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Trump to hold news conference to conclude G7 summit in France
President Trump is set to hold a news conference to wrap up the Group of Seven summit in France on Wednesday.
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Live updates: Trump cautions Iran deal isn’t ironclad; DNI nomination on hold over SAVE America Act
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President Trump on Wednesday cautioned that the preliminary deal with Iran isn’t yet final, and the U.S. could “resume strikes” if needed. “No, it’s not final. It’s a memorandum of understanding, and if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head,” Trump said, speaking next to Egyptian…
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Aging Trump deliberately staging his 'daily' public shocks to hide this hard truth
Bulwark White House Correspondent Andrew Egger says President Donald Trump is a shock artist who knows how to catch an audience’s attention. But these days, Egger says Trump is using his best talent as a Band-Aid.“Donald Trump is, above all, a showman. While he’s plainly slowing with age, he has certainly not lost his ability to deliver near-daily shocks with his attacks on good government, ethics, and taste. But the nature of those shocks has been changing lately,” Egger wrote in the Tuesday edition of Bulwark. “More and more, they’ve seemed calibrated to obscure a harsh truth: Not yet two years into Trump 2.0, the administration’s momentum has ground to a halt.”If the year 2025 for Trump was a flurry of energy and deed, 2026 is a slow, wrenching tug at futility and loss.“This period of Trump’s furious maximalism seemed to die in Minneapolis early this year. It has stayed dead since,” said Egger. “Instead, Trump has spent the first half of 2026 mostly just fighting to keep stuff from sliding away from him. Simply reauthorizing funding for ICE and the Border Patrol turned out to be an enormous, sweaty legislative lift. So was maintaining his tariff regime after the Supreme Court ruled huge portions of it unconstitutional. Ditto maintaining his government’s ability to conduct warrantless surveillance of foreigners — a typically uneventful legislative renewal Trump managed to capsize with his clownish appointment of hatchet man Bill Pulte to a top intelligence role. His top 2026 legislative priority, the elections grab-bag Save America Act, is a running joke that the Senate will never seriously consider. Other major initiatives, like the $1.776 billion ‘anti-weaponization fund,’ barely made it past the announcement stage before blowing up in the face of furious public opposition.”Instead, the things that occupy Trump this year are “just a sideshow to the major policy work,” said Egger.“He has become obsessed with the minutiae of his self-aggrandizing monument building, from his Freedom250 birthday bash to the Kennedy Center to the East Wing Ballroom to the reflecting pool to his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery,” said Egger. “And even that isn’t all going to plan: A judge’s order that his name come off the Kennedy Center has provoked a world-historical hissy fit, with Trump declaring the institution dead and installing an apparently permanent cover over the building’s facade rather than allowing it to be seen with his name removed.”Egger said Americans should take heart by Trump’s apparent lack of accomplishment this year, even if he insists on plastering his failure over with disconcerting behavior and national embarrassment.“It’s perfectly natural to remain outraged at Trump’s ongoing parade of obscenities: It’s not fun, exactly, to see him and his people squee and gibber while a bloodsport fighter hoots that ‘MICHELLE OBAMA IS A MAN!’ from a fight cage erected preposterously on the White House lawn. But these circuses aren’t just intended to trigger the libs and titillate his base — they’re designed to distract both camps from how little the president is actually getting done these days,” said Egger.“Compared to where we were last year, it’s a damn good start,” he said.
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New York Post
Barron Trump debuts new look at Trump’s UFC event in rare public appearance
Barron Trump debuted a noticeably shaggier look while attending the UFC event at the White House on June 14. President Donald Trump’s youngest son showed off longer, tousled hair — a stark change from the neat style he sported during his last public appearance months ago.
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Trump to face questions at G7 press conference. And, Tuesday's primary results
Trump has touted his tentative agreement with Iran at the G7 summit. Today, he is expected to field questions at a press conference as the summit wraps up. And, a look at Tuesday's primary election results.
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The New Republic
White House Claims Leaked Iran Deal Is Fake as Backlash Grows
White House officials are trying to claim that a leaked draft of the peace agreement between Iran and the U.S. isn’t real. CNN reported Wednesday that the deal consists of a 14-point memorandum of understanding, which it obtained from a U.S. official. The points include the terms of the ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and details about billions in financial relief for Iran. However, White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung denied the CNN report’s accuracy, posting on X that “The supposed text of the MOU that was obtained by CNN does not reflect the language of the actual MOU.” President Trump also issued his own denial Wednesday when reporters asked about the inclusion of a plan for the U.S. and Gulf allies to “ensure financing of at least $300 billion” in reconstruction funds.“It’s false. People, you can invest if you want. What am I gonna do, say nobody’s ever allowed to invest? We’re not invest, we’re not putting up 10 cents. People can decide to do that, but that’s up to them,” Trump said at the G7 summit in France, seated alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. “We are not investing in it, and we do not have a fund.” Trump also denied that Gulf countries were investing in the fund, and added that the CNN report was a “false story that got picked up incorrectly from a statement that was pretty well made, I think.”Q: It's been reported the MOU includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund funded by Gulf allies.TRUMP: It's false. You can invest if you want. We're not putting up 10 cents.Q: Are you asking Gulf countries to--TRUMP: No I'm not. If they do it, that's fine. Don't forget --… pic.twitter.com/2TmhtR8eW6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2026Bloomberg also obtained a copy of the draft memorandum, which U.S. officials are not attacking, although an unnamed Iranian official told the country’s Tasnim news agency that parts of it were inaccurate. It contains similar language regarding $300 billion in reconstruction funds for Iran. Both versions also promise that the U.S. will release additional billions in frozen Iranian assets. Until the official terms are released to the public, we won’t know for sure if any funds will be transferred, or what assurances are being made to ensure that the war doesn’t resume. Trump could easily clear this all up by releasing the signed agreement in full, but for now, he’s content to attack the media and leave everyone guessing.
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New York Post
Gavin Newsom desperately tries to flip the script on Trump with aggressive new letter: ‘Which is it?’
Newsom accused the nation's top law enforcement official of applying double standards in their handling of investigations and public accountability.
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The Gateway Pundit
UPDATE: Senator Josh Hawley Opens Investigation into MLB for Discrimination Against Christian Players for Proclaiming Their Faith on Pride Night – Calls Out League’s Hypocrisy
US Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has opened a Congressional investigation into Major League Baseball as the league faces growing backlash over its threat to discipline Christian players who wore Bible verses on their uniforms during a Pride Night game. This comes after the MLB issued warnings to Christian ballplayers from the San Francisco Giants club for wearing verses from the book of Genesis. The post UPDATE: Senator Josh Hawley Opens Investigation into MLB for Discrimination Against Christian Players for Proclaiming Their Faith on Pride Night – Calls Out League’s Hypocrisy appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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‘People want to get back to a normal life’: Watch Trump take questions in Europe amid Iran deal
'We're seeing how far the price of oil is down, it's tumbling'
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