Multiple Republican lawmakers and aides have told me that an exodus of House Republicans is likely in the coming weeks—one estimate puts the number as high as 20 new announcements—with most retirements expected from members in safe Republican seats and thus unlikely to imperil the majority (the political environment or Trump could do that). Twenty-three of the 39 House members who have already announced plans to retire or run for other offices are Republicans, on track to easily surpass the number of exits during the last Congress, when 21 Republicans were among the 45 House members who left at the end of their terms.
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Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the G.O.P. has been aimless and lacking an agenda. They’re fighting over healthcare, they can’t agree on an affordability message (let alone an affordability plan), and many feel an increased, if familiar, lack of respect from the White House. Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t helping, as he hands congressional power to the president and makes the Article I branch of government ever more irrelevant—a concession that has apparently dawned on many only recently.
Meanwhile, legislative productivity continues to decline. It had already hit a record low last Congress, when just 274 bills were signed into law, the lowest number since GovTrack started keeping tabs in 1973. But this Congress is on course to be less productive still, having so far gotten only 46 bills signed into law.
I really doubt they care about their lack of legislative achievements. They are just hanging at being potted plants. They should have known that’s what they signed on for but I guess it’s getting boring. And many of them have probably made enough contacts to cash in and get in on the Big GOP Grift before Trump finally walks into the sunset.
Also, they loathe Mike Johnson which I think we can all relate to. Good riddance.
The good news is that the Democrats are losing mainly the ancient mariners and opening up their safe blue seats for a new generation which is very necessary.
Trump’s New National Security Strategy appears to be written in Trump Truth Social style with equal parts pompous bluster, internal contradictions and ignorant incoherence, setting forth policies pretty much guaranteed to confuse the rest of the world and allow Trump and his minions to fatten their wallets and pursue whatever long held fantasies of world domination they choose. This is to be done all while the United States declares itself “America First” which, as always, really means America Above All (or Uber Alles in the original German). It is a terrifying document and we are seeing the fruits of the philosophy (to the extent there is one) that guides it.
It begins with the standard bootlicking we’ve come out expect from any utterance out of this administration testifying to Trump’s unrivaled genius and magical peace-making skills such as his ability to “surgically extinguish embers of division between nuclear-capable nations and violent wars caused by centuries-long hatred.” (Did I mention the purple prose?) Beyond the tribute and accolades for Dear Leader, which takes up big chunks of the document, it divides up the world into sections that were clearly drafted, or at least influenced, by Trump’s top deputy Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice president JD Vance and Trump himself.
Miller is the top xenophobe of the administration and the disdain for all foreigners is obvious throughout the document, particularly in the sections about mass migration, a human condition since time began and most recently due to climate change and political upheaval. Let’s just say the U.S. under Trump is against it and believes that it must be stopped by any means necessary. There is very little in the document suggesting that there might be any possible way to mitigate these migrations with “soft-power” (such as USAID or Voice of America) which the administration is working overtime to destroy as quickly as possible. They think all problems can be overcome with “deals” and violence.
Rubio is in charge of the new “Monroe Doctrine” which is a colonial wish list he apparently wants to fulfill. JD Vance’s antipathy to Europe is on full display while Trump’s burning desire to suck up to Russia and “do deals” with China reveals America’s new quasi-alliance with both countries.
We can’t exactly call it surprising that this overwrought Trumpian manifesto vows to go all-in on “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” by encouraging the rise of “patriotic European parties” eager to celebrate their nations’ “individual character and history.” Or that the attitude expressed toward Russia, China and the oil-based monarchies of the Middle East amounts to a shrug emoji: Really far away! Not our problem! Live and let live! Ukraine-Shmukraine!
Or rather, it’s only surprising in the sense that whenever we think the Trump administration can’t outdo itself in overt bigotry, outright lies or vainglorious self-destruction, we turn out to be wrong. One could observe that Trump’s apparent plan to give Vladimir Putin almost everything he wants, Neville Chamberlain-style, in order to end the Ukraine war isn’t working too well, and that JD Vance and Elon Musk’s efforts to meddle in European elections on behalf of the xenophobic far right have at least partly backfired. None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.
It’s terrifying. Our only hope is that their manifest incompetence keeps things from hurtling totally out of control.
President Trump on Sunday offered more insight into his decision to pardon Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife Imelda, who were both indicted last year on bribery charges, but criticized the former congressman for opting to run as a Democrat in 2026.
“Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be ‘running’ for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat, continuing to work with the same Radical Left Scum that just weeks before wanted him and his wife to spend the rest of their lives in Prison – And probably still do!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like,” the president continued. “Oh’ well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!”
He’s not just doing it for money or vengeance. He’s using his pardon power for rank partisan benefit as well. I guess that figures.
Every last Republican who continues to lick his boots must be laughed at if they ever even breathe a word about corruption in the future.
At the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony at the White House:
Trump: Gary Player. 90 years old, still plays. Shot a 70 with me the other day. Incredible. You think Biden could do that? I don't think so. Can’t lift the club. pic.twitter.com/GRIZ4h5QO0
He just has to be a snotty little 12 year old asshole. And his people love him for it.
.@POTUS on hosting tomorrow's 48th Kennedy Center Honors: "We've never had a President hosting the awards before. This is a first. I'm sure they'll give me great reviews… If I can't beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don't think I should be President." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Gsfrmc3py1
Right. One of the president of the United States’ most important duties is hosting awards shows. It’s right there in the oath.
Trump: The board of trustees has been amazing. It's got to be the hottest board. The supreme court is pretty hot. The supreme court, the U.S. Senate, the NFL owners committee. pic.twitter.com/GtRvYpWc0A
Wat, what? The NFL Owners Committee? And what’s with his stupid “hottest” catch phrase?
Trump: The Truman administration with cheap tile. Now we have it done in beautiful marble. It is all beautiful. People said, oh, why is he wasting time? It is saving the heritage of this country. pic.twitter.com/j7pASBzlQg
No it’s not. He’s turning America’s heritage into a cheap, gaudy, whore house.
Trump: They want to have crime, it is a crazy thing. Chicago… We'll at some point just go in and do it the way we want. We won't have any crime in Chicago. We'll stop it everywhere. pic.twitter.com/AZ1GznnkFo
Elon Musk’s X was hit with a $140 million fine on Friday over alleged breaches of Europe’s Digital Services Act, the online safety law meant to protect the digital space by cracking down on illegal or potentially harmful content, in a move rejected by Musk and officials in the Trump administration in which he used to serve.
The fine stems from an investigation, launched in 2023, into X’s potential liability under the rules, which took effect about the same time Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, saying he wanted to promote free speech.
The European Commission cited X for its blue check-mark system, which allows users to subscribe to a tier of the platform that grants them a badge that had previously signified the person had been vetted and approved by X’s moderators. Musk’s management team put the new system into effect shortly after taking over, as Musk decried what he called a “lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark.” […]
Musk said Friday that X aimed to “democratize verification.”
There were more reasons as well having to do with advertising.
Look who’s stepping in to defend their boy:
Vice President JD Vance sharply criticized the decision in advance of the announcement, casting it as a fine “for not engaging in censorship.”
“The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage,” he posted on X Thursday night. Musk soon responded, “Much appreciated.” Vance, Musk and X did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr criticized the decision on Friday, taking to X to accuse Europe of “fining a successful U.S. tech company for being a successful U.S. tech company” and attacking what he called the continent’s “suffocating regulations.” Musk reposted Carr’s criticism. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the fine “an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.” “Absolutely,” Musk said on X, quoting Rubio’s comment.
Later Friday, Musk slammed the decision in a series of posts, pinning one to the top of his profile that read: “Freedom of speech is the bedrock democracy.” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also jumped to X’s defense, alleging the DSA “is designed to stifle free speech and American tech companies.”
“We have made our position clear to our counterparts in Europe,” he added.
Mr. free speech not only wants to censor people he wants to prosecute them for speech he doesn’t like:
[F]ollowing the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C., Musk declared that “Falsely labeling non-violent people as ‘fascist’ or ‘Nazi’ should be treated as incitement to murder.”
They are looking for any excuse to split with Europe, even suggesting that we won’t defend them against Russia unless they bow down to Elon Musk:
“The nations of Europe cannot look to the US for their own security at the same time they affirmatively undermine the security of the US itself through the (unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative) EU,” Christopher Landau said on social media platform X on Saturday.
Prominent U.S. officials criticized Brussels after the European Commission slapped X with a €120 million penalty for breaching EU transparency rules earlier this week. Billionaire X owner Elon Musk, a major backer of U.S. President Donald Trump and the wider MAGA movement, threatened retaliation and called to “abolish the EU.”
Maybe it’s just trash talk, I don’t know. But these people are so extreme and so drunk with power I don’t think it’s wise to just discount what they are saying.
The Epstein files. I still wonder if what Donald Trump fears most that Epstein investigation documents will reveal is money laundering by him and his friends. I could be all wrong. But we’ll know in two weeks (Dec.19). Or will we?
Rep. Sean Casten (D) of Illinois (IL-6) elaborates on a New York Times story (gift link) on how cryptocurrency enables money laundering.
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns – their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t…
The term “stablecoin” itself is misleading. These aren’t coins nor are they stable. They are a bit of computer code that you can buy for a dollar and gives the owner title to a dollar but can be infinitely and instantly transferred to any computer on the planet.
If you want to understand the problem with that, go watch literally any movie about money laundering. The bad guys need to transfer money but our banking system tracks dollar transfers. So they buy jewelry, or gold bars, or German bearer bonds and physically sneak that bulky thing through customs.
If you felt sorry for all the work our criminals went through, I would challenge you to come up with a BETTER work around than stablecoins. Click a button, transfer the code, sell your code for dollars, presto: money laundered.
I say they aren’t stable because for all of that to work, the issuers of the stablecoin have to have a robust, audited reserve of dollars to pay out when a claim comes in and the GOP blocked all our amendments to require audits and hold reserves in insured accounts. BUT…
Having sent a crappy bill to the Senate the Senate – per tradition – made our bill worse by adding a provision that says that in the event of a run on a bank holding stablecoin deposits, those deposits have a senior claim, above those of law abiding citizens in insured accounts.
IOW, rather than make stablecoins stable, the bill makes their inherent instability contagious, shifting their risk onto the larger banking system. It’s a direct wealth transfer from law abiding Americans to criminals.
You knew Casten would get there.
Going back to the movie references. It’s as if Chief Bogomil fired Axel Foley and then directed Taggart and Rosewood to force the Beverly Hills Savings & Loan to buy the drugs directly from Victor Maitland with customer deposits.
But it’s not a movie. There is a real life Victor Maitland here, who does not give a damn about the stability of the banking system but loves being able to facilitate money laundering. His kids are also in on the action. www.reuters.com/investigatio…
Before I wrap, let’s rebut a couple of the cryptobro nonsense that’s sure to pop up in the replies: 1) “You can’t use crypto to do blockchain” is not true as long as the system allows for anonymity, “mixers” (aka, digital money laundries) and chain-hopping.
(2) “regulators shouldn’t stop innovation”. There is no objection to innovation within the law. Innovation outside of the law is what Walter White did when he came up with blue meth. It ain’t good if it ain’t legal.
(3) “there are legitimate use cases for digital money”. OK fine. But with a HUGE caveat:
If industry and their legislative advocates refuse to craft rules so that crypto isn’t just a way to arbitrage existing money laundering rules while destabilizing our banks, one must conclude that the illicit “side hustle” is whole point.
All of which is to say that the problems flagged in that NYT article are not only predictable, but were predicted. They are on the record in our Congressional debates.
But Victor Maitland’s allies made the world easier for the world’s drug and child traffickers, terrorists and weapons smugglers with their eyes wide open. It’s going to get much worse until we have majorities who act more like Axel Foley and less like (pre-Breaking Bad) Jonathan Banks. /fin
Trump may or may not have fondled some of Epstein’s younger-side girls. He certainly has enough accusers among women. But abusing women has always seemed to be a Trump side hustle. Making money by crook is his principal obsession. Evidence is out there that he may have long used real estate to launder money for Russians.
Trump looked sideways at crypto at first. He prefers physical buildings he can point to and slap his name on. Then he flipped, or a switch did in his head. With cryptocurrencies he could make more with less of a paper trail. And here we are.
Somalis are “garbage,” and “we don’t want them in our country.” Migration from “all Third World countries” should be halted. Any foreign national deemed “noncompatible with Western civilization” must be deported.
His faculties visibly decaying, President Trump’s recent nativist rhetoric adds to past slurs that immigrants from “shithole countries” are “poisoning the blood” of our country, etc.
Those around Trump have joined in the nativist fervor. The president’s comments about Somalis, made during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, had Vice President JD Vance banging the table in approval. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it an “epic moment.”
Former CUNY journalism professor, Jeff Jarvis, considers the Tumulty’s treatment of Trump, homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, Leavitt, et al. too tame, “Calling it nativism and calling on the history of the ’20s gets closer, but it should be noted that this is reaching a Nazi pitch.”
Careful where you point that thing
Tokyo Rose Garden (Leavitt) and DHS just got a clapback from the Washington Post in another Sunday story. Smears sometimes have a way of blowing back.
ICE in November arrested and began deportation efforts for Bruna Ferreira. Brazilian by birth, Ferreira is the mother of Leavitt’s 11-year-old nephew (Karoline Leavitt is his godmother; Ferreira is estranged from Leavitt’s brother Michael). She arrived in the U.S. as a child and overstayed her visa and is, in theory, legally protected and working under the DACA program.
DHS spokesliarTriciaMcLaughlin launched her standard smear campaign. DHS called Ferreira an absentee mother with a previous arrest for “battery” and a “criminal.” The Post makes clear this morning that overstaying a visa is a civil violation. If that makes Ferreira a criminal, then anyone who’s ever received a parking ticket is as well.
But DHS was spitting into the wind when it smeared Ferreira. The Post did some digging:
Ferreira’s legal status had long been a point of contention in her relationship with Michael Leavitt. After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.
In the text messages, Michael Leavitt denied seeking to have Ferreira deported.
“I had no involvement in her being picked up by ice,” he wrote Wednesday to The Post. “I have no control over that and had no involvement in that whatsoever.”
What goes around
Tokyo Rose Garden might have called off the dogs attacking her godson’s mother, but failed to:
Michael Leavitt is from a close-knit family with deep roots in New Hampshire. He also had legal issues: He was charged twice in New Hampshire with underage alcohol possession, resulting in a fine and then a guilty plea to a downgraded town ordinance violation.
In 2009, at 19, he was found guilty of drunken driving and fined $620. In 2011, Miami Beach police arrested him for disorderly conduct, alleging that he and another man were fighting in the middle of the street, stopping traffic. The charges were dropped, court records show.
Leavitt said he has been the more consistent and responsible parent in his son’s life and accused The Post in a text message of “trying to use this whole situation to push a narrative to smear me.”
What goes around comes around:
In court, Ferreira and Leavitt traded allegations of abuse and neglect. In April 2015, Leavitt sought primary custody of their son in a New Hampshire court, alleging that Ferreira had pushed Leavitt during an argument when the couple took a trip to Florida. He said she returned home without him, collected their son from his grandparents, and threatened to take him with her to Brazil.
Ferreira denied the claims and in court filings accused Leavitt of abuse, saying on the day of her baby shower he had drunkenly pushed her, punched walls and broken doors. After he won the $1 million, she alleged in court that he cheated on her and gambled away thousands of dollars. Ferreira’s lawyer said in a May 2015 court filing that Leavitt also “threatened to contact Immigration in an effort to have her deported.”
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In April 2020, Ferreira returned to court alleging Michael Leavitt owed her thousands of dollars in child support and was refusing to let her spend time with her son. She also wrote that Michael Leavitt had “used intimidation” based on her “immigration status” to discourage her from visiting the boy. Leavitt denied the allegations in court records.
There is a lot of he-said, she-said in the Post report, as things go in joint custody cases. It seems Ferreira struggled to get on her feet after the separation and her life is now more stable. Or it was until ICE snatched her last month.
🚨Exclusive: Never-before-seen footage shows the moment ICE agents arrested a woman with family ties to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. FULL STORY AT THE LINK IN BIO!
Speaking of “non-linear”, that reminds me of a funny story (well, not “ha-ha” funny). I once had the privilege of seeing the late Jean Luc-Godard in the flesh before I had seen any of his films. […]
Be advised that this will not an assessment of his oeuvre. No one could accuse me of being a Godard scholar; out of his 40+ feature films, I’ve seen 12. And out of that relative handful, the only two I have felt compelled to watch more than once are Breathless and Alphaville.
The aptly entitled Breathless still knocks the wind out of me; it was (and remains) a freewheeling, exhilarating poke in the lens of conventional film making. And…sodamsexy. Despite its flouting of the rules, the film is (possibly) Godard’s most easily digestible work. Over the years, his films would become ever more challenging (or downright maddening). […]
Which brings us back to the news of Godard’s passing this week. I suddenly remembered attending an event in the early 80s that featured Pauline Kael and Jean-Luc Godard onstage somewhere discussing (wait for it) film. But since my memory has been playing tricks as of late (I mean, I’m 66…however the hell that happened), I thought I’d consult someone who was there with me…my pal Digby. She not only confirmed that she and I and my girlfriend at the time did indeed pile into Digby’s Volkswagen to see Kael and Godard (at the Marin Civic Center in Mill Valley, as it turns out), but somehow dug up a transcript of the proceedings.
There was much lamenting and gnashing of teeth when we realized this happened 41 flippin’ years ago (oh, to be in my mid-20s again). Anyway, the evening was billed as “The Economics of Film Criticism: A Debate with Jean Luc-Godard and Pauline Kael” (May 7, 1981). I recall primarily being super-jazzed about seeing Kael (I was more familiar with her work than Godard’s). I can’t recall a word either of them said, of course, but I do remember my surprise at how engaging and effusive Godard was (I had fully expected to see the “enfant terrible”).
You do get to see a bit of Godard, the enfant terrible in Richard Linklater’s très meta Nouvelle Vague, a heady and freewheeling backstage drama/fan fiction about the making of Breathless, the film that ushered in the French New Wave movement.
Speaking of “new wave”, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that, despite the time period it recounts (with great verisimilitude) …there is something very punk rock about Linklater’s film. From a BBC Radio 6 piece:
When about 40 people saw the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 4 June 1976, they came away inspired. But they were inspired in a very Mancunian kind of way. Many people in the audience that night didn’t look at the Pistols and so much think: “I want to do that…” but instead, they looked at the young Londoners and thought “Come on, I could do way better than that!”
It’s thanks to that very Mancunian approach that we have some of the most thrilling music of the last 40 years. The creativity that sprang from the Lesser Free Trade Hall would loom large over the Manchester scene for decades. Without that 4 June gig – and the Pistols return visit six weeks later – there would be no Buzzcocks, Magazine, Joy Division, New Order, Factory Records, no ‘indie’ scene, no The Fall, The Smiths, Hacienda, Madchester, Happy Mondays or Oasis. […]
[Among a number of other future music luminaries] Morrissey was there. He “penned an epistle” about it to the NME. Morrissey would never merely write a letter. He was slightly sniffy about what he saw: “Despite their discordant music and barely audible audacious lyrics, they were called back for two encores.” He was sure he could do better.
Roll the clock back about 20 years before the Sex Pistols’ gig. Nouvelle Vague opens with the Paris premiere of Jacques Dupont’s La Passe du diablet. Among the attendees are Cahiers du Cinema film critics Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), Francois Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard), and Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson). Also present are several more future film making luminaries. At the soiree afterwards, Godard makes no bones about his revulsion, saying (in so many words) “Come on, I could do way better than that!” (the Morrissey of his day?).
In 1959, Godard (emboldened by the massive success of Truffaut’s 400 Blows) makes the leap from critiquing to directing. Working from a “true crime” film idea by Truffaut about a French car thief and his American girlfriend, Godard casts then-unknown Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) and American star Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) for the leads, and enlists war photographer Raoul Coutard (Matthieu Penchinat ) as DP.
From the first day on set (which seems to go nowhere fast), Godard’s producer, crew, and cast (with the possible exception of a happy-go-lucky Belmondo) are chagrined to learn that working with this neophyte director is going to be, at best, a trying experience. For example, Seberg (the most seasoned participant) is mortified that Godard is writing the script while he films (the idea of “rehearsals” amuses him to no end).
Despite their initial discomfort with Godard’s spontaneous, guerilla-style approach, the sense of unfettered creative freedom it unleashes becomes quite liberating for all involved (including this viewer).
That’s the beauty of what Linklater has achieved here; he not only offers a “fly on the wall” perspective with an uncanny recreation of the original production (right down to the camera work, film stock and screen ratio), but renews a film lover’s faith in a medium that has become more about bombast, box office, and back end than characters, concept, and conflict. Maybe its time to hit the “reset” button. And who knows…maybe some future innovator will watch Nouvelle Vague and say to themselves, “Come on…I could do way better than that!”
(Nouvelle Vague is currently streaming on Netflix)
Trump directed Kennedy on Friday to review the childhood vaccine schedule and potentially revise it to align with those of other developed countries, most of which recommend fewer shots.
The directive, in the form of an official presidential memo, was issued hours after federal vaccine advisers downgraded decades-old guidance urging newborn immunization against hepatitis B, a virus that causes severe liver disease, within the first day of life. Trump called the move “a very good decision” on social media.
“Study is warranted to ensure that Americans are receiving the best, scientifically-supported medical advice in the world,” Trump said in the memo.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices heard presentations Thursday and Friday at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters that questioned the wisdom of the U.S. vaccine schedule, citing those used in European countries like Denmark that recommend fewer shots for children. Public health experts — including committee liaisons representing American medical societies — countered their arguments, noting those nations’ smaller populations typically have access to universal health care that boasts high levels of prenatal care.
“In the United States, many of these infants are lost to follow up as soon as they leave the hospital,” said Adam Langer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s hepatitis expert. “Denmark and, for that matter, virtually all other high income countries are not really peer nations.”
These people are simply against vaccine of all kinds and this is just the beginning. It’s not like Bobby and his freak show have tried to hide it. They believe people can get natural immunity from disease by contracting viruses and eating healthy food. They are idiots.
It’s not surprising that Trump has jumped on the bandwagon because he’s always thought autism was caused by vaccines. (I don’t know why he took such a particular interest in this subject sometime during the 2000s but I can guess.)
“Many parents and scientists have been questioning the efficacy of this ‘schedule,’ as have I!” Trump posted Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social. I am fully confident Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the CDC, will get this done, quickly and correctly, for our Nation’s Children,” he added.
Kids will die because these people have empowered lunatics and morons to run our public health system.
Meanwhile, the President of Peace insists he’s all about saving lives:
President Trump on receiving the Fifa Peace Prize: “I don't know that I'm getting it, I haven't officially been notified. I've been hearing about a peace prize and I'm here to represent our country in a different sense … I don't need prizes; I need to save lives.” pic.twitter.com/oXz38Rw9RY
