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The Citizen
16-07-2025
- Business
- The Citizen
24 hours in pictures, 16 July 2025
24 hours in pictures, 16 July 2025 Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world. US President Donald J. Trump responds to a question from the news media prior to boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2025. President Trump will be speaking at an Energy and Innovation summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Picture: EPA/SHAWN THEW The pack of riders (peloton) cycles past a sunflower field during the 11th stage of the 112th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 156.8 km starting and finishing in Toulouse, southwestern France, on July 16, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP) Syrian security forces take aim from a rooftop position amid ongoing clashes in the southern city of Sweida on July 16, 2025. Damascus deployed troops in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida, after clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes killed scores of people, with Syria's defence minister declaring a ceasefire on July 15 in Sweida city, which government forces entered in the morning. (Photo by Bakr ALkasem / AFP) Children carry a paddle board at Malvarrosa beach in Valencia, Spain, 16 July 2025. The temperature is to reach up to 38 degrees Celsius in Valencia during the day. Picture: EPA/Biel Alino South Africa's swimmer Connor Buck (bottom) competes in the final of the men's 10km open water swimming event during the 2025 World Aquatics Championships at Sentosa Island in Singapore on July 16, 2025. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP) SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during the event SoftBank World 2025 in Tokyo, Japan, 16 July 2025. SoftBank Group and OpenAI are moving forward with plans to offer generative AI-powered business automation services to major Japanese corporations. Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON Operation Dudula members outside Braamfischer Clinic checking the passports and IDs of migrant nationals on July 16, 2025 in Soweto, South Africa. It is alleged that Operation Dudula has been turning away foreign nationals from accessing health care services from public clinics. (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi) The entrance to the New York Stock Exchange in New York, New York, USA, on 16 July 2025. Picture: EPA/JUSTIN LANE An aerial view of tourists enjoying the beach at a resort in Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP) Army soldiers turn over a damaged car affected by flash flooding due to heavy rains in Zapopan, Jalisco state, Mexico on July 16, 2025. At least one minor died and dozens of homes and streets were flooded after heavy rains hit the municipality of Zapopan in western Mexico on Tuesday night. (Photo by ULISES RUIZ / AFP) Stray dogs roam at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, 15 July 2025 (issued 16 July 2025). Kabul's stray dog population is surging, posing threats to public safety despite long-term efforts, such as vaccination, sterilization programs, and even euthanasia due to rabies concerns. Picture: EPA/SAMIULLAH POPAL Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita receives South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma in Rabat on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP) A youth dives in the Tigris river to cool off amidst power cuts due to an extreme heatwave in Baghdad on July 15, 2025. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) Activist from the Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (ECOTON) and students put up an installation in the shape of a heart and lungs damaged by exposure to microplastics waste during a protest to raise awareness of the impact of single-use plastic on the environment and human health in Surabaya on July 16, 2025. (Photo by Juni KRISWANTO / AFP) Handout picture released on July 16, 2025 by the Public Defense Department of the State Police Commissioner in Iceland shows lava and smoke erupting from a volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes. A volcano erupted on Wednesday in Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula in the southwest, weather authorities said, the ninth eruption to hit the region since the end of 2023. Broadcaster RUV reported that the nearby fishing village Grindavik had been evacuated, as had the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's famed tourist spot. (Photo by Handout / Public Defense Department of the State Police / AFP) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) and Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder (2ndR hidden) watch traditional Bavarian 'Schuhplattler' dancers performing atop the Zugspitze mountain in Grainau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on July 15, 2025, prior to taking part in a meeting of the Bavarian state cabinet. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP) City Power employees remove illegal conections at Crown Mines in Johannesburg, 16 July 2025. City Power and other law enforcement officers conducted a disconnection operation targeting illegal electricity connections focusing on a nearby informal settlement where illegal connections have compromised infrastructure and safety. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The Citizen Army personnel patrol a street on an armoured vehicle after Awami League party activists allegedly clashed with security personnel to rebuke a rally by the newly formed Jatiya Nagarik Party, or National Citizen's Party in Gopalganj on July 16, 2025. At least three were killed and a dozen others injured in Gopalganj on July 16, after a clash broke out between law enforcement agencies and alleged Awami League affiliates attempting to foil a programme by the National Citizens Party (NCP). (Photo by Anik Rahman / AFP) Alisha Lehmann of Switzerland and teammates in action during a training session of the Swiss women's national soccer team in Thun, Switzerland, 16 July 2025. Switzerland will face Spain in the quarter finals of the UEFA Women's EURO 2025 on 18 July. Picture: EPA/ANTHONY ANEX MORE: 24 hours in pictures, 15 July 2025
The Independent
16-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Did Trump's uncle teach the Unabomber? No. Here's what really happened
At an energy and innovation summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed that his uncle, Dr. John Trump, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had once taught a 'seriously good' student named Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski. 'He'd go around correcting everybody,' Trump boasted. 'It didn't work out too well for him... but it's interesting in life.' During his winding 30-minute speech at the inaugural 'Energy and Innovation' summit at Carnegie Mellon University, Trump repeated the notion that his uncle taught domestic terrorist and mathematician Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. After invoking his late paternal uncle, whom he falsely described as MIT 's 'longest-serving professor,' Trump continued his implausible anecdote. 'Kaczynski was one of his students,' he continued. 'Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference between a madman and a genius.' The crowd showed little reaction to the story, and it was unclear if the president was confusing Kaczynski, who died by suicide in a federal prison in 2023, with someone else. The bizarre claim is not only highly unlikely, it is practically impossible. Kaczynski attacked academics, businessmen, and random civilians with homemade bombs between 1978 and 1995, as part of a campaign aimed at collapsing modern society. He killed three people and injured 23. Before being recognized as the Unabomber, Kaczynski earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1962, having entered at the age of 16, and Master's and Doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan by 1967. Kaczynski taught as an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley, until 1969, before making a deliberate shift away from academic life and mainstream society, living in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana. Despite Trump's statements, Kaczynski never attended MIT. There is no record of him ever visiting or lecturing at the university either. Meanwhile, Prof. Trump, a cancer research pioneer who received the National Medal of Science, taught at MIT for approximately four decades before his death in 1985 at the age of 78. He focused on high-voltage phenomena, electron acceleration, and the interaction of radiation with both living and non-living matter, including the design of X-ray generators for cancer therapy. His expertise has been repeatedly vaunted by his nephew, who on Tuesday described him as a 'smart man.' Unlike Kaczynski, John Trump was not a mathematician; he was a professor of electrical engineering and physics. Even if the renowned physicist did cross paths with the infamous serial killer, he could not have known that Kaczynski was linked to the Unabomber attacks. The alleged conversation would have taken place more than a decade before the FBI identified Kaczynski as the Unabomber in April 1996 after his brother, David Kaczynski, turned him in after reading his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future. The manifesto makes no mention of Prof. Trump, MIT, or any figures associated with that institution. His autobiography and prison interviews also contain detailed recollections of his education and professors, with no mention of Trump's uncle or his time at MIT. While MIT geneticist Phillip Sharp received a threatening letter from Kaczynski before his arrest, no one from or affiliated with the technical college was physically attacked or injured.
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
'He taught the Unabomber': Trump claims his uncle was longest serving MIT professor - is it true?
At a campaign-style event in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump made a characteristically meandering claim that his uncle, the late Dr John Trump, was the longest-serving professor in the history of MIT and had taught one of America's most notorious domestic terrorists, the Unabomber. But while the anecdote grabbed attention, almost none of it appears to be true. 'I have to brag just for a second,' Trump said at the Energy and Innovation event hosted by Senator Dave McCormick. 'Although my uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, 51 years, whatever. He was longest serving professor in the history of MIT… Kaczynski was one of his students.' Referring to the late Ted Kaczynski, who carried out a 17-year bombing spree that killed three and injured 23, Trump added: 'I said, what kind of a student was he? Uncle John, Dr John Trump? He said seriously good. He said he'd go around correcting everybody. But it didn't work out too well for him.' The problem? Kaczynski never attended MIT, and Trump's uncle was not the longest-serving professor there. A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had earlier told Newsweek that while Dr John Trump had a long and respected academic career at the university, he was not its longest-serving professor. Based on MIT's records, at least 10 professors have served 53 years or longer. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Villas For Sale in Dubai Might Surprise You Dubai villas | search ads Get Deals Undo Trump's uncle worked at MIT in various capacities from 1933 until his death in 1985, with 37 years as a full professor and later roles as senior lecturer and professor emeritus. There's also no evidence that Kaczynski who completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard and earned graduate degrees in mathematics at the University of Michigan, ever studied at MIT. In fact, by the time Trump's uncle had already been working at MIT for decades, Kaczynski was still a child. The real story of the Unabomber Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, later dubbed the 'Unabomber' by the FBI, lived in a remote cabin in Montana where he built homemade bombs and conducted a campaign of terror against scientists and industrial targets between 1978 and 1995. A mathematical prodigy, he had taught briefly at Berkeley before turning against modern society. Kaczynski's identity was revealed after his brother recognised his writing style in a published manifesto. He was arrested in 1996, sentenced to life in prison, and died in 2023 aged 81. Despite Trump's repeated anecdotes, the MIT-Unabomber connection appears entirely imagined.
