Tired of watching AI write code all day, every day?
Want to keep an eye on the news without breaking your flow?
Keep claude-trump a slash command away.
Stay close to the political moves that move your stocks and the broader economy.
Wire and major-outlet RSS feeds, synthesized by your Claude session. No API keys. No paid services. Bilingual (English / Korean).
Install · Usage · Commands · Sources · Limitations · 한국어
| Built for coding flow | Briefings come up inside your Claude Code session — zero context switch |
| Tracks Trump's flip-flops | /claude-trump:flips surfaces position reversals over the past 7 days — the signature use case |
| Bilingual | English / Korean output, auto-detected from your prompt |
| 8 slash commands | Category, time-window, and language shortcuts |
| No API keys | Public RSS only — free forever |
| Wire-first sourcing | Reuters / AP / Federal Register grade, not random scrapers |
| Single dependency | Pure Python stdlib + feedparser. No JavaScript, no Docker, no DB |
Ask Claude Code something like:
> Give me a Trump briefing
# US Politics Briefing — 2026-04-26
## Top Stories (last 24 hours)
### 1. Acting AG Blanche addresses WHCA shooting incident
**What:** Acting Attorney General gave a televised statement on the WHCA dinner shooting.
**Who:** Todd Blanche, President Trump.
**Why it matters:** First official account of the suspect's cross-country travel and motive.
**Sources:** [CBS News](...), [The Hill](...)
### 2. ...
## Notable Trump Quotes (via wire coverage)
- "Direct quote here..." — Reuters
## Global / Market Impact
- ...
Bilingual: ask in Korean and you get a Korean briefing.
There is no shortage of US-politics news aggregators, but few that fit cleanly
into a Claude Code workflow: zero external services, no API keys, predictable
output format, and the analysis stays entirely in your local Claude session.
claude-trump fills that niche.
In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add github.com/alsgur9865-sketch/claude-trump
/plugin install claude-trump
Then install the one runtime dependency (Claude Code Plugins do not yet auto-install Python packages):
pip install --user feedparser
Restart Claude Code, then trigger the skill:
> Give me a Trump briefing
Give me a Trump briefingWhat's happening in US politics today?White House news this week오늘 트럼프 뭐했어?이번 주 미국 정치 브리핑
Refinements work inline:
Trump briefing for the last week→ 168-hour windowJust the Congress news→ category filter--lang=ko→ force Korean output
/claude-trump— full briefing (24h, all categories, language auto-detected)/claude-trump congress 168— Congress only, last week/claude-trump white_house 48 ko— White House, last 48h, Korean output/claude-trump:congress— Congress-only shortcut (24h)/claude-trump:white-house— White House shortcut (24h)/claude-trump:executive— Executive orders / Federal Register shortcut (last 7 days; the source publishes only a few times per week)/claude-trump:weekly— Weekly recap across all categories (last 7 days)/claude-trump:flips— Trump position reversals and flip-flops in the last 7 days. The signature command — Trump's reversals move markets and policy, and this surfaces them so you don't have to read the full daily news to find them/claude-trump:ko— Force Korean output (24h, all categories)/claude-trump:en— Force English output (24h, all categories)
Slash commands give you autocomplete in Claude Code and skip natural-language ambiguity. Both methods produce the same output and save to the same briefing file.
Edit ~/.claude/skills/claude-trump/sources.json to add or remove RSS feeds.
The structure is:
{
"categories": {
"general_us_politics": [
{"name": "NPR Politics", "url": "https://...", "site": "https://...", "lean": "left"}
]
}
}Each new URL should be verified manually (200 OK + recent items) before adding. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full checklist.
claude-trump/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json Plugin manifest
├── skills/claude-trump/
│ ├── SKILL.md Skill activation + workflow
│ ├── sources.json RSS feed catalog
│ └── scripts/fetch_news.py Parallel RSS aggregator
├── tests/ Unit + golden-file tests
├── scripts/dev-{install,uninstall}.sh Developer-only scripts
└── README.md / README.ko.md Documentation
v0.1 ships with 7 verified feeds across 5 categories:
| Category | Sources | Lean |
|---|---|---|
| white_house | CBS News Politics | center |
| congress | The Hill, Roll Call | center |
| supreme_court | SCOTUSblog | center |
| executive_orders | Federal Register Presidential Documents | primary source |
| general_us_politics | NPR, Fox News, Axios | left / right / center |
Trump's own social-media posts are not collected directly. Truth Social does
not provide a public RSS feed, its API is behind Cloudflare bot protection, and
the only third-party JSON archive (CNN's ix.cnn.io) is a 10 MB+ single file
unsuitable for repeated polling. Wire services typically cover significant Trump
statements within 5–30 minutes, so important posts are captured indirectly.
See CHANGELOG.md for the full exclusion rationale.
- Latency: 5–30 minutes behind real-world events (RSS publication lag). Not suitable for trading decisions or real-time market reaction.
- No push notifications. The skill only runs when you ask. For instant alerts, use a dedicated tool (Telegram/Discord bot).
- Trump's own posts are indirect. Captured only when wire services quote them. Casual posts and reposts may be missed.
- English-language sources only. Korean output is translation; the underlying news is from US outlets.
Q: Why no API key? A: All sources are public RSS feeds. The skill is fully self-contained and free to run.
Q: Is this politically biased? A: The source list intentionally spans the spectrum (NPR/CBS/Axios for center-left, Fox News for right, wire services for neutrality, Federal Register for primary documents). Claude is instructed not to editorialize.
Q: Why no direct Truth Social integration? A: We tried. Truth Social blocks public RSS, blocks unauthenticated API access (Cloudflare 403), and the only third-party JSON archive is too large to poll responsibly. Wire coverage captures the important posts. See the CHANGELOG for the verification trail.
Q: Can I add EU politics or Korean politics?
A: Yes — fork the repo and replace the URLs in sources.json. The pipeline
is source-agnostic. A claude-eu-politics or claude-k-politics fork is a
welcome contribution.
Q: Where are briefings saved?
A: ~/.claude/claude-trump/briefings/YYYY-MM-DD.md (UTC date). Repeated runs
on the same day append under ## Update HH:MM UTC headers — never overwriting.
Q: Some links in the briefing return "Not Found" or 403. Why? A: All article links come straight from publishers' RSS feeds and are not fabricated. When a link fails, one of four things is usually happening:
- Publisher bot-protection (e.g., The Hill 403). Some outlets block non-browser User-Agents on the article page even though their RSS feed is open. Open the link in your browser and it usually works.
- Slow upstream server (e.g., NPR sometimes takes 30+ seconds). Refresh or try again — the article exists.
- Live-update pages (e.g., CBS
/live-updates/...). These are ephemeral by design; once the live event ends, the URL may redirect or be replaced. Nothing we can do client-side. - Malformed slug from the publisher's RSS (e.g., a stray trailing
hyphen). We strip trailing
-./automatically, but a slug that's wrong in other ways is the publisher's bug, not ours.
If you find a link consistently broken across browsers, please open an issue with the source feed name and the URL.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for local development, test execution, and source-addition guidelines.
MIT. See LICENSE.
Inspired by camilleroux/tech-digest
— the original "Claude Code skill that aggregates RSS feeds for daily briefings"
pattern. claude-trump applies the same approach to a different domain.