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President Donald Trump's latest move in the war in Iran alarmed a supply chain analyst on Sunday.

Over the weekend, Trump called on other countries to help the U.S. clear the Strait of Hormuz, which the Iranian regime has fortified in response to the coordinated bombing campaign conducted by the U.S. and Israel that began in late February. About 20% of global liquefied natural gas and oil trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has said U.S. and Israeli ships can no longer transit the waterway.

Political analysts and observers blasted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest "cringe AI slop" video on Sunday, promoting his Make America Health Again agenda.

Kennedy posted a video of himself wrestling against a Twinkie mascot in a WWE SmackDown-style match. It includes an AI version of a shirtless Kennedy throwing the mascot around the ring with famous WWE announcer Jim Ross narrating the events. It is also set to the metal band Limp Bizkit's hit song "Rollin'."

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter presented a stark hypothetical scenario to illustrate what she characterizes as a double standard in the Trump administration's approach to civilian casualties in the Iran conflict.

Coulter posed a thought experiment: "Suppose Iran dispatched operatives to Mexico, where, from the Texas border, they fired a missile at an American base and, unintentionally but carelessly, demolished a nearby American school, killing 175 people."

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg sparked outrage on Newsmax Sunday after accusing President Donald Trump of launching war against Iran partly to distract from his administration’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

“The liberal media doing what they do best: spin the narrative!” noted one Newsmax host.

President Donald Trump issued a plea Saturday to several countries in the hopes that they would “send ships” to a major shipping route off the coast of Iran to help the United States’ war effort against the Middle East nation, a plea that as of Sunday afternoon appeared to go largely ignored.

In response to the U.S.-Israeli joint military siege launched late last month, Iran has vowed to attack any sea vessels aligned with the United States and its allies that attempt to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows. As a result, oil prices have skyrocketed, reportedly sparking panic within the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may end up becoming a tense standoff after the newly re-elected leader vowed to be “candid” about the economic pain the Trump administration had inflicted on the East Asian nation.

“If President Donald Trump is expecting effusive praise for his war on Iran when Japan’s prime minister arrives in Washington on Thursday, he is likely to be disappointed,” wrote Bronwen Maddox, director of the British foreign-policy think tank Chatham House in the organization’s report Sunday.

The Trump administration’s unprecedented military operation in Venezuela earlier this year that resulted in the capturing of President Nicolás Maduro was shaped, at least in part, by former Chevron executive Ali Moshiri, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, a revelation that left several journalists stunned.

“Every once in a while you read a story that pulls back the curtain on how the world really works and it takes your breath away,” wrote The New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen Sunday in a social media post on X.

President Donald Trump’s longstanding fixation with naming things after himself has become a running “joke” among officials in his administration, sources inside and close to the Trump administration told Zeteo in its report published on Sunday.

The sources, who spoke with Zeteo under the condition of anonymity, said that Trump “repeatedly” asks about how he could brand a plethora of different things – “buildings, parks, airports, city streets” – with his name.