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Trump whines it's 'unfair' that Iran closed Strait of Hormuz after he 'wins war'

President Donald Trump announced that he had "essentially" won the war against Iran and complained that it was "unfair" for the country to close its Strait of Hormuz after the so-called victory.

During a press conference on Monday, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump why he could not immediately open the Strait.

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Trump cut off mid-ramble as MS NOW's Chris Jansing despairs over claims

MS NOW host Chris Jansing was irritated during a live broadcast on Monday as President Donald Trump spoke to press, cutting him off and initiating a fact-check on the commander-in-chief's comments.

Trump was at a Kennedy Center board meeting with his cabinet and congressional leaders discussing a variety of subjects, including the Iran war, when he started rambling — and Jansing wasn't having it. She cut away from the president and responded to what he said.

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'I'll knock the hell out of it': Trump levels new threat as he claims Iran wants a deal

Donald Trump has warned he could level Iran with fresh strikes that would knock out its infrastructure and leave its population with years of rebuilding.

In a conversation with PBS News Hour's White House correspondent Liz Landers, the president claimed he had chosen not to completely wipe out Tehran with the U.S. strikes from the last few weeks. Posting snippets of their call to X, Landers published Trump's comments on what may be next for Iran and the U.S.

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Crowd gasps as Trump blurts out GOP rep given weeks to live: 'That wasn't public'

President Donald Trump drew audible gasps while speaking at the Kennedy Center on Monday after apparently revealing that a GOP lawmaker had received a “terminal” diagnosis and was expected to be “dead by June.”

Sitting beside House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Trump was discussing the Republican Party’s slim majority in the House and how the deaths of several GOP members in recent years have made it harder for Republican speakers to advance the president’s agenda.

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Nobel winner warns Trump has made US 'despised like nobody has ever been despised'

The United States may never recover from how Donald Trump and his administration have carried themselves, a Nobel Prize winner has warned.

Whether the U.S. is capable of clawing back its global standing is yet to be seen, but economist Paul Krugman believes Trump will have fundamentally changed how the world views the country. Writing in his Substack, the award winner warned that the world will no longer rely on the U.S., particularly when it comes to defense.

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Ex-Congress member scrambles after suggestion she threw JD Vance under the bus

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) may have accidentally thrown Vice President JD Vance under the bus on Monday.

Greene was speaking with CNN anchor Pamela Brown about the war in Iran and describing how some senior members of the Trump administration had cast doubt over the joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes on Iran. Brown suggested that MTG's source was Vance — and asked her directly.

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'All eyes are on body language': Awkward meeting expected to reveal Trump and Vance rift

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance will appear in public on Monday, which is expected to expose the reported split between the two men and how they view the war in Iran.

Trump and Vance have not been seen together much since the United States began its joint military operation with Israel in the war with Iran, according to The Swamp, The Daily Beast's Substack.

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Trump reveals his chief of staff Susie Wiles is battling cancer

President Donald Trump revealed on social media Monday that Susie Wiles, his White House chief of staff, was diagnosed with breast cancer, and that she would be starting treatment “immediately” while remaining at the White House “virtually full time.”

“Susie Wiles is an incredible Chief of Staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know but, unfortunately, she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and has decided to take on this challenge, IMMEDIATELY, as opposed to waiting,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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MTG accuses president of lying on campaign trail: 'Trump did not mean it'

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) criticized President Donald Trump for backtracking on campaign promises to end foreign wars.

During a Monday interview on CNN, host Pamela Brown asked Greene if she regretted campaigning for Trump following the launch of Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

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Trump furious at 'handpicked general' over Iran war strategy: report

President Donald Trump has reportedly been furious with his "handpicked general" over delays to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing war with Iran, according to reports Monday.

Gen. Dan Caine was selected by Trump and the president apparently doesn't understand why the top military leader hasn't forced the oil route to reopen "despite Caine having repeatedly briefed him on the likely closure of the waterway ahead of the war," The Daily Beast reported.

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GOP lawmaker goes scorched earth: Execute Americans with 'any terrorist sympathies'

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) called to execute people in the United States if they were suspected of "any terrorist sympathies."

During a Monday interview, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson complained to Gill after Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former National Guard member who killed two people at Old Dominion University, was set free from prison after a conviction related to support of the Islamic State or ISIS.

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Trump bursts out laughing at surprise intel briefing on Iran's new leader: sources

President Donald Trump burst into laughter at an intelligence report about Iran's new supreme leader, according to sources.

Three sources familiar with the briefing told the New York Post that intelligence indicates Mojtaba Khamenei might be gay, and they said the U.S. president laughed out loud when he was told about that possibility, which they said spy agencies had deemed to be credible.

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'You can’t answer the question?' Trump official’s silence on war plans rattles Fox host

Tammy Bruce, President Donald Trump’s deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations, rattled Fox Business’ Stuart Varney on Monday after refusing to comment on whether the president was considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to Iran.

The ongoing U.S. military siege on Iran – an operation that has expanded into a regional conflict, sent oil prices skyrocketing and reportedly sparked panic within the Trump administration – was going well, Bruce insisted during her appearance on Fox Business’ “Varney & Co.”

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