Wholesale inflation reaches 3%
The Trump administration’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released the Producer Price Index report for November. It shows that wholesale inflation has increased to 3%. The wholesale inflation rate had been 2.7%. The Producer Price Index, which measures the average change in prices that producers receive for their goods and services, often serves to predict what consumers will see in the months ahead. President Trump again falsely claimed in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club yesterday that with him as president there has been no inflation. He also repeated his lie that under former President Joe Biden inflation was the highest in U.S. history.
Trump drops “f-bomb” and gives crude gesture
Donald Trump visited a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Tuesday where Ford F-150 trucks are manufactured. While Trump stood on an elevated platform widely separated from factory workers, one of the workers shouted that he was a “pedophile protector,” an apparent reference to him campaigning on a pledge to release the Epstein files and then refusing to release the files. Trump responded by telling the Ford worker “f*** you,” and then made a gesture at him in which he had a middle finger extended vertically. The White House said that what Trump did was entirely appropriate, although White House observers could not recall another incident in which a president used an “f-word” and the “finger gesture” against a member of the public.
Lawsuit against ICE due for hearing
A hearing was expected today in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota and the Twin Cities challenging the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state, which the complaint calls a “federal invasion.” The hearing follows the resignations of several federal prosecutors in Minnesota amid pressure from the Trump administration on how to conduct the investigation into the deadly shooting of a mother of three by an ICE agent last week. Illinois is also separately suing the administration over immigration enforcement actions it calls unlawful and unconstitutional. Meanwhile, Trump speaking in Detroit threatened to withhold all federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities.
Trump again threatens Iran
President Donald Trump has cautioned Iran against executing protesters, saying the U.S. would take “strong action” in response. He also encouraged the Iranian protesters to keep demonstrating and said that “help is on its way.” More than 2,400 protesters have been killed and at least 18,000 people have been arrested since the large-scale anti-regime demonstrations began last month, according to a U.S.-based rights group. Trump’s support for Iranian protesters stands in sharp contrast to the actions taken by his federal agents against protesters in the U.S. where demonstrators have been tear-gassed, pulled from their vehicles, or dragged away.
The Epstein case
In a letter to Republican Chairman James Comer of the House Oversight Committee attorneys for Bill and Hillary Clinton claim that the subpoenas issued for the Clintons to testify before the committee about Jeffrey Epstein are invalid and meant to embarrass and harass the former president and secretary of state. A spokesperson for Former President Clinton has repeatedly said he cut ties with Epstein before Epstein’s arrest on federal charges in 2019 and was unaware of his crimes. Trump’s Department of justice, meanwhile, still has not complied with the law requiring it to release all of the Epstein files.
Russia again attacks Ukrainian civilians
Hundreds of thousands of households in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, are without power after Russia launched another massive aerial assault. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 300 drones, along with ballistic and cruise missiles, struck eight regions overnight Tuesday. Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with drones and missiles since its invasion began in 2022, seeking to cripple heating supplies as temperatures plunge well below freezing. A new United Nations report released this week said Russia killed more than 2,500 Ukrainian civilians in 2025 — many of them far from the front lines.
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