Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire, President Donald Trump doubles down on deportations, and have Democrats abandoned the deported “Maryland father” they once embraced?

It’s Tuesday, June 17, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.

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The Israel-Iran Air War Rages As U.S. Stays On The Sidelines

Topline: Israel strikes Tehran as the deadly clash moves into its fifth day, leaving Iran scrambling.

The war between Israel and Iran continued to escalate Monday, as the Jewish state looks to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program. The two sides began targeting energy facilities in addition to military sites. Iran, for example, successfully struck an Israeli oil refinery in Haifa, while the Israelis targeted multiple natural gas and oil refineries throughout Iran. One of those strikes caused major damage to Tehran’s largest fuel depot. Another strike Monday targeted Iran’s state-sponsored TV network — in stunning footage, a newscaster can be seen running from her desk as debris falls around her.

Iran has so far launched nearly 400 missiles and drones at Israel, though only a few dozen have made it past Israeli air defenses. Those strikes have reportedly killed 24 people and injured more than 600. But there’s no doubt Israel is having far more success so far, mainly because it achieved near total control of Iran’s airspace, which has allowed Israel to rely on warplanes for their strikes, instead of expensive long-range missiles.

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” Almost immediately afterward, roads out of Tehran were sent into gridlock with endless lines of cars trying to flee the city in the middle of the night.

President Trump also convened a late-night meeting of the National Security Council, prompting speculation that he was planning on an attack, but a White House spokesman said Monday night that “American forces are maintaining their defensive posture, and that has not changed.” The United States recently diverted one of its aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz, and its escorts to the Middle East from the Pacific, further fueling speculation about possible U.S. intervention in the conflict.

President Trump has continued to stand by Israel, saying his administration would support its efforts against Iran, but has stopped short of committing American forces to the conflict, despite growing pressure from Israel for U.S. backing. In particular, Israel reportedly wants America’s help in knocking out Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site, which is buried deep underground. The U.S. is believed to be the only country with the bunker buster bombs and large bomber aircraft necessary for taking out such a facility, and Israel has been clear that this operation will not be considered a success until Fordow is destroyed.

There’s also been speculation that the conflict, which has already killed dozens of senior Iranian officials, could cause the collapse of the Iranian regime, although Israel has said that is not their primary goal.

“[The Israelis are] not in a position to implement regime change,” Dr. Paul Rahe, a professor of History at Hillsdale College, told The Daily Wire. “That has to be done on the ground. They can’t send thousands and thousands of Israelis in, take the place over, kill off the mullahs, and then put somebody in power. But there is a strong opposition within Iran to the regime. … Things aren’t great now there. There’s a lot of discontent.”

The Deportations Will Continue Until Law-Abiding Improves

Topline: President Trump doubles down on deportations amid the spread of anti-ICE protests and riots.

President Trump has made it clear that his administration would be ramping up efforts to deport illegals – specifically in blue cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, all of which have policies to shield illegals from federal immigration officials. Trump said there will be a focus on “crime-ridden and deadly inner cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role.” He added that he’s directed his entire administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of “Mass Destruction Migration.”

“Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country,” President Trump said on Monday. “Vast numbers of those people were murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails, they emptied their jails out into the U.S. Most of those people are in the cities – all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities.”

Trump said ICE, the FBI, DEA, ATF, and officials at the Pentagon and the State Department will carry out this agenda, and added that illegals will be brought back to their home countries. In the last month, a number of officers have been injured during anti-ICE riots, and dozens of demonstrators have been arrested. Unsurprisingly, Trump gave his full support to these agents. He applauded them for their strength and courage, and condemned violence and harassment directed their way.

Trump also criticized Democrats for the heated rhetoric they’ve used about ICE. Last month, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz compared ICE agents to the Gestapo. During a Congressional hearing, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) also compared ICE agents to Nazis, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) compared detention facilities at the border to concentration camps.

Democrats Noticeably Silent As ‘Maryland Man’ Goes To Trial

Topline: Have Democrats abandoned the so-called “Maryland man” they once championed? We have the latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant also known as a “Maryland man” who was embraced by Democrats when he was deported to El Salvador, appeared in federal court in Nashville Friday on federal smuggling charges – he pled not guilty.

The DOJ’s criminal case against Abrego Garcia — not his immigration case — centers on a traffic stop in Tennessee from November 2022, when Abrego Garcia was pulled over while driving a car with nine people inside, including a 15-year-old boy, most of whom have been identified as illegal aliens. If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison for each illegal alien he smuggled, and a $250,000 fine. He was brought back to the United States last week after being deported to El Salvador. He is suspected of having ties to the MS-13 gang.

“I’ve been closely monitoring this case, waiting to see if some dark money group would put up the millions of dollars necessary to get him a really good criminal defense attorney or a number of criminal defense attorneys,” Tom Pappert, a reporter for the Tennessee Star, told The Daily Wire. “After more than a week, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia is represented by a number of public defenders with the federal office of Middle Tennessee. Now, this indicates to me, it seems like the Democrats are cutting and running. They’ve realized that this is a losing battle for them and it’s not worth the millions of dollars necessary to get this guy probably to a plea deal.”

During the six-hour arraignment, new allegations against Abrego Garcia were made public. A Homeland Security agent testified that multiple alleged accomplices claimed Abrego Garcia asked a 15-year-old girl for nude photos on Snapchat. His lawyers called this a “flirtatious event.”

Federal prosecutors have requested that Abrego Garcia remain in federal custody until trial. The decision is pending, but if the judge denies the request, he could be transferred to ICE custody for proceedings in immigration court. Either way, it looks like he will not be released.

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Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire, President Donald Trump doubles down on deportations, and have Democrats abandoned the deported “Maryland father” they once embraced?

It’s Tuesday, June 17, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.

Morning Wire is available on video! You can watch today’s episode here:

If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:

The Israel-Iran Air War Rages As U.S. Stays On The Sidelines

Topline: Israel strikes Tehran as the deadly clash moves into its fifth day, leaving Iran scrambling.

The war between Israel and Iran continued to escalate Monday, as the Jewish state looks to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program. The two sides began targeting energy facilities in addition to military sites. Iran, for example, successfully struck an Israeli oil refinery in Haifa, while the Israelis targeted multiple natural gas and oil refineries throughout Iran. One of those strikes caused major damage to Tehran’s largest fuel depot. Another strike Monday targeted Iran’s state-sponsored TV network — in stunning footage, a newscaster can be seen running from her desk as debris falls around her.

Iran has so far launched nearly 400 missiles and drones at Israel, though only a few dozen have made it past Israeli air defenses. Those strikes have reportedly killed 24 people and injured more than 600. But there’s no doubt Israel is having far more success so far, mainly because it achieved near total control of Iran’s airspace, which has allowed Israel to rely on warplanes for their strikes, instead of expensive long-range missiles.

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” Almost immediately afterward, roads out of Tehran were sent into gridlock with endless lines of cars trying to flee the city in the middle of the night.

President Trump also convened a late-night meeting of the National Security Council, prompting speculation that he was planning on an attack, but a White House spokesman said Monday night that “American forces are maintaining their defensive posture, and that has not changed.” The United States recently diverted one of its aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz, and its escorts to the Middle East from the Pacific, further fueling speculation about possible U.S. intervention in the conflict.

President Trump has continued to stand by Israel, saying his administration would support its efforts against Iran, but has stopped short of committing American forces to the conflict, despite growing pressure from Israel for U.S. backing. In particular, Israel reportedly wants America’s help in knocking out Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site, which is buried deep underground. The U.S. is believed to be the only country with the bunker buster bombs and large bomber aircraft necessary for taking out such a facility, and Israel has been clear that this operation will not be considered a success until Fordow is destroyed.

There’s also been speculation that the conflict, which has already killed dozens of senior Iranian officials, could cause the collapse of the Iranian regime, although Israel has said that is not their primary goal.

“[The Israelis are] not in a position to implement regime change,” Dr. Paul Rahe, a professor of History at Hillsdale College, told The Daily Wire. “That has to be done on the ground. They can’t send thousands and thousands of Israelis in, take the place over, kill off the mullahs, and then put somebody in power. But there is a strong opposition within Iran to the regime. … Things aren’t great now there. There’s a lot of discontent.”

The Deportations Will Continue Until Law-Abiding Improves

Topline: President Trump doubles down on deportations amid the spread of anti-ICE protests and riots.

President Trump has made it clear that his administration would be ramping up efforts to deport illegals – specifically in blue cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, all of which have policies to shield illegals from federal immigration officials. Trump said there will be a focus on “crime-ridden and deadly inner cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role.” He added that he’s directed his entire administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of “Mass Destruction Migration.”

“Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country,” President Trump said on Monday. “Vast numbers of those people were murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails, they emptied their jails out into the U.S. Most of those people are in the cities – all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities.”

Trump said ICE, the FBI, DEA, ATF, and officials at the Pentagon and the State Department will carry out this agenda, and added that illegals will be brought back to their home countries. In the last month, a number of officers have been injured during anti-ICE riots, and dozens of demonstrators have been arrested. Unsurprisingly, Trump gave his full support to these agents. He applauded them for their strength and courage, and condemned violence and harassment directed their way.

Trump also criticized Democrats for the heated rhetoric they’ve used about ICE. Last month, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz compared ICE agents to the Gestapo. During a Congressional hearing, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) also compared ICE agents to Nazis, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) compared detention facilities at the border to concentration camps.

Democrats Noticeably Silent As ‘Maryland Man’ Goes To Trial

Topline: Have Democrats abandoned the so-called “Maryland man” they once championed? We have the latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant also known as a “Maryland man” who was embraced by Democrats when he was deported to El Salvador, appeared in federal court in Nashville Friday on federal smuggling charges – he pled not guilty.

The DOJ’s criminal case against Abrego Garcia — not his immigration case — centers on a traffic stop in Tennessee from November 2022, when Abrego Garcia was pulled over while driving a car with nine people inside, including a 15-year-old boy, most of whom have been identified as illegal aliens. If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison for each illegal alien he smuggled, and a $250,000 fine. He was brought back to the United States last week after being deported to El Salvador. He is suspected of having ties to the MS-13 gang.

“I’ve been closely monitoring this case, waiting to see if some dark money group would put up the millions of dollars necessary to get him a really good criminal defense attorney or a number of criminal defense attorneys,” Tom Pappert, a reporter for the Tennessee Star, told The Daily Wire. “After more than a week, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia is represented by a number of public defenders with the federal office of Middle Tennessee. Now, this indicates to me, it seems like the Democrats are cutting and running. They’ve realized that this is a losing battle for them and it’s not worth the millions of dollars necessary to get this guy probably to a plea deal.”

During the six-hour arraignment, new allegations against Abrego Garcia were made public. A Homeland Security agent testified that multiple alleged accomplices claimed Abrego Garcia asked a 15-year-old girl for nude photos on Snapchat. His lawyers called this a “flirtatious event.”

Federal prosecutors have requested that Abrego Garcia remain in federal custody until trial. The decision is pending, but if the judge denies the request, he could be transferred to ICE custody for proceedings in immigration court. Either way, it looks like he will not be released.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would end decades of conflict between Israel and Iran.

Netanyahu did not rule out an Israeli strike against Iran’s supreme leader amid reports that President Donald Trump stopped Israel from taking such a step in the latest round of hostilities.

Asked about reports that Trump vetoed a plan to kill Khamenei, Netanyahu said that rather than escalating the conflict, the supreme leader’s death would “end the conflict,” according to ABC News.

“We’ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere,” Netanyahu said. “The ‘forever war’ is what Iran wants, and they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression, and we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the prime minister did not list the supreme leader’s death as one of Israel’s goals for the current conflict, which began on Friday with strikes from Israel on Iranian top military leaders, key nuclear sites, and other important targets.

“We are going to continue until we remove the two existential threats: the nuclear threat and the threat of 20,000 ballistic missiles that are equivalent to two nuclear bombs,” Netanyahu said.

The United States has denied any active involvement in Israel’s fight against Iran. Netanyahu said that the United States has an interest in seeing Iran defeated, however.

“Today, it’s Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it’s New York. Look, I understand ‘America First’. I don’t understand ‘America Dead’. That’s what these people want. They chant ‘Death to America.’ So we’re doing something that is in the service of mankind, of humanity, and it’s a battle of good against evil. America does, should, and does stand with the good. That’s what President Trump is doing, and I deeply appreciate his support,” the prime minister said.

Trump said Monday that Iran has reached out through intermediaries to express interest in negotiations to end the conflict as its top leadership and key military and nuclear sites continue to be destroyed. Israel on Monday declared complete air superiority over Iran.

“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” said Trump. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would end decades of conflict between Israel and Iran.

Netanyahu did not rule out an Israeli strike against Iran’s supreme leader amid reports that President Donald Trump stopped Israel from taking such a step in the latest round of hostilities.

Asked about reports that Trump vetoed a plan to kill Khamenei, Netanyahu said that rather than escalating the conflict, the supreme leader’s death would “end the conflict,” according to ABC News.

“We’ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere,” Netanyahu said. “The ‘forever war’ is what Iran wants, and they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression, and we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the prime minister did not list the supreme leader’s death as one of Israel’s goals for the current conflict, which began on Friday with strikes from Israel on Iranian top military leaders, key nuclear sites, and other important targets.

“We are going to continue until we remove the two existential threats: the nuclear threat and the threat of 20,000 ballistic missiles that are equivalent to two nuclear bombs,” Netanyahu said.

The United States has denied any active involvement in Israel’s fight against Iran. Netanyahu said that the United States has an interest in seeing Iran defeated, however.

“Today, it’s Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it’s New York. Look, I understand ‘America First’. I don’t understand ‘America Dead’. That’s what these people want. They chant ‘Death to America.’ So we’re doing something that is in the service of mankind, of humanity, and it’s a battle of good against evil. America does, should, and does stand with the good. That’s what President Trump is doing, and I deeply appreciate his support,” the prime minister said.

Trump said Monday that Iran has reached out through intermediaries to express interest in negotiations to end the conflict as its top leadership and key military and nuclear sites continue to be destroyed. Israel on Monday declared complete air superiority over Iran.

“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” said Trump. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.”

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President Donald Trump spent part of his Monday trolling Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host questioned the president’s handling of Iran and conflict in the Middle East.

Last week in a newsletter, Carlson accused Trump of being “complicit” in Israel’s strikes against Iran that sparked the current days-long exchange between the two Middle Eastern powers. The newsletter arrived in the inboxes of Carlson’s readers under the headline: “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War.”

“Earlier this week, unnamed Washington sources expressed concern over Israel’s ability to fend off Iran’s retaliation, which would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country’s behalf,” Carlson wrote. “On Thursday, Iran’s president threatened to ‘destroy’ any country that eliminates his government’s nuclear facilities. Now, the world will learn what that looks like.”

Trump responded to Carlson’s criticisms while attending the Group of Seven Summit in Canada.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday evening.

Earlier in the day, Trump dismissed a question from a reporter on Carlson’s concerns.

“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen,” said Trump, appearing to jab at Carlson over his exit from Fox News. Carlson now runs his own media business, the Tucker Carlson Network, and hosts a popular interview podcast.

Trump’s support for Israel and his Middle East policy appears to have alienated Carlson, as well as other isolationist-minded supporters. The comic Dave Smith recently called for Trump’s impeachment over the president’s handling of Iran.

“I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one, but he should be impeached and removed for this one,” Smith said on a recent episode of “Breaking Points.” “All of his supporters should turn on him. It’s the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.”

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President Donald Trump spent part of his Monday trolling Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host questioned the president’s handling of Iran and conflict in the Middle East.

Last week in a newsletter, Carlson accused Trump of being “complicit” in Israel’s strikes against Iran that sparked the current days-long exchange between the two Middle Eastern powers. The newsletter arrived in the inboxes of Carlson’s readers under the headline: “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War.”

“Earlier this week, unnamed Washington sources expressed concern over Israel’s ability to fend off Iran’s retaliation, which would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country’s behalf,” Carlson wrote. “On Thursday, Iran’s president threatened to ‘destroy’ any country that eliminates his government’s nuclear facilities. Now, the world will learn what that looks like.”

Trump responded to Carlson’s criticisms while attending the Group of Seven Summit in Canada.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday evening.

Earlier in the day, Trump dismissed a question from a reporter on Carlson’s concerns.

“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen,” said Trump, appearing to jab at Carlson over his exit from Fox News. Carlson now runs his own media business, the Tucker Carlson Network, and hosts a popular interview podcast.

Trump’s support for Israel and his Middle East policy appears to have alienated Carlson, as well as other isolationist-minded supporters. The comic Dave Smith recently called for Trump’s impeachment over the president’s handling of Iran.

“I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one, but he should be impeached and removed for this one,” Smith said on a recent episode of “Breaking Points.” “All of his supporters should turn on him. It’s the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.”

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President Donald Trump plans to leave an economic summit of world leaders early because of the conflict in the Middle East.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X Monday that Trump had planned to stay at the economic summit longer, but will return to Washington Monday night “because of what’s going on in the Middle East.” Trump left Washington for Canada this week to meet with world leaders at the Group of Seven Summit.

“President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State,” said Leavitt.

President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State.

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 16, 2025

The change in the president’s plans came as he posted a warning to residents in Tehran to leave the city immediately. The Iranian capital has been bombarded for days by Israel in targeted strikes on military and other key locations.

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” said Trump on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”

NEW: President Trump is encouraging Iranians to evacuate Tehran. pic.twitter.com/QXmqozLlNL

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) June 16, 2025

Earlier Monday, the president confirmed that Iran has reached out through intermediaries to negotiate to end the conflict.

“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” the president told reporters at the summit. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.”

While at the summit, world leaders were floated a draft of a joint statement on the Israel-Iran conflict that, among other stances, would have pushed both sides to negotiate and end to the conflict. Trump reportedly refused to sign on to the joint statement.

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President Donald Trump plans to leave an economic summit of world leaders early because of the conflict in the Middle East.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X Monday that Trump had planned to stay at the economic summit longer, but will return to Washington Monday night “because of what’s going on in the Middle East.” Trump left Washington for Canada this week to meet with world leaders at the Group of Seven Summit.

“President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State,” said Leavitt.

President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State.

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 16, 2025

The change in the president’s plans came as he posted a warning to residents in Tehran to leave the city immediately. The Iranian capital has been bombarded for days by Israel in targeted strikes on military and other key locations.

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” said Trump on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”

NEW: President Trump is encouraging Iranians to evacuate Tehran. pic.twitter.com/QXmqozLlNL

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) June 16, 2025

Earlier Monday, the president confirmed that Iran has reached out through intermediaries to negotiate to end the conflict.

“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” the president told reporters at the summit. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.”

While at the summit, world leaders were floated a draft of a joint statement on the Israel-Iran conflict that, among other stances, would have pushed both sides to negotiate and end to the conflict. Trump reportedly refused to sign on to the joint statement.

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President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced a trade agreement to cut tariffs between the two countries.

The two leaders announced the trade agreement on the sidelines of the Group of Seven Summit in Canada. The president said the deal is “fair to both sides.”

“We have our trade agreement with the [United Kingdom] and it’s a fair deal for both, and it’s going to produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income, and we have many, many other ones coming,” said Trump. “The level of enthusiasm is very good, but the relationship that we have is fantastic.”

Starmer called the deal a “really important agreement.”

“This is a very good day for both of our countries, a real sign of strength. So, thank you again, Donald. A really important day for both of us,” he said.

.@POTUS and UK Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer present their signed trade agreement: “It’s a fair deal for both — going to produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income.” pic.twitter.com/CyQOUHVlvW

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 16, 2025

A copy of the general agreement released by the White House would set a 10% tariff for the first 100,000 vehicles imported into the United States from Britain. The agreement would also remove a host of tariffs on aerospace products.

The agreement does not set final terms for trade on steel and aluminum. The outline said that the British government would be working to meet American standards for supply chain security.

“In the General Terms, the United Kingdom also committed to working to meet American requirements on the security of the supply chains of steel and aluminum products intended for export to the United States and on the nature of ownership of relevant production facilities,” the draft agreement says.

Trump and Starmer announced in May that the United States and United Kingdom had reached agreement on vehicles, steel, and aluminum.

“The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come,” the president posted on Truth Social at the time. “Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement.”

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President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced a trade agreement to cut tariffs between the two countries.

The two leaders announced the trade agreement on the sidelines of the Group of Seven Summit in Canada. The president said the deal is “fair to both sides.”

“We have our trade agreement with the [United Kingdom] and it’s a fair deal for both, and it’s going to produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income, and we have many, many other ones coming,” said Trump. “The level of enthusiasm is very good, but the relationship that we have is fantastic.”

Starmer called the deal a “really important agreement.”

“This is a very good day for both of our countries, a real sign of strength. So, thank you again, Donald. A really important day for both of us,” he said.

.@POTUS and UK Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer present their signed trade agreement: “It’s a fair deal for both — going to produce a lot of jobs, a lot of income.” pic.twitter.com/CyQOUHVlvW

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 16, 2025

A copy of the general agreement released by the White House would set a 10% tariff for the first 100,000 vehicles imported into the United States from Britain. The agreement would also remove a host of tariffs on aerospace products.

The agreement does not set final terms for trade on steel and aluminum. The outline said that the British government would be working to meet American standards for supply chain security.

“In the General Terms, the United Kingdom also committed to working to meet American requirements on the security of the supply chains of steel and aluminum products intended for export to the United States and on the nature of ownership of relevant production facilities,” the draft agreement says.

Trump and Starmer announced in May that the United States and United Kingdom had reached agreement on vehicles, steel, and aluminum.

“The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come,” the president posted on Truth Social at the time. “Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement.”

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Performer Boy George lashed out at author JK Rowling, calling her a “rich, bored bully” over a comment she made on X, and it backfired immediately.

The exchange began with Rowling, who asked a simple question: “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?”

Someone responded to her, referring to her as a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) and saying, “The freedom to live without constant persecution, which you and your TERFarmy have taken from them.”

Rowling was not buying that, and replied, “When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right.”

When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right. pic.twitter.com/bONhJRALyb

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 13, 2025

That was when Boy George weighed in, scolding Rowling: “The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!”

The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully! https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk

— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) June 14, 2025

The “Harry Potter” author availed herself then of the opportunity to explain her point further, telling the musician, “There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate. 1. You’re a man and I’m a woman. 2. You’ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn’t become well known until I was well over 30. 3. I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. 4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.”

“For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person,” Rowling continued. “Some of those years were spent in poverty. That’s why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who’re reliant on state-funded services. That’s why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That’s why I have a problem with men ‘identifying’ into women’s rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex.”

“I don’t stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don’t have the money/influence I have now,” she added. “You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That’s why I don’t want to see men identifying into women’s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.”

Rowling concluded with a jab at the artist’s public persona – which was always rooted in individuality and freedom of expression — and argued that he was caving to the crowd by taking the position he had on gender ideology.

“Lastly, I’m a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you’re doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn’t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist,” she said.

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Performer Boy George lashed out at author JK Rowling, calling her a “rich, bored bully” over a comment she made on X, and it backfired immediately.

The exchange began with Rowling, who asked a simple question: “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?”

Someone responded to her, referring to her as a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) and saying, “The freedom to live without constant persecution, which you and your TERFarmy have taken from them.”

Rowling was not buying that, and replied, “When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right.”

When ‘persecution’ is redefined to mean ‘not being allowed to reorganise society based on unfalsifiable feelings, to compel everyone else’s speech and belief and to take rights away from other protected groups’ you’ll be absolutely right. pic.twitter.com/bONhJRALyb

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 13, 2025

That was when Boy George weighed in, scolding Rowling: “The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!”

The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully! https://t.co/vTNdexD9Uk

— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) June 14, 2025

The “Harry Potter” author availed herself then of the opportunity to explain her point further, telling the musician, “There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate. 1. You’re a man and I’m a woman. 2. You’ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn’t become well known until I was well over 30. 3. I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. 4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.”

“For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person,” Rowling continued. “Some of those years were spent in poverty. That’s why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who’re reliant on state-funded services. That’s why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That’s why I have a problem with men ‘identifying’ into women’s rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex.”

“I don’t stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don’t have the money/influence I have now,” she added. “You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That’s why I don’t want to see men identifying into women’s prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.”

Rowling concluded with a jab at the artist’s public persona – which was always rooted in individuality and freedom of expression — and argued that he was caving to the crowd by taking the position he had on gender ideology.

“Lastly, I’m a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you’re doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn’t have become more predictably or more tediously conformist,” she said.

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If you were working for some shadowy Left-wing nonprofit that receives large amounts of taxpayer money from untraceable sources, and you had to come up with a slogan to capture the imagination of the modern Left and kickstart a wave of national protests to undermine the Trump administration, it’s a safe bet that the slogan “No Kings” wouldn’t occur to you.

For one thing, it sounds like something out of the Revolutionary Era. It’s a few centuries too late. You half expect these people are going to start throwing boxes of tea into Boston Harbor.

For another, the slogan doesn’t remotely capture what Democrats claim to be upset about. They’re not worried about the revival of the monarchy. They don’t think we’re suddenly about to transform into Cambodia or, even worse, into Canada. They’d prefer that outcome, actually. These people crave authoritarianism, as we saw during the COVID lockdowns, the multiple criminal prosecutions that were brought against the leading presidential candidate, the mass-censorship and surveillance they endorsed, and so on. In reality, they’re angry that we’ve adopted a system of government that has ensured we haven’t had a king for hundreds of years. They’re furious that this constitutional republic has produced a president they don’t like, who’s enforcing laws they find inconvenient. That’s what they’re actually rebelling against: the republic itself.

And yet, over the weekend, “No Kings” protests were held throughout the country. And at various points, as we’ll discuss, they turned violent. But first, from a strategic perspective, there are two elements of these riots that are worth talking about. The first is that, as we’ve discussed before, the Left has been searching for an excuse to riot ever since Donald Trump won the election. They’ve been looking to replace their BLM messaging with something else. And now they’ve found it. They don’t care that the messaging makes no sense. They’re just happy they have an excuse to cause civil disturbance.

The second important thing to keep in mind here is that these riots illustrate a growing divide among Democrats. And this is a divide that’s going to become very hard to reconcile going forward. On the one hand, you have young people who want to transform this country at a fundamental level (putting it mildly). On the other, you have Democrats who came of age during the administration of Lyndon Johnson or Gerald Ford. These are people who, 20 years ago, were voting for Democrats like Bill Clinton — candidates who promised — dishonestly, perhaps, but they did promise — to secure the border, minimize abortion, uphold the meaning of marriage, and balance the budget. Today, these same Democrats have stuck around, remaining loyal voters, even as their party has radically changed its priorities.

The most notable characteristic that these older voters share is that, thanks largely to the corporate press, they’re extraordinarily confused. In their earlier years, they came to trust the media as a relatively fair and nonpartisan source of information. And now that the corporate media is telling them that Trump is Hitler, they believe it, without any hesitation. Here’s just one example from this weekend’s “No King” protests:

As pathetic as this to watch, it’s hard to look at someone like this and conclude that she wants to destroy the United States by replacing its native population and suspending law enforcement. Instead, she’s been convinced that Trump is something he’s not. She’s been persuaded that he wants to crown himself a king, or worse. Many voters who are past retirement age — something like 60 million people — fall into this category. That’s the demographic that the “No Kings” branding is really meant to appeal to.

And on that count, the branding was arguably a success. Most of the people who showed up to these demonstrations were between the ages of 50 and 75. To give another example, here’s one scene from the Beverly Hills “No Kings” protest the other day. An old man stops by a “Trump Induced Anxiety Help” stand, and proceeds to verbally berate and physically abuse an effigy of Donald Trump. And as he slams the doll’s head into a stool, his satisfaction becomes more and more evident. Watch this, if you can bear the cringe:

Truly, I have never seen someone so valiantly stand up against a doll. The human characters in the “Chucky” films never showed an ounce of this courage and resolve. If they had, the movies would have been a lot shorter. The most fascinating thing about a clip like that is to observe the nexus between corny and crazy. Prior to the modern Democratic Party, I didn’t think it was really possible for a person to be both corny and crazy. Those seem like either/or personality types. But these people are somehow extremely, painfully corny, and also clearly insane, all at the same time.

In any event, as insane as some elderly people behaved at these demonstrations, none of them were particularly threatening. Instead, they put on a very confusing display, more than anything else.

In places like Pittsburgh and Fredericksburg, which you’re seeing on the screen now, attendees were generally middle-aged or older. They spent most of their time milling about, holding some signs and looking disinterested. This was not a young person’s protest. Like the “Tesla takedown” riots — which were organized, coincidentally enough, by the same exact Left-wing nonprofits — the “No Kings” events were intended to appeal to a faction of the Democrat Party that still pretends to care about the rule of law, our constitutional system of government, and so on. They’ve just been duped into thinking that the Democrat Party is also interested in any of that.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

Put aside the fact that nonprofits should not be able to organize protests like this in the first place. They’re supposed to be non-political, but they’re clearly organizing political rallies. What’s important to recognize here is that, throughout the “No Kings” rallies over the weekend, the older voters in the Democrat Party came face-to-face with younger Democrats. And unlike the older generation, younger Democrats do not pretend to care about “kings.” They aren’t shaking uncontrollably because MSNBC told them Donald Trump will end our democracy or whatever. They’re simply intent on securing power for themselves and their preferred demographic groups.

This is the dichotomy that now defines the Democrats. The party is a coalition that’s made up of two completely incompatible ideologies. One the one hand, you have older Democrats who have been conned into thinking that Donald Trump represents a threat to the rule of law. And then you have younger Democrats — the future generation of the party — who explicitly oppose the existence of the rule of law. They want to bring about chaos at every opportunity. And over the weekend, that’s exactly what they did.

In Salt Lake City for example, the “No Kings” rally erupted into mayhem and violence.

Here’s what that looked like:

As tragic as this incident was, you can tell that, on the bright side, at least some people involved in this protest finally got some exercise. So there’s that. There’s gunfire, and then there’s a lot of running. This is the kind of thing that didn’t happen at the tea party rallies back in the day, but it’s commonplace whenever there’s a mass gathering on the Left.

So how did they spin this one, you might ask? Well, here’s a report from the local news station, KUTV.

“Bystander unintentionally killed by alleged peacekeeper at Salt Lake ‘No Kings Day’ event.”

Yes, an “alleged peacekeeper” at the No Kings rally “unintentionally killed” an innocent bystander. If you’re confused by that headline, you have good reason to be. For one thing, once you shoot an innocent person, it’s fair to say you’re not a “peacekeeper,” allegedly or otherwise. Secondly, why do political rallies need “peacekeepers,” exactly? It evokes images of United Nations peacekeeping forces patrolling in the third world. You’d think there’d be no need for vigilantes to roam around in major cities in this country — especially if your city has a police force to begin with.

But as we all know, very few of these Democrat-run cities have functioning police forces anymore. Therefore, when violence erupted, a “peacekeeper” was on scene. And then the peacekeeper attempted to keep the peace, and he missed his target.

So who was the peacekeeper shooting at, exactly? Apparently, the peacekeeper was trying to take down a man named Arturo Gamboa, who had just allegedly killed someone.

As the Post Millennial reports:

Arturo Gamboa, the man charged with murder after a deadly shooting at Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest, appears to be a self-described anti-government radical who publicly supported Antifa, rejected the US electoral system, and once said justice should be taken ‘by any means necessary.’

This is the kind of messaging that the boomers chanting “No Kings,” and playing around with the Trump effigies, probably aren’t on board with. But it’s the default position among young Leftists in many parts of the country. That’s why Seattle, once again, descended into anarchy over the weekend. Watch:

Towards the end of that footage, you saw fireworks being shot at a federal building. They also tried to set the building on fire. But the police didn’t intervene, at any point. Of course, none of the people who pretended to care about January 6th have said a word about this. They also haven’t said a word about the fact that Cam Higby — a journalist whose footage we’ve played a few times on my show — was just assaulted in Seattle by Antifa militants. He received a concussion simply for reporting on what was happening. Again, the police didn’t intervene.

Here’s a clip that Cam Higby, with Today is America, posted:

ANTIFA just JUMPED ME.

While SPD was refusing to intervene with the riot tonight, militant Tyler Hahn and his lackeys JUMPED ME. Dealing several blows to my head.

I was able to deploy pepper spray and repel them, regaining the belongings they knocked out of my pockets. pic.twitter.com/gTsFtlIwDF

— Cam Higby | America First (@camhigby) June 15, 2025

CREDIT: Cam Higby with Today is America

When Jim Acosta’s microphone was taken away in the White House eight years ago, as he ranted and raved at the president in a desperate bid for attention, there was universal outrage on the Left. There were court cases. They were crying on CNN. It was a year-long news cycle. But when Leftist militants beat an actual journalist on camera, no one says a word about it. The police certainly don’t intervene.

Actually, I’ll correct that statement. At one point last night, the police in Seattle did attempt to contain the mob. They didn’t help Cam Higby, but they made some effort to shut down the rioting. But very quickly, they realized they were outnumbered. And instead of using force to quell the mob — which they obviously should have done — they ran away. Watch:

As always, the absence of police involvement — and the cowardice of Democrats commanding these departments — is endangering people’s lives. To give just one more example — in Riverside over the weekend, rioters began attacking a car. The driver tried to escape, so the mob tried to kill him.

And now the driver is being investigated. Watch:

Again, no young person thinks this is a protest for “No Kings” or whatever. This is a riot that’s intended to destabilize the country. To the extent that Democrats have tried to argue otherwise, it hasn’t been convincing.

Here are two videos. The first is from Dallas, where a bunch of women brought out “The Handmaid’s Tale” costumes, which they keep for occasions such as this. And perhaps for their own personal use. We won’t speculate about what that might involve. They also have a sign that reads, “We the people were not meant to kneel.” The second video is Cory Booker, using the same kind of language in a particularly painful attempt to grandstand:

This is obviously the prepared talking point they’re going with. Everyone from Cory Booker to the women who like dressing up as sex slaves — for reasons that Freud could only guess — is saying that Donald Trump is forcing people to “kneel” before him. Nevermind the fact that Alex Padilla charged towards the DHS secretary while she was speaking and deliberately provoked the Secret Service. That’s not important. What matters, according to Booker and the women wearing the costumes, is that Donald Trump wants everyone to “kneel” before him.

One of the reasons why it’s so easy to see through this messaging — aside from the fact that it’s transparently phony — is that we were all alive five years ago. And because we were alive five years ago, it’s very striking that the “No Kings” crew has only now discovered their aversion to authoritarian rule.

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

These were the same people applauding when we were locked in our homes, forced to wear muzzles on our faces and inject experimental drugs into our bodies. And when I say “the same people,” I mean the same exact people. One of the leaders of these “No Kings” rallies over the weekend was Randi Weingarten. She’s the head of the teachers’ unions who made sure that children couldn’t attend school during the COVID lockdowns. And now, with a straight face, she’s telling you that she’s terribly afraid of an authoritarian holding power. The irony is overwhelming.

Indeed, if you were to make a Venn diagram of the people who cheered the lockdowns and the people who are now chanting “no kings,” the Venn diagram would just be a circle. They’re all the same people.

People who of course also had nothing to say when the previous regime imprisoned its critics for posting memes and tried to throw a former president in jail. Now suddenly they’re concerned about “fascism.” And at the same time, ironically, they’re accusing Trump of being a weakling who always chickens out.

This is messaging that — being charitable — is hypocritical, confusing, contrived, unintelligible, and completely hollow. The BLM race hysteria was built on a lie — one of the most damaging lies told in modern times — but at least it was internally consistent. Democrats claimed, in defiance of reality, that police officers were going around abusing black people. As a statement, it’s obviously false. But as a call to action, it was effective. What we’re seeing now is different. With the “No Kings” rally, Democrats are simultaneously demanding that voters ignore their own very recent authoritarian behavior, while also imagining that the current administration is trying to enact a monarchy because they’re enforcing immigration law.

It’s no surprise that the only people who buy into this narrative are elderly and very confused. They’re the kind of people who would pay a nickel to beat up a Trump doll. That is the state of Democrat messaging at this point. At the same time, we have to recognize that, not too long from now, these old people will die. And then we’ll be left with everyone else — the rioters and the Left-wing NGOs who openly crave authoritarianism. That will be the only constituency of the Democrats within the next decade or so. By that point, “No Kings” won’t be the messaging.

Instead, they will be demanding that you recognize their total and absolute authority over every aspect of your life. They’ll attempt to turn the entire country into Seattle, where Antifa militants can attack journalists and overpower the police. That’s what rule by Democrats will look like. And if there’s anything we can glean from this disaster of a protest this weekend, and all of the violence and mayhem left in its wake, it’s that these people don’t want you to bow to a king. Instead, they want you to bow to them.

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If you were working for some shadowy Left-wing nonprofit that receives large amounts of taxpayer money from untraceable sources, and you had to come up with a slogan to capture the imagination of the modern Left and kickstart a wave of national protests to undermine the Trump administration, it’s a safe bet that the slogan “No Kings” wouldn’t occur to you.

For one thing, it sounds like something out of the Revolutionary Era. It’s a few centuries too late. You half expect these people are going to start throwing boxes of tea into Boston Harbor.

For another, the slogan doesn’t remotely capture what Democrats claim to be upset about. They’re not worried about the revival of the monarchy. They don’t think we’re suddenly about to transform into Cambodia or, even worse, into Canada. They’d prefer that outcome, actually. These people crave authoritarianism, as we saw during the COVID lockdowns, the multiple criminal prosecutions that were brought against the leading presidential candidate, the mass-censorship and surveillance they endorsed, and so on. In reality, they’re angry that we’ve adopted a system of government that has ensured we haven’t had a king for hundreds of years. They’re furious that this constitutional republic has produced a president they don’t like, who’s enforcing laws they find inconvenient. That’s what they’re actually rebelling against: the republic itself.

And yet, over the weekend, “No Kings” protests were held throughout the country. And at various points, as we’ll discuss, they turned violent. But first, from a strategic perspective, there are two elements of these riots that are worth talking about. The first is that, as we’ve discussed before, the Left has been searching for an excuse to riot ever since Donald Trump won the election. They’ve been looking to replace their BLM messaging with something else. And now they’ve found it. They don’t care that the messaging makes no sense. They’re just happy they have an excuse to cause civil disturbance.

The second important thing to keep in mind here is that these riots illustrate a growing divide among Democrats. And this is a divide that’s going to become very hard to reconcile going forward. On the one hand, you have young people who want to transform this country at a fundamental level (putting it mildly). On the other, you have Democrats who came of age during the administration of Lyndon Johnson or Gerald Ford. These are people who, 20 years ago, were voting for Democrats like Bill Clinton — candidates who promised — dishonestly, perhaps, but they did promise — to secure the border, minimize abortion, uphold the meaning of marriage, and balance the budget. Today, these same Democrats have stuck around, remaining loyal voters, even as their party has radically changed its priorities.

The most notable characteristic that these older voters share is that, thanks largely to the corporate press, they’re extraordinarily confused. In their earlier years, they came to trust the media as a relatively fair and nonpartisan source of information. And now that the corporate media is telling them that Trump is Hitler, they believe it, without any hesitation. Here’s just one example from this weekend’s “No King” protests:

As pathetic as this to watch, it’s hard to look at someone like this and conclude that she wants to destroy the United States by replacing its native population and suspending law enforcement. Instead, she’s been convinced that Trump is something he’s not. She’s been persuaded that he wants to crown himself a king, or worse. Many voters who are past retirement age — something like 60 million people — fall into this category. That’s the demographic that the “No Kings” branding is really meant to appeal to.

And on that count, the branding was arguably a success. Most of the people who showed up to these demonstrations were between the ages of 50 and 75. To give another example, here’s one scene from the Beverly Hills “No Kings” protest the other day. An old man stops by a “Trump Induced Anxiety Help” stand, and proceeds to verbally berate and physically abuse an effigy of Donald Trump. And as he slams the doll’s head into a stool, his satisfaction becomes more and more evident. Watch this, if you can bear the cringe:

Truly, I have never seen someone so valiantly stand up against a doll. The human characters in the “Chucky” films never showed an ounce of this courage and resolve. If they had, the movies would have been a lot shorter. The most fascinating thing about a clip like that is to observe the nexus between corny and crazy. Prior to the modern Democratic Party, I didn’t think it was really possible for a person to be both corny and crazy. Those seem like either/or personality types. But these people are somehow extremely, painfully corny, and also clearly insane, all at the same time.

In any event, as insane as some elderly people behaved at these demonstrations, none of them were particularly threatening. Instead, they put on a very confusing display, more than anything else.

In places like Pittsburgh and Fredericksburg, which you’re seeing on the screen now, attendees were generally middle-aged or older. They spent most of their time milling about, holding some signs and looking disinterested. This was not a young person’s protest. Like the “Tesla takedown” riots — which were organized, coincidentally enough, by the same exact Left-wing nonprofits — the “No Kings” events were intended to appeal to a faction of the Democrat Party that still pretends to care about the rule of law, our constitutional system of government, and so on. They’ve just been duped into thinking that the Democrat Party is also interested in any of that.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

Put aside the fact that nonprofits should not be able to organize protests like this in the first place. They’re supposed to be non-political, but they’re clearly organizing political rallies. What’s important to recognize here is that, throughout the “No Kings” rallies over the weekend, the older voters in the Democrat Party came face-to-face with younger Democrats. And unlike the older generation, younger Democrats do not pretend to care about “kings.” They aren’t shaking uncontrollably because MSNBC told them Donald Trump will end our democracy or whatever. They’re simply intent on securing power for themselves and their preferred demographic groups.

This is the dichotomy that now defines the Democrats. The party is a coalition that’s made up of two completely incompatible ideologies. One the one hand, you have older Democrats who have been conned into thinking that Donald Trump represents a threat to the rule of law. And then you have younger Democrats — the future generation of the party — who explicitly oppose the existence of the rule of law. They want to bring about chaos at every opportunity. And over the weekend, that’s exactly what they did.

In Salt Lake City for example, the “No Kings” rally erupted into mayhem and violence.

Here’s what that looked like:

As tragic as this incident was, you can tell that, on the bright side, at least some people involved in this protest finally got some exercise. So there’s that. There’s gunfire, and then there’s a lot of running. This is the kind of thing that didn’t happen at the tea party rallies back in the day, but it’s commonplace whenever there’s a mass gathering on the Left.

So how did they spin this one, you might ask? Well, here’s a report from the local news station, KUTV.

“Bystander unintentionally killed by alleged peacekeeper at Salt Lake ‘No Kings Day’ event.”

Yes, an “alleged peacekeeper” at the No Kings rally “unintentionally killed” an innocent bystander. If you’re confused by that headline, you have good reason to be. For one thing, once you shoot an innocent person, it’s fair to say you’re not a “peacekeeper,” allegedly or otherwise. Secondly, why do political rallies need “peacekeepers,” exactly? It evokes images of United Nations peacekeeping forces patrolling in the third world. You’d think there’d be no need for vigilantes to roam around in major cities in this country — especially if your city has a police force to begin with.

But as we all know, very few of these Democrat-run cities have functioning police forces anymore. Therefore, when violence erupted, a “peacekeeper” was on scene. And then the peacekeeper attempted to keep the peace, and he missed his target.

So who was the peacekeeper shooting at, exactly? Apparently, the peacekeeper was trying to take down a man named Arturo Gamboa, who had just allegedly killed someone.

As the Post Millennial reports:

Arturo Gamboa, the man charged with murder after a deadly shooting at Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest, appears to be a self-described anti-government radical who publicly supported Antifa, rejected the US electoral system, and once said justice should be taken ‘by any means necessary.’

This is the kind of messaging that the boomers chanting “No Kings,” and playing around with the Trump effigies, probably aren’t on board with. But it’s the default position among young Leftists in many parts of the country. That’s why Seattle, once again, descended into anarchy over the weekend. Watch:

Towards the end of that footage, you saw fireworks being shot at a federal building. They also tried to set the building on fire. But the police didn’t intervene, at any point. Of course, none of the people who pretended to care about January 6th have said a word about this. They also haven’t said a word about the fact that Cam Higby — a journalist whose footage we’ve played a few times on my show — was just assaulted in Seattle by Antifa militants. He received a concussion simply for reporting on what was happening. Again, the police didn’t intervene.

Here’s a clip that Cam Higby, with Today is America, posted:

ANTIFA just JUMPED ME.

While SPD was refusing to intervene with the riot tonight, militant Tyler Hahn and his lackeys JUMPED ME. Dealing several blows to my head.

I was able to deploy pepper spray and repel them, regaining the belongings they knocked out of my pockets. pic.twitter.com/gTsFtlIwDF

— Cam Higby | America First (@camhigby) June 15, 2025

CREDIT: Cam Higby with Today is America

When Jim Acosta’s microphone was taken away in the White House eight years ago, as he ranted and raved at the president in a desperate bid for attention, there was universal outrage on the Left. There were court cases. They were crying on CNN. It was a year-long news cycle. But when Leftist militants beat an actual journalist on camera, no one says a word about it. The police certainly don’t intervene.

Actually, I’ll correct that statement. At one point last night, the police in Seattle did attempt to contain the mob. They didn’t help Cam Higby, but they made some effort to shut down the rioting. But very quickly, they realized they were outnumbered. And instead of using force to quell the mob — which they obviously should have done — they ran away. Watch:

As always, the absence of police involvement — and the cowardice of Democrats commanding these departments — is endangering people’s lives. To give just one more example — in Riverside over the weekend, rioters began attacking a car. The driver tried to escape, so the mob tried to kill him.

And now the driver is being investigated. Watch:

Again, no young person thinks this is a protest for “No Kings” or whatever. This is a riot that’s intended to destabilize the country. To the extent that Democrats have tried to argue otherwise, it hasn’t been convincing.

Here are two videos. The first is from Dallas, where a bunch of women brought out “The Handmaid’s Tale” costumes, which they keep for occasions such as this. And perhaps for their own personal use. We won’t speculate about what that might involve. They also have a sign that reads, “We the people were not meant to kneel.” The second video is Cory Booker, using the same kind of language in a particularly painful attempt to grandstand:

This is obviously the prepared talking point they’re going with. Everyone from Cory Booker to the women who like dressing up as sex slaves — for reasons that Freud could only guess — is saying that Donald Trump is forcing people to “kneel” before him. Nevermind the fact that Alex Padilla charged towards the DHS secretary while she was speaking and deliberately provoked the Secret Service. That’s not important. What matters, according to Booker and the women wearing the costumes, is that Donald Trump wants everyone to “kneel” before him.

One of the reasons why it’s so easy to see through this messaging — aside from the fact that it’s transparently phony — is that we were all alive five years ago. And because we were alive five years ago, it’s very striking that the “No Kings” crew has only now discovered their aversion to authoritarian rule.

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These were the same people applauding when we were locked in our homes, forced to wear muzzles on our faces and inject experimental drugs into our bodies. And when I say “the same people,” I mean the same exact people. One of the leaders of these “No Kings” rallies over the weekend was Randi Weingarten. She’s the head of the teachers’ unions who made sure that children couldn’t attend school during the COVID lockdowns. And now, with a straight face, she’s telling you that she’s terribly afraid of an authoritarian holding power. The irony is overwhelming.

Indeed, if you were to make a Venn diagram of the people who cheered the lockdowns and the people who are now chanting “no kings,” the Venn diagram would just be a circle. They’re all the same people.

People who of course also had nothing to say when the previous regime imprisoned its critics for posting memes and tried to throw a former president in jail. Now suddenly they’re concerned about “fascism.” And at the same time, ironically, they’re accusing Trump of being a weakling who always chickens out.

This is messaging that — being charitable — is hypocritical, confusing, contrived, unintelligible, and completely hollow. The BLM race hysteria was built on a lie — one of the most damaging lies told in modern times — but at least it was internally consistent. Democrats claimed, in defiance of reality, that police officers were going around abusing black people. As a statement, it’s obviously false. But as a call to action, it was effective. What we’re seeing now is different. With the “No Kings” rally, Democrats are simultaneously demanding that voters ignore their own very recent authoritarian behavior, while also imagining that the current administration is trying to enact a monarchy because they’re enforcing immigration law.

It’s no surprise that the only people who buy into this narrative are elderly and very confused. They’re the kind of people who would pay a nickel to beat up a Trump doll. That is the state of Democrat messaging at this point. At the same time, we have to recognize that, not too long from now, these old people will die. And then we’ll be left with everyone else — the rioters and the Left-wing NGOs who openly crave authoritarianism. That will be the only constituency of the Democrats within the next decade or so. By that point, “No Kings” won’t be the messaging.

Instead, they will be demanding that you recognize their total and absolute authority over every aspect of your life. They’ll attempt to turn the entire country into Seattle, where Antifa militants can attack journalists and overpower the police. That’s what rule by Democrats will look like. And if there’s anything we can glean from this disaster of a protest this weekend, and all of the violence and mayhem left in its wake, it’s that these people don’t want you to bow to a king. Instead, they want you to bow to them.

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The majority of Americans say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien infamously defended by Democrats as a “Maryland man,” is likely a member of the MS-13 criminal organization, a new poll says.

A whopping 62 percent of Americans believe that the illegal alien, who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year, is likely a member of the Salvadoran gang, a recent Harvard-Harris poll found. Just 38 percent of respondents to the poll said that Garcia should have been defended from deportation and 43 percent of Democrats said that he is likely part of the criminal gang.

Garcia’s case became a lightning rod for Democrats in Congress, who claimed that the illegal alien was a “Maryland man” who was mistakenly deported back to his home country of El Salvador.

Multiple courts previously found that Abrego Garcia has connections to MS-13, which the Trump administration designated as a foreign terror organization shortly after taking office.

The survey’s findings were released just after Garcia was brought back into the United States from El Salvador to face trial for human smuggling charges, appearing in court in connection to the case for the first time in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday. The illegal alien was pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022 while transporting several men who said they did not have drivers licenses and couldn’t speak English.

“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” one Tennessee Highway Patrol officer can be heard saying of Garcia in the body camera footage. “Sometimes they come in with dope.” Another officer can be heard stating that Garcia’s vehicle appeared to have an extra row of seats installed, another indication that he could be engaged in human smuggling.

Democrat politicians rallied around Garcia in the wake of his deportation to El Salvador’s prison for terrorists and gang members. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) both flew to El Salvador to visit the illegal alien, with the representative erroneously referring to the Salvadoran national as his constituent.

Three other congressmen — Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) — flew to El Salvador, but were denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia.

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The majority of Americans say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien infamously defended by Democrats as a “Maryland man,” is likely a member of the MS-13 criminal organization, a new poll says.

A whopping 62 percent of Americans believe that the illegal alien, who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year, is likely a member of the Salvadoran gang, a recent Harvard-Harris poll found. Just 38 percent of respondents to the poll said that Garcia should have been defended from deportation and 43 percent of Democrats said that he is likely part of the criminal gang.

Garcia’s case became a lightning rod for Democrats in Congress, who claimed that the illegal alien was a “Maryland man” who was mistakenly deported back to his home country of El Salvador.

Multiple courts previously found that Abrego Garcia has connections to MS-13, which the Trump administration designated as a foreign terror organization shortly after taking office.

The survey’s findings were released just after Garcia was brought back into the United States from El Salvador to face trial for human smuggling charges, appearing in court in connection to the case for the first time in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday. The illegal alien was pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022 while transporting several men who said they did not have drivers licenses and couldn’t speak English.

“He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” one Tennessee Highway Patrol officer can be heard saying of Garcia in the body camera footage. “Sometimes they come in with dope.” Another officer can be heard stating that Garcia’s vehicle appeared to have an extra row of seats installed, another indication that he could be engaged in human smuggling.

Democrat politicians rallied around Garcia in the wake of his deportation to El Salvador’s prison for terrorists and gang members. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) both flew to El Salvador to visit the illegal alien, with the representative erroneously referring to the Salvadoran national as his constituent.

Three other congressmen — Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) — flew to El Salvador, but were denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia.

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States that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement will lose funding from the Department of Transportation, Secretary Sean Duffy announced.

“The USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement,” Duffy said.

The policy also applies to cities that do not protect infrastructure from rioters.

“And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding.”

The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding. https://t.co/cCRi4ALT23

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) June 16, 2025

The announcement comes after President Donald Trump recently ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” The Daily Wire reported.

Trump said he directed his “entire Administration to put every resource possible behind” federal deportation efforts.

Trump’s announcement specified Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, “where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.”

Anti-ICE riots have raged in Los Angeles for over a week, with protesters looting stores, burning Waymo robotaxis, and attacking federal officers.

The riots led to Trump deploying the Marines and the National Guard to protect federal agents and buildings.

In Seattle last week, masked protesters surrounded an ICE field office with ICE agents and detained illegal aliens inside, The Daily Wire reported. After agents successfully escaped with the detainees, the protesters attacked nearby police vehicles.

A “No Kings” protest in Portland on Saturday also led to a riot at an ICE facility, where protesters threw fireworks, smoke grenades, and rocks at federal officers, The Daily Caller reported.

Despite the violence, L.A. Democrat Mayor Karen Bass said she would “not put up with” Trump deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles.

“I’m with more than 20 state and federal elected officials, and together, we are here to say we will NOT put up with what the administration is doing,” said Bass. “Enough is enough. Stop the raids.”

Bass also said Trump’s recent ICE announcement was “manufacturing a crisis.”

“Make no mistake: this is illegal, divisive, and flies in the face of everything we stand for in Los Angeles,” she said.

Trump said the federal government will “reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration.”

“Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from where they came, and preventing the admission of ANYONE who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States,” Trump said.

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States that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement will lose funding from the Department of Transportation, Secretary Sean Duffy announced.

“The USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement,” Duffy said.

The policy also applies to cities that do not protect infrastructure from rioters.

“And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding.”

The @USDOT will NOT fund rogue state actors who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

And to cities that stand by while rioters destroy transportation infrastructure — don’t expect a red cent from DOT, either. Follow the law, or forfeit the funding. https://t.co/cCRi4ALT23

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) June 16, 2025

The announcement comes after President Donald Trump recently ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” The Daily Wire reported.

Trump said he directed his “entire Administration to put every resource possible behind” federal deportation efforts.

Trump’s announcement specified Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, “where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.”

Anti-ICE riots have raged in Los Angeles for over a week, with protesters looting stores, burning Waymo robotaxis, and attacking federal officers.

The riots led to Trump deploying the Marines and the National Guard to protect federal agents and buildings.

In Seattle last week, masked protesters surrounded an ICE field office with ICE agents and detained illegal aliens inside, The Daily Wire reported. After agents successfully escaped with the detainees, the protesters attacked nearby police vehicles.

A “No Kings” protest in Portland on Saturday also led to a riot at an ICE facility, where protesters threw fireworks, smoke grenades, and rocks at federal officers, The Daily Caller reported.

Despite the violence, L.A. Democrat Mayor Karen Bass said she would “not put up with” Trump deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles.

“I’m with more than 20 state and federal elected officials, and together, we are here to say we will NOT put up with what the administration is doing,” said Bass. “Enough is enough. Stop the raids.”

Bass also said Trump’s recent ICE announcement was “manufacturing a crisis.”

“Make no mistake: this is illegal, divisive, and flies in the face of everything we stand for in Los Angeles,” she said.

Trump said the federal government will “reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration.”

“Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from where they came, and preventing the admission of ANYONE who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States,” Trump said.

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President Trump’s strategy regarding Iran has been remarkable.

The President of the United States has — with no use of American military personnel — devastated the Iranian nuclear resources to the point that Iran is begging the Americans to come to the table now.

Trump has said that all options are still on the table. It may be that if the Iranian nuclear site Fordow is still in operation a couple of weeks from now or a week from now, and the Iranians will not come to the table, there may be one B-2 sortie in Fordow — with no capacity for Iran to fire back because Israel has already destroyed all of the ballistic missiles that would be aimed at any place that threatens Americans.

The danger is that if Iran retains the nuclear fuel it has already enriched, as well as the centrifuges to enrich more, the country could sprint to make a bomb. This is where the United States comes in. Israel lacks the deep penetrating bombs and the heavy bombers to deliver them that could do more damage to buried sites such as Fordow. President Trump endorsed the initial Israeli attacks, but he continues to suggest the bombing could increase the chances of negotiating a deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Meanwhile, President Trump is using the Israelis as the bad cop while he is the good cop.

He is saying to the Iranians that the Israelis are doing what they’re going to do, and we don’t control them. They’re their own country. They can do what they’re doing, and you can continue to weather that as best you can. But, he’s saying, at a certain point, if this continues and you won’t give up Fordow, there might be a B-2 headed your way. Or maybe we’ll find some other way with Israel. Maybe Israel will do it on its own. We just don’t know what’s going to happen next.

President Trump has played this absolutely brilliantly. If you had told people, just a few years ago, that Iran’s nuclear regime would be on the precipice of collapse with zero regional fallout — zero — and the United States would not have expended a single offensive missile in that effort, people would have thought that that was genius level stuff.

You know why?

Because it is genius level stuff.

WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show

Meanwhile, there are people on the Right who have now declared that they are the leaders of MAGA, not Donald Trump, that they are the great leaders of America First and MAGA.

Tucker Carlson put out a statement on Friday in his newsletter, in which he stated that President Trump was “complicit in the act of war.” The newsletter was dramatically titled, “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War,” suggesting World War III could break out as a result of the Israel-Iran war.

He wrote:

While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events. Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep.

While Donald Trump has been speaking about America First, only Tucker Carlson, who tours Moscow supermarkets to talk about how good the bread is and how he wishes that our subway system ran just like Moscow’s; only Tucker Carlson, who does interviews with the leadership of Qatar and talks about how they are an amazing ally to the United States while they simultaneously support Hamas; only Tucker Carlson, who hosts people like Darryl Cooper, whom he calls the “greatest and most honest historian in America” — the same guy who over the weekend suggested that America should launch missiles against Tel Aviv — only Tucker Carlson is truly America first, not Donald Trump.

Not Donald Trump, who built the America First movement, who built MAGA; only Tucker Carlson and his friends are truly MAGA in America First.

Over the weekend, Carlson doubled down, claiming:

The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support around the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it. Between warmongers and peacemakers.

This is Tucker’s shtick: that anyone who opposes him is a warmonger who wants more war, who just loves war.

Okay. Who are the people who love and desperately want war? He says:

Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.

First of all, I’m not aware that any of those people are directly calling Donald Trump and saying that he must directly intervene in this current conflict. Second of all, he is suggesting that you’re a warmonger if you want the Iranian nuclear program to end.

So I guess Donald Trump is a warmonger because Donald Trump wants the nuclear program to end. And you know who said Trump wants the nuclear program to end? Donald Trump. You know who the actual leader of MAGA is? Donald Trump. He created MAGA.

It is Donald Trump who created the America First movement.

It is not Tucker Carlson, and it is not Marjorie Taylor Greene, who similarly put out a tweet saying:

Everyone is finding out who are the real America First MAGA and who are fake and just said it bc it was popular. … Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA.

So Donald Trump is not the real America First MAGA. Only Marjorie Taylor Greene, an obscure congresswoman from Georgia until Donald Trump tapped her on the head, is the real America First MAGA.

By the way, who are the people who are slobbering for the U.S. to become “fully involved?”

No one has called for a ground invasion of Iran. No one has suggested that the United States ought to be fully involved in a gigantic takeover of Iran in regime rebuilding. No one is calling for that.

Even if you are calling for a single airstrike on Fordow, you know what that looks like? It looks like a single airstrike on Qasem Soleimani, which President Trump did in 2020 and was ripped by people like Tucker Carlson, who said that it was going to turn into a regional war.

Here’s my big question for folks like Tucker, when he suggests that there are these people who are calling Donald Trump and demanding he do things they want: Whom does he think is the decision-maker?

The decision maker in the White House is Donald J. Trump.

Donald Trump has taken the same position on the Iranian nuclear program since the first minute he came down the golden escalator. He has not changed one iota. 

What a low opinion Tucker Carlson must have of Donald Trump’s capacities. He thinks that he can manipulate him from the outside, or that others are manipulating him in that particular way.

President Trump fired back at all of this over the weekend. In an interview with The Atlantic, he responded to Carlson and others of his ilk, saying bluntly, “Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.” 

The same people who are attacking Trump have predicted that BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are going to get involved in this in some form or fashion.

President Trump is not one of those people because he’s not a stupid person.

Nothing has changed with Trump; he has been absolutely consistent on this issue.

As all the isolationists are horseshoeing around and having fun, happy times with all of their friends on the Left retweeting each other, you should take note of who these people are and what they actually believe about the President of the United States, about America First, and about MAGA.

Not to mention their complete acquiescence to the idea that a nuclear Iran would be fine for the world: an asinine notion rejected by anyone with half a brain.

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President Trump’s strategy regarding Iran has been remarkable.

The President of the United States has — with no use of American military personnel — devastated the Iranian nuclear resources to the point that Iran is begging the Americans to come to the table now.

Trump has said that all options are still on the table. It may be that if the Iranian nuclear site Fordow is still in operation a couple of weeks from now or a week from now, and the Iranians will not come to the table, there may be one B-2 sortie in Fordow — with no capacity for Iran to fire back because Israel has already destroyed all of the ballistic missiles that would be aimed at any place that threatens Americans.

The danger is that if Iran retains the nuclear fuel it has already enriched, as well as the centrifuges to enrich more, the country could sprint to make a bomb. This is where the United States comes in. Israel lacks the deep penetrating bombs and the heavy bombers to deliver them that could do more damage to buried sites such as Fordow. President Trump endorsed the initial Israeli attacks, but he continues to suggest the bombing could increase the chances of negotiating a deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Meanwhile, President Trump is using the Israelis as the bad cop while he is the good cop.

He is saying to the Iranians that the Israelis are doing what they’re going to do, and we don’t control them. They’re their own country. They can do what they’re doing, and you can continue to weather that as best you can. But, he’s saying, at a certain point, if this continues and you won’t give up Fordow, there might be a B-2 headed your way. Or maybe we’ll find some other way with Israel. Maybe Israel will do it on its own. We just don’t know what’s going to happen next.

President Trump has played this absolutely brilliantly. If you had told people, just a few years ago, that Iran’s nuclear regime would be on the precipice of collapse with zero regional fallout — zero — and the United States would not have expended a single offensive missile in that effort, people would have thought that that was genius level stuff.

You know why?

Because it is genius level stuff.

WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show

Meanwhile, there are people on the Right who have now declared that they are the leaders of MAGA, not Donald Trump, that they are the great leaders of America First and MAGA.

Tucker Carlson put out a statement on Friday in his newsletter, in which he stated that President Trump was “complicit in the act of war.” The newsletter was dramatically titled, “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War,” suggesting World War III could break out as a result of the Israel-Iran war.

He wrote:

While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events. Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep.

While Donald Trump has been speaking about America First, only Tucker Carlson, who tours Moscow supermarkets to talk about how good the bread is and how he wishes that our subway system ran just like Moscow’s; only Tucker Carlson, who does interviews with the leadership of Qatar and talks about how they are an amazing ally to the United States while they simultaneously support Hamas; only Tucker Carlson, who hosts people like Darryl Cooper, whom he calls the “greatest and most honest historian in America” — the same guy who over the weekend suggested that America should launch missiles against Tel Aviv — only Tucker Carlson is truly America first, not Donald Trump.

Not Donald Trump, who built the America First movement, who built MAGA; only Tucker Carlson and his friends are truly MAGA in America First.

Over the weekend, Carlson doubled down, claiming:

The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support around the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it. Between warmongers and peacemakers.

This is Tucker’s shtick: that anyone who opposes him is a warmonger who wants more war, who just loves war.

Okay. Who are the people who love and desperately want war? He says:

Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.

First of all, I’m not aware that any of those people are directly calling Donald Trump and saying that he must directly intervene in this current conflict. Second of all, he is suggesting that you’re a warmonger if you want the Iranian nuclear program to end.

So I guess Donald Trump is a warmonger because Donald Trump wants the nuclear program to end. And you know who said Trump wants the nuclear program to end? Donald Trump. You know who the actual leader of MAGA is? Donald Trump. He created MAGA.

It is Donald Trump who created the America First movement.

It is not Tucker Carlson, and it is not Marjorie Taylor Greene, who similarly put out a tweet saying:

Everyone is finding out who are the real America First MAGA and who are fake and just said it bc it was popular. … Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA.

So Donald Trump is not the real America First MAGA. Only Marjorie Taylor Greene, an obscure congresswoman from Georgia until Donald Trump tapped her on the head, is the real America First MAGA.

By the way, who are the people who are slobbering for the U.S. to become “fully involved?”

No one has called for a ground invasion of Iran. No one has suggested that the United States ought to be fully involved in a gigantic takeover of Iran in regime rebuilding. No one is calling for that.

Even if you are calling for a single airstrike on Fordow, you know what that looks like? It looks like a single airstrike on Qasem Soleimani, which President Trump did in 2020 and was ripped by people like Tucker Carlson, who said that it was going to turn into a regional war.

Here’s my big question for folks like Tucker, when he suggests that there are these people who are calling Donald Trump and demanding he do things they want: Whom does he think is the decision-maker?

The decision maker in the White House is Donald J. Trump.

Donald Trump has taken the same position on the Iranian nuclear program since the first minute he came down the golden escalator. He has not changed one iota. 

What a low opinion Tucker Carlson must have of Donald Trump’s capacities. He thinks that he can manipulate him from the outside, or that others are manipulating him in that particular way.

President Trump fired back at all of this over the weekend. In an interview with The Atlantic, he responded to Carlson and others of his ilk, saying bluntly, “Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.” 

The same people who are attacking Trump have predicted that BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are going to get involved in this in some form or fashion.

President Trump is not one of those people because he’s not a stupid person.

Nothing has changed with Trump; he has been absolutely consistent on this issue.

As all the isolationists are horseshoeing around and having fun, happy times with all of their friends on the Left retweeting each other, you should take note of who these people are and what they actually believe about the President of the United States, about America First, and about MAGA.

Not to mention their complete acquiescence to the idea that a nuclear Iran would be fine for the world: an asinine notion rejected by anyone with half a brain.

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