WATCH: Trump brutally exposes South African President's lies
US President Donald Trump has confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over claims of anti-white racism in the country.
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Sky News AU
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- Sky News AU
‘Go to anger management': Trump's savage message to Greta Thunberg
United States President Donald Trump has savagely roasted Greta Thunberg over her trip to Gaza. His roast came during an Invest America Meeting, where he slammed the political activists' trip. Great Thunberg had recently attempted to travel to the Gaza Strip to provide humanitarian aid to the region after Israel halted shipments. More than 500,000 people in Gaza face starvation and famine, with 2.1 million at critical risk as Israeli blockades persist. When asked by a reporter if the US president had a message for Greta Thunberg, he said he thought she should 'go to an anger management class'. 'She's a strange person, she's a young angry person, I don't know if it's real anger, it's hard to believe. When asked if he agreed with Thunberg's statement that she was 'kidnapped' by Israel, the US president made a quick joke about the activist. 'I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg,' Trump said.
The Age
2 hours ago
- The Age
Israel orders Greta Thunberg be shown October 7 video while in detention
US President Donald Trump dismissed the statement: 'I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg,' he said. 'She's a young, angry person ... I think she has to go to an anger management class.' He made a similar remark about the then 16-year-old activist in 2019. Israel has dismissed the aid ship as a stunt, with its Foreign Ministry labelling the boat 'the selfie yacht'. Officials said the flotilla carried what amounted to less than a truckload of aid. 'This wasn't humanitarian aid. It's Instagram activism,' Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer said. Israel said the aid on board would be sent to Gaza through established channels, and circulated footage of what appeared to be Israeli military personnel offering sandwiches and water to the activists, who were wearing life vests. It also published a photo of Thunberg on social media after she disembarked. After an 11-week total blockade aimed at pressuring Hamas, Israel started allowing some basic aid into Gaza last month, but humanitarian workers and experts say it is not enough and have warned of famine unless the blockade is lifted and Israel ends its military offensive. The United Nations said on Monday that it has only been able to bring minimal flour into Gaza and most aid has been looted by armed gangs or taken by starving Palestinians. Loading Palestinians also said Israeli forces and local gunmen working near the soldiers had fired on Monday towards a crowd heading to a new Israeli-backed aid distribution centre in the Gaza Strip, with Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry and local hospitals saying 14 people were killed. Dozens of people have died in shootings over the past two weeks while attempting to get aid from new centres run by a controversial new aid group backed by the US and Israel, called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The United Nations and other aid groups have refused to work with the group, citing humanitarian concerns. Thunberg and the other activists were expected to be held at a detention facility in the city of Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them, which said that Israel had no legal authority to take over the ship and it breached international law. An attempt by Freedom Flotilla last month to reach Gaza by sea failed after another of the group's vessels was attacked by two drones while sailing in international waters off Malta, organisers said. The group blamed Israel for the attack, which damaged the ship's front section. Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who is of Palestinian descent, was among the volunteers on board the latest boat to be intercepted. She has been barred from entering Israel because of her opposition to Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. She was among six French citizens aboard. French President Emmanuel Macron asked Israel to allow them to return to France as soon as possible, his office said in a statement. Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said the crew and passengers were aware of the risks and that her ministry has advised against travel to Gaza for a decade and people who disregard that have a clear personal responsibility, Swedish news agency TT reported. Stenergard said the ministry's assessment was that no one on board was in danger and there was no need for consular support. Israel and Egypt have imposed varying degrees of a blockade on Gaza since Hamas seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007. Israel says the blockade is needed to prevent Hamas from importing arms, while critics say it amounts to collective punishment of Gaza's Palestinian population. Israel sealed off Gaza from all aid in the early days of the war ignited by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, but later relented under US pressure. In early March, shortly before Israel ended a ceasefire with Hamas, the country again blocked all imports, including food, fuel and medicine. Hamas-led militants killed about 1200 people, mostly civilians, in the October 7 attack and abducted 251 hostages. Most have been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Hamas still holds 55 hostages, more than half are believed to be dead. Israel's military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants but has said that women and children make up most of the dead. Loading The war has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced about 90 per cent of the population, leaving people almost completely dependent on international aid. Efforts to broker another truce have been deadlocked for months. Hamas says it will only release the remaining hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal. Israel has vowed to continue the war until all the captives are returned and Hamas is defeated, or disarmed and exiled.
Sydney Morning Herald
2 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Trump has zero credibility on the LA protests, but that may not matter
Washington: 'These are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists,' US President Donald Trump said of people clashing with police on the streets of Los Angeles. 'They should be in jail.' Trump may have a point about some of the more extreme elements that have joined the protests in America's second-largest city to smash windows, loot and set cars on fire. But it's difficult to take him seriously – indeed, it's difficult to afford him any credibility at all – when this is the same man who just months ago pardoned and celebrated the rioters who stormed the US Capitol in his name on January 6, 2021. In LA, a relatively small group of protesters, demonstrators, rioters – whatever you want to call them – are copping the brunt of law enforcement and even the US military. In DC, Trump circumvented the legal system to set them free, even after some were convicted of seditious conspiracy, and lionised them as hard-done-by patriots. We may not be surprised by such blatant hypocrisy, but it is still striking to see it manifest so clearly, so obviously. No wonder the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is so incensed by the treatment doled out to protesters in his state – even those whose behaviour he condemns. Liberal California is a favourite and familiar punching bag for Trump. During last year's campaign, and even in the middle of January's deadly bushfires, he threatened to withhold aid from the state if Newsom didn't bow to his demands on water policy. Every authoritarian regime needs enemies. And it's difficult to get away from the feeling that Trump is making an example of California as he presses on with the next phase of his mass deportation plan, and seeks to keep the domestic focus on immigration, and law and order.
