Q: Do you still consider Trump “daddy” after yesterday?
Mark Rutte: "I was not calling him my daddy, but saying—but of course, 'daddy' has also a special connotation, and I have to stay with this for the rest of my life."
@P_Kallioniemi@davidfrum Meanwhile, in the middle of a war, JD Vance is making a two-day visit to Hungary, just ahead of the presidential election.
Needless to say, he's throwing the weight of the US govt behind the pro-Putin candidate.
Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan funneled $10M in Russian money to influencers like Tim Pool to promote anti-Ukraine content online.
For this, the Trump administration gave them visas and even invited them to the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Reagan must be rolling in his grave.
'On the talks, they are very real, they are ongoing, they're active, and I think gaining strength.'
U.S. defence secretary Pete Hegseth, speaks to reporters at the Pentagon, and dismisses claims from Iranian officials that there are no serious talks to end the war
Monica Crowley: "It's called soft power and no one exercises it better than the First Lady. While the president is really focused on ending conflicts and unnecessary forever wars, the First Lady is focused on future generations."
BREAKING: 🚨 🇺🇸 🤡 Hegseth declares victory, again
“Never in history has a country been defeated as Iran has… we wiped it off the face of the earth.”
Then who is still being pummelling Israel? Who is blocking the strait of Hormuz?
What a fkn clown.
Senior British spy chief says 'Iran has the upper hand' in war, negotiations
Alex Younger, former head of the British intelligence agency MI6, presented his grim conclusions from the war in Iran in an interview with The Economis...
ynetnews.com/article/h1ya81…
British nicknames are an unregulated industry. a 5'6 tradesman called Anthony is professionally known as Shetland Tony. a man who lost an eye is called Keth. a quiet man wore a yellow jumper once and became
Mumblebee.
what's the best nickname you've ever heard
Trump: “I don’t want to say this but I have to. I said to Pete and General Caine, I think this thing [the war] is going to be settled very soon. They said oh that’s too bad. Pete didn’t want it to be settled.”
Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander: The Strait of Hormuz is physically open to transit. The reason that ships are not transiting right now is because the Islamic Republic is shooting at them with drones and missiles. Our job is to decrease the Iran's ability to attack shipping. 1/
Trump on Iran: "They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present…Oil and gas related
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COLLINS: Who's gonna be in control of the Strait of Hormuz? Who's gonna be in control of that?
TRUMP: Uhhhh it'll be jointly controlled
COLLINS: By who?
TRUMP: Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the next ayatollah, whoever that is. There will also be a serious form of regime change. Look at Venezuela.
Trump: "I originate -- to put it nicely -- I originate -- many of us do -- from Europe. I love Europe. I've spent a lot of time in Europe. It's a different place. Bad, bad things have happened to Europe. Very bad things. And you better do something about immigration and energy or you won't have a Europe"
@tommysantos14 The world will be a very different place and no one will forget that the US public voted for him and then didn't insist that the checks and balances in place to allow legislators to stop this weren't used. It's not just Trump
When Trump leaves office:
The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department.
The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center.
The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico.
The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom.
Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired.
The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president.
Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference.
The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies.
The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists.
Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it.
The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters.
U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators.
And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.