{"id":319568,"date":"2025-12-07T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319568"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:31:30","slug":"donald-trump-on-a-roll-all-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319568","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump On A Roll All Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review Dec 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

There is always something new and exciting coming out of Washington. Last week\u2019s big story centered on the presumed prerogative of the United States to kill people anywhere in the world without necessarily having to make the legal or moral case that they deserved death. Inevitably, the impulse to do just that derives from the very top of the government system with President Donald J Trump having on a number of occasions verbalized his national security policy, such as it is, by explicitly stating that whenever his administration encounters \u201cenemies\u201d of the US, the newly renamed Secretary of War would exercise the right to \u201ckill them.\u201d Trump claims that as president he can \u201cdo whatever he wants,\u201d suggesting that he has never read the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

Admittedly the brain-addled Trump is not the first US president to adopt such a de facto<\/em> policy of L\u2019\u00c9tat, c\u2019est moi<\/em>, though he may be the first to openly admit it. George W Bush \u201clegalized\u201d torture through his embrace of the \u201cglobal war on terror\u201d with him in the role of the \u201cnew sheriff in town.\u201d He was succeeded by Barack Obama, who held weekly meetings in the White House to draw up lists of American citizens and others overseas who would be assassinated by drones. He notably killed<\/a> the two al-Awlakis, a father and son from Arizona residing in Yemen, in that fashion. Joe Biden went one step further, by proxy, providing Israel with the arms and political support to carry out the genocide deaths of a minimum of 100,000 Gazans. When privately challenged by his staff on the policy, he responded \u201cI am a Zionist\u201d and refused to consider pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to moderate his actions.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to Trump, one has to give him credit for his ability to turn multiple deaths into an ongoing comic routine complete with making up funny but demeaning names for the women journalists who question him during press conferences. In the past few weeks, Trump\u2019s insults, tantrums, and threats have exploded. To Nancy Cordes, CBS\u2019s White House correspondent he whined: \u201cAre you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You\u2019re just asking questions because you\u2019re a stupid person.\u201d And he complained that the New York Times<\/em>\u2019 correspondent Katie Rogers was \u201cthird rate \u2026 ugly, both inside and out.\u201d But the most extreme put-down went to White House correspondent Catherine Lucey: \u201cQuiet. Quiet, piggy.\u201d But even worse went to Democratic lawmakers who told military members to defy illegal orders: they were described as guilty of \u201csedition \u2026 punishable by DEATH.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a man obsessed by himself, Trump has, in his own mind, elevated every slaughter into a narrative that demonstrates his own genius and political savvy. Last week Trump hosted two major events that demonstrated how low the leadership of the United States of America will go to promote nonsense. The first was a gathering at the United States Institute of Peace where what was ostensibly designated the site for the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo turned out to be all about Trump, both literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the year, when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk policy was in bloom stripping jobs and work from the government payrolls, the Institute of Peace was more-or-less seized and shut down by White House intervention, which included Trump\u2019s describing the Institute as a \u201cbloated, useless entity.\u201d It was a move that is now being disputed in court as the Institute is largely government funded and was created by a law passed by Congress, but it is not under the control of the Executive Branch.<\/p>\n

Currently, however, the Institute has been rebranded<\/a> and the front of its building on Connecticut Avenue in the District of Columbia now bears large bronze letters above its own name spelling out \u201cDonald J Trump,\u201d a clear allusion to the president\u2019s purported expertise as a peace maker. The State Department announced on Monday<\/a> that the institute had been renamed \u201cThe Donald J Trump Institute of Peace\u201d to honor and \u201creflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation\u2019s history\u201d. Trump claims having brought peace to eight international conflicts, though that assertion has been widely debunked and even ridiculed. Trump\u2019s adding his name to the building facade appears to be a continuation of his effort to portray himself as a great diplomatic deal-maker as he campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2026, a distinction that he appears to greatly covet.<\/p>\n

And the new inscription was not all. Trump was the self-anointed prime speaker at the event held there last week which enabled him to talk about himself. He referred to another meeting on Friday to draw up the final line-up for next year\u2019s US-Canada-Mexico FIFA soccer world cup. The meeting was to be held at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, but Trump made a deliberate slip<\/a> of the tongue in referring to it as the \u201cTrump Kennedy Center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has already loaded the Kennedy Center\u2019s board with his supporters and has been pushing to rename the opera house after his wife and the building itself after himself. This impending takeover has reportedly resulted in many performers canceling out and also a dramatic decline in attendance by the public. At the Friday FIFA gathering itself, Trump was perhaps predictably awarded a special first time ever issued \u201cpeace prize\u201d by the soccer association organizers! FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented the award<\/a> saying \u201cYou definitely deserve the first FIFA Peace Prize for your action, for what you have obtained in your way, but you obtained it in an incredible way. And you can always count, Mr. President, on my support, on the support of the entire \u2026 soccer community to help you make peace and make the world prosper.\u201d Trump called receiving the award \u201cone of the great honors\u201d of his life. It might be noted that FIFA is concerned lest Trump disrupt the World Cup games that will be played in the US, which he has already somewhat threatened to do, if he is not allowed to benefit from the publicity and name recognition! Some reports suggest that the whole performance was cringeworthy<\/a> with Trump placing the medal around his own neck!<\/p>\n

And, as is always the case with Trump, there has been still more. There was a discussion by Trump last week regarding the Dulles International Airport<\/a> in nearby Virginia, with the White House pushing for it to be \u201cimproved.\u201d He made an actual inspection stop at the facility and afterwards described the current airport as \u201c\u2026not a good airport. It should be a great airport, and it\u2019s not a good airport.\u201d He described the main terminal building as \u201cincorrectly designed\u201d and added: \u201cWe\u2019re going to turn that around and we\u2019re going to make Dulles airport \u2013 serving Washington and Virginia, Maryland, etc \u2013 we\u2019re gonna make that into something really spectacular. We have an amazing plan for it.\u201d The improvement would apparently feature renaming it for guess-whom.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget the \u201clarge\u201d triumphal arch or is it a Trump-Full arch that might be coming on the Potomac shore outside the Arlington National Cemetery and the bill in Congress to add Trump\u2019s large head to the Mount Rushmore Memorial in South Dakota. At least Washington DC has not yet been scheduled for renaming to honor Trump, but that will perhaps be coming next. But don\u2019t despair, as Trump had yet another opportunity to shine last week when he issued a proclamation<\/a> on Tuesday commemorating the December second two-hundred-thirty-second anniversary of the United States\u2019 declaration of the Monroe Doctrine. It included: \u201cToday, my Administration proudly reaffirms this promise under a new \u2018Trump Corollary\u2019 to the Monroe Doctrine: That the American people\u2014not foreign nations nor globalist institutions\u2014will always control their own destiny in our hemisphere\u2026 Reinvigorated by my Trump Corollary, the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well\u2014and American leadership is coming roaring back stronger than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the invention of the \u201cTrump Corollary,\u201d Trump never fails to take advantage of any opportunity to praise himself by name and will use all the power that he has assumed to be incumbent on his office to do so. The sad part is that the self-praise is largely an illusion, as Trump the peacemaker is more accurately a warmaker in terms of what he has done vis-\u00e0-vis his supine groveling before Netanyahu and Jewish billionaire money. Gaza under the \u201cTrump Peace Plan\u201d is an atrocity that has now devolved into a hand-off for Israel to kill more Palestinians thanks to Trump. Likewise for the ceasefire in Lebanon, which is a ticket for Netanyahu to murder Lebanese, and likewise for the settlement in Syria. And what about bombing Iran? And Somalia, whose people were described last week by Trump as \u201cgarbage\u201d?<\/p>\n

And speaking of Somalis and other nations that are considered too disgusting to entertain the entry of their citizens into the land of the free and the home of the brave, Trump has now said<\/a> he wants to \u201cpermanently\u201d end migration from third-world countries while \u201cexpediting mass deportations\u201d of citizens of those countries who are already in the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants to add at least eleven more countries to President Trump\u2019s 19 country travel ban, reporting on X how she met with Trump this week and recommended<\/a> \u201ca full travel ban on every damn country that\u2019s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. WE DON\u2019T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the ban could, if applied strictly as described by Noem, be used to block Israelis\u2019 entry into the US as a plausible case can easily be made by citing their demonstrated behavior vis-\u00e0-vis their neighbors and in Israel itself that they are \u201ckillers, leeches and entitlement junkies.\u201d That would certainly be good news, particularly if Israel falls apart as one might hope for and many of them would want to be coming over here to the US where they would apply their skills in corrupting our government and buying and suborning the media.<\/p>\n

In another move that I have no doubt that both the Trump White House and the Israel Lobby will be watching closely, an Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno has introduced a bill<\/a> to establish that citizens of the United States \u201cmust have sole and exclusive allegiance to the US.\u201d He said \u201cBeing an American citizen is an honor and a privilege \u2014 and if you want to be an American, it\u2019s all or nothing. It\u2019s time to end dual citizenship for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cExclusive Citizenship Act of 2025\u201d means that no one may be a citizen or national of the US while simultaneously having any foreign citizenship. And a US citizen who voluntarily acquires foreign citizenship would have to relinquish their US citizenship after the date of enactment. And those who have dual citizenship<\/a> would have to submit a written renunciation of the foreign citizenship to the secretary of State or a written renunciation of US citizenship to the secretary of Homeland Security no later than one year after the enactment of the act. An individual who doesn\u2019t comply will be deemed to have voluntarily relinquished United States citizenship for purposes of section 349(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act<\/a>. Any individual deemed to have relinquished citizenship is \u201cappropriately recorded in Federal systems and treated as an alien for purposes of the immigration laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative is interesting and the policy is similar to that which is in place in many foreign countries. Here in America, the Israel Lobby and some particular members of Congress and on the White House staff will be working hard to stop it! It was, in fact predictably an Israeli, whose Supreme Court case Afroyim v. Rusk<\/a> (1967), led to the current determination that a US citizen cannot automatically lose his or her citizenship unless he or she willingly surrenders it. Though specific numbers cannot be confirmed<\/a>, approximately 200,000 to 600,000 US citizens with Israeli citizenship currently live in Israel. In the US, the estimated number of Israeli-Americans is approximately 191,000.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to discern how popular the bill to end dual citizenship might be, but one suspects that many Americans are getting very tired of hearing about the atrocities being committed on the West Bank by all those dual national \u201cIsraeli\u201d settlers from Brooklyn! And then there is the all-powerful Israel Lobby, with all those dual national Jewish billionaires and Hollywood types asserting how they are victims of \u201cantisemitism\u201d and need special benefits and laws written to protect them. Trump\u2019s top campaign donor is, for example, Israeli Miriam Adelson, who has contributed more than $100 million to the Republicans while also demanding policies beneficial to Israel, including promotion of the Gaza genocide. Trump has taken her money and complied with her every wish. Time to end all that!<\/p>\n

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational Hi, Rixon Stewart<\/span><\/a>foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is <\/em>https:\/\/councilforthenationalinterest.org<\/a> <\/strong>address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is <\/em>inform@cnionline.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Call it karma if you like but the air of smug self-confidence displayed by President Trump in recent weeks suggests that the man is heading for a fall. Or, at least something that will bring him down or humiliate him in some way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39258,"featured_media":208263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319569,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319568\/revisions\/319569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}