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What Happened Today – November 27, 2025

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom in uniform

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died Thanksgiving Day from wounds suffered in Wednesday's shooting near the White House, one day after Trump declared Washington DC "totally safe." (Department of Justice photo)

This is what the President of the United States posted on Thanksgiving Day. He called Minnesota’s governor “seriously retarded.” He mocked Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) “swaddling hijab” and repeated the debunked smear that she married her brother. He described Somalia as “decadent, backward, and crime ridden… essentially not even a country.” When 20-year-old National Guard … Read more