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MSNBC’s Morning Joe host lavished praise on Donald Trump for his actions in Iran Tuesday — and told his audience it was okay to slap the president on the back now and again.

Host Joe Scarborough’s comments came as his show is still feeling the effects from a trip to Mar-a-Lago he and his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, made just after Trump won the 2024 election.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Tuesday to launch into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell — and urge his allies in Congress to tear into the man.

“‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell, of the Fed, will be in Congress today in order to explain, among other things, why he is refusing to lower the Rate,” Trump wrote.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) unloaded on fellow GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as he dismissed her stepped-up criticism of President Donald Trump’s military strikes on Iran – and accused her of distorting the facts in an on-air rebuke Monday night.

“Marjorie is certainly entitled to her own opinion. She's not entitled to her own set of facts,” Lawler said when asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to respond to Greene’s accusation that Trump had pulled a “bait-and-switch” by ordering a series of strikes on Iran over the weekend.

President Donald Trump on Monday night released a sweeping new statement on Truth Social where he claimed credit for brokering peace between Iran and Israel – and took a victory lap for his role – following a weekend of U.S.-led strikes and escalating tensions.

“Israel & Iran came to me, almost simultaneously, and said, ‘PEACE!’ I knew the time was NOW,” Trump told his followers Monday. “The World, and the Middle East, are the real WINNERS! Both Nations will see tremendous LOVE, PEACE, AND PROSPERITY in their futures.”

Elon Musk's legal battle with OpenAI and its founder, Sam Altman, can be boiled down to one of the most important questions of this millennium: Does Musk use a laptop or not?

It's a question that Musk's lawyers have spent a considerable amount of time trying to avoid answering, Wired reported on Monday. Musk's lawyers claimed in a Sunday court filing that Musk "does not use a laptop," which seems to be misleading at best, based on the numerous examples the outlet cited where Musk either directly or indirectly refers to his laptop.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who once backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary, is now calling to halt the rollout of what is becoming one of Kennedy’s most controversial moves.

Cassidy, who chairs the Senate health committee and is a physician himself, urged the Trump administration on Monday to postpone a meeting later this week of Kennedy’s newly appointed vaccine advisory panel, Bloomberg reported. The GOP lawmaker argued the panel is too small and lacks scientific credibility.

In the latest legal loss for the Trump administration, a federal judge on Monday evening ordered executive officials to restore grants they terminated to the University of California.

The ruling, from Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California, was flagged on X by Politico's Kyle Cheney.

President Donald Trump's announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran on Monday exposed another rift within the MAGA base.

Around 4 p.m. Eastern time, Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that Israel and Iran agreed to a "Complete and Total CEASEFIRE" for 12 hours. That announcement followed reports that a U.S. military operation in Iran had destroyed three of its nuclear facilities.

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by Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance
June 23, 2025

President Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of regime change in Iran is drawing stark comparisons to the early days of the Iraq War – and leaving his cabinet officials scrambling to clean up the fallout.

Trump on Sunday floated the idea of ousting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, even rebranding his signature MAGA slogan into a new mission that The Atlantic’s David A. Graham wrote was "surprising" to him.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) couldn't bring herself to say whether she thought it was a good idea for President Donald Trump's administration to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend.

During an appearance on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday night, Murkowski said there are still "many, many questions" that need to be answered about the strike.

President Donald Trump's strike on Iran was a complete betrayal of what his supporters were voting for, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) argued to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Monday night.

Massie, a libertarian who frequently frustrates House GOP leadership with his votes against major party priorities, appeared on "All In" alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA). The two have introduced a War Powers Resolution to prohibit further action in Iran.