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A foreign policy analyst flagged the surprising reason why U.S. allies seem to have stopped trying to find the "hidden logic" behind President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

Anne Applebaum, an author and staff writer for The Atlantic, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump appears to be the only world leader who doesn't understand why no other countries have helped the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the war in Iran began in late February. The Iranian regime has effectively blockaded the Strait of Hormuz to U.S. and Israeli trade ships after the two countries began bombing Iran.

A political scientist said on Saturday that the Trump administration's "stunning" gaps in its Iran strategy just made Iran's "escalation trap" much more dangerous.

Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, argued during a recent interview on MS NOW's "Alex Witt Reports" that if the Trump administration decides to deploy ground troops in Iran, then the regime will start killing civilians in other countries like France and Germany with their long-range missiles. Pape said Iran has been telegraphing this move with its posture, and it isn't clear whether the Trump administration has picked up on this signal yet. Pape described these steps in a recent Substack essay as Iran's "escalation trap."

US Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Saturday that he is set to headline two major rallies next weekend “as part of a growing national movement challenging oligarchy and economic inequality,” including the flagship “No Kings” rally at the Minnesota State Capitol.

The Vermont Independent plans to join other progressive elected officials, labor leaders, and organizers in Minneapolis on the afternoon of Saturday, March 28, as Americans hold more than 3,000 related No Kings events across the United States.

Within minutes of news breaking Saturday of former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s passing, President Donald Trump took to social media to celebrate his death in a shocking social media post, sparking immediate backlash from critics who called the president’s language “disgusting and despicable.”

“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide on Saturday by issuing Democratic lawmakers a strict deadline for action, warning that if his demands were not met by Monday, he would make good on his threat.

“If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, and elsewhere throughout our Country, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before! The Fascist Democrats will never protect America, but the Republicans will,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to celebrate the death of Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who famously led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

“Robert Mueller just died,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

President Donald Trump's decision to kick off the U.S. war against Iran last month was motivated, in part, by “pressure from outside allies,” multiple insiders told Bloomberg in its report Saturday, a revelation that sparked a fierce rebuttal from the Trump administration.

Speaking with Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity, the insiders claimed that Trump was under pressure to strike Iran from at least two individuals outside his administration: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who’s wanted by the International Court of Justice for alleged war crimes – and Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire conservative media mogul and architect of Fox News.

Shalom Baranes, a Libyan refugee and chief architect for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, described the president’s immigration policies as “heartbreaking” in a recent interview, The New York Times reported Saturday.

“What’s happening now is heartbreaking,” Baranes said of the Trump administration’s immigration policy in an interview last week, his first since accepting the role to head Trump’s ballroom project last year, the Times reported. “I do hope there’s a realization at some point that this country depends on immigration. We have to normalize our policies.”

Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson delivered “bad news” for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her chief of staff – and alleged lover – Corey Lewandowski on Saturday, warning the pair during an appearance on MS NOW that their trouble had only just begun.

Noem was ousted as head of DHS by President Donald Trump earlier this month after internal frustrations mounted over her leadership, and over her alleged affair with Lewandowski, who, like Noem, is married.

President Donald Trump warned Democratic lawmakers Saturday that unless they approved funding for the Department of Homeland Security “immediately,” he would send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports across the nation where they would “arrest” any undocumented migrants they encounter.

The federal government has been partially shut down since February after Democratic lawmakers refused to fund DHS in protest of the violent immigration enforcement operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under DHS. Democratic lawmakers demanded reforms to ICE before funding the agency, demands that Republicans rejected.

Political commentator Adam Mockler confronted two conservative writers on Saturday over their fierce defenses of President Donald Trump and his decision to launch a war against Iran, telling the two to their faces that their arguments were filled with “contradictions.”

CNN’s “Table For Five” saw conservative writers and commentators Noah Rothman and Brianna Lyman fiercely defend Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran. Lyman placed blame for the conflict on Iran, claiming that “we started a war because Iran started a war 47 years ago,” and that Trump was “finishing a war.”

Donald Trump's relentless campaign to bully Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into slashing interest rates faces a fundamental contradiction: the president's own economic policies and actions are creating conditions that could force the Fed to do the opposite—raise rates instead, according to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip.

According to Ip: "The vibe has changed."

The White House lashed out Friday after being called out over its misleading suggestion that the Iran war enjoyed majority support among Americans, and to such an extent that one target of the White House’s fury hit back with a particularly scathing rebuttal.

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that “Americans agree that Operation Epic Fury is an overwhelming success,” sharing a White House press release that included several polls showing the war’s favorability. As countless critics noted, however, the White House’s release only focused on “MAGA Republicans,” who make up less than 20% of Americans.