(VIDEO) Trump Responds to Report that China Plans to Provide Shoulder-Launched Missiles to Iran
July 30, 2026
President Trump on Wednesday responded to a report that China would be providing weapons to Iran in the coming weeks, saying he would be surprised and “disappointed” if true.
Trump previously said that Xi Jinping had assured him that China would not provide weapons to Iran.
According to Reuters, China was planning to provide shoulder-launched missile systems to Iran in a $60-70 million deal.
Iran would receive 300-400 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) in the coming weeks.
China has since denied the report.
“Things like that happen, but that would be surprising,” Trump told reporters on Thursday when asked about the report.
Trump further stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping “told me very strongly he wouldn’t partake, but he knows I’d be quite disappointed.”
Trump added that Xi is coming to the US on September 24.
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Meanwhile, the US has resumed airstrikes against Iran after Iran targeted US troops in the Middle East on Tuesday.
Trump said on Wednesday, “We’re going to beat the f*cking sh*t out of them,” following attempted missile strikes on a US base.
US Central Command released footage of last night’s strikes after the roughly two-hour-long mission concluded.
NOW – THOUSANDS of Illegal African Migrants From Morocco STORM the Spanish Border in the Enclave of Ceuta (SHOCK VIDEOS)
July 30, 2026
Screengrab social media/X Upscaled Grok AI
Horrifying images show the absolute disaster that are Socialist Sánchez’s migration policies.
Socialist Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, is a European ‘progressive hero’ who stands up to Donald J. Trump, leftists think.
The Globalist MSM lauds his ‘open borders’ policies, and when he announced that he would legalize 600,000 invaders, no less than 1,2 million people showed up to enroll.
So, now, the word is out – Spain is the easy way into Europe.
And they are coming by the thousands.
Today (30), the invaders swarmed into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, swimming over from the Moroccan side and overwhelming police at the city’s beaches.
NOW – Thousands of illegal migrants from Africa storm the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.pic.twitter.com/EtgCAiZIES
“A Guardia Civil spokesperson said the migrants were ‘massively entering from the sea’ through the Tarajal breakwater, but could not provide any estimates for the numbers.
State television TVE on Thursday reported that 2,000 to 3,000 youths had crossed, while state news agency EFE said some had scaled the border fences without swimming. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm those reports.”
‘ABSOLUTE HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL EMERGENCY’
Leader of Spain’s Ceuta sounds alarm after 1,500 migrants reached the city by swimming across from Morocco over the past week
“’The situation remains out of control as we speak’, [Migrant rights activist Zakaria] Zarroqui said, adding that people were still flocking to the Moroccan city of Fnideq in an attempt to cross into Ceuta.
Earlier this month, Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to reach Ceuta or Melilla cannot be summarily returned under the enclaves’ special border-rejection regime.”
This is what an invasion looks like… hundreds of illegals storming Spain’s shores
Over 1,500 migrants have bypassed border security by swimming around the Tarajal breakwaters in just over a week, with arrivals averaging about 300 per day.
“Officials in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northwestern tip of Africa on Thursday asked the government in Madrid to declare a national emergency and send the army to help secure its border with Morocco.
[…] Juan Jesus Vivas, head of the Ceuta regional government, called for the Spanish government in Madrid to declare an emergency on grounds of national security, asking for more police and for the army to be deployed on the border.”
Hundreds of Moroccans swim into Spanish enclave Ceuta in Africa
Shirtless men sprint ashore celebrating after crossing from Morocco — part of over 1,500 arrivals this week alone
“‘Yesterday, I spoke out to warn of the extreme gravity of the migration crisis we are enduring’, he wrote online. ‘Today, mere hours later, the situation is even more critical: another night of mass arrivals, nearly a thousand people waiting outside the CETI [Temporary Migrant Reception Center], our resources completely overwhelmed, and another life lost at sea’.”
WATCH: Senator Bernie Moreno Delivers a Mic Drop Response Regarding Why Wicked Dr. Anthony Fauci Constantly Pleaded the Fifth During His Testimony
July 30, 2026
Bernie Moreno grills Fauci
Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) has doubled down on destroying Dr. Anthony Fauci after his embarrassing Senate testimony on Wednesday.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Fauci, the former NIAID director and face of America’s disastrous COVID response, finally appeared under subpoena Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which Paul chairs.
The hearing, titled “Testimony of Anthony Fauci,” began at 8:30 a.m. ET on July 29 in Room SD-342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, according to the official committee notice.
This hearing came after Paul released Fauci’s Diary Package over the weekend, which shows a bizarre yet characteristic obsession with fame, even as the death toll from the pandemic grew.
At one point in the hearing, Moreno absolutely obliterated Fauci regarding his narcissistic activities while Americans died.
“Here I am sitting in front of you six years later, saying, who the f*ck do you think you were for doing that?!” Moreno asked Fauci.
“It is a total disgrace what you did to this country, and if my Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you, I hope the voters — the United States of America, watch the clips of every one of you doting on a guy who is more interested in being a celebrity than saving American people,” he added.
After exiting the hearing, Moreno was confronted by a TGP’s Alicia Powe.
She wanted to know why Fauci refused to answer a single question after testifying without incident several times before.
“Senator Bernie Moreno, why do you suspect Anthony Fauci is pleading the fifth after testifying (so many times) before?” she asked.
Without hesitation, Moreno figuratively dropped the mic and spoke for every reasonable American with his savage reply.
“Because he’s a piece of sh*t,” Moreno quips.
Truer words were never spoken because that’s exactly what Fauci is.
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MIC DROP: Senator Bernie Moreno Just ENDED Fauci’s Career With One Line…
Obama White House Counsel Ruemmler Testifies Before Congress on Epstein Ties, Says Late Virginia Giuffre’s Allegations ‘Lacked Inherent Credibility” – Her Family Hits Back
July 30, 2026
Ruemmler and her former boss, Barack Obama
Ruemmler called her jokes to Epstein about his abuse of minors ‘in extraordinarily poor taste’
Back in July 15, Kathryn Ruemmler, former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and White House counsel under former President Barack Obama, testified before the House Oversight Committee on her ties to late pedophile and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Yesterday (29), a transcript of her testimony was released, shedding light on the deposition.
Ruemmler admitted to lawmakers that she joked with Epstein in 2016 about his conviction of ‘soliciting a minor for prostitution’, and she also controversially called the allegations by late Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre ‘not credible’.
Kathryn Ruemmler, previously a White House counsel to Obama, met dozens of times with Epstein and was cited on hundreds of emails between him and his lawyers. https://t.co/D5ENERVFz2pic.twitter.com/a0LAnNqnj9
“Ruemmler, who resigned from Goldman Sachs earlier this year after her extensive communications with the notorious sex fiend were released by the Justice Department, told the House Oversight Committee the joke – ‘Best massage ever, but not your kind of massage’ – was made in ‘extraordinarily poor taste’, according to a transcript of her July 15 testimony released Wednesday.
‘I certainly knew that he had pled guilty to two prostitution-related offenses and that those — that those involved — that conduct involved sexualized massages’,” Ruemmler acknowledged during her grilling before the committee. So what I was making here was an offhanded joke that, certainly sitting here in 2026, is in extraordinarily poor taste, but it was a joke about his prior criminal history’, she continued.”
Obama’s WH Counsel legal advice: “I think the point is that if she was underage, she could not legally consent to engaging in prostitution.”
→ Obama’s former White House Counsel gave Epstein legal advice on sex with minors!
Ruemmler admitted receiving gift cards to high-end stores from Epstein, ‘including Bergdorf Goodman, a Fendi coat and bag, a Hermes bag and an Apple Watch with a Hermes band’.
“’With respect to gifts, I didn’t ask for them, I didn’t need them, and I didn’t view them as particularly personal or consequential’, she told lawmakers. ‘I accepted them graciously, as I saw no reason not to, but the gifts weren’t important to me, and I declined to accept some of them. In any event, nothing he gave me caused me to deal with him any differently than I otherwise would have’.”
The high-octane lawyer was grilled on why she referred to Epstein as ‘sweetie’, ‘older brother’ and ‘Uncle Jeffrey’ in their correspondence, and had to deny ever having a romantic relationship with him.
KATHRYN RUEMMLER TESTIFIES ON EPSTEIN TIES AFTER RESIGNING FROM GOLDMAN SACHS
Former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, who resigned as Goldman Sachs’ general counsel in February after emails showed she called Jeffrey Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” and accepted lavish gifts… pic.twitter.com/4fxi3DDMGx
But probably the most controversial element of her deposition that has been reported upon so far was her characterization of the allegations made by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre as being ‘not credible’.
As we have reported here on TGP, Giuffre got financial compensation in civil court from Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and (former) Prince Andrew. The trifecta.
The simple result of these lawsuits flies in the face of Ruemmler’s assertion.
As one would expect, Virginia Giuffre’s family was livid by that, and hit back at Ruemmler in the press for saying that Giuffre’s sex trafficking allegations ‘lacked sufficient detail’.
Watch: Giuffre – ‘I was trafficked to a prince’.
That old clip of Virginia Giuffre saying “I was trafficked to a prince” is circulating again, and wow, it hits different now.
She sat on Savannah Guthrie’s show, named Prince Andrew, Epstein, and Ghislaine like it was nothing.
“Virginia Giuffre’s family have hit out at a prominent Democratic lawyer after she claimed the Jeffrey Epstein victim ‘lacked inherent credibility’.
[…] In closed-door testimony delivered earlier this month and published on Wednesday, Ms. Ruemmler said: ‘There were allegations that she made that were, I believed based on my experience as a former prosecutor and as a defense counsel, that were of such a nature that they were – they lacked inherent credibility. Typically, when someone says, I was sex trafficked to someone, they say who, when, where, not multiple world leaders, multiple foreign presidents’.”
Kathy Ruemmler doubled down and said she doesn’t believe Virginia Giuffre. Not surprising, but surprising she said the quiet part out loud.#EpsteinFilespic.twitter.com/774v5PwBJQ
“Sky Roberts, the brother of Giuffre, who took her own life last year, and his wife Amanda Roberts, accused the Goldman Sachs lawyer of ‘trying to get people to believe she didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein was actively engaged in sex trafficking’.
‘To attempt to cast doubt on Virginia, whose bravery was the reason so many other survivors stepped forward, resulting in more than 50 people from having to step down from their positions of power, is reprehensible. She should be ashamed of herself’, they said in a statement on Wednesday evening. ‘Kathy Ruemmler enriched herself while girls and young women suffered and had their lives destroyed because she enabled their abuser. Shame on Goldman Sachs for keeping her in its employ’.”
Strange exchange here between Jeffrey Epstein and Obama’s White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler. It’s unclear why Epstein wanted Ruemmler to speak to the “boss,” or who exactly he meant by that. pic.twitter.com/bslfklXuB8
SNAP Cuts: Parents Must Feed Their Children, Consistent with U.S. Law, Science, and Major Religions
July 30, 2026
The Democrats opposing SNAP cuts refuse to acknowledge that it is the parents, not the state, who are required to feed their children. Those parents would be able to keep their SNAP benefits by complying with the requirement to work or attend school for 20 hours per week.
Since President Trump signed changes to SNAP, Democratic lawmakers and sympathetic media outlets have repeated a familiar script: the President “took food away” from millions of Americans. To evoke an emotional response and frame the issue as a moral, even theological, question, headlines repeatedly focus on the number of children affected.
“Mean old trillionaire Elon Musk and evil Grinch Trump stole food from children” is easier to sell than saying, “Able-bodied adults now have to work part-time to receive government benefits, and the administration is requiring parents to take responsibility for feeding their own children.”
What that framing leaves out is the foundation of the American system itself. The United States is not a socialist country, and no citizen has an unconditional claim on the labor of others simply by virtue of need. SNAP is, technically, a legal entitlement, but only for those who meet the eligibility rules that Congress writes and rewrites. No one has a permanent claim to a particular income threshold or set of conditions. Congress can, and just did, raise the bar.
America operates on personal responsibility, paired with a generous safety net for those who genuinely cannot provide for themselves: the disabled, the elderly, and the temporarily unemployed. That safety net was never intended to become a permanent way of life. Yet mandatory spending, the budget category covering Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and similar programs, has grown from roughly 40 percent of the federal budget in the early 1970s to about 60 percent today.
Heritage Foundation researcher Robert Rector has documented that “multiple generations have grown up dependent on government transfers” and that “half of aid goes to individuals who have received food stamps for 8.5 years or more.” Evidence of multigenerational dependency is supported by the data.
Households in the bottom income quintile have higher teen births than higher-income households, and more than 60 percent of young, unmarried mothers already live in poverty, with most entering public assistance within a year of the child’s birth. With each generation spanning roughly two decades, the nearly six decades since the launch of the modern welfare state have provided more than enough time for families in the bottom quintile to cycle through three or four generations of dependency.
Media coverage of the changes has centered on CBO’s estimate that 2.4 million people will lose participation in an average month over the next decade, framed as a government simply cutting food from the mouths of children. An estimated 8.8 million people became newly subject to the requirement, meaning the 2.4 million figure largely consists of people who voluntarily choose not to meet the new work, volunteer, or study requirements.
To deflect the argument that losing benefits is a matter of personal choice and responsibility, two arguments are commonly made. First, some people will lose benefits due to paperwork glitches. But that argument is true of every benefit program that has ever existed and is not unique to a requirement that people work to receive benefits. The second argument is structural: people doing gig work may find it difficult to prove they are working to comply with the rules. While that may be true, nothing is preventing them from obtaining a qualifying part-time job in addition to their gig work. This would give them a job, gig income, and government benefits, improving their standard of living.
The underlying rule requires able-bodied adults ages 18 to 54 without dependents to work 80 hours a month, about 20 hours a week, to keep benefits beyond three months in a three-year period. The requirement is not limited to paid employment. Volunteering also counts, as do education or training through an approved program. That base rule already existed; the new law raised the age ceiling to 65 and narrowed the parental exemption.
The media has also criticized the administration’s termination of required funding for SNAP-Ed, the nutrition education grant program, even as the federal government has launched broader nutrition education and public health initiatives. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins released updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal nutrition standard that shapes school meals, military food, and public dietary guidance.
Kennedy and Rollins have also pushed states to restrict SNAP purchases of foods deemed unhealthy, secured voluntary industry commitments to remove artificial dyes, and redirected $1.8 billion annually toward combating childhood chronic disease. Democrats oppose the program, arguing that people receiving benefits should be allowed to make their own food choices, and some articles have claimed that Kennedy is preventing poor children from having birthday cakes.
However, the restriction only applies to SNAP purchases. Parents are free to buy a birthday cake, beer, liquor, or cigarettes with cash. The liberal counterargument is that they can’t afford a birthday cake. However, as an economist, this author would like to point out that the average birthday cake in the United States costs about $35. If parents set aside about $3 per month, they could pay for their child’s birthday cake without relying on SNAP.
Kennedy also relaunched the Presidential Fitness Test for public schoolchildren under a 2025 executive order, launched a medical school nutrition education partnership to train future physicians, and established the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program to fund rural hospitals and MAHA-aligned state policies. This was again opposed by the same people who supported vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and mandatory gym closures during COVID and who generally favor expensive medications over health advice encouraging people to lose weight and exercise.
Data from HHS and the CDC confirm that lower-income groups have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. A lower family income-to-poverty ratio is also independently associated with higher odds of diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, and all-cause mortality. Many of these risks could be mitigated through proper diet and exercise.
The left’s accusations that the Trump administration is evil for not feeding children ignore the fact that the responsibility of parents to care for their children is clearly established in U.S. law, science, Christianity, and Judaism.
American law imposes an enforceable duty on parents to support their children through every state’s child support statutes. The behavioral sciences recognize parental sacrifice for offspring survival as one of the most consistent patterns across species. And the major religions agree on this point despite their many differences.
Christianity teaches that a man who fails to provide for his household “has denied the faith” and is worse than an unbeliever. Judaism’s Talmud treats feeding one’s own children as a father’s binding moral duty. Islam’s concept of nafaqah obligates a father to provide his children’s food and clothing, a duty rooted directly in the Quran. Law, science, and faith converge on the same point: children are the responsibility of their parents.
The one ideology that has historically argued otherwise is communism/socialism/Marxism. Marx and Engels wrote openly in the Communist Manifesto of wanting to “rescue education” from the family and replace it with a collective one, a vision in which the state, not the parent, becomes the final authority over a child’s upbringing.
It is frightening that this entire SNAP debate hinges on Democrats and liberals opposing the Republican positions of personal responsibility; requiring able-bodied adults to work or study; parental responsibility for children; and encouraging the bottom 20 percent of income earners to exercise, work, eat a healthy diet, and lose weight so they can live longer.
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BREAKING: An emergency has now been declared in the Spanish city of Ceuta after tens of thousands of illegal migrants break in from Morocco
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