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Faced with overwhelming odds combating US military might, one Middle East expert predicted the leadership of the war-torn country looks to be aiming to get to Donald Trump by going after one of his biggest weaknesses.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times columnist Tom Friedman claimed that, if there is one thing Donald Trump uses to gauge how he’s doing, it is the stock market and the surviving Iranian leadership knows that is one of his vulnerabilities.

First Lady Melania Trump will become the first spouse of a world leader to chair a United Nations Security Council meeting despite her husband's ongoing attacks against Iran.

The U.S. first lady was expected to "emphasize education's role in advancing tolerance and world peace," according to a statement from her office.

A former member of President George W. Bush’s administration had nothing good to say about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s press conference on Monday, claiming he failed to answer any important questions and just showed up to posture.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Elise Jordan expressed disgust with the former Fox News personality’s smug answers, which also failed to make the case that threatens to go on longer than the Donald Trump administration is willing to admit.

ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl came away from an interview with President Donald Trump suggesting the U.S. leader was high on military power following the strikes in Iran.

"He promised to keep the nation out of foreign wars, but at this point, no modern president has ordered more military strikes against more countries than Donald Trump," ABC News host George Stephanopoulos told Karl on Monday.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth jumped in to defend Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine’s explanation on where the war in Iran was headed on Monday morning and then complained about the line of questioning from reporters in the room.

Having earlier complained about “fake news,” the former Fox News personality became incensed about reports the war could drag on longer than two weeks first hinted at, and now four weeks.

During a press conference at the Pentagon early morning, DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a belligerent defense of the attack on Iran, and sneered at traditional US allies over “pearl-clutching” and the press for spreading “fake news.”

At the same time, he set off a social media firestorm by promising he would set aside traditional rules of engagement designed to prevent war crimes.

Reacting to a report from Wall Street Journal that there are growing fears of weaponry shortages looming for the Pentagon after Donald Trump ordered an assault on Iran, a retired general claimed the war planners may have made a major miscalculation.

Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ retired United States Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling explained that when he worked in the Pentagon, one of his duties included war-planning and he understands the constraints that come with limited stocks of weaponry.

According to the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, reporting that Donald Trump is now fishing about for suggestions on what to do in Iran after he launched a war on the country and killed its leader is yet another example of his “undisciplined” leadership.

And that puts him in a precarious position politically.

A MAGA Senator left two analysts stunned on Sunday after he gave a "totally crazy" answer about President Donald Trump's goals in Iran.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joined NBC News' Kristen Welker on Sunday to discuss the Trump administration's decision to join Israel in striking multiple sites around Iran on early Saturday morning. During the conversation, Graham seemed to suggest that the administration had no goals in mind.

Vice President JD Vance just revealed himself to be a "shapeshifter" in a way that revealed something "quite ugly" about himself, according to one expert.

In late February, MAGA media star Tucker Carlson interviewed U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, which Vance described to The Washington Post on Friday as a "really good conversation that's going to be necessary for the right." That depiction was highly problematic for former State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen, who said on a new episode of the "Shield of the Republic" podcast that it showed something "quite ugly" about the Vice President's personality.

A panel discussion on MS NOW's "The Weekend: Primetime" went off the rails on Sunday night after a MAGA Republican defended President Donald Trump's latest "war."

Early Saturday morning, Trump posted a nearly eight-minute video on Truth Social where he announced the U.S. and Israel would conduct coordinated strikes against several sites in Iran, an operation known as "Epic Fury" that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the brutal dictator who had ruled the country since 1989. In the video, Trump referred to the operation as a "war" even though Congress has not passed an official declaration of war.

President Donald Trump's "signature crisis" has become a defining moment for the U.S., according to one columnist.

David Rothkopf, a columnist at The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that the way the Trump administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein files is one of the "signatures of our time" because it connects to many other issues the U.S. faces, from political corruption to wealth inequality and everything in between.