I'm George Gerbo and welcome to Washington Times Weekly, where we get a chance to sit down with our reporters and talk about their coverage of the latest news and events. And joining me today is Washington Times National Reporter Tom Howell Jr.
I recently came across an amusing meme: President Donald Trump, dressed as a magician, lifts his wand and declares, “For my next trick, I’ll make Democrats support the drug cartels.” And indeed, he has. Over the past 10 months, Trump has forced Democrats into defending some of the most indefensible, anti-American positions imaginable: fierce opposition […]
It is not a coincidence that the six congressional Democrats released a video urging active military members to “refuse illegal orders” just days before billboards saying the same thing went up outside of U.S. Southern Command in Florida and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Nor is it a coincidence that just days after that, media […]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) fired back at President Trump referencing him in a Thanksgiving rant. “Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on the social platform X. Trump said last month that he underwent an MRI as part of a visit to Walter Reed Military Center, but the White House has not revealed the results...
Commentator Stephen A. Smith slammed Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) this week for urging service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration. Smith, while criticizing President Trump’s rhetoric toward Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers who released a video calling for active-duty military and intelligence personnel to ignore unlawful orders last week, said the...
President Trump said Thursday he will halt immigration from “all Third World Countries” after two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover,” the president said in a lengthy post on his Truth Social...
Less than a year stands between the two parties and future Senate control as Democrats look to build off electoral wins earlier this month and Republicans work to hold on to the chamber. The road to nabbing back the majority is steep for Democrats, who need to flip four seats. But the party is feeling...
The Democrats began the year in a state of shock after President Trump won back the presidency last November. The party has spent much of the past year trying to regain its footing. There are signs of progress, however. Trump’s approval ratings, never stellar, have sagged to some of their lowest points recently. Voters give...
President Trump on Thursday suggested the United States will “very soon” take action against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land after weeks of repeated strikes in the Caribbean. “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many," Trump told military personnel in remarks on Thanksgiving. "Of course, there...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) opened up in a revealing Wednesday interview alongside his wife Kelly, sharing some of the challenges he has faced since taking the reins of the lower chamber amid Republicans' razor-thin majority. Johnson in an interview on The Katie Miller Podcast said his life was a daily “triage” packed with constant...
President Trump on Thursday night said U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, one of the National Guard soldiers shot in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, has died. The president described Beckstrom, 20, as a “highly respected, young, magnificent person" who was "savagely attacked." “She’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us. She’s looking down at us...
The Trump administration on Thursday said it would reexamine green cards linked to 19 countries after two National Guard members were shot outside of a metro station blocks from the White House. “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country...
The father of 20-year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, who was shot near the White House the day before Thanksgiving, said that she has a “mortal wound." Beckstrom, along with fellow National Guard member 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, were shot near the Farragut Square Metro Station in the area of 17th and I streets NW at...
