Abiodun Adedeji

@RedWavePress @cthagod doesn't understand politics or economics, he just regurgitates what he's fed by his favourite cable news networks and liberal friends. He's never spent a quality or intellectual minute considering the political and economic talking points he repeats ad nauseam.

Dana White SHUTS DOWN Charlamagne tha God as he repeatedly tries to bait him into attacking or condemning President Trump. Charlamagne tha God: “Why can't you tell your friend he's failing the people?” Dana White: “I don't know if I agree that he's failing the people. When the president is done in 3 years, people will look back on and realize a lot of the good things... You're never gonna have a president that… everybody approves 100% of everything they do. And not everything is always gonna be perfect.” Charlamagne: “But don't be a glazer though... Somebody that just tells him he’s great—a yes man basically.” Dana White: “I don't think anybody's ever accused me of being a yes man.” “I consider myself right down the middle or leaning a little liberal, to be honest with you.” “I’m more about common sense.”

@KenRoth Kenneth Roth tweets the same things about leaders he doesn't like: Trump, Putin, and Xi "prioritise loyalty over competence". However, Zelensky, who governs by decree & appoints his corrupt friends and hangers-on to political & military positions, is a democrat & a great leader.

Xi Jinping is prioritizing loyalty to him over competence as he remakes China's military. Trump's incompetence is undermining the US military, while Xi's paranoia is weakening China's. trib.al/MOnpkvy

@RichardHaass @juliettekayyem Comparing the Iran war w/ Ukraine war is intellectually dishonest both in terms of cause & effect. The Iran war is currently shrouded in propaganda - from Iran, the Trump admin, but mostly from Trump's detractors & opponents in the media and politics. Tom Friedman is an example.

You may not like my pointing out that both Putin and Trump initiated wars of choice (in Ukraine & Iran respectively) where the costs have proven far greater than benefits for them and their country but that doesn't make it less true.

@tparsi @BeckyCNN I believe Tarsi is no longer objective in his analysis of the Iran conflict. He appears to favour the Iranian regime - when @BeckyCNN acknowledged that, aside from the Strait, Iran holds no other card, particularly militarily, Tarsi obfuscated, rather than recognised the fact.

Told @BeckyCNN that Trump's escalation appears driven by frustration that his blockade has failed, but if he truly brings US naval ships into the Persian Gulf, he will give Iran more targets and risk US casualties in a manner that he had managed to avoid during the war itself.

@tparsi It seems that you sanction Iran's unprovoked attack on the UAE. Imagine Russia attacks Poland or the Balkan states simply because they support, and are used as a conduit to supply weapons to Ukraine.

Iranian analyst tells me that Tehran's warning shots at US warships and the strikes on the UAE reveal Iran's new posture: If Trump plans to restart the war, Iran will not wait for Trump to do so before it retaliates. It will strike preemptively in a measured way to deter Trump.

@Scaramucci Scaramucci proves you don't have to be intelligent to make money.

Everybody hates Donald Trump. -Melania. -His children. -The grandkids find him weird. Honestly, he is weird. He has orange makeup on, lifts in his shoes, the girdle on some days. He has to be the king of every single moment. You cannot tell him something he doesn't know or else he'll flip out. You can never be perceived as knowing something better than him. It all fits the same pattern of narcissism, but here's the other side. He can be charming. He can be gracious. He is the most powerful man in the world, yet still desperate to be accepted by people with real history behind them.

@joekent16jan19 Wrong. There's no diplomatic solution to the war for 2 important reasons. 1) Iran wont voluntarily relinquish its right to enrich Uranium & curtail its ballistic missiles development. 2) The United States & Gulf Arab States aren't going to allow Iran to control the Strait.

The sooner we recognize this hard truth—that there’s no military solution to the conflict with Iran—the better off the United States will be. Sheer military force cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz without escalating the war and sucking us into another endless, bloody quagmire that delivers zero benefit to our people. We can’t get rid of the emboldened government in Tehran, regardless of how many leaders we kill. If we try we will end up with a government or failed state, worse than what we have now. The inevitable reality is this: we will have to cut a deal with Iran. We can be pragmatic and do it now on our own terms, or we can keep listening to the same neocons and the Israeli government who got us into this mess, only to cut the same deal after we’ve lost even more. Recognizing that we have hit the point of diminishing returns and pulling out now is not weakness. It is strength—and it’s the right thing to do for the American people.

@cheeriogrrrl @stengel What has that got to do with taxes? The Big Beautiful Bill has already reduced taxes and made tax cuts permanent.

@Dzeroseven @stengel That's not true. Also, why are you pushing for Americans to pay higher taxes so Trump can entertain even more billionaire donors at the WH- when you live in the UK?

Thomas Jefferson used to answer the front door of the White House in his pyjamas. I wouldn't recommend that today, but every president until now recognized that the White House was the People's House and tried to minimize the distance between the people and the president. The current occupant wants to turn it into a gilded fortress to protect a monarch—and now wants the voters to pay for it. theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

@RichardBSpencer Tucker Carlson responds angrily and petulantly when rebuffed because his ego and pride can't deal with rejection - and it reveals his validity and hollowness couched in eloquence. That's his main beef with Trump, he rejected his counsel on Iran.

Cuckley was far saner and more insightful when he was just a neocon.

@FareedZakaria @NewAmerica @SlaughterAM Not really, there has been about three weeks of a cease-fire.

The war with Iran has entered its third month — and while a shaky ceasefire holds, diplomatic efforts between the US and Iran are at an impasse. What will it take to break the stalemate? Part 1 of my conversation with @newamerica CEO @SlaughterAM and former NATO supreme allied commander @stavridisj:

@stengel True, gas prices are high, but gas prices were higher at some point under Biden and it didn't stop people from travelling, or the media saying "it's temporary".

@stengel Untrue. This is a president who's about to invite 5000 ordinary Americans to the W.H & another 100000 people to the Ellipse to watch an MMA bout in June 2026. And the "gilded ballroom" is an addition to the W.H that will allow more people to be invited & hosted on the grounds.

@ConceptualJames Tucker has succumbed to the lunacy of faith.

Amazing.

@ConceptualJames Tucker's issue is that his ego was bruised when Trump ignored his opinions on Iran & his pride couldn't handle the rejection of his counsel that followed - and whenever Tucker's ego & pride suffer, he responds angrily and with petulance which reveals his vapidity and hollowness.

@KenRoth Are you also concerned about Ukraine's material support for terrorist groups in the Sahel?

Trump is bypassing Congress to fast-track arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, apparently without receiving any promise that the UAE would stop arming the genocidal Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. trib.al/LlHKibS

@CatCaseyAZ @stengel If you want a ticket you can get one - they are free. Google is your friend.

@Dzeroseven @stengel You are mistaken. Those will not be "ordinary" Americans. Not one of them. They will either have the money to pay for it, or some achievement that he thinks gilds his wings by association.

@CatCaseyAZ @stengel Pardon my ignorance, I didn't know that MMA is the sport of the American political, media, and business elites.

@DougAMacgregor @jimmy_dore How many times does Doug McGregor have to be wrong before people stop tweeting him as gospel?

CONFIRMED: 40 Iranian Navy attack boats activated and on the move in The Strait of Hormuz. Get Ready!

@freepopulation @Glenn_Diesen Iran should retaliate against America and Israel as violently as it can, but to attack the Gulf States, which refused the bases in their countries to be used and do not respond to Iranian attacks on their critical and civilian infrastructures should be unacceptable.

@Dzeroseven @Glenn_Diesen How dare Iran retaliates when attacked!

Trump will continue killing Iranians because of what Iran has done to "the World" . This is a strange combination of stupidity and barbarism

@Knesix To counter Trump, you just need to oppose him on a common-sense level, and he will be the first person to agree with you because he likes to solve problems and win, and doesn't mind sharing successes as long as you recognise him as the leader.

@Knesix He survives because his detractors and opponents are people who speak like college professors and see the world as one huge university campus, so they over-analyse him. They think he plays chess, so they complicate their responses. The man is simple but not a simpleton.

This is what most people don't get about Donald Trump: 0:08 The Cover Fire Strategy 3:13 Feeding the Media Machine 6:56 The Visibility Game