NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker: "He is demonstrating peace through strength in action by returning fire"

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

Trump tells the New York Post that if Iran assassinates him, "I've left instructions to just literally bomb them at levels never seen before" 🙃

Rep. Sylvia Garcia: "Apparently ICE has learned nothing. If they really think a car is gonna hurt somebody, even a kid would tell you you shoot the tires, you don't shoot the driver."

CNBC: "We were expecting to start an interview with Elon Musk right now. We just got word he has to postpone ... SpaceX shares now trading down nearly 3% today."

Brendan Carr on whether Disney will be able to keep their broadcast licenses: "That's a pretty long putt for them ... broadcast licenses are not sacred cows"

EISEN: The broader point is we don't want the government making programming decisions, do we? FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: We don't on cable, we don't on podcasts. But what Congress has said is that if you are on this one unique medium, there are special public interest obligations

it wasn't long ago that we had FBI directors who didn't post like jilted pre-pubescent boys

Trump: "The Cease Fire is OVER!"

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott on renewed hostilities with Iran: "The objective remains as clear as ever"

Ted Cruz on Talarico: "I do think he has a chance. I think this is a real race."

Trump: "I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the WH, in PROTEST over the fact that the Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, which is polling at 97% with the Republican Party, and very high with the non-politician Dumocrats."

GOP Rep. French Hill has to explain the Constitution to a confused Maria Bartiromo

this Joe Gruters guy is an absolutely ridiculous character, but I suppose that's on brand for the RNC

Gruters: "We saw what happens when Dems can control, like the shutdown. They're gonna have investigations, they're gonna impeach, it's gonna be chaos. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, America Derangement Syndrome is real. We need everybody to go to GOP dot com and give us your time and treasure."

RNC Chair Joe Gruters: "You've gotta look at some of the holdouts in the Senate. We're replacing a lot of these guys with Super MAGA Warriors."

Sen. Ashley Moody on Democrats: "We have a new enemy in the burn it down party ... the enemy within wants to burn it down. That's the new reality."

Jamieson Greer: "Think about Abraham Lincoln -- he was against slavery, he was for tariffs. President Trump similarly, he's for tariffs and he's against forced labor."

INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR RICK CRAWFORD: I think the Iranian people are supportive of the United States coming in and helping them achieve liberty MARIA BARTIROMO: Oh, for sure. The Iranian people are thanking president Trump (Note the B-roll of Trump bombing Iran as they say this ... )

Trump's hand during his news conference today in Turkey (Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty)

Trump looked like he could barely get up the stairs while boarding Air Force One (He's not on the Qatari bribe jet he rode over to Turkey for unspecific reasons that likely have to do with security)

JD Vance: "My request you is that you send to people of Washington who are of good character"

JD Vance makes stuff up: "The Democrats are running on confiscating your money and giving it to fraudsters and illegal aliens"

JD Vance: "If Democrats want us to stop talking about election fraud, I'll make them a simple deal: Pass the SAVE America Act, and get voter ID, and we'll stop talking about election fraud."

JD Vance: "My 6-year-old gives me a hug and says, 'Daddy, I didn't steal any of the cookies!' Of course he stole the cookies. So when I hear a guy protesting out of nowhere, 'I did not do any election fraud! I did not do any fraud!' It makes me wonder, why is that guy protesting so aggressively?"

Vance, speaking in Milwaukee, offers to take up the mayor of Milwaukee on his offer to meet, but says he's too busy right now so he'll have to come to DC

JD Vance gets a message on his phone that distracts him, then sends a text even as a reporter starts asking him a question about Iran

very weird -- Vance looks at his phone *mid event* to read texts sent to him and says, "Ummm. It's not the president."

JD Vance displays a photo of a Black woman and says, "I want to be clear that the woman in the back did nothing wrong. But look at this woman in the front with the smug look and the Louis Vuitton bag!"

JD Vance: "There is so much fraud-- or, there was so much fraud in the federal government ... "