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- ‘We’re Losing Every Day’: David Brooks Argues Trump Needs to Accept Iran W...
The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks argued the war against Iran is going terribly for the United States — but President Donald Trump is too much of a “huckster” to admit it to the American public. Brooks shared his thoughts on the war during an interview on PBS NewsHour on Friday. “The costs are just exorbitant now, not to mention the human suffering. And so, if Trump doesn’t see that we’re losing every day he continues this thing, he’s going to just face more and more political problems, military problems, and all sorts of problems,” Brooks said. “And so he just needs to admit that [is] what’s going on, and I doubt he has the mental ability to do that.” That came after he said he had been “somewhat moderately hoping there’d be some positive outcome” from the war and that he believed there had some benefits. But he said those benefits are now being outweighed by the costs of Operation Epic Fury, both at home and abroad. “We’ve had to go to the Middle East for almost every decade for the last 50 years because of radical Islam, which the Iranian regime typifies. But this is clearly the week where the costs of the war are so exponentially larger than the benefits of what we’re getting in these marginal weeks,” he said. Brooks continued, “Russia is getting all this revenue, Iran is getting all this revenue, the European and world economies are in crisis, NATO is in shreds.” He also said Trump failed to warn Americans that Iran is a “serious country” and can make life tough for other nations; he pointed to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slowing down during the war — leading to higher oil prices. His answer came after two American fighter pilots were shot down over Iran on Friday; one pilot has been found and the other is still be searched for. It also came a few days after Trump told the American public the war was going great and would be wrapping up in a few weeks during a televised address on Wednesday night. Trump’s speech came a little more than a month after Operation Epic Fury started on Feb. 28, when joint U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Dozens of other leaders from Iran’s theocratic regime have been killed since then. There have been 13 American… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Republican Lawmaker Claims Senate Democratic Base Is Made Up Of ‘Extreme’ An...House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) made an extraordinary claim Saturday that the Democratic base in the Senate is made up of “extreme” anarchists, marxists, and socialists. Emmer appeared on Fox News Saturday with Aishah Hasnie who asked about the status of the partial government shutdown due to squabbling over Department of Homeland Security funding. The Senate passed its funding bill during a pro forma session around 7 a.m. on Thursday that would have provided money for DHS and paid TSA agents, while creating a separate budget bill for the sticking point — funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. But the House didn’t take up the bill when they met the same day, leaving the issue unresolved until they meet again on Monday. “Frankly, what is happening here is the Senate — it was a bad look,” Emmer said. “You don’t pass something at three in the morning with only six people on the floor and literally defund everything — fund everything but the Immigration, Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. It just doesn’t work that way.” He continued, “The House, frankly, with our speaker, has negotiated that the Senate will move this as quick as they can when they get back to town after the Easter recess, and the White House has assured us that the relevant agencies have money they need to do the job that they’re required to do to over the period of time.” “But don’t you want to get these people paid?” Hasnie asked of the TSA agents who have gone some 44 days without a paycheck. “Don’t you feel it’s necessary to to get this done as quickly as possible instead of waiting for the break to be over?” “Aishah, the House has done this,” Emmer argued. “We’ve passed complete funding four times. By the way, a bill that was agreed to on a bicameral, bipartisan basis, Republicans and Democrats. It’s just because an extreme, anarchist, marxist-socialist base that Chuck Schumer has to deal with that he reneged on the deal, yes. Republicans have been trying to do this since the beginning of the year.” Emmer added, “The problem we’ve got is the precedent that has been set is not going to to be good going forward, and that precedent is, if you’re going to be able to pull out whatever piece you don’t like in an appropriations bill, where… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Fox News Host Slams Trump Nemesis for Sudden Focus on Jeffrey Epstein: ‘If it ...Fox News host Brian Kilmeade bashed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for his fixation on the files tied to dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, saying he had “no interest” in the story for a decade until it could hurt President Donald Trump politically. Kilmeade criticized Massie while discussing the ouster of Attorney General Pam Bondi with fellow Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Friday. Gowdy argued Bondi was fired for mismanaging the release of the Epstein files and the messaging around it, not for doing anything shady — and he said Republicans are just as much to blame for her firing as Democrats. “For that, you can blame Republicans,” Gowdy said. “You got Nancy Mace running for governor on Jeffrey Epstein at Pam Bondi’s expense. So she was every bit as undercut and impeached by Republicans as she was the left.” Gowdy put the word “Republicans” in quotes as he made his point. Kilmeade then shared his thoughts, saying it made no sense for Bondi to be booted over Epstein when guys like Steve Bannon — who had a chummy relationship with Epstein — aren’t being shunned for their ties to him. He also ripped Massie at the same time. “On the Epstein situation, Steve Bannon was trying to rehab him with a documentary of Jeffrey Epstein,” Kilmeade said. “And number two is, more Democrats have been caught in the crossfire than Republicans and Tom Massie suddenly has an interest in this story — he had no interest for 10 years! But if it hurts Trump, it’s okay with him.” Massie has been one of the most Epstein-focused politician during Trump’s second term, alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who quit her job as a GOP representative from Georgia at the start of the year. He has criticized the administration and Bondi a number of times for how it has handled releasing millions of documents on Epstein; Massie branded Trump’s administration as the “Epstein administration” in February, one day after Bondi said “all” files tied to Epstein had been released in accordance with federal law. Watch above via Fox News.The post Fox News Host Slams Trump Nemesis for Sudden Focus on Jeffrey Epstein: ‘If it Hurts Trump, It’s Okay With Him’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘You’re Going to Want to See this Result!’ Smerconish Alerts Trump To His ...CNN host Michael Smerconish alerted President Donald Trump to his viewer poll on CNN Saturday that asked about recovering Iran’s enriched uranium as a term for ending the war. “Mr. President, you’re going to want to see this result!” Smerconish exclaimed to the camera when coming back from commercial. “You know, oftentimes we get tens of thousands of people voting. It’s not scientific. It’s damn interesting. And oftentimes the result is a left-of-center result. And I’m often in the minority on that result.” The poll question was: “Should the U.S. seize Iran’s enriched uranium before ending hostilities?” and it was voted on more than 35,000 times by morning, according to Smerconish. “In a country where a lot of people, you know, want us out of there ASAP, 54% are saying, ‘Yes, don’t shut it down without resolving the nuclear issue,’ which I find really insightful,” Smerconish said. Earlier in the show, Smerconish spoke with retired Admiral James Stavridis about what kind of effort it would take to retrieve the canisters of enriched uranium gas that’s buried under rubble due to Operation Midnight Hammer last June. “It wouldn’t be mission impossible, but it would be mission really, really hard,” Stavridis said, continuing: You’d have to start with cyber — knock out the electric grid in and around there. You’d have to have an airstrip that you could control completely. You’d need hundreds of combat troops on the ground. You’d need a very significant Special Forces detachment, probably 100-plus there. And the really hard part would then start, which is this is 900 pounds in canisters in gaseous form, very technical to pick it up, get it out of there in one piece. You’d need technicians. You’d need to bring people who are specially trained to do that. You have to protect them. Then you have to get it out of there. Not mission impossible — mission really, really hard. Watch above via CNN.The post ‘You’re Going to Want to See this Result!’ Smerconish Alerts Trump To His Viewer Poll on Leaving Iran War first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Joe Rogan Lashes Out Over Accusation He Lied About Charlie Kirk AssassinationJoe Rogan hit back at critics and offered a correction after some on social media noticed he told a story about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that never happened. On The Joe Rogan Experience podcast this week, Rogan had a three hour-plus discussion with fellow comedian Theo Von and at one point claimed he heard about Kirk’s September assassination while he was elk hunting. Viewers and listeners were quick to point out that Rogan was actually on the air when he heard about the assassination. Rogan chose to respond to one X user who put the clips from both episodes together and commented, “What a weird thing to lie about.” Rogan explained that he simply remembered the story wrong, and he was actually elk hunting when his phone blew up about Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary suspension by ABC following a joke about MAGA after Kirk was assassinated. “Honestly I just remembered it wrong. I was elk hunting when Jimmy Kimmel was getting people angry at him for joking about the assassination and blaming it on MAGA. I would never ‘lie’ about that. I just had a dumb memory moment,” Rogan wrote. Honestly I just remembered it wrong. I was elk hunting when Jimmy Kimmel was getting people angry at him for joking about the assassination and blaming it on MAGA. I would never “lie” about that. I just had a dumb memory moment. https://t.co/v6MxnhL3Da — Joe Rogan (@joerogan) April 4, 2026 During an episode of his podcast in September, both Rogan and guest Charlie Sheen learned of Kirk’s death during the episode. Kirk was shot and killed during an event on a Utah college campus. “So this just happened, we just found out that Charlie Kirk got shot,” Rogan told Sheen at the time. Sheen called it “awful,” while Rogan said it didn’t feel “real.” “You think when something happens in the current, like right now with this one with Charlie Kirk, it doesn’t seem real. It seems like it’s gonna take a long time before we reference this as something that happened,” he said. On his episode with Von, Rogan misremembered the story and claimed he was in Utah at the time Kirk was killed. “I started getting all of these text messages from people wanting me to comment on things,” he said. “I was like, what are you talking about?” Watch above via… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump Ally on CNN Twists Knife on MAGA Revolt: ‘I Am the Base — And the Base...Ex-Trump campaign spox Caroline Sunshine says she tried to sound the alarm for President Donald Trump over her sense that he’s losing the base — but the White House isn’t taking her calls. On Friday, news broke that two U.S. warplanes — an F-15 and an F-35 — were shot down by Iranian missiles and two other aircraft were hit by Iranian fire during rescue operations. One member of the F-15 crew is still missing. On Friday night’s edition of CNN’s The Story Is, host Elex Michaelson asked Sunshine what she’s hearing from her old pals who are in he White House now: MICHAELSON: What are you hearing from your friends in the White House for speaking out like this publicly? SUNSHINE: It’s a good question. I don’t hear a lot. I wish they would maybe pick up the phone more. I think that there’s an information ecosystem around the President right now that is designed to keep opinions like mine out or demonize supporters like me as disloyal and not relevant to hear from, and that needs to change. The President is not getting an information ecosystem around him right now that is giving him the full picture of where his base is at. I am the President’s base, and the base is leaving. There was a poll on your network, showing a 100 percent of MAGA supports this war. But who’s MAGA? Who’s MAGA? Because what I’m hearing from everyone is I’m a three time Trump voter, and I’m not MAGA anymore. I’m not — I’m now non-MAGA. MAGA, the base is leaving because they don’t agree with this conflict, and they don’t believe that this is what they voted for, and they’re correct. And I think we need to listen a lot less to Mark Levin and start paying attention more to the people we engaged with on the 2024 campaign and what they’re saying. Those audiences are still relevant. Joe Rogan has more influence over American minds and voters than Mark Levin. Mark Levin didn’t help deliver the President his election. That electorate matters. The President built this generational coalition, and I don’t think the White House ecosystem is giving him that information at all. MICHAELSON: I mean, it’s pretty interesting to hear what you just said right there in terms of Republicans. Watch above via CNN’s The Story Is.The post Trump Ally on CNN Twists Knife on MAGA Revolt:… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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