“Portraying Nigeria’s security challenges as a targeted campaign against a single religious group is a gross misrepresentation of reality,” said Nigeria’s information minister. When President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas, he described it as an attack against “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” […]
One group noted “the irony of a billionaire being in charge of collecting pennies from debtors.” The US Education Department confirmed Monday that, starting next month, it will resume seizing the pay of student loan borrowers in default as the Trump administration wages a broader war on debt relief and cancellation efforts. The department, led by billionaire […]
“Nothing more Christian than to be a hateful wretched f**k on Jesus’ birthday,” quipped one critic. In a message called typically on-brand by observers, US President Donald Trump wished “Merry Christmas to all”—including his political opponents, whom he described in decidedly unchristlike language. “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible […]
“Giving a general order to kill any survivors constitutes a war crime,” wrote Reps. Jamie Raskin and Ted Lieu. “Outside of war, the killing of unarmed, helpless men clinging to wreckage in open water is simply murder.” Making clear that the Trump administration’s “entire Caribbean operation,” which has killed more than 100 people in boats […]