Ukraine should elect new president – Trump(VIDEO)

Vladimir Zelensky has refused multiple opportunities to settle the conflict with Russia, the US president has said

Published 10 Oct, 2026 17:26 | Updated 10 Oct, 2026 18:30

Ukraine should replace Vladimir Zelensky, US President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday, accusing the Ukrainian leader of refusing peace deals with Russia and worsening global diesel shortages.

“I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,”Trump said.

“Zelensky could have settled this war many times. Many, many times. And he chooses not to,” he said.

Trump also accused Zelensky of ignoring warnings against attacking Russian refining facilities.

“We said, you can do whatever you want to Russia, don’t hit the refineries, because that’s a world problem that’s caused. And he wants to make problems for the world,” Trump said. “And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel.”

I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal.

Zelensky’s mandate as president expired in 2024, but he has retained power since, citing martial law. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed that this could undermine an eventual peace deal signed with Kiev.

Trump’s statements came a day after his phone call with Putin, during whichthe two presidents agreed on a deal aimed at easing the global fuel crisis. The US Treasury temporarily waived sanctions on Russian diesel exports immediately after the conversation.

According to Trump, Moscow agreed to the immediate release of 300,000 metric tons of diesel, followed by another 500,000 metric tons next month.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has confirmed that Moscow is ready to provide the fuel to Washington and other international buyers, and said that exports could be increased to one million tons by December.

Russia will begin lifting its diesel export restrictions ahead of schedule, he said.

https://www.rt.com/news/647031-ukraine-should-elect-new-president/

Macron laments the EU’s nosedive like he’s not one of the pilots

After another climbdown to Washington, Macron is blaming everyone but himself as France’s economy, energy security, and authority unravel

Published 4 Oct, 2026 16:50 | (pretty good analysis)1/2

By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.

So, big bad US President Donald Trump just successfully strong-armed French President Emmanuel Macron and the EU into dumping their precious ‘rainy day’ diesel from strategic reserves.

Why? Because Trump, threatening a disastrous cutoff of diesel exports to Europe altogether, wanted to keep domestic gas prices looking perky ahead of next month’s US midterms.

“We have decided to release strategic reserves of diesel and crude oil, under the coordination of the International Energy Agency – which will meet in the coming hours or days to organize this… This process will begin by prioritizing diesel,” Macron declared.

Wait, aren’t those the exact same strategic reserves that have given Brussels a collective nervous breakdown over imminent winter shortages? Oh well, what’s a leader to do when he’s just a helpless, innocent little cog in a grand G7 multilateral machine? It’s not like Macron is directly engineering this self-inflicted disaster in any sense, right?

Oh, hang on. He’s not done digging yet.

“In any case, France will make this effort regarding its own reserves, which also reflects a desire to send a clear signal to the market,” Macron added. Yeah, the signals are about as subtle as a flare gun to the face.

Visionary European leaders like Macron have long since handed the wheel to Washington because they apparently thought that it was a better look in the eyes of their Ukrainian girlfriend, Zelensky, than dealing with Russia and its cheap gas.

And now we get yet another Macronian capitulation to a more recent bogeymen that he’s been whining about on the global stage: Trump.

All this drama peaked amid a state visit to Madrid, where Macron dropped by a local university to jam out some avant-garde thoughts on Europe alongside prominent Spanish cultural figures. A local writer teed up a softball right across the center of the plate, invoking Trump and the global rise of populism in the same breath as fascism to frame them as an existential threat to democracy. Which, of course, was the ultimate cue for Macron to explain whose fault this mess actually is. And the short answer is: absolutely, unequivocally not his.

“The great blow for France was the 2008-2012 crisis. And who paid the bill? The middle classes. Even in countries that were less affected, some categories have still not fully recovered in terms of purchasing power and living standards they had before that crisis. And this has been a betrayal,” he said.

The same guy who’s been running the joint for nearly a full decade has to time-travel back 15 to 20 years to find someone responsible for the fact that French middle class is currently on economic life support. Because obviously, he couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with it despite holding the royal scepter for the past ten years.

He chalks up current reality to the 2010 European debt crisis as though he were just an innocent tourist snapping selfies outside the Elysee Palace rather than the captain of the ship.

“A key factor in European competitiveness was very cheap gas coming from Russia. That ended in 2022,” Macron pontificated. “But our great export market was China. That is over too. Europe now has a trade deficit with China. Today, every day, we lose €1 billion in trade with China.”

You’ve got to admire the poetry – if not the gall – of the passive tense there. It ended in 2022. Like a rainstorm! It just happened to end. Totally out of his hands. What can a mere mortal do? Same with selling things to China. Poof, it’s over now! Who knows why? A total mystery. Bleeding a billion euros a day while standing there and shrugging…

https://www.rt.com/news/646709-macron-eu-nosedive-pilot/

>>25127484

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Never mind his other brilliant policy hits, like trying to flatline French nuclear power before panicking and awkwardly resurrecting it as the next greatest thing in green renewables, or selling off French industrial crown jewels to Americans only to proudly buy them back later at a massive taxpayer loss. Or riffing to the press on his private jetabout how Europe shouldn’t be an American vassal– right before making French citizens and industry pay through the nose for the privilege of heating or cooling their homes as a result of doing precisely that.

It’s the exact same laissez-faire energy that he’s currently bringing to France’s annual far-left protest-and-smashfest season. This fall, the usual professional malcontents have managed to rope some high schoolers into doing their dirty work, meaning that we get to endure teenagers setting fire to their own academic institutions because they believe that their school days are too grueling – in a country where they enjoy a mandatory two-week vacation every six weeks of the academic calendar.

And the government’s cutting-edge counterinsurgency strategy to clear the streets is… online classes. Because the cure for revolutionary zeal is apparently to invite the sons and daughters of Che to hang out near the family fridge and the TV remote while mom and dad are out breaking their backs at work. Perhaps they figure that it’s more inviting than hanging out in the streets and chewing the scenery.

Every single year, the same script plays out, and the authorities just hunker down and wait it out. That appears to be Macron’s playbook for everything, even as he enjoys his 18% approval rating. Just wait for the fire to burn out, and then casually chalk it up to something entirely out of your control. He can’t even bother to unroll the hose at this point.

Looks like maybe the French will just have to wait out Macron himself, and for his term to end, before having a shot at anyone actually doing something useful to reverse course on any of this.

https://www.rt.com/news/646709-macron-eu-nosedive-pilot/

Most world leaders are Clowns… and run their countries into the ground with their egos and idiocy!

WATCH: Trump GOES OFF on Zelensky After Ukrainian Attack on Russian Diesel Hub – “He Better Damn Well Stop… Time for Ukraine to Get a New President!”

by Jordan Conradson Oct. 10, 2026 12:40 pm

President Trump erupted with rage after Ukraine attacked a Russian oil hub, right after Trump’s deal with Putin to supply diesel to the United States, calling on Ukraine to “get a new President.” (Zelensky went too far and is speaking for the EU, so PDJT is not going to hold back.)

Overnight, Ukraine launched an attack on the Russian oil export terminal and set it ablaze, just hours after Trump announced a diesel agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Gateway Pundit reported.Millions of tons of newly un-sanctioned Russian diesel would have flowed to the US through the export hub.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had attacked the deal on Friday, saying, “It looks like a happy birthday present for Putin. It looks absolutely terrible.”

When asked about criticism of the deal on Saturday, Trump went off on Zelensky, slamming him for refusing to settle the war and for hitting Russian oil refineries, as well as blaming him for high US diesel prices.

“Zelensky could have settled this war many times, many, many times, and he chooses not to — very difficult.It’s a war that should have never been started. If I were president, if the election weren’t rigged, I would have been president, and that war would have never started,” Trump said. (PDJT revealed the war was started when "they" Stole the election from him and put Joe in…that was the reason to do it, to take Russia down.)

“But he could have settled it many times, and he chose not to. We said you can do whatever you want to Russia; don’t hit the refineries because that’s a world problem that’s caused, and he wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel, because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.”

“We told him, do whatever you want, but don’t hit the diesel fuel because there’s a big problem, a big shortage. And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel. He can do whatever he wants, but you can’t do that because we have a world problem,and the problem is caused by the lack of refineries for diesel fuel. So what does he do? He goes and hits refineries,” Trump added.

“he better damn well stop!”

When a reporter mentioned the “suffering” in Ukraine, Trump went off again, saying, “Well, I agree with you, and you know what I suggest?”

“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals, and for some reason, he never does. And let me go a step further. If I were president, you wouldn’t have ever had that war,” Trump added.

“You’ve lost 30 percent of your country, and you’ve had over a million people killed. Between the two of them, over 2 million people killed. That’s a war that should have never started.And I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”

WATCH:

Trump GOES OFF on Zelensky: "It's Time for Ukraine to Get a New President!"

2:28

https://rumble.com/embed/v7ehtve/?pub=4

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/watch-trump-goes-zelensky-after-ukrainian-attack-russian/

Trump lifted Russian fuel ban after Zelensky rejected his demands – Axios

“Half a dozen” calls for Kiev to stop strikes on oil refineries have reportedly been rejected

Published 10 Oct, 2026 13:58 |

US President Donald Trump’s decision to approve a temporary waiver of sanctions on Russian fuel exports came after Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky ignored multiple requests to stop strikes on Russian oil refineries, Axios reported on Saturday, citing a US official with direct knowledge of the matter.

Trump has persistently blamed Ukraine, and Zelensky personally, for exacerbating the global fuel crisis, accusing authorities in Kiev of deliberately targeting Russian refining facilities and driving up prices for American consumers.Despite repeated warnings from Washington, the Ukrainian leader pledged earlier this month to ramp up the long-range strikes.

“The attacks on the refineries cause pain in Russia, but it causes pain for the US, too,” the US official told the news outlet.

US envoys SteveWitkoff and Jared Kushner reportedly warned Ukrainian negotiatorsduring eight hours of talks in Miami earlier this week that Trump planned to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin and lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports.

A Ukrainian official told Axios that Witkoff and Kushner threatened to cut off US intelligence sharing with Kiev if it continued to ignore Trump’s requests to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries,but the US official denied that any such threat had been made.

The media outlet cited the official as saying that the dispute over the diesel deal emerged as the US mediators conducted constructive talks on ending the conflict with Ukrainian and European diplomats. The negotiations reportedly focused on finalizing security guarantees for Ukraine from the US, Europe, and NATO, as well as new territorial proposals.

The official added thatWitkoff and Kushner had presented postwar plans covering Ukraine’s reconstruction, military funding, and budget deficits, while participants discussed Kiev’s potential EU accession, its future relationship with NATO, and a possible postwar security framework between Europe and Russia.

Trump and Putin held a phone call on Friday, shortly after which the US Treasury Department announced a temporary waiver of sanctions on Russian fuel trade, allowing diesel to be sold, delivered, and exported, including into the US, until at least April 7, 2027.

Trump said Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the US and global markets, followed by another 500,000 tons in November and a million tons thereafter, with up to three million additional tons available “within a short period of time.”

The Kremlin said Moscow was ready to supply oil and petroleum products to global markets,adding that this would benefit the world economy. Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novakalso confirmed that Russia would lift diesel export restrictions ahead of schedule, with the process to begin “immediately.”

Russia had previously extended restrictions on diesel, ship fuel, and gas oil exports until October 31 to stabilize the domestic market amid seasonal demand from the harvest. Fuel producers are barred from exporting until October 31, while fuel resellers face a ban until January 31, 2027. Gasoline exports are also prohibited until the end of January.

https://www.rt.com/russia/647023-zelensky-rejected-trump-demands-russia/

Washington suspends sanctions on Russian fuel trade, including import to US

The waiver is scheduled to stay in force until at least April 7, 2027

Published 9 Oct, 2026 20:29 |

The US Treasury Department has announced a temporary sanctions waiver on the Russian fuel trade amid skyrocketing global prices. The move allows the sale, delivery, offloading, and import of Russian diesel, including to the United States, until at least April 7, 2027.

The announcement came after President Donald Trump announced a major agreement with Moscow, following a Friday phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter,” Trump stated in a Truth Social Post, adding that Moscow could provide up to 3,000,000 tons of additional diesel “within a short period of time” depending on the state of its refineries, which have recently been under constant threat of long-range Ukrainian strikes.

Russia is ready to supply oil and petroleum products to the US and global markets, the Kremlin said in a statement following the phone calls between the two presidents. Moscow is “sure that it would have a positive effect on the entire global economy,” the statement added.

Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak also confirmed that Moscow would be lifting diesel export restrictions ahead of schedule. The process will be started “immediately,” the official told TASS.

“Russia welcomes US steps aimed at stabilizing the global energy market and gradually restoring normal energy trade, and stands ready to coordinate future actions to create a more predictable and healthy market,” the deputy prime minister stated.

The Russian government had previously extended a ban on the export of diesel and ship fuel, as well as gas oils until October 31 to stabilize the domestic market which had been suffering from increased seasonal demand linked to harvesting time.

Under the existing restrictions, fuel producers have been barred from exporting fuel until the end of October and non-producers were banned from doing it until January 31, 2027. A total ban on gasoline exports is in place until the end of January as well.

The development comes as the global markets are still reeling from the supply disruptions linked to the US-Israeli war with Iran. Russell Hardy, the CEO of Vitol – one of the world’s largest oil trading companies – warned earlier this week that the market had burned through much of the stock that previously helped absorb disruptions.There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the West,” he stated on Wednesday.

Last week, G7 countries agreed to release 100 million barrels of crude and refined products from emergency stocks, beginning with diesel to curb the soaring prices as the Trump administration demanded Europe do more to deal with the issue.

https://www.rt.com/news/647016-washington-suspends-sanctions-russian-fuel/

Ukraine attacks Russia with spy balloons

The small flying objects were spotted and shot down over central Russia’s Yaroslavl Region, its Security Ministry has said

Published 10 Oct, 2026

Local authorities said several of the small flying objects were successfully shot down on Friday, urging residents to report anything suspicious that they see in the sky or suspected debris to emergency services.

The balloons “had been launched from the territory of Ukraine,” according to officials. Small reconnaissance balloons can be used to distract enemy air defenses, but they can also serve asreconnaissance platforms, including to pinpoint the locations of air defense systemsor help direct strikes against other targets.

Yaroslavl Region has been targeted by Ukrainian long-range strikes in recent weeks. In mid-September, theRussian military shot down 65 drones over the region in a single dayduring a large-scale drone raid targeting a local refinery.

Although Friday’s incident was the first of its kind reported in Yaroslavl Region, theRussian military has encountered Ukrainian spy balloons and even explosive-laden balloonsin the past.

In September 2025, the Ukrainian military attempted to strike several Russian regions with dozens of meteorological balloons carrying explosives.

The Wall Street Journal claimed in a February article that Kiev had been using high-altitude balloons in attacks on Russia since the Ukraine conflict escalated in 2022. However, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, such attacks were first detected in autumn 2024, with another surge in reported incidents in late summer 2025.

The recent balloon attacks come as Russia has stepped up strikes on missile and drone warehouses, as well as unmanned aerial vehicle assembly facilities, in response to continued Ukrainian strikes on Russian civilian and energy infrastructure, which Moscow describes as terrorist acts.

After Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky recently threatened to step up attacks on Russian oil refineries, Moscow vowed to intensify strikes on Ukraine’s military-related facilities while maintaining that it never targets civilians.

On Wednesday, theRussian military targeted a Smart Ammunition facility used to assemble and store FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles, FP-9 tactical ballistic missiles, and components for both weapons, as well as other sites across several Ukrainian regions, including a drone workshop in Kirovograd Region and the JTI Ukraine tobacco factory in Kremenchug, which Russian officials say is used to manufacture small-arms ammunition.

https://www.rt.com/russia/647017-ukraine-attack-russia-balloons/

President Trump Files Petition with Supreme Court to Revive RICO Lawsuit Against Crooked Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and Russia Hoax Cabal After Nearly $1 Million in “Frivolous” Sanctions

by Jim Hᴏft Oct. 10, 2026 1:40 pm

President Donald Trump is refusing to let the Deep State get away with the biggest political crime in American history!

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, accusing her, along with disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and numerous Democratic operatives, of conspiring to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign by falsely linking him to Russia.

Trump filed the petition on Friday, after Justice Clarence Thomas granted an extension of the deadline.

The move comes after a federal judge threw out the case and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and one of his lawyers for bringing what the courts labeled a “frivolous” suit.A U.S. appeals court subsequently upheld both the dismissal and the sanctions.

As The Gateway Pundit reported when the landmark RICO action was first filed in March 2022 in federal court in Miami, Trump named Clinton, Comey, the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, and a host of other co-conspirators in a sprawling racketeering scheme.

The complaint detailed how the Clinton campaign and its allies funded the Steele dossier, riddled with lies and uncorroborated claims, to smear Trump, abused FISA warrants to spy on his campaign, and launched the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that dogged his first term.

Trump sought treble damages exceeding $24 million for the legal fees, business losses, and political damage caused by the hoax.

Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the case in September 2022, calling the lengthy complaint a “two-hundred-page political manifesto.” Middlebrooks declined to recuse himself.

He later imposed sanctions totaling roughly $938,000 on Trump and his then-attorney Alina Habba, accusing them of abusive litigation tactics, knowingly false allegations, and filing in bad faith to advance a political narrative rather than a legitimate claim.

In November 2025, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals unanimously upheld the dismissal and sanctions.

Chief Judge William Pryor, writing for a panel that included Trump appointee Andrew Brasher, declared that “many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous.”

The court rejected Trump’s argument that the statute of limitations should have been tolled because he postponed the lawsuit while serving as President to focus on his constitutional duties.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in May 2026, the full 11th Circuit then denied rehearing en banc, leaving the sanctions in place.

In the petition now before the high court, Trump’s lawyers argue that Supreme Court review is needed “to protect the presidency” and to stop “a deeply troubling trend of federal courts using sanctions and disciplinary threats to punish the president and his lawyers for legitimate legal positions that those courts (erroneously) reject.”

They contend the time limit for filing should have been extendedbecause Trump deliberately waited until after his first term, concluding that any private civil lawsuit would consume substantial time and energy while he carried out his responsibilities as chief executive, the Washington Examiner reported.

The Russia collusion narrative has long been exposed as a fabrication. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of conspiracy or collusion.

Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation documented the FBI’s reliance on the uncorroborated, Clinton-funded Steele dossier and the failure to investigate intelligence indicating the Clinton campaign planned to tie Trump to Russia as a distraction from her private email server scandal.

Declassified documents and Inspector General reports have repeatedly confirmed the political origins of the hoax and the abuses that followed.

Lower courts have protected the Clinton machine and the Deep State operatives who orchestrated the greatest political hoax in American history while punishing the victim of their scheme with nearly $1 million in sanctions.

The Supreme Court now has the opportunity to reverse this lawfare and allow the full truth about the 2016 election interference plot to be litigated.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/president-trump-files-petition-supreme-court-revive-rico/