Trump belittles Trudeau and Canada; Musk joins Mar-a-Lago meeting with Hungary’s Orbán: Live updates

Nigel Farage will be in the US on Sunday for an astonishing sixth time since being elected as an MP on the Fourth of July after being unveiled as one of the headline acts at the biggest MAGA gala since Donald Trump won the US presidential election.

UK reform leaderdubbed the “MAGA MP” by some political opponents in Westminster, and comes amid questions about how much time he spends in his Clacton constituency.

CNN First Correspondent Kristen Holmes reported the development on Monday, citing an unnamed source, who appeared to explain a cryptic post from Gaetz’s wife Ginger on X on Sunday that simply read, “Big news coming next week!”

Joe Sommerlad it has details.

Gustaf Kilander looks at the prospect of Trump ending this right.

Balázs Orbán, the political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, welcomed the meeting of his boss Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser of the president-elect.

On X he wrote: “Great leaders and an even brighter future! @realDonaldTrump, @elonmusk and @michaelgwaltz welcomed @PM_ViktorOrban to Mar-a-Lago to discuss shared goals and values. The National #Conservatives are coming back strong!”

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today to examine the potential ramifications of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

In a late night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump appears to disparage Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a governor and the country as a country.

A week ago, the newly elected president joked that Canada could avoid the tariffs it plans to impose by becoming the 51st US state, the report said.

Trudeau said Monday that Americans are “starting to wake up to the reality that tariffs on everything from Canada would make life much more expensive.”

Speaking at an event organized by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, the prime minister also said dealing with Donald Trump would be “a bit more challenging” than last time.

Trudeau said that’s because Trump’s team is coming in with a much clearer set of ideas about what they want to do immediately than they did after his first election victory in 2016.

The Republican president-elect has threatened to impose a 25 percent tax on all products entering the US from Canada and Mexico unless they stop the flow of migrants and drugs.

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, said she “fully supports” the president-elect’s stance on developments in Syria.

As a reminder, here’s what Trump had to say on Sunday morning’s Truth Social:

Assad is gone. He fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was no longer interested in protecting him. There was no reason for Russia to be there at all. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started and could go on forever. Russia and Iran are currently in a weakened state, one because of Ukraine and the poor economy, the other because of Israel and its combat success. Likewise, Zelensky and Ukraine would like to come to an agreement and stop the madness. They lost a ridiculous 400,000 soldiers and many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are needlessly wasted, too many families are destroyed, and if this continues, it can turn into something much bigger and much worse. I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The world is waiting!

The veteran and former Democrat has often been criticized for a 2017 visit to Syria where she met with now-deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. After the visit, Gabbard denied crimes committed by the Syrian regime and said Assad was “not an enemy of the United States.”

Late November Nikki Haley launched a sharp attack about Gabbard, who called her “a sympathizer of Russia, Iran, Syria, China.”

A former Florida congressman who briefly campaigned to be Trump’s next attorney general will now reportedly join the conservative One America News Network (OANN) as an anchor.

CNN National Correspondent Kristen Holmes first reported the development Monday citing an unnamed source, who appeared to explain Gaetz’s wife Ginger’s cryptic post on X on Sunday that simply read, “Big news coming next week! “

CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter later reported that he had asked OANN President Charles Herring to confirm Gaetz’s appointment, but Herring declined to comment.

The Independent reached out to OANN for further clarification.

The website for “The Matt Gaetz Show” was live on the network’s official website along with banners and promotional artwork as of Tuesday morning.

President Joe Biden will explain how his administration’s economic policies brought the American economy ahead of the entire developed world in the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic with a major address about his “economic legacy”, the White House announced.

According to a White House official, Biden is scheduled to speak with the Brookings Institution on Tuesday morning to outline how his administration’s plan “rescued” the U.S. economy “from one of the worst economic crises in American history and provided a soft landing” that avoided a catastrophic recession. predicted by many economists.

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