Erik De La Garza
December 25, 2024
Donald Trump wished a “Merry Christmas to all” on Wednesday, but the merriment took a sharp turn as the president-elect quickly let loose on a wide range of Christmas Day grievances.
“Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in 'repair' money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about ‘anything,’” Trump wrote Wednesday afternoon on his Truth Social platform.
He next shifted his attention to Canada, the “Radical Left Lunatics” and the group of federal inmates whose sentences this week were commuted by President Joe Biden – who was also a target of Trump’s rage.
“Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote. “Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!...”
He continued in a follow-up post:
“Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, and are always going after the Great Citizens and Patriots of the United States but, in particular, their Political Opponent, ME,” Trump told his followers. “They know that their only chance of survival is getting pardons from a man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing. “Also, to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden."
Trump went on to say, “I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL! We had the Greatest Election in the History of our Country, a bright light is now shining over the U.S.A. and, in 26 days, we will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
Biden for his part sent out his own Christmas Day message to his social media followers for the last time as president, where he wrote: “it's my honor to wish all of America a very Merry Christmas.”
“My hope for our nation, today and always, is that we continue to seek the light of liberty and love, kindness and compassion, dignity and decency," Biden wrote. “May God bless you all.”
‘Make America Skate Again’: MAGA world cheers as Trump urges ally to replace Trudeau
TRUMP HATES TRUDEAU BECAUSE HE IS BETTER LOOKING
Erik De La Garza
December 25, 2024
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Plenary Session at the NATO summit in Watford, Britain, December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
President-elect Donald Trump unwrapped a Christmas Day flood of reaction after he continued his revived feud with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by urging the Canadian people to start a movement to draft hockey legend Wayne Gretzky to replace him.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform Wednesday to say he told the Canadian hockey great that he should run for prime minister of Canada during a Christmas Day visit.
“I just left Wayne Gretzky, ‘The Great One’ as he is known in Ice Hockey circles,” Trump posted Wednesday. “I said, ‘Wayne, why don’t you run for Prime Minister of Canada, soon to be known as the Governor of Canada - You would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign.’ He had no interest, but I think the people of Canada should start a DRAFT WAYNE GRETZKY Movement. It would be so much fun to watch!”
Trump’s suggestion that Gretzky – a MAGA ally who spent election night at the incoming president’s Mar-A-Lago golf resort – run for prime minister was heaped with praise from MAGA world but raised eyebrows from curious onlookers.
“I can't be mad that Wayne Gretzky just had his Christmas ruined,” former journalist James McLeod wrote on Bluesky. “This sort of suggests that Trump is basically unaware and/or indifferent to the existence of Pierre Poilievre,” he said about the conservative Canadian politician.
“I know Donald Trump claims he doesn’t drink but babbling about Wayne Gretzky makes me think otherwise,” artist Art Candee wrote to her social media followers. “Did someone slip him a pot brownie?”
“The president-elect is spending his Christmas trolling Canadians by suggesting they make Wayne Gretzky their ‘governor,’ freelance journalist Justin Ling wrote on Bluesky.
But the feelings of many others were encapsulated by X user redsnoopy69, who told his over 17,000 X followers: “Wayne Gretzky was a great hockey player, but he is currently a terrible Canadian...”
“Make America Skate Again,” proclaimed another X user. “Donald Trump cheerleading for ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky to stand as Governor of Canada. Oh sweet Moses.”
Trudeau and the country he leads have remained the subject of Trump’s taunts in recent weeks, with Trump repeatedly suggesting Canada become a U.S. state, and promising to impose massive new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China goods that experts have said would be “damaging” to Ottawa, the Toronto CityNews reported.
Erik De La Garza
December 25, 2024
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Plenary Session at the NATO summit in Watford, Britain, December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
President-elect Donald Trump unwrapped a Christmas Day flood of reaction after he continued his revived feud with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by urging the Canadian people to start a movement to draft hockey legend Wayne Gretzky to replace him.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform Wednesday to say he told the Canadian hockey great that he should run for prime minister of Canada during a Christmas Day visit.
“I just left Wayne Gretzky, ‘The Great One’ as he is known in Ice Hockey circles,” Trump posted Wednesday. “I said, ‘Wayne, why don’t you run for Prime Minister of Canada, soon to be known as the Governor of Canada - You would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign.’ He had no interest, but I think the people of Canada should start a DRAFT WAYNE GRETZKY Movement. It would be so much fun to watch!”
Trump’s suggestion that Gretzky – a MAGA ally who spent election night at the incoming president’s Mar-A-Lago golf resort – run for prime minister was heaped with praise from MAGA world but raised eyebrows from curious onlookers.
“I can't be mad that Wayne Gretzky just had his Christmas ruined,” former journalist James McLeod wrote on Bluesky. “This sort of suggests that Trump is basically unaware and/or indifferent to the existence of Pierre Poilievre,” he said about the conservative Canadian politician.
“I know Donald Trump claims he doesn’t drink but babbling about Wayne Gretzky makes me think otherwise,” artist Art Candee wrote to her social media followers. “Did someone slip him a pot brownie?”
“The president-elect is spending his Christmas trolling Canadians by suggesting they make Wayne Gretzky their ‘governor,’ freelance journalist Justin Ling wrote on Bluesky.
But the feelings of many others were encapsulated by X user redsnoopy69, who told his over 17,000 X followers: “Wayne Gretzky was a great hockey player, but he is currently a terrible Canadian...”
“Make America Skate Again,” proclaimed another X user. “Donald Trump cheerleading for ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky to stand as Governor of Canada. Oh sweet Moses.”
Trudeau and the country he leads have remained the subject of Trump’s taunts in recent weeks, with Trump repeatedly suggesting Canada become a U.S. state, and promising to impose massive new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China goods that experts have said would be “damaging” to Ottawa, the Toronto CityNews reported.
Trump's 'deeply weird' Greenland obsession exposed by columnist
Brad Reed
December 24, 2024
Brad Reed
December 24, 2024
RAW STORY
Donald Trump speaks at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
With President-elect Donald Trump once again making noise about seizing Greenland from Denmark, MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown decided to examine the origins of Trump's years-long fixation on buying the large ice-covered territory.
After reviewing past reports on Trump national security officials' interactions with him during his first term about Greenland, Hayes finds that Trump seems to simply covet Greenland because it's a large piece of land.
In fact, Trump is directly quoted by reporters Susan Glasser and Peter Baker as saying of Greenland, "I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”
Taking stock of this, Hayes comes away unimpressed with Trump's geopolitical acumen.
"As tends to be the case with Trump, the real answer is both entirely on-brand and deeply weird," writes Brown. "Even if Trump really did come up with the idea of buying Greenland himself as he claimed, the motivation of 'it’s massive' doesn’t speak highly of his strategic vision for the United States — or his own business sense as a developer."
Hayes then adds that, were Trump to get serious about taking Greenland for the United States, it would likely not end well for him.
"It’s especially fitting that a real estate developer whose properties have declared bankruptcy multiple times is besotted with this particular landmass," he writes. "Greenland is one of the oldest bait-and-switch real estate cons in the book, named to encourage settlement on what is a mostly barren expanse of ice. And, as any cartography fan would tell you, the way Greenland looks on most common maps is extremely misleading thanks to the distortion needed to make a globe flat. Instead, the island — while still huge — isn’t quite as massive as Trump seems to think."
Read the full analysis here.
Donald Trump speaks at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
With President-elect Donald Trump once again making noise about seizing Greenland from Denmark, MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown decided to examine the origins of Trump's years-long fixation on buying the large ice-covered territory.
After reviewing past reports on Trump national security officials' interactions with him during his first term about Greenland, Hayes finds that Trump seems to simply covet Greenland because it's a large piece of land.
In fact, Trump is directly quoted by reporters Susan Glasser and Peter Baker as saying of Greenland, "I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”
Taking stock of this, Hayes comes away unimpressed with Trump's geopolitical acumen.
"As tends to be the case with Trump, the real answer is both entirely on-brand and deeply weird," writes Brown. "Even if Trump really did come up with the idea of buying Greenland himself as he claimed, the motivation of 'it’s massive' doesn’t speak highly of his strategic vision for the United States — or his own business sense as a developer."
Hayes then adds that, were Trump to get serious about taking Greenland for the United States, it would likely not end well for him.
"It’s especially fitting that a real estate developer whose properties have declared bankruptcy multiple times is besotted with this particular landmass," he writes. "Greenland is one of the oldest bait-and-switch real estate cons in the book, named to encourage settlement on what is a mostly barren expanse of ice. And, as any cartography fan would tell you, the way Greenland looks on most common maps is extremely misleading thanks to the distortion needed to make a globe flat. Instead, the island — while still huge — isn’t quite as massive as Trump seems to think."
Read the full analysis here.
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