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The powerful far-right leader of a neo-Nazi-backed political group — and recent new "crush" of podcaster Joe Rogen — publicly split with President Donald Trump Saturday over his off-the-cuff comment about a "very cool thing." Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament and founder of the "ethno-nationalist" group Restore Britain, took to X on Saturday to lambast Trump over his recently professed support for Irish unification. "I want to be really clear in Restore Britain’s response," Lowe wrote. "The American President is talking about breaking up our country. This is unacceptable, this is insulting."Lowe's criticism stands in stark contrast to recent public messaging in which he has aligned himself with Trump to call for what critics describe as a deportation-led "ethnic cleansing" of Great Britain, the Atlantic recently reported. "He understands exactly what the modern American right wants to hear," wrote the Atlantic's Helen Lewis, "that the second Britain exists, and only Donald Trump is preventing the United States from heading in the same direction."Such rhetoric has caused frustration and fears abroad as critics warn his party has become "the new home for neo-Nazis," as it was recently described by the Daily Mail. Yet Lowe on Saturday reached for the moral high ground as he chastised Trump for suggesting it would be "cool" to force unification on the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to inflict pain on Great Britain's left-leaning governing party."I like Trump, I've backed Trump," Lowe wrote. "But he should not be aiming to permanently damage our country to get back at the current malign Labour Government."Then Lowe issued Trump a warning. "Do not irreversibly damage our relationship because of this Labour Government," he wrote. "It's not on."

Enormous and crude balloons cast a dark shadow over President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland on Saturday.Trump landed in Ireland on Saturday to visit the International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg and meet with Irish leaders. According to reports, his arrival was met with demonstrations and outcry at both Doonbeg and central Dublin.Posts on X showed throngs of protesters holding up balloons depicting Trump engaging in sexual intercourse with Jeffrey Epstein and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.According to a Saturday article by The Independent, journalist and author Justine McCarthy said, "We don't want him here," as she went to protests in Doonbeg."The reasons I'm protesting are first of all as a woman, because he's a sex offender," McCarthy said. "Secondly, because of Palestine, America's collusion in the onslaught on Gaza...and because of America's unprovoked war on Iran...Also the third reason is climate change because he called climate change a hoax and he is damaging our planet."The Independent noted Trump was found liable for sexual abuse by a jury in 2023, but he's not registered as a sex offender. McCarthy added, "The rest of the world will know that we don't want him here," through the protests.Ailbhe Smyth, an Irish academic and feminist, told The Independent that she felt an "ethical and moral responsibility" to "stand up and say, 'No, we do not support you.'" Protesters would want "for the historical moment to be one of the people who stood up to this terrible man," Smyth added."One of the interesting things is that it does bring really political parties from the center right over to right across the left together," Smyth told The Independent. "They don't necessarily get out and all march together, but there is a general consensus...here in Ireland that is solidly 100% anti-Trump."According to reporting by The New York Times, a "No Kings" mural appeared in Dublin on Thursday. Siobhán O’Donoghue, the executive director of Uplift, the campaign group behind the display, told The Times it had to let the world know it opposes Trump.“We just can’t capitulate to that narrative that people in Ireland somehow or another are backing Trump,” she said. “All it takes is for good people to stay silent for an incorrect view to be drawn.”Another Ireland resident scrawled an enormous "F--- Trump" on her land under his flight path.

President Donald Trump's off-the-cuff comment about a "very cool thing" has created an international uproar embroiling multiple frustrated nations, reports show. Trump in Dublin on Saturday morning repeatedly told reporters and officials that he supported a unified Ireland. "I think it would be cool," said Trump. "I actually said it would, I think, be a very cool thing."Trump of course was referencing the centuries-long conflict between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland over the latter's fight for independence from the United Kingdom. To simplify an extremely complex political conflict marred by famine, sectarian violence and civil war — the predominately Protestant Northern Ireland prefers to remain within the United Kingdom while the historically Catholic Republic cherishes its freedom. This perhaps is why the BBC reports Trump immediately created a "headache" for the Irish government and Taoiseach Micheál Martin.Former Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley, a close friend of the Trump family, reportedly argued Trump was suggesting the Republic return to the United Kingdom and "the crown." Asked for comment, 10 Downing Street did not align itself with Trump and referred the BBC to Prime Minister Andy Burnham's promise that he would stick "100 percent" to The Good Friday Agreement, which in 1998 ended 30 years of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.Democratic Unionist Party leader Gavin Robinson, whose party strongly supports Northern Ireland remaining in the United Kingdom, snapped back at Trump on X."Northern Ireland’s constitutional future will be decided by the people of Northern Ireland, not by commentary in London, Dublin or Washington," he wrote. "As unionists we are not interested in the destruction of our country by joining with the Irish Republic."Robbie Butler, the Northern Ireland unionist who serves as minister of health, also lambasted Trump for his comment on X."For years we have been told this President is beyond the pale: his character, his conduct, his position on Gaza," Butler wrote. "One sentence about a united Ireland and he is apparently a statesman of rare vision. It seems his judgement is sound only on the one subject where it happens to suit.""The President was at least candid enough to accept that the United Kingdom would have something to say about it," Butler added. "So would the people of Northern Ireland, who under the Belfast Agreement are the only people whose consent counts."

President Donald Trump made a surprising admission about his golf game in Ireland on Saturday morning. The president was delivering remarks to the U.S. Embassy Personnel and Business Leaders in Dublin when his lengthy speech touched on one of his favorite subjects, by way of a joke about the Secret Service."They don't give a damn about you," Trump told the laughing crowd. "You're all collateral damage." This led Trump to an anecdote about a golf game with "the head of the biggest company in the world" who discovered even he would not take priority should a threat to the president's safety present itself. Trump then posed a question he suggested an unidentified "they" had asked. "They said, does Trump cheat?" Trump decided to answer this question on Saturday — and gave a surprising answer. "I can't cheat, you have 250 Secret Service agents running down," Trump said. "It's not that I wouldn't cheat. But you can't move the ball. I don't know if they play or not, but they know you're not supposed to be moving the ball around."Trump's admission that he would cheat — and knows how to — aligns with the reporting of sportswriter Rick Reilly in his 2019 book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.""Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf,” Reilly wrote. “He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: ‘Pele.’"

Vice President JD Vance quietly went around the Pentagon to call military commanders directly for blunt assessments of the Iran War.The New York Times reported Thursday that Vance wanted the commanders' individual judgments as they saw them before those views were merged into an official Pentagon position. The Times described Vance as opposed to the war from the outset, and he was tasked by President Donald Trump with helping to end it.The vice president reached commanders in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, pressing them on the war's objectives, casualty estimates, how much punishment Tehran's government could absorb, and what was left in their weapons stockpiles, according to the report. The answers were sobering as officers were most alarmed by their shrinking supply of Patriot interceptors, which are the mainstay of U.S. air defenses. One theater of the conflict dropped below 100 of them by late spring, The Times reported.Those private assessments clashed sharply with what the administration has said in public. Trump has continued to falsely claim the United States has already won, that Iran's military has been demolished, and that there are no problems with American weapons supplies, The Times noted. Vance himself recently played down the notion that the country was even at war.Behind closed doors, the president has raged at coverage of the depleted stockpiles and branded the reporting treasonous, according to The Times. Investigators later subjected dozens of senior Pentagon officers to polygraph tests.The administration pushed back on the reporting. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the defense secretary had "facilitated direct access to combatant commanders" for the vice president and other senior White House officials.Joseph Holstead, a spokesman for General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted "there is no gap in the military advice" provided to the president, vice president, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Canadian PM Mark Carney hosts president in Calgary, where he grew up alongside large Ukrainian communityCanada offered support on Thursday to boost Ukraine’s air defenses and help replenish its drone stocks, as the countries pledged to deepen their alliance during a visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Mark Carney hosted the president of Ukraine in Calgary in the western province of Alberta, where the Canadian prime minister grew up among a large community of people with Ukrainian heritage. Continue reading...

U.S. Navy Acting Secretary Hung Cao was said to have made a “stunning admission” regarding the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran in an interview that was previewed Thursday.Journalist Ryan Morgan of the conservative outlet The Epoch Times revealed Thursday that he had interviewed Cao, and previewed some of Cao’s remarks in a social media post on X.“In an exclusive interview, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told me that Iranian forces ‘blew the hell out of Bahrain,’” Morgan wrote.“While open-source analyses have long indicated that the U.S. Fifth Fleet Headquarters at Naval Support Activity Bahrain sustained extensive damage in the early days of the Iran conflict, Cao's comment represents a direct and high-level acknowledgment of the matter.”Past reporting has confirmed that the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain — a relatively small island country near Qatar and Saudi Arabia that sits in the Persian Gulf — was “repeatedly targeted” with Iranian strikes in the early days of the conflict. U.S. military officials, however, have claimed that no Americans were killed and that the damage did not “significantly impact operations,” according to The Wall Street Journal.Cao’s admission, however, appears to suggest the strikes may have been more damaging than the U.S. military had previously admitted, Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin suggested.“This is a pretty stunning admission by the Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, whose nomination is hung up in Congress, about how Iranian forces ‘blew the hell out of (US Navy’s 5th Fleet base in) Bahrain,’” Griffin wrote in a social media post on X. “Haven’t heard a senior US official admit this on the record until now.”As previously noted by the Journal, the damage to the U.S. base in Bahrain was so significant that some “structures that were attacked may not be rebuilt.”“Pentagon officials have frustrated lawmakers by declining to discuss the cost of the U.S. damage with Congress,” the Journal previously reported. “In response to a request for comment, the Pentagon pointed to remarks made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill. Pressed for an estimate at a May congressional hearing, Hegseth replied: ‘What is the cost of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon?’”This is a pretty stunning admission by the Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, whose nomination is hung up in Congress, about how Iranian forces “blew the hell out of (US Navy’s 5th Fleet base in) Bahrain.” Haven’t heard a senior US official admit this on the record until now. See… https://t.co/NMaxkhVOrh— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) September 10, 2026

President Donald Trump's deeply unpopular war against Iran took a drastic turn Thursday, one that could send energy prices skyrocketing and sparked immediate alarm from analysts and critics alike.According to multiple news outlets, Yemen’s Houthis captured the Yemeni town of Mocha near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Wednesday, and are inching closer toward controlling the entirety of Yemen’s west coast along the Red Sea, a critical shipping waterway. With traffic through the Strait of Hormuz reaching its lowest levels since May earlier this week, analysts fear record-high U.S. energy prices could soon climb even further.“This is very bad for Trump's war with Iran because the Iran-backed Houthi rebels can now more easily threaten ships in the Red Sea and potentially choke off more Saudi oil exports,” noted Tommy Vietor, a prominent podcast host and former Obama administration official. “It could also restart the catastrophic Saudi-Houthi war. Bad bad bad.”Joe Kent, a former senior intelligence official in the Trump administration who resigned over the U.S. war against Iran in March, called the development “very significant,” and further warned that the Trump administration’s “policies and interventions abroad” would ultimately “get more people killed” as Trump’s “senseless war” sparks mass “radicalization” the world over.The Bulwark’s Catherine Rampell sarcastically quipped that the new development would be “great for gas prices,” and Faraz Chaudhry, a Pakistani opinion writer, warned that the development would see crude oil prices — which sit at around $101 a barrel as of Thursday — “go up to $150.”Polish terrorism researcher Paweł Wójcik called the Houthis’ latest move an outright “disaster,” and Hasan Piker, the prominent progressive streamer and political activist, hammered Trump for what he characterized as the president’s handling of the conflict.“[The Houthis are] moving to establish primacy over the bab al mandeb strait as the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] expands its targets to us naval assets in the strait of hormuz. they’re lobbing more [medium-range ballistic missiles] at jordan every time a tanker is struck,” Piker wrote in a social media post on X to his more than 1.7 million followers.“Meanwhile trump is so desperate he’s lying [about] bribing americans w 5k stimmies. we have to learn the right lesson from this bloody nose. we must end american militarism, treat other nations w respect and engage in diplomacy.”The Houthis’ rapid advance is just the beginning of the blowback effects we are now going to face as a result of our counterproductive policies in the Middle East & because of this senseless war in Iran.The Houthi’s ability to capture key terrain and strategic ports along the… https://t.co/icr4JiUCBZ— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) September 10, 2026