WATCH: At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Trump talks about his long history at the Waldorf Astoria building in Washington, D.C. (formerly the Trump International Hotel) and states that this might be his best night there ever 🧵 1/

Trump on David Ellison, the Zionist CEO of Paramount Skydance, which recently acquired CBS News: “He’s the owner, he bought it… And he’s gonna make, I think, fantastic changes, and keep some of the great stuff going…” This was at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner:

Confirmed on the Library of Congress website with newspaper clippings: blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand... They call it an "extraordinary and eerie coincidence."

DID YOU KNOW? Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day: July 4, 1826 -- the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. That was 200 years ago today.

NEW: The IDF releases the names and photos of two more Israeli soldiers it says were killed in southern Lebanon in the past 48 hours Left: Staff Sergeant Yoav Klein, 52nd Battalion, 401st Brigade Right: Sergeant First Class Nir Ben Ari, Maglan Unit, Commando Brigade 🧵 1/

WATCH: At their commencement ceremony, UCF students loudly boo Tavistock Development Company’s VP of Strategic Alliances Gloria Caulfield after she declares that “the rise of artificial intelligence IS the next industrial revolution!” Students: “BOOOOO!” “AI SUCKS!” 🧵 1/

FLASHBACK: Massie calls Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" a "debt bomb ticking" “The authors say $20 trillion of new debt over the next ten years. I’m telling you it’s closer to $30 trillion...” He was one of only two Republicans to vote against it May 2025: decensored.news/houses-passe...

Trump asked about the extent to which “Americans’ financial situations” are motivating him to make a deal with Iran: “Not even a little bit. (...) I don't think about American's financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon…”

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🧵 1/ WATCH: The Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/CFO Jay Hurst now estimates that Trump's war on Iran has cost $29,000,000,000. This is from today's House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing:

🧵 1/ ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Israel murders 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona (sometimes spelled Hassouna) along with six other members of her family, including her pregnant sister, in an airstrike on her home in northern Gaza

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FLASHBACK: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair gushes about Hungary and praises its prime minister Viktor Orban, who was just defeated in the country's general election 🧵 1/

FLASHBACK: Trump, who has said the Bible is his favorite book, is asked in Aug 2015 to discuss one or two of his favorite verses and explain why they're meaningful to him. In response, he says he “wouldn’t want to get into it” and doesn’t “want to get into specifics” because it’s “very personal.”

FLASHBACK: Tucker Carlson says Trump “probably couldn't pick a more credible person” to make a deal with the Iranians than JD Vance because Vance is “honest” and has a suitable “moral rectitude.” This was less than 3 weeks ago:

Trump praises Palantir for its “proven” “great war fighting capabilities and equipment” and provides its Nasdaq stock ticker Source: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

NEW: Trump, who has threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages” and turn it into “Hell” if his demands aren’t met by Tuesday night, now says he may “take out” the “entire country.” “The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night.”

On Easter, Trump once again threatens to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges and turn Iran into “Hell.” “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” This time he says he'll do it on Tuesday. Source: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

On Holy Saturday, Trump invoked the name of “GOD” while threatening to make “all Hell” “reign down” on Iran within 48 hours. Source: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... Also posted here: x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

🧵 In 2006, the president of Pakistan said he had been relayed a message after 9/11 from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage saying that the U.S. would bomb his country “back to the Stone Age” if they didn't cooperate with the so-called “war on terrorism.” 1/

Trump during his speech last night: “We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.” His parrot Pete Hegseth:

Can you imagine? “The most violent and thuggish regime on Earth” carrying out “campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest, and mass murder” with impunity from “behind a nuclear shield”? Wait – which country are we talking about, again?

Trump says if he didn't kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a few weeks ago, Iran would not only already have a nuclear weapon, but they also would have already used it, potentially against the United States. “It would have been used before today… you may not be standing there asking that question, okay?”

Rubio for days: Iran "can't be allowed" to control the Strait of Hormuz. Either they "open" it, or else the U.S. and a "coalition of nations" will "make sure that it's open." Trump today: "We'll be leaving very soon... What happens in the Strait, we're not gonna have anything to do with..."

LEAVITT: Many of Iran’s previous leaders are “no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the President, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed.” 🧵 1/

TRUMP: “I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” “I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success...” “I'm only kidding... sort of...”

WATCH: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair says there’s a “rogue country” run by a “crazy, fanatical, irrational religious regime” that is “determined to take over the Middle East” and “dominate and occupy” the Arab countries. 🧵 1/

NEW: U.S. Army raises max enlistment age from 35 to 42 “It is not the first time the Army has accepted older recruits. The service temporarily increased its maximum enlistment age to 42 in 2006 as it struggled to fill its ranks amid major combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan...”

WATCH: Journalist @samhusseini.bsky.social calls out the Russian and Chinese governments for claiming that the reason they didn't veto the resolution establishing the so-called “Board of Peace” at the UN was because “the Arabs” (including the PA) told them not to... 🧵 1/

🧵 A short while after Joe Kent resigned yesterday, Trump was asked about it and said in part: “I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.” Kent was his top counterterrorism official up until literally hours earlier. 1/