New "Golden Fleet"

...also ambassadors/diplomats recalled and Instacart ends AI-driven pricing

December 22, 2025

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December 22nd, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

U.S. to build "Trump-class" warships for "Golden Fleet"

"They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," Trump said.

www.axios.com/2025/12/22/trump-navy-golden-fleet-battleships

  • President Trump announced plans for the U.S. Navy's new “Golden Fleet”, the initiative aims to revive American shipbuilding amid concerns over naval readiness, Chinese competition, and operations like the Venezuela blockade

  • President Trump is recalling nearly 30 career U.S. ambassadors and senior diplomats, these are mainly Biden-era appointees from posts in Africa, Asia, and select European and Middle Eastern nations, as part of a State Department realignment…these envoys are being reassigned rather than fired

  • The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its self-deportation incentive to $3,000 plus free airfare for undocumented migrants who register via the rebranded CBP Home app and depart on their own by the end of the year

  • President Trump appointed Louisiana Governor, Jeff Landry, as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland

  • The Interior Department has paused leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction off the U.S. East Coast, citing national security and radar-interference concerns

  • George Conway, a former conservative lawyer and ex-husband to former Trump political consultant Kellyanne Conway, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run as a Democrat for New York's 12th Congressional District

  • Congressmen Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) have publicly stated they are considering inherent contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi…this stems from the Justice Department's incomplete release of Jeffrey Epstein files by the December 19th deadline set by their bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act

  • Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has agreed to acquire data center and clean‑energy infrastructure firm Intersect for $4.75 billion

  • The Food and Drug Administration approved a once-daily oral pill version of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy…the pill is expected to launch in early January 2026

  • Instacart announced that it is immediately ending its AI-driven pricing tests using the Eversight tool, which enabled select retailers to charge varying prices for identical grocery items to different customers at the same store

  • DOW up .47% / S&P up .64%

  • A draft Pentagon report stated that China has likely loaded more than 100 nuclear-armed, solid-fueled DF-31 intercontinental ballistic missiles into three silo fields near its border with Mongolia…read more here

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