In Other News
Young Americans are falling in love with socialism, according to a survey conducted for Yale University’s William F. Buckley Institute. Some 46 percent of 820 undergraduates surveyed at four-year colleges from September 5 to 14 agreed with the statement, “While socialist countries like Cuba and the Soviet Union have not been perfect, they offer a better economic model than capitalist countries like the United States.” Even more disturbingly, roughly 40 percent of those surveyed said physical violence can be justified to prevent a person from spreading hate. As our article “American Bolsheviks” shows, such dangerous thinking is pushing America toward civil war.
Trump saved TikTok, arranging yesterday for a consortium of American investors to buy 80 percent of the Chinese-owned and Chinese Communist Party-controlled social media platform. A 2024 law banned TikTok, starting this past January 17, and President Trump extended the deadline to December to finalize a deal, which would license the TikTok algorithm and data security for U.S. users to U.S. firms like Oracle. But the detrimental effect of TikTok content on its users will continue.
Finland’s president called for United Nations reforms on Wednesday in a speech to the General Assembly, requesting that veto power be stripped from Russia and China. Such a change is unlikely, but the speech highlighted the fundamental disharmony within this rowdy international body. It came the same week that President Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei called out the UN’s many failings from that same stage, and shortly before today’s mass walkout during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech—all evidence of this institution’s, and of mankind’s, inability to attain world peace.
America could sell Turkey F-35 fighter jets, President Trump indicated yesterday as he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “He needs certain things, and we need certain things, and we’re going to come to a conclusion,” Trump said. During the same discussion, he encouraged Erdoğan to stop buying oil from Russia. In the newest issue of the Trumpet, Mr. Flurry asks, “Is Turkey a good ally for America? Bible prophecy says Turkey is going to betray America.” Turkey already hosts U.S. nuclear bombs on its soil: Now it could get stealth jets capable of carrying them.
A man in South Africa claimed God told him in a dream that “I will come to take my church” on September 23 and 24 this year. Clearly it was, as the Daily Mail headlined yesterday, a “doomsday false alarm.” But this wasn’t merely a miscounted date or a divinely missed deadline. The idea of a rapture is an unbiblical teaching. Learn what the Bible says—and doesn’t say—about it in “The Truth About the Secret Rapture.”
Today, a Paris court sentenced Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison for illegal campaign financing by Libya for his 2007 presidential campaign. The court found that he had close associates and political supporters approach the Libyan authorities. Sarkozy, who remains an influential conservative figure, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated, but the situation is one more reason why the leading nation of Europe, as the Trumpet has written for decades, will not be France.
Denmark closed two airports overnight following repeated drone incursions. Authorities noted that military installations were also affected. Denmark’s defense minister said, “There can be no doubt that everything points to this being the work of a professional actor when we are talking about such a systematic operation in so many locations at virtually the same time. This is what I would define as a hybrid attack using different types of drones.” Denmark reported a similar incident on Monday. Uncertainty and fear are causing Europe to unite.
