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President Donald J. Trump is taking a victory lap — and threatening a $1 billion lawsuit — after two top BBC executives resigned in disgrace over what he’s calling “foreign election interference.”
The resignations of Director General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness came amid revelations that the BBC edited Trump’s Jan. 6 remarks, cutting his call for a “peaceful protest” just before Election Day 2024.
“The BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally editing footage to interfere in the election,” his legal team said.
Trump celebrated on Truth Social, writing: “The TOP people at the BBC are all quitting because they were caught doctoring my PERFECT speech. These are very dishonest people — and they got caught!”
Catch the rest of today’s top Trump news below!
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In today’s email:
🔔 Trump Celebrates the End of the Schumer Shutdown
💰 Trump Proposes $10K Bonuses for Air Traffic Controllers
🔥 Trump Fights Democrats Over Nuclear Testing Restart
💬 Trump Threatens BBC with $1 Billion Lawsuit
✈️ Trump Welcomes Syrian President to Washington
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The government shutdown has reached a dramatic end after 40 days, with Democrats caving completely on their demands and receiving nothing in return. President Trump declared victory as Senate Republicans secured enough votes to reopen the government, with eight Senate Democrats breaking ranks to advance the clean spending bill their colleagues had blocked 14 times. Trump called out Chuck Schumer for his disastrous handling of the shutdown, stating Schumer went "too far." .
The shutdown caused massive disruptions across the nation, including thousands of flight cancellations and delays, yet Democrats remained more focused on extracting partisan concessions than ending the pain they inflicted on American families. Now that the government is set to reopen, the president is turning his attention back to critical national security priorities and rewarding the patriots who kept America running during the Democrat-manufactured crisis.
Check out all the latest developments and more below!
💰 Trump Proposes $10K Bonuses for Air Traffic Controllers
President Trump announced he will recommend $10,000 bonuses for air traffic controllers who remained at their posts during the Democrat shutdown. Trump posted on Truth Social that controllers who were "GREAT PATRIOTS" and didn't take any time off during the "Democrat Shutdown Hoax" deserve distinguished service recognition. The president warned controllers who took time off they would face "a negative mark" on their records and invited them to leave service "with NO payment or severance of any kind." Trump stated those who failed to report would be "substantially 'docked'" and promised replacements would be "true Patriots" working on "Brand New State of the Art Equipment, the best in the World." The announcement came as the 40-day shutdown threatened air travel across the nation, with more than 1,000 flights canceled and thousands delayed as the FAA reduced travel capacity.
🔥 Trump Fights Democrats Over Nuclear Testing Restart
Senate Democrats introduced legislation to restrict President Trump's ability to restart nuclear testing after Trump announced the U.S. would resume testing on an "equal basis" with Russia and China. Senators Mark Kelly, Catherine Cortez Masto, Ben Ray Luján, and Martin Heinrich introduced the No Nuclear Testing Without Approval Act, which would prohibit nuclear tests unless a foreign state conducts one first and would require congressional approval. Kelly called restarting nuclear testing "reckless and unnecessary," claiming it would "risk triggering a dangerous chain reaction" and encourage China to advance its technology. Trump announced in October ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the U.S. would revive nuclear weapons testing, though the U.S. hasn't conducted such tests since 1992. Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified the tests would involve "the other parts of a nuclear weapon" and wouldn't include nuclear explosions, stating "These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions."
💬 Trump Threatens BBC with $1 Billion Lawsuit
President Trump's legal team sent a notice of intent to sue the BBC for $1 billion over a documentary that edited his January 6 speech to remove his calls for peaceful protest. Trump's attorney Alejandro Brito demanded the BBC retract "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" by Friday at 5:00 p.m. EST or face legal action. The BBC Panorama documentary spliced together three separate parts of Trump's speech, showing him saying "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you and we fight," while editing out Trump's statement to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." BBC Director-General Tim Davie and News Chief Deborah Turness both resigned over the controversy after pressure intensified following a whistleblower dossier that criticized the Trump edit. Trump's legal team stated the fabricated statements reached tens of millions of people worldwide and caused "overwhelming financial and reputational harm."
✈️ Trump Welcomes Syrian President to Washington
President Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House for the first official visit by a Syrian leader to Washington. The meeting marked the third between Trump and al-Sharaa this year as Syria's new leadership works to rebuild following the end of Bashar al-Assad's 14-year civil war. The United States lifted sanctions on al-Sharaa ahead of the meeting, removing Specially Designated Global Terrorist designations from both Sharaa and Syria's interior minister Anas Khattab. Following the meeting, Trump sharply pushed back on U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who posted on X that she would "really like to see nonstop meetings at the WH on domestic policy not foreign policy and foreign country’s leaders." The president said she had "lost her way," and that "I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation."
🔔 Trump Celebrates End of the Schumer Shutdown🔔
President Trump secured a decisive victory as the Senate passed a clean continuing resolution to end the longest government shutdown in history, with Democrats receiving nothing for their 40-day blockade. The Senate voted 60-40 to approve funding through January 2026 after eight Democrats abandoned Schumer's strategy and joined Republicans to advance the bill.
Trump supported the clean CR, stating Republicans hadn't changed anything and secured enough Democratic votes to reopen the country. The president criticized the shutdown as unnecessary, emphasizing the damage it caused to Americans while Democrats held the government hostage over demands for Obamacare subsidies worth $1.5 trillion. Democrats secured only a promise of a future vote on a bill of their choosing, a far cry from their original demands to extend Covid-era healthcare subsidies in exchange for cooperation.
The agreement includes back pay for federal employees and guarantees the rehiring of 4,000-plus workers laid off during the shutdown, plus a prohibition on future reductions in force through January 30. Trump characterized Schumer as "shot" and "mentally gone," stating the Democratic leader had been "beat up by young radical lunatics" and predicting he likely won't run for reelection. The president pointed out that Schumer's diminishing poll numbers reflected his losing influence within the Democratic Party.
Eight Democratic senators broke with their leadership to vote for the spending plan, including Catherine Cortez-Masto, John Fetterman, Angus King, Dick Durbin, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, and Jeanne Shaheen. The defection triggered immediate calls from progressives like Rep. Ro Khanna for Schumer to be replaced as minority leader. Democrats blamed Republicans for creating a healthcare crisis, with Schumer claiming he couldn't support a bill that failed to address healthcare premiums.
Bernie Sanders attacked the eight Democrats who broke ranks, calling it a "very, very bad vote" and claiming the bill would result in healthcare premiums doubling or tripling for 20 million Americans. House Democrat leadership formally announced it would whip members to oppose the bill, though some Democrats are expected to support it when it comes to a Wednesday vote.
Trump argued Democrats' real motive was securing healthcare funding for illegal immigrants, stating "We're trying to get them out, because we don't want 11,000 murderers in our country." The president's victory came as the shutdown disrupted air travel nationwide, with authorities warning travel could "slow to a trickle" as thousands of flights were canceled or delayed over the weekend due to air traffic controller shortages.
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🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟
🏛 Michelle Obama criticized President Trump's White House ballroom construction during a live podcast taping in Brooklyn, claiming the demolition of the East Wing represented a "denigration" of the traditional first lady workspace. Obama stated the East Wing is "the heart of the work" of a first lady and said tearing it down reflects how Trump thinks about the role. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the complaints as "fake outrage," noting nearly all modern presidents have completed renovations and that previous presidents joked about needing larger indoor event space.
🗳 A Utah district judge is set to rule on which of three congressional maps the state will use in the 2026 midterm elections, a decision that could determine if Democrats have a chance of flipping one of the state's four Republican-controlled House seats. Judge Dianna Gibson will choose between a map drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature and two maps submitted by plaintiffs from the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government. The ruling comes six days after California voters passed Proposition 50, expected to create five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts to counter new Republican-leaning maps in Texas.
🇺🇸 The White House shared an image of President Trump waving goodbye through a McDonald's drive-thru window in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar saying she wasn't concerned about potential deportation. Omar stated in an October interview that she had "no worry" about citizenship removal, saying "I'm not the 8-year-old who escaped war anymore. I'm grown, my kids are grown. Like I could go live wherever I want." Trump previously suggested in a Truth Social post that Omar "should go back" to Somalia and told reporters he met with Somalia's leader who declined to take her back.
⚖️ The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who sought to overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Justices declined to take up Davis's appeal without explanation and without any noted dissents, leaving intact the 2015 protections granted to same-sex couples. Davis was briefly jailed in 2015 and ordered to pay $100,000 in damages after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to her religious beliefs.
🏛 Rep. James Comer revealed that Joe Biden had no notes or known meetings about the thousands of pardons he issued, with the documents signed by autopen on days Biden was supposedly in the White House. Comer stated there were no notes of Biden sitting in any meeting about pardons and no meetings scheduled on his calendar to discuss the pardons. The revelations raise questions about Biden's involvement in the many of the executive decisions during his time in office.
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