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President Donald Trump drew a fierce wave of backlash after he suggested a U.S. ally fighting off an invasion should replace its leader.Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had "better d— well stop" striking oil refineries in Russia, arguing the attacks were affecting diesel and hurting American farmers. "I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president," he said, per clips of the moment.When a reporter pointed out that Ukrainians are suffering under Russian attacks, Trump doubled down. "I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal," he said.The remarks set off a swift outcry online, with critics accusing Trump of doing Russian President Vladimir Putin's bidding. The progressive MeidasTouch political news network called him "the enemy of the free world" in a post on X."Anybody enabling this individual is a traitor to the United States," MeidasTouch continued, referring to Trump."Trump is a coward. Zelensky is a warrior," echoed former GOP congressman Joe Walsh. "Trump is a pathological liar. Zelensky is a truth teller. Trump is a scoundrel. Zelensky is a hero. Trump kisses Putin's a—. Zelensky is kicking Putin's a—. Trump is a traitor to the free world. Zelensky is defending the free world.""I think it's time for the US to get a new president," suggested Kate Bohuslavska, a social media personality who runs the Kate from Kharkiv account."It's time for America to get a new president," agreed national security expert and political commentator Paul Rieckhoff. "One who stands with freedom instead of with Putin.""Someone should explain to the US president that appointing Ukraine's president is not part of his job description," shot back Ukrainian politician Anton Gerashchenko. "Looks like we're having another Oval Office crisis.""Trump is Putin's b—," blasted policy consultant and journalist Adam Cochran. "We must free Congress from its spinelessness and hold Trump accountable."

A Trump Cabinet member's wife drew backlash with a claim about children killed in war that critics branded an "outrageous lie."Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, whose husband Sean Duffy serves as President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, claimed Saturday that Ukraine has killed "a million kids on the Russian side," according to a clip shared by journalist Aaron Rupar.Campos-Duffy did not specify to what figure she was referring. Critics suggested the "kids" in question were Russian soldiers sent to fight in the war Moscow launched with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and her remarks quickly drew condemnation online from journalists, former intelligence officials and Russia analysts."Outrageous lie," blasted Jeffrey Evan Gold, an attorney and legal analyst, in a post on X. "Russian soldiers are not kids. And Putin did that.""You can see where this is going," remarked The Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis."What an insane, defamatory lie," railed HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte."Lost count of how many bits of misinformation and completely false claims were made in this short Fox News clip," lamented Christopher Miller, the chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times."By 'kids,' I assume she means soldiers from an occupying force that has been bombing, raping and torturing its [way] across Ukraine," suggested Russian-born national columnist Cathy Young. "Disgraceful.""This is a joke," fumed national security analyst and former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos."So Ukrainians are now monsters," bristled Kate Bohuslavska, a Ukrainian social media personality who runs the popular account Kate from Kharkiv. "What's next, they will sanction us? Help Russia bomb Ukraine?""Sean Duffy's wife in particular seems *aggressively* wrong about Russia and Ukraine on a regular basis," chided disinformation researcher and popular blogger Jim Stewartson. "Like it's her job to flip the narrative upside down.""Rachel Campos-Duffy is consistently one of the most ignorant people on television on the most criminally-dishonest platform in the history of media," political strategist Jon Evans sounded off. "Add the fact that Russia has infiltrated the Republican Party, and it's all very dangerous Kremlin propaganda."

Donald Trump still can’t let the Nobel go.On Saturday morning, a few hours after a late-night Truth Social rant about losing the Peace Prize, the president posted about it again. This time he misspelled it.“I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country,” Trump wrote at 8:04 a.m. Eastern.He added that he had stopped Iran “from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE!”“Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!”His first post went up Friday at 11:39 p.m. Eastern. That one ran nearly 600 words, called the committee’s choice “an indelible stain on Norway,” and dismissed the winner, former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay, as someone “who nobody has ever heard of.”He’s getting little sympathy. CNN reported Friday that Trump’s quest for the prize “is now the butt of the joke.”The Nobel committee praised Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” Last month, Trump urged countries to quit the ICC.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is breaking with Donald Trump over his new diesel deal with Vladimir Putin. She says he’s ignoring the tools Congress just handed him.“A few weeks ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation to increase sanctions and tariffs on Russia,” Murkowski wrote on X late Friday. “The President should be using those authorities instead of allowing Russia to export diesel, rake in revenues, and continue its catastrophic war in Ukraine.”“We can discuss Russia’s return to global energy markets once the war is over,” she added, “but in the meantime, we need to cut off everything fueling it.”Her post linked to an Associated Press report on the deal, headlined “Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy.”The deal comes as diesel prices hit record highs in farm states during harvest season, the New York Times reported Friday. Fuel prices have climbed nationwide since Trump launched his war against Iran, and Republicans are scrambling to hold on to seats three weeks before the midterms.The plan has already run into trouble. Hours after the U.S. eased sanctions on Russian fuel exports, Ukrainian drones hit a major oil export terminal in Rostov-on-Don and set it on fire, Al Jazeera reported.It wasn’t Murkowski’s only break with the administration this week. She also criticized the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.“I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America,” she wrote.A few weeks ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation to increase sanctions and tariffs on Russia. The President should be using those authorities instead of allowing Russia to export diesel, rake in revenues, and continue its catastrophic war in Ukraine. We can discuss Russia’s return to global energy markets once the war is over, but in the meantime, we need to cut off everything fueling it.https://t.co/KPkEoDy1Np— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) October 10, 2026

President Donald Trump made no personal mention of his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday morning, but he did share comments made by one of his impeachment lawyers.While this year’s honoree, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, a South African jurist and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, poked fun at the American president in her initial comments, telling admirers, “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” the president held his tongue.Instead, on Truth Social, he posted a statement from attorney Doug Schoen, who served on Trump's defense team during his second Senate impeachment trial in February 2021.According to Schoen, the Nobel committee made a huge mistake.“Today the Nobel Committee shamed itself beyond repair and demeaned the once great Nobel Peace Prize by giving it to the UN’s Navi Pillay,” he complained. “Pillay is an unabashed hater of America and Israel. In her position she celebrated terrorists and rewarded Hamas. She conducted a phony ‘investigation’ claiming to find that Israel committed genocide and urging prosecution. She has no credibility in any normal sphere and has never done a thing to foster peace. Just the opposite.”“But what could be expected from a committee that previously gave the once coveted peace prize to Yasser Arafat?” he raged.“President Trump gave us the Abraham Accords, which the world said would be impossible and is now expanding them! He brought home the hostages when all seemed hopeless! He is making best efforts to end the Russia/Ukraine war, to stop Iran, the number one sponsor of international terrorism, and he is trying to rebuild Gaza despite the terrorists’ best efforts to control it. The list goes on and on. These are the kinds of things the Nobel Peace Prize was intended to recognize and reward!!!” he wrote.

‘The climate issue is the security issue,’ says Turkish minister at Pacific pre-Cop summit in FijiWealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month. Continue reading...

President Donald Trump was once again denied the Nobel Peace Prize, but the winner made sure to mention him in her initial remarks.And not in a flattering way, reported The Daily Beast.The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, a South African jurist and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, won the 2026 prize. Trump, 80, had long sought the honor.Pillay was told she had won "while at the Nuremberg court in Germany," which was used for the post-World War II trials of Nazi leaders, the Beast reported. In a video captured by Agnès Callamard, the French human rights activist who heads Amnesty International, Pillay made a remark about Trump that the Beast described as mocking his eagerness for the prize.“If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” she told her applauding admirers.Trump has openly campaigned for the prize, saying he deserves it and pointing to his claims that he has ended multiple conflicts and “pre-wars” since returning to the White House. The United States is currently in the eighth month of a war with Iran.Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes said Pillay won for her work being “instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide” are prosecuted.“Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career,” Frydnes said. “A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.”Pillay served as a judge on the International Criminal Court and was president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda before becoming the U.N.’s human rights chief in 2008.Amazing moment. Navi Pillay has received the Nobel Peace Prize ! https://t.co/HL3r1PJzLOWe are at the Nuremberg Court; I cannot think of a stronger symbol for her Nobel prize. We are all so thrilled! This is her first reactions upon hearing the news: https://t.co/Crbj6XdiyQ— Agnes Callamard (@AgnesCallamard) October 9, 2026

A U.S. diplomat sparked outrage after being accused of having “repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised” reporting to paint the Israeli government “in a favorable light,” including by “stonewalling” lawmakers’ probes into Israeli killings of Americans, the New York Times reported.That diplomat is David Milstein, a top aide to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and according to three U.S. officials who spoke with the Times on the condition of anonymity, Milstein “stymied embassy reporting” on Israeli settler violence and “suppressed” a detailed embassy report on recent Israeli killings of Americans in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.“NYT reports that a Huckabee top aide is a literal traitor, actively covering up Israeli killings of American citizens and falsifying embassy reports about Israel’s role in settler violence,” wrote Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who reports on Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.Milstein, the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin, was also accused of creating an environment of fear at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, with some staffers refraining “from writing reports for fear that Mr. Milstein would block or rewrite them,” the Times reported, citing its inside sources.“[The Times] is reporting that he betrayed our country and doctored reports from US sources to help Israel, including the coverup of Americans they had murdered. This is arguably treason, but certainly something you should be arrested for. Is it really tolerable to have our own diplomats working for a different country to undermine our interests?” wrote progressive media figure Cenk Uygur.“He hasn't even been fired yet. Because everyone in [Washington] finds it perfectly normal for US government officials to secretly work for Israel instead. That could describe half the town. That's why he will definitely get away with covering up the murder of American citizens.”Huckabee responded to the report with outrage of his own, calling the Times reporters “sleazy” and referring to the outlet as “the Slimes.” Levin called the Times’ reporting “vile” and hinted that he may be considering taking legal action against the outlet.“By the way, knowingly creating a false impression of misconduct can be defamation by implication,” Levin wrote. “If I were the Times, I would preserve the records. All rights reserved.”NYT reports that a Huckabee top aide is a literal traitor, actively covering up Israeli killings of American citizens and falsifying embassy reports about Israel’s role in settler violence. https://t.co/X6W4uLrEEB— jasper nathaniel (@infinite_jaz) October 8, 2026