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President Donald Trump excoriated the British government in a Truth Social Post on Monday for agreeing to relinquish sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a strategic military location, to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands contain the Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, a military base leased by the U.K. to the U.S. and used jointly by both countries. Located in the center of the Indian Ocean, the islands are considered strategically valuable. “Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER,” Trump said in the post. Brent Sadler, a senior fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal that Trump was right to oppose the Chagos deal for strategic reasons. “President Trump is keenly aware of the military and strategic implications of losing unfettered access and unencumbered by nearby Chinese presence of the base at Diego Garcia,” Sadler wrote in an email. “While a deal over Chagos which includes Diego Garcia is still a possibility, it is clear the one being proposed in London is not THAT deal,” he said. The president said that China and Russia see this as an act of “total weakness.” Trump connected the U.K.’s Chagos Island deal to his calls to acquire Greenland from Denmark. “The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired,” Trump wrote. Trump’s post triggered commentary by a number of British and American political figures. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent connected the Chagos issue to Trump’s desire to purchase Greenland. .@SecScottBessent: "@POTUS just believes that the U.S. needs Greenland because no-one will make a move on it then…we share a military facility on an island called Diego Garcia, and the U.K. is giving that island to Mauritius, and guess who is behind Mauritius? The Chinese!" https://t.co/mILUtwhjgo pic.twitter.com/llFbYiofOE— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 20, 2026 The U.K.’s Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch called the Chagos deal “not just an act of stupidity, but of complete self sabotage.” Paying to surrender the Chagos Islands is not just an act of stupidity, but of complete self sabotage.I’ve been clear and unfortunately on this issue President Trump is right. Keir Starmer’s plan to give away the Chagos Islands is a terrible policy that weakens UK security and… https://t.co/EgNPMyzJEQ pic.twitter.com/yrBl5uFuJR— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) January 20, 2026 Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage said, “thank goodness” Trump will veto the Chagos deal. Thank goodness Trump has vetoed the surrender of the Chagos islands.— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) January 20, 2026 While U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer wasn’t mentioned in Trump’s post, it was clearly aimed at his administration. Starmer’s government signed the agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in May. The deal would allow the British government to lease the land for the Diego Garcia base for 99 years, but would cost the government tens of billions of pounds. A U.K. government spokesperson said in response to Trump, according to ABC news, that Britain “will never compromise on our national security,” and that the deal was signed “because the base on Diego Garcia was under threat after court decisions undermined our position and would have prevented it operating as intended in future.” The deal was highly criticized at the time as a surrender of British territory with little benefit. The United Nations’ International Court of Justice has called the islands an integral part of Mauritius. However, Mauritius has never owned the Chagos Islands since its independence from the U.K. in 1968, and the indigenous Chagossian people have largely been opposed to the deal. And as Sadler noted, Mauritius has deep ties with China. In a joint editorial written for the British Telegraph in early January, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and Nile Gardiner, Heritage’s Barbara Lomas fellow, wrote about how the Chagos deal would be a huge win for the Chinese Communist Party. “The looming handover of the Chagos Islands is a massive coup for Communist China, which has long coveted a foothold in the region. There can be no doubt that Beijing will use this golden opportunity to advance its own interests at America’s and the UK’s expense,” Roberts and Gardiner wrote. They noted that “Mauritius will have full sovereignty over the Islands, and could offer China its own base on Chagos in close proximity to Diego Garcia, with endless opportunities for spying on U.S. and British military activities.” They added that Mauritius “could also sign a defense agreement with Beijing granting China access to the waters around the Chagos Islands, making the base at Diego Garcia practically impossible to operate for the United States.” The post ‘GREAT STUPIDITY’: Trump Blasts UK’s Chagos Islands Deal as Proof US Needs Greenland appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and former Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield shed light on how health officials and President Joe Biden’s administration sought to suppress the COVID-19 lab leak theory. Miller-Meeks told the audience that the Biden administration worked backwards from their preferred conclusion rather than grapple with the “spillover” outbreak theory. “Either I was stupid, and everybody else was vastly more intelligent than I was, or people don’t want people to know, because science isn’t consensus, and I think that’s the biggest thing,” Miller-Meeks said in her opening remarks, noting that dissenting opinions on the origins of the virus should have been welcomed rather than suppressed. “Science is a hypothesis. It’s an idea. You do a study, you get a conclusion, you repeat the study to show validity, but it’s not a consensus,” Miller-Meeks added. Redfield told the audience that, “almost every public health decision we made in the first six months of the pandemic was mainly wrong.” “I was just shocked by the lack of scientific knowledge about this kind of pandemic. Very rapidly, there became a narrative that you either bought into or you were discarded,” Redfield added. Miller-Meeks, the former director of the Iowa Department of Public Health and an ophthalmologist, was on the COVID-19 subcommittee during the height of the pandemic. Republicans were in the minority, however, and heading into 2022 elections, she argued for the continuation of the committee because the committee was unable “to get answers” and “bring the witnesses they wanted to while under Democratic leadership.” Miller-Meeks led the subcommittee after Republicans took the majority in the 2022 midterms. Miller-Meeks witnessed first-hand the controversial testimony of former health advisors Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak, who attempted to block emails from being released through Freedom of Information Act requests. Because of the subcommittee’s efforts, the congresswoman mentioned that she began to see the growing public distrust towards the government officials who handled COVID-19 under Biden. She added that this loss of trust in no small part stem from the suppression of the lab-leak theory. “Those who doubted gain of function are now conceptualizing that it was a lab leak and not natural,” Miller-Meeks said. “We still don’t have all of the Scientific papers that were put out in the public sphere and then removed [by the Biden administration]. That sphere was actually looking at genetic sequencing, the current cleavage side, and things that had not existed naturally before.” Miller-Meeks added that there was “very important information” that was “disseminated” when Republicans took back control of the House, which include China’s actions and intentions, the gain of function research, and what “the Chinese Communist Party was doing with DNA.” Redfield echoed Miller-Meek’s remarks. The former CDC director claimed that longtime government health officials suppressed information about China while cutting scientists, including himself, out of the process during the Biden administration. Redfield claimed he was “not included” in key decision-making conversations. “I didn’t know that they actually had meetings on February 1, when they had the teleconference with a group of scientists that were hand-selected, I believe, by Jerry McFerrin [and] Tony Fauci—and I wasn’t one of those scientists,” he said. “I only found that out with the Freedom of Information Act.” The post How Biden and Fauci Suppressed the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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As Democrats continue to cause mass hysteria surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they also appear to forget what their beliefs were in 2008, when President Obama was the one sending out ICE agents on raids.“Let’s get in the time traveling machine. Let’s go back in time to just some years ago under the Obama administration in Chicago where CNN of all places, CNN actually did a ride along with ICE,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains.“And you will notice something about this report, this special report ride along, is that it’s actually very positive for ICE,” she adds.The report tastefully shows ICE arresting illegal immigrants, who are shockingly not being harassed by protesters.“There’s no signs about ICE. There’s no one coming over blowing their whistles. There’s no one following journalists. There’s no one following CNN and going, ‘ICE is here. Don’t come out. ICE,’” Gonzales comments, surprised.“It was all totally fine until ‘orange man bad.’ It was all fine. Now I would also like to just remind all of these leftists who apparently need a reminder that it was fine when Obama was doing it, it was fine when Obama was doing it,” she says.In 2025, there were 605,000 deportations under President Trump and 1.9 million self-deportations for a total of 2.5 million deportations. Under Barack Obama, there were over three million deportations.“Now President Trump, I believe, will at the end of his second term, of course, he will have more deportations than Barack Obama. But as it stands now, Barack Obama sent out more than three million people. Actually more than his predecessor George W. Bush,” Gonzales explains.“This was one of the things that he was very strong on and very unapologetic on,” she continues, before playing a clip of Obama explaining his position.“We’ve had five million undocumented workers come over the borders since George Bush took office. It has become an extraordinary problem, and the reason the American people are concerned is because they are seeing their own economic position slip away,” Obama said on CNN in 2008.“And often times, employers are exploiting these undocumented workers. They’re not paying the minimum wage. They’re not observing worker safety laws. As president, I will make sure that we finally have the kind of border security that we need. That’s step number one,” he continued.“Step number two is to take on employers. Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change. They have to be held accountable,” he added.“The Barack Obama in 2008 that said illegals need to go home and employers should be penalized for employing illegals would never get elected in today’s Democrat Party,” Gonzales comments, adding, “Never. Never. That’s how far the Democrats have shifted on this, that’s how far they’ve gone.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Blaze News captured more exclusive footage of hysterical anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the lethal shooting of Renee Good.One particularly passionate protester says he was a U.S. Air Force veteran and reads from a prepared statement. He wears a jacket with transgender flags as well as a Hello Kitty decoration.'You ain't s**t! Put your badge down! I'll fight you!'"I'm protesting what was done to Renee Good. I am protesting what was done to George Floyd, to Leonard Peltier, to Trayvon Martin, and to all those who have suffered violence and injustice from the hands of fascism!" he says."I am Charlotte Sanders, and I use she/her/her pronouns. I am a liberal, leftist, pagan, lesbian, transgender woman, and witch! My deadname is Matthew Tyler Sanders, but I am Charlotte," he continues."I stand here today to go up against the violent injustices done to everyone like Renee Nicole Good, George Floyd Jr., Leonard Peltier, and Trayvon Martin," the man says. "I am here to stand up and fight against fascism, tyranny, systematic oppression, xenophobia, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and hate! I am here to stand up against the bullies and cowards!"He goes on to say that he had suffered from psoriatic arthritis as well as cancer that were caused by "psychological and emotional" trauma."We must take a stand against fascism and hate!" he concludes. "We must annihilate fascism and hate."He says he was protesting in order to protect his "LGBTQIA2S+ chosen family and community."RELATED: Unhinged anti-ICE extremists hurl profanities at agents in Minneapolis: 'Get the f**k out!' In later parts of the video, protesters follow federal troops and chant at them to leave the city."Look at your ugly ass smiles, ohhh!" says one female protester."You guys hate America, right," says a male protester to the troops. "You think you love it, but you f**king hate it. This is the First Amendment. What are you guys doing?! You should be joining us! A f**king woman was shot in the face!"Another male protester has a message for President Donald Trump."Do you have any heart? Do you have any heart? Do you have any soul? Especially if you are Christian," the man says. "How can you say any of this is Christian? It's not in any way!"One protester's sign equated Trump to Hitler and adds, "The blood is on your hands!!"The video ended with crazed epithet-filled screaming against ICE officers at the facility in Minneapolis."I say f**k ICE! If they want a piece, come and f**king get it!" adds Matthew Sanders in a last snippet.RELATED: Shocking cellphone video of Minneapolis lethal shooting from ICE agent's perspective released — and JD Vance reacts In a second video captured by Blaze News, a protester threatens to fight officers on the streets of Minneapolis."You ain't s**t! Put your badge down! I'll fight you!" the man says. "And if you want to see me, we can go get into my trunk, and we can do something different! You wanna take it like that? None of you got vests on! I clocked that s**t, homie!""How old were you when your mommy dropped you on your head?!" screams a female protester.Another protester makes an extended analogy comparing Trump to the emperor character in the "Star Wars" franchise. He says he isn't a fan of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), but he opposes the ICE surge. "If they can put away the fraudsters, great!" the man adds. "But is [an] ICE agent tackling some kid bringing shopping carts into Target, is that helping tackle fraud? I don't think so." In another scene from the city, a woman screams at officers as they appear to back away from protesters. "Get the f**k out of here, piggy! You don't belong here! You don't belong here!" she yells. "Are you guys scared? Are you guys scared of our little cardboard sign?!" The video ends with a protester running with a Somali flag in front of assembled troops as another protester screams incoherently. A previous Blaze News video with exclusive protester footage was published Jan. 9 and can still be viewed online. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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