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While the U.S. war against Iran may soon come to an end if the tentative deal agreed to on Sunday holds, President Donald Trump appears poised to launch another “unsuccessful war,” only this one targeting Americans, journalists Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng argued Wednesday in an analysis published in Zeteo.

A Trump advisor told Zeteo that they considered the tentative Iran deal a “good thing” given that it could help the administration renew its focus on Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Donald Trump’s pride in getting an Iran deal done, despite accusations that it was a complete capitulation to Iran’s leadership, led MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle to haul out the “Trump Always Chickens Out” (TACO) taunt.

During a discussion of the deal with former diplomat Richard Haas and MS NOW’s David Rohde, she asked the two experts what the US got out of the deal.

Senate lawmakers voted to freeze Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless the Pentagon answers for an Iranian school bombing and Caribbean boat strikes, Politico reported.

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the measure last Wednesday as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2027, passing 18-9 in the Republican-led panel.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) gave a remarkably blunt assessment of the intra-party chaos sparked by President Donald Trump’s “bombshell” he dropped early Wednesday morning - that he would be “cancelling” a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing – and shrugged his shoulders when asked to speculate on Trump’s reasoning.

At around 4 a.m. Washington time, Trump claimed that he was “cancelling” the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton, whom he tapped to become the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after his initial pick faced considerable bipartisan backlash. He appeared to walk that back, however, after announcing that his initial pick – Bill Pulte – would remain as the acting DNI for the foreseeable future, and in the process, derailed the Senate GOP’s agenda.

President Donald Trump canceled the hearing for his own nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, in a dead-of-morning Truth Social post on Wednesday — but at least some Senate Republicans are signaling they plan to go forward anyway.

Clayton is nominated to succeed Tulsi Gabbard, who is resigning from office this month. Democrats and many Republicans are concerned about Trump's selection of Bill Pulte, a partisan loyalist with no intelligence credentials, to serve as acting DNI, which pressured Trump into selecting Clayton in the first place — and now Trump and the Senate are at odds about how fast to confirm Clayton to try to avoid Pulte serving in the role at all.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) grilled President Donald Trump's budget office nominee, warning that his confirmation would enable "anti-American" policies.

Slotkin zeroed in on Hal Duncan, Trump's pick for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens dropped the hammer on Donald Trump for “betraying” conservatives like himself who were encouraged that he took on Iran — only to capitulate when his war stalled out because he miscalculated the enemy.

To make his point about the president’s lack of courage, Stephens brought up the way the president avoided the Vietnam War by getting a doctor to diagnose him with bonespurs, purportedly making him unable to serve and fight.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who lost his re-election bid after President Donald Trump endorsed his GOP primary opponent, confused onlookers Tuesday night after sharing an image online depicting a Senate GOP colleague sitting atop a throne made of human skulls.

“My favorite Senator [Susan] Collins (R-MA) picture,” Cornyn wrote Tuesday evening in a social media post on X, alongside a cartoon depiction of Collins with a fierce look on her face, sitting atop a throne of human skulls in a fiery abyss.

President Donald Trump startled onlookers with a profane outburst when he was asked about former President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran.

The 80-year-old Trump has been fixated on proving the agreement to end his war in Iran is stronger than the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – which he withdrew from in May 2018, during his first term – and he blew up Wednesday morning when asked about the comparison at the G7 summit.