BIG: It’s war between Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump

Tensions over tariffs have gradually shattered Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s interest-based relationship with US President Donald Trump, especially since the start of his second term.

Trump accused Jeff Bezos of being “hostile and political” toward his administration after Amazon announced its intention to transparently post tariff hikes imposed by the Trump administration.

The platform plans to itemize the amounts, allowing consumers to see first-hand that the majority of the price increase on their Amazon bill is caused by tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/it-s-war-between-jeff-bezos-and-donald-trump/ar-AA1DUQQw

Metro: Trump sends blunt tariffs warning: ‘You’ll pay for the privilege of servicing the US’

US President Donald Trump has claimed he doesn’t even ‘need’ to negotiate with anyone over trade deals, telling right-wing TV journalist Glenn Beck that he’s only talking to other countries ‘out of respect.’ In a bold interview with BlazeTV, Trump laid out his blunt view on tariffs, global commerce and foreign governments. Trump’s comments come as he continues to push a 10% tariff on almost every country, with tougher reciprocal tariffs on pause while he and his team try to hammer out new deals around the world.

King Donald’s big delusion is that the rest of the world will crawl into the White House on all fours and lick his boots. A few desperate suck-up might actually do that, but most of the world is bright enough to realize that they have choices. Among those choices are finding new trading partners and doing business elsewhere, which seem to be exactly what is happening.

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/trump-sends-blunt-tariffs-warning-you-ll-pay-for-the-privilege-of-servicing-the-us/ss-AA1DBpUZ

CNBC: Man accused of stealing from Homeland Sec. Noem [Bimbo #2] hit with federal charges in three robberies

  • A man accused of stealing the purse of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a restaurant while she was under Secret Service protection was charged by federal prosecutors with that and two other alleged bag thefts in Washington, D.C., a court filing shows.
  • Mario Bustamente Leiva, is charged with robbery, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with the three alleged thefts between April 12 and 20.
  • “Following each robbery, Bustamente Leiva made fraudulent purchases using the credit cards obtained from the victim of each robbery,” a U.S. Secret Service agent wrote in the complaint against the Chilean national in U.S. District Court in D.C.

[Mario] Bustamente Leiva, a 49-year-old who prosecutors say is in the country illegally, was arrested Saturday in a D.C. motel.

They finally caught a real alien criminal! Wow! I’m impressed! But it was the Secret Service who nabbed him, not the thugs at ICE.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-accused-of-stealing-from-homeland-sec-noem-hit-with-federal-charges-in-three-robberies/ar-AA1DNbqF

CNN World: Why Trump’s Crimea proposal would tear down a decades-old pillar of the global order

US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine should recognize Russia’s control over Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed more than a decade ago, is threatening to upend international law and order.

Is this legal?

No. If the Trump administration was to somehow recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea, it would be breaching international law as well as multiple declarations and agreements made by the United States, including by the first Trump White House.

“In terms of international law, such a pronouncement would be null and void,” said Sergey Vasiliev, an international law expert and professor at the Open University in the Netherlands.

“That territorial acquisitions that result from the use of force shall not be recognized as legal is basically one of the bedrock principles of international law,” Vasiliev told CNN.

Recognizing Crimea as part of Russia would put the Trump administration in breach of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which the US made a commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders, in exchange for Kyiv giving up its nuclear weapons.

In 2018, during the first Trump administration, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement reaffirming the US’ refusal to recognize the Kremlin’s claims of sovereignty over Crimea.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/world/trump-ukraine-crimea-explainer-intl

Al Jazeera: Ben-Gvir: US Republicans support bombing Gaza ‘food and aid depots’

Israel’s national security minister says he met with ‘senior Republican Party’ officials at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has claimed that top US Republican lawmakers support bombing “food and aid depots” in Gaza.

The statement, made in a social media post on Wednesday, came after the Israeli national security minister said he had met with “senior Republican Party officials at [US President Donald] Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate” in Florida in the United States.

“They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely,” Ben-Gvir posted on X in Hebrew.

And of course any foreign students who might take offence at such atrocities should have their visas revoked and deported! Welcome to King Donald’s Amerika!

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/ben-gvir-us-republicans-support-bombing-gaza-food-and-aid-depots

Indy 100: Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany in scathing analysis

Al Gore has compared the Trump administration to Nazi Germany in a scathing analysis of the current political climate in the US.

On Monday (21 April), former vice president Gore gave a speech at an event at the beginning of San Francisco’s Climate Week.

Within it, he slammed the current US president Donald Trump and suggested his administration was blurring the line between truth and lies and “trying to create their own preferred version of reality” in a way similar to the Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in the 1930s and 1940s.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/al-gore-compares-trump-administration-to-nazi-germany-in-scathing-analysis/ar-AA1Dndru

Politico: Trump furious over Europe’s support to Zelenskyy after White House dispute

US President Donald Trump was reportedly furious over European leaders’ public support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following a dispute at the White House – a reaction that became one of the factors influencing his decision to halt aid to Ukraine, Politico reports.

Would somebody please call a whambulance for this pathetic self-absorbed narcissist?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-furious-over-europe-s-support-to-zelenskyy-after-white-house-dispute-politico/ar-AA1D2wD5

Take your protection and shove it!

Dumbass King Donald tanks the economy and stock markets with his friggin’ tariffs, and now he is declaring a state of emergency so he can “protect” the economy?

We don’t your protection, asshole. What we need is to be rid of you!

Trump declares state of emergency in US to protect economy

CNN: Old US-Canada relationship is ‘over,’ warns Canadian prime minister

Canada will have to “dramatically reduce” its reliance on the United States as the two countries’ relationship darkens, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned on Thursday, adding that the old bilateral relationship was “over.”

After holding a cabinet meeting to discuss Canada’s response to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs threats, Carney told reporters in Ottawa that he foresaw the coming of a “fundamentally different relationship” between the two countries.

“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over,” he said.

“It’s clear the US is no longer a reliable partner. It is possible that with comprehensive negotiations, we could reestablish an element of confidence but there will be no going backwards …

In other words, King Donald, go screw yourself. We’re not playing charades with you any longer.

Old US-Canada relationship is ‘over,’ warns Canadian prime minister