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Donald Trump has insisted he doesn’t need to abide by international law and the only constraint keeping his power in check is his own morality.

In a wide-ranging defence of a week of global provocation, the U.S. president laid out the motivation behind his actions.

h/t Mauser

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to pull the US out of a UN coalition that State Department officials claim has been pushing unconstitutional and racist policies — including a push for global reparations.

The UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent promoted racial grievances and “victim based social policies” within the world’s governing body that ran afoul of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment and Equal Protection clause, according to Trump administration officials.

He's not fooling around. @fancypants_s https://t.co/gy5nN1UlxZ

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 7, 2026

h/t Patti Jo

Donald Trump’s operation to take out — excuse me, exfiltrate and arrest — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro late last night has produced few objections from MAGA World. Speaking at a press conference today, the US President credited American military power by “air, land and sea”, and said that the US is “going to run” Venezuela until “such a time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” of power. A few Trump-aligned pundits such as Glenn Greenwald are agitated but, on the whole, the reaction has been nothing like the eruption of MAGA dissent that greeted the build-up to and aftermath of Trump’s decision to join Israel’s 12-Day War against Iran last summer.

US President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing National Guard troops from several US cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, after a Supreme Court ruling last week undermined his authority to use troops for policing.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on New Year’s Eve.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Trump administration withdrew its legal attempts to keep control of troops deployed in LA. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not use troops in Chicago for domestic law enforcement.

EXCLUSIVE — In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear.

The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds gathering hours early amid music and pageantry. Local heroes, union leaders, elected officials and retired military officers cycled through as warmup speakers, firing up the audience between tracks like Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.,” Trump’s walkout anthem.

While the world salivates over the just-released images of Bill Clinton “frolicking” with various females at Jeffrey Epstein’s Bide-a-Wile island hideaway, the steady drumbeat of anti-Trump propaganda is picking up speed, intensity, and insanity. Last month, in an effort to “Bidenize” (thank you, Byron York), The New York Anti-Trump Times published a surreal, reality-free article under the headline “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office.” This is about the human whirlwind that is Donald Trump, the indefatigable powerhouse who thinks nothing of traveling across the globe in the morning in order to broker peace in some far-off hellhole before returning in the wee hours to prepare for a Cabinet meeting that is open to the press.

Trump blames Rob Reiner’s death on ‘incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome’

Rob Reiner will always be remembered as the quintessential example of a wealthy, aging liberal who got pathologically obsessed with Cable News and Twitter as a reaction to Trump, and somehow became a deranged, raging militarist. RIP pic.twitter.com/l4GyR5Qpmh

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 15, 2025

I really don’t care what the faint of heart have to say.

h/t Patti Jo and Mauser

Sadiq Khan claims Donald Trump’s attacks on London are ‘grooming’ far-Right extremists in Britain and says US President is ‘obsessed’ with him

Sir Sadiq Khan has suggested Donald Trump’s attacks on Europe and London are ‘grooming’ and ‘radicalising’ extremists in Britain.

In a fresh blast at the US President, the London mayor claimed things said by Mr Trump ‘normalises and brings to the mainstream views that I think are unacceptable’.

The Labour politician also questioned why Mr Trump was ‘obsessed’ with him, amid the latest spat in the long-running feud between the two men.

Khan has had a big hand in turning London into a 3rd World Dumpster good that Trump is shining a light on this scumbag.

US president singles out London, saying it is now a ‘different place’ and referring to mayor Sadiq Khan as ‘vicious and disgusting’

President Trump has condemned European leaders as “weak” in a wide-ranging attack that criticised the “decaying” group of nations for being too politically correct and failing to control immigration.

“Europe doesn’t know what to do,” Trump said in an interview with Politico. “They want to be politically correct, and it makes them weak. That’s what makes them weak.”

The president also criticised European leaders for failing to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, saying: “They talk but they don’t produce. And the war just keeps going on and on. I mean, four years now it’s been going on, long before I got here.”

Full interview.

Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: ‘I think they’re weak’ | Alexander Burns, Politico

In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America’s allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.

President Donald Trump… pic.twitter.com/sHHPa7KZ6v

— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) December 9, 2025

Trump to host two African leaders! That was a footnote to world news last week still dominated by efforts to stop the Ukraine war.

However, to those who follow African affairs, the triangular meeting at the White House looked like a miracle.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame seemed determined to end a decades-long war that, despite claiming at least as many victims as the current war in Ukraine or the recent war in Gaza, never hit global headlines.