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- JUST IN: Trump Celebrates as Strait of Hormuz ‘READY FOR FULL PASSAGE’
(Sipa via AP Images) President Donald Trump took to social media to celebrate after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open” after Israel and Lebanon reached a ceasefire agreement. The opening of the strait was announced in a social media post by Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who said: “In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran.” In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran. — Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) April 17, 2026 Moments later, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to celebrate the opening, calling the critical oil pipeline “the Strait of Iran.” “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE,” Trump posted in all caps. “THANK YOU!” Following up minutes later, Trump kept his caps lock on as he announced America’s naval blockade in the strait “WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE.” THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND FULL PASSAGE, BUT THE NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE. THIS PROCESS SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY IN THAT MOST OF THE POINTS ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! Oil prices fell by over 10 percent on the news, while stocks spiked, according to the Associated Press. This is a developing story and will be updated.The post JUST IN: Trump Celebrates as Strait of Hormuz ‘READY FOR FULL PASSAGE’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Jesus Is Now Blasphemed Every Day’: Joe Scarborough Sounds Off About the Tr...
MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough went off on President Donald Trump’s administration, accusing them of blaspheming Jesus Christ on a daily basis on Friday’s edition of Morning Joe. Scarborough marveled at some of he recent religious-themed messages out of the White House, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible quote from the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. According to the Pentagon, the combat search and rescue team recovering pilots in Iran recently used a reworked version of the speech during their mission. In the 1994 film, Samuel L. Jackson’s character recites the reworked and dramatized verse. Trump has also been blasting Pope Leo XIV, confirming this week he has no plans to meet him amid the religious leader’s criticism of the Iran war. The feuding followed Trump has receiving backlash, including from some on the right, for posting an image that appeared to depict him as Jesus Christ healing the sick. The president later claimed he thought the photo actually depicted him as a doctor. Scarborough said on Thursday: Well, I mean, I think anybody talking theology has a couple of ways to go. Willie. You can either go to the King James version of of the Bible and the red letters, the words that Jesus Christ spoke himself. Or you can use Samuel L. Jackson’s script from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. And perhaps if you’re so ignorant of the Bible and you’re so desperately trying to justify your war by continuing to throw Christianity under the bus, and perhaps you have some followers that really don’t care that Jesus is now blasphemed every day from the White House or the Pentagon, I guess you could go with Samuel L. Jackson. Jesus, the pope, Samuel L. Jackson… I’m not sure which way you would go if you were leading a prayer service, but I think I might just keep it simple and stick with Jesus. “You never go wrong when you stick with Jesus. It’s Jesus or Jules,” Willie Geist joked, referring to Jackson’s murderous Pulp character, Jules Winnfield. Watch above via MS NOW.The post ‘Jesus Is Now Blasphemed Every Day’: Joe Scarborough Sounds Off About the Trump’s Admin’s Religious Iconography first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - CNN’s Abby Phillip Torpedoes ‘92% Negative’ Trump Coverage Complaint: Poss...CNN anchor Abby Phillip torpedoed the MAGA complaint that coverage of President Donald Trump in his first 100 days was 92% “negative” demonstrates bias by floating a simpler possibility. The conservative Media Research Center released an analysis last year claiming that the “Big Three” nightly newscasts were “relentlessly hostile” to Trump in his first 100 days — which was followed by a trend of deadly numbers for Trump since his second term began. On Thursday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip hosted a panel that included Ashley Allison, Noah Rothman, Xochitl Hinojosa, Elizabeth Pipko, and Peter Meijer. When Pipko cited the MRC study to explain away Trump’s bad polling, a smiling Phillip asked “Is it possible that that’s because of Donald Trump’s actual actions and conduct in office?”: ELIZABETH PIPKO: The pope did say right there, blessed are the peacemakers, I’d like it known that Donald Trump is literally going into office trying to make peace. I mean, no one’s talking about the fact that Lebanon and Israel sat down for the first time in 34 years. He’s literally risking his own political capital knowing midterms are right around the corner trying to make peace, and that should be celebrated, number one. ALLISON: He is doing that because his numbers are tanking, because he is in a war — PIPKO: Because he’s in a with Iran, his numbers are tanking? ALLISON: Well, I don’t think he thought that his numbers would tank when he went to war with Iran. But the reason why — PIPKO: I think 100% that his numbers were tanking — ALLISON: No, I think he miscalculated. I think he thought first that this might be like Venezuela, and it wasn’t. I think, second, he thought that Iran — MEIJER: Venezuela didn’t help his numbers either, by the way, despite that — (CROSSTALKS) ALLISON: But he thought that it could just happen and like kind of be done. We’re not talking about Venezuela tonight and we didn’t talk about it basically like a week after it happened. But now we’re in — how many weeks are we now in this war? I think he realizes, and I think the Iranians realize that he feels vulnerable right now because of this war and he is looking for a way to end it. Now, I do — I — ABBY PHILLIP: Elizabeth, you can respond and then we are going to move.… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Franklin Graham Says Trump Is ‘Justified to Fight Evil’ in Iran Amid Pope Le...Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham threw his support behind President Donald Trump’s “justified” war with Iran as the president continues feuding with Pope Leo XIV. Graham joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday and declared he “hates” war, but argued it’s “justified to fight evil.” Hannity kicked the interview off with an Adolf Hitler analogy, something he admitted he hates. The Fox host compared Trump’s actions in Iran to stopping Hitler in World War II. “I hate Hitler analogies, I think they’ve been overused, however, if the world had an opportunity to take out Hitler before he killed millions of people, would that have been the morally right thing to do, Reverend?” Hannity asked. Graham said: In my opinion, absolutely, and I think war is justified to fight evil. The second World War to stop Hitler no question was the right thing to do. And this thing with Iran, Iran has said that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. They want to destroy the Jews and drive everyone of them into the sea. They’ve said that. They call America the great Satan. They took our embassy, held our Marines and our embassy staff, I think it was 444 days. These people are dangerous people, and they’re a danger to the world, and in all of Gaza, that is the Iranians. You take what’s happening in southern Lebanon, that’s the Iranians. So, yes, I think President Trump has done the right thing. I hate war. I don’t like war, don’t support war. But sometimes you have to fight evil, and that’s exactly what President Trump is doing. And it will be a much safer world, much safer than the Middle East, when President Trump gets this done. President Trump has lashed out at the pope multiple times recently over criticism the religious leader has offered about the war. Graham took to X this week to throw his support behind Trump. He wrote that he hopes the pope gets a chance to “thank” the president at some point “for his efforts to protect religious liberty for Catholics and people of all faiths.” The president said on Thursday that he has no plans to meet the pope amid their continuing feud. “I have a right to disagree with the pope. I have no disagreement with the fact the pope can say what he wants, and I… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Rails Against MAGA-Aligned Podcasters — Including ‘Low IQ Person’ Tu...
(Alex Brandon/AP photo) President Donald Trump slapped serveral MAGA-aligned podcasters with a harsh rebuke on Friday, complete with a jab at “Low IQ person” Tucker Carlson, in response to a Mediaite story from last week. In a Truth Social tirade, Trump called out Carlson, as well as Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones by name , saying Owens is “Really Dumb and mentally ill!) and Jones is “bankrupt” and “fried.” “It’s easy! Tucker is a Low IQ person – Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!!” Trump said in the post. “So are Megyn Kelly, “Candace”(Really Dumb and mentally ill!), and Bankrupt Alex Jones, who is completely “fried.” There are others, also! Then we have some that are VERY GOOD, true MAGA all the way, and smart. I should do a list of good, bad, and somewhere in the middle. Wouldn’t that be fascinating???” Included in the Truth Social tirade was a link to a Mediaite story from last week that noted Carlson’s declining favorability with Republicans. The piece, written by Isaac Schorr, spotlighted a CNN segment with network data guru Harry Enten, who noted that Carlson “has been in absolute freefall with Republicans.” “So if it is a choice between the president and Tucker Carlson among these voters, what do they basically say?” CNN host John Berman asked Enten. “Yeah, they choose Donald Trump basically every single time,” Enten replied. “Look at this, okay, the exact same poll, this UMass Lowell poll, look at this. Net favorables is among Republicans. Again, this is Republicans plus Republican-leaning independents. You see Carlson on the right side of your screen at plus seven points. Look at where Donald Trump is, at plus 61 points. And this is actually a little bit low for Donald Trump. In other polls around the same time, he was even higher than this. Enten added: “Again, he is crushing, crushing Tucker Carlson! What is this? This is a 54-point advantage for Donald Trump over Tucker Carlson when it comes to who is more popular among Republican voters. And of course, this isn’t even just talking about the MAGA base, where Donald Trump is running an approval rating somewhere between 97 and a hundred percent.”The post Trump Rails Against MAGA-Aligned Podcasters — Including ‘Low IQ Person’ Tucker Carlson first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Swoops in to Drop Receipt on Scott Jennings in Trump Gas...CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins swooped in to drop a receipt on GOP analyst Scott Jennings as he clashed with Democratic adviser Ashley Etienne over rising gas prices under President Donald Trump. The president spent Thursday afternoon pumping up his “No Tax on Tips” policy in Nevada — even as high gas prices could end up wiping out increased tax refunds, according to a recent analysis. On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins hosted Jennings and Etienne to debate the Iran War, during which Etienne complained about paying “six bucks for gas yesterday.” When Jennings tried to dismiss the complaint by attributing it to “a blue area,” Collins gave him an example that hit closer to home for Trump: ETIENNE: –now we’re in a situation, where there’s all these unknowns. There’s incredible implications. We’re in energy — global energy crisis, gas, gasoline is up. We’re at a situation now where we’ve never in– JENNINGS: We’re not in a crisis. ETIENNE: Yes, we are. And never in our nation’s history have we had such high distrust from our allies and our foes alike. We’re in a bind with no sort of clarity on where this thing is headed. And so, that’s the major concern, is that who knows what to believe and who knows what’s next with this president? JENNINGS: I find it incredible that you’re doubting that JD Vance flew to Pakistan, or that we’re actively engaged– ETIENNE: I didn’t say I doubted that he– JENNINGS: –in diplomacy right now. ETIENNE: –he flew there. I said he walked away with nothing in hand. JENNINGS: The bottom — the bottom line is this. ETIENNE: And that has been consistent with JD Vance– JENNINGS: We have a goal. We have a goal. ETIENNE: –and this administration. JENNINGS: We have a goal. They’re not going to have nuclear weapons. And the blockade is working, and we’re costing them hundreds of millions of dollars a day. The– ETIENNE: And we’re also costing the American people hundreds of millions of dollars every day. JENNINGS: No, we’re not. ETIENNE: I paid six bucks for gas just yesterday. JENNINGS: Were you in California? ETIENNE: No, I was here in D.C. JENNINGS: OK. ETIENNE: I was in Virginia. Yes. JENNINGS: Oh, another — another blue area. ETIENNE: And I was in — no, I was in Virginia, which is– JENNINGS:… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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