Vice President J.D. Vance blasted the courts after several blocked President Donald Trump's immigration policies that the American people support, the Daily Wire reported. Vance expressed his outrage about this during an interview with Ross Douthat at the New York Times.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump made it clear that he would crack down on illegal immigration. He has kept that promise from day one of his presidency, including invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport dangerous illegal immigrant gang members.
However, the courts have attempted to thwart these policies at every turn. Vance spoke at length about this with Douthat on his "Interesting Times" podcast, which was released on Monday.
Vance took exception with the judiciary, mostly for its unwillingness to listen to the will of the people. "You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for," Vance told Douthat.
"And that’s where we are right now," the vice president added. Vance promised that they were going to continue to fight, however. "We’re gonna keep working it through the immigration court process, through the Supreme Court as much as possible," Vance said.
"And look, success to me is not so much a number, though obviously I’d love to see the gross majority of the illegal immigrants who came in under Biden deported. That actually is a secondary metric of success," he added, speaking about then-President Joe Biden's lax immigration enforcement.
"Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with, and that we have the infrastructure to do what allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens when large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country. That to me is real success," Vance added.
Vance believes the only way to get this done is through cooperation with the courts. However, the administration has met particular resistance with its decision to use the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump has attempted to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to swiftly remove illegal immigrants who are gang members from the U.S. As CNN reported, the Supreme Court again blocked its use in a decision Friday.
Vance believes this is a mistake because legal immigrants are the most invested in rooting out dangerous criminals in the migrant community. "One thing I’d love for the American media to do a little bit more is really go to a migrant community where you have, say, 60% legal immigrants and 40% illegal immigrants," Vance explained.
"The level of chaos, the level of violence, the level of, I think, truly pre-modern brutality that some of these communities have gotten used to — whatever law was written, I think it vests us with the power to take very serious action against this," he explained.
"It’s bad, it’s bad. It’s worse than people appreciate," Vance said. He warned naysayers not to "filter" how they feel about immigration enforcement with the fact that Trump and Vance are the ones who wish to do it.
Americans voted to fix the problems with illegal immigration, and Vance is correct that the courts are working against that end. The good news is that the Trump administration will surely press on until the problem is properly addressed, just as they promised.
The Senate confirmed New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner, the father of President Trump's son-in-law Charles Kushner, to be ambassador to France.
Kushner was confirmed 51-45, overcoming scrutiny of his past convictions for tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions. President Trump pardoned Kushner in December 2020, citing his charitable work.
Kushner was prosecuted by then-U.S. attorney Chris Christie for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.
The witness tampering charge stemmed from Kushner's effort to blackmail his brother-in-law by hiring a prostitute to seduce him. Kushner spent two years in federal prison for his crimes.
Kushner expressed remorse for his past to the Senate, saying he had learned from his mistakes.
“I don’t sit here before you today and tell you I’m a perfect person,” Kushner told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing. “I am not a perfect person.”
“I made a very, very, very serious mistake, and I paid a very heavy price for that mistake,” he said. “I think that my past mistakes actually make me better with my judgment, better in my view of life, better in my values to really make me more qualified to do this job.”
New Jersey Democratic senator Cory Booker, a regular Trump critic, voted to confirm Kushner. He was the only Democrat to do so.
Kushner, a New Jersey real estate mogul, supported Booker's political career early on in Newark, backing his first unsuccessful bid to be mayor of the city, as reported by the New Jersey Globe.
Booker defended his vote for Kushner, pointing to Kushner's work on the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law signed by Trump in his first term.
“I have passionate differences and disagreements with Charlie Kushner, but I supported his confirmation because he has been unrelenting in reforming our criminal justice system and has substantively helped achieve the liberation of thousands of people from unjust incarceration,” Kushner said.
At his confirmation hearing, Kushner acknowledged Booker for his "special and close friendship."
Trump called Kushner, the founder of Kushner Companies, a "tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker" while announcing his nomination for the ambassadorial post.
Kushner's son Jared is the husband of Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter. Jared and Ivanka served as top advisers in the first Trump White House but opted not to return for Trump's second term.
Malia Obama has been accused of stealing a scene from an indie filmmaker in her new Nike commercial.
The commercial, which depicts two black girls playing patty cake on some front steps, is "shockingly similar" to a scene in the short film Grace, says director Natalie Jasmine Harris.
Harris told Business Insider that Obama used the same techniques and camera angles to duplicate the scene in Grace.
"It’s not about the game. It’s about the cinematic tools used to depict it,” Harris told Business Insider.
While acknowledging that plagiarism can sometimes be fuzzy, Harris shared a side-by-side comparison to prove her point.
“I know art often overlaps, but moments like this hit hard when you’ve poured your heart into telling stories with care and barely get the recognition you deserve," she wrote on X.
"If brands want a certain look, why not hire from the source instead of for name recognition."
Been sitting with this for a while. My Sundance short film GRACE (shot brilliantly by Tehillah de Castro) was made with deep love and care. The social cut of the new @Nike commercial directed by Malia Obama (who was also at Sundance my year) feels shockingly similar to my work… pic.twitter.com/iy2N2krpQN
— Natalie Jasmine Harris (@nataliejharris) May 6, 2025
Obama and Harris met at the Sundance Film Festival last year, where Grace was screened.
According to Harris, Obama's commercial is part of a bigger problem with nepotism in the film industry rewarding derivative or uninspired artists.
“It speaks to a larger issue of brands not supporting independent artists and opting for folks who already have name recognition, which doesn’t breed innovative films or original storytelling,” said Harris.
Malia Obama dropped her famous last name for her film career, going by Malia Ann. The move was teasingly dismissed by her father, former president Barack Obama, who acknowledged that there is no real way for his two daughters to hide who they are.
The former president insisted his daughters are "stubborn" about making their own way in the world.
“I think our daughters go out of their way to not try to leverage that,” he said of his last name. “The challenge for us is letting us give them any help at all,” Barack said. “I mean they’re very sensitive about this stuff. They’re very stubborn about it.”
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), tasked with protecting the American workforce, has increasingly outsourced its core operations, including the development of its immigration systems, to private contractors who employ foreign workers on H-1B visas.
But the problem runs deeper than outsourcing.
The online system known as the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) is now central to processing H-1B Visas for nonimmigrant workers in specialty occupations, as well as the Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) process that enables foreign workers, including H-1B holders, to obtain green cards and remain in the U.S. through employer sponsorship.
While this platform serves as the gatekeeper for employment-based visas, it has quietly been outsourced to private contractors, many of whom actively hire H-1B visa workers themselves. In other words, foreign workers are now engineering and overseeing the same system that governs their own visa approvals.
This raises a fundamental conflict of interest. How can a system that exists to protect the interests of American labor be entrusted to contractors who profit from importing foreign labor? And how can Americans trust that the system hasn't been quietly optimized to favor those it was meant to regulate?
Let that sink in.
This is not a hypothetical issue. Industry experts, along with data published by the Department of Labor (DOL), confirm that many of the DOL's core systems, as well as those of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are being developed by firms that depend on imported labor. This situation provides foreign workers not only access to America's immigration gatekeeping infrastructure but also valuable insights into how the system functions, who is applying and how to enhance their chances of approval.
And it shows.
A foreign-run website called PERMtimeline.com is now publishing real-time case data, status changes and analytics on Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) filings, information that is not available to the American public through any official government source. The site openly admits it uses DOL's internal query systems to feed its dashboard. That raises a serious question: How are they getting access to this data and who inside the system is enabling it?
"Welcome to PERM Timeline! We are dedicated to providing the most current processing time information for PERM applications (Form ETA-9089). As immigrants ourselves, we deeply understand the uncertainty and stress associated with this process.
"Our platform utilizes the Department of Labor's query system to deliver accurate and timely data on PERM applications submitted after June 2023… This enhancement ensures that you receive the most reliable information to navigate your PERM application process with greater certainty and confidence."
The Department of Labor intends to provide Americans with "transparency" by making these applications available through their Performance Data. However, it is important to note, as stated in the Department's data disclosure statements and confirmed by users, that the information released for public review is only accessible after a final determination has been made on each application, covering only a portion of submissions.
For instance, the case disclosure files encompass determinations issued between October 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024, while the PERM Timeline includes application data as early as April 30, 2025. To address any concerns regarding the authenticity of the data, it has been verified for accuracy and authentication by the Department of Justice.
Recent changes within the FLAG system only deepen these concerns. In a February 2025 update to the FLAG platform, the agency introduced a rule allowing employers to quietly withdraw a case even after requesting review, so long as it hasn't been forwarded to BALCA (the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals). Once that happens, the case disappears. It is scrubbed from oversight, hidden from future audits and never made public.
This change allows employers to quietly erase evidence of failed labor certification attempts, shielding potential misuse of the system from public accountability. It makes it significantly harder for oversight bodies and American job seekers to monitor abuse, track trends, or understand the true scope of visa-based hiring.
At the same time, key data detailed on the Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) Form 9089, that was once made public by the DOL has been removed.
In its revised disclosure datasets, the DOL has removed key fields that previously allowed policymakers, oversight bodies and the public to monitor employer compliance with labor certification rules. These changes are not minor. They obscure core indicators of potential fraud, bad-faith recruitment and systemic discrimination against U.S. workers.
This disparity raises serious questions. Who is enabling access to internal DOL data? Are foreign workers within DOL-contracted firms providing preferential insights to immigrant communities or immigration-focused platforms? And why has the federal agency responsible for labor protections chosen opacity over transparency?
Why this matters
These details were essential for analyzing whether employers were inflating job criteria to eliminate American applicants and tailor job descriptions around pre-selected foreign candidates. Without this data, watchdog groups and analysts can no longer investigate whether job requirements were structured to evade fair recruitment standards.
In short, Americans are locked out, while foreign nationals, through H-1B-staffed contractors and immigrant-run platforms, have front-row seats, insider access and algorithmic control over America's labor pipeline.
This isn't just a technical issue. It's a national betrayal.
When the system designed to protect American labor is built and run by those who benefit from its exploitation, there is no oversight, only surrender. This is no longer just a question of technology. It is a question of sovereignty, accountability and whether the federal government is still acting in the best interest of its own citizens. A system built on secrecy, developed by foreign labor and designed without public oversight is not a secure system. It is a compromised one.
Congress, state attorneys general and the American public must demand an immediate return of full labor data transparency, a forensic audit of FLAG system access and a formal investigation into contractor practices and data handling.
Stay tuned for more updates on the Department of Labor as we continue our investigation.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A congressional delegation, Reps. Tony Wied, Derrick Van Orden, Thomas Tiffany, Bryan Steil, Glenn Grothman and Scott Fitzgerald, all of Wisconsin, is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to end a program imposed under the Joe Biden administration that discriminates, unlawfully, against victims based on race and sex.
The case concerns Adam Faust, a dairy farmer from Chilton, Wisconsin.
"Mr. Faust has been subjected to protected class-based discrimination by USDA. Specifically, he is ineligible for certain USDA programs based on his race and sex," the members explained in a letter to Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump's secretary of Agriculture.
The delegation points out that Trump, in fact, "has taken bold and decisive action to eliminate racially discriminatory policies within the executive branch." And the letter said USDA should comply with orders to "eliminate racially discriminatory policies … ."
The problem, the letter explains, is that, "Mr. Faust is ineligible for loan guarantees and grants on equal terms with non-white farmers. Mr. Faust is also charged a fee for the Dairy Margin Coverage Program, while non-white farmers are not. He is one of the 2 million white male American farmers—representing more than 60% of all American farmers—who are still subject to lasting discriminatory policies instituted by the Biden administration."
The letter said, "Mr. Faust's case is particularly worthy of your attention because this is not the first time he has been subjected to USDA's race-based policies. He was the first farmer in America to challenge President Biden and his administration's discriminatory and unconstitutional $4 billion farmer loan forgiveness program. Mr. Faust won a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO)—the first in the country —halting President Biden's racially selective loan forgiveness initiative."
The delegating is seeking a review of the situation and "prompt reform" of potentially discriminatory programs.
According to the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, which has worked on the case, The Trump administration "has taken many commendable steps to root out race discrimination in many agencies; however, race-based policies and programs persist. USDA is the worst offender, running over two dozen race-based programs that unconstitutionally discriminate against farmers and ranchers every day."
Dan Lennington, deputy counsel for WILL, said, "While the Trump administration has made progress against government-sponsored discrimination, the USDA remains a glaring holdout, inflicting economic pain on millions of farmers based on their race. This isn't just bad policy, it's a blatant violation of the Constitution. We commend the Wisconsin delegation for their support of Mr. Faust and farmers across Wisconsin."
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed an investigation into the Biden administration's use of the autopen, the electronic presidential signature device, as he said, "This government was illegally run for four years."
As Trump appeared at the U.S. Capitol to rally support for his "big, beautiful bill" to lower taxes, Trump discussed at length the problems created by a mentally incapacitated Biden.
"We're gonna start looking into this whole thing with who signed this legislation," Trump began.
"Who signed legislation opening our border? I don't think he knew. I said there's nobody that could want an open border. Nobody. And now I find out that it wasn't him. He autopenned it.
"Who was operating the autopen? This is a very serious thing. We had a president that didn't sign anything and he autopenned almost everything.
"He opened the borders go the United States, and I kept saying who would do such a thing, allowing criminals to pour in from all over the world? Not just South America … they came in from Africa, they came in from Asia, they came from the Congo. The prisons in the Congo in Africa, these are rough, rough people. The prisons from the Congo are empty. You know where they are? They're in this country.
"Who would sign this? Nobody would sign it. No sane person would sign it. You know who signed it? Radical left lunatics that were running our country and the autopen signed it.
"And they didn't want him (Biden), and they were disappointed in getting him because they wanted Bernie Sanders. And then, after about two weeks, they said, 'Wait a minute. This is a gift. He'll do anything. We're gonna use the autopen.'
"And they used the autopen on everything. He didn't approve this stuff, because when Joe Biden was with it, he would never have approved it. You take a look. He would never have approved open borders."
Trump also noted: "Open borders allowed 21 million people in our country, and many of this people are stone-cold murderers."
"The Democrats are destroying our country," he continued, as he was optimistic about his tax cuts being approved.
"This is bigger than any Ronald Reagan tax cut," he explained. "This is the biggest tax cut in the history of our country, or you'll get a 68% tax increase."
"It's the biggest bill ever passed, and we gotta get it done. Tremendous tax cuts for people, tremendous incentives, tremendous regulation cuts … regulations that are so horrible."
He also said there would be no cuts to Medicare or Medicaid.
"We're not touching anything. We don't want any waste fraud and abuse. … Waste, fraud and abuse, that's all we're cutting."
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A school district has launched a war against slips of paper containing Bible verses that a student brought to share with classmates during non-instructional time.
And it could end up facing court time for its choices.
It is the American Center for Law and Justice, in a report by Executive Director Jordan Sekulow, that profiled the situation involving an unidentified student attending school in Killeen, Texas.
"The school district's actions amount to unlawful suppression of religious speech, and concerns over parental complaints are not sufficient grounds to override constitutional protections. The ACLJ intends to ensure that Killeen ISD is held accountable for what we describe as clear-cut religious viewpoint discrimination. Killeen ISD has until May 22 to respond to our demand, or we will proceed with legal action," the report said.
The situation developed when the client, a 5th-grader with special needs, brought handwritten Bible verses with her.
They were confiscated, first by a principal and then a second time by a teacher, "and treated like dangerous contraband," the report said.
"She was left heartbroken, confused, and in tears. The ACLJ has taken action on her behalf."
The girl wanted to share her faith and spread a message of hope and encouragement, so she hand-wrote Bible verses on slips of paper.
She offered one to her principal, "who immediately confiscated all the verses," the ACLJ reported.
"While confiscating her Bible verse slips, the principal misled our client into thinking that they would personally share the verses with others who might be 'having a bad day.' Instead, the principal confiscated the verses and simply refused to return them until the next day," the report said.
The next day, the student tried to give a verse to her teacher, "'Only to be sternly instructed to stop."
The student's mother had explained to school officials that her daughter had a "constitutional right to distribute religious literature and share her joy and faith during non-class time."
In return officials cited a district policy banning the distribution of religious literature entirely, and referenced a website-posted policy that said distributing any non-school material required a principal's approval, "a standard that conflicts with established religious liberty under the First Amendment," the ACLJ reported.
The report explained the problem for the school is its posted practice.
"Not only does this violate settled Supreme Court precedent, which says that a student's religious liberty rights are not shed at the 'schoolhouse gate,' but the policy also violates the Establishment Clause as it would require the principal – in this case, an agent of the government – to decide what religious speech is appropriate. That requires the school to engage in textbook viewpoint discrimination, rendering the policy unconstitutional."
While schools are allowed to place time and place restrictions on distribution of such materials, they "cannot impinge upon a student's rights and create a total ban on student speech."
The ACLJ explained it sent a demand letter to the school seeking confirmation of its adherence to the Constitution.
Or "legal action" can proceed.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Billions of dollars from the American economy are sent outside of its boundaries every year.
They are remittances sent by workers inside the United States, legal or not, to recipients, mostly families, in those other countries.
For example, the World Bank documents that those remittances account for about 17% of the entire GDP of Northern Central America.
India gets some $32 billion a year.
In Mexico, those funds make up a full 4.5% of the nation's entire GDP.
Those interests, obviously, oppose a plan being considered by Republicans in Congress to tax that cash stream.
"Remittances are the fruit of the efforts of those who, through their honest work, strengthen not only the Mexican economy but also the United States', which is why we consider this measure to be arbitrary and unjust," charged Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
But according to a report from the Daily Caller News Foundation, it's under consideration.
The present version of the GOP reconciliation bill to implement Trump's policies would tax those funds 5%.
That would be for non-citizens or foreign national senders who dispatch money outside the U.S.
"The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the tax will generate more than $22 billion in revenue over a decade, which Republicans expect will help fund other parts of President Donald Trump's agenda, including extending the tax cuts enacted during Trump's first term," the report explained.
Not only is the idea seen as raising revenue for America, but combatting drug trafficking and illegal immigration as well.
"It's a two-fold win: taxing remittances will help slow down the cash flow to cartels and will also create a new revenue source we can use to build the wall and secure our border," Rep. Kevin Hern, of Oklahoma, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "We must be using every tool at our disposal to combat the cartels smuggling fentanyl into this country."
Remittances to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras all have soared from up to 20% in just the past few months, the report said.
White House spokesman Alex Pfeiffer said the tax plan would reduce the "pull" factor of attracting illegals to the U.S.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In the wake of criminal charges filed against a Democrat congresswoman involved in a scuffle at a federal ICE holding facility in New Jersey, a congressman on the House Homeland Security Committee is promising more unannounced visits in the future.
"I promise you there's gonna be more un-noticed visits by my colleagues where they show up and they better be let in," U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., told MSNBC on Tuesday.
Swalwell was commenting on the case of Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who is now facing federal charges for assaulting, impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers over when she barged into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility without permission.
"Representative LaMonica McIver assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111 (a)(1)," explained Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
"That conduct cannot be overlooked by the chief federal law enforcement official in the State of New Jersey, and it is my Constitutional obligation to ensure that our federal law enforcement is protected when executing their duties."
Eric "Red Line" Swalwell: Trump admin agencies not worthy of advance notice on ICE facility visits because they lie and doctor evidence —
— like they did with Abrego-Garcia who is now in a "death camp."
Swalwell promises more unannounced visits like McIver's are on the way. pic.twitter.com/kCpFZ5lsGK
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 20, 2025
Swalwell explained: "Typically, we would be able to give them notice when we visit a facility and the law says you don't have to give them notice. But they're not worthy of much of a heads-up because of the amount of lies that they've told the American people and the amount of lies that they've been called out on by judges across the country.
"And last week we saw in the Homeland Security Committee, Secretary [Kristi] Noem would not even acknowledge that they are detaining somebody indefinitely at a death camp in El Salvador based on Photoshopped, doctored evidence.
"And so, if they're willing to lie and doctor evidence to put someone in jail for an indefinite amount of time, we can't trust them. So we have to do our oversight duties, and she (McIver) was in the right to go and do that."
The congressman was referring to the case of deported criminal illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom many in the national news media simply refer to as a "Maryland father."
"That woman was out of control," said President Donald Trump Tuesday when asked about McIver's arrest during a visit to Capitol Hill. "The days of that crap are over in the country. We're gonna have law and order."
Swalwell is perhaps most infamous for his alleged relationship with a Chinese spy.
Political analyst Nate Silver sees a positive trend in approval ratings for President Donald Trump, Newsweek reported. Silver found that Trump has received a rebound in his numbers after gaining four points since last month.
Silver has a solid reputation for reading the tea leaves in politics. His track record suffered a hiccup when he predicted a close race in 2024 with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he favored.
That prediction was smashed to bits with Trump's runaway victory in both the Electoral College and popular vote. Still, Silver's methods are proven, which makes the good news he's sharing about Trump all the more encouraging.
Trump continues his slow rebound in the Silver Bulletin average. pic.twitter.com/yXfLd1Tanq
— Eli McKown-Dawson (@emckowndawson) May 20, 2025
In Silver's Substack called the Silver Bulletin, the statistician broke down the positive trend. His caveats included how difficult it is to pinpoint Trump's favorability in polls, but noted the upward trend.
In recent polls, Trump is showing a shift back to favorability. "His net approval rating in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll (-8) is up three points from where it was for the last two weeks (-11)," the post's co-author and fellow Silver Bulletin election analyst Eli McKown-Dawson wrote.
"And his approval rating is holding steady in the YouGov/Economist poll (-9 this week vs. -10 last week). The latest RMG Research poll — admittedly a firm with a strong Republican house effect — has Trump above water with a +4 net approval rating (it was tied in their poll last week)," the analysis went on, noting an across-the-board improvement.
"RMG also shows much higher approval for Trump’s handling of tariffs (net -1) than most other polls. As a result of these polls, Donald Trump’s net approval rating is up to -5.8 in the Silver Bulletin average," the post explained.
"That’s the highest it’s been since April 22nd, and up almost 4 points from Trump’s second term approval low-point on April 29th. Now, this could just be noise driven by a dearth of new polls," McKown-Dawson warned, "or it could be a reversal of the downward trend we’ve seen since the start of Trump’s term. We’ll have to wait for more data to find out," McKown-Dawson concluded.
Trump experienced a dip in his approval ratings after taking office, as is expected for most presidents. However, seeing a rebound son soon could indicate good things to come based on the policies he's feverishly implementing.
For instance, the president's approval numbers have remained positive for most of his second term on the immigration issue, but still dipped slightly. After reaching a second-term low of -2.3% on the issue on April 22, 2025, Trump now enjoys a 3.3% approval in polling averages.
Other issues like trade, the economy, and inflation all experienced a steady decline but have recently rebounded for the president. While implementing tariffs temporarily made his approval dip, other moves promise to help lift his numbers even more.
According to Fox News, Trump's recent trip to the Middle East yielded $2 trillion in investments for the U.S. from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. There is also talk of a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia that could be forthcoming.
There were so many times when Trump was counted out of the political arena, including his initial approval slippage. However, like he's done for the past 10 years, Trump continues to reemerge triumphant each time he's thought to be finished, and his supporters love him all the more for it.