President Donald Trump celebrated a project that would see a company based in India play a central role in a $300 billion deal to build the first new refinery on U.S. soil in 50 years, but the Financial Times reported last week that details of the deal remain murky and potentially embarrassing for the president.
One week after posting a profanity-laced Easter message threatening to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, spent the night of April 12 and into the early morning hours unleashing a barrage of AI-generated images, threats and insults.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that “effective immediately,” he instructed the U.S. Navy to conduct its own blockade near the Strait of Hormuz after Iranians refused to agree to Washington’s hardline demands during negotiations in Islamabad on Saturday.
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of War, told reporters a day after the temporary ceasefire between Iran and Washington was announced that it was the Iranians who begged the U.S. to stop the war.
Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, called out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week for going along with President Donald Trump’s ceasefire announcement with Iran, calling the move a historic “political disaster” for Israel because the war did not achieve any goals.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the stops in February during a meeting at the White House to convince President Donald Trump to go to war with Iran, The New York Times reported.
During my most recent appearance on Judge Napolitano’s Judging Freedom on Wednesday I expressed the view that the ongoing ceasefire between Washington and Tehran was a scam designed to support Israeli interests in the region and to give both Tel Aviv and the White House breathing room to prepare for the next major assault on Iran.
President Donald Trump addressed reporters outside the White House on Monday and committed to his self-imposed Tuesday deadline for Iran to agree to his administration’s terms for a ceasefire, and said Tehran, which has been defeated, does not want to say “uncle.”
Innovation Council Action, a new pro-AI political operation that has the support of David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s former AI and crypto czar, plans to inject more than $100 million on the 2026 midterm elections to focus on politicians who back policies deemed advantageous for the sector.
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said in an interview last week that President Donald Trump needs to achieve his goals in Iran and “finish this thing” and “clean up” the Strait of Hormuz to preserve the future of the global economy.