Denmark Summons US Ambassador over Trump Appointing Greenland Special Envoy | DW News

Dec 22, 2025 | Denmark says it will summon the US ambassador over the appointment of a new Greenland special envoy and has warned Washington to respect its sovereignty. This comes after US President Donald Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland. Posting on social media, Governor Landry thanked President Trump and said it would be an honor to serve in this position and make Greenland a part of the United States. The conflict between Denmark and the US over Greenland has been growing. Trump has repeatedly said the US needs the resource-rich island for security reasons and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.

DW Correspondent Teri Schultz reports on Denmark's foreign minister reacting to Trump's appointment of a special envoy to Greenland.

U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Trump administration, citing “foreign censorship,” imposed travel bans on experts involved in monitoring major tech platforms.

The Trump administration is barring five prominent Europeans from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday, accusing them of being involved in online censorship of Americans, a claim they have disputed.

The action sharply escalated the administration’s fight against European efforts to monitor content on major social media platforms, including Elon Musk’s X as well as Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta.

The five include Thierry Breton, a former member of the European Commission whom the under secretary of state for public diplomacy, Sarah B. Rogers, called “a mastermind” of the Digital Services Act, a European law meant to oversee harmful or manipulative content online.

The European Union imposed its first penalty under the law this month, leveling a $140 million fine against X for practices that misled users, obscured advertisers and denied researchers access to internal practices — not, as Mr. Musk claimed, for refusing to censor content.

The others are prominent researchers with nonpartisan, nongovernment organizations in Europe that have fought disinformation, hate speech and other harmful content online. Mr. Rubio said in a statement that those targeted “have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”

“These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states — in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,” he added. » | Steven Lee Myers | Tuesday, December 23, 2025

En français :

«Sanction scandaleuse», «solidarité totale»... La classe politique défend Thierry Breton, interdit de visa par les États-Unis : L’ancien commissaire européen a été sanctionné mardi par Washington pour son rôle dans la régulation des géants de la tech américaine. La France, par la voix de ses ministres Jean-Noël Barrot et Roland Lescure, a condamné cette décision. »

Trump Looks Awful as His Life Falls Apart

Dec 23, 2025 | MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s life falling apart as his entire presidency quickly crumbles and the people in the United States and across the world despise him.

Putin Faces ‘War on His Doorstep’ after Russian General Killed in Moscow

Dec 23, 2025 | “They’re trying to send out the message that you’re not safe from us anywhere in the world.”

Ukraine are “striking” right at the heart, as they are suspected of being behind the Russian general car bombing attack in central Moscow, says the Atlantic Council’s Michael Bociurkiw.

Trump Administration Plans to Promote Loyal Diplomats after Recall of 30 Ambassadors, Sources Say

THE GUARDIAN: Move comes as union representing US diplomats said it was ‘deeply concerned’ by the process, which could ‘politicise’ foreign service

The Trump administration has quietly recalled nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior overseas diplomats as the Trump administration plans to promote appointees loyal to the new administration to higher levels of the state department, according to diplomatic sources.

The recall of the ambassadors or heads of mission, which were confirmed by several current and former senior diplomats, was unusual for targeting career foreign service officers heading embassies overseas who are generally left in place after a change in administration because they strive to be apolitical.

But the Trump administration had vowed to oust a “deep state” of civil servants in a process that critics have called a purge of a professional class of government employees including senior overseas diplomats. » | Andrew Roth, global affairs correspondent | Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Trump is a pox on the planet! He poisons everything he touches. The America we used to love will never be the same again after Trump falls off his perch. — © Mark Alexander

How Dissent Became a “Threat”: FBI Expands Investigations Under Trump’s Anti-Fascism Memo NSPM-7

Dec 21, 2025 | A Trump directive, NSPM-7, reframes “anti-fascism” itself as a national security threat. Issued after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the memo goes beyond condemning specific crimes. It collapses ideology, protest, and violence into a single category—casting beliefs labeled “anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian” as inherently suspect.

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Donald Trump Is Pursuing Regime Change – in Europe

THE GUARDIAN — OPINION The US made it clear this week that it plans to help the parties of the European far right gain power. Keir Starmer and his fellow leaders have to face this new reality

When are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from Sex and the City’s Miranda Hobbes and realise that “He’s just not that into you”. After this past week, it’s clear that understates the problem. Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.

The depth of US hostility was revealed most explicitly in the new US national security strategy, or NSS, a 29-page document that serves as a formal statement of the foreign policy of the second Trump administration. There is much there to lament, starting with the sceptical quote marks that appear around the sole reference to “climate change”, but the most striking passages are those that take aim at Europe.

China and Russia, which you’d think the US would see as genuine strategic threats worthy of serious attention, are addressed flatly and with relative brevity. It’s Europe that gets Team Trump’s blood up, against Europe that it unleashes its rhetorical firepower. It warns that economic stagnation, “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates” and above all, migration, raise “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure”. » | Jonathan Freedland | Friday, December 12, 2025

It’s America that needs regime change, not Europe! — © Mark Alexander

Brian Cox Gives a Damning Indictment of Trump's America | LBC

Dec 10, 2025 | Hollywood titan Brian Cox spoke to Andrew Marr about the future of Trump's America. The Succession actor's children live in America.

In his interview with Andrew, Mr Cox expressed his concern about America becoming a 'police state' and claimed 'free speech is being squeezed'.

Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela Will Make Afghanistan Look Like ‘Child’s Play’ | Malcolm Nance

Dec 11, 2025 | “The US does not do well against people that fight in flip-flops.”

Trump is “making up” his own definitions to justify his Venezuela policy which is headed forwards a ground war that will make “Afghanistan look like child’s play,” says former US navy intelligence officer Malcolm Nance.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been turned into a worthless joke! — © Mark Alexander

Trump Expands Venezuela Sanctions as Maduro Decries New ‘Era of Piracy’

THE GUARDIAN: Six more oil supertankers added to sanctions list, as well as members of Maduro’s extended family, amid rising tensions following tanker seizure

Donald Trump has exerted more pressure on Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, expanding sanctions and issuing fresh threats to strike land targets in Venezuela, as the South American dictator accused the US president of ushering in a new “era of criminal naval piracy” in the Caribbean.

Late on Thursday, the US imposed curbs on three nephews of Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, as well as six crude oil supertankers and the shipping companies linked to them. The treasury department alleged the vessels “engaged in deceptive and unsafe shipping practices and continue to provide financial resources that fuel Maduro’s corrupt narco-terrorist regime”.

The targeted vessels recently loaded crude oil in Venezuela, according to state oil company PDVSA’s internal shipping documents. Four of the tankers are Panama-flagged, with the other two flagged by the Cook Islands and Hong Kong.

In comments on Thursday night, Trump also repeated his threat to soon begin strikes on suspected narcotics shipments making their way via land from Venezuela to the US.

The comments come after the US seized a “dark fleet” tanker named the Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, sparking concerns among some US lawmakers that Trump is “sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela”. » | Andrew Roth in Washington and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro | Friday, December 12, 2025

Thom Hartmann: Is Trump’s Alliance with Putin the Greatest Betrayal in American History?

Dec 11, 2025 | Donald Trump is realigning American power away from our democratic allies and toward Russia and other authoritarian regimes. From abandoning Ukraine to pushing a Kremlin friendly National Security Strategy and undercutting NATO, the pattern is unmistakable. This is a five alarm warning for democracy in America and Europe. Do you see this as the greatest betrayal in modern US history?

Donald Trump Melts Down at Black Woman When She Asks about His Lies

Dec 9, 2025 | Jesse talks about Donald Trump wanting to be able to have it all of the ways. In the same interview, he wants to proclaim himself to be a man of great wisdom, power, and knowledge, who is a no-holds-barred shot-caller, and also acts as though he knows nothing about the alleged war crimes committed by himself and Pete Hegseth on boats in the ocean.

Venezuela Decries ‘Act of Piracy’ after US Forces Seize Oil Tanker Off Country’s Coast

THE GUARDIAN: Footage uploaded to X by US attorney general shows its forces landing on the tanker in major escalation of Trump’s pressure campaign

US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, whose government called the seizure “an act of international piracy”.

Trump confirmed the operation on Wednesday, saying: “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually.”

“It was seized for a very good reason,” the US president added, declining to say who owned the vessel.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, posted footage of the seizure on X. The grainy, unclassified 45-second video shows US forces landing on the tanker from a helicopter.

In an accompanying statement, Bondi said the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and the US Coast Guard, with support from the Department of Defense, had “executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran”. » | Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Andrew Roth in Washington | Thursday, December 11, 2025

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Megyn Kelly Defending Predators is UNACCEPTABLE

Nov 14, 2025 | After the latest Epstein files were released, Megyn Kelly defended those involved in the heinous crimes. Steve Schmidt reacts to Kelly's comments and highlights the corruption throughout the Trump regime.

We're Unravelling at Light Speed (w/ Edward Luce) | The Mona Charen Show

Oct 27, 2025 | Mona Charen and Financial Times columnist Ed Luce discuss how Trump’s second term has gone from chaos to control — from a fake war in Venezuela to a culture of fear in Washington. They talk about the money, the mobs, the East Wing demolition, and how power in America is now moving at “the speed of light.”