Week 48 of Trump Administration, America’s Rise and Shine

Week 48 of the Trump 2.0 Administration made substantial progress. Strong action was taken stopping terrorism, significant strides securing better health treatment, and reports rolled inshowing an even stronger economy. A Congressional briefing was held by Secretary of War Hegseth and Secretary of State Rubio with most Representatives satisfied that the narco-terrorist strikes on Venezuela are both legal and warranted. Operation Hawkeye Strike commenced in Syria to eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure and weapons caches. This operation is occurring to send the clear message: “All terrorists who are evil enough to attack Americans are hereby warned- You will be hit harder than you have ever been hit before if you, in any way, attack or threaten the U.S.A.” – President Donald J. Trump.

A Bill to protect a child’s innocence was passed this week making it a felony to perform gender transition surgeries or provide puberty blockers to children and Secretary Kennedy held a conference announcing 4 major steps to protect America’s Children: 1) Rules barring hospitals from performing sex rejecting procedures on minors. 2) FDA warning companies making breast binders for children. 3) Gender Dysphoria is no longer considered a disability. HHS held a Lyme Disease Roundtable discussing the challenges and making a commitment to improve research, treatment and prevention.

Border Czar Tom Homan made a plea to the media and political leaders to stop the dangerous rhetoric that has been putting his officers at risk. By treating them like criminals, officers are being abused and harassed just doing their jobs. “I’m asking politicians, governors, and mayors- Stop going after ICE and Border Patrol… These men and women are Patriots. Period.” said Homan. Please call your political leaders (202-224-3121) to urge their support for the men and women in uniform who are dismantling trafficking networks and rescuing children. A Bill was passed this week to prevent migrant children from being placed with sponsors who have criminal histories. Placing children with unvetted sponsors was part of the problem that caused over 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children to go missing. Secretary Noem announced that, under President Trump’s leadership, 129,000 of the unaccompanied children lost by the Biden Administration have been found. An alarming number of them were exploited, trafficked and abused. According to HHS Secretary Kennedy, they receive treatment through ORR and are in the process of being reunited with their families.

More Epstein Files were released on Friday 12/19. Members of the House were upset over redactions, threatening to take action against AG Bondi. Not all files were released and the DoJ announced that more will be forthcoming. The Minnesota Fraud case has grown. Just the welfare fraud is half of $18 Billion. Election Fraud evidence is forthcoming. More lawsuits are occurring for the release of evidence. Senator Grassley announced that he received news from the DoJ and FBI that the Biden FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid Mar-A-Lago.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins has a request of veterans who may be choosing death by suicide these holidays, please reach out and find your veteran friends, find those out there that you need to talk to- and to those around veterans, please make it a point to reach out and let them know you care. The distinguished board of The Kennedy Center voted unanimously to rename The Kennedy Center to The Trump-Kennedy Center. President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act into Law this week and an announcement that tariffs have helped reduce the trade deficit by half.

Economic numbers came in strong this week with November CPI inflation falling to 2.7%, which was below expectations of 3.1%. The unemployment rate of 4.5% seems high, but it can be attributed to the reduction of government work force.

A Peace Meeting is taking place this weekend in Miami, Florida between Russia, Ukraine and the United States to further peace negotiations. A highly important signing of an historic Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Paraguay, which establishes a framework for U.S. military and civilian personnel activities in Paraguay, focusing on security cooperation, training, humanitarian aid, and combating transnational crime.

The first 13 Recipients of the Mexican Border Defense Medal, honoring our military men and women for their central role in the protection of our border. America celebrated Bill of Rights Day this week and President Trump signed an Executive Order for an historic commitment for Enduring American Space Superiority for American leadership in space and NASA along with our commercial and international partners will be a big part of that. Secretary McMahon announced the Presidential 1776 Award for High School students to engage in friendly competition on their knowledge of our nation’s founding ideals.

Nine more pharmaceutical companies agreed to Most Favored Nation pricing for many of their pharmaceutical products and President Trump promised to call a meeting of the ACA Health Insurance Companies to see if they would be willing to do the same thing as these nine pharmaceutical companies to give Americans drastically reduced healthcare premiums, because they have gotten very rich from Obamacare, and President Trump is considering bypassing them all together and giving the money directly to the American people. Marijuana was reclassified as a Schedule III from a Schedule I drug by Executive Order this week. Something that needed to happen for years, it will allow it to be studied to determine better guidance for doctors and therapists. It was pointed out that it is not legalizing it, but lowering it a couple notches on the criminal scale. On the other side of the scale, fentanyl was officially designated as a weapon of mass destruction. The Executive Order formally classifying illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) “No bomb does what this is doing. Around 300,000 people die because of this every year- That’s why I’m taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country.”

To thank our Military, President Trump has sent each one a Warrior Dividend of $1776. We Love our Military and thank them for all they do to help keep us safe and protected. God Bless our Men and Women in uniform. Well deserved a hundred times over.

Strong steps forward this week number 48. The promise of better health, greater education, training for exciting new work that pioneers new frontiers stands in front of us. Christmas and Hannukah celebrations abound. There is real hope for America. The Golden Age is real. Believe it and believe in it. Say a prayer of gratitude for the miracles we are witnessing now. Don’t believe the negative media. Let Peace and Hope fill your Heart. God isn’t letting us down. He is opening up a whole new Golden Experience for us.

Let’s take a look at what happened this week:

12192025 President Trump Holds a Rally in Rocky Mount, NC

12192025 Nine More Pharmaceutical Companies Agree to Most Favored Nations Pricing

2.5 million people flooded into our country unchecked under the Biden Administration.
Now it costs people a million dollars to come into the country.
Now the companies are able to buy The Trump Gold Card for a million dollars
Reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before and will continue to be reduced-by hundreds of thousands of people.
100% of our new jobs are in the private sector- record setting number of jobs.
Millions of government workers had government jobs and never showed up for their job
Joined by 9 of the most pharmaceutical companies – offering their drugs at most favored nations prices. All foreign countries agreeing to do it.
These companies are donating drugs for free to Medicaid and for the National Drug Bank.
POTUS commended them for doing the right thing here.
Secretary Kennedy: “I can tell you by the end of this term, 95% of the drugs, we will have MFN. In other words, Americans will be paying the lowest price in the world for 95% of drugs.”
POTUS will call a meeting with the health insurance companies in the next couple days and see if they will be willing to cut their prices for the American people way down. (50-80%) Maybe we can have reasonable healthcare without cutting them out completely. They have made an insane amount of money and gotten hugely rich off from the ACA and the American people.
POTUS declined press questions at the end. Wanted this powerful, clean message to stand.

12192025 Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks to the Press

*This is an incredible value of information.

12182025 President Trump Signs an Executive Order to reclassify marijuana as a less harmful drug

POTUS: “I’m pleased to announce that I will be signing an Executive Order to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance with legitimate medical uses.”
Secretary Kennedy: “This is a scientific question that has divided our country for many, many years… Five administrations have promised to act on this issue- this will finally allow us to study this issue and to answer these questions for the American people.”
Dan K. Wiley, National commander of The American Legion, on this EO to reschedule marijuana to a Schedule III controlled substance: “I want to thank you on behalf of the veterans who are going to benefit from potentially the research regarding this issue.”
This is not legalizing marijuana, it is lowering it down a couple of notches on the criminal scale. It’s kind of crazy that it is in the same category as fentanyl & heroin.
To determine better guidance for doctors and therapists. To rewrite the way research is done on cannabis to produce valuable knowledge, which was sorely needed.
Fact Sheet (Find it here to read more)

Announcement of 2026 Patriot Games for America’s 250th Birthday next year

12172025 President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation

Warrior Dividends: Every soldier is receiving a check for $1776 and the checks are on the way.
Drug Costs will be plummeting downward. TrumpRx.gov
The Insurance money should go directly to the people.
I’ve settled 8 wars in 10 months
“Next year, you will also see the results of the largest tax cuts in American history… many families will be saving between $11,000 and $20,000 dollars a year, and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time.”
“Already, I’ve secured a record-breaking $18 trillion dollars of investment into the United States—which means Jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings, and far greater national security.”
- – Factory worker wages up $1,300
- – Construction worker wages up $1,800
- – Mining worker wages up $3,300
Under the Biden administration, Car prices rose 22%, and in many states 30% or more. Gasoline rose 30 to 50%. Hotel rates rose 37%. Airfares rose 31%. Now, under our leadership, they are all coming down and coming down fast.”
In the New Year I will announce new housing reforms. The rise in housing prices was due to the invasion at the border.

“1,450,000 military service members will receive a special we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas… in honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776.” – President Donald J. Trump

12162025 Hanukkah Reception at The White House

Hannukah is the celebration of Miracles, the possibility of Miracles and God’s Love and Provision of Light in our world.

12152025 White House Oval Office Awarding Mexican Border Defense Medal and EO Signing Designating Fentanyl as a WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction)

“Today we’re here to honor our military men & women for their central role in the protection of our border. …We went from having millions of people pouring over our border to NONE in the last 8 months.” He awarded the newly established Mexican Border Defense Medal to U.S. service members for their extraordinary work. President Trump signed an EO formally classifying illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) “No bomb does what this is doing. Around 300,000 people die because of this every year- That’s why I’m taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country.”
“With the help of our great service members we’ve STOPPED the invasion in its tracks, we’re dismantling the cartels & they’re being declared enemies of the USA.”
- —25,000 Warriors Bravely Serving In This Op
- —13,000 Patrols Along the Border
- —ENDED Catch & Release
- —DESIGNATED Drug Cartels as Terrorist Orgs
POTUS spoke to Russian President Putin recently. The end of the Russia/Ukraine war is closer than we ever have been.
POTUS: “I had a long talk with President Zelenskyy, the heads of Germany, Italy, NATO, Finland, France, the UK, Poland, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands- Things are going pretty well.”
POTUS: The Governor of Colorado is controlled by the Cartel, Tren De Aragua – He won’t allow Tina Peters out of Jail who Caught them Cheating in the 2020 Election.
POTUS on the death of Rob Reiner: “I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He had something called Trump Derangement Syndrome- I thought he was very bad for our country. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner in any way shape or form.”
Reporter asked why we still have troops in Syria. POTUS: “Because we are trying to make sure that there will be and remain piece in the Middle East. Syria is a big part of it. The new leader is a strong person- that’s what you need. This is a rough part of the world. It’s been amazing what has taken place in Syria.”

The First 13 Recipients of the Mexican Border Defense Medal

President Trump and the First Lady give their condolences to the victims of the recent shootings.

President Trump Pays his Respects to the 2 Iowa National Guardsmen

Honoring Our Soldiers On Their Forever Watch

Please Reach Out to Veterans During the Holidays

The Kennedy Center will now be named The Trump-Kennedy Center

Holiday Traditions

The Green Room

President Trump Signs the National Defense Authorization Act into Law (Read the Statement)

Happy Birthday Space Force

Energy

Alaska LNG Pipeline Ahead of Schedule

Ramping up natural gas production. A vote on H.R. 3668 (the Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act) took place on December 12, 2025.

Economy and Trade

End of year inflation numbers are pleasantly surprising economists. Kevin Moore: “November CPI inflation FALLS to 2.7% – below expectations of 3.1%. This is good news for Wall Street, Main Street, and for future rate cuts. A Christmas gift for Americans and proof that President Trump’s economic policies deliver results.”

Wall Street Projections were not close

Reuters not giving any credit for the good news and attributing to “Technical”

(from this article) “Economist and originator of the famed Laffer curve, Art Laffer, spoke exclusively to Just The News and stated it this way: ‘Tariffs do not raise overall prices simply because the increase in the domestic prices of imports (products more efficiently produced abroad) are offset by the fall in domestic prices of formerly exported products (more efficiently produced domestically.)’

The pushback Trump received while enacting his agenda may have been driven by the desires of his political foes and others with differing economic policy ideas. Trump repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for his refusal to lower interest rates. John McLaughlin, pollster and strategic consultant, spoke to this deep-seated opposition and told Just The News.” (read more)

Unemployment

The 2025 Tax Season is going to be Huge

Trump Accounts

Secretary Bessent Explains That Trump Accounts are a Gift From President Trump. By retirement, Trump Accounts can grow to over $600,000 dollars. That is an amazing thing. Secretary Bessent: “The S&P has grown at a rate of 10.5% each year on average since the 1950s. Assuming that growth rate continues, a single $1,000 deposit into a Trump Account at birth will grow to over $600,000 by the age of retirement.”

U.S. ~ UK Tech Deal Stalled

Tariffs

Tariffs Have Helped Reduce the Trade Deficit by Half

U.S. Manufacturing

Another Failed Pentagon Audit

Investigations

Epstein Files (see the latest files that were released 12/19/2025 here)

Minnesota Fraud

Election Fraud

Mar-A-Lago Raid

Brown University Shooting

Senator Tuberville honors Ella Cook

The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect entered the United States through a diversity lottery immigrant visa program in 2017.

Justice

Open Air Drug Market Takedown in NYC

Bolton Indictment

Activist Judge Sentenced for Helping Illegal Immigrant Evade ICE agents

The Media

Here he is explaining what the BBC did and how he was going to handle it.

President Trump sat down for an exclusive interview with GB News and exposes the BBC.

Susie Wiles Vanity Fair Article

PRESS SEC: “I would just echo my boss Susie Wiles, who is the best chief of staff in our nation’s history, working for the greatest President in our nation’s history, and that this was unfortunately another attempt at fake news by a reporter who was acting disingenuously.” “President Trump has accomplished more in 11 months than most Presidents do in eight years because of his vision and his tenacity, which is executed on and facilitated by our great Susie Wiles whom I’m very proud to call a boss and a mentor and a friend.”

Dan Bongino Leaving the FBI to go Back to His Podcast

Peace Negotiations

Peace Meeting in Miami Taking Place this Weekend

Russia is Fighting Against S*tanism. President Putin explains.

President Putin made his famous statement that the “Vampire’s Ball was ending” in March of 2024.

Please see my article on the Biolabs in Ukraine and Crimes Against Children.

Russia is Looking Forward to Their Bright Future

Israel

Secretary of State Rubio Meets with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

Peace, Protection and Trade Partnership Agreement Signed between U.S. and Paraguay

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Paraguayan officials this week in Washington, D.C. He met with Paraguayan Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano to sign a historic Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which establishes a framework for U.S. military and civilian personnel activities in Paraguay, focusing on security cooperation, training, humanitarian aid, and combating transnational crime.

Proclamation Signed to Restrict and Limit Entry of Foreign Nationals (Fact Sheet here)

U.S. CENTCOM M.E. Christmas

Protecting our Country

War on Cartels: Venezuela

Nobel Prize Winner Maria Corina Machado Dedicated her Nobel Prize to President Trump and had this to say about what is happening in Venezuela

Julian Assange, Founder of WikiLeaks, has filed a Criminal Complaint against the Nobel Prize Committee saying that giving the 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is appropriating $1.18 million USD Award for war, violating Alfred Nobel’s will mandating awards for peace. The reason he is saying that she is using the money for war, is because of her public endorsement of U.S. strikes on civilian vessels, killing at least 95 people per UN reports, and dedicating the prize to President Trump for prioritizing Venezuela as a national security issue. Official Summary of the Criminal Complaint can be found here.

President Trump Declared War on the Cartels shortly after being elected. See my article here.

SecWar Hegseth on the Venezuelan narco-terrorist strikes: “A highly successful mission to counter designated terrorist organizations… poisoning the American people for far too long. We’re proud of what we’re doing.”

Congressman Tim Burchett on the Congressional Briefing on the legality of the narco-terrorist strikes in and around Venezuela by SecWar Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He confirmed that the strikes are 100% legal.

Marco Rubio and SecWar Pete Hegseth spoke to the Press following their briefing on Capitol Hill. The narco strikes are not stopping. They are ongoing. They explained that we are dismantling terror infrastructure in our own hemisphere. Groups that are poisoning Americans every day. This mission is working. It is already saving lives.

Tim Sheehy on the Legality

Democratic Senator John Fetterman on the Venezuelan Oil Tanker Blockade

More Strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats

President Trump on America’s Blockade on Oil Tankers: Venezuela Has Been Stealing America’s oil rights

Rep. Thomas Massie’s Opinion on Seizing Venezuelan Oil Tankers: He references Venezuela seizing control of Orinoco Belt heavy oil projects from U.S. firms like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips without full compensation, leading to international arbitration awards exceeding $10 billion that Venezuela has largely unpaid, including through U.S. court-ordered sales of CITGO assets.

Operation Hawkeye Strike in Syria Begins

Terrorists in America: How the Biden Administration Brought Terrorists into our Country

Cartel Beef Smuggling

National Guard and Task Forces

Social Security

Health

Lyme Disease

The full 3 hr Lyme Disease Roundtable is here:

Points covered in this roundtable are:

Opening by Secretary Kennedy: Shared personal/family experiences with Lyme; criticized past HHS denial; announced new Centers of Excellence, physician education, and renewal of LIMAX Innovation Accelerator.
Patient and advocate stories: Panelists (including Rep. Chris Smith, patients, founders) discussed misdiagnosis, chronic symptoms, gaslighting, and impacts on families.
Provider and researcher perspectives: Doctors highlighted psychiatric/neurological effects, overlaps with long COVID/ME/CFS, co-infections, and limitations of current antibody tests.Diagnostics innovations: Better tests for active infection/persistence (AI-enhanced, multiomics, rapid assays, single-molecule detection); need beyond serology.
Treatment approaches: Repurposed/novel antibiotics, immune modulation, holistic methods; drug screening and clinical trials.
Prevention and policy: Tick awareness campaigns, CDC guideline updates, insurance/Medicare coverage for chronic care, reauthorization of Tick Act, vaccine development.
Research and HHS commitments: Funding for biobanks, AI/data aggregation, patient-centered precision health; aim to solve Lyme as a major chronic illness.

“For decades, Americans suffering from Lyme disease have been denied the accurate diagnostics and meaningful care they deserve. Today’s actions push us decisively toward reliable testing and treatment grounded in the real-world experiences of patients. We are committed to delivering the tools that families have waited far too long to receive.” —Secretary Kennedy

H.R 3492 The Protect Children’s Innocence Act passes

HHS Protecting America’s Children

HHS Press Conference on Protecting Children

Designating Men and Women

The Entire Press Conference

ICE, Border Security and Immigration

Border Czar Tom Homan makes a plea to all those who are slandering and disparaging the men and women in uniform who are working to make our country safer and rescuing children. “I’m asking politicians, governors, and mayors — STOP going after ICE and Border Patrol.” “These men and women are PATRIOTS. Period.” He doesn’t want any more of his Officers killed because politicians, governors, mayors and the media are trying to make them look like criminals. It is a dangerous thing to do to manipulate public thinking like that for political agenda.

Border Czar Tom Homan Thanking President Trump

Border Patrol also patrols what comes in and out of our country. Many human trafficking victims are moved via shipping containers or inside of vehicles as cargo. These highly trained specialists find them and save them.

Bill passes House to prevent migrant children from being placed with sponsors with criminal histories.

According to DHS Secretary Noem, 129,000 of the missing children have been located. Please support the efforts to track down and rescue these children. Please call your political leaders urging them to support and facilitate these important life-saving operations.

Child Trafficking and Exploitation

Good Things and Opportunities

The VA Announcing a Reorganization

“VHA’s reorganization will incorporate this feedback by reducing duplicative management layers and putting the right people in the right places without reducing staff. As part of the reorganization:

VHA Central Office will have responsibility for setting policy goals and conducting financial management, oversight and compliance.
Operations Centers and Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) will take policy direction from VHA’s Central Office to develop operational, quality and performance standards that will guide VA’s more than 1,300 medical facilities.
These changes will result in clearer guidance and more decision-making authority for VA Health Care Systems, which deliver health care through more than 170 medical centers and nearly 1,200 outpatient sites of care.
Staffing and operations at VA medical centers and clinics will not be changing as part of this reorganization.

VHA’s reorganization will better position the organization to focus on care delivery — not bureaucracy — and result in more defined roles and faster decision-making for all VHA employees.” (Read more)

Thanking the Merchant Marines

The Presidential 1776 Award

Buy direct from Beef Ranchers

NASA Executive Order Signed

“And that’s (almost) a wrap on Day One. Today, President Trump signed a historic commitment to American leadership in space and NASA along with our commercial and international partners will deliver. .. Today, President Trump established the most significant national space policy since the Kennedy era.” -Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces that he is donating his salary to the Space Camps Program.

Celebrating Bill of Rights Day

One of the most remarkable things about the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution) is that it was not part of the original Constitution drafted in 1787. The framers initially omitted explicit protections for individual liberties, believing the Constitution’s structure sufficiently limited federal power. However, strong opposition from Anti-Federalists—who feared a too-powerful central government without safeguards—forced its addition as a compromise to secure ratification. James Madison, who had initially opposed a bill of rights, drafted the amendments, drawing heavily from state declarations (like Virginia’s) and English precedents. This makes it a pivotal post-ratification achievement that explicitly enumerates fundamental freedoms, such as speech, religion, and due process, which are now cornerstone protections in American law.

Week 48 War Department Recap

The Team

FLOTUS

The movie Melania News Report announcing the debut of the trailer.

Trailer for Melania The Movie

Commander-in-Chief

President Donald J. Trump honors the brave military men and women for their vital role in securing America’s southern border and defending our nation’s sovereignty—awarding them the historic Mexican Border Defense Medal.