President Donald Trump said Friday that he is doubling steel and aluminum tariffs against Turkey, a Nato ally. “I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel […]
‘The Time Has Come To Talk About Our Relations’: Trump Sits Down With Putin In Finland
President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki, Finland, as tensions between the U.S. and Russia rise. The important meeting between the two world leaders comes amid new indictments of Russian officials in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and worsening ties between Washington and Moscow. The initial meeting was cordial but tense. […]
Trump hopes to normalize relations with North Korea.
President Trump said Thursday he hopes to normalize relations between the United States and North Korea, but noted such a development would happen at the end of the ongoing push to denuclearize the isolated nation. “Normalizing relations is something that I would expect to do, I would hope to do, when everything’s complete,” Trump said during a […]
Restored: 5 Ways Trump, Netanyahu Improved U.S.-Israel Relations
President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday — the fourth visit by a foreign leader, less than four weeks into the new administration. At their joint press conference, it was clear that U.S-Israel relations are once again on solid ground, after eight years of hostility from the […]
They Go Low — Report: Obama Intel Officials Used ‘Russia Blackmail’ Claims to Undermine Trump Relations with Israel
TEL AVIV – U.S. intelligence officials warned their Israeli counterparts not to trust President-elect Donald Trump with intelligence secrets, citing alleged fears that Russia held blackmail information over Trump, according to a report today in Israel’s respected Yediot Ahronot daily newspaper. The alleged blackmail information that U.S. officials reportedly warned Israel about seems to be […]
Obama Says Race Relations Aren’t Getting Worse. Here Are 5 Ways We Know That Isn’t True.
President Barack Obama condemned the horrific video in which four young black men and women tortured a disabled white man, but proceeded to make an absurd claim–race relations have improved. “I don’t think it’s accurate to say race relations are getting worse,” Obama told CBS. Later on in the interview, Obama added, “I think the overall […]
Why Race Relations Have Gotten So Much Worse
Speaking in the wake of the Dallas horrors, President Obama correctly assured us that race relations are not as bad in this country today as they were during the Watts riots of the sixties. But that was over fifty years ago and is only part of the story. Throughout the eighties and nineties and into the 21st Century those relations had improved to the […]
Top Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrat Opposes Obama’s Iran Deal
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Maryland’s Ben Cardin, will vote against President Obama’s unpopular and reckless nuclear deal with Iran’s anti-American regime. Cardin lays out his reasoning in a Washington Post op/ed: The JCPOA legitimizes Iran’s nuclear program. After 10 to 15 years, it would leave Iran with the option to […]
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: NORMALIZING RELATIONS AS PART OF SMOKESCREEN
The Obama administration will announce tomorrow that it is normalizing relations with the government of General Raul Castro in Cuba. The operations of the American Embassy in Cuba are expected to acquiesce to a number of Cuban restrictions outside the boundaries of normal diplomatic relations. In order to be able to announce this symbolic success, […]