Trump blasts Zelensky and demands Ukraine 'gets leader who can make a deal'
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@mikeysmith.comMikey Smith
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US Political Editor at the Mirror Making sense of Trump's nonsense since 2016 (Fuelled by coffee, rollercoasters, The Wildhearts and The Washington Wizards)
@mikeysmith.com@mikeysmith.comTrump 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
@mikeysmith.comTrump's wild week as he cuts 'treasonous' diesel deal to fund Putin's war machine
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@mikeysmith.com'There's one way to block Donald Trump's grim livestreamed execution plan - but chances are slim'
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@mikeysmith.comYes Trump did say 'Iran bombing LA is small price to pay'
...and it matters even if he didn't mean it.
@mikeysmith.comIn 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.
@mikeysmith.comTrump'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!
@mikeysmith.comDonald Trump's wild week as he embraces his autocratic madman era
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@mikeysmith.comIn 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...
@mikeysmith.com'Donald Trump's lavish Xi Jinping banquet looked like the tenth circle of hell'
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@mikeysmith.comBrooding Donald Trump brags about war crimes and seeks to rebrand AI as an American superweapon
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@mikeysmith.comThis week: RFK Jr goes into the midterms with "needy divorced dad" energy
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@mikeysmith.comDonald Trump announces 'ban on the free press' in furious White House meltdown
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@mikeysmith.comRobert F Kennedy Jr tells anti-vaccine group they have a 'friend at the White House'
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@mikeysmith.comSo 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.
@mikeysmith.comDonald Trump's wild week as he appears to snooze through 9/11 event and tries to buy an election
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@mikeysmith.com'Donald Trump faces humiliation in a state that's been Republican for 30 years'
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mirror.co.uk'Donald Trump faces humiliation in a state that's been Republican for 30 years'"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...
@mikeysmith.comYou 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.
@mikeysmith.comAnd if you thought I'd pass up the chance to film this on the "set" of SNL UK, you don't know me very well
@mikeysmith.comDonald 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.