{"id":194714,"date":"2025-12-26T19:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-briefing-president-praises-military-after-launching-christmas-day-strikes-on-is-in-nigeria-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:53:25","slug":"trump-news-briefing-president-praises-military-after-launching-christmas-day-strikes-on-is-in-nigeria-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-briefing-president-praises-military-after-launching-christmas-day-strikes-on-is-in-nigeria-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news briefing: President praises military after launching Christmas Day strikes on IS in Nigeria – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump also wishes \u2018merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists\u2019, after strikes. Key US politics stories from Thursday 25 December
Donald Trump has launched \u201cpowerful and deadly\u201d strikes on Christmas Day against Islamic State militants in Nigeria, weeks after the US president warned against any systemic assault on Christians in the country.
Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Thursday that he had \u201cpreviously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was\u201d.
The president also said in the post: \u201cMay God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.\u201d
The attacks \u2013 confirmed by Nigeria\u2019s foreign ministry \u2013 mark the first in Nigeria by US forces under Trump.
Here are the day\u2019s top Trump administration<\/a> stories at a glance.
The US military\u2019s Africa Command said the attack on Islamic State<\/a> militants was carried out in Sokoto state in north-western Nigeria in coordination with the Nigerian authorities.
The attacks come after Trump unexpectedly berated the west African nation in October and November, saying Christians there faced an \u201cexistential threat\u201d, in a move welcomed by some but interpreted by others as inflaming religious tensions in Africa\u2019s most populous country.
Nigeria\u2019s government and independent analysts reject framing the country\u2019s violence in terms of religious persecution \u2013 a narrative long used by the Christian right in the US and Europe.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump has staged a year of \u201cunrelenting attacks on working people\u201d, according to the head of the largest federation of the labor unions in the US.
Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said her group was gearing up to challenge the US president\u2019s \u201cBillionaire First\u201d agenda in 2026 \u2013 and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for \u201cstruggling\u201d Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers, and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A British anti-disinformation campaigner close to prime minister Keir Starmer\u2019s chief of staff has launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration<\/a> after being told he could face deportation from the US in a row over freedom of speech.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, has filed a complaint against senior Trump allies including the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the attorney general, Pam Bondi, in an attempt to prevent what he says would be an unconstitutional arrest and removal.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
When Donald Trump addressed supporters in Pennsylvania early this month, he asked: \u201cSusie Trump \u2013 do you know Susie Trump?<\/strong> Sometimes referred to as Susie Wiles\u201d \u2013 suggesting she was now one of the family. The US president was referring to his chief of staff \u2013 but a week later, Wiles appeared at risk of becoming the family outcast, after a Vanity Fair magazine profile she claimed had been selectively quoted. The bombshell article raised questions over Wiles\u2019s motivations, her ideological alignment with Trump and her future as the linchpin of his administration<\/a>
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Wendesday 24 December<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump also wishes \u2018merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists\u2019, after strikes. Key US politics stories from Thursday 25 DecemberDonald Trump has launched \u201cpowerful and deadly\u201d strikes on Christmas Day against Islamic State militants in Nigeria, weeks after the US president warned against any systemic assault on Christians in the country.Trump said on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}