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| Happy Tuesday Patriots, | President Trump took a historic stand yesterday to defend American lives — officially designating illicit fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. | Speaking from the White House, Trump signed a sweeping executive order that classifies the deadly opioid as a chemical weapon, empowering the Pentagon and Justice Department to launch a full-scale war on cartels and foreign suppliers. | "With this historic executive order… we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is," Trump said. "No bomb does what this has done." | The move comes amid a dramatic shift in U.S. policy — including over 20 War Department strikes on drug-trafficking vessels near Venezuela and the passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act earlier this year. | As fentanyl remains the leading killer of young Americans, Trump is unleashing the full force of the federal government to crush the networks behind this chemical invasion. | Kick off the week with all of today's top Trump news below! | —Nick | In today's email:
🔔 Trump Designates Fentanyl as Weapon of Mass Destruction
🏛 Trump Defends WH Ballroom as National Security Matter
💻 Trump Launches AI Tech Force
⚖️ Trump Files $10 Billion Lawsuit Against BBC
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The Trump administration argued in a court filing that pausing construction on the new White House ballroom would undermine national security, citing a Secret Service declaration warning that halting work would leave the site unable to meet safety and security requirements needed to protect the president. The declaration says the White House's East Wing, demolished in October and now undergoing below-grade work, cannot be left unfinished without compromising essential security measures. The government's memorandum was in response to a lawsuit filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit that advocates for preserving historic sites of national importance. The administration emphasized that key regulatory reviews are forthcoming, saying it plans to submit draft architectural drawings and materials to the National Capital Planning Commission and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in the coming weeks. The Trump administration's 90,000-square-foot state ballroom is estimated to cost at least $300 million, backed by private donors, with Trump insisting it will be funded by him and his friends. | 💻 Trump Launches AI Tech Force
The Trump administration launched a new initiative aimed at recruiting top-tier technical talent to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence at the federal level. The hiring program, known as "Tech Force," plans to recruit roughly 1,000 early-career technologists for a two-year service term across various federal agencies. The initiative was announced four days after Trump signed an executive order outlining a national policy framework designed to strengthen US leadership in AI. Recruits can be placed at agencies such as Departments of War, State, Homeland Security or Health and Human Services, where they would work on AI implementation, software development, data modernization and generally move federal operations off aging systems. The new program has partnered with more than 25 leading technology companies to help guide government modernization efforts, including Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon Web Services, Google, Uber, Zoom, Adobe, NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and Palantir. Recruits can expect annual salaries ranging from $150,000 to $200,000. | ⚖️ Trump Files $10 Billion Lawsuit Against BBC
President Trump filed a monster $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation for its 2024 "Panorama" documentary that distorted his Jan. 6 remarks. Trump sued the BBC for both defamation and for a violation of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece. The suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida Federal Court, was filed in a personal capacity and names BBC and BBC studios productions as defendants. The lawsuit states that the BBC faced overwhelming and justifiable outrage on both sides of the Atlantic and has publicly admitted its breach of journalistic ethics and apologized, but has made no showing of actual remorse nor meaningful institutional changes. The controversy began when a whistleblower revealed that a BBC Panorama documentary had a misleading edit of comments Trump made during a rally speech given on Jan. 6, 2021, omitting Trump urging his supporters to protest peacefully. Trump is seeking a jury trial and claims the injury to his business and personal reputation inflicted by the defendants continues into the present, causing massive economic damage to his brand value. | 🎄 Trump Launches Website to Celebrate Federal Achievements
The Trump administration launched a new website boasting the URL "MerryChristmas.gov" to celebrate the federal government's contributions that have helped weave the fabric of the nation. The site launched Sunday, with its first post celebrating the Works Progress Administration's poster program launched during the Great Depression. The website will reveal additional government highlights each day through Dec. 25, and includes a live weather tracker at the North Pole and at the White House. The website follows Trump vowing from the 2024 campaign trail to bring back Christmas, which he said liberals have historically sidelined in favor of more politically correct messages. The Trump administration's social media accounts have increasingly leaned into posting Christmas-focused memes as they relate to the administration's policies, including themes encouraging illegal immigrants to return to their native nations. |
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| | | | | | 🔔 Trump Officially Designates Fentanyl as WMD 🔔 | President Trump signed a historic executive order designating illicit fentanyl and its precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction, warning that the drug poses a threat more comparable to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. | The order asserts that illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic, noting that as little as two milligrams (an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt) can be lethal. The executive order states that hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses and argues that the drug's production and distribution by organized criminal networks now constitute a significant national-security threat. | Trump declared from the Oval Office that he was taking action to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into the country, emphasizing that no bomb does what this drug is doing. The order describes cartel operations responsible for supplying fentanyl to the United States as fueling lawlessness across the Western Hemisphere and helping finance assassinations, terrorist acts and insurgencies abroad. | The directive highlights that the two dominant cartels involved in fentanyl trafficking engage in armed conflict over territory, creating widespread violence that extends far beyond the drug crisis itself. The order also warns of the potential for fentanyl to be weaponized in concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by hostile actors - a central justification for invoking WMD authorities. | The directive outlines a broad interagency strategy to confront fentanyl trafficking using tools typically reserved for nuclear, chemical and biological threats, instructing multiple federal agencies to take coordinated action. The Justice Department is instructed to immediately intensify investigations and prosecutions with enhanced criminal charges and sentencing increases, while the State and Treasury departments must target traffickers with sanctions and financial penalties. | The Departments of War and Justice will determine whether military resources should support enforcement efforts, and the Pentagon and Homeland Security are directed to update domestic chemical-incident response plans to include fentanyl. Homeland Security must use WMD-related intelligence to identify smuggling networks and strengthen counter-fentanyl operations as the administration escalates its enforcement campaign. | The announcement came as US military forces confirmed a new strike on three vessels accused of drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing eight people in the latest action targeting what officials call narco-terrorists. The Trump administration faces mounting pressure from lawmakers over the strikes, which have killed at least 95 people in 25 attacks since early September, with Congress demanding full unedited footage and greater transparency. | Trump has repeatedly threatened to begin land attacks on Venezuelan territory to counter drug smuggling, though regional experts note that Venezuela and South America are not known hubs for fentanyl production or exports. The WMD designation enables more aggressive investigations, deeper interagency coordination, and heightened international pressure on cartels and their financial backers, marking one of the most significant escalations in the federal government's approach to the fentanyl crisis. | | |  | President Trump Participates in a Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation |
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| | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 🏛 The Senate advanced the annual defense policy bill on an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, teeing up final passage later in the week. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2026 unlocked roughly $901 billion in funding for the Pentagon and several defense-related items, about $8 billion over what Trump requested earlier this year. Lawmakers pushed the colossal authorization package through a key procedural hurdle on a 76-20 vote. | 🚢 The US seized a tanker carrying Venezuelan crude oil, putting the shadowy fleet of "ghost ships" used to evade sanctions squarely into Trump's crosshairs. The "Skipper" is part of a clandestine armada of roughly 1,000 tankers that quietly navigate global sea routes to move oil from sanctioned countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela. The vessels sail under foreign flags to obscure their origins, repeatedly change names, shift ownership through shell companies, disable transponders to evade tracking and conduct mid-sea transfers to mask their cargo. | 💼 The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, the highest level since September 2021, while employers added 64,000 jobs for the month. The Labor Department also released October figures revealing a loss of 105,000 jobs, with federal government shedding 162,000 positions as deferred resignations from DOGE took effect. Average hourly earnings rose just 0.1% for the month and were up 3.5% from a year ago, the smallest annual gain since May 2021. | 💍 Trump announced his eldest son Donald Trump Jr. is engaged to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson. The president revealed the news during a White House Christmas party, where Trump Jr. thanked Anderson for saying yes and called it a big win for the end of the year. Anderson, who wore a red dress for the occasion, thanked the first lady for the decorations and said it was the most unforgettable weekend of her life. | 🚨 The Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that Biden's mass migration agenda welcomed about 18,000 known or suspected terrorists to the United States in four years. National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent told Congress that 2,000 of that group were Afghans brought through Operation Allies Welcome who have ties to terrorist organizations, while the remaining 16,000 came through other channels. Kent said the figure does not include terrorists who crossed illegally through the open border, a number that remains unknown. | God bless,
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