What Happened Today - 26 Dec 2025
What Happened Today – 26 December 2025
Bombing Nigeria
Trump’s Truth Social Binge
That Nasty Christmas Eve Post
Epstein Files Blowback
Tariff war and “Fortress America” economy
Ukraine drama and foreign‑policy ego
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Bombing Nigeria
Trump greenlit a Christmas Day U.S. strike in northwest Nigeria, framing it as a “powerful and deadly” hit on ISIS-linked “terrorist scum” supposedly slaughtering Christians, and wrapped it all in “Christian genocide” language. Nigerian officials are already pushing back, basically saying his persecution narrative is oversimplified and does not match the messy reality on the ground.
He blasted out a triumphant Truth Social message bragging about the strike and promising more to come, while his Pentagon team echoed the line that this was about stopping the “slaughtering of Christians.” The whole thing plays perfectly into his culture-war brand: Christmas night, missiles flying, and Trump casting himself as the lone protector of Christians worldwide.
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Trump’s Truth Social Binge
Over the last two days he’s basically lived on Truth Social, turning the holidays into a grievance marathon. On Christmas Day alone he pumped out more than 100 posts and reposts, going after Somali immigrants, rehashing 2020 “stolen election” lies, and cheering himself on over the economy.
The themes are the same ugly mix:
• Anti-immigrant screeds, amplifying Stephen Miller’s line that Democrats want to turn the U.S. into “Somalia.”
• Conspiracy trash about Democrats rigging elections via mail-in ballots and COVID, including junk he boosted from Roseanne Barr.
• Self‑congratulation about the economy and inflation that does not line up with reality but feeds his base’s narrative.
Even his “Merry Christmas” message was wrapped in rage, tossing out a holiday greeting to “Radical Left Scum” while attacking critics instead of acting like a normal president for five minutes.
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That Nasty Christmas Eve Post
On Christmas Eve he dropped what was supposed to be the big “festive” Truth Social post, and of course he turned it into another weapons‑grade grievance dump. The basic vibe: Merry Christmas to his supporters, and a middle finger to Democrats, the “deep state,” the media, and anyone questioning his power.
Reports describe the post as “festive yet combative,” meaning it was wrapped in holiday language but aimed straight at his enemies, not exactly peace on earth. It fit right into a broader Christmas Eve barrage full of warnings, score‑settling, and dark culture‑war stuff—more like a late‑night rant than a president speaking to the whole country.
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Epstein Files Blowback
The Epstein mess is still hanging over this administration, and the way DOJ handled the document release has blown up into a fresh scandal. Epstein’s alleged victims are accusing DOJ of flat‑out violating the law with how they slow‑rolled and heavily redacted the files Congress ordered them to release.
Lawmakers who pushed the release law are now openly talking about holding Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt for missing deadlines and yanking some documents offline after they briefly went up, including one with Trump’s photo in a file stack. The victims say DOJ structured the release to make it “difficult or impossible” to find anything useful, which just keeps the suspicion and anger around Trump’s orbit and Epstein alive.
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Kennedy Center Jazz Concert Canceled
Even Christmas Eve at the Kennedy Center turned into a Trump ego show, and it backfired. After Trump’s handpicked board slapped his name onto the building—now branded “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts”—the longtime host of the annual Christmas Eve jazz concert, Chuck Redd, pulled the plug in protest.
Redd said once he saw the name change on the website and then on the building, he chose to cancel the show, killing a two‑decade holiday tradition rather than play under Trump’s banner. The White House tried to spin it, with Karoline Leavitt claiming the renaming was about Trump “saving” the center financially and reputationally, which just made the whole thing sound even more self‑serving and ridiculous.
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Tariff war and “Fortress America” economy
On the economic front, the latest coverage is spelling out how hard his 2025 tariff wall is hitting trade, even as he pretends it’s all upside. He has basically ripped up decades of trade policy and slapped tariffs on half the planet, pitching it as “America finally getting tough” while businesses and consumers eat higher costs and deal with a more closed‑off economy.
He’s pointing to stock‑market highs and decent holiday spending to declare himself an economic genius, but the deeper numbers and charts floating around today show the real picture is way more mixed and fragile once you factor in those tariffs. As usual, the message from him is “record everything, best ever,” and the data is a lot more “this is risky as hell.”
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Ukraine drama and foreign‑policy ego
On top of Nigeria, he’s back in the middle of Ukraine drama, with Zelensky saying he expects to meet Trump in Florida this weekend to talk about a new 20‑point peace plan. Trump’s been promising for months he could “end the war fast,” but he’s clearly irritated that Putin still wants land he doesn’t even fully control and refuses to give Trump the quick deal he can brag about.
Behind the scenes, U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators are grinding through details while Trump looms over it all, treating the whole thing like another bargaining table where his personal leverage is the main storyline. It’s the same pattern as always: global crisis as backdrop, Trump’s ego as the headline.
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Overall, brace this weekend for:
• Wall‑to‑wall spin on the Nigeria strikes and his “tough” foreign policy.
• A fresh wave of grievance‑soaked Christmas/Boxing Day posts, probably including more dark “enjoy your last Merry Christmas”‑style warnings.
• A staged “statesman” photo‑op with Zelensky that Trump will use to claim he fixed what everyone else broke, no matter what actually gets agreed.
Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!
Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!
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