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'Boiling point': Trump's relationship with Senate GOP frays as he 'takes shots' at leader

Republicans are at a "boiling point" over tensions between President Donald Trump and Senate GOP leadership, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday morning.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been "bearing the brunt of the fallout from Trump’s erratic behavior, expressing his frustrations with the president in an intentional but very reserved manner," said the report.

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Trump snaps at 'fools' over Iran deal in middle of the night tirade

After a full day of criticism of his Iran peace deal, President Donald Trump finally had enough and went off on Truth Social in the wee hours of the morning.

As Republicans and Democrats alike have lined up against him, with Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, writing on X, “If this is true, Iran wins,” after details were released, the president labeled his critics “fools.”

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'Dumbest man in the Senate': Tommy Tuberville mocked after Trump remarks on Fox Business

A GOP senator is being torched online after he tried to reassure people that the Trump administration knows what it's doing.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was asked during an appearance on Fox Business how he feels about Trump's embattled deal to end the Iran war.

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Ex-MAGA insider warns Trump headed for 'five-stage denialism' after his biggest flop yet

A former top MAGA White House aide warned that Trump is headed for "five-stage denialism" after his biggest flop yet.

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former White House communications director, made the prediction during an interview on The Daily Beast Podcast while talking about the recently announced Iran deal.

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Trump buried in mockery over plan that could cost Republicans everything in Georgia

President Donald Trump got his chosen candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins clinched the nomination last night — and he plans to go all in on supporting him.

In the same post where the president trashed incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and came up with an obscene nickname for him, Trump vowed that he will be holding campaign rallies in the state to help Collins, saying, "I’ll be doing Big TRUMP Rallies for Mike in Georgia!"

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'Does it?' Wall Street Journal editors raise questions over key issue in Trump's Iran deal

The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal raised questions about a key term included in the Memorandum of Understanding struck by President Donald Trump's administration and the Iranian regime over the weekend.

On Sunday, Trump announced that he had agreed to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately and for 60 days thereafter, as the administration and the Iranians continue negotiating to end the war. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since the war began in late February, roiling the global economy and fueling inflation in the U.S.

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'Idiotic': Ex-GOP operative lambasts Trump for 'screwing over his partners'

President Donald Trump didn't just fail to accomplish all his objectives in Iran and damage the U.S. economy, former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller told MS NOW's Chris Hayes on Wednesday — he also left Israel in the lurch, after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went all in on attaching himself to the U.S. president.

"Something happened, which is that they lost," said Hayes. "The leverage created by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz turned out to be the trump card."

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Trump officials admitted to Congress their new Iran plan is financing terrorists: report

President Donald Trump's administration admitted to Congress that Iran was still directly involved in financing terrorist activity, at exactly the same time the president was planning to give them money, Punchbowl News reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the State Department "told Congress that Iran’s oil exports are a primary revenue source for the regime’s funding of terrorist activities — just hours after the United States and Iran electronically signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to lift oil sanctions."

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'What did he say?' Trump makes analysts cringe with crude aside at Iran deal presser

A weird, crude remark made by President Donald Trump while touting his Iran deal has people cringing and mocking him.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday that "the press conference seems to have gone well. You shot your load, Steve, pretty much, right?"

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Erin Burnett throws Trump's past Iran claims back in his face: 'Exact same talking points'

CNN host Erin Burnett threw President Donald Trump's previous criticisms of former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face on Wednesday, noting that Trump was now using the same talking points that he rebuked Obama for using.

Trump has described Obama's Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as giving away too much money to the Iranian regime and not preventing the regime from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon. Burnett noted that those criticisms sound like an apt description of the deal Trump just signed with the regime over the weekend.

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Trump floors onlookers by dismissing reporter's question on Iranian school strike: 'Wow'

President Donald Trump floored onlookers on Wednesday after he dismissed a reporter's question about the bombing strike on an Iranian girls' school more than three months ago that left about 175 people dead, many of whom were children.

Trump was asked during a press conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, whether he would hold anyone in his administration accountable for the strike. Trump's ambivalent reply left some political analysts and observers stunned.

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Senator rebukes 'unstable' Trump after president gives him an obscene nickname

A swing-state senator targeted by President Donald Trump was not impressed with the obscene nickname the president had come up with for him.

Trump launched his new attack on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) following a closely watched Republican primary runoff on Tuesday night that saw his preferred challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, get the Republican nomination to take him on.

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MAGA Fox News host in disbelief at Trump's 'unthinkable' deal: 'Keep shaking my head'

Fox News host Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran across a series of posts on X, with his sharpest break coming over the deal's soft treatment of Hezbollah.

"On top of this, we do the unthinkable," wrote Levin, a longtime Trump defender who has broken with the president over the agreement. "We capitulate to Iran's demand to protect Hezbollah."

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