Karoline Leavitt resigns after Trump leaves her on decoy plane

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:13 August 2026
• Post last modified:13 August 2026

In July, US president Donald Trump secretly changed planes while several members of his administration flew on what’s been described as a ‘decoy plane’. This happened because of a supposed threat to the president’s life. And people have taken it as a sign that Trump was more than happy to use his top people as bait. Now, one of the people he left on the decoy plane has resigned – press secretary Karoline Leavitt. And people are speculating it’s directly linked to Trump’s airborne shenanigans: Karoline Leavitt announced her resignation 24 hours after she found out that Trump left her for…

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Trump backs FIFA boss amid mounting calls for his resignation

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:11 August 2026
• Post last modified:11 August 2026

Donald Trump has declared his support for the Swiss-Italian president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, at a time when pressure is mounting from a number of football federations calling for changes in leadership. On Monday evening, the US president wrote on Truth Social platform that FIFA would be making a “huge mistake” if it considered replacing “fantastic” Infantino. He added that Infantino had led “the most successful World Cup“, hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico, warning that his departure would mean the tournament “would never again see such success or such profitability”. Infantino has a fan in the president Trump’s stance…

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Trump targets birthright citizenship again after losing Supreme Court case

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:7 August 2026
• Post last modified:7 August 2026

Trump signed two new executive orders on Thursday. These orders were aimed at narrowing birthright citizenship. This came just a month after the Supreme Court struck down his previous attempt. According to Fox News, “the new directives rely on existing executive and immigration authorities and are intended to narrow eligibility for automatic citizenship in certain cases while cracking down on foreigners who travel to the United States to give birth.” Trump announced the orders in the Oval Office, with adviser Stephen Miller looking on. Miller called birth tourism “a fraud on the American system” and “a fraud against the American government.”…

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Trump denies weapons shortage but the tungsten ban suggests otherwise

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:7 August 2026
• Post last modified:7 August 2026

Donald Trump insists the US has no shortage of weapons. But his latest move to restrict exports for key materials for munitions production — tells a different story. Trump recently threatened “long-term jail sentences” for anyone leaking information about alleged munition shortages facing the US, accusing them of making “treasonous statements”. He said: Long-term jail sentences will be sought! Yet while Trump dismisses reports of shortages, his administration has moved to restrict exports of tungsten scrap and black mass — two materials critical to weapons production. Depleted supplies of tungsten According to Gavin D. J. Harper from the University of Birmingham, modern…

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Trump wants $10 billion from BBC but says asking for his finances is ‘disproportionate’

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:6 August 2026
• Post last modified:7 August 2026

In the latest twist in Trump’s defamation case against the BBC, the president’s legal team has filed an emergency motion to block the BBC from accessing his financial records, arguing the subpoena is a “disproportionate” and a “shockingly broad” fishing expedition. According to the filing, made in the Southern District of Florida on August 5, 2026, the BBC’s subpoena for tax returns, asset histories, and business records from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, the legal entity that holds the president’s business assets across approximately 400 affiliated entities, should be quashed. Or, at minimum, impose strict limits on what the BBC…

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Infantino’s Trump card cannot stop FIFA revolt

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:4 August 2026
• Post last modified:4 August 2026

Gianni Infantino’s FIFA presidency is facing perhaps its most serious challenge since he took charge in 2016. Federations are turning against him, with former allies withdrawing support, UEFA openly challenging his decisions and critics questioning the way he runs FIFA. The immediate trigger has been the fallout over plans to privatise part of the World Cup’s commercial rights. What began as a dispute over a business proposal has grown into a wider challenge to Infantino’s authority and his bid to secure a fourth term as FIFA president. Until recently, Infantino’s path to another term appeared secure. However, the alliances that sustained…

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Oil companies heist is so blatant even Trump is complaining

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:4 August 2026
• Post last modified:5 August 2026

Ecocidal oil companies are raking in so much money that even the most corrupt American president in history – Donald Trump – has to make a public show of disapproval at least. US-based Chevron reported its largest quarterly net profit ever, at $12.1 billion; ExxonMobil’s $14.5 billion second-quarter income and Shell’s $10.8 billion in net earnings represented their most profitable quarters spince 2022, when they previously benefited from the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump pipes up Trump told reporters on Monday: I don’t like it. Chevron, too much money. ExxonMobil, too much. Too much money. Let’s hope this fake outrage from Trump isn’t fooling…

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Funny fascism: how Trump launders the unthinkable through jokes and memes

• Post author:Hugo Harvey
• Post published:4 August 2026
• Post last modified:5 August 2026

As the Canary reports, the White House spent last October recruiting ICE agents by using Halo video game memes. It cast agents as space marines and migrants as an alien invasion to be destroyed. Last Friday, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump wore his signature red cap, this time reading “Trump 2028,”, announcing his intention to run for president for a fourth time, which would break the USA’s two-term constitutional limit. He also insisted he had already won three elections, continuing to deny he lost the 2020 election to Biden. The Guardian‘s write-up that night ran under the headline “Donald…

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WATCH: Trump admits US war on ICC is to protect Netanyahu

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:2 August 2026
• Post last modified:3 August 2026

Donald Trump has admitted that the US’ attempt to destroy the International Criminal Court (ICC) is about protecting wanted Israel’s Prime Minister and wanted war criminal, Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu. Trump makes admission at press conference Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio first tried to spin a tale about US sovereignty and a supposedly arrogant court. But Trump blew his confection out of the water in one sentence, as journalist Ahmed Eldin spotted. At a White House press conference on Friday (31 July), the US president said that they’re not “after me”, but that it was about “protecting Bibi”. Like pretty much…

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Trump gives data centres freedom to cause acid rain

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:30 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

Data centres are getting a bad reputation for how much energy and water they use (something particularly problematic for AI data centres). The reputation these data centres have will likely only get worse too, because Trump is seemingly giving them permission to create acid rain: The Trump administration has exempted data centers from acid rain regulations, removing caps on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. pic.twitter.com/2rPzFptVwy — FactPost (@factpostnews) July 29, 2026 When it rains Acid rain was a commonly discussed problem in the late 20th century. It’s spoken about less now because scientists were successful at identifying the problem and formulating…

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Trump ordered to hand over years of financial docs in BBC lawsuit

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:29 July 2026
• Post last modified:30 July 2026

Donald Trump has suffered a huge and potentially crippling legal blow in his lawsuit against the BBC. A US court has ordered Trump’s ‘revocable trust’, through which he owns most of his properties and businesses, to hand over more than three-and-a-half years’ of documents, including financial information. The US president has only 10 days to comply. Trump’s hubris has backfired Commentators warned Trump, when he launched the lawsuit, that his attempt to sue the BBC for billions was likely not just to fail but to be colossally embarrassing. The BBC apologised for editing a Trump speech connected to the 6 January…

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Fraudster Reform backer linked to controversial Trump judge

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:27 July 2026
• Post last modified:27 July 2026

Reform UK has multiple ongoing financial scandals right now. Several of these scandals link to the convicted fraudster George Cottrell – a.k.a. ‘Posh George’. Now, journalists have linked Cottrell to another dubious figure (a figure who is herself linked to Donald Trump): This photo at Posh George's Montenegro penthouse was taken days after we exposed him as the criminal bankrolling Farage Who is she? We didn't expect to identify her as a US federal judge Or to uncover he paid her late husband, former AG for Arizona, where he was convicted pic.twitter.com/GvhMGaI5uz — Venetia Menzies (@venetiamenzies) July 26, 2026 Reform aristo-cash…

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Trump underestimated Iran’s resilience, Chatham House hears

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:18 July 2026

At Chatham House’s London Conference on 9 July 2026, a panel on “The new geopolitics of the Middle East” noted the failure by Trump to underestimate Iran’s resilience. The comments were made by Professor Mohsen Milani (University of South Florida), who said his comments were not of a political persuasion but were offered as an academic. The video was published by Chatham House on their YouTube channel. He said that American policymakers and think tankers have been wrong about Iran for 47 to 48 years, and that one of the primary reasons is that they have “underestimated the resiliency of a revolutionary…

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Trump scared of midterm elections goes back to 2020 fraud, far-left extremism claims

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:17 July 2026
• Post last modified:17 July 2026

On Thursday, Donald Trump stood before the cameras in the White House and delivered a prime-time address claiming that the 2020 election had been stolen. Wall Street Journal defined it as: In his prime-time address, Trump alleged that the U.S. election system had been compromised, ramping up efforts to sow doubts about his 2020 election loss, raise skepticism about the midterms and pressure Congress into passing sweeping voter-ID legislation CODEPINK’s co-founder Medea Benjamin said that Trump was trying to revive false claims of past stolen elections and Chinese interference to delegitimize the 2026 midterm elections. BEWARE: Trump is trying to revive…

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Trump touts bizarre automatic retaliation policy in case Iran assassinate him

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:13 July 2026
• Post last modified:13 July 2026

US president Donald Trump wants to create an automatic retaliation policy if Iran manages to assassinate him. The erratic US leader’s idea emerged as Iran and the US returned to open hostilities around a month into the Oman-brokered negotiating period to end the war. Associated Press (AP) reported on 13 July: President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran “ at levels they’ve never seen before” if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him. The news agency added that: the U.S. government has no way to create an automatic,…

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MEPs call for an investigation into Infantino over allegations of bowing to pressure from Trump

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:9 July 2026
• Post last modified:9 July 2026

The crisis surrounding the lifting of the suspension of American striker Folarin Balogun has taken a new turn, after dozens of Members of the European Parliament called for an investigation into the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, following allegations that he succumbed to political pressure from US president Donald Trump, in one of the most controversial issues surrounding the 2026 World Cup. According to the Associated Press, 35 MEPs signed a letter calling on FIFA’s Ethics Committee to investigate Infantino’s role, after the Disciplinary Committee decided to lift Balogun’s suspension, allowing him to play against Belgium in the round of 16,…

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Health groups urge Burnham to scrap “deadly” NHS agreement with Trump to save over 200k lives

• Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
• Post published:8 July 2026
• Post last modified:8 July 2026

19 health groups have co-authored a letter sent to new Makerfield MP and likely-PM Andy Burnham to urge him to scrap a terrible agreement made with Trump which could see almost 230k preventable deaths. The new deal will divert £44.7bn from essential health services to cover the cost of new medicines, which comes as a huge boon for greedy Big Pharma and a foreboding death knell for hundreds of thousands of British citizens. Academics from the University of York, Liverpool and Christchurch hospital in New Zealand have found that this level of reduction in NHS spending to foot the bill for…

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“Overturn this” — Belgian football team mocks Trump and US

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:7 July 2026
• Post last modified:7 July 2026

The Belgian football team has ‘cooked’ Donald Trump and the US on social media. Trump and craven FIFA president Gianni Infantino had scandalised the sporting world by arbitrarily overturning US striker Folarin Balogun’s suspension for his red card against Bosnia. But with most of the world cheering it on, a clearly fired-up Belgium hammered the US 4-1. “Overturn this” Belgium’s fourth goal was scored by veteran forward Romelu Lukaku. Then the official Belgian team account on X used Lukaku’s celebration in the ‘cooking’ recipe to mock the orange one and his FIFA lackey: The Belgium National Team’s official Twitter account just…

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FIFA rulebook faces stress test after Trump intervention

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:6 July 2026
• Post last modified:7 July 2026

Not every crisis to hit football begins with a refereeing error. Some begin when fans lose faith that the law will have the final say, and when politics fills the space left behind. The latest controversy surrounding Folarin Balogun’s red card is no longer about whether the punishment was right or wrong. It is about whether FIFA’s disciplinary rules can withstand political pressure. Politics enters the equation Referees can make mistakes, but the rules have always been the final word. In fact, that was football’s strongest defence against those who suspected something more sinister. Errors are part of the game. However,…

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Trump confirms he asked FIFA to revoke US striker’s red card

• Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
• Post published:6 July 2026
• Post last modified:7 July 2026

Donald Trump has, remarkably, confirmed that he intervened with FIFA to overturn a red card for US striker Folarin Balogun. The World Cup 2026 has not been without political themes this tournament, particularly considering how players and referees have been prevented from making it into the US to compete with their national teams.  However, Trump’s latest intervention really takes the biscuit. The lawless US President lobbied FIFA in three phone calls made since 29 June to suspend a red card levelled against US striker Folarin Balogun. This lobbying has been successful, with the President saying: Thank you to FIFA for doing…

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