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CNN's Abby Phillip clashed with MAGA loyalist Scott Jennings in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's address on the Iran war — and backed him into a corner using his own words.

Jennings has increasingly exasperated his CNN colleagues with his more and more insistent partisan defenses of the Trump administration, and the aftermath of Trump's Iran address was no exception.

Gregg Phillips, President Donald Trump's appointee as associate administrator for FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery, is drawing scrutiny for repeatedly claiming he was involuntarily "teleported."

Phillips, who lacks formal disaster management experience, told podcast hosts he ended up at a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia, 50 miles from where he started, insisting the experience was "real" despite being impossible. He also described how his car was "lifted up" and dropped in a ditch outside a church in Albany, Georgia.

Political analysts and observers ridiculed President Donald Trump on Wednesday night as the stock market shed more than $550 billion in market capitalization following his national address about the Iran war.

Trump spoke for the first time since the war in Iran began five weeks ago, an operation that has sent global energy prices skyrocketing because the Iranian regime effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for 20% of the global energy trade. During the speech, Trump said the U.S. was nearing completion of its objectives, and he called on other countries to help open the Strait of Hormuz.

A former presidential envoy said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump signaled the U.S. plans to escalate the war in Iran during his primetime address to the nation.

Trump spoke for about 19 minutes on Wednesday, where he addressed a lot of outstanding questions people have been asking about the war in Iran, which has gone on for about five weeks. Trump said the U.S. is nearing completion of its objectives in the war, and called on the rest of the world to figure out how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which the Iranian regime has effectively blocked since the war began.

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Wednesday after a video of President Donald Trump's faith advisor comparing him to Jesus.

Trump hosted an Easter event at the White House with evangelical groups. The event was supposed to be private, but Trump's speech was posted on the White House's YouTube channel until it was made private later in the day. At one point, Trump's faith advisor, Paula White-Cain, compared Trump to Jesus because the two men had been "betrayed and arrested and falsely accused."

MS NOW's Chris Hayes broke down all the key points of President Donald Trump's speech on the Iran war on Wednesday evening — and tore apart most of the major false claims made during the address.

"That was the President of the United States with a 19-minute address from the Blue Room there in the White House, addressing the war with Iran," said Hayes. "If you were expecting something new, you did not get it. It was a litany of lies that he's told before."

President Donald Trump befuddled the nation on Wednesday with a strange rant about the war in Iran, in which many observers remarked very little was said that was new.

Trump gave his first national address since the war started about five weeks ago. He spoke about the progress made in the war and said the U.S. has "nearly completed" all of its objectives. He also made several astonishing claims, such as calling on NATO allies to purchase oil from the U.S. or "take it" from the Strait of Hormuz and describing Iran as one of the world's great powers.

President Donald Trump outlined a plan on Wednesday to eliminate the Senate filibuster to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has remained unfunded since February over disputes regarding ICE and CBP.

Trump stated Republicans would "work as fast, and as focused, as possible" to replenish border and ICE funding while claiming "Radical Left Democrats won't be able to stop us."

President Donald Trump gave NATO allies a stark ultimatum during his national address on Wednesday night.

The speech was the first address Trump has given since the war in Iran started about five weeks ago. Trump addressed the progress of the war and claimed the U.S. is "nearing completion" of its objectives. He also told NATO allies that they have two choices to make when it comes to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that Iran has effectively shut down in retaliation for the continued bombing strikes.

President Donald Trump made a particularly eyebrow-raising claim about the U.S. war in Iran during his speech on Wednesday evening, that promptly triggered a firestorm on social media.

"We're now totally independent of the Middle East," said Trump. "We are there to help. We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they have. But we're there to help our allies."

President Donald Trump made a startling claim about the U.S.'s involvement in the war in Iran during his national address on Wednesday night.

Trump's speech was the first address he's given since the war began about five weeks ago. Since then, the president has offered shifting rationales for conducting coordinated bombing strikes across Iran, which have killed the country's top political and military leadership.