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A photograph shared by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani sparked controversy over security protocol violations. The image, posted Sunday during U.S. and Iranian peace talks in Switzerland, shows Vance seated at a laptop with Jared Kushner standing behind him. A Common Access Card, or CAC, used by U.S. defense personnel appears inserted into the laptop, bearing a photograph of a woman instead of Vance. Journalist Caroline Orr Bueno wrote, “I would love to know the intended symbolism of Qatar’s prime minister posting a picture of JD Vance logging into a laptop using someone else’s CAC card,” and suggested, "There is 100% a read-between-the-lines message being sent.”MS NOW analyst and host of The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller, asked, “Why is a Saudi agent with no security clearance representing America in this meeting?” MeidasTouch questioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio's absence. And geopolitical analyst Anusar Farooqui characterized the photograph as evidence of an "agency fail."Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned damage from President Donald Trump's failed Iran war will outlast his presidency, leaving America diminished globally for years. In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed Trump's victory claims as detached from reality and deemed Iran the winner. "Iran is in a much stronger position and the U.S. in a much weaker position than before the war started," he said.Krugman characterized the ceasefire deal as vastly inferior to Former President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement, noting the conflict cost lives and exposed American power limits. Krugman also challenged Trump's economic boasts, citing slower job growth than Former President Joe Biden's final years, flat unemployment, and lower real wages due to accumulated inflation. The famed economist argued stock market gains reflect a global rally, not Trump-specific policies. Most critically, Krugman warned the erosion of American credibility — from abandoning agreements, to allies questioning U.S. reliability — he said, "It took generations to build the reputation of America. You don’t get that back unless you give us three generations of good governance from here on in."He also described Trump as experiencing a steep mental decline, desperate for legacy validation."Everything Trump touches turns to crud," Krugman said.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned the damage from President Trump's failed war in Iran — and his broader approach to governing — will outlast his presidency, leaving the U.S. diminished on the world stage for years to come.In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed Trump's claims of victory in Iran as detached from reality."Iran won," Krugman said. "Iran is in a much stronger position and the U.S. in a much weaker position than before the war started."Krugman called the resulting ceasefire deal "vastly inferior" to the Obama-era nuclear agreement Trump abandoned during his first term, adding that the conflict cost lives, depleted weapons stockpiles, and exposed the limits of American power."He could have just done nothing — that would have been better," he said.The conversation centered on a series of early-morning social media posts in which Trump demanded credit for the outcome and touted economic gains. Krugman pushed back point by point, noting that job growth has actually been slower than in the last two years under Biden, with unemployment essentially flat and real wages lower due to inflation accumulated since Trump took office, and he argued stock market gains reflect a global rally rather than anything specific to Trump's policies."The stock market is up, no question about that," Krugman said. "Although the stock market rose a lot under Joe Biden, too, Trump would like you to put that down the memory hole. Stocks are up, by the way, around the world. There’s a stock market boom. I haven’t checked the numbers lately, but I believe that they’re up substantially more outside the United States than inside the United States."Krugman framed Trump's behavior as part of a broader pattern of decline, arguing the war revealed that the U.S. could not impose its will on a "third-rate military power" and that American allies increasingly understand they don't need Washington — citing Ukraine's continued resistance despite a U.S. cutoff of arms and funding. He warned this erosion of credibility is not easily reversible."There’s a lot that has obviously been made much worse by Trump screwups," Krugman said. "What the world now has to suspect, even when Trump is gone from the stage, is who’s the next guy? How do we know that we won’t have another Trump-like figure? Does an agreement with America mean anything, since we’ve just seen an American president rip up every agreement that we had?""We don’t get that back," he added. "It took generations to build the reputation of America. You don’t get that back unless you give us three generations of good governance from here on in."Krugman was equally blunt about Trump personally, describing him as someone living through a kind of public unraveling."If you look at some of those late-night tweets, the tweets we’re talking about here, you kind of get hit by a real dose of somebody in very steep mental decline," he said. "It’s sort of two-layered. On the one hand, it’s the sheer nakedness of the demand for adulation, which is just completely crazy. Somebody who’s sunsetting very plainly in plain sight, who knows he’s on his way out and is desperate to have something that he can call a legacy. That’s what we see there.""But at the same time, you also see him completely detached from the reality of what he’s actually done to us," Krugman added. "What he’s done to you and me, to liberal America, to blue America, even to red America, even to MAGA country."Krugman highlighted the administration's renovation of the National Mall's Reflecting Pool — drained, repainted and resealed, only to be overtaken again by algae — as an almost literary metaphor. "Everything Trump touches turns to crud," he said.
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Amid the ongoing negotiations in Switzerland between Washington and Tehran, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani shared a photograph of himself and Vice President JD Vance on social media, and an odd detail in the image sparked a wave of speculation among onlookers.Posted Sunday night on X, the photograph shows a seated Vance typing on a laptop beside Al Thani, who is gesturing toward the laptop screen. Standing behind them is Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and special peace envoy. What drew curiosity from onlookers, however, was what appeared to be inserted into the laptop.A card can be seen inserted into the laptop sitting in Vance’s lap that appears to be a Common Access Card (CAC), an identification card used by U.S. defense personnel. The photograph on the card, however, appears to be of a woman and not of Vance.“I would love to know the intended symbolism of Qatar’s prime minister posting a picture of JD Vance logging into a laptop using someone else’s CAC card,” wrote Caroline Orr Bueno, a journalist and social sciences scholar, in a social media post on X. “There is 100% a read-between-the-lines message being sent.”Tim Miller, host of The Bulwark Podcast and MS NOW analyst, raised questions about the extent with which Qatar – which is not a signatory to the 14-point memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran – was involved in negotiations.“Why is a Saudi agent with no security clearance representing America in this meeting?” Miller asked in a social media post on X to his more than 460,000 followers.The progressive media organization MeidasTouch simply asked “where is Marco,” referring to the notable absence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Anusar Farooqui, a writer and geopolitical analyst, labeled the photograph as evidence of an “agency fail.”I would love to know the intended symbolism of Qatar’s prime minister posting a picture of JD Vance logging into a laptop using someone else’s CAC card. There is 100% a read-between-the-lines message being sent. https://t.co/UiyDaZm4bM— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 22, 2026