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President Donald Trump nearly spilled state secrets while he soft-pitched a movie to reporters during a press conference on Monday, according to a new report.

The New Republic reported on Monday that Trump made the comments during a rambling portion of the press conference where he described how U.S. forces rescued an Air Force officer who was shot down and injured behind enemy lines. Trump announced on Sunday that a successful rescue mission had taken place.

A former Phoenix-area prosecutor turned right-wing pundit tried to use her connection to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to get out of a DUI arrest, but failed because she was reportedly so intoxicated she couldn't even pronounce the sheriff's name right, The Arizona Republic reported on Monday.

According to the report, 54-year-old Rachel Alexander was arrested on December 21 after attending a party with GOP officials, posing for a selfie with Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, whom she proclaimed would be "our next REAL Arizona Attorney General."

President Donald Trump is finally beginning to face reality as his inner circle confronts the realization the Iran war, long thought to be his ticket back to popularity, is instead sinking the GOP even further ahead of the midterms, Greg Sargent and Kate Aronoff discussed as part of a recent podcast under The New Republic.

This comes as recent polling data confirms overwhelming unpopularity for the president's latest military adventure — an operation even some of his own supporters see as a betrayal of his campaign platform to end war and unnecessary foreign entanglements.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned that President Donald Trump might use nuclear weapons on Iran because he is a "dementia risk."

"Hands down, in my 32 years on air, nothing has ever even come close to how much danger we're in and the insanity of what's unfolding and the nightmare that Trump has become," Jones asserted on Monday after Trump suggested he could destroy all of Iran in a single night. "Madness of King George the Third, 25th Amendment, whatever you want to call it. If you look at the foreign control of Israel, if you look at him changing stories every time."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth went for a peculiar comparison at Monday's press conference on the rescue of downed pilots in Iran, comparing the operation to bring them home to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

"Shot down on Good Friday, hidden in a cave, a crevice all of Saturday and rescued on Sunday," said Hegseth. "Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday, a pilot reborn all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing." He then proclaimed that, "God is good."

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine was forced to step in to prevent President Donald Trump from disclosing classified war plans.

During a press conference about the rescue of two U.S. airmen in Iran on Monday, Trump was asked if all of his military advisers had agreed about the mission.

President Donald Trump issued an open threat Monday to journalists over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, warning those who first reported on a missing U.S. pilot to reveal their sources or “go to jail.”

On Friday, Iran shot down two U.S. military planes, the pilots of which both survived. One pilot was rescued on Friday, whereas the second was rescued on Sunday, Trump announced over the weekend. He noted that the White House did not immediately make a statement about the missing pilots so as not to “jeopardize our second rescue operation.”

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) was accused by a former staffer of asking for explicit photos via text years before the affair with his staffer who died last year, according to a report from the San Antonio Express News.

During his 2020 congressional campaign, Gonzales reportedly asked his campaign's political director when she went to sleep and then started a series of inappropriate exchanges and requests. His former aide, who declined to share her name due to privacy concerns, shared the text messages with the news outlet.