{"id":589866,"date":"2025-11-24T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589866\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:57:15","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-democrats-say-they-wont-be-intimidated-by-presidents-threats-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589866\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Democrats say they won\u2019t be intimidated by president\u2019s threats | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Democratic senator Mark Kelly has said he refuses to be intimidated after US president Donald Trump accused a group of Democrats of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/20\/democrats-condemn-trump-military-video-post\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cseditious behaviour punishable by death\u201d<\/a> in a series of social media posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kelly, one of several Democrats who released a messageto military and intelligence personnel that they are not obligated to follow \u201cillegal orders\u201d, reiterated his call on Sunday, saying that Trump was \u201ctrying to intimidate us\u201d. Kelly called on congressional Republicans to reject Trump\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar condemned what she said was a \u201cdangerous\u201d response from the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhat is dangerous is the president of the United States threatening these members of Congress with death,\u201d she told Meet the Press on Sunday. \u201cLiterally, saying that they should be executed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Here are they key stories at a glance.<\/p>\n<p>US senator slams Republicans\u2019 silence on Trump\u2019s violent threats to Democrats<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans<\/a> to publicly reject Trump\u2019s threats against him and five other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic<\/a> lawmakers who stated that military personnel are not obligated to follow illegal commands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019ve heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of Congress,\u201d Kelly, of Arizona, said on CBS\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/face-the-nation-full-transcript-11-23-2025\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Face the Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/23\/senator-mark-kelly-trump-threats-democrats-congress-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mamdani reiterates Trump is a \u2018fascist\u2019 days after cordial meeting<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Zohran Mamdani has reiterated his view that the US president is a \u201cfascist\u201d and a \u201cdespot\u201d just days after the pair had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/21\/trump-mamdani-white-house-key-moments\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surprisingly cordial<\/a> meeting at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Speaking to NBC\u2019s Meet the Press on Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> City mayor-elect was asked if he still considered Trump a threat to democracy. \u201cEverything that I\u2019ve said in the past I continue to believe,\u201d Mamdani replied. \u201cI think it is important in our politics that we don\u2019t shy away from where we have disagreements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/23\/mamdani-trump-fascist\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Many of the most influential personalities in the \u201cMake America great again\u201d (Maga) movement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a> are based outside of the US, including in Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The new tool \u2013 called \u201cabout this account\u201d \u2013 became available on Friday to users of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>-owned platform. It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed and how the X app was downloaded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/23\/rightwing-influencers-outside-us-x-twitter-tool\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018That doesn\u2019t exist\u2019: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal agencies and firing thousands of federal workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThat doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d the office of personnel management (OPM) director Scott Kupor told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23\/https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> earlier this month when asked about Doge\u2019s status, adding that it was no longer a \u201ccentralized entity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/23\/trump-musk-doge-reportedly-disbanded\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What else happened today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/23\/trump-administration-news-updates-latest\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22 November 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic senator Mark Kelly has said he refuses to be intimidated after US president Donald Trump accused a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-589866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}