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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was forced to walk a tightrope lest he alienate the only military ally he has in the war on Iran — and he was put in that spot Thursday by a MAGA media reporter.

Late Wednesday night, President Donald Trump was less than diplomatic when he criticized Israel on Truth Social over a new front in the Middle Eastern war.

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was met with silence when he asked Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about the objectives of the war with Iran.

During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, Castro noted that Israel had struck Iran's energy infrastructure despite President Donald Trump telling the country not to.

Donald Trump's seemingly quirky obsession with gifting ill-fitting shoes to his Cabinet members is far more sinister than it appears— a calculated ritual of humiliation designed to reinforce authoritarian control over his inner circle, according to analysts who study cult psychology and authoritarian tactics.

Columnist Chauncey DeVega, writing for Salon, argues that Trump's habit of distributing $145 Florsheim leather Oxfords to favored advisers functions as a "loyalty oath" embedded within a larger pattern of public degradation and dominance.

The New York Times called out President Donald Trump's administration for fomenting anti-Muslim hatred.

Trump's White House holds itself up as a champion of religious freedom — "I’ve done more for religion than any other president," Trump recently boasted at the National Prayer Breakfast — but the Times' editorial board chided him and his Republican allies for their open hostility toward Islam.

Vice President JD Vance is caught in a political vise as his isolationist principles collide with the Donald Trump administration's expanding war in Iran — and sources now suggest he may bow out of the 2028 presidential race entirely.

According to the Washington Post, Vance's assumed status as heir to the MAGA crown is increasingly uncertain. Questions are already swirling about whether Trump will back Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio for the nomination, with the Iran conflict threatening to complicate the political positioning.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is once again thumbing her nose at the Trump administration, this time by mounting her own freelance rescue operation for Americans stranded in the Middle East — a move that's infuriating White House officials trying to control the Iran war narrative.

According to the Guardian, Trump administration officials are seething over Mace's decision to travel to the region and conduct unauthorized evacuation missions, directly undermining State Department coordination efforts.

An unredacted email appears to reveal testimony that contradicts President Donald Trump's longstanding narrative about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to Mar-a-Lago. The 2009 correspondence from Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger was substantially redacted in the Justice Department's initial Epstein files release.

Representative Dan Goldman displayed the complete email on the House floor Wednesday, exposing its contents. The correspondence documents a telephone conference involving Trump, his attorney Alan Garten, and a person presumed to be Brad Edwards, representing Epstein's victims.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's approach to war messaging has devolved into pure spectacle — TikTok-style video montages splicing missile strikes into movie clips and video game footage — leaving military veterans and Congress members stunned by the brazenness of treating armed conflict like entertainment content.

According to Politico, the White House communications team has churned out more than half a dozen of these viral videos, apparently plucked straight from staffers' private group chats. But outside the administration bubble, the reaction has ranged from bewilderment to outright revulsion.

Wall Street is sounding the alarm as Trump's Iran war threatens to crater an already fragile economy, with financial analysts warning the protective guardrails shielding the U.S. from economic catastrophe are rapidly eroding.

Just three weeks into the conflict, the damage is already mounting. Oil prices have exploded past $100 a barrel with no relief in sight, inflation is climbing, hiring has stalled, wage growth is collapsing, and mortgage rates are surging as market anxiety deepens. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, but the underlying economic picture is darkening by the day, Politico reported.

A ex-federal prosecutor is warning that President Donald Trump is "highly likely" to use presidential pardons to protect himself and his allies from criminal charges once he leaves the White House.

Glenn Kirschner, founder of the Justice Matters podcast, told the The Daily Beast that Trump is terrified that multiple of his actions leave him open to being hammered by legal authorities as soon as he leaves the White House.

President Donald Trump's latest "red line" threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday drew fresh outrage from political analysts and observers.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. was not aware of Israel's recent bombing strikes against the South Pars gas field, which is Iran's largest energy source. Multiple reports indicate that the U.S. and its ally in the region, Qatar, were aware of the plan and approved it ahead of time.

President Donald Trump raged at Israel for conducting a bombing campaign in Iran's largest energy field without his consent.

On Wednesday, Israeli forces bombed the production facility for the South Pars gas field, which Iran shares with neighboring Qatar. The facility produces about 20% of the United Arab Emirates' oil and is responsible for 5% of the global granulated sulphur used in phosphate fertilisers, The Guardian reported.

Political analysts and observers were aghast on Wednesday after a new report indicated that President Donald Trump is considering an "insane" escalation in the war in Iran.

Phil Stewart, the chief national security reporter at Reuters, and Idrees Ali, a Reuters national security correspondent, reported on Wednesday that Trump is considering deploying additional troops to Iran to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a roughly 100-mile-long waterway that the Iranian regime has effectively blockaded to U.S. and Israeli ships in response to the recent bombing campaign against those countries.