Never Say Never

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The agent of Chaos never misses an opportunity to strut his orangeness, continually allowing anyone who cares to kill off a few brain cells by listening to him to fully understand that his mind isn’t much more than tiny bouncing balloons full of bat guano.

President Trump insisted that he would keep tariffs on Canadian goods during a friendly first meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House on Tuesday, but he did not press his case that Canada should become the 51st state.

Trump told reporters he would like to see Canada become part of the United States but nodded to the opposition to the idea from Canadians. “Takes two to tango, right?” Trump said.

Carney, who won Canada’s election last week by pushing back against Trump’s aggression, told Trump that annexation was out of the question.

“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. We’re sitting in one right now,” Carney told Trump. “Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, last several months, it’s not for sale. Won’t be for sale, ever,” he said.

Trump responded: “Never say never.” npr.com

In other heart-warming news that’s sure to make the starving in Gaza feel really good…

Trump repeats support for getting food and medical supplies to ‘the people of Gaza’

The U.S. president said that ‘Hamas is making it impossible because they are taking everything that’s brought in,’ but he failed to mention that Israel has enforced a near total ban on aid for months.

(LifeSiteNews) — During a press conference in the Oval Office on Monday, President Donald Trump reiterated his support for medical aid and other humanitarian supplies to reach the Palestinian people in Gaza.

“We’re going to help the people of Gaza get some food — people are starving and we’re going to help them get some food,” Trump said.

“Hamas is making it impossible because they are taking everything that’s brought in. But we’re going to help the people because they’re being treated very badly by Hamas.”

Wuuut? No mention of the $12.5 billion in direct military aid that U.S. has provided to Israel since October 7, 2023? Probably only accounts for just a few bombs detonated on civilians.

Trump was notably silent on the fact that Israel has also treated the people in Gaza “very badly” as the country has enforced a near-total ban on aid to the region for months, claiming that it is necessary to pressure terror group Hamas.

Various countries as well as international agencies have said the policy amounts to planned starvation, with The New York Times reporting that the situation is “catastrophic.”

Trump’s statement is also significant in that he made similar remarks aboard Air Force One last month. While speaking with reporters, the president said he was “pushing” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow medical supplies and food to reach the area.

“I said (on the call with Netanyahu), ‘we’ve got to be good to Gaza. Those people are suffering,’” Trump said. “There’s a very big need for food and medicine.”

What is it now? 5D, 6D chess the grand bully is playing these days? Hey, he mentioned helping them a month ago, and mentioned helping them again on Monday, what more do you expect? Give the clown a break! He’s busy with manufacturing chaos on a daily basis.

On Monday, Israel’s security cabinet unanimously approved a plan to expand its genocidal war to a full-scale military occupation.

According to Haaretz, the plan includes the “capture or takeover of additional areas throughout the strip and the expansion of the buffer zone held by the IDF,” an area where Israeli forces have leveled nearly all buildings, including civilian homes.

LifeSite reporter Patrick Delaney has noted that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich openly declared that Israel intends to “finally occupy the Gaza Strip.”

There will be “no retreat from the territories we have conquered, not even in exchange for hostages,” Smotrich said. “Once we occupy and stay, we can talk about sovereignty.”

Israeli’s plan not only flies in the face of international law but of President Trump’s proposal that the U.S. will go in and “own” the region to act as a sort of peacekeeping force. Presumably, Trump was trying to pre-empt Netanyahu from controlling it.

Netanyahu seems intent on carrying out the plans. He told attendees at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem last month that Israel alone will be controlling the area.

“Israel will … control the area militarily. We’re not going to succumb to any pressure not to do that,” he said.

Whether Netanyahu’s plan will be carried out is another question, however, as hundreds of IDF reservists have signaled their intent to not go along with the plan.

Jonathan Conricus, a former spokesman for the Israeli military, provided similar remarks to The Daily Signal, which is run by the D.C.-based Heritage Foundation.

“I think in (an) interim period, Israel will apply a military occupation of it and rule Gaza to make sure that Hamas is indeed defeated,” he said.

Conricus stunningly blamed Egypt for “enhancing the suffering” of the Palestinian people for not allowing them to flee the war zone. He was silent about the Israeli government’s destruction of the region in the first place and its blockade.

Many social media users and journalists have noted that expanding Israeli’s borders was the aim of Netanyahu’s war all along.

“Israel is openly declaring its genocidal intent to destroy Gaza, ethnically cleanse Palestinians and occupy all of the land. Where is the wall-to-wall coverage in Western media?” author Assal Rad asked.

As early as November 2023, LifeSiteNews reported on an interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor who assessed that the continued Israeli bombardment of Gaza does not have as its primary aim the rescue of hostages or the destruction of Hamas but of expelling the entire civilian population.

“Making Gaza unlivable is the top priority,” he said at time, before commenting that it’s really “the first stage in a multistage operation designed to create ‘greater Israel’ from the Jordan River all the way to the Mediterranean.”

Help bring aid trucks into Gaza: LifeFunder

And everyone wants what we have here in the States, right?

Canadian Tourism to the U.S. Plummets – Armstrong Economics, Martin Armstrong

Numerous nations have issued unofficial travel advisory warnings to deter citizens from traveling to the United States under Donald Trump. The tensions between the US and Canada have been particularly bad for tourism. Statistics Canada reported a 23% decline in trips via car from the US this February, marking the second consecutive monthly decline, while trips to the US by air declined 2.4%. March’s data shows that cross-border travel plummeted by 900,000 YoY, marking the worst year of tourism since the COVID pandemic.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data found that 4,105,516 people traveled from Canada into the US this March, down from 4,970,360 visitors in 2024—a 17% decline. Now let’s just say that those 900,000 travelers traveled, say, in families of four, spending $2,500 on their trip. That is $562,500,000 tourism dollars lost in one month alone, and obviously, $2,500 is an extremely low estimate for what one would spend on vacation.

The US Travel Association stated that Canadians spent $20.5 billion in US last year while on holiday, which was believed to support 140,000 jobs in leisure and hospitality. Border towns have been hit the hardest, naturally. (full article)