Foreign intelligence agencies — allies and adversaries alike — are collecting on Donald Trump's White House at a level no previous president has faced, and the American press can't be bothered to care.
According to Europe Says, Trump is "undoubtedly targeted by more foreign intelligence agencies than any previous US president," thanks to his unpredictable decision-making on everything from tariffs to Iran. The piece reports that foreign spy chiefs in Paris, Tokyo, Moscow, and Beijing are all scrambling to profile him — and the vulnerabilities are staggering.
Trump's phone number is "widely known among the Washington press corps," Europe Says reported, with journalists landing interviews simply by cold-calling. "One can only imagine how many foreign spies are also listening in to his phone conversations." Mar-a-Lago's security is described as "known to be pathetic," with classified documents reportedly found in a bathroom at the end of his first term.
The piece is blunt about the game: "There is no such thing as a friendly foreign intelligence service, only an intelligence service of a friendly state." Israel, for instance, is "almost certainly collecting intelligence on the Trump administration to understand its policies on Iran." The US was caught tapping Angela Merkel's phone in 2013, and the outrage was theater. Everyone spies on everyone. The difference is that this president's operation is a wide-open target.
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Inquirer devoted its ink to a very different story: 600 democratic socialists at a hotel in Chicago, debating whether to push Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toward a 2028 presidential run. The DSA — 120,000 members strong — is riding momentum after helping elect Zohran Mamdani as New York's mayor and winning a string of Democratic primaries in deep-blue cities. "Now we're getting ready to run," said John Lewis, a DSA National Political Committee member and part of the Marxist-Leninist "Red Star" caucus that has repudiated Ocasio-Cortez.
The Inquirer framed this as a story about grassroots energy and the future of the left. What it is: a sideshow. While the press trains its cameras on socialist activists plotting in hotel bars, a sitting president's White House is a sieve for foreign intelligence, and nobody in Washington — Republican or Democrat — is lifting a finger to fix it.
Europe Says noted that the US intelligence community did warn Trump before military action against Iran — but "despite, not because of" his appointments, taking a swipe at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as "the least qualified" before the article cut off. That's the establishment's tell: the intelligence community positions itself as the adults in the room, even as the surveillance infrastructure it oversees remains trained on the president himself.
The Founders gathered in taverns to plot independence from a king who used informants and writs of assistance to control the colonies. They wrote the Fourth Amendment because they understood that unchecked surveillance is the architecture of tyranny. Today a sitting president can't make a phone call without foreign intelligence services listening in, and the domestic press would rather cover a socialist cocktail hour.
The question isn't whether foreign spies are targeting Trump. Europe Says confirms they are. The question is why the infrastructure that enables it — and the intelligence community that benefits from it — faces zero accountability from either party.
