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- ‘He’s a Warrior!’ Trump Praises MBS Amid Report Saudi Crown Prince Is ‘P...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman following a report that the former crown prince is “pushing” for more war in Iran. According to a Tuesday report from The New York Times, the Saudi leader has privately urged Trump to continue the operation in Iran. Bin Salman, the report said, has stressed to the president that Iran “poses a long-term threat to the Gulf.” The report continued: In recent days, Mr. Trump has given more serious consideration to a military operation to seize Kharg Island, the hub of Iran’s oil infrastructure. Such an operation, with airborne Army forces or an amphibious assault by Marines, would be immensely dangerous. But Prince Mohammed has advocated ground operations in his conversations with Mr. Trump, according to people briefed by American officials. Asked about the Saudi leader reportedly wanting the war continued, Trump praised bin Salman as a “warrior” and added: He’s a warrior. He’s fighting with us, by the way. Saudi Arabia has been excellent. And UAE, excellent. And I will tell you, Qatar, incredible. Qatar took a hit, pretty bad hit. Qatar is very close, you know. They’re essentially– you can walk right over the border. Qatar took a hit. They’ve been great. They’ve been very strong. Trump then offered praise to Kuwait in the aftermath of its military mistakenly shooting down three American fighter jets. Watch above via Fox NewsThe post ‘He’s a Warrior!’ Trump Praises MBS Amid Report Saudi Crown Prince Is ‘Pushing’ Trump on Iran first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.33 mins ago - ‘Actually Stunning’ MS NOW Host Shocked By Trump’s Former Defense Secretar...MS NOW’s Katy Tur called it “stunning” to hear former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis so bluntly criticize President Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran war. While speaking on Monday in Houston, Texas, Mattis, a retired four-star general who served as secretary of defense in Trump’s first term, argued that there have been great military achievements in the strikes on Iran, but they have not been “matched by strategic outcomes.” Matis said: What we’re seeing is a situation where targetry never makes up for a lack of strategy. And by that I mean 15,000 targets have been hit. There have been significant military successes, but they are not matched by strategic outcomes. Now, some of the strategic outcomes early on, unconditional surrender, regime change, we’re going to dictate who the next supreme leader is — those were clearly nonsense. Those were delusional and you don’t hear those bandied about anymore. There are some that have been achieved in the military realm. They no longer have a Navy of any note. They no longer have the numbers of ballistic missiles and the defense infrastructure they had before. But the bottom line is it is not matched by success in the strategic area, and that’s a bad thing. That means that we’re now in a position where either one side or the other side escalates, probably to be matched, and you saw that threat rise over the last 48 hours. It’s been pushed off five days. But right now, we’re in kind of a show me. The one side is saying, you show me that you’re willing to do something that we want. The other side is looking for the same thing in return, and neither one of them is making a move in that direction. Mattis admitted later he feels the U.S. has gone too far to turn back now and if they did, they could completely lose the Strait of Hormuz where Iran has been targeting cargo ships and attempting to stop the transport of oil. Around 20% of the world’s oil supply moves through the area. Tur played the “sobering take,” calling it “actually stunning,” and she admitted it played into some anxieties that the Iran war is feeding. “The world as we know it feels like it’s breaking apart with no one left to hold it together,” she said, blasting the “ruddlerless leadership” of the Trump… [TheTopNews] Read More.40 mins ago
- ‘This War Has Been Won’: Trump Says The Media Is Keeping Conflict GoingPresident Donald Trump took questions in the Oval Office on Tuesday, ahead of the swearing-in of Markwayne Mullin as his Secretary of Homeland Security. Trump was asked several questions about the ongoing conflict with Iran and at one point declared the war “won,” but wildly claimed it was the media that is keeping it going. “So, President Trump, on a human level, how hopeful are you that this peace deal will work out? Like, as a human, as… On a human level, not as the President of the United States. How hopeful are you that this peace deal will work out with Iran?” asked an off-camera reporter. “You’re talking about to end it? Well, I think we’re going to end it. I can’t tell you for sure. You know, I don’t like to say this. We’ve won this. This war has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news,” Trump replied. Notably, just an hour or so earlier, reports broke that Trump ordered an additional 3,000 U.S. troops deployed to the region as the Pentagon weighs a ground invasion. “I mean, the New York Times — you read the New York Times. It’s like we’re not winning a war where they have no Navy and they have no Air Force and they have no nothing. And we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country,” Trump continued, adding: They can’t do a thing about it. For instance, if I want to take down that power plant, that very big, powerful power plant — they can’t do a thing about it. It’s like, “Take me.” That’s all they can do. And yet, if you read the New York Times or if you watch ABC fake news or NBC fake news, you’d say it’s a close battle. It’s not close at all — they’re totally defeated. You know, we killed their Navy, and would you say three days, Pete? In fact, I was a little upset with Pete. I said, why didn’t you save the ships? We could have used them, right? He said it’s more fun shooting them down. But the Navy was wiped out in a very rapid order. Pretty impressive for you guys — you champion wrestlers — right, when you hear this stuff. But if you read the news, you don’t hear this. You read… [TheTopNews] Read More.49 mins ago
- Trump Claims US Can do ‘Whatever We Want’ in Iran: ‘We’re Roaming Free O...President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. can do “whatever we want” in Iran and is “roaming free over Tehran.” The president took questions from the media on Tuesday after former Senator Markwayne Mullin was sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. One reporter asked if the president would be sending his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who holds the unofficial position of the administration’s “special peace envoy,” and Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, to do direct negotiations with Iranian officials. In response, Trump said Kushner, Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance are engaged in ongoing negotiations with Iranian officials who “would like to make a deal.” “We have a number of people doing it,” Trump said of negotiations. “And the other side, I can tell you, would like to make a deal. And who wouldn’t if you were there? Look, their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their communications are gone—that’s the biggest problem, it’s very hard to communicate, them between themselves. All their antiaircraft is gone, most of their missiles are gone. We either shot them or they shot them and don’t have them anymore, they’re down to a trickle. Pretty much everything they have is gone. Can you name one thing that is not gone? Or can you name one thing that is doing well?” Trump went on to dismiss claims that Iran and the U.S. are “tied” in the war. “If you read the papers, you think we’re tied, you think we’re in a tough battle,” he said. “We are roaming free over Tehran—the city, Tehran, as opposed to Iran. We are roaming free. We can do whatever we want.” Earlier Tuesday, U.S. officials cautioned that a decision to put boots on the ground in Iran had not yet been made. The president rounded out his answer by saying the U.S. had the “privilege” to shoot down an electric plant in Iran on Tuesday but did not act. “As you know, today we were going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant, one of the biggest in the world, and one shot in the right location ends the plant, it collapses,” he said. “And we held off based on the fact that we’re negotiating.”The post Trump Claims US Can do ‘Whatever We Want’ in Iran: ‘We’re Roaming Free Over Tehran’ first… [TheTopNews] Read More.56 mins ago
- Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump
The cut represents about 20 percent of the video game company’s work force, a spokeswoman said. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Trump Boasts Iran Gave America a ‘Very Big Present’ Amid Negotiations: ‘Ve...President Donald Trump boasted that the leaders in Iran that his administration is negotiating with gave the United States a very big present during a Q&A in the Oval Office on Tuesday. The president claimed to have achieved “regime change” after being asked who he’s negotiating with, declaring, “We killed all their leadership, And then they met to choose new leaders, and we killed all of them. And now we have a new group, and we can easily do that, but let’s see how they turn out.” CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe then inquired about the reason Trump has for trusting his negotiating partners. “I don’t trust anybody. I don’t trust you. I mean, that’s only because I know you. But if I didn’t know you, I’d probably have more trust. But I don’t trust anyone.” “Then why bother talking to them?” followed up O’Keefe. “Because they’re gonna make a deal. They’re going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money. And I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. And they gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me: we’re dealing with the right people,” replied Trump. “Was it nuclear related?” asked O’Keefe. “No, it wasn’t nuclear related. It was oil and gas related, and it was a very nice thing they did,” answered Trump. “But what it showed me is that we’re doing with the people because, you know, you don’t know because the leadership was killed, all gone. Khamenei all gone. As the expression goes, the past supreme leader. And then the new supreme leader was racked up, at a minimum, racked pretty good, and everyone else was gone. And then many of the people in the third tier are gone. But we’re dealing with a group of people that I think turn out. And the present, the gift they made to us, was very significant. And they said they were going to do it, and it happened. And they’re the only ones that could have done it.” “Was it related to the Strait of Hormuz and the flow of oil?” asked another reporter. “Yeah, it was related… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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