“F**k You Ted!” – Trump Reportedly EXPLODES on Ted Cruz as Texas Senator Trashes Him and VP JD Vance in Alleged Private Recordings

It’s safe to say should Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) run for president in 2028 he will not exactly be welcomed with open arms by the Trump Administration.

According to recordings obtained by Axios, which were leaked to the outlet by a GOP source, Cruz spoke with donors for roughly 10 minutes and delivered some pointed criticisms of both President Trump and Vice-President JD Vance. the recordings were originally made in the first six months of 2025.

Axios reveals that Cruz essentially called Vance a pawn of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in the recording. Cruz, of course, has a long-running feud with Carlson, who he has ripped as an anti-Semite and un-American.

“Tucker created JD. JD is Tucker’s protégé, and they are one and the same,” Cruz told donors.

As for Trump, Cruz slammed the tariffs the president has imposed across the world. The Texas Senator told donors that the imposition of these tariffs would lead to Republicans losing control of Congress and Trump’s impeachment.

When he attempted to call out Trump over the phone, the President grew furious and cursed him out.

From Axios:

“Trump was in a bad mood,” Cruz tells the donors. “I’ve been in conversations where he was very happy. This was not one of them.”

Cruz says he told Trump: “Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath.”

“You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”

Trump’s response, according to Cruz: “F**k you, Ted!”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Cruz is poised to run for president in 2028. Such a decision would almost certainly put him in direct competition with Vice-President Vance.

According to Axios, the reason is personal. The outlet has alleged that Cruz would run on a neoconservative foreign policy and anti-Tucker Carlson platform, in contrast to Vance’s more noninterventionist approach.

Should Cruz actually embark on a presidential run, it will end no better than his last one.

Running anti-MAGA, Never-Trump type campaigns simply do not work in GOP primaries.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/fk-you-ted-trump-reportedly-explodes-ted-cruz/

Booz Allen Shares Hammered After Treasury Cancels Consulting Contracts

Shares of Booz Allen Hamilton tumbled the most in months during late Monday morning trading after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent canceled dozens of contracts tied to the consulting firm.

Secretary Bessent said 31 contracts with Booz Allen were terminated, representing $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations.

"President Trump has entrusted his cabinet to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and canceling these contracts is an essential step to increasing Americans' trust in government," he said, adding, "Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, including the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service."

Treasury pointed to an incident with Booz Allen in recent years:

Most notably, between 2018 and 2020, Charles Edward Littlejohn — an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton — stole and leaked the confidential tax returns and return information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.

Last spring, Booz Allen said it was undergoing a major restructuring and planned to cut roughly 2,500 jobs, about 7% of its workforce, as President Trump's DOGE efforts reduced government spending by discontinuing federal contracts.

Later in the year, CEO Horacio Rozanski told investors the company was "making the difficult decision to reduce layers and numbers in our senior ranks" due to federal contract reductions and a broader slowdown in government funding.

Shares of Booz Allen are down 7.5% in the cash session this morning, marking the worst single-day decline since October 24, when the stock fell about 9%. Shares have been cut roughly in half since President Trump's November 2024 election victory, as Elon Musk's DOGE initiative began aggressively targeting waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal bureaucracy in early 2025.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/booz-allen-shares-hammered-after-treasury-cancels-consulting-contracts

Elon's X Overhaul: Muting Political Posts And Banishing 'Rage Bait'

While Elon Musk is rightly credited for transforming X into a battleground for unfiltered truth, he dropped two bombshells this week that could significantly reshape the platform.

In a move that promises cleaner feeds but sparks fears of shadowy content policing, Musk revealed plans for topic-specific “For You” tabs free from “political rage bait” and an outright mute tool for all political posts. Critics are already sounding alarms over potential censorship creep.

Musk’s move comes as a direct response to some user gripes about X turning into a rage-fueled echo chamber. With immigration debates, election fallout, and globalist agendas dominating timelines, Musk’s tweaks aim to let users opt out of the frenzy. But in an era where Big Tech has a history of silencing conservative voices, the big question looms: who defines “rage bait,” and does this undermine the free speech haven Musk vowed to build?

The @xAI team is working on providing For You tabs that are specific to topics.

For example, a “For You AI” that is focused only on artificial intelligence with no political rage bait.

This would be like automatically generated follow lists with content ranked by quality.

Musk first teased the changes in a post on Saturday, explaining that his xAI team is crafting specialized “For You” tabs. “The @xAI team is working on providing For You tabs that are specific to topics,” he wrote. As an example, he pointed to a “For You AI” tab “focused only on artificial intelligence with no political rage bait.” He likened it to “automatically generated follow lists with content ranked by quality.”

Then, on Sunday, Musk doubled down in response to a frustrated user complaining about the app’s political overload. The user lamented, “bro how do i mute all political posts on this app holy hell it has turned into reddit.”

Musk’s reply was straightforward: “I agree. Working on it.” This suggests a broader tool to blanket-mute political content across the platform, not just in curated tabs.

“You literally post political rage bait all day and night,” quipped another responder. If the boss sets the tone, how fair will the filtering be?

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/elons-x-overhaul-muting-political-posts-and-banishing-rage-bait

Carney Cracks: Canada Has 'No Intention' Of Pursuing Free Trade Deal With China After Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has "no intention" of pursuing a free trade deal with China, after Donald Trump threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian exports if Ottawa "makes a deal" with Beijing.

To review: right before Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney returned from a trip to Beijing and announced a new 5-point 'strategic partnership' to 'diversify our trade partnerships.' The agreements included slashing tariffs on Chinese EV imports from 100 percent to 6.1 percent for the first 49,000 units, in exchange for China cutting tariffs on Canadian canola from 85 percent to 15 percent until at least the end of the year. Other exports, including Canadian canola meal, lobsters, crabs, and peas will also not be subject to Chinese anti-discrimination tariffs until at least the end of 2026.

A week later, Carney told the global elite at Davos resort that the "rules-based order" established by the United States and its allies following WW2 was fraying amid the current rivalry between China and America, so the "middle powers must act together because if we're not on the table, we're on the menu."

Carney said that for their survival, nations should no longer “go along to get along” with Trump.

This flew up Donald Trump's ass sideways, who issued a response on Truth Social Saturday:

“If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on the morning of Jan. 24.

“If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Trump’s reference to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as “Governor” marks a return to the relations the U.S. president had with Carney’s predecessor, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, using the title to reflect his view that Canada should be part of the United States.

Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the WEF, Trump said that "Canada gets a lot of freebies from us. By the way, they should be grateful also, but they’re not,” adding, "Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/canada-has-no-intention-pursuing-free-trade-deal-china-after-trump-threatens-100

Minnesota Business Owner Claims ICE Will Start 'Putting People In Ovens'

https://rumble.com/embed/v72l32y/?pub=4

Israel is where Musk’s free speech meets its limit

Recent revelations by Grok suggest anti-Zionist content is being massively suppressed

X – formerly Twitter – and bullshit go back a long way.

Elon Musk, the owner of X – who also happens to be the world’s richest oligarch, a major war contractor, a WEF-co-opted globalist wannabe “anti”-globalist, and a self-declared “free speech absolutist” – has claimed that his platform “strives to be the town square of the internet by promoting and protecting freedom of expression.”

But that, alas, is entirely untrue. In reality, Musk is a man of strong opinions: Not merely an uber-capitalist, he is also a very right-wing libertarian full of odd anxieties strong enough to produce plenty of posts about Whites and their “civilization” disappearing and, when in a really good mood, a greeting that looks like a perfect imitation of a fascist salute. That would all be bad enough. But Musk has also taken to promoting people he personally likes politically and culturally, for instance those glorifying, lobbying and making excuses for Israel.

If this is a “town square,” then it’s one where you need a mic to be heard, and that mic is under the control of a biased and overbearing mayor and his buddies. Or, as Musk’s own team has put it, X users have “freedom of speech but not of reach.”

On the other hand, the platform also systematically suppressed whatever – and whoever – the owner does not like. Much – but by no means all – of this de facto censorship is imposed by what X itself has euphemistically described as “a more reasonable, proportionate and effective moderation process,” that is, often by massive demotion (deboosting) rather than direct banning. If you say things that Musk, his ideological chums, his business partners and his financiers do not like, X is less likely to just kick you out – although that option is always there, too – than to quietly put you in a tight, soundproof box. You may think you are speaking to others, but X makes sure your voice reaches almost no one. Let freedom ring! But in silent mode, please.

There is no topic on X where all of the above is more in evidence than Israel. Or to be more precise: Palestine and the endless series of crimes Israelis and their accomplices are committing against Palestinians, from violent, often murderous dispossession to apartheid to de facto mass kidnapping to mass torture (including rape) to ethnic cleansing by genocide.

Recently, Grok – X’s own in-house AI – has revealed that critics of Israeli crimes are being suppressed massively. Their reach is throttled by 80 to almost 100 percent of what it would be otherwise. Prompted with a specific phrase, which X users have shared widely, Grok has been delivering detailed insights into how the X algorithm censors those who mention, and protest against, Israel’s current Gaza genocide, its all-purpose brutality and rogue-state wars of aggression against Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, its habit of assassinations, including of other countries’ scientific and political elites (as in Iran and Yemen) or the perverse influence it exerts on US and, in general, Western politics. According to at least one usually well-informed observer, this is a mass campaign, with Elon Musk “censoring hundreds of millions of people for a foreign [that is, Israeli] government.” In return, Musk’s own customers are calling him “a huge threat to freedom of speech” and “a traitor.”

More

https://www.rt.com/news/631524-grok-x-israel-censorship/

China military on high alert amid widening internal purge

China’s top general ousted, placed under investigation in latest military purge

Gen. Zhang Youxia allegedly committed severe violations of party discipline and state laws

China’s top general has been removed and placed under investigation for misconduct in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s latest purge of leading military commanders.

Gen. Zhang Youxia is being investigated for allegedly committing severe violations of party discipline and state laws, China’s Defense Ministry announced Sunday. The general served as vice-chairman on China’s Central Military Commission and was second only to Xi in military authority.

Another member of the commission, Liu Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation by China’s ruling Communist Party. Liu is the chief of staff of the commission’s Joint Staff Department.

Their removal is the latest military purge since October, when the Communist Party ousted one of the commission’s previous vice chairs, He Weidong. He was replaced by Zhang Shengmin, a Xi loyalist who survived the latest round of removals.

Xi Jinping just arrested his childhood best friend for selling nuclear secrets to America.

Zhang Youxia. Second most powerful man in China’s military. Their fathers fought together in Mao’s revolution.

Untouchable. Until Saturday.

The numbers:

6 generals appointed to the Central Military Commission in 2022.

All 6 gone.

29 of 44 uniformed officers purged.

“Total annihilation of the high command.”

— Christopher Johnson, former CIA analyst

The man who was supposed to lead China’s invasion of Taiwan is accused of nuclear treason.

Every general who planned the Taiwan operation is gone.

Xi just told every Chinese officer that childhood friendship and 60 years of service mean nothing.

This isn’t the military that invades Taiwan in 2027.

This is a system eating itself.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinas-top-general-ousted-placed-under-investigation-latest-military-purge

https://citizenwatchreport.com/china-military-on-high-alert-amid-widening-internal-purge/

Don’t Believe Media Lies – Americans Want Immigration Enforcement

Amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration – delivering on one of voters’ top concerns in 2024 – elected Democrats and the corporate “news” media have attempted to portray the administration’s enforcement efforts as chaotic, brutal, and unpopular. But the sensationalist headlines intentionally misrepresent that immigration enforcement remains popular among the American people, even as a dishonest press invents one hoax after another to smear and defame Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

A year ago, an AP/NORC poll found the following:

The vast majority of adults favor deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally who have been convicted of a violent crime, including 65% who strongly favor the policy and 18% who somewhat favor it. There is also broad support among people across the political spectrum with majorities of Democrats (79%) and Republicans (89%) in support.

https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/dont-believe-media-lies-americans-want-immigration-enforcement/

Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman backs fundraiser after Minneapolis shooting

Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman gave $10,000 to a GoFundMe supporting the family of a man killed by immigration agents (ICE) in Minneapolis.

Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman donated $10,000 to a fundraiser for the family of Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a spokesman for Ackman.

The GoFundMe page that was intended to support Pretti's "loved ones" raised over $1 million as of Monday morning and listed Ackman's donation.

Pretti is the second American to be fatally shot by federal immigration officers this month in Minneapolis, where US President Donald Trump, a Republican, has deployed thousands of armed and masked agents in a deportation effort with little precedent.

Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Sunday that his administration was "reviewing everything and will come out with a determination" about the shooting, as officials in his administration defended it even as video evidence contradicted their version of events.

Ackman previously donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Good, the first Minneapolis shooting victim this month.

The billionaire, however, wrote at the time that he also aimed to support Good's family, "but it was already closed as it had achieved its $1.5 million fundraising objective."

"I was simply continuing my longstanding commitment to assisting those accused of crimes of providing for their defense," Ackman wrote earlier in January.

This is not the first time Ackman has used his influence in support of politically sensitive issues. He gained attention following the October 7 massacre, where he actively combated the rise in antisemitism on college campuses, notably at his alma mater, Harvard University.

Harvard

On October 9, 2023, just two days after the massacre, 30 student organizations at Harvard issued a statement blaming Israel for the Hamas attack, which prompted a muted response from the university’s administration. In reaction, Ackman demanded that the names of the signatories be disclosed, declaring, “I don’t want any supporters of terrorism in our company.” This campaign led some organizations to retract their statements.

Ackman also criticized Harvard's administration, particularly then-president Claudine Gay, urging them to suppress pro-Palestinian activism and rally donors to withhold financial support from the university over perceived antisemitic behavior.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-884608

Secrets of the Federal Reserve London Connection - Eustace Mullins

https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=mullins&book=secrets&readAll=true

Jennifer Welch claims Christians are not being persecuted as she says 'white evangelical Christianity is a cancer,' 'the worst people in our country'

"White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country."

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has said that "white Evangelical Christianity" is a cancer. While making the comments, she named people such as Erika Kirk and cited the Christian's tendency to vote for Trump as a reason to oppose them and claimed Christians are not getting persecuted.

"So when you think about the Erika Kirk, the Life Church, the Joel Olsteen of it all, and their desire to accumulate wealth while hood-winking their flock into thinking they're super moral, this is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country," Welch said.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2015847559676285000