US President Donald Trump confirmed the arrest of the top ‘monster’ who was ‘responsible’ for the Abbey Gate bombing in his speech to Congress.
Yesterday (March 4), Donald Trump delivered his first speech in a joint session of Congress.
During his speech, the 47th President of the US stated America is ‘standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism’, addressing the country’s response to the Abbey Gate bombing and also revealing the most recent update.
Trump acknowledged the killing of 13 American service members and ‘countless’ others as a result of the suicide bombing which took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the evacuation from Afghanistan three-and-a-half years ago.
Slamming the ‘disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan’ as ‘the most embarrassing moment in the history of America’, Trump explained he was now ‘pleased to announce’ the US had ‘just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity’.
Without naming the individual, the president continued: “And he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.”
He then went on to share further details surrounding the ‘very momentous day’.
Donald Trump says he’s been in touch with the victims’ loved ones (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Thanking ‘the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster,’ Trump highlighted what a day it is for the ’13 families’ of those who were injured or who lost their lives in the incident.
The president noted he ‘actually got to know’ ‘most of’ the families ‘very well,’ many of them whose children were murdered.
Trump added: “What a horrible day. Such incompetence was shown — that when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, ‘Wow, maybe this is my chance.’ That’s how bad it was. Should have never happen. Grossly incompetent people.
He resolved: “I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones, and they’re all in our hearts tonight. Just spoke to them on a phone. We had a big call. Everyone one of them called, and everybody was on the line, and they did nothing but cry with happiness. They were very happy. As happy as you can be, under those circumstances. Their child – brother, sister, son, daughter – was killed for no reason whatsoever.”
The news was confirmed in a post to Twitter by FBI Director Kash Patel.
The update was confirmed by FBI Director Kash Patel (Twitter/ @FBIDirectorKash)
In a post shared earlier today, Patel stated: “On the ground last night at Dulles airfield as FBI personnel and our DOJ + CIA partners delivered a terrorist wanted for the Afghanistan Abbey Gate murders.”
Here’s everything Donald Trump is expected to cover in his first address to congress today.
President Trump returned to the White House 43 days ago and to say it’s been eventful and chaotic is certainly an understatement.
The Republican president has signed off on many orders – which have included halting the ban of TikTok, and declaring that there are ‘only two genders’ among others.
And across the pond, Trump has paused US military aid being sent to Ukraine after a heated meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week where the 47th POTUS said the Ukrainian leader is ‘gambling with World War 3’.
So, with his first address to Congress coming this evening, Trump will certainly have a lot to talk about.
President Donald Trump will address Congress this evening (Carl Court – Pool/Getty Images)
What will President Trump talk about in his address to Congress?
CNN reports the president’s speech to Congress tonight ‘will be an explanation of the fast-paced start to his second term’, with Trump’s address set to provide an explanation as to the decision he’s made so far.
Trump is also expected to lay out his vision for his second term after Mike Johnson, the House speaker, invited him to share his ‘America First vision for our legislative future’.
Ukraine will almost certainly be on the agenda at the Capitol building amid a minerals deal involving the US and the European county still unsigned.
When asked by a reporter recently if the deal could still happen, the president said: “I’ll let you know. We’re making a speech, you probably heard.”
Meanwhile, the White House said Trump’s speech will be ‘the renewal of the American dream’, while the president himself has hyped it up with the following statement on Truth Social: “Tomorrow night will be big. I will tell it like it is.”
Trump has certainly had an eventful 43 days in the job so far (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Immigration and tariffs
A senior administration official within Trump’s government told NBC News last week that the president will focus on his efforts to take immigration and on the new tariffs introduced on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese exports.
Trump implemented tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China to tackle what the White House has described as an ‘extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl’.
Further reasoning will likely be provided by Trump this evening.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “President Trump has accomplished more in one month than any president in four years, and the renewal of the American Dream is well underway.”
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin is tasked with providing a Democrat response to the speech later today.
Democratic lawmakers have spoken out about what they were trying to ‘signal’ by attending Donald Trump’s first joint session of Congress dressed in pink
On Wednesdays we wear… Oh wait.
Well, at Donald Trump’s first joint session of Congress yesterday (Tuesday, March 4), dozens of Democrats turned up for the 47th President of the United States‘ speech wearing pink. And no, it wasn’t because they’re trying to rewrite Regina George’s rules, but protest multiple of Trump’s instead.
Fashion has long been a form of protest and the Democratic Women’s Caucus – composed of all the Democratic women in the House of Representatives – continued its championing of women’s rights by donning pink for Trump’s speech to Congress.
Of the 96 members of the caucus, dozens were present in the US Capitol’s chamber wearing items of pink clothing.
Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) – who serves New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District and is the Chair of the Caucus – told TIME members of the group wore pink to ‘signal [their] protest of Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women and families’.
But why pink?
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers wore pink to President Trump’s first joint session of Congress (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Well, Fernández explained pink is ‘a color of power and protest’ and the group wanted to ‘rev up the opposition and come at Trump loud and clear’, explaining: “Women have worn pink in opposition to Trump before, and we will do it again.”
The Democratic Women’s Caucus later released a ‘rebuttal’ to Trump’s joint address, explaining what the group is protesting in further detail.
Shared to YouTube, the video sees Fernández slamming ‘nightmare’ Trump’s ‘lies’.
She says: “We heard President Trump lie about what his policies mean to our country. The reality? Trump is a nightmare. He is a nightmare for America’s women. And we won’t rest until we defeat the policies.
“Compare his words with the rising prices people are paying at the grocery store, in the gas station. Compare his words with your own life experience and worries.”
She resolved: “We’re protesting Trump’s policies which are devastating to women. We can’t afford groceries, he’s stealing our health care and he’s threatening our safety and security.”
Indeed, Fernández isn’t the only to protest against Trump’s stance on America’s healthcare system with lawmaker and Democrat Al Green ending up escorted out of the chamber during Trump’s address to Congress after standing up and interrupting the president in protest of his controversial cuts to Medicaid.
Footage captured ahead of Donald Trump’s Congress appearance shows the moment a representative for the Democrats had a sign reading ‘this is not normal’ ripped out of her hands.
Trump has sparked mixed responses with the various claims and comments he made in his nearly two-hour speech in front of Congress on Tuesday (March 4), in which he spoke on everything from obtaining Greenland to the price of eggs.
The president was met with some calls of criticism from Democrats during his delivery, but it was Rep. Melanie Stansbury, who has represented New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District since 2021, who took a stand before he’d even begun.
Footage from the event shows Stansbury holding a handwritten sign in the direction of cameras as Trump walked down the aisle of the House chamber. While other lawmakers showed their approval by clapping for Trump, Stansbury took a very different stance as she’d written: “This is not normal.”
Images caught Stansbury’s protest sign, but she didn’t manage to hold it for long as one of her Republican counterparts, Rep. Lance Gooden, was soon seen leaning across the aisle behind Trump and ripping the sign from Stansbury’s hands.
Gooden then threw the sign into the air, leaving it to fall just inches from the president’s head.
The president didn’t appear to acknowledge the disruption at the time, but Stansbury has since reiterated her disapproval of Trump as she took to Twitter to share a photo of herself holding her sign in Congress.
Stansbury shared images of her sign online after it was ripped from her hands (CNBC Television)
Alongside the post, she added again: “This is not normal.”
Gooden, meanwhile, has continued to staunchly defend Trump.
He reposted Stansbury’s photo and hit back with a series of scenarios he claimed were linked to the Democratic party, writing: “It’s not normal for men to play in women’s sports. It’s not normal for children to have gender surgery. It’s not normal for tax dollars to fund trans mice. What today’s Democrat Party stands for is not normal, Melanie.”
Gooden also shared a video of himself removing the sign from Stansbury’s hands, writing: “Putting the American people FIRST is normal. No one will disrespect President @realdonaldtrump in front of me.”
Trump spoke for nearly two hours in front of Congress (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Stansbury’s protest wasn’t the only one to catch attention during Trump’s appearance at Congress; another Democrat, Rep. Al Green, ended up being escorted out of the chamber after interrupting the president’s speech and shouting that he didn’t ‘have a mandate’.
Following his appearance, Trump appeared to acknowledge that his speech had been divisive but attempted to spread the word that most people were on his side.
The POTUS took to Truth Social to share a CBS News poll which revealed that while 23 percent of people ‘disapproved’ with his speech, 76 percent ‘approved’.
The US Army has unveiled a new facility designed to support the military’s ‘air defense capabilities’ following the testing of an unarmed missile.
On February 20, a ‘ribbon-cutting ceremony’ was held for a new ‘state-of-the-art modernized facility designed to support the US military’s air defense capabilities’ at The McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma.
The new missile testing site
The new facility – called the Theater Readiness Monitoring Facility (TRMF) – will ‘support the US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Security Assistance Management Directorate, Non-Standard Missile Systems, and HAWK missile system,’ the US Army’s site details.
And the ceremony was held to commemorate ‘the continuation of a long-standing commitment to safeguarding the future through innovation, collaboration, and service to global security’.
“The TRMF is involved in the testing, recertification, assembly, and repair of the HAWK missile, an important air defense asset that has stood the test of time and continues to play a vital role in protecting lives around the globe, will be done inside the TRMF,” it adds.
The unveiling of the new facility follows shortly after an unarmed missile was tested from a based in Santa Barbara County, California.
The unarmed missile test
A new missile testing facility has been opened in the US (Getty Stock Images)
On February 12, the Air Force launched an unarmed missile – Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile – from Vandenberg Space Force Base overnight.
Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gary Ashworth said: “Today’s Minuteman III test launch is just one of the ways the Department of the Air Force demonstrates the readiness, precision, and professionalism of US nuclear forces.
“It also provides confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear deterrence mission.”
And all of this comes amid US President Donald Trump’s warning about World War Three.
Trump’s warning of WW3
Donald Trump has said we’re ‘not so far away’ from WW3 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
On February 19, at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit held in Miami, Trump said, as quoted by NDTV World: “Around the world, I’m moving quickly to end wars, settle conflicts and restore the planet to peace – I want peace, and I don’t want to see […] everybody being killed.
“And take a look at the death in the Middle East, and the death that’s taking place between Russia and Ukraine that’s been going on, and we’re going to end it. There’s no profit for anyone in having World War III, and you’re not so far away from it, I’ll tell you right now, you’re not so far away.
“If we would have had [President Joe Biden’s] administration for another year, you would have been in World War III, and now it’s not going to happen.”
