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President Donald Trump floated the idea of a U.S.-takeover of Iran Saturday with an image of a map of the Middle East nation overlaid with the American flag, and the caption in the form of a question: “United States of the Middle East?”

Trump shared the image on his social media platform Truth Social, and amid growing speculation that his administration is preparing to launch a massive attack on Iran sometime this weekend. Signs supporting a U.S. attack commencing this weekend include the president’s abrupt cancellation of his weekend plans in New Jersey, as well as Iran shutting down much of its airspace until Monday.

British media personality Piers Morgan pleaded with President Donald Trump Saturday morning amid growing speculation that his administration was preparing to launch a massive operation overseas this weekend, one that Morgan said, if carried out, would unleash “mayhem.”

“All the signs are pointing to the U.S. and Israel launching another huge attack on Iran,” Morgan wrote Saturday morning in a social media post on X. “I urge President Donald Trump not to do it. This war’s been damaging enough without yet more mayhem being unleashed.”

A combination of bad Donald Trump polling and highly controversial proposals like his so-called “slush fund” to compensate allies who feel they were victimized by President Joe Biden’s DOJ for their criminality has finally given GOP lawmakers the nudge they needed to abandon him and save their own careers.

According to MS NOW, a single week of Republican defiance saw GOP lawmakers strip $1 billion in security upgrades — including $220 million for Trump's new East Wing ballroom — from their reconciliation package, move closer to backing a resolution forcing Trump to end the Iran war without congressional authorization, and abruptly cancel a vote on $72 billion in additional funding for the administration's immigration and deportation agenda.

The Trump administration went on the defensive Friday night after getting exposed for scrubbing online Justice Department (DOJ) records of those convicted of violent crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including one Texas man who was later convicted of online solicitation of a minor.

In June of 2024, the Biden administration’s DOJ published a press release about Andrew Taake, a 35-year-old man from Texas who that month was sentenced to more than 6 months in prison after violently attacking police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot armed with “bear spray and a metal whip.” At the time, Taake had another criminal case pending for child solicitation, a detail mentioned in the DOJ’s press release.

In a deep dive on Donald Trump’s “bad week” that prompted a massive Republican Party revolt against the president who is used to having his way, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the outburst against the president’s proposed “slush fund” was a direct result of their existing discontent with his GOP primary meddling.

According to the Journal, the verbal abuse that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was greeted with, in what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called “One of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate,” was an outgrowth of previous frustration with Trump.

President Donald Trump has put up multiple excuses for not being able to attend his eldest son Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding in the Bahamas — and the explanation he settled on was that it is "not good timing" with all his responsibilities and with Memorial Day coming up.

But according to an analysis by The Daily Beast, Trump has taken time to golf extensively during similarly busy and high-stakes moments of his presidency.

A series of explosions tore through a barge at a Staten Island shipyard Friday afternoon, killing one person and injuring 34 firefighters and emergency medical workers in a chaotic emergency that Mayor Zohran Mamdani called "complex" and "fast-developing."

The initial blast struck the barge at 3:25 p.m. in Arlington, an industrial neighborhood along Staten Island's northern coast, triggering a massive FDNY response, The New York Times reported. Crews arrived to thick smoke and were told two workers were unaccounted for inside the vessel. Less than an hour later, the barge erupted again, this time with firefighters positioned in, on top of, and beside it as they searched for the missing workers and battled the flames. The 4:19 p.m. blast wounded dozens.

President Donald Trump is dragging the Republican Party down at a moment when it could cost them everything, the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in an analysis published on Friday evening.

"Republicans don’t want to say this publicly, but privately they do," wrote the board, an increasingly frequent critic of the president's policies despite sharing many of his political beliefs. "President Trump’s personal political obsessions are hurting his Presidency, harming the chances for further policy gains the rest of this year, and putting control of the House and Senate in jeopardy."

A judge has dismissed Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff's lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, accusing him of employing "gamesmanship" and "forum-shopping" tactics.

According to TMZ, "Wolff — the longtime Trump biographer behind books like 'Fire and Fury' — sued after Melania's lawyers threatened him with a $1 Billion defamation lawsuit tied to comments he made linking her to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein."