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- ‘We’re Going to Be Blockading’: Trump Calls In to Fox News After ‘Very F...
President Donald Trump called in to Fox News on Sunday morning to discuss how talks with Iran collapsed — and what comes next. In a phone interview on Sunday Morning Futures with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo, the president confirmed the announcement he’d made on Truth Social moments earlier — that the U.S. will begin a naval blockade on all ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz. “We’re going to be blockading,” Trump said. “It’ll take a little while, but it’ll be effective pretty soon. And we had meetings yesterday — as you said, lasted 21 hours. That was a long meeting. We had some very, very good representatives, as you know. “JD [Vance] and Steve [Witkoff] and Jared [Kushner]. So we were well represented. But we didn’t get there on the important issue. They want to have nuclear weapons. They’re not going to have nuclear weapons.” Bartiromo asked Trump to get into specifics on how the talks broke down. Trump responded by claiming Iran’s leaders tried to act as though “they had the cards.” “They don’t have the cards,” Trump said. “Their army and their whole military is obliterated. The whole place is obliterated. And as you know, levels of leaders are gone. They’re literally gone. Khamenei’s gone, the whole thing is gone, the whole place is gone. They have one thing that they can do. They can say, ‘well, gee, we’re gonna put a mine someplace…just a mine…we’ll drop one mine, two mines.’ And … if you have a ship that costs a billion dollars, you say, ‘well, you know, I prefer not getting whacked by a mine, losing my ship or damaging it badly, at least.’ And so that’s a little bit of a thing that they can do…but you know, it’s extortion. And they’re extorting the world.” Trump went on to characterize the talks as “very friendly,” but made clear he has a red line. “We had a very intensive negotiation, and toward the end it got very friendly,” Trump said. “And we got just about every point we needed, except for the fact that they refused to give up their nuclear ambition. And that’s the only point, frankly, to me, that was the most important point by far.” Watch above, via Fox News The post ‘We’re Going to Be Blockading’: Trump Calls In to Fox News After ‘Very Friendly’ Talks… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Breaking: Trump Unleashes Furious Tirade After Iran Talks Collapse — Announces...
(Mark Schiefelbein/AP photo) President Donald Trump unleashed a furious tirade, on Sunday, after the collapse of talks with Iran and announced a naval blockade on ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz. In a pair of lengthy posts on Truth Social, Trump claimed the “meeting went well” between the U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance and representatives of Iran. But ultimately, Trump said that Iran is “UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS” — leading to this new action. Here are the president’s comments in full: “Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. This caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and Countries throughout the World. They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their Navy, and most of their ‘mine droppers,’ have been completely blown up. They may have done so, but what ship owner would want to take the chance? There is great dishonor and permanent harm to the reputation of Iran, and what’s left of their “Leaders,” but we are beyond all of that. As they promised, they better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST! Every Law in the book is being violated by them. I have been fully debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, on the meeting that took place in Islamabad through the kind and very competent leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan. They are very extraordinary men, and continuously thank me for saving 30 to 50 million lives in what would have been a horrendous War with India. I always appreciate hearing that — The amount of Humanity spoken of is incomprehensible. “The meeting with Iran began early in the morning, and lasted throughout the night — Close to 20 hours. I could go into great detail, and talk about much that has been gotten but, there is only one thing that matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS! In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people. My three Representatives, as all of this time went by, became, not surprisingly,… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘Ridiculous!’ MS NOW Hosts Slam Trump for Going to UFC Fights Just as Iran T...President Donald Trump was called out Sunday by MS NOW hosts for attending UFC fights on Saturday night just as Vice President JD Vance revealed that talks with Iran had broken down. MS NOW’s The Weekend co-host Jaqueline Alemany set up the discussion by fleshing out the timeline of events on Saturday night. “While Vice President JD Vance and his delegation were engaged in 21 hours of high-stakes negotiations with Iran, President Trump flew to Miami to enjoy the UFC’s light heavyweight championship fight,” Alemany said. “It was unclear whether the president knew that negotiations had failed by the time he entered the arena, with Kid Rock’s ‘American Badass’ as his entry song. For the most part, Trump ‘impassively’ — that’s a word used by the New York Times — ‘watched as blood and saliva sprayed out from the fighters in front of him.'” “It’s ridiculous!” MS NOW co-host Jonathan Capehart said. “He should be in the Situation Room! Ife’s serious at all about a deal, although he said before going to Florida—” “He don’t care!” MS NOW co-host Eugene Daniels interjected. “He’s proving that he doesn’t care!” “Does not give a damn!” Capehart added. Daniels argued that Trump didn’t even bother to “pretend” to care about the latest developments in the talks. “He’s obviously proving to the American people, to the world, that he really doesn’t really care because otherwise he would at least pretend to be — if not in the Situation Room, at least at the White House,” Daniels said. “Hell, he could even be at his winter White House, hanging out! Pretending that, at the end of the day, he is paying attention to what’s happening out of there.” “What if something happened?!” Daniels added. “I just think that it is shocking — not surprising — that he chose to hang out there.” Watch above, via MS NOW. The post ‘Ridiculous!’ MS NOW Hosts Slam Trump for Going to UFC Fights Just as Iran Talks Collapse first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Tucker Carlson Grilled By BBC Host in Testy Exchange: Are You Concerned About â€...Tucker Carlson was confronted about critics who have called him an antisemite, and about platforming avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes, in a testy BBC interview Sunday. On the BBC’s program Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, presenter Victoria Derbyshire pressed Carlson about elected members of Congress accusing him of antisemitism. “You have said that you have been called antisemitic because of your opposition to the US joining Israel in fighting this war,” Derbyshire said. “In March, senior Republican Senator Ted Cruz [TX] said ‘anti-semitism is being spread by loud voices, the most consequential of whom is Tucker Carlson.’ Republican Congressman Randy Fine [FL] called you ‘the most dangerous anti-semite in America.’ What do you say to that?” “Of course I’m not an anti-Semite,” Carlson replied. “And that’s why they’re calling me one. Because my position on Israel has nothing to do with the religion or ethnicity of Israelis, it has everything to do decisions made by its government that hurt my country. And so in order to avoid having that debate, the fastest and most expedient way to end it is by calling the person trying to raise it a bigot. And I just don’t think that works anymore. I would say that what matters in politics and in life is what you do. I think anti-Semitism and racism of all kinds, including anti-white racism, are all immoral and anti-Christian, and I oppose them.” But Derbyshire proceeded to note Carlson’s interview last year with Fuentes — who has a lengthy history of antisemitic commentary and has frequently praised Adolf Hitler. “You said a moment ago ‘what matters in politics is what you do,'” Derbyshire told Carlson “You had far-right commentator Nick Fuentes on your show who — as you know — said ‘Hitler was really effing cool,’ ‘Hitler was awesome,’ ‘Hitler was right the Holocaust didn’t happen’ and said on his podcast in his view ‘Jewish people are the problem rather than Israel.'” “I disagree with that,” Carlson said. “Right,” Derbyshire replied. “Do you have concerns that broadcasting Nazi-loving Holocaust-denying guests to your audience and potentially mainstreaming and normalizing those views is an issue?” “I’ve said that I disagreed with Fuentes on those questions,” Carlson responded. “I don’t think that you should ever judge or attack people on the basis of their bloodline. I also interviewed Ted Cruz. I tried to interview Randy Fine.” … [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - JD Vance Shares ‘Bad News’ That US and Iran Couldn’t Reach a Deal in Pakis...Vice President JD Vance emerged from a marathon negotiating session with Iranian leaders around 6:30 a.m. in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday and told reporters the two sides have not reached a deal to end the war after Iran had “chosen not to accept our terms.” Vance — while flanked by special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner — said the “good news” was that the U.S. and Iran had “a number of substantive discussions” about ending the conflict. “The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement,” Vance continued. “And I think that’s bad news for Iran, much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America.” He continued, “So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We’ve made very clear what our redlines are, what things we’re willing to accommodate them on, and what things we’re not willing to accommodate them on — and we’ve made that as clear as we possibly could. And they have chosen not to accept our terms.” In particular, Vance said the U.S. required an “affirmative commitment” that Iran would not seek a nuclear weapon in order to end the war. He told reporters that the trio of American representatives were “quite flexible” in what they were willing to do to get a deal done on Saturday, but that Iran did not bring the same mentality. “The president told us, you need to come here in good faith and make your best effort to get a deal,” Vance said. “We did that, and unfortunately, we weren’t able to make any headway.” Vance spoke to reporters shortly after wrapping up what was reported as a 15-hour meeting; the vice president said it was even longer than that, saying it went on for 21 hours. He gave kudos to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshall Syed Asim Munir for coordinating the summit, saying “whatever shortcomings” there were in meeting were not due to them. The American delegation met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament; Vance became the highest-ranking American politician to meet face-to-face with leaders from Iran’s theocratic regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The New York Times reported shortly before the meeting concluded that opening the Strait of Hormuz remains a “sticking point,” according to two unnamed senior Iranian officials who… [TheTopNews] Read More.14 hours ago
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