12/20/2017 Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, sent a letter to several UN member states ahead of a vote in the General Assembly on Thursday. In the letter, she warned that President Donald Trump had instructed her to make note of members’ votes on the resolution — then tweeted she would be “taking names” of members who ...
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12/6/2017 Despite being warned by world leaders not to do so, President Trump today fulfilled a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to move the US Embassy there in recognition. The President’s move was met by warnings and ridicule by governments around the world. Just about every nation condemned the move, except for Israel. It ...
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11/11/2017 “Every time he sees me he says I didn’t do that, and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” Trump told reporters. And thus Donald Trump has decided to trust the word of Vladimir Putin, over multiple US Intelligence agencies who are convinced Putin ordered interference in last year’s elections. Trump made the comment ...
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11/7/2017 President Donald Trump announced in June that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. “We’re getting out,” he said. “And we will start to renegotiate and we’ll see if there’s a better deal. If we can, great. If we can’t, that’s fine.” At the time, the US was not alone. Syria and Nicaragua also opted out. Syria was ...
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11/2/2017 A comprehensive climate report compiled by 13 US federal agencies paints a grim picture for the world’s climate outlook. The report concludes that evidence of global warming is stronger than ever and that more than 90% of it has been caused by humans. The 477-page report released on Friday said it was “extremely likely” – meaning with 95 to ...
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10/13/2017 President Trump declared Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is no longer in the national security interest of the United States, but stopped short of withdrawing from the Obama-era pact. “I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification,” Trump said during a speech at the White House. “We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion ...
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10/1/2017 Today President Trump decided it was best to share his tactics on North Korea with the whole world. …Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2017 The tweets came a day after Tillerson told reporters that the US had direct contact with North Korea in regards to its ...
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9/21/2017 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called US President Donald Trump “mentally deranged” and said he would “pay dearly” for the recent threats against his country. In a rare statement directly attributed to the North Korean leader, Kim said on Friday that Trump is “unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country”, describing the president as “a rogue ...
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08/09/2017 North Korea now possesses a missile able to reach the US mainland, and a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted to the missile. On July 28th, North Korea tested yet another long range missile, it’s 14th missile test of the year. The missile was aimed mostly upward, and reached an altitude of 2300 miles. If the trajectory had ...
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8/8/2017 At a luncheon today, it appeared that President Trump has had all that he could take when it came to threats from North Korea. Kim Jong Un’s regime recently suggested that they would conduct another missile test, this time targeting Guam, a US territory. The President made it quite clear he would tolerate no more threats, promising “Fire and ...
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