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Global panic erupted on Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s entire civilization by Tuesday night, with critics the world over expressing disbelief and demanding the president be stopped.

In a disturbing message shared on social media, Trump claimed that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” referencing the deadline he imposed on Tehran to lift restrictions on a critical trade waterway by 8 p.m. EST Tuesday night. The Trump administration and Tehran have been negotiating through mediators on conditions to end the conflict, but such efforts have stalled.

Concluding “God help us all,” a former Republican Party campaign advisor claimed on Tuesday morning that Donald Trump seems hellbent on launching World War III and not one of his advisors will lift a finger to stop him.

In his morning Substack newsletter, the acerbic Rick Wilson expressed sincere alarm that the unrestrained Trump will turn his Iran war adventurism into a full-fledged international catastrophe because he refuses to concede that his second term in office is a growing failure.

President Donald Trump issued a disturbing message on social media Tuesday to the people of Iran, warning them that their civilization will likely “never be brought back again” as his Tuesday night deadline for Tehran looms.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat Monday to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure by Tuesday night if the country doesn’t cave to his demand, but in doing so, he may very well strengthen Iran’s resolve, while at the same time, further isolate the United States on the global stage, MS NOW editor and columnist Zeeshan Aleem argued on Tuesday.

Over the weekend, Trump gave Tehran until 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday to grant unrestricted access for U.S.-aligned vessels to the Strait of Hormuz – a critical shipping waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows – or face the destruction of its civilian infrastructure, including energy plants, water treatment facilities and bridges, actions that would likely constitute war crimes.

According to two former diplomats, the injection of religious fervor by Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into the Iran war is a gift to the mullahs of the embattled country that will only make things worse.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” contributor Sam Stein noted that Hegseth made a strained comparison between a downed US airman emerging from a cave to be saved and Jesus over the Easter weekend, which has the effect of making the US attacks less about Middle Eastern geopolitics and more like a Christian crusade.

President Donald Trump appears to be "cornered" by his own mortality as the cracks in his coalition deepen, according to one expert.

David Rothkopf, the former editor of Foreign Policy Magazine, discussed Trump's continued efforts to find a way out of the war in Iran on Monday's new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles. Rothkopf noted that Trump's old tricks of getting someone to bail him out, charming others, or bulls------- don't appear to be working. That is happening at a time when several MAGA figures like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Thune (R-SD) seem to have realized that the political winds are blowing away from Trump, Rothkopf noted.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a Fox News reporter on Monday night over her coverage of a key piece of his legislative agenda.

Trump posted on Truth Social that Fox News host Shannon Bream was spewing "Democrat propaganda and lies" on her show after debating Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) about the SAVE America Act, a piece of legislation that seeks to significantly revamp how the U.S. conducts elections.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board expressed alarm at President Donald Trump's new threats to carpet-bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran — a vow he leveled at the regime if they do not reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic.

This threat follows days of Trump threatening to go after such infrastructure, but he is now taking this to a new, and specific, level.

Republicans voted to eliminate federal funding for public radio as part of President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" of tax cuts last year — and now some of them want to step in and save the rural and tribal radio stations endangered by this decision.

According to a new report by NOTUS, "Some Republican lawmakers say they’re requesting government funding to save rural and Native American public radio stations nearly a year after the GOP-led Congress voted to claw back public broadcasting funds. Most tribal radio stations will gradually close across the country if Congress doesn’t grant them more funding, according to a survey shared with NOTUS of tribal stations affected by last year’s gutting of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB."

A former federal prosecutor was beside himself on Monday while he discussed a report on the latest court drama regarding President Donald Trump's ballroom project.

Glenn Kirschner discussed a recent CBS News report on Monday detailing a suspicious court filing submitted by Trump's Department of Justice on a new episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters." The report seemed to indicate that the president might be "picking up his beloved Sharpie and making some edits or additions to those court filings before they're submitted to the judge," according to Kirschner.

At a Democrat-led Congressional hearing in late February, children’s author and former TV writer Bess Kalb used a previously unreported incident in Clancy, where she had to cancel a book reading event, to illustrate a point about the broader impacts of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on the First Amendment.

Saying on Feb. 24 it was the first time she was speaking about it publicly, Kalb stated a book reading event at a school in Montana was canceled after parent pushback. The Daily Montanan has since learned the event was scheduled for Clancy School District, and was canceled out of an abundance of caution after Kalb’s publisher learned from the school that parents were upset with some of Kalb’s previous work as a writer for Jimmy Kimmel, best known for his work as a late-night comedian.