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Journalist David Rohde reported Pentagon lawyers were prepared to refuse approval of target lists involving war crimes had the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire not been announced shortly before President Donald Trump's deadline threatening civilization destruction.

Rohde told MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire that military and former military lawyers were committed to resisting orders to approve targets including bridges and power stations.

Historian Douglas Brinkley expressed shock that Vice President JD Vance actively campaigned for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, described as Vladimir Putin's puppet, all the while the U.S. faced potential Iran war escalation.

Brinkley characterized Vance's support for Orbán as "utterly nutty," criticizing the Trump and Vance administration's dismantling of NATO.

Political analysts expressed shock at the terms of President Donald Trump's announced two-week ceasefire with Iran, reached just one hour before his self-imposed deadline.

According to the New York Times, ceasefire provisions include the U.S. agreeing not to attack Iran again and lifting all sanctions on Iranian oil, including those imposed during the George W. Bush administration.

Congressional Democrats called for invoking the 25th Amendment Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran missed his 8 p.m. ET deadline.

A number of Democrats reacted to the president's threats.

Democrats achieved significant electoral victories Tuesday in Wisconsin and Georgia, described by Politico as "one of their best election nights since President Donald Trump returned to the White House."

In Wisconsin, Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor won a state Supreme Court race with nearly a 20-point margin in a state Trump carried in 2024. Democrat Alicia Halvensleben also won a mayoral race in Republican-leaning Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked outrage among Trump allies by raising questions that suggest President Donald Trump could be the anti-Christ, as interpreted by critics.

Carlson asked rhetorically, "Could there be a spiritual component to this? Could it be something bigger?" adding "Is it possible what you're watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on...belief in Jesus?"

President Donald Trump's longstanding intimidation tactic, effective during his real estate career and first term, has now become largely ineffective, according to New Republic analyst Ross Rosenfeld.

Trump attended Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship, having previously attacked justices as "dumb" and "embarrassments," yet the justices completely ignored his presence.

When he asked the White House whether President Donald Trump was considering using nuclear weapons against Iran, officials refused to deny it, Mother Jones columnist Noah Lanard reported.

Trump had threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran didn't open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. ET Tuesday. When Lanard asked directly about nuclear options, an unnamed White House official responded only "We refer you to the President's TRUTH on this inquiry," and declined to rule out nuclear action.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif proposed a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war, requesting that President Donald Trump extend his 8 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline to allow diplomacy to proceed.

Via a post on X, Sharif called on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for two weeks as a goodwill gesture and urged all warring parties to observe a ceasefire. Sharif stated diplomatic efforts are "progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in the near future."

The Trump White House faces mounting panic over a forthcoming book titled "Regime Change" by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, set to publish mid-June according to reporting by Axios.

The book examines President Donald Trump's "Imperial Presidency" and his fundamental alteration of the executive office's nature.

Former Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. John Gartner warned that President Donald Trump is developing an addiction to war, deriving pleasure from frightening the world and destruction.

Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast hosted by Joanna Coles, Gartner characterized Trump's mental state as "rapidly declining," with increasingly "inflamed" grandiosity. Gartner expressed concern that Trump is "getting off on" warfare, citing the administration's use of missile imagery spliced with video game footage glorifying explosions.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office, delegating the role to his Vice President JD Vance.

On his Substack, Kurgman argued Trump recognizes the Iran war as "an epic strategic defeat" but refuses to accept the failure, instead threatening escalatory actions.

House Speaker Mike Johnson faces "healthy amount of anger," from Republicans after what Punchbowl News described a "cardinal sin" — Johnson abandoned a position he forced his members to support.

Johnson initially rejected a Senate GOP-Democratic compromise to fund DHS after 52 days of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, directing House Republicans to oppose it. However, Johnson then released a statement appearing to endorse the same Senate plan, leaving House Republicans exposed.