Day: February 19, 2025

How Trump Can PUNISH Trudeau Without Angering Canadians

"It's been a bumpy few weeks" for US-Canada relations, ‪@RebelNewsOnline‬ founder Ezra Levant tells Glenn. But do Canadians actually hate America after Trump's tariff announcement, his talk about making Canada the 51st state, and the brutal US-Canada hockey game? Ezra joins Glenn to give his perspective as a Trump-friendly, Trudeau-hating Canadian. Plus, he explains why "Justin Trudeau wants a trade war" in his last few weeks as Prime Minister and how Trump can punish Trudeau without hurting the Canadian people, and it all resolves around oil ...

Glenn Beck: The INCREDIBLE Story of How Biden Gave Trump the “Gift” of Mass Firings

Every government official who is fired by President Trump should blame Joe Biden, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tells Glenn. Spicer tells the incredible story of how Biden's "pettiness" led Spicer and Russ Vought to sue him in a case they didn't think they'd win. But they DID - and now it has set a precedent that allows President Trump to fire anyone in his administration! This has since led to the reformation of the Kennedy Center and will allow Trump to make many of DOGE's recommendations a reality.

NO MORE WAR: President Trump hints to end Ukraine War, slams DOGE haters | FULL REMARKS

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats' hypocritical position ahead of DOGE's Social Security audit. Leavitt defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's objectives on "Hannity" Monday, pointing out that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton championed rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. A federal judge on Tuesday declined to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data and firing federal employees. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan declined to grant the plaintiffs' request to issue a temporary restraining order, citing what she said was their failure to demonstrate evidence of "irreparable harm" caused by DOGE's access. "Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight," Chutkan, an Obama appointee, said Tuesday. "In these circumstances, it must be indisputable that this court acts within the bounds of its authority. Accordingly, the Court cannot issue a TRO, especially one as wide-ranging as Plaintiffs request, without clear evidence of imminent, irreparable harm to these Plaintiffs. The current record does not meet that standard." Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries’ top diplomats said after talks that reflected an extraordinary about-face in U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump. In an interview with The Associated Press after the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the two sides agreed broadly to pursue three goals: to restore staffing at their respective embassies in Washington and Moscow, to create a high-level team to support Ukraine peace talks and to explore closer relations and economic cooperation. He stressed, however, that the talks — which were attended by his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, and other senior Russian and U.S. officials — marked the beginning of a conversation, and more work needs to be done.

Trump Reinstates Service Members Discharged Over COVID Vaccine

The COVID vaccine was required for U.S. military service members for 15 months, from August 2021 to January 2023. Eight-four hundred service members were discharged for not getting the COVID vaccine. In January 2023, former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rescinded the mandate. It was the first time in history the military reversed a vaccine mandate, but only dozens of those who were discharged returned to the military. Republicans have argued the mandate hurts the military’s recruiting and retention capability. … The military had acknowledged it had a recruiting problem just the year before, and the mandate was a political headache for the Biden administration.

The RINO Plot to DERAIL a Key Trump Pentagon Nominee | The Mandate | 2/18/25

BlazeTV host Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson discuss Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plans to investigate the botched Afghanistan withdrawal during Joe Biden’s presidency; Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, and her reported resignation over the DOGE’s request to access information; the MAHA commission announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; and the shocking impact of Donald Trump’s border policies in under a month. Blaze News senior political editor Christopher Bedford breaks down the GOP infighting over Pentagon nominee Elbridge Colby and Vice President JD Vance’s decision to step into the crossfire. Blaze Media digital media strategist Logan Hall explains the MAGA youth movement, how the Right can harness the movement for the future, and Trump reposting his Napoleon meme. Finally, Jill and Matthew poll the audience on what they think DOGE and Elon Musk will find at Fort Knox.

False Christs Will Rise to Deceive, If Possible, Even the Elect.

Testing The Spirits Podcast Episode # 134 -While Matthew 24 may have an end times context, there is always an application for us today. As the apostle John wrote in his first epistle, we are living in the last days, and while all true believers have an anointing, false prophets claim a special anointing. Does that mean they are false Christs? Listen and find out!

Trump Makes ‘You’re Fired’ Great Again

A quick, ‘surgical’ removal of corruption from within.

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For 11 years, Donald Trump starred in the hit NBC shows, The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice. Trump popularized the catchphrase “You’re fired” as he dismissed contestants throughout each season until a winner was selected in the final episode.

Trump’s role in that show ended in 2015 when NBC fired him for speaking the truth about illegal immigration. Ten years later, President Donald Trump is reviving his famous slogan and telling unneeded bureaucrats and political enemies, “You’re fired.”

On Friday, he revoked the security clearance and intelligence briefings for former President Joe Biden. Trump said he made the decision because Biden, “could not be trusted with sensitive information." I will always protect our National Security— JOE, YOU’RE FIRED.”

By making this move, Trump is giving Biden a taste of his own medicine. In February of 2021, Biden cited Trump’s supposed “erratic behavior” when he rescinded his access to national security information.

In an interview with the New York Post, Trump said that Biden is “not worthy of trust.” Although he said that Biden, who did not pardon himself, would not be targeted by the Department of Justice, “he’s certainly prime time for investigation.” Trump said that “it’s not good” what Biden “did to our country,” especially “allowing people to come into our country,” such as “murderers on the street.”

President Trump also revoked the security clearances of a host of his political adversaries, such as former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who recruited signatures from 51 national security officials who falsely claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop had the “classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation. Trump revoked the security clearances for every “spy who lied,” including former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

He also rescinded the security clearances for former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, former Justice Department official Lisa Monaco, who spearheaded the prosecution of the January 6, 2021, protesters, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted a civil case against the President for supposedly inflating his wealth for bank loan applications, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who charged Trump in the ludicrous “hush money” case.

According to President Trump, this move will “take away every right they have” regarding access to national security information, and it will also prevent them from entering federal buildings.

Another person losing his security clearances and his personal detail was retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. President Trump said Milley committed “treason” when he placed two calls to his Chinese military counterparts to “reassure” the country that Trump was not going to attack. Of course, the problem for Milley is that the calls were made without President Trump’s authorization or knowledge.

Trump also revoked the government-funded security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and John Bolton, his former National Security Adviser. When asked by reporters if he was worried about potential harm coming to those individuals losing their security detail, the President responded, “You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for the government…They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too.”

Along with limiting access to classified information and saving money on security details, the President has fired approximately 200 people in his first three weeks. The firings include a dozen Inspectors General working in various government agencies and departments. It also includes the National Archivist, and a Democrat member of the Federal Elections Commission and the National Labor Relations Board. He also fired members of the the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, the Wilson Center for Scholars, and the President’s Export Council.

The President also fired the Chairman and several members of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The President said his decision was made because these members “do not share our vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.” He noted that “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.” The President posted, “We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!” Excellent selection Mr. President!

While these decisions are important, the most long lasting move the President made was to offer two million federal employees a chance to resign with eight months of severance pay. The deadline to accept the offer was originally February 6, but it was delayed by a federal judge.

Most federal employees received the offer, except for postal workers and various military and national security officials. As of Friday, 65,000federal workers had accepted Trump’s offer. If the buyout is eventually implemented, Forbes Magazine reports it “will be the largest single job reduction in U.S. history.”

The President is also reforming the Department of Justice, which had become politically weaponized during the Biden administration. The Justice Department fired a dozen career prosecutors who worked on politicized cases involving Trump. Former Acting Attorney General James McHenry said the firings were made because “these officials could not be trusted to faithfully implement the president’s agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president.”

The President also fired eight “senior FBI officials” who were involved in the weaponization of the January 6 cases. In addition, the names of over 5,000 FBI agents involved in the January 6 investigation were submitted to the Department of Justice.

While the names of these individuals will not be released to the public, the President emphasized that “some” of them will be fired. Due to his interactions with the Biden Justice Department, the President noted that “I got to know a lot about that world, and we had some corrupt agents, and those people are gone, or they will be gone, and it will be done quickly and very surgically.”

Regarding the Biden holdovers, “You’re Fired” has a nice ring to it.