do they oppose everything or be more selective. Interesting hours and days ahead.
BBC News: Reports in its 12.28pm post that President Biden in the hours left to him as President has given Pardons to those that could be targeted by the Trump White House.
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This might allow President Trump to pardon ALL those those thar rioted on January 6th 2021. The could allow Trump to go after Biden himself, low possibility, Biden is considered gaga by most people. The American people might think that these innocent people, are guilty of crimes, bad impression left, gives impression of a deep state protecting its own. This is a road could give examples to Trump and his successors as President.
BBC: Reports in its 9.58pm post on the release of the Israeli hostages that had been held by Hamas in Gaza.
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This is the 1st phase, there are another 30 hostages to go, there are 3 phases, Israel is dealing with terrorists, they might try to blackmail the Israeli Government and place pressure on Donald Trump, the new American President. IN the end the people of Gaza have paid a heavy price for October 7th 2022 terrorist operation by Hamas, no one wins completely, but Israeli has shown it stands up to terrorism and the Tehran influence has been weakened in the Region. The future is not written, but this blog is not holding its breath for peace.
BBC News: Reports that the 47th President, Donald Trump will be inaugurated in the Capital Rotunda, due to the expected Cold weather on the day.
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The Donald will not be happy, he likes big crowds, the Inaugural will follow the format of Reagan's Inaugural in 1985. Lets hope Trump47 is half as good as Reagan, the Gipper was a great President, specially in the 2nd term, ending the Cold War in 1986, there was Iran - Contra, nobody went to jail or was impeached, as Lady Thatcher said in 2004, won the Cold war without firing a shot, this lead to Russia leaving Afghanistan and lead to the downfall of the USSR. We shall see what happens with Trump.
CNN: Reports that the Democratic Majority Leader, Chuck Shumer told President Biden to leave the Presidential race after his disastrous ďebate performance against Trump47.
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One only had to see the reaction of CNN panel after the debate, Biden was finished, it was not a politican that started the ball rolling, it was the stalwart Democratic actor George Cloony who had been at a Biden fundraiser that raised over 30 million dollars who said that Biden should leave the race, in this he was followed by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Schumer and Pelosi were afraid that Biden would lose the White House, House and the Senate. In the end VP Harris lost All three, if Biden had not run, there is chance that Trump would not have won. History would have been kinder to Biden, but that is What If? of history. On Monday Trump becomes the 47th President of the USA.
The White House releases readout of telephone call between President Biden and the Israeli PM, they discussed the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
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At last a ceasefire in the Israeli - Gaza War, it all started when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th and killed 1,200 and took many hostsges and took them back to Gaza. It might have cost Biden the Presidency with his support of Israel, the far left in the Democratic Party never forgave him, but he did the right thing in this case. Lets hope we have peace in the region.
Guardian: Reports that Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, Senator Marco Rubio has stated the the Ukraine and Russians have to make concessions to end the War.
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Thus we come to the sell out of the Ukraine by the US, will the UK and the EU also sell out Kyiv, can they carry the cost of the War without the US support and weapons. The Kremlin will be happy, they have seen their ally Assad fall in Syria, they need some good news, is this Czech Republic in 1938/39, are we on the road to WW3, many have seen the similarities between that period and NOW. The drums have started, can the World escape the logical conclusion.
CNN: Reports on a new CNN poll that finds President Biden"s job approval at 36%.
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The Biden Approval numbers are in the toilet, not as bad as Jimmy Carter in 1981 and Bush 43 in 2009. The American people view the Biden Presidency as a failure, the economy in the view of people is bad, groceries cost to much, and the buck does not cover every day costs. The Ukraine - Russian War is stalled. Today we have news of a ceasefire between Hamas and Gaza, months to late. The Biden view of his Presidency is to rosy.
BBC News: Repots that her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially that the keeper of the Royal pictures had been a Soviet spy.
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The important word is officially, the Queen is keeper of all secrets, one would have hoped through unofficial officially that the Monarch would have been told, that Blunt was not a good egg, to be on her guard when talking to him, even about Royal pictures. ONE does hope today, that the Royal Court is vetted from top to bottom, we don't need another spy scandal.
Guardian Reports in its 3.45pm post that President Biden in a foreign policy speech at the State Department stated he had no regrets about leaving Afghanistan.
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As the post states, Biden's job approval went down the toilet after the disaster that was US withdrawal from Afghanistan, it cost the lives of 13 soldiers and showed the US could not be trusted in the long term, thus showed the Russian Bear, in this case Putin, that Biden was weak and could be rolled, also Biden did not stop the invasion of the Ukraine by Russia, and was slow to supply the Ukraine with the forces it needed to counter Russia, thus the stalemate of the War and Trump47 winning in 2024. Afghanistan is the graveyard of Empires and failed one term US Presidents.
BBC News: Reports that President-Elect Trump has been sentenced, he faces no jail time or fine.
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Trump47 will be the first felon sworn in as President, even the US Supreme Court would not help him with this, Trump will be seething, he sees ALL the Court cases as political, that might be true, but this sentence will hurt the Trump pride, expect a blistering Inaugural address, one for the history books.
BBC News: Reports in its 7.27pm post on the funeral of Jimmy Carter.
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The funeral of Jimmy Carter celebrated his whole life, from peanut farmer, Governor of Georgia to President of the United States, and his decades of work for Democracy to charity work building houses. Quite respectfull, but would Carter give up all the post Presidential work for a 2nd term and to be treated better by historians and history. That is an interesting question.
Guardian: Reports on how former US hostages held for 444 days praise former President Carter for his handling of the Crisis.
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One understands the need to show respect for a DEAD US President, but let's get real, Carter was a failed one term President, the Iranian hostages held for 444 days, the failed rescue attempt, the invasion of Afghanistan by the then USSR. The bad economy, inflation, being nice does not cut it, let's deal with the real world, Reagan was a great President, Carter was deeply flawed and out of his depth, always see the real world reader.
USAToday: Reports that President Biden thinks he could have beaten President -Elect Trump in November.
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The White House staff either did not show him the polls or POTUS is delusional, not sure on this subject what is worse, staff that deceived POTUS or that Biden is out to lunch while still President! Whatever you might say about Trump, and a lot has been said, he has more energy than Biden, at least Trump has only four years, well really two years with the coming Mid Terms in 2026, and the Democrats taking the House again, Impeachment again!! Then the Candidates for 2028, if we avoid WW3.
Guardian: Reports in its 9.37pm post that President Carter's coffin has arrived at the US Capital.
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I wonder if the press will be so nice to Trump when his day comes, it comes to all humans. IT was said that politicians came to Nixon's funeral to make sure he was DEAD, they still feared Nixon. President Clinton stated that Nixon should be remembered for more that one thing, WATERGATE, the same thing could be said about Clinton and his affair with an intern, that happened a few years after Nixon died. At lest Americans can do ceremony.
Sky News: Reports that President - Elect Trump said at a presser with the with the press at 5.10pm that he saved NATO with his ďemands that Europe increase Defence spending.
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Welcome to the madness that is a Trump press event and another 4 years! IF YOU took seriously what Trump said you would go bonkers, from Panama to Greenland, he has made threats, you have to be very selective what you report, it is true that Europe has increased Defence spending, but Trump has been following the trend of previous US Presidents, even Obama. The US media should know when Trump is serious!! That goes for the rest of press across the world.
Sky News: Reports that VP Harris did her last job as VP and Certified Donald Trunp aa the winner of the 2024 Presidential race today.
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Thus was a bad day for CNN, they spent hours of TV time on January 6 riot and investigation, and the American people did not care, they still re-elected Trump for another four years, they go on about it, you sometimes think your watching a poor version of the History Channel, they really have to snap out of it, their ratings are mess, What happened to the once great CNN?
Guardian;Reports in its 7.36pm post that Rep Johnson has be re-elected House Speaker in the US.
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The Speaker won on the first round, there was some deal making and pressure at the end to get the two extra votes, Trump47 wants to get started on his Agenda, he has two years before the Mid Terms in 2026, American politics is an endless cycle, it never ends!
BBC News - Live Update: Reports in its 4.36pm post the following, " FBI now believes Jabbar acted alone...the agency now believes that no-one else was involved in the attack apart from Shamsud-Din Jabbar....As a reminder, the FBI had previously said it did not believe Jabbar acted alone. "
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Thus the importance of waiting for the full investigation to finish, it seems for now the terrorist acted alone, it is important that the FBI can investigate without the pressure of the media and the cyber world. On this blog will wait in till it is finished. There is the election of a new House Speaker, and the funeral Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Trump 47to come, then this blog will be back to his favourite subject American politics.
Guardian: Reports in its 10am post that multiple people involved in terrorist attack in US.
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Thus far 15 people have been killed in New Orleans, Louis and and many injured. This blog will not do regular updates, will wait in till Federal Authorities are finished, does not want to report in case there are mistakes, the 24 News Channels will cover the story in detail.
