In a bold, no-holds-barred display of American grit, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White – handpicked by President Donald J. Trump – is shaking the foundations of Europe’s socialist paradise.

White, a true patriot who’s spent his career honoring US military heroes, isn’t mincing words or playing nice with the corrupt elites in Brussels. He’s calling out antisemitism, banning Hitler-comparing leftists, ripping apart Belgium’s bloated welfare state, and shining a light on real conservative warriors like Bart De Wever.

And get this – Trump himself stepped in to back De Wever on the explosive Russian assets debacle. This is diplomacy on steroids, folks!

Standing Up for Jewish Traditions: White Blasts Belgium’s Antisemitic Witch Hunt Against Mohels

Ambassador White didn’t waste time diving into the fray. Just weeks into his tenure, he slammed Belgium for their outrageous “prosecution” of three Jewish mohels – religious figures performing ritual circumcisions – in Antwerp.

These men, trained in a sacred tradition that’s been around for thousands of years, were targeted in a bogus investigation for allegedly doing their jobs without unnecessary government meddling.

White took to X (formerly Twitter) with a fiery post: “TO BELGIUM, SPECIFICALLY YOU MUST DROP THE RIDICULOUS AND ANTI SEMITIC ‘PROSECUTION’ NOW OF THE 3 JEWISH RELIGIOUS FIGURES (MOHELS) IN ANTWERP!”

He accused the Belgians of outright antisemitism and demanded that Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke intervene immediately.

Belgium’s response? They summoned White like a naughty schoolboy, but he doubled down in interviews, calling the case a “waste of the judiciary’s time” and warning that ignoring it would reek of Jew-hatred.

This isn’t diplomacy as usual – it’s a Trump-style smackdown against the rising tide of antisemitism in Europe.

Banning the Socialist Degenerate: Conner Rousseau Gets the Boot for His Vile Hitler-Trump Smear

Then there’s Conner Rousseau, the slimy leader of Belgium’s socialist Vooruit party – a classic leftist degenerate who thought he could get away with comparing President Trump to Adolf Hitler in a pathetic Instagram video.

Rousseau’s defamatory rant equated Trump’s tough immigration policies with Nazi tactics, and Ambassador White wasn’t having it. In a blistering letter to Belgium’s Foreign Minister, White demanded the government “immediately condemn” this nonsense.

When the Belgians dragged their feet, White dropped the hammer: “Disgusting. Conner Rousseau, you are officially banned from travel to the USA #period.” That’s right – no more trips to the land of the free for this hate-spewing socialist!

Rousseau whined about it, but White stood firm, reminding everyone that Trump survived two assassination attempts amid this kind of toxic rhetoric.

Exposing Belgium’s Welfare Nightmare: Fake Sickos Skiing While Taxpayers Foot the Bill!

Ambassador White didn’t stop at politics – he went straight for the heart of Belgium’s failing socialist experiment. In a no-holds-barred interview with De Tijd, White torched their “impayable, insoutenable et irréaliste” (unpayable, unsustainable, and unrealistic) social security system.

With half a million Belgians on long-term disability benefits, White asked the killer question: “Combien de vos malades de longue durée sont en train de skier en ce moment?” (How many of your long-term sick people are skiing right now?)

He revealed he’s heard whispers of 40% abuse in the system – parasites faking illnesses to live off hardworking taxpayers while hitting the slopes! This isn’t compassion; it’s a scam rewarding laziness and fraud.

High Praise for Bart De Wever – And Trump’s Personal Intervention in the Russian Assets Saga!

Finally, Ambassador White has heaped praise on Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever, the tough Flemish nationalist who’s fighting for sanity in a sea of EU madness.

De Wever, a real conservative powerhouse, has been battling the globalists over frozen Russian assets – some €190 billion stuck in Belgium’s Euroclear bank.

While weak-kneed Europeans want to seize them for Ukraine, De Wever calls it an “act of war” that could invite eternal Russian retaliation.

And here’s the bombshell revelation: President Trump himself intervened in this high-stakes affair, pressuring the EU to back off and aligning with De Wever’s stance to use the assets as leverage in peace talks.

Trump sees the big picture – no reckless moves that could escalate conflicts or hurt allies like Belgium. White’s endorsement of De Wever as a “strong leader” underscores the growing alliance between Trump’s America and Europe’s true patriots. This is winning diplomacy, folks – putting America First while backing winners abroad!

Ambassador Bill White is a breath of fresh air in stuffy Europe, proving that Trump’s appointees are revolutionaries ready to fight for truth, freedom, and common sense. Belgium better buckle up – the era of socialist excuses is over! Stay tuned to The Gateway Pundit for more on this epic saga.

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A federal “strike team” is descending upon California amid fears that California’s Unemployment Insurance program is mired in a swamp of fraud and improper payments.

“Financial issues and potential fraud in California’s unemployment insurance program will be fully examined. The previous administration turned a blind eye toward failing Labor programs: This ends now,” Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a Labor Department news release.

“Immediately, we are engaging a specialized strike team to uncover any potential fraud or abuse and quickly moving to protect the American worker and taxpayer,” she said.

“I look forward to restoring the California UI program’s integrity and financial health,” she said.

California’s Employment Development Department has been cited by the Labor Department for poor performance.

Further, California also has dipped into the UI trust fund, which holds state-collected payroll taxes to pay the state portion of unemployment benefits.

California has borrowed $21 billion from the federal government to keep its system afloat, which is triggering increased UI taxes for state workers.

The California state auditor ruled that the agency overseeing UI payments was a high-risk agency.

A recent audit report said that “EDD’s fraud prevention approach during the

pandemic was marked by significant missteps and inaction that led to billions of dollars in unemployment benefit payments that EDD later determined may have been fraudulent.”

“Further, we also reported that EDD has been unable to accurately quantify its inappropriate UI payments,” the report said.

“EDD is a high-risk agency because of its mismanagement of the UI program,” the audit said.

“Specifically, EDD is unable to reliably estimate improper payments under the UI program, thus adversely affecting the State’s financial statements as well as impairing efforts to independently evaluate the efficacy of EDD’s own fraud prevention activities,” the auditor wrote.

The report said “Substantial Fraud Risk Exists in EDD’s UI Program.”

“For example, the program did not block addresses used to file unusually high numbers of claims, and it removed a safeguard preventing payment to individuals who had unconfirmed identities,” the report said.

As a result, the report said, the department “allowed the payments of potentially fraudulent claims, estimated at tens of billions of dollars, most of which have yet to be recovered.”

California received about $290 billion in COVID relief, according to Fox News.

Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said nationally, he nearly $1 billion in taxpayer funds is “at risk” nationwide due to COVID-related UI fraud, noting that prepaid debit cards issued to be used for pandemic-era UI benefits had $720 million unspent on them.

“My office has warned that, absent swift action, U.S. taxpayers risk losing nearly a billion dollars in fraudulently obtained benefits,” D’Esposito said in a statement. “This is taxpayer money — and it demands immediate attention.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally, has defended his anti-crime policies, which transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous countries in the world to one of the safest in the Americas.

“The war of incentives is never going to be won,” he said. “So we understood, by force and with blows, that the only way was to go after the gang member and arrest him.”

His Territorial Control Plan transitioned from traditional policing to a massive military-led crackdown following a spike in violence in March 2022.

Under a declared State of Exception, Bukele imposed a “régimen de excepción” that suspended constitutional rights, including the right to legal counsel, freedom of assembly, and the requirement for a warrant before arrest.

Laws were changed to allow children as young as 12 to be tried as adults for gang crimes and to permit mass trials in which hundreds of defendants are processed simultaneously.

He constructed the CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism), a high-tech mega-prison designed to hold 40,000 inmates in austere conditions, severing their contact with the outside world. As of early 2026, more than 94,000 people have been arrested.

In Bukele’s words, the way to deal with the gang member is “not to punish him, but to get him out of society. He has to be out of the equation.”

He argues the program’s effectiveness is reflected in the numbers. Before the crackdown, the homicide rate was 103 per 100,000. Now it is 1.3 per 100,000. Gangs once controlled 80 percent of the country.

The government has largely retaken control. Business owners used to pay extortion, or “rent,” but since the gangs were locked up, this has sharply declined.

Addressing criticism, President Bukele recounted the story of a woman with no hands who makes chocolate bars. He said her gang-member nephews cut off her hands when she refused to pay extortion money.

“And she will go through life with no hands because she wouldn’t pay extortion. No one defended her human rights. No one defended her. All of these politicians tear their clothes over the rights of the gang members.

People came out to defend the rights of the criminals. They have rights, yes, but not more rights than others.”

At a press conference, Bukele addressed objections beyond human-rights concerns. Critics argued that crime could not be eliminated all at once, not because of technical limitations, but because of the economic impact.

They told him there were 70,000 gang members, which meant 70,000 “jobs.” Though the money was earned illegally, it flowed into households that spent it on diapers, food, rent, electricity, telephone service, cable, internet, clothes, and beer.

If gangs were dismantled overnight, they warned, that underground economy would collapse, and no legal parallel economy would replace it quickly enough.

They advised ending crime gradually so the legal economy could compensate “little by little” for the criminal one.

Bukele rejected that reasoning. “Those kinds of theories, which sound good to intellectuals, don’t apply in reality,” he said. “The reality is that crime is crime, period. And if you allow it, they will always win in the war of incentives.”

He illustrated his point with the example of a young man choosing between honest work and gang life. Selling tomatoes in the market is hard work, he said.

The vendor loads produce in the sun, stands all day in poor conditions, risks spoilage, and sometimes sells goods on consignment, meaning losses come out of his own pocket. After that effort, he might earn five dollars.

Then, on the way home, a gang member demands the money. In that situation, Bukele said, the incentive shifts toward becoming the gang member who collects the five dollars rather than the worker who earns it only to hand it over.

“So the war of incentives is never going to be won,” Bukele said. “So we understood, by force and with blows, that the only way was to go after the gang member and arrest him, to get him out of society.”

Once the gang member is removed, he argued, the young person recalculates his options. The choice becomes prison or legitimate work that will not be extorted.

With gangs dismantled, he said, a young man can earn money, keep it, and build a life without gang coercion. “The point is that now the incentives of society are done correctly,” Bukele said.

Organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International claim to have documented thousands of arbitrary arrests in which people with no gang ties were detained based on anonymous tips or simply for having tattoos.

However, everyone in CECOT has gang tattoos. That suggests either anonymous tips were followed up with investigation and additional evidence, or the claim that people are being arrested solely on the basis of a phone call is inaccurate. No one is being arrested simply because an anonymous person calls and denounces them.

Human-rights groups often cite family testimony to claim detainees are innocent. It is not farfetched to believe that a family might lie in an attempt to secure the release of a relative from detention.

Another claim is that many detainees are former gang members who “retired” years or decades ago, often after finding religion or stable work.

Under current law, having a gang tattoo from 20 years ago, even if the person has since been law-abiding, can be grounds for life imprisonment. That establishes prior gang involvement for which no punishment was previously imposed.

Many gangs operate under a blood-in, blood-out structure, meaning the only way to leave is through death. In that context, gang tattoos function as internal identification. Anyone falsely bearing a gang tattoo risks being killed by the gang itself.

Claims that President Trump sent honest, hardworking immigrants to a foreign gulag or concentration camp are not accurate.

The Trump administration deports illegal aliens but does not dictate how foreign governments handle them once returned.

Many countries refuse to accept deportees, particularly those linked to gangs or terrorism. President Trump made a deal with El Salvador to accept some of those deportees.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the most well-known case of someone deported to El Salvador, his country of citizenship. Under Salvadoran law, gang members and terrorists are incarcerated in CECOT. U.S. Democrats and liberals criticized President Trump over these deportations.

If a home country refuses to accept a deportee, the alternatives are limited. One option would be permanent detention in the United States because the individual has no legal residency status.

However, that would be unconstitutional if the person has not been charged with a crime. The other option is deportation to a third-country willing to accept them, which is what President Trump did.

In Garcia’s case, he is a citizen of El Salvador and therefore subject to Salvadoran law. American politicians should not have involved themselves in extracting him from the legal jurisdiction of his own country.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN, January 2024) led a letter to the State Department calling for a denunciation of Bukele’s “authoritarian actions,” stating, “President Bukele has… overseen the militarized harassment of the legislature, a significant erosion of judicial independence, and the de facto criminalization of civil society.”

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH, 2025) criticized the Trump–Bukele cooperation on deportations, saying, “Disregarding the rule of law, ignoring unanimous rulings… and subjecting individuals to detention without due process makes us less safe as a country.”

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) has been a consistent critic, stating that the “State of Exception” is a “clear violation of human rights” and that the United States should not fund a government that “suspends basic constitutional rights indefinitely.”

As Bukele has argued, many liberals, Democrats, and human-rights advocates have focused on the rights of accused criminals while doing nothing to address the rights of crime victims.

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President Donald Trump spoke from the White House to the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team Sunday after their thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over Canada to won the gold medal in Milan, Italy.

Wild smartphone video shows the raucous team in the locker room being addressed by Trump over a phone held by FBI Director Kash Patel.

Everyone, including Patel, was very loose and celebratory. One player, star goalie Connor Hellebuyck, called out, “How ya doing, Don?”, while Patel was seen opening a beverage can with one hand while holding with his other hand the phone Trump was speaking on.

While he repeatedly praised the whole team, Trump singled out Hellebuyck several times for praise, saying he wants to shake his hand.

In the midst of congratulating the team, Trump asked them if they want to come to the State of the Union address on Tuesday, saying he can arrange a “military plane or something” to get the team to D.C. The team enthusiastically accepted and asked if they can be picked up in Miami Tuesday morning.

Patel told Trump, “I got it, Boss, I got it… I’m f***ing on it” and he is “driving the bus” to get them to D.C.

Trump told the men that he will also be inviting the gold medal winning U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team, adding he would probably be impeached if he didn’t. The U.S. women’s team beat the Canadian women’s team on Thursday, also in a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory.

Trump also said he would hold a White House reception on Wednesday for the teams where he would present them medals.

You can hear the genuine pride in Donald Trumps voice when he called the Team USA Hockey Team pic.twitter.com/ch6GbXShwh

— Harrison Krank (@HarrisonKrank) February 23, 2026

Senior White House official Dan Scavino, Jr. posted an official photo of Trump congratulating the team, “From the @WhiteHouse, President @realDonaldTrump congratulates the @USAHockey Men’s Hockey team following their historic win against Canada in the 2026 Winter Olympics Men’s Gold Medal Game, Sunday, February 22, 2026…”

From the @WhiteHouse, President @realDonaldTrump congratulates the @USAHockey Men’s Hockey team following their historic win against Canada in the 2026 Winter Olympics Men’s Gold Medal Game, Sunday, February 22, 2026… https://t.co/m6mGhKYUSj pic.twitter.com/cAgEXvg3cO

— Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) February 23, 2026

Even on short notice, there should be plenty of room for the men’s and women’s teams in the House chamber Tuesday night as many Democrat Senators and Congressmen have announced they are boycotting Trump’s State of the Union address.

The New York Post reported logistics may hamper the visit to D.C. (excerpt):

“We’re all proud Americans, obviously,” captain Auston Matthews said. “This is a huge moment for us. A huge moment for the United States. He called, just congratulated us.”

Matthews seemed to indicate that a White House visit was possible, though Team USA’s fluctuating travel plans due to the blizzard on the East Coast and the NHL resuming play Thursday may make that a heavy logistical lift.

“I think there’s a lot of moving parts as far as our travels back home. We’ll see what happens,” Matthews said. “It’s an honor to wear this jersey and to represent the U.S. To go home with a gold medal. You know how much that means to guys in this room, to people watching and rooting us on too.”

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In the latest lunacy on campus, according to Campus Reform, “A professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has assigned students an alternative to traditional finals—creating and editing Wikipedia pages about ‘queer and trans people of color.”

Excellence and quality education continue to be replaced by Woke indoctrination at Berkeley.

The ‘Ethnic Studies’ professor had students defend and expand on Wikipedia articles related to ‘LGBTQ’ history and transgenderism, according to the report.

Somehow, this insanity is considered worth the price of tuition at Berkeley despite the fact that it does nothing to prepare students for real life.

According to The Campus Reform report, “The project is facilitated through Wiki Education, an organization that partners with college faculty to incorporate Wikipedia editing into coursework.”

This should never have been a thing, and it is hardly educational to begin with. The fact that the course is named, absurdly, Queer of Color, as if that is part of education, is even worse.

Among the pages they were assigned were such gems as “Queer Vampires,” “LGBTQ themes in horror fiction,” and more.

Another article was about “Lesbian bars,” as absurd as that sounds.

“Classes have made more than 300,000 edits and added 3,000 citations to Wikipedia articles, collectively amassing nearly 100 million views.”

The professor who assigned this framed the assignment as opposing the Trump administration.

“Right now, the Trump administration is trying to erase the very existence of transgender people, so having information about those histories, as well as present challenges facing queer and trans communities, is particularly urgent,” is what the professor in question told The Daily Californian.

This activist/professor unsurprisingly lists “transgender studies,” “queer activism in the Americas,” and “sex work” as her areas of expertise. In other words, she should not be in education.

These types of courses are pure leftist indoctrination and do not qualify as educational or helpful for real life.

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