The “deal” with Iran would actually be a 60-day ceasefire and is not yet a permanent agreement, critics point out.
President Donald Trump did not appear willing to extend his current trip to Evian, France, for the G7 summit to attend the official signing of the memorandum of understanding with Iran on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. “Well, it depends,” Trump told reporters during a bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday. “JD is […]
Emergency stockpiles of crude oil in the United States have hit the lowest level they have been since the 1980s, as the oil and gas markets grapple with the fallout from the war in Iran. The monthslong conflict disrupted more than 11 million barrels per day of oil from global trade, threatening supply worldwide and […]
A new trans-Atlantic trade showdown is brewing as President Donald Trump threatens to impose 100% tariffs on French wine unless France abandons its digital tax on U.S. technology companies. Trump told the New York Post he warned French President Emmanuel Macron that the 3% tech levy could come at a steep cost, putting billions of […]
From the athletes to the Octagon Girls, the Freedom 250 Flag Day event was a fashion show in red, white and blue.
On Monday, a top Fox News columnist apologized for defending President Donald Trump’s decision to host a cage fight on the White House lawn. The change of heart came, he said, after a fighter’s offensive statement about former First Lady Michelle Obama.“I’ve defended the administration’s America 250 plans, because I trusted they really would be non partisan, really would bring us together,” David Marcus posted on Monday. “But I was wrong." Marcus posted this over a retweet of his own from Sunday evening, which declared, “The fighter yelling ‘Michelle Obama is a man,’ at an official White House event to honor America is utterly unacceptable and the administration should [denounce] it in no uncertain terms.”He was referring to a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan in which UFC fighter Josh Hokit randomly taunted, “And lastly — Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?” Michelle Obama has frequently been the target of this and other racist statements, though they are typically relegated to online posts and far-right rally rants rather than at White House events honoring the nation. Hokit’s words drew a smattering of laughter, and Rogan moved on without addressing the remark.“I feel betrayed,” Marcus said in another post. “I believed these would be non partisan celebrations.” He wasn’t the only one angered by Hokit’s comment. “I don't care what you think about the Obamas or anything,” said Trump voter and Barstool Sports host Dave Portnoy. “That has to be an immediate denounce.” “What a disgrace,” posted Robert Griffin III, a former NFL quarterback and a UFC fan. “It takes a really small man to use his biggest moment to attack a woman by calling her a man. Especially with the history behind calling black women men.”UFC CEO Dana White stopped short of condemning the comment, in a text to Time Magazine saying, “I understand that the Obamas are public figures but I’m completely against saying nasty and false things about people’s families. Everyone knows my position on free speech but I hate that kind of nonsense.” As of this writing, there has been no denouncement from the White House, which has repeatedly sidestepped the question.Many of Marcus’ followers expressed surprise at his anger over the matter, prompting him to elaborate on his outrage. “Maybe it’s because I produced theater for so long, but this is hard for me to forgive,” he noted. “Between this and the Kennedy Center some people are getting the keys to this stuff that don’t know how to drive the car.”When another commenter tried to argue that Marcus was taking the matter too seriously, the Fox columnist’s response was simple: “America only gets one 250th birthday.”
President Donald Trump’s peace deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is in jeopardy before it can even take effect, as Israeli leaders signal no sense of obligation to end their war in Lebanon. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that “the memorandum of understanding to end the war between Iran and America is […]
Both President Trump and Vice President Vance electronically signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday, while Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, signed for the Iranian side, senior U.S. officials said Monday. The details of the memorandum will be released in 24 to 48 hours, the officials said. The agreement is…
The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement Sunday to bring about an end to the war, which one Iranian official involved in the negotiations credited, in part, to Tehran’s unorthodox approach to addressing what they considered to be President Donald Trump’s “mental illness.”Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,” Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.“Almost quite clinically, they said [they] began to see this process yielding results as [they] worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”Trump’s cognitive function has come under renewed scrutiny during his second term in office, with The Washington Post reporting last week that the president was assessed by 22 medical specialists during his most recent medical checkup, a figure “nearly double the number of specialists who assessed Trump for his past medical checkups as president.” The president has also been spotted appearing to doze off during important meetings.