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@PressSec Trump is a weak little pussy who lost a war to Iran. Thanks for enabling America's biggest retard leading us to war and disaster, you scumbag

This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen. From the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump estimated this would be a 4-6 week operation. Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities of our warriors, we have achieved and exceeded our core military objectives in 38 days. More on that tomorrow morning from @SecWar and Chairman Caine! The success of our military created maximum leverage, allowing President Trump and the team to engage in tough negotiations that have now created an opening for a diplomatic solution and long-term peace. Additionally, President Trump got the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Never underestimate President Trump’s ability to successfully advance America’s interests and broker peace.

@mattvanswol He literally lost a war to Iran. We're giving them everything, and they get to keep their nuclear program and charge a toll. Weakest president ever. This is the problem with electing the dumbest man in America president. He just led America to it's most embarrassing defeat ever

The most predictable script in American politics: >Trump does something strong >Democrats and the media freak out >Everything Trump did works >Everyone moves on >No one gives him credit Every. Single. Time.

Trump wrote one of the most unhinged things I've ever read in a social media post, so naturally this website is wall-to-wall with condemnations of... Democrats... largely from people who insisted in 2024 that you should not to vote for the Democrats.

if you didn’t vote for the democrats in the last election because “both sides were the same”, why are you now on twitter wailing for the democrats to save you from the current administration lol

@BeatStomp @mynamehear Or you could have voted for them and we wouldn't have this problem!

@mynamehear They can organize a joint special session in an emergency by pressuring and working with the majority leaders, they can fucking form a line in front of the fucking Capitol Hill & White House like how the Iranian children are doing in front of the power plants right the fuck now.

Some of you need to take a basic civics lesson on the United States federal government. There is nothing Democrats can do to stop what's going on right now. You gave Republicans all the power. Start calling for THEM to do something.

Trump didn't do anything but say "don't blame me for project 2025" and the media happily obliged. Any lefty dipshit says anything inflammatory and it's a 3-6 month liability for "the Democrats"

@idrawrobots @xaigorgo @NateSilver538 The NYT is like, literally the world's most trusted and respected newspaper, no matter what cope MAGA tells themselves. Literally every government and business in the world pays attention to it. Literally the global gold standard of journalism with the awards to prove it.

Because the reason that the NYT doesn't perform well on X is because very few people trust and respect the NYT. Even on Facebook they have millions of followers and tens of engagements. I guess that a large source of their paid subscriptions are from other news organizations and government agencies.

It's not my data. The source is Cluvio, which is linked to in the article. I'd link to it in this tweet, but ironically, that would kill engagement. And I know that traffic is hard to count. Especially for a private company. But if you have more accurate data, then publish it.

@SeanCFoley12 @ElonMuskSucks97 @NateSilver538 You just can't answer the question

@ElonMuskSucks97 @NateSilver538 Blocked for being an ignorant moron

@steven_cas85123 @HowardKech @Microinteracti1 The alliance doesn't cover acts of aggression, nor does it apply outside the North Atlantic. Trump started a foolish war for no reason, and now wants to drag Europe in, despite this not being covered by NATO. The alliance isn't a blank check to be a moron and receive backup

@odnyc_ @HowardKech @Microinteracti1 If anything that recently happened can destroy the alliance it will be the denial of bases and airspace. That puts our troops at risk and no thinking American likes it.

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@SolAman11364 @zagrebbi When did they start letting Freshmen take AP bio? We had to take regular bio first.

@zagrebbi My son is one of those 850. A Freshman with straight As including AP bio. And a Latin team champion.

Stuyvesant High School in New York City takes only the ~850 top scorers of the 25,000 kids who take the city's high school application test, the SHSAT. The results are consistent with the demographics of my hypothetical "test only" Columbia class: Asians dramatically outdo other groups, whites hold their ground, and all others crash. The SHSAT has been contested by civil rights groups for decades. Mamdani ran on abolishing the test, though quietly changed his position before the general.

@jackunheard The left loves America, that's why we were happy to hear that America's greatest enemy, Trump, might kick the bucket. That motherfucker has done more to harm America than anyone in history. Even Osama Bin Laden was less destructive to this country. I'm gonna piss on his grave

What we experienced in the last 24 hours from the Left was nothing short of demonic. While President Trump was working all day on a critical mission to rescue an American pilot, the left ran a massive campaign pushing the lie that he was dead. We need a complete investigation into who paid for and coordinated these posts. Every account involved should be fully demonetized on X. They knew Trump had one mission: save the American pilot, not walk around and talk to the press. They still chose to attempt a mass distraction from it with a disgusting lie. If you need more proof the left hates America, you’re no better than them.

@HowardKech @Microinteracti1 @steven_cas85123 That we are closely integrated and depend on each other, and 75 years of peace built by NATO and the transatlantic alliance are being destroyed by the stupidest man in America and his barely literate, retard followers. MAGA is destroying American power and will make us weaker

@Microinteracti1 @steven_cas85123 In one breath you are saying Europe is buying American weapons at very high premium and in another breath you are saying that the spare parts of these american weapons are actually made and sold by Europe to America. So what's your point exactly?

@Tom730410985 @cd_hooks Dykes are Dutch not Danish, you fucking halfwit

Actually that is not true whatsoever. Trump didn't rule out anything, which is normal so that you don't show your cards during negotiations. And later he also said he would not use military action against Greenland. Denmark is a pimple on a squirrel's ass and completely irrelevant to the world. Go make some cheese or stick your finger in a dike, you know your core abilities.

the president threatened to invade Denmark two months ago dumbass

@hissgoescobra @brianbeutler For a president who said he likes airmen who don't get captured

Imagine being a pilot hunted through 18,000 foot mountains, struggling for breath, and your clown-ass President is tweeting fucking war crimes while his son is making money off gambling whether you’ll live or die on Polymarket.

@RachelBitecofer I've been saying for years to all these NE ethnic MAGA people that these MAGA rednecks hate Catholics just marginally less than they hate brown and black people, and they're in for a rude awakening

I keep telling Catholics- they’re next on the Protestant menu but they don’t believe it. The Mormons get it though.

@DrJStrategy What actually happened was the moron believed Bibi when he told him they would wipe out the Iranians in a month, and they'd build statues to him in Tel Aviv. Now, because he's stupid, he's caused a global economic crisis that he doesn't know how to get out of, and is flailing

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@reesejgorman @alweaver22 Well, the @SenateGOP and @LeaderJohnThune are finally on the right side of an issue: Are House GOP members uncivilized morons, led by an untrustworthy non-entity? Of course!

New: The Senate and the House hate eachother. And the animosity has reached a boiling point. “The Senate sees the House as a bunch of sort of barbarians or Philistines, and they’re the enlightened ones.” W/ @alweaver22 notus.org/congress/senat…

@pjaicomo @MontyVale143 He was hearing too many words he didn't understand

@MontyVale143 He left early? Wow.

Why isn't the President sitting in his dedicated oral-argument chair?!

@ZannSuz @mattyglesias @smod4real This is 100% AI

It’s cute how you insist the evil mullahs were honest brokers in the agreement. Obama's deal was a pathetic surrender sold as tough diplomacy. It was toothless with zero real enforcement. Iran cheated rampantly, stockpiling enriched uranium, spinning advanced centrifuges, dodging IAEA inspections, while Obama bent over backward with secret exemptions instead of snapping back sanctions. All while airlifting $1.7 billion in pallets of cash straight to the mullahs. Not "unfrozen assets" straight-up ATM service to the world's top terror sponsor. Weakness doesn’t prevent war, it invites it. And Obama armed it.

@annmarie @bresreports I'm sure they do, the only thing worse for them than Trump starting this is him ending it after basically losing from a strategic perspective and leaving Iran even stronger than before, and in control of a critical waterway.

AP: Officials from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain have conveyed in private conversations that they do not want the military operation to end until there are significant changes in the Iranian leadership or there’s a dramatic shift in Iranian behavior, according to US, Gulf and Israeli officials.