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May 7, 2025 - World

An Australian cafe that opened in Sydney with a Donald Trump theme is closing its doors after mere weeks.According to the New York Post, "Mark Da Costa opened Bueno Eatery in St. Peter’s in March after closing down his Waterloo cafe, Hale and Hearty, in 2020 after being involved in a series of internet controversies, in which he called a community member a homophobic slur. He also declared his cafe a 'Donald Trump safe zone,' which served pancakes with a 'side of racism.'"When the restaurant first opened, Da Costa told news.com.au "about how he had grown up and had hoped to 'move on' from his Trump-laden controversies with his latest venue, situated at the end of Newtown’s renowned King Street." However, after just six weeks, Da Costa announced the closure of the cafe, posting a photo of himself "in his Trump shirt, posting a photo of himself in a MAGA shirt and giving the finger to the camera."ALSO READ: ‘Pain. Grief. Anger’: Families heartbroken as Trump backlash smashes adoption dreamsDa Costa, who previously competed on Australian Idol, blamed "snowflakes" for the failure of his restaurant, which echoes how, after the failure of Hale and Hearty, he blamed the “left-wing fake vegan community” and told his critics to "go f--- yourself."He has vowed to release a "song" about Bueno's failure, and told news.com.au that Newtown is “infested with rats and hairy men.”While this Australian pro-Trump venture failed, in the United States, some other people have tried with varying degrees of success to create Trump themed foodservice.In Punta Gorda, Florida, one local business owner named Tom Watson dressed up his establishment into the "MAGA Cafe" in 2020, which he said was to attract "positive energy." And in Texas, the Trump Burger restaurant chain has created effectively a shrine to the president out of the building.

May 6, 2025 - World

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Tuesday episode of "Deadline: White House" discussing President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with Canada and particularly with China.Speaking to The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, Wallace noted, "America just elected a felon for the first time in her history because eggs were too expensive and other stuff. And now that person who ran for office, the highest office in our country's politics, isn't just saying that things are going to be more expensive. He's saying you don't need those things. You don't need 34 of one thing. You only need two. That thing is a doll."She explained, "What most people spend — a doll is a sort of an annual purchase, a present, a gift for a young child on Earth-1, where he obviously doesn't live. But a whole bunch of other things are going to be out of reach, or a lot more expensive. And either there aren't people around Donald Trump who have told him that, or he doesn't care. But either way, is the slow-moving political asteroid that's about to hit the entire Republican Party."ALSO READ: 'We’ve made a mistake': Trump’s trade war sends GOP into frenzyThompson agreed, but recalled one specific comment that Trump made in the Oval Office on Tuesday while meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. "By not trading, we're not losing anything," Trump said. "And that statement is absolutely, 100% correct except for the fact that the U.S.'s total exports in 2024 totaled $2 trillion," said Thompson. "So, other than $2 trillion of exports and $3 trillion of imports, we're not losing anything with trading?" he questioned. "Five trillion dollars worth of economic activity that is imploded if America suddenly stops trading. And when you dig into it, who's really going to be hurt? Here's a terrible irony. You've got all this talk, especially coming from people who are MAGA and say that they're for the working class. They're for people who work in industry, people who are farmers."However, he said, soybean farmers essentially had their business with China ripped out from under them. He noted that there is billions of dollars being made by farmers on soybean exports, "if not hundreds of billions of dollars." "And for what? For what?" Thompson asked. "There was no crisis of soybeans. There was no crisis in American industry. We're doing all of this because Donald Trump fundamentally does not understand that trade is a positive-sum interaction."He predicted there is a "0% chance Americans don't feel it in the next few months."See the clip below or at the link here. - YouTube www.youtube.com

May 6, 2025 - World

CNN host Kasie Hunt began her Tuesday show citing "one flashing red economic warning sign arriving on American soil."At the top of her show, Hunt described the first shipping container vessel containing Chinese goods that floated into the Port of Los Angeles as only "half full." President Donald Trump issued a 145% tariff on many goods coming into the U.S. from China. Because those ships are so empty, Hunt said, "In just a matter of weeks, Americans are set to be faced with higher prices, shortages on store shelves, the prospect of fewer jobs."ALSO READ: ‘Pain. Grief. Anger’: Families heartbroken as Trump backlash smashes adoption dreamsThe head of the L.A. Port told CNN Tuesday, "that getting things from China to the U.S. is now costing about two and a half times more than they did just last month.""Just think about your own household budget and what it would look like if suddenly everything costs two and a half times what it costs right now," Hunt said. "So, with those very tangible impacts, is there some hope for some deal somewhere, anywhere?"Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday morning. One of the questions from a reporter was whether Carney could say anything to Trump that would get Trump to lift the tariffs on Canada. Trump said, "no."See the clip below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be

May 6, 2025 - World

UAE insists it does not provide arms to paramilitary group as Sudanese ambassador recalledSudan’s security and defence council has declared that it will break diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates over its alleged backing of the paramilitary Sudanese Rapid Support Forces.During a televised speech on Tuesday, Sudan’s defence minister, Yassin Ibrahim, said Sudan was “severing diplomatic relations with the UAE” and recalling its ambassador, claiming the Gulf nation had breached Sudan’s sovereignty through its RSF “proxy”, which has been fighting the army in a bloody civil war since April 2023. Continue reading...

May 6, 2025 - World

African country looks to position itself as a useful option for countries’ anti-migration policiesUS politics live – latest updatesTalks between Rwanda and the US to host deported migrants are the latest move by the African country to position itself as a useful option for the anti-migration policies of allied governments.Previous high-profile attempts, however, including with the UK, Israel and Denmark, failed after becoming beset by controversy. Continue reading...