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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.

President Donald Trump issued a stark threat Tuesday, then declaring on a Truth Social post, "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" unless Iran lifts restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. EST.

Critics globally condemned the threat as genocide.

A Trump Truth Store based on Truth Social in Crystal Lake, Illinois, closed after sales plummeted amid the unpopular Iran war, as reported by The Chicago Tribune.

Owner Lisa Fleischmann announced the closure on Facebook March 26, writing, "I am not even making ½ of my rent."

Retired General Barry McCaffrey expressed serious concern about President Donald Trump's Easter Sunday post threatening Iran, suggesting Trump requires medical evaluation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Trump's posted, "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day...There will be nothing like it!!!" Ending it with, "you'll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

Voting rights lawyer, Marc Elias, warned that Vice President JD Vance's planned trip to Hungary reveals the Trump administration's authoritarian intentions ahead of midterm elections.

Vance will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and discuss the U.S. and Hungary "partnership" just before Hungary's elections through April 7-8, as reported by Fox News.

Republican governors and senators are increasingly opposing Department of Homeland Security, DHS, plans to retrofit warehouses into massive immigrant detention facilities, allying with Democrats to block the expansion.

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte joined local Democrats to oppose a planned detention center and exposed DHS's nationwide warehouse conversion strategy. Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Roger Wicker successfully lobbied DHS to relocate proposed mega-facilities from Lebanon, Tennessee and Byhalia, Mississippi, citing infrastructure inadequacy.

Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi rejected President Donald Trump's repeated claims that gas prices will fall "rapidly" when the Iran war comes to an end. Instead Zandi warned pre-war prices may never return.

"I don't think we're going back to the pre-war prices for the foreseeable future," explained Zandi, adding, "Certainly won't be this year, won't even be next year, might not be ever."

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine intervened, preventing President Donald Trump from publicly disclosing classified information about troop numbers deployed in a successful rescue mission of two U.S. airmen shot down over Iran on Friday.

During a press conference, Trump admitted some military advisers opposed the operation, then described the mission's scale, and discussing helicopter casualties.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned that President Donald Trump might deploy nuclear weapons against Iran, characterizing him as a "dementia risk."

Jones stated that in his 32 years on air, he has never seen such danger, describing Trump as having "become a nightmare."