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Tuesday Afternoon News Updates - 11/25/25
As Russia escalates its assault and Trump pushes fake “peace deals,” the American people face rising hardship at home.
By Ben Meiselas
Russia launched one of its most brutal overnight attacks on Kyiv this week, unleashing 22 missiles, 460 drones, and the kind of devastation that makes your stomach drop. A supermarket reduced to rubble. An apartment complex smashed apart. At least nine innocent people killed.
And as Ukraine burns, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has said nothing. No statement, no leadership, no reassurance to our allies or to the American people. His last public communication as I recorded this video was an image of himself dancing to “Y.M.C.A.”
Shortly after the attacks, the White House quietly released Trump’s schedule: he would be flying to Florida once again at taxpayer expense. No briefing on Ukraine. No emergency meeting with NATO. Instead, the regime pushed out leaked stories to ABC and CBS claiming, falsely, that Ukraine had agreed to a “peace deal.”
This has become a pattern. Trump’s officials launder Russian-authored terms, repackage them as American proposals, and then leak them to friendly media outlets as breakthroughs. It’s propaganda. And it works only if the press repeats it. But if you read past the headlines, as I did, the truth becomes obvious.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that more work needed to be done on the plan. Russia’s own foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, admitted Moscow had not received any final counterproposals and emphasized that Russia “operates professionally, not leaking information before formal agreements are reached.” He even suggested Russia was waiting for the United States to brief them on “results of consultation with Ukraine and Europe.”
In other words, Russia itself is acknowledging that Trump’s supposed peace breakthrough does not exist.
Yet U.S. officials continue telling reporters that just “minor issues” remain. Minor issues? The actual sticking points include whether Ukraine would be forced to surrender vast swaths of its territory, abandon its aspirations to join NATO or the European Union, and effectively dismantle its own military. Those are not minor issues. Those are existential ones.
The United States should be standing firm with our European allies in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty. Instead, the Trump regime is legitimizing Russian disinformation and then demanding that the media treat these manufactured deals as real because “a U.S. adviser said so.” This cycle of laundering propaganda through credulous headlines has to end. As I said on our broadcast: Trump lies about everything. Stop printing the lies. And as I wrote on social media earlier: “I have a wonderful idea. Instead of reporting every time a “US official” says there is a deal when the other side won’t agree to it, we just wait until both sides agree to a deal and then report an actual signed deal versus constantly reporting Trump’s fake deal announcements.”
This same deference to authoritarianism was on display in Trump’s recent call with Xi Jinping. Chinese state media hailed the conversation as a “major win,” reporting that Xi asserted China’s control over Taiwan, and that Trump offered no pushback. Remember when Republicans tried to brand themselves as “China hawks”? Today, they stand silently as Trump seemingly prepares to give away Taiwan’s future to Beijing without resistance.
Meanwhile, Trump’s allies are openly boasting on Fox Business that seizing Venezuela’s oil would be a “field day” for American corporations. While Trump has shifted the U.S. military into a war posture off Venezuela’s coast, remarks like these lay bare their true motivations. This isn’t about democracy or freedom. It’s about the oil.
Americans face the worst affordability crisis in a generation. Consumer confidence is at historic lows. Prices are up nearly 10% year-over-year as we head into Thanksgiving. Private payroll reports show tens of thousands of workers being fired each week. Reporting from across the political spectrum paint the same picture: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.” “Paying for the house, the car…—I just can’t do it anymore.” “America Squeezed by Affordability crisis.”
As all this is happening, Trump is now using taxpayer resources to pressure companies, seize control of private entities, and retreat to Mar-a-Lago while flaunting wealth accumulated through public office. The very behavior Republicans once called “communism” when it occurred abroad is now coming from the Oval Office.
Even Trump’s own officials can’t keep the farce straight. When asked whether Trump was serious about firing the Treasury Secretary if interest rates weren’t cut, the secretary insisted Trump was “joking.” Nothing about this moment in American life is funny. Not when families can’t afford groceries. Not when our allies are under assault. Not when U.S. troops are told their Christmas leave may be canceled because the president wants a foreign war over oil.
America deserves better than silence, propaganda, and performative cruelty. We deserve a government that takes the world seriously, protects our allies, strengthens our democracy, and focuses on the real suffering of the American people.
And amid all this chaos, let’s be clear: we stand with the people of Ukraine. We stand with democracies resisting authoritarian aggression. And we will continue to call out Trump’s disinformation, corruption, and abandonment of American values every single day.
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