President Donald Trump awarded medals to leading tech executives, including Elon Musk, for their contributions to science and technology on Oct. 8.
“First we honor an industrial titan, a brilliant engineer and one of the greatest technology founders to ever live. His name is Elon Musk,” said Trump.
“Few Americans in history have done more to advance America’s national interest than Elon.”
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— @USATODAY Oct 8, 2026
Month: October 2026
Gerhard Schröder ist eine Schande.
Eine Schande für die SPD!
Eine Schande für Deutschland!🤮🤮
— @stepsenmccool Oct 8, 2026
WIRED FOR WAR: THE 🇩🇪 GERMAN SPYMASTER CAUGHT IN 🇮🇱 #Mossad’s WEB rt-english.com/news/646944-g… #
— @GonzaalezCamilo Oct 8, 2026
Putin lädt „alten Freund“ Schröder zum Geburtstag ein – Kreml veröffentlicht Fotos to.welt.de/qTjHzDF
— @welt Oct 8, 2026
Eine Schande für Deutschland. Ein Verrat an Europa. Ein Bärendienst für Frieden. Aber leider habe ich schon nichts anderes mehr von ihm erwartet.
— @GoeringEckardt Oct 8, 2026
#Germany: more on the #Hanning case.
– In Feb. 2022 August #Hanning wrote a four-page letter to then-chancellor Olaf Scholz asking him to intervene with #Latvia over the collapse of PNB Banka, the bank whose supervisory board had left Hanning facing multi-million-euro claims and a garnished pension.
– The occasion was an imminent visit by then-Latvian prime minister Krišjānis Kariņš.
– Hanning asked Scholz to raise the insolvency and the damages claims with Kariņš and to press him to “agree to an independent investigation.”
– Hanning had sat on the board for about two years, responsible for compliance, at €12,000 a month.
– The insolvency administrator later sought nearly €32 million from him and eight others, including former #NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen;
– @BILD has put Hanning’s personal exposure at up to €4 million.
– Hanning later told Bild the Chancellery did nothing.
– A Latvian court ordered two-thirds of his pension, reported at up to €11,000 a month, garnished. Germany enforced the order. #Denmark blocked enforcement against Rasmussen pending a final ruling.
bild.de/politik/inland/ex-bn…— @Shtuni Oct 8, 2026
Schröder is one of Europe’s biggest traitorsPjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer)While Russian bombs were killing Ukrainians, Schröder travelled to Russia as a guest at Putin’s birthday party— https://x.com/PjotrSauer/status/2108276701063188927
— @joni_askola Oct 8, 2026
Владимир Путин отпраздновал день рождения в компании экс-канцлера ФРГ Герхарда Шрёдера, заявили в Кремле. Ранее Шрёдер прибыл в Москву, чтобы встретиться с сотрудниками и руководством сети магазинов “Глобус”, где получил новую работу t.me/dwglavnoe/69431
— @dw_russian Oct 8, 2026
**Putin Celebrated His Birthday in the Company of Gerhard Schröder**
Yesterday morning, Russian President **Vladimir Putin** learned from media reports that former German Chancellor **Gerhard Schröder** was in Moscow on business related to the company “Globus.” Putin subsequently invited his longtime friend to his residence.
Schröder then joined Putin as the Russian president celebrated his birthday yesterday.
**Some friendships survive political storms—and apparently still come with a birthday invitation to the Kremlin.**
— @SprinterPress Oct 8, 2026
Official picture. Source: Kremlin.
— @jakluge Oct 8, 2026