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Trump suffers worldwide embarrassment as No Kings explodes outside America
More than 3,000 No Kings protest events in the United States were bolstered by activists across the world opposing Donald Trump. Rallies against the president were formed across the US, but also in Germany, Italy, and Australia. Protestors in Paris, France, were spotted holding up "Dump Trump" signs while those in the streets of Madrid, Spain, rallied around a sign reading, "Power to the people." A previous No Kings movement occurred on June 14, 2025, the same day as Trump's birthday. Further protests followed in October, and a third set of rallies across the world took place today (March 28). Protestors in Amsterdam carried a placard reading, "WTF America," The Daily Beast reported. In Sydney, a man held up a sign that read “We can’t stand him either."Naveed Shah, who founded the Common Defense group in 2016 to rally military veterans for the sake of progressive politics, spoke of the rapid No Kings growth. He said, "When I stood at the first ‘No Kings’ rally, we were fighting to protect democracy at home and against federal agents and troops that were deployed on American streets, against a government that was manufacturing a crisis to justify using its power against its own people."Today, we’re still fighting that same fight, but now that manufactured crisis has gone global." MoveOn executive director Katie Bethell added their grassroots support to the No Kings protests. "Our members will be turning out peacefully in the streets because they believe in a better future for this country, and they can’t sit by on the sidelines about what Trump and his administration are doing to our home," she said. "Let’s be clear, the Trump administration has become a threat to the American people at every level. They are waging violence at home and abroad."An estimated 7 million people showed up to rally against the Trump administration in October — more than the 5 million or so who protested in June — and No Kings organizers are anticipating nearly 9 million people will take to the streets this weekend.
'The world is watching': Analyst warns Trump against destroying American Dream ideals
Donald Trump could be judged harshly by the world if he breaks a promise at the heart of the American Dream, an analyst has claimed. The president and his administration have cracked down hard on immigration in a way that could undermine the "credibility" of the country, Brent McKenzie argued. The Hill columnist considered the crackdown on immigration as a move that could shatter the American Dream in the eyes of the world. "The process might be long and complicated, but immigrants who followed the rules would eventually find opportunity," McKenzie wrote. "The U.S. was not only a place where people could succeed; it also openly welcomed those willing to work, contribute and build a life. Increasingly, people outside the U.S. are beginning to wonder whether that promise still holds."McKenzie went on to argue that the "cultural confidence" of the United States depends on immigration, and that the Trump administration is actively undermining the future of the country. He added, "But recent policy decisions are testing that narrative. When lawful permanent residents are excluded from government programs designed to help small businesses grow, or when people deep in the legal immigration process are suddenly caught in policy pauses and reversals, the message is larger than any single rule."In recent years, that confidence has eroded. Immigration has become a central point of political conflict. Today, immigration is no longer just a policy debate. It has become a cultural and political dividing line. And for people watching from outside the U.S., that shift is impossible to miss."The question facing the U.S. today is not whether immigration policy should evolve. Every country revises its policies over time. The question is whether the larger promise that once defined the American experience still holds."Trump's changes to immigration policy in the US could, McKenzie argues, change the tide in countries across the world. This, he believes, is the reason there is such a close eye on the president. "How the U.S. answers that question will shape not only immigration policy but the country’s place in the world," he wrote. "If the U.S. wants the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs and builders to continue choosing America, it must do more than defend its borders. "It must also defend the promise that’s drawn them here for generations. The world is watching to see whether that promise still stands."
'No going back' for next president as Trump makes US reversal 'impossible': analyst
Donald Trump has made life harder for his Oval Office successor with a series of changes that will likely be impossible to undo, an analyst claimed.The president's tough stance on geopolitical relations during his second term has hindered the chance of reconciliation under the 48th President of the United States, Salon writer Mike Lofgren argued. The political analyst suggested that Trump's team was undermining steps taken by previous administrations to improve international relations. Lofgren claims that Trump has pressed the US into a position where there is "no going back to the status quo ante" of previous administrations. Actions taken against Venezuela and Iran, as well as a period of time where the president appeared set on subsuming Greenland into US territory has seemingly worn international relations thin. This, Lofgren suggests, is a point of no return that a future president from either party would struggle to navigate. He wrote, "Yet another future president might have retraced a path toward more balanced economic or security policies once the disadvantages of trade wars or diplomatic and military isolation became obvious."But Trump, in large part through his feral nastiness and adolescent vulgarity, has made that sort of reversal all but impossible. A hypothetical president might have distanced himself from NATO, but it’s inconceivable that he would covet an alliance partner’s territory to the point where that government made plans to blow up the airfields in the coveted territory in case of invasion."Lofgren went on to suggest that longstanding treaties and decades-old friendships between the US and other countries had been ground down slowly, and that Trump had simply sped up the process of a breakdown. "Trump hates reading, as his spotty education and lack of general knowledge testify," Lofgren wrote. "That reflects his profound lack of intellectual curiosity. "He attempts to disguise this deficiency with endless boasting about himself and endless denigration of others. He is obsessed with popular media and showbiz and the shabby values they embody."It is almost certain, to this observer anyway, that after the last hanging chad in Florida, after the rubble of the World Trade Center had cooled, after the first improvised roadside bomb exploded in Iraq, and after Lehman Brothers collapsed, Trump, or someone like him, was inevitable."
KP Sharma Oli: Nepal’s former prime minister arrested over alleged role in deadly protest crackdown
At least 77 people killed in anti-corruption youth uprising in September, which began over a brief social media banNepal’s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli was arrested early on Saturday morning over his alleged role in the deaths of dozens of people who took part in the gen Z protest that toppled his government last year.Police detained the three-time former prime minister at his residence in the capital Kathmandu, and also arrested his former home affairs minister Ramesh Lekhak. Continue reading...
Trump mocked after floating new name for Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump is facing mockery after floating the idea of renaming the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, after himself – or the United States. At an investor forum in Miami Friday night, Trump referred to the waterway as the “Strait of Trump” before correcting himself and insisting the remark was intentional.“Excuse me, I’m so sorry. Such a terrible mistake,” Trump said to the crowd. “The Fake News will say, ‘He accidentally said.’ No, there’s no accidents with me.”The Daily Beast reported Friday that Trump has also privately discussed rebranding the vital global oil corridor as the “Strait of America” if the United States were to help wrest control of it from Iran.The waterway has become a major flashpoint in the MAGA administration’s escalating conflict with Tehran, which has disrupted shipping and helped send oil and gas prices higher. One administration official told the New York Post that the U.S. is “taking the Strait back” and questioned why it should still be called Hormuz if Washington ends up policing it. But even some Trump allies appear uneasy with the idea. A former administration official told the Post that Trump’s self-promotion while in the White House is “getting tiresome and tacky,” and risks “tarnishing his legacy.” .@POTUS: "We're negotiating now, and it would be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump—I mean Hormuz. Excuse me, I'm so sorry. Such a terrible mistake." ???? pic.twitter.com/TqZptrkEo0— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 27, 2026
One move could be 'Trump's undoing' as 'nightmare' scenario looms: expert
Donald Trump could be facing a total collapse of his administration should he make one wrong move, an expert has warned. Describing the president as a "bad gambler," defense expert Chris Hughes suggested Trump could be taken down a worrying path during the war with Iran. Writing in The Mirror, Hughes outlined a scenario in which the US would not win against Iran, and that this may be a path Trump wishes to pursue. Trump could be "tempted into a ground war against hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, of Iranian IRGC and Artesh regular forces that cannot be won," according to Hughes, who warned there would be no victory with a boots on the ground display from the US in Iran. "It does not take 17,000 ground troops to win against those odds and it is likely Trump has already been told this," Hughes wrote. "Even with defections and airstrikes a ground invasion of Iran would be a long-term and bloody nightmare. "The same goes for the taking of Kharg Island and perhaps a special forces raid on Iran’s nuclear sites to seize its enriched uranium. This will be Trump’s undoing, and the same goes for anyone else who goes along with it."Part of the problem regarding Trump's potential decision, Hughes warns, is in underestimating Iran's forces. He wrote, "The deathly irony remains that whilst it would prefer not to have been attacked in the first place, the latter is exactly what Iran too wants - it is a great big trap. "As we have said repeatedly the Iranian regime has always known it cannot take on America head-on - but it can draw it into a humiliating guerilla war that will cost huge numbers of lives."And it can try and out-cost the US, forcing it to spend even more than the billions it has already cost, whilst also costing the Gulf States billions in Patriot missiles. And this is by using £30,000 drones against multi-million pound Patriot defence missiles to bankrupt Trump’s war machine into a retreat."He has constantly bragged Iran has no navy or air force. The same could have been said for the Viet Cong and the Taliban and look where that got the States and other militaries that sacrificed troops, such as the UK, helping its war against terror."
Stock markets tank to Iran war lows after Trump threatens to 'blow them away'
U.S. stocks plummeted on Thursday to their lowest since the war in Iran broke out following Trump administration comments.The largest daily decline hit as oil prices skyrocketed after President Donald Trump signaled he was turning up the pressure on Iran to accept his terms to end the ongoing war, The New York Times reported. “We’ll just keep blowing them away, unimpeded,” Trump said during his cabinet meeting, which was the first gathering of his top administration officials since military strikes began. The drop sank even lower after the meeting, just after the S&P 500 opened lower.The index slipped 1.7 percent, which was the largest daily drop since January. That set the index now for the fifth straight week of losses — the first time in four years that has happened. Economic uncertainty, climbing gas prices, and higher interest rates, combined with ongoing negotiations with Iran, had set the market on a downward spiral. The factors were all part of the continued concerns among investors over when the Iran war would end, according to The Times.
Trump reveals major Iran development as pressure mounts at home
President Donald Trump signaled that negotiations were underway with Iran — and that he would pause military strikes — while simultaneously attacking the media in a new social media announcement.Trump has come under fire over the American public's response to the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes in Iran, as calls have increased for the conflict to end as oil prices rise and the stock market takes serious hits. He said that the Iranian government requested to stop the strikes amid the talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the second time Trump has said he would pause strikes. Trump posted the following on his Truth Social platform: "As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well."The military action in Iran started on Feb. 28 and has led to the death of 13 U.S. troops and hundreds of injured service members.
Trump losing top Fox News ally as MAGA host warns of 'cascading problems'
President Donald Trump has apparently started to lose support from one of his loyal Fox News allies as doubts rise over his decision to continue the war against Iran, according to reports on Thursday. Fox News host and conservative ally Laura Ingraham had a skeptical response to the Trump administration's war on Wednesday night during a live broadcast, Media Matters for America reported. Ingraham warned that as the United States escalates its military action in the Middle East, it could prompt dire and "unintended consequences." She argued that Trump and his administration should focus on America's economy and political situation. "Iran knows it cannot win militarily, so it's using the leverage it has by prolonging the conflict," Ingraham said during her monologue leading the show. "Now, what do they want to do? They want to inflict maximum economic pain on the region, on the U.S., [on] the global economy as much as possible until they think Trump relents. But the White House doesn't seem to be blinking."The host pointed to a clip featuring White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said during a press briefing on Wednesday that "President Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell." Ingraham described why Leavitt's comments were problematic and what that could mean for not just Iran, but the region as a whole, especially as Republicans anticipate tough midterms ahead. "Well, the problem is obviously unleashing hell means destroying infrastructure, which itself causes a series of cascading problems for the region, including maybe outside the region — political problems for the president in a midterm election year," Ingraham said.Trump has often looked to Fox News and its voices to gain further insights and potentially influence his next moves. "The power struggle is significant — it is not an exaggeration to suggest the course of the war might hinge on which Fox shows the president is watching," according to the outlet. And although Ingraham could be one of the few Fox News broadcasters expressing concerns about the Iran war, her voice could carry some weight. "Ingraham is inching toward the type of dissent that has been virtually absent from Fox’s coverage of the war, even as the broader right-wing media has split," according to Media Matters for America. "Her colleagues have played key roles in convincing Trump to attack in the first place and are pushing for risky escalations. Ingraham herself briefly quibbled with Trump’s handling of an apparent U.S. strike that leveled an Iranian school, killing scores of children, but had supported the war itself, which she declared three weeks ago that Trump had already won."
'Put America first!' CPAC attendee 'not happy at all' with Trump
CNN's Donie O'Sullivan talked to one attendee at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, who slammed President Donald Trump over his war in Iran."I'm at CPAC in Dallas," O'Sullivan explained on Thursday. "It's the biggest conservative conference in the country. And lots of people here are talking about the war in Iran. Trump is not speaking at this event this year.""But in the past, when he has spoken here, he's talked a lot about not starting new wars," he noted.Attendee Alex Stone told O'Sullivan that he was "not happy" with Trump because of the war."I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. I mean, President Trump ran on no new wars," he explained. "I feel like we've been co-opted into a war that shouldn't be ours. It should be Israel's."Do you still support him? the CNN correspondent wondered."I want him to succeed," Stone hedged. "I think it's to be determined on, you know, if I can remain to support him. We'll see how the next six months go, and I'll see what happens.""We hear the phrase America first," he added. "Let's put America first."However, many CPAC attendees still supported the president."This is not a war," Shawn Michael insisted. "Oh my God, I absolutely support the president of the United States of America!"
Nepal’s PM-to-be uses rap to call for unity in first post-election message
Balendra Shah, 35, is a symbol of change in country whose government was toppled last year in youth-led uprisingNepal’s rapper turned politician Balendra Shah, who is about to be sworn in as prime minister, has issued his first post-election message in the form of a rap urging unity.Hours before the release he swore an oath as a newly elected lawmaker, and he is due to become the Himalayan republic’s new prime minister on Friday. Continue reading...
Taliban release US academic held in detention for more than a year
Marco Rubio welcomes release of Dennis Coyle, who was detained in January last year for violating unspecified lawsAfghanistan’s Taliban authorities have released the American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.A statement from the ministry said the academic researcher had been released in Kabul on Tuesday, following an appeal from his family and after Afghanistan’s supreme court “considered his previous imprisonment sufficient”. Continue reading...
