Olivia of Troye
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www.livingitwithOliviaTroye.com 🕵🏼♀️Former White House Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Official. Career National Security.📺Media Commentator.🇲🇽🇺🇸from El Paso,TX. 🐶🎶 Lover of dogs & music. Political Centrist. #democracy #nationalsecurity
5 developments worth paying attention to this week.
Together, they show how power tests its limits: at home, abroad, and inside our cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Center where the Washington National Opera just said, we're out!
In honor of Renee Macklin Good--Stay peaceful. Stay loud.
Together, they show how power tests its limits: at home, abroad, and inside our cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Center where the Washington National Opera just said, we're out!
In honor of Renee Macklin Good--Stay peaceful. Stay loud.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things That Explain This Moment
Power doesn’t hide. It signals. This week’s signals matter.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
5 developments worth paying attention to this week.
Together, they show how power tests its limits: at home, abroad, and inside our cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Center where the Washington National Opera just said, we're out!
In honor of Renee Macklin Good--Stay peaceful. Stay loud.
Together, they show how power tests its limits: at home, abroad, and inside our cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Center where the Washington National Opera just said, we're out!
In honor of Renee Macklin Good--Stay peaceful. Stay loud.
Kristi Noem calling the victim’s actions “domestic terrorism” is propaganda. Full stop. I served as a White House homeland security advisor. I know what that designation means & when it’s misused. A U.S. citizen is dead. She was a mom. This is what ICE impunity looks like. It cannot be normalized.
This Was Inevitable. And It Is Unforgivable. ICE Owns This.
A warning ignored. A life lost. This cannot become routine.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Kristi Noem calling the victim’s actions “domestic terrorism” is propaganda. Full stop. I served as a White House homeland security advisor. I know what that designation means & when it’s misused. A U.S. citizen is dead. She was a mom. This is what ICE impunity looks like. It cannot be normalized.
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"I’ve measured my life in oil wars. And our oil-igarchs have learned nothing," writes David Rothkopf.
Why Trump’s War Is Dumb, Brazen—and Of Course, All About Oil
I’ve measured my life in oil wars. And our oil-igarchs have learned nothing.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
"I’ve measured my life in oil wars. And our oil-igarchs have learned nothing," writes David Rothkopf.
I lived through the Iraq planning and aftermath firsthand at the most senior levels of government. The parallels with Venezuela are unmistakable and deeply concerning.
January 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I lived through the Iraq planning and aftermath firsthand at the most senior levels of government. The parallels with Venezuela are unmistakable and deeply concerning.
Trump on Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado: "She doesn’t have the respect of the people there." Same Trump 1.0 pattern as Juan Guaidó—elevate a democratic figure when useful, discard them when they’re not.
The U.S. will “run” Venezuela.
So who’s next, Cuba? The Panama Canal? Greenland?
The U.S. will “run” Venezuela.
So who’s next, Cuba? The Panama Canal? Greenland?
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Trump on Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado: "She doesn’t have the respect of the people there." Same Trump 1.0 pattern as Juan Guaidó—elevate a democratic figure when useful, discard them when they’re not.
The U.S. will “run” Venezuela.
So who’s next, Cuba? The Panama Canal? Greenland?
The U.S. will “run” Venezuela.
So who’s next, Cuba? The Panama Canal? Greenland?
Venezuela, to the Trump administration, is about oil, not the Venezuelan people or democracy. There’s no plan for what comes next. Trump’s remarks today confirmed it.
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Venezuela, to the Trump administration, is about oil, not the Venezuelan people or democracy. There’s no plan for what comes next. Trump’s remarks today confirmed it.
Jack Smith testified under oath that Trump caused January 6.
Trump is escalating in Venezuela—using force, “capturing Maduro,” bypassing Congress, and offering no explanation of what comes next. This week’s Covfefe is about accountability: when it’s documented, and when it’s avoided.
Trump is escalating in Venezuela—using force, “capturing Maduro,” bypassing Congress, and offering no explanation of what comes next. This week’s Covfefe is about accountability: when it’s documented, and when it’s avoided.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five Things That Matter
Context over chaos. Every Saturday.
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January 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Jack Smith testified under oath that Trump caused January 6.
Trump is escalating in Venezuela—using force, “capturing Maduro,” bypassing Congress, and offering no explanation of what comes next. This week’s Covfefe is about accountability: when it’s documented, and when it’s avoided.
Trump is escalating in Venezuela—using force, “capturing Maduro,” bypassing Congress, and offering no explanation of what comes next. This week’s Covfefe is about accountability: when it’s documented, and when it’s avoided.
2025 didn’t answer every question.
It clarified which ones can no longer be avoided.
Before we pretend the new year is a reset—a reflection on what last year revealed and what it asks of us now.
It clarified which ones can no longer be avoided.
Before we pretend the new year is a reset—a reflection on what last year revealed and what it asks of us now.
Before We Pretend 2026 Is a Reset
What 2025 made impossible to ignore.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
2025 didn’t answer every question.
It clarified which ones can no longer be avoided.
Before we pretend the new year is a reset—a reflection on what last year revealed and what it asks of us now.
It clarified which ones can no longer be avoided.
Before we pretend the new year is a reset—a reflection on what last year revealed and what it asks of us now.
Happy New Year!
Here’s to clarity, courage, and care—for ourselves and for each other in 2026.
Here’s to clarity, courage, and care—for ourselves and for each other in 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Happy New Year!
Here’s to clarity, courage, and care—for ourselves and for each other in 2026.
Here’s to clarity, courage, and care—for ourselves and for each other in 2026.
Closing out the year with clarity.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five things I’m watching as we head into the New Year. No noise.
Just context over chaos.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five things I’m watching as we head into the New Year. No noise.
Just context over chaos.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five Things I’m Watching
Context over chaos.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Closing out the year with clarity.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five things I’m watching as we head into the New Year. No noise.
Just context over chaos.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: Five things I’m watching as we head into the New Year. No noise.
Just context over chaos.
Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 Sending you love and light across the miles.
Merry Christmas!
A recording from Olivia of Troye's live video
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December 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 Sending you love and light across the miles.
Venezuela policy keeps getting sold as regime change. In reality, it’s pressure without a plan, capped by a “Trump-class” golden fleet of ships offered as branding and distraction for the absence of strategy. What happens if they actually succeed? Who owns the aftermath?
Venezuela and the Cost of Pretending Pressure Is Strategy
I believed in “Libertad” once, too. Here’s what comes after the slogans.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Venezuela policy keeps getting sold as regime change. In reality, it’s pressure without a plan, capped by a “Trump-class” golden fleet of ships offered as branding and distraction for the absence of strategy. What happens if they actually succeed? Who owns the aftermath?
All clear. The Trump speech is done. You didn’t miss anything. It’s safe to turn the TV back on and return to the Survivor finale.
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
All clear. The Trump speech is done. You didn’t miss anything. It’s safe to turn the TV back on and return to the Survivor finale.
Trump’s speech was tired because the ideology is tired.
Same villains. Same threats. Same script.
Stephen Miller’s creative rot is showing.
You’re on TV, not a rally. Stop yelling.
He’s still mad it’s called Obamacare.
But congrats on pissing off every Survivor fan by crashing the finale.
Same villains. Same threats. Same script.
Stephen Miller’s creative rot is showing.
You’re on TV, not a rally. Stop yelling.
He’s still mad it’s called Obamacare.
But congrats on pissing off every Survivor fan by crashing the finale.
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Trump’s speech was tired because the ideology is tired.
Same villains. Same threats. Same script.
Stephen Miller’s creative rot is showing.
You’re on TV, not a rally. Stop yelling.
He’s still mad it’s called Obamacare.
But congrats on pissing off every Survivor fan by crashing the finale.
Same villains. Same threats. Same script.
Stephen Miller’s creative rot is showing.
You’re on TV, not a rally. Stop yelling.
He’s still mad it’s called Obamacare.
But congrats on pissing off every Survivor fan by crashing the finale.
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"Susie Wiles [presidential chief of staff] says time will tell whether she's been effective.
"Time always tells. And history is not kind to those who confuse proximity to power with moral authority."
-- Olivia Troye, former White House national security official (2018-20)
"Time always tells. And history is not kind to those who confuse proximity to power with moral authority."
-- Olivia Troye, former White House national security official (2018-20)
In Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles says she’s “not an enabler.” I believed that lie once too.
Church on Sundays doesn’t erase dismantled PEPFAR and global aid, detained citizens, pardoned insurrectionists, or normalized extremism. You can’t work under Trump at that level without enabling harm.
Church on Sundays doesn’t erase dismantled PEPFAR and global aid, detained citizens, pardoned insurrectionists, or normalized extremism. You can’t work under Trump at that level without enabling harm.
Susie Wiles and the Myth of “Not Being an Enabler”
A reality check from someone who lived it.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"Susie Wiles [presidential chief of staff] says time will tell whether she's been effective.
"Time always tells. And history is not kind to those who confuse proximity to power with moral authority."
-- Olivia Troye, former White House national security official (2018-20)
"Time always tells. And history is not kind to those who confuse proximity to power with moral authority."
-- Olivia Troye, former White House national security official (2018-20)
In Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles says she’s “not an enabler.” I believed that lie once too.
Church on Sundays doesn’t erase dismantled PEPFAR and global aid, detained citizens, pardoned insurrectionists, or normalized extremism. You can’t work under Trump at that level without enabling harm.
Church on Sundays doesn’t erase dismantled PEPFAR and global aid, detained citizens, pardoned insurrectionists, or normalized extremism. You can’t work under Trump at that level without enabling harm.
Susie Wiles and the Myth of “Not Being an Enabler”
A reality check from someone who lived it.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles says she’s “not an enabler.” I believed that lie once too.
Church on Sundays doesn’t erase dismantled PEPFAR and global aid, detained citizens, pardoned insurrectionists, or normalized extremism. You can’t work under Trump at that level without enabling harm.
Church on Sundays doesn’t erase dismantled PEPFAR and global aid, detained citizens, pardoned insurrectionists, or normalized extremism. You can’t work under Trump at that level without enabling harm.
I’ve sat in the rooms where decisions like this get made. Where someone asks, “Can we do this?”
And someone else says, “Who’s going to stop us?”
Trump. DOJ. FEMA. Courts. Elections. Same playbook. Higher stakes.
And someone else says, “Who’s going to stop us?”
Trump. DOJ. FEMA. Courts. Elections. Same playbook. Higher stakes.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things That Matter
Five stories. One pattern.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’ve sat in the rooms where decisions like this get made. Where someone asks, “Can we do this?”
And someone else says, “Who’s going to stop us?”
Trump. DOJ. FEMA. Courts. Elections. Same playbook. Higher stakes.
And someone else says, “Who’s going to stop us?”
Trump. DOJ. FEMA. Courts. Elections. Same playbook. Higher stakes.
Yesterday, at a threats hearing, an FBI official testified that “antifa” is a major national security threat, but couldn’t explain its structure, location, or membership. Meanwhile, the White House quietly released a new National Security Strategy that elevates mass migration as the defining threat.
I’ve Sat in the Rooms Where These Are Written. This One Stunned Me.
The quiet rewrite of America’s national security priorities.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Yesterday, at a threats hearing, an FBI official testified that “antifa” is a major national security threat, but couldn’t explain its structure, location, or membership. Meanwhile, the White House quietly released a new National Security Strategy that elevates mass migration as the defining threat.
Your health care bill is about to explode.
If affordability feels like a crisis, it’s because it is.
Your Health Care Bill Is About to Explode
If affordability feels like a crisis, it’s because it is.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Your health care bill is about to explode.
If affordability feels like a crisis, it’s because it is.
World Cup draw drama. AI loneliness. Tariff pain. Kushner in Moscow. SCOTUS power grabs. Rebel nuns living their best lives. This week’s Covfefe is wild.👇
Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things with Olivia
Power grabs, tariff fallout, shadow diplomacy, and rebel nuns.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
World Cup draw drama. AI loneliness. Tariff pain. Kushner in Moscow. SCOTUS power grabs. Rebel nuns living their best lives. This week’s Covfefe is wild.👇
A World Cup “peace prize” for Trump, and ICE raids for everyone else? I stood with fans and families today at the No ICE In Our Cup rally. The World Cup should bring joy, not fear.
LIVE: “No ICE in My Cup” — World Cup Draw Protest
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December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A World Cup “peace prize” for Trump, and ICE raids for everyone else? I stood with fans and families today at the No ICE In Our Cup rally. The World Cup should bring joy, not fear.
I warned yesterday that this administration is creating the conditions for radicalization here at home. Hours later, Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage,” and implied even U.S. citizens should “go back.”
ICE “strike teams” are now headed to Minneapolis. This is exactly the danger I wrote about.
ICE “strike teams” are now headed to Minneapolis. This is exactly the danger I wrote about.
The Hard Truth About the D.C. Attack
The danger didn’t come from abroad. It came out of what we did here.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I warned yesterday that this administration is creating the conditions for radicalization here at home. Hours later, Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage,” and implied even U.S. citizens should “go back.”
ICE “strike teams” are now headed to Minneapolis. This is exactly the danger I wrote about.
ICE “strike teams” are now headed to Minneapolis. This is exactly the danger I wrote about.
I helped build the vetting system they’re blaming. We are not seeing imported extremism. We are seeing American-made radicalization, created by the Trump policies that claim to “fix it.”
The Hard Truth About the D.C. Attack
The danger didn’t come from abroad. It came out of what we did here.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I helped build the vetting system they’re blaming. We are not seeing imported extremism. We are seeing American-made radicalization, created by the Trump policies that claim to “fix it.”
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November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thank you Bryan, for doing this and partnering with this wonderful nonprofit. Just sent a gift!💝