Happy Columbus Day!
Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:
8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time
7:00 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers Remarks in Youngstown, Ohio
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Two minutes of hate:
Iran continues making desperate threats against the United States. Iranian national-security official Mohsen Rezaei said Sunday that Tehran considers Washington’s latest response to its demands over the Strait of Hormuz insufficient. Rezaei warned that American-linked undersea communications cables, data centers, and artificial-intelligence facilities throughout the Gulf could become targets if military operations resume. He estimated that the region contains more than $2 trillion in American-linked technology infrastructure. Such actions would not only impact American properties, they would interfere with the operations in the friendly European nations as well as China and Russia. The IRGC threats are most likely bluster and indicative of the Iran’s crippled condition as they can’t sell their oil and the Iranian currency is virtually useless.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an immediate ceasefire covering attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, declaring that both sides had agreed and warning them not to violate the arrangement. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had not been informed of a finalized agreement and indicated that Ukraine would participate if Russia also complied. The Kremlin has not publicly confirmed the arrangement. The announcement follows Trump’s October 9 agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase Russian diesel supplies to American and international markets to combat inflation. On Sunday, six senators from both parties (you know who they are on the Republican side, I don’t have to tell you) issued a statement demanding that Trump reverse the arrangement, arguing that relaxing restrictions on Russian energy could provide Moscow with additional revenue for its war against Ukraine.
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What is with these ridiculous hurricane names? What happened to Hurricane Alice or Hurricane Frank? The remnants of Hurricane Isaias continued moving north Sunday after the storm killed at least four people and caused widespread destruction across Florida and Alabama. The hurricane made landfall Friday near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of approximately 105 mph. nearly 396,000 electricity customers across the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama remained without power early Sunday. That represented an improvement from Saturday, when outages had approached 900,000 across several southeastern states.
News roundup:
Russia strikes power plant in Ukraine after Trump announces energy ceasefire
UAW tries to reassert political power in Michigan despite internal divisions
Silicon Valley’s horror shows
Pope Leo to have “nodule” removed from lung
Trump Says ‘Days of Plunder’ of Columbus Statues ‘Are Over’
Reputation of German Intelligence in Tatters as Investigation Into Arrested Spy Chief Considers Alleged Chinese Link
Bill Gates sounds alarm on AI-powered cyberattacks, warns of ‘negative surprises’ within a year
NYC councilwoman blasts Mamdani over Italian Heritage Month post praising ‘communist’
Kelly Clarkson slams Brooklyn store over ‘Pretty Woman’ treatment
Abbas delays Palestinian elections again, making more than two decades without vote
Luxury hotel favored by Kennedys, Grace Kelly cracks down on influencer photo shoots
Mamdani friend and advisor met with Cuban dictator: report
Ethics complaint filed against NY Attorney General Letitia James in Cornell 7 case
Fourteen Democrat-led states sue Trump administration over canceled, Biden-era COVID relief grants
Arizonans to vote on increased protections for girls’ sports
Three people shot in broad daylight in Los Angeles
DHS secretary Mullin slams Hochul for staying silent on NYPD cop stabbed by illegals while grandstanding over ICE shooting
Grandpa ID’d as crazed killer who shot 9 — including his own kids, grandkids — in shocking Pa. murder-suicide: relatives
Mamdani threatens to probe ICE after NYC ‘illegal migrant’ shooting — as he compares agency to terrorists
President Trump toys with renaming Atlantic and Pacific ‘Trump Ocean’
Russia and China are targeting vital underwater cables in terrifying ways that could send us back to the Dark Ages, a new book reveals
Trump announces ‘energy ceasefire’ between Russia, Ukraine
Man Enters Tiger Enclosure At Zoo, Gets Mauled To Death
Campaign Denies Claim That James Talarico’s ‘Flu’ Was Mental Health Crisis
Judge orders the Trump administration to cancel taxpayer-funded promotional TV ads
Report: China’s ByteDance Is Still Deeply Involved in TikTok
Businesses use RICO against alleged litigation abuses
Mamdani calls ICE to leave NYC after shooting
Mamdani to skip Manhattan Columbus parade in latest snub to NYC Italian community
Bipartisan group of senators demands Trump kill Russian diesel deal
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And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!
