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- Trump Wants to ‘Take the Oil’ From Iran, Admits Troops Would Have to Deploy ...
(Photo Credit: Mark Schiefelbein for AP) President Donald Trump said his preference is to “take the oil” from Iran — despite whatever gripes his critics would have about it — during an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday. “To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the U.S. say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” Trump told the outlet. The outlet noted “such a move would involve seizing Kharg Island through which most of Iran’s oil is exported.” Trump has been calling for the U.S. to take the island for years, including in 1988 when he said he would “do a number” on it. FT wrote attacking Kharg Island would be “risky and [raise] the chances of more U.S. casualties,” as well as extend how long the war goes on for. Trump did not sound too worried about it, but said he was debating what to do next. The president also acknowledged taking the island would likely require keeping troops there longer than initially anticipated. “Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options,” Trump said. “It would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while.” He added, “I don’t think they have any defense. We could take it very easily.” Trump’s interview comes a month after joint U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war. Dozens of other leaders from Iran’s theocratic regime have been eliminated since then — leading Trump to joke last week he does not want to tell reporters who he is negotiating with because he fears they will get killed next. Much has been made in recent weeks about whether or not a “regime change” has taken place. Trump told FT he believes that is the case, saying “The people we’re dealing with are a totally different group of people . . . [They] are very professional,” Trump said. His interview comes as the president deployed thousands of troops to the Middle East over the last few days, including sending 2,000 troops from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Trump had said earlier in the week he had “very strong talks” with Iran’s leaders about a possible deal to end the war, but the administration appears to be gearing up for another round… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘Utterly Impossible!’ UCONN Stuns Duke With Last-Second Bomb to Advance to F...
College hoops fans enjoyed an instant classic March Madness moment on Sunday when UCONN stunned Duke by stealing the ball and nailing a deep last-second three pointer to erase a 15-point halftime deficit and advance to the Final Four. The wild moment happened after UCONN hit one free throw to bring the score to 72-70 with 10 seconds left to play. Duke inbounded the ball and got it to guard Cayden Boozer, who tried to chuck the ball downcourt; his bad pass was deflected and recovered by UCONN, and star Alex Karaban quickly passed the ball over to Braylon Mullins, who launched a 35-foot three pointer with 2 seconds left. The shot swished through the net with 0.4 seconds remaining and sent the Washington, D.C. crowd into a frenzy. “That ball deflected and stolen!” CBS play-by-play announcer Ian Eagle yelped during the mayhem. “Mullins tosses it up — OHHH! It’s good!” “Utterly impossible!” veteran analyst Bill Raftery exclaimed. He then bestowed his patented compliment on Mullins, saying he had “major onions.” “March means drama!” Eagle added. The CBS broadcast showed UCONN coach Dan Hurley raising his arms up and going nuts on the sidelines, while Duke coach Jon Scheyer looked away in disgust and walked towards his bench. Meanwhile, Mullins raised his arms in triumph as his teammates on the sideline jumped with joy. “Boozer could’ve just held the ball,” analyst and Duke alum Grant Hill said as CBS replayed the play. Duke had one last chance down 73-72 with a fraction of a second to play. But the Blue Devils had a full-court pass deflected and time ran out, ending the game and their season. “UCONN still has the March magic!” Eagle said. The 2-seed Huskies will now play 3-seed Illinois on April 4 for a chance to go to the championship game. And in semi-related news, hoops legend Charles Barkley ripped President Donald Trump’s immigration policies as a “disgrace” during the pregame show, after watching a feature story on Karaban. Watch above via CBS.The post ‘Utterly Impossible!’ UCONN Stuns Duke With Last-Second Bomb to Advance to Final Four first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Top Democrats Reportedly Grapple With ‘Fraught’ Question: Should 2028 Nomine...
(Photo by: Marijan Murat/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Top Democrats are grappling with a “fraught” question heading into 2028, according to a new report from Axios on Sunday — should the party’s next presidential nominee be a “straight, white, Christian man”? Reporters Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein wrote Dems are now wondering if that’s their “best bet” to succeed President Donald Trump, even though many members of the party are uncomfortable with it. “Their fear, divulged with dismay in group chats, at cocktail parties and increasingly in public, is that parts of the electorate are too biased to support a woman or other diverse candidate for president,” Otterbein and Thompson reported. That stands out, considering Hillary Clinton won the popular vote as the Democratic candidate in 2016 and ex-President Barack Obama served two terms as commander-in-chief. Otterbein and Thompson said Obama’s victory in 2008 was “the high point for the party’s goal of boosting diversity in the executive branch”; they also wrote the party “takes pride in being a champion of women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community and religious minorities.” That pride may need to be temporarily checked, though, in order to win the next election. Axios reported top Dems have been fixated on the issue since last November, when former First Lady Michelle Obama said the USA is “not ready” for a woman to be president. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is the favorite to be the next Democratic nominee, according to betting sites and prediction markets. Newsom currently has a 12% chance of winning the next election on Kalshi and a 17% chance on Polymarket; Vice President JD Vance is the favorite to win the election according to both sites — after Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefly leapfrogged him earlier this month. Vance has an 18% chance of being the next POTUS, per Kalshi and Polymarket. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the fourth most-likely person to win the election on both sites, putting her directly in front of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and ex-Vice President Kamala Harris, who are both being given a 3% chance of winning.The post Top Democrats Reportedly Grapple With ‘Fraught’ Question: Should 2028 Nominee Be a Straight White Guy? first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Bill O’Reilly Dubs Stephen Miller ‘The Most Powerful Guy in The White Houseâ... Bill O’Reilly called Stephen Miller the “most powerful guy in the White House,” despite the recent complaints from insiders about President Donald Trump’s special adviser. The former Fox News star gave Miller the compliment on his YouTube channel on Sunday. He was interviewing former White House chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney and discussing how Trump likes to pick “sycophants,” after he was surrounded by cabinet members who seemed to meddle in his decisions during the president’s first term. O’Reilly said Miller does not seem to fit that suck-up mold, though, and is “more militant about everything” than Trump is, including deporting illegal immigrants. Mulvaney agreed, saying “the one thing about Stephen is it’s a constant. Stephen was just as adamant and militant about [immigration] as in the first term.” He also agreed with O’Reilly that Miller “still has the president’s ear.” Their comments stand out, considering The Daily Mail reported on Saturday that Trump insiders are fuming over Miller’s role as a “puppet master.” The report said Miller worked to “undermine” recently-ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and plays too big of a role in Trump’s administration. One insider grumbled Miller “needs to be fired” to the outlet. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) was willing to make the same suggestion publicly earlier this month during an interview on CNN. The senator called Miller a “big problem” who needed to be removed. “It gives me pause that you have people like Stephen Miller calling the shots,” Tillis told Jake Tapper. “It was Stephen Miller that was talking about a terrorist brandishing a gun, it was Stephen Miller who said it was the position of the United States that we should go after Greenland, it was Stephen Miller who has been repeatedly responsible for embarrassment for the president. Speaking first and thinking later.” Meanwhile, Trump appears to be on great terms with Miller. The president loved the praise Miller heaped on him during a roundtable discussion last week in New Orleans, where Miller said Trump had worked a “national miracle” on crime. Trump enjoyed Miller’s comments so much he challenged FBI Director Kash Patel to one-up him right after. “See if you can top that!” Trump quipped. “I don’t know, that’s a tough one, Kash.” Watch above via Bill O’Reilly on YouTube.The post Bill O’Reilly Dubs Stephen Miller ‘The Most Powerful Guy in The White House’ Amid Groaning From Trump Insiders first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Right-Wing Pundits Bash Iran War Supporters For Stifling Criticism: ‘The Most ...
Associated Press Conservative media stars Matt Walsh and Ann Coulter pushed back on alleged pro-Iran war commentators and outlets on Sunday in a series of social media posts. Coulter took aim at Fox News, where she’s been a frequent guest, commentator, and contributor for years. “Watching Fox News assure viewers the Iran war is going SUPER well and Trump is a total stud is like watching the same network assure viewers that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 election and Trump was the winner,” Coulter wrote. Watching Fox News assure viewers the Iran war is going SUPER well and Trump is a total stud is like watching the same network assure viewers that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 election and Trump was the winner. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 29, 2026 Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million in 2023 to settle a defamation lawsuit alleging its hosts made false claims about the 2020 election. Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who had a very public falling-out with Trump over the Epstein files, replied to Coulter, writing, “Fox News is now the fake news. Brainwashing boomers to support what we voted against.” Fox News is now the fake news.Brainwashing boomers to support what we voted against. — Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (@FmrRepMTG) March 29, 2026 Meanwhile, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote Sunday, “Some of us expressed great concern about the Iran War when it was first launched. We were shouted down and condemned as ‘panicans’ and ‘blackpillers’ and even Islamist sympathizers.” Walsh continued: But it’s pretty clear from how things have gone that our concerns were absolutely reasonable and legitimate. Maybe Trump will get us out of this thing soon and it still won’t spiral into a long and drawn out war. But even if that happens — and I’m not convinced it will — no thoughtful person can deny at this point that the spiral and long war scenario is very much a possibility. No reasonable person, at this stage, can say that our concerns were irrational. What looks irrational now — and always did — is the demand for blind allegiance and unthinking “trust” in our elected leaders, as though we are called to have faith in politicians like we have faith in God. Some of us expressed great concern about the Iran… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - NORAD Intercepts Plane in Restricted Air Space Over Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ClubThe North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, scrambled F-16 fighter jets on Sunday after a small plane veered into restricted airspace over President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach. Trump was in Miami, Florida, for a Saudi-backed investment conference Friday night before flying to West Palm Beach, where he spent the weekend golfing. Fox News’s Mark Meredith reported, “What happened earlier today was in the one o’clock hour, about 1:15, where NORAD said they dispatched F-16 fighter jets after a private aircraft entered what was considered a no-fly zone or a TFR, temporary restrictions near where the president was.” “No matter where the president goes the FAA and Secret Service they create these areas where they don’t want any aircraft to be in,” Meredith continued. What was more interesting in this case is NORAD says the F-16s when they got up next to that private plane, they had to dispatch flares to get the pilot’s attention. And you can imagine if you’re on the ground you would see those flares next to another aircraft it would certainly get some attention. I haven’t seen any video of that on the ground for people who may have seen it, but NORAD says if you were there and you did witness something around 1:00 today here in the south Florida area, that’s what it was. This aircraft was quickly able to get out of the area that the restricted airspace was in. I talked to the Secret Service and they said at no point was there any threat to either the president, or Air Force One. And the reason I bring that up was earlier today if you were online there is a video that went viral of a woman on board a Delta plane and the pilot was speaking, and the pilot had said there had been some drones spotted near the president’s plane which is parked at Palm Beach International. That was not the case. Secret Service said that was a miscommunication, it was nothing to do with drones, and instead it was all in regard to this private aircraft that temporarily got into where this restriction airspace was where the president is. Meredith said this wasn’t the first time a private plane had to be shooed out of presidential airspace. “We have seen these violations before. T his is not a first time… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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