https://www.scmp.com/rss/521936/feed Truth Social: An alt-tech social media platform, Truth Social is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, USA. Launched in February 2022, it offers a platform for sharing opinions and statements, akin to Twitter/X, with posts called "Truths". It primarily targets a conservative, predominantly US-based audience seeking an alternative to mainstream social networks, emphasising "free speech". While TMTG went public on Nasdaq in March 2024, the company... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump shared a video on his Truth Social network on Sunday of a television comedy skit portraying a terrified British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hoping to dodge a phone call with the American leader. The skit, broadcast on the premiere of the new British version of Saturday Night Live – adapted from the long-running US show – shows Starmer, played by George Fouracres, panicking inside 10 Downing Street at the prospect of a call with Trump. Starmer turns to a fake David... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347512/trump-reposts-saturday-night-live-video-mocking-starmer-truth-social?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347512/trump-reposts-saturday-night-live-video-mocking-starmer-truth-social?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:19:48 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan US President Donald Trump on Wednesday sharply criticised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the UK’s agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, warning the deal could create strategic vulnerabilities amid concerns about China’s growing ties with Mauritius. The deal, finalised in 2025 between Britain and Mauritius, would see Britain transfer sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius while securing a 99-year lease to maintain full operational control of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343944/trump-flip-flops-again-saying-uks-chagos-deal-would-be-big-mistake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343944/trump-flip-flops-again-saying-uks-chagos-deal-would-be-big-mistake?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:19:43 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Federal prosecutors failed to bring charges Tuesday against six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse illegal orders, outraging US President Donald Trump, who had called for jail time, US media reported. A federal grand jury composed of local citizens in Washington denied the Justice Department’s attempts to indict the lawmakers who posted a short video urging conscientious service, sources told The New York Times and The Washington Post. In the video posted to social media in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343148/us-grand-jury-rejects-charges-against-6-democrat-lawmakers-trump-wanted-jailed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343148/us-grand-jury-rejects-charges-against-6-democrat-lawmakers-trump-wanted-jailed?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:30:38 +0000 Agencies Agencies US President Donald Trump criticised American Olympic ‌skier Hunter Hess as a “real loser” on Sunday, days after the athlete expressed ‍mixed feelings about representing the United States at the Winter Olympics in northern Italy. Freestyle skier Hess was asked at a press conference on Wednesday how he felt about representing America at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, given acute US tension over violent immigration raids and other political crises. “There’s obviously a lot going on... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3342857/trump-insults-us-olympic-skier-hunter-hess-calling-freestyler-real-loser?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3342857/trump-insults-us-olympic-skier-hunter-hess-calling-freestyler-real-loser?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:27:26 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he was not surprised the Trump administration blocked his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the day before, saying it was another example of the US president trying to stifle dissent. “Is it surprising the Trump administration didn’t like my commentary and wanted to make sure that I was not allowed to speak? No,” said Newsom, who is weighing a 2028 presidential run. “It’s consistent with this administration and their... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340927/newsom-world-stage-davos-accuses-trump-trying-suppress-dissent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340927/newsom-world-stage-davos-accuses-trump-trying-suppress-dissent?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:18:36 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The United States has finalised a sale of Venezuelan oil – the first since Washington took control of the sector following the toppling of Nicolas Maduro, a US official told Agence France-Presse on Thursday. According to the official, who did not identify the buyer, the deal is worth US$500 million, and additional sales could take place in the coming days or weeks. “President Trump brokered a historic energy deal with Venezuela, immediately following the arrest of narcoterrorist Nicolas Maduro,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340069/washington-completes-first-sale-venezuelan-oil-us500-million-deal-says-us-official?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340069/washington-completes-first-sale-venezuelan-oil-us500-million-deal-says-us-official?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:20:31 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump on Sunday said no more Venezuelan oil or money would go to Cuba and suggested the Communist-run island should strike a deal with Washington, ramping ‍up pressure on the long-time US nemesis and provoking defiant words from the island’s leadership. Venezuela is Cuba’s biggest oil supplier, but no cargoes have departed from Venezuelan ports to the Caribbean country since the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro by US forces in early January amid a strict US oil... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3339517/trump-says-no-more-venezuelan-oil-or-money-go-cuba-pushes-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3339517/trump-says-no-more-venezuelan-oil-or-money-go-cuba-pushes-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:57:12 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse From AI deepfakes to recycled, outdated images, a surge of visual misinformation has inundated social media platforms after US forces seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a stunning raid on his Caracas home. Collectively racking up millions of views, the fake or misleading posts underscore a new digital reality in which hyperrealistic misinformation competes for attention with – and often drowns out – authentic images and videos following major news events. Soon after Maduro’s capture,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339097/ai-deepfakes-flood-social-media-after-dramatic-us-raid-maduro?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339097/ai-deepfakes-flood-social-media-after-dramatic-us-raid-maduro?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:00:19 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press In the wake of last weekend’s US military action in Venezuela, the US news media got something it has seldom heard from the Trump administration: a “thank you”. Secretary of State Marco Rubio credited news organisations that had learned in advance about last Saturday’s strike that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with not putting the mission in jeopardy by publicly reporting on it before it happened. Rubio’s acknowledgement was particularly noteworthy because US Defence... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338899/trump-team-praises-us-media-keeping-its-venezuela-raid-plan-secret?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338899/trump-team-praises-us-media-keeping-its-venezuela-raid-plan-secret?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:38:28 +0000 Reuters Reuters At 4.21am on Saturday, US President Donald Trump sent a message on his Truth Social ‌platform: the United States had carried out a daring mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The action came as a surprise, but according to sources familiar with the matter, ‍planning for one of the most complex US operations in recent memory had been in the works for months and included detailed rehearsals. Elite US troops, including the US Army’s Delta Force, created an exact... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3338645/inside-us-operation-venezuela-capture-president-nicolas-maduro?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3338645/inside-us-operation-venezuela-capture-president-nicolas-maduro?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:54:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump piled on criticism Wednesday of a decision to grant Hollywood superstar George Clooney French passports after a junior government official in Paris labelled the move a “double standard”. An official decree on Monday showed that 64-year-old Oscar winner Clooney, his wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney and their two children had become French citizens. Trump, whose administration has backed anti-immigration parties in Europe, said that Paris was welcome to the Ocean’s Eleven... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3338361/trump-takes-swipe-george-clooney-after-actor-obtains-french-citizenship?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3338361/trump-takes-swipe-george-clooney-after-actor-obtains-french-citizenship?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:32:08 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were “getting a lot closer, ‌maybe very close” to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, while acknowledging that the fate of the disputed Donbas region remained a key unresolved issue. The two leaders spoke at a joint news ‍conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Sunday afternoon. Both leaders reported progress on two of the most contentious issues in peace talks: security... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337959/trump-putin-do-not-support-european-ukrainian-temporary-ceasefire-idea-kremlin-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337959/trump-putin-do-not-support-european-ukrainian-temporary-ceasefire-idea-kremlin-says?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:03:23 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Donald Trump faced a storm of condemnation on Monday after posting “perverse” and “sick” remarks suggesting Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered because of the celebrated filmmaker’s criticism of the US president. Among those voicing shock were some staunch Trump loyalists, and the remarks triggered a wave of unusually negative responses on the Truth Social network he uses to communicate with his base. As tributes poured in, Trump claimed the Reiners had died “reportedly due to the anger” that... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336546/trump-condemned-saying-filmmaker-rob-reiner-brought-his-own-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336546/trump-condemned-saying-filmmaker-rob-reiner-brought-his-own-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:09:59 +0000 dpa dpa US President Donald Trump says the government will pay most citizens a “dividend” of at least US$2,000 each, in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday. Only high-income citizens are to be excluded, he wrote, without specifying income levels or a timeline. Trump’s post comes nearly a week after Democrats scored gains across the country in numerous local and state races, notably winning the governorships in New Jersey and Virginia and overturning Republican seats at a utility commission in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332123/trump-wants-pay-us-citizens-dividends-least-us2000-each?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332123/trump-wants-pay-us-citizens-dividends-least-us2000-each?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:08:41 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump endorsed former New York governor Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City on Monday and threatened to hold back federal funds to the city if Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election. Trump, a Republican who has offered frequent commentary on the New York mayoral election, injected himself further into the race by crossing party lines to support Cuomo over Mamdani and the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, who has trailed badly in public opinion... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331403/trump-backs-cuomo-threatens-cut-funds-new-york-city-if-mamdani-wins-mayoral-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331403/trump-backs-cuomo-threatens-cut-funds-new-york-city-if-mamdani-wins-mayoral-race?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:46:49 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen US President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs targeting imported branded pharmaceutical products would “barely dent” the operations of major Chinese drug makers, according to analysts. The new 100 per cent tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product would apply to all imports, according to Trump’s post on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday. Exemptions, however, would cover firms that have already broken ground on building a manufacturing plant in the US. Drugs... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327012/trumps-tariffs-imported-drugs-not-big-concern-chinas-pharma-firms-jefferies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327012/trumps-tariffs-imported-drugs-not-big-concern-chinas-pharma-firms-jefferies?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:00:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee in the United States has taken on sweeping political dimensions, with the American right denouncing Democrats’ supposed lack of action on crime as US President Donald Trump seeks to expand a crackdown. Iryna Zarutska, 23, was sitting quietly on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22 when she was attacked with no warning by a man sitting behind her, security video shows. Her murder made little national news last month but it recently surged... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324808/ukrainian-refugees-us-murder-fuels-political-debate-crime?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324808/ukrainian-refugees-us-murder-fuels-political-debate-crime?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:31:52 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Chinese President Xi Jinping said the nation was “unstoppable” as he opened a massive military parade in Beijing that displayed some of the country’s most advanced weaponry. North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin joined Xi and other world leaders in watching more than 10,000 troops and an assortment of hardware parade through Tiananmen Square. More than 100 helicopters, military planes and fighter jets also soared overhead at the event, which commemorated the 80th anniversary of... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3324173/chinas-display-military-might-adds-muscle-xi-diplomacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3324173/chinas-display-military-might-adds-muscle-xi-diplomacy?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:00:55 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma South Korea pledged US$150 billion to “Make America Shipbuilding Great Again” (MASGA) as part of a bilateral trade agreement, bolstering US President Donald Trump’s efforts to curb China’s dominance of the sector. The initiative helped South Korea secure a cut in Trump’s new reciprocal tariff to 15 per cent from the 25 per cent announced on “Liberation Day” in April (See the SCMP Plus Trump 2.0 tariffs tracker). The Asian nation also promised to invest US$200 billion in technology sectors, such... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3320673/trumps-china-shipyard-challenge-gets-korea-boost?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3320673/trumps-china-shipyard-challenge-gets-korea-boost?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:00:59 +0000 Reuters Reuters The United States and Japan struck a deal to lower the hefty tariffs President Donald Trump threatened to impose on goods from its Asian ally that included a US$550 billion package of US-bound investment and loans from Tokyo. The agreement will bring immediate relief to Japan’s critical automotive sector, with existing tariffs cut to 15 per cent from 25 per cent, and proposed levies on other Japanese goods that were set to come in on August 1 also cut by the same amount. Automobile exports... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3319210/trump-closes-massive-trade-deal-japan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3319210/trump-closes-massive-trade-deal-japan?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:05:36 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo As a professional journalist dedicated to objectivity and detachment, I am totally uncalm about the US president. But you would be too if he had burned a big hole in your wallet. Since Donald Trump returned to power, the US dollar has dropped more than 10 per cent against the dollar index consisting of six major currencies, reportedly the worst fall since the oil shock of 1973. As you may have guessed, I am paid by my employer in Hong Kong dollars. So thanks to the US dollar peg, I had just had... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3317032/how-undermine-us-dollar-and-destroy-its-monetary-system?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3317032/how-undermine-us-dollar-and-destroy-its-monetary-system?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:45:07 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of US President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship. The outcome was a victory for the Republican president, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda. The president posted on his Truth Social media network that the ruling was a “GIANT WIN”. “Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316171/us-top-court-curbs-judges-power-fate-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-unclear?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316171/us-top-court-curbs-judges-power-fate-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-unclear?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:48:18 +0000