Francis Rooney

Trump is publicly thanking himself on signs installed around Washington, and now wants to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's grey stone facades white. Is this more important than $5 per gallon gas or rising food prices? washingtonpost.com/style/2026/05/…

the vietnam war and the effort of President Nixon to discredit one of the authors, Daniel Ellsberg,  led to Watergate and his demise. There is no freedom without a free press. (2/2)

Sec Hegseth - media access to DoD briefings is a privilege, not a right. Seems he doesn't care about the 1st Amendment. It is worth recalling that the "Pentagon Papers" disclosed that President Johnson had "systematically  lied " to the public & Congress about the conduct(1/2)

In addition to costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars and raising the prices of food and gasoline, the attack on Iran is harming our allies in Asia and driving them into the arms of China. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/…

He has gotten us into a morass in Iran with no apparent way out. We are fortunate to have a pontiff who is so thoughtful, clear and articulate to speak out on these attacks. (2/2)

Trump has really lost it now, posting him imitating Jesus and launching a broadside attack on Pope Leo IV. The last sovereign leader to attack a pope was Stalin. (1/2) foxnews.com/live-news/trum…

This morning @CNN ran headline entitled 'US vs the world' but it’s actually 'Trump vs the world'. The American  people are suffering the same rise in inflation, gas and food prices as the rest of the world, but we get to pay trillions in taxpayer dollars for the privilege.

Hegseth & the DoD are off the rails, threatening the Holy See to deter them from disagreeing with their warfare? The Holy See is always going to support alternatives to armed conflict, & the 'just war theory' doesn’t apply here-there is no proportionality cnbctv18.com/world/us-vatic…

Another TACO moment-lots of aggressive talk & hyperbole from the president before he ultimately retreats. America deserves real leadership- honest, principled, & consistent. We don't have that now. An increase in defense spending to $1.5 trillion won't fix the leadership problem.

Pope Leo has criticized the use of the Lord’s name in support of war. He is certainly correct. The comments of the Defense Secretary reduce America’s moral stature and make us no better than Islamic jihadists.

provides a de facto blanket immunity to social media platforms for content shared through them. In Congress, I led a bill to hold these platforms to a reasonable  level of accountability. It’s preposterous that platforms should incur no liability for what content they allow (2/2)

A New Mexico jury held Meta/Facebook liable for the adverse impacts of its social media on children. Several thousand similar cases have been filed around the country. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (1/2)   cnbc.com/2026/03/24/jur…

Deployment of US troops to Iran would be an extreme escalation of the bombing attack which is fraught with risk. Does anyone remember Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam? The $3.91 per gallon price of gas at the pump may double.

Why would Congress vote to fund the attack on Iran, $1 billion per day, when it was not consulted or asked for approval to undertake it? With this attack lacking support around the world, the admin has singlehandedly brought inflation & European-style gas prices to our nation.

They have decided that the administration, not the Constitution, are the arbiters of what is in the public interest - judge, jury and excutioner. (2/2)

The Trump admin first undermined the 1st amendment by banning media who weren’t 'precleared' at DoD briefings. Now the FCC has raised the bar of repression by threatening federally licensed broadcast media unless their coverage is ‘acceptable’. (1/2) foxnews.com/media/trump-th…

did the President not study Vietnam? the old maxim that came out of Vietnam, relevant to Iraq and Afghanistan as well, is never fight an enemy who sleeps where he fights. (2/2)

Trump’s actions are becoming more erratic and dangerous to our prosperity. We are in a quagmire in Iran with no strategy to win nor any consistent rationale for being there. Today there’s talk of sending an amphibious attack group & 2000 or so Marines to the Iran conflict (1/2)

consequences for the west. Sooner or later the Iranian people would’ve dealt with the regime on their own. Prior to admin cuts, the AGM had 20% radio market share in Iran with its Farsi broadcasts. Now we’ve destroyed any chance for an internal solution to the mullahs' theocracy

Even though the White House has offered numerous, always changing, justifications for bombing Iran nothing rings true except the fact that we have dangerously upset the balance of power in the Middle East and may bring on a civil war in Iran which could have unintended (1/2)