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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested on Tuesday that if he were ousted from his role in the Department of Justice (DOJ) – much like his predecessor, Pam Bondi, was last week – his only response would be to communicate his love for his boss, President Donald Trump.

Blanche, who was named acting attorney general in the wake of Bondi’s firing, was asked during a press conference whether he was interested in serving as the “full-time” attorney general.

Just hours before President Donald Trump's deadline for ending the civilization in Iran, the country was organizing human shields at power plants on the U.S. targeting list.

This week, Iran's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Alireza Rahimi, called on Iranians to form human chains at power plants at 2:30 p.m. local time.

MAGA influencers Steve Bannon and Eric Bolling warned that Democrats would "rain hell down" if President Donald Trump's war in Iran leads to defeat for Republicans in the midterm elections.

During his Tuesday War Room podcast, Bannon cautioned that it could be "one of those days" after Trump threatened to destroy Iran's civilization in a single night.

President Donald Trump called Fox News’ Bret Baier Tuesday morning to affirm that he would be “sticking to” his threat to permanently destroy Iranian civilization by Tuesday night, and that plans were already “moving forward.”

“I just got off the phone with the president,” Baier said. “He called, and I said ‘listen, if you were to put odds on it, what were the odds that this is going to end up being a negotiated deal?’ He said he wasn’t going to put odds on it, but he said ‘8 p.m. is happening’ – that’s what he said.”

President Donald Trump's gambit to force Iran to negotiate has reportedly backfired.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump warned on Tuesday in a Truth Social post.

MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson called on members of the White House and the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump if he tries to commit war crimes in Iran.

"Unless somebody puts the brakes on right away, we're going to wind up in a place that we can't even imagine," Carlson warned on a podcast this week. "And so that means, because this is obvious to anyone who's paying any attention, that if you work in the White House, work in the US military, now it's time to say, no, absolutely not."

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was put on the spot by CNN’s John Berman Tuesday after refusing to directly address President Donald Trump’s threat to permanently destroy Iran’s civilization, and instead, attempted several times to downplay the threat’s severity.

In a statement issued Tuesday morning, Trump warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” noting that while he did not “want that to happen,” but that it “probably will.” His threat comes as his deadline he imposed on Iran to lift restrictions on a critical shipping channel is set to expire Tuesday night at 8 p.m. EST.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance doubled down on President Donald Trump's threat to end Iran's civilization in one night, with the hint that nuclear weapons could be used.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump wrote on Tuesday on Truth Social.

According to two former diplomats, the injection of religious fervor by Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into the Iran war is a gift to the mullahs of the embattled country that will only make things worse.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” contributor Sam Stein noted that Hegseth made a strained comparison between a downed US airman emerging from a cave to be saved and Jesus over the Easter weekend, which has the effect of making the US attacks less about Middle Eastern geopolitics and more like a Christian crusade.

President Donald Trump appears to be "cornered" by his own mortality as the cracks in his coalition deepen, according to one expert.

David Rothkopf, the former editor of Foreign Policy Magazine, discussed Trump's continued efforts to find a way out of the war in Iran on Monday's new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles. Rothkopf noted that Trump's old tricks of getting someone to bail him out, charming others, or bulls------- don't appear to be working. That is happening at a time when several MAGA figures like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Thune (R-SD) seem to have realized that the political winds are blowing away from Trump, Rothkopf noted.