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Trump blasts Zelensky and demands Ukraine 'get a leader who can make a deal'

October 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM

Mikey Smith

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Trump blasts Zelensky and demands Ukraine 'gets leader who can make a deal'
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Trump was accused of betraying Ukraine after cutting a deal with Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel to America, in a bid to drive down prices ahead of next mon...

Trump’s election bribes go WAY BEYOND the $5,000 cheque as midterms begin to look MESSY

October 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Trump has turned to full-on bribery to avoid a midterms nightmare for Republicans - and not just with the $5,000 cheques.

And that's not even the most troubling thing happening in next month's election...

All this and more in this week's TRUMP UPDATE

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Trump's wild week as he cuts 'treason' diesel deal to fund Putin's war machine

October 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Trump's wild week as he cuts 'treasonous' diesel deal to fund Putin's war machine
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Donald Trump has taken a series of actions this week that, even by his standards, go beyond erratic and bizarre and cross the border into corrupt, obscene and dangerous - both to America and the world

'There's one way to block Trump's public execution plan - but chances are slim'

October 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

'There's one way to block Donald Trump's grim livestreamed execution plan - but chances are slim'
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's Secretary of War, gleefully announced the first public execution in America for 90 years has been scheduled for December 3 - but is there any hope of avoiding this grim spectacle...

'Trump did say 'Iran could bomb LA' - and it matters even if he didn't mean it'

October 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Yes Trump did say 'Iran bombing LA is small price to pay'

...and it matters even if he didn't mean it.

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No other politician in the world gets taken "seriously but not literally". It's unreasonable to expect Americans to all possess a Donald Trump decoder ring

BBC has provided over 100,000 pages for Trump case… and President’s team sent one set of files

October 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

In this week's bumper weekend longread, we cover

• How far Trump is willing to go to undermine the midterms
• His bizarre golf lies
• His having to campaign in places he shouldn't
• ...and we explain the whole Jack Smith basketball thing for the British reader.

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October 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Trump's legal team are seriously dragging their heels in the Panorama lawsuit and the BBC are not happy... this and more in this week's roundup!

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Donald Trump's wild week as he embraces his autocratic madman era

October 2, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Donald Trump's wild week as he embraces his autocratic madman era
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Trump appears to have acknowledged the impending doom facing Republicans in the Midterms and begun to distance himself from them - meanwhile testing autocracy on for size

Trump BACKTRACKS on CNN ban… after it hilariously backfired on HIM!

September 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

In this week's roundup:

• Trump's media ban backfires hilariously...then gets less funny
• Burnham channels Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner in his Trump meeting
• Trump does his best authoritarian impression for Xi

And more...

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'Donald Trump's lavish Xi Jinping banquet looked like the tenth circle of hell'

September 26, 2026 at 1:38 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

'Donald Trump's lavish Xi Jinping banquet looked like the tenth circle of hell'
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Not only did China's premier have to put up with Trump's 'dictator-maxxing' copycat act, he sat him on a table with Elon Musk

Brooding Trump brags about war crimes and seeks to rebrand AI as a superweapon

September 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Brooding Donald Trump brags about war crimes and seeks to rebrand AI as an American superweapon
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OPINION: Trump's annual address to the UN General Assembly quickly turned from American greatness to American might and power - and his willingness to use it to get what he wants

Trump threatens to permanently CLOSE Kennedy Center… just like a DICTATOR!

September 22, 2026 at 4:42 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

This week: RFK Jr goes into the midterms with "needy divorced dad" energy

Full roundup: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4I...

Donald Trump announces 'ban on the free press' in furious White House meltdown

September 19, 2026 at 10:28 AM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Donald Trump announces 'ban on the free press' in furious White House meltdown
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In a furious meltdown, the President said CNN, Politico and MS Now, the TV channel formerly known as MSNBC, because they don't report the news in a way that he likes

RFK Jr tells anti-vaccine group they have a 'friend at the White House'

September 18, 2026 at 9:28 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Robert F Kennedy Jr tells anti-vaccine group they have a 'friend at the White House'
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Donald Trump's health secretary, was speaking at a convention of Children's Health Defense, which he led for nearly a decade - and was introduced by disgraced British ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield

Trump fires twin torpedoes into UK's special relationship with latest remarks

September 18, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

So we were having a laugh and a joke in the newsroom this morning, about how Trump's Ireland trip was either going to be entirely news free, or that he was going to call for Irish unification.

I should never have doubted him.

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PM Andy Burnham has ruled out a referendum on Irish unification - but Trump said reuniting Ireland would be a "great thing...how can it be bad?"

'Donald Trump faces humiliation in a state that's been Republican for 30 years'

September 12, 2026 at 10:37 AM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Donald Trump's wild week as he appears to snooze through 9/11 event and tries to buy an election
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September 12, 2026 at 9:10 AM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

'Donald Trump faces humiliation in a state that's been Republican for 30 years'
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"Texas?" I hear you say. "The Lone Star State? The home of JR, oil barons and steaks you could take a nap on? Surely there's no way such a deeply red state could be at risk of turning blue." That's wh...

Trump's wild week as BBC lawsuit descends further into farce

September 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

You don't really get the full picture of the walking stick incident until you watch both angles at the same time... (Left via
@climate_resist
, right via Franceinfo on TikTok)

First full speed, then slo-mo and annotated.

September 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion. And I just happened to be in a room with Matt Brittin, the Director General, so I asked him about the decision to vigorously defend the case.

August 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Donald Trump's wild week as BBC lawsuit descends into farce and he faces ridicule over 'close aid'
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As well as trying to avoid talking about Natalie Harp, Trump has been threatening to bomb the bond markets, blaming Canada, begging the Supremes not to keep him hangin' on and cosying up to Little Roc...

Trump left Melania at home for second UK golf break accompanied by Natalie Harp

August 22, 2026 at 6:48 PM

Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Video shows Trump with Natalie Harp on a second trip to his Scottish golf course - while Melania stayed home

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EXCLUSIVE: The Mirror can today reveal Harp accompanied Trump to Turnberry last July for a second visit - where she followed him on the golf course and sat in on at least one meeting with a world lead...