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Political analysts and observers were outraged on Wednesday after a video of President Donald Trump's faith advisor comparing him to Jesus.

Trump hosted an Easter event at the White House with evangelical groups. The event was supposed to be private, but Trump's speech was posted on the White House's YouTube channel until it was made private later in the day. At one point, Trump's faith advisor, Paula White-Cain, compared Trump to Jesus because the two men had been "betrayed and arrested and falsely accused."

MS NOW's Chris Hayes broke down all the key points of President Donald Trump's speech on the Iran war on Wednesday evening — and tore apart most of the major false claims made during the address.

"That was the President of the United States with a 19-minute address from the Blue Room there in the White House, addressing the war with Iran," said Hayes. "If you were expecting something new, you did not get it. It was a litany of lies that he's told before."

President Donald Trump befuddled the nation on Wednesday with a strange rant about the war in Iran, in which many observers remarked very little was said that was new.

Trump gave his first national address since the war started about five weeks ago. He spoke about the progress made in the war and said the U.S. has "nearly completed" all of its objectives. He also made several astonishing claims, such as calling on NATO allies to purchase oil from the U.S. or "take it" from the Strait of Hormuz and describing Iran as one of the world's great powers.

President Donald Trump outlined a plan on Wednesday to eliminate the Senate filibuster to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has remained unfunded since February over disputes regarding ICE and CBP.

Trump stated Republicans would "work as fast, and as focused, as possible" to replenish border and ICE funding while claiming "Radical Left Democrats won't be able to stop us."

President Donald Trump gave NATO allies a stark ultimatum during his national address on Wednesday night.

The speech was the first address Trump has given since the war in Iran started about five weeks ago. Trump addressed the progress of the war and claimed the U.S. is "nearing completion" of its objectives. He also told NATO allies that they have two choices to make when it comes to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that Iran has effectively shut down in retaliation for the continued bombing strikes.

President Donald Trump made a particularly eyebrow-raising claim about the U.S. war in Iran during his speech on Wednesday evening, that promptly triggered a firestorm on social media.

"We're now totally independent of the Middle East," said Trump. "We are there to help. We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they have. But we're there to help our allies."

President Donald Trump made a startling claim about the U.S.'s involvement in the war in Iran during his national address on Wednesday night.

Trump's speech was the first address he's given since the war began about five weeks ago. Since then, the president has offered shifting rationales for conducting coordinated bombing strikes across Iran, which have killed the country's top political and military leadership.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took President Donald Trump to the woodshed on Wednesday over his latest threats to leave the NATO alliance, a move that would be illegal after legislation passed by Congress to prevent precisely that, but which represents an ongoing lack of loyalty for the president toward U.S. military allies.

Trump's threats didn't come in a vacuum, the board acknowledged — European nations took a jab at the administration first, although not without reason.

It may have lasted only a few minutes, but a withering exchange between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Trump's own solicitor general likely sealed the fate of the president's bid to gut birthright citizenship, according to a new analysis.

Slate legal analyst Marc Joseph Stern pointed to a single moment during Wednesday's Supreme Court arguments as the turning point that effectively ended Trump's case. And it came from one of his own nominees.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on President Donald Trump's executive order redefining birthright citizenship, with observers noting Justice Samuel Alito's apparent support for the government's position.

While Chief Justice John Roberts called Solicitor General D. John Sauer's approach "quirky," Alito posed questions that aided the government's arguments, citing illegal immigration as unknown during the 14th Amendment's adoption. Alito also raised hypothetical questions about Iranian sleeper cells obtaining citizenship.

A MAGA TV host ripped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday for refusing to punish the "fly boys" who flew an Apache helicopter near musician Kid Rock's home in Nashville, Tennessee, over the weekend.

Videos surfaced on social media of an Apache helicopter buzzing Kid Rock's home, a move that the U.S. Army condemned. The pilots who flew the helicopter were suspended on Monday pending an investigation. Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the suspension was lifted and the investigation was halted.

President Donald Trump's latest failure is guaranteed to leave a "black mark" on America for years to come, according to a new analysis.

Trump attended oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a case that could determine whether birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment is constitutional. The case arose from an executive order Trump signed in January 2025 that declared birthright citizenship does not apply to children born to illegal immigrants.

Former Republican National Committee chair and Trump administration critic Michael Steele pinpointed the moment of Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday that he believed was a true body blow to Trump's executive order to abolish birthright citizenship, in a discussion on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" with Cody Wofsy of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project."

All told, aside from a few favorable questions from far-right Justice Samuel Alito, experts — including some Trump highly respects — broadly agreed the argument was a disaster for the government, with the order all but certain to be struck down.