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The war in Iran is going so badly for President Donald Trump that he is now making up conversations with former presidents to justify his ill-planned regime-change operation. On Monday, Trump told reporters multiple times that he had spoken with an unnamed former U.S. president whom Trump claimed told him that they wished they had gone to war with Iran. “I’ve spoken to a certain president—who I l…

The only thing less popular than President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is the idea of sending in U.S. troops —turning the destabilizing bombing campaign into a ground war. The body of Sgt. Declan Coady, who was killed in a drone strike in Kuwait after Trump launched his war on Iran, is returned to the United States on March 7. GOP Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas struggled to defend the Trump administr…

Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, said on Tuesday that the administration is not really concerned with the economic impact that the war on Iran is having on millions of American consumers. Hassett made his statement during an appearance on CNBC. YouTube Video “The fact is the U.S. economy is fundamentally sound and if [the war] were to be extended,…

Strategically, the Strait of Hormuz is the perfect place for Iran to hold the world economy hostage—something understood by every previous president who refrained from starting wars against Iran’s repressive, hostile, and expansionist regime. That is obviously not the case with President Donald Trump. At its narrowest point, the strait is around 21 miles wide. But the actual shipping lanes are fa…

President Donald Trump’s pets on the Kennedy Center board voted Monday to let him close it for two years for some amorphous reconstruction. Trump openly lobbied the board right before the vote, really hammering home the fact that everything is just a corrupt mess these days. Trump worked himself into a froth about the state of the center, fully inhabiting an imaginary world where it had been “let…

By Amanda Seitz and Stephanie Armour Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fielding pressure from the White House to relax his controversial approach to vaccine policies as the midterms near, but his most steadfast supporters are pressing for more aggressive action — like restricting COVID-19 vaccines and pesticide use — to carry out the Make America Healthy Again agenda. T…

Trump administration officials apparently felt that shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development and killing billions of dollars in foreign aid was too subtle and failed to convey the real depths of their depravity. So the president’s lackeys figured out a way to make their monstrous intentions crystal clear. A State Department memorandum prepared for Secretary Marco Rubio pitched the…

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As Americans continue to suffer the consequences of his unpopular policies, President Donald Trump has decided to focus on what really matters: martial arts. “We're doing a lot of special things. We have a lot of things happening,” Trump said before boasting about the Ultimate Fighting Championship event scheduled to take place on the White House lawn on June 14—which “only by happenstance” is Tr…