No, this is the risible matter in view of Western hypocrisy, and Machado was totally unfit for the Nobel so-called Peace Prize.

Why Trump accepting Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize is no laughing matter
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/nobel-peace-prize-trump-machado
#cnn #europe #venezuela #nobelpeaceprize #mariacorinamachado #TragedyAndFarce #WesternHypocrisy

Why Trump accepting Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize is no laughing matter

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s presentation Thursday of her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump was instant fodder for ridicule among Trump’s opponents.

CNN
[Column] Trump destroys government

Anti-government sentiment has reached record heights under Donald Trump, and that’s no accident

Hankyoreh

“If he sues, he opens a Pandora’s box, and in that Pandora’s box is every damning quote he’s ever uttered about January 6,”

Analysis
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/trump-bbc-lawsuit-threat-media-attacks
#guardian #bbc #journalism #trumpism #TragedyAndFarce

With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global

US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like

The Guardian
Everything is blowing up in Elon Musk’s face

All it took was losing $100 billion in three months to make Elon Musk change his tune on government work.

CNN
It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis

Large tax cuts for the rich, import tariffs, and the competing interests of Republican nationalists and the techno-right is a dangerous combination, says economist Jonathan Portes

The Guardian
Senate confirms Project 2025 architect Russell Vought as White House budget director

The Senate has confirmed Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director. He is planning to use one of the most powerful positions in federal government to zealously expand the president’s power. The Thursday night vote was planned after Democrats had exhausted their only remaining tool to stonewall a nomination — holding the Senate floor throughout the previous night and day with a series of speeches where they warned Vought was Trump’s “most dangerous nominee.” Vought’s return to the White House Office of Management and Budget, which he also helmed during Trump’s first term, would put him in a role that holds key power in implementing the president’s goals.

AP News

"One source said the entire USAID public affairs office was put on leave and locked out of their systems."

Senior USAID security officials put on leave after attempting to refuse Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html
#CNN #trumpism #ElonMusk #fascism #USAID #MAGA #TragedyAndFarce #USmeltdown

Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.

CNN
Convicted US Capitol rioter Pam Hemphill turns down Trump pardon

Former "Maga granny" Pamela Hemphill tells the BBC the Trump government is trying to "rewrite history".

Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision regarding Meta platforms condemned as ‘a full bending of the knee’ to Donald Trump

The Guardian
MAGA civil war breaks out over American "mediocrity" culture

Vivek Ramaswamy fired the first shot, and it immediately consumed X.

Axios