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As President Donald Trump fielded questions at a press conference about the deadly Washington, D.C. shooting against two National Guard troops, he went off into a strange non-sequitur attacking Somalians — and had to be reminded by reporters that this was in no way relevant to the discussion.

"If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota," said Trump.

President Donald Trump strongly suggested Thursday night that the United States may soon be launching ground operations in Venezuela as his administration continues its military escalations with the South American nation.

President Donald Trump first ordered strikes on suspected drug-carrying sea vessels in the Caribbean in September, strikes that have gone on to kill at least 83 people as of Nov. 25. The Trump administration has gone on to continue escalations, deploying a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group off of Venezuela’s coast, and has considered outright assassinating Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

President Donald Trump was asked at a press conference on Thursday whether he intends to go to the funeral of the murdered National Guardswoman, Sarah Beckstrom — and Trump detoured from the question into bragging about how popular he is in Beckstrom's home state of West Virginia.

"It's in the early stages, obviously, but do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?" asked a reporter.

Bloomberg opinion columnist Ronald Brownstein argued recent elections show Republicans’ treacherous path to winning in 2026 is more narrow and dangerous than ever.

“For Republicans, November was bookended by two ominous developments: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation and the party's resounding defeats in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races,” said Brownstein.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Thursday for refuting his claims that Afghan migrants who entered the United States were unvetted, calling the reporter a “stupid person” in an explosive rant.

“There was no vetting or anything, they came in unvetted! And we have a lot of others in this country, we're going to get them out,” Trump said during a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida.

The alleged perpetrator of the recent shooting of two National Guard members in downtown Washington D.C. may have been kept out of American society if not for budget cuts by President Donald Trump's administration.

That's according to #AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver, who told MS NOW on Thursday that alleged shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal – an Afghan national who came to the United States in September of 2021 — could have potentially been stopped before carrying out his act. He cited the 2024 arrest of 19 year-old Afghan national Abdullah Haji Zada, who was apprehended for plotting an Election Day mass shooting in Oklahoma City, as an example of how federal resources can work to prevent acts of terrorism before they happen.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dunked on President Donald Trump Thursday over his failure to end the war in Ukraine, among the president’s key pledges on the campaign trail in 2024.

“The U.S. instigated the costly war in Ukraine but failed to achieve its goals,” Khamenei wrote Thursday in a social media post on X. “The current U.S. President had claimed he would end it in three days.”

Despite having a centrist Democratic governor in Andy Beshear, Kentucky is a deep-red state that Donald Trump carried in three presidential elections in a row. Nationally, Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in 2024; in Kentucky, he won by 31 percent.

But in an article published on Thanksgiving 2025, The Nation's Zachary Clifton focuses on struggling Trump voters in Kentucky who are feeling disillusioned with his economic policies.

Joseph B. Edlow, the director of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, said that President Donald Trump had ordered his agency to review all Green Card holders "from every country of concern" following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.

"At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern," Edlow explained in a Thursday post on X.

The father of a member of the West Virginia National Guard confirmed that his daughter had suffered a "mortal wound" during a Wednesday shooting in Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, officials identified the two wounded service members as U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, and U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20.

Pro-MAGA television host Gina Loudon suggested that people who couldn't afford high turkey prices on Thanksgiving had a "lack of patriotism" and a "lack of sentimental regard for our pilgrims."

During a Thanksgiving Day segment on Real America's Voice, host Emily Finn noted that "wholesale turkey prices are skyrocketing to an average of $1.32 per pound this year, up about 40 percent from the last holiday."

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) blamed Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), whom he is running against for U.S. Senate, and other "left-wing politicians" after two members of the National Guard were shot in Washington, D.C., during a deployment to the city under orders from President Donald Trump.

"Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making," Carter told Fox News on Thursday. "I mean, when you have someone like [Rep.] Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment. When you have someone like [governor-elect of Virginia] Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you."