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Oct 6, 2026 - World

Despite widespread reporting that the mass protests in France were sparked by students over deteriorating school conditions, President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday to claim they were instead about Muslims’ purported desire to “take over” the European nation.The protests began last month in Paris suburbs, led by high school students protesting “overcrowded classrooms, teacher absences, outdated facilities and other grievances,” Euronews reported. The protests soon spread nationwide and have resulted in violent clashes with police. More than 5,000 people have been arrested, 190 students injured, and a 15-year-old boy reportedly lost his hand in clashes with law enforcement.Trump insisted he knew different, however, blaming the civil unrest squarely on migration and the nation’s Muslim population.“What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”Trump has long targeted Muslims in both rhetoric and policy. During his first presidential campaign, he called for an explicit ban on Muslims entering the country. Shortly after taking office in 2017, he signed an executive order barring travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a policy widely dubbed the “Muslim ban.”In June 2025, Trump revived the policy with a sweeping ban on travelers from 12 countries, including the Muslim-majority nations of Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Oct 6, 2026 - World

Donald Trump’s comment that Iran is free to attack major population centers on the West Coast has created outrage among those seeing it on the news, but failed to have much impact on his rally attendees.That is according to MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell, who is traveling with the president and was on hand when he blurted, “They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego — it’ll be over very soon.”Appearing with MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle, Schnell admitted, “I can tell you for myself, I was standing on the press riser in that room, and it was the moment where I thought to myself, ‘Did I really just hear that correctly? Is that what the president said?’”“I can tell you there were some applause and some claps in the room after that line, but there wasn't a rousing reaction that maybe President Trump would anticipate,” she continued before offering, “Because, to that point that you just alluded to, Nebraskans right now are struggling with high gas prices, particularly high diesel prices that are well over $6 a gallon, which is squeezing farmers.”“Farmers make up such a key part of the workforce here,” she elaborated. “They're unable to power up their tractors, their pickup trucks and other machinery on their farms because of the high diesel costs, so Nebraskans here don't see this as a laughing matter.” - YouTube youtu.be

Oct 6, 2026 - World

Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would let Iran attack Los Angeles or San Diego at a Nebraska rally on Monday night led MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire to raise the possibility that the president might be teasing out something.During a “Morning Joe” panel discussion that focused an extensive amount of time on Trump telling the crowd, “They [Iran] can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego," Lemire added a warning.Asserting Trump is “…trying to justify a failed war of choice, a war that has made the economic situation for most Americans worse and there's no end in sight,” Lemire continued, "Despite what he claims, he's saddling Republicans with another unpopular issue.”“They're going to be asked about this,” he predicted.“Now, also, we know President Trump has next to no filter,” he observed. “He's blurting something out of nowhere about Los Angeles or San Diego. Is it possible he received some sort of briefing that there's actually a threat against one of those cities, and he's now just saying that? Or at the very least, this is now yet another moment of where there is no bottom.” - YouTube youtu.be

Oct 6, 2026 - World

A glib rally comment by Donald Trump on Monday night that he would be fine with Iran bombing either Los Angeles or San Diego set off a call for his impeachment on MS NOW on Tuesday morning.Speaking in Grand Island, Nebraska, the American president made an off-the-cuff remark when talking about the cost of the war, telling the applauding crowd it was “a small price to pay for keeping the world safe – keeping our country safe."“They can take out a city,” he continued before adding, “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”After sharing the clip on “Morning Joe,” the hosts said the president’s defenders were already dismissing the comment as a “joke” no one should take seriously.They were not amused.“President Trump last night in Nebraska, again, trying to justify the higher prices Americans are paying for fuel and other goods, while also just casually calling for Iran to attack two of the most populous cities in the United States, “ co-host Mike Brzezinski remarked.Co-host Joe Scarborough added, “Yeah. You know, there will be some, ‘Oh, he's just joking. He's just —.' Well, okay, well, great. Tell me then, please, what other American president in our history post-Civil War, have called for the destruction of entire cities — joking. If this is your joke, this is your idea of a presidential joke, joking about the killing of 10 million or so people? Is that, is that where we are?”“I don't get when the president of the United States says Iran can obliterate Los Angeles and San Diego — not funny — if you're an American who actually believes that presidents should do more than divide us,” he added.Co-host Willie Geist pointed out, “As you say, Joe, it goes without saying that if any other president, especially a Democrat, let's say Barack Obama, for example, or Joe Biden made that joke, there would be outrage across the board and maybe calls for impeachment.”“Well, of course there would be calls for impeachment,” Scarborough agreed, “if he called for the obliteration of, say, Jacksonville or Birmingham, or if it were a Democratic president calling for the obliteration of Republican cities. Of course, of course, there would be immediate calls for impeachment.” - YouTube youtu.be

Oct 6, 2026 - World

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board warned Monday that China is not living up to the rosy picture President Donald Trump painted after Chinese president Xi Jinping visited the White House. Xi's visit to the White House marked the first time a Chinese leader has set foot in America in more than a decade. Following the visit, the Trump administration put up pictures of Xi and Trump around the White House and Trump made fawning posts about his Chinese counterpart on his Truth Social account. However, the Wall Street Journal's editors noted there is evidence that China is not behaving like a newfound ally of the U.S. The editors issued a stark warning to Trump in a new editorial on Monday about the recent arrest of a Chinese spy on American soil. "The phrase of the hour in Washington is that the Trump Administration wants 'strategic stability' with China, and it’s a nice aspiration," the editorial reads in part. "But the Chinese Communist Party isn’t behaving like a force for peace in the world, and the latest evidence is Beijing’s alleged spying in the U.S. on the son of Taiwan’s president."The editorial pointed to the FBI's recent arrest of a 34-year-old woman who was charged with "[surveilling] the Taiwanese President’s son and his family—filming their home, vehicles," and reporting information back to someone connected to the Chinese Communist Party. China's interest in spying on a member of the Taiwanese president's family is easy to understand, the editorial argues. What's more difficult is the lack of pushback from the Trump administration. "Mr. Lai’s son appears to be living in the U.S. and working in Washington state. No doubt the Communist Party wants to collect information about Mr. Lai’s family that it could exploit to blackmail or harm the President and his party in Taiwan," the WSJ editors wrote. "And it is notable, if not a great surprise, that Beijing is brazen enough to think that it can get away with something like this in the U.S. homeland.""No matter President Xi Jinping’s pronouncements about steady relations with the U.S., what matters is Beijing’s conduct. China acts against U.S. interests around the globe, including on American soil.