The Trump administration’s threat of mass layoffs in response to the ongoing government shutdown received another blow on Friday when a federal judge ruled a temporary restraining order she imposed earlier this week barring firings applies to additional federal workers.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-mass-layoffs-hit-by-another-legal-blow-10899702
Venezuela “doesn’t want to f— around with the United States”, Donald Trump said on Friday.
The president told reporters that Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, had made sweeping concessions to the US after Mr Trump said he was considering ground strikes against Venezuela.
Mr Trump has repeatedly accused Venezuela of being a hub for the trafficking of fentanyl to the US. In October, he declared the US was in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels to legitimise military strikes on drug boats. Four such strikes have been carried out to date.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Representative Thomas Massie on Friday, calling for his immediate removal from Congress in a fiery post on Truth Social.
“Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a place I love, and won big SIX TIMES, must be thrown out of office, ASAP!” Trump wrote.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-republican-must-be-thrown-out-of-congress-asap-10899757
Former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have once again united to express their disapproval of President Donald Trump, specifically regarding the reductions to international programs that they assert are crucial to U.S. interests.
In a recent video, Bush is seen alongside Obama and U2’s lead singer Bono, a vocal critic of Trump, commending the departing personnel of USAID, the international diplomacy agency that Trump significantly curtailed earlier this year. Bush has consistently advocated for funding initiatives aimed at combating AIDS and HIV in various regions of Africa.
A woman who has filed federal lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of raping her two decades ago, when she was 13, abruptly canceled a news conference Wednesday at which she was to detail her extraordinary claims against the GOP presidential nominee.
In the most recent suit, Trump’s accuser asserts that while she was exploring a modeling career in 1994, she attended a series of parties at the Manhattan home of prominent investor Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges that during those parties the real estate mogul tied her to a bed and raped her.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-accuser-lawsuits-230647
President Trump railed against the increasing renovation cost of the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel project in Colorado, now ballooning to north of $300 million, and called for an investigation into the “mess.”
The Cadet Chapel restoration, which started in 2019, is rising in cost and is now expected to be completed in November 2028, prompting a rebuke from the president Thursday night.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/us-and-world/trump-air-force-academy-cadet-chapel-a-catastrophe/amp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-air-force-academy-cadet-chapel-a-catastrophe/ar-AA1OHjFd
