🇺🇸 Obama: "Trump won this election with slogans of America first but he is putting America last by kicking allies like Canada and licking enemies like Russia. 🔥
He is making laughing stock of US in front of globe. He dont deserves to be seated as President even for a minute" 🔥🔥
Massive courage by Obama, he indirectly called him Putin's asset 👏🫡
🇺🇸JD Vance: "No wars won in 42 years by America until Donald Trump became President."
🇮🇷 Abbas Araghchi: "Yes absolutely, Donald Trump became the first president under whom a small country officially destroyed 18 of US military bases, even Japan failed to do that." 🔥🔥
No one cook JD Vance better than Araghchi, he is strategic genius.
BREAKING 🚨 : Spanish PM 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez gave SHOCK to Trump with his courage 🔥
🇺🇸 Trump at 10:00 AM –– "Spain will be a ruined country."
🇪🇸 Pedro at 10:00 PM –– "The same man who slashed $18 billion in health aid has spent over $100 billion on a foolish war and is giving lecture that Spain is ruined." 🔥🔥
No amount of threats and warnings are working against Pedro Sánchez 🫡
Trump: I am pleased to report that Michael Cohen, the Prosecution’s Star Witness and, in actuality, only Witness in the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan DA Witch Hunt Cases brought against me, has just fully RECANTED his testimony.
He was “pressured” and “coerced” to say things that were not true. I would like to thank Michael for having the Wisdom and Courage to step forward and do the right thing!
🇺🇲 Trump thinks the stock market should go up like a rocket.
Wall Street has other ideas...
“How crazy is this? We just got GREAT Numbers on Jobs, the Market should go UP, because our Credit and Economy are better but, as always, for the past 25 years,
the Stock Market goes DOWN, because we’re living under False Reality that if things are good, you’ve got to ‘KILL IT’ because of a ‘fear’ of Inflation…
GROWTH DOES NOT CAUSE INFLATION! I knew this morning as soon as I looked at these fantastic Job Numbers that the Market would go down when it should be going UP like a Rocketship.
We should be doing GDP of 15 and 20%, not 2, 3, and 4%, and America should become Far Greater Financially than it is right now.
Our Debt would be paid off, and all of these other things would happen…”
Trump might want faster growth, but even he can’t avoid the laws of economics to get there.
Iran has reportedly carried out another surprise ballistic missile attack targeting U.S. forces in Jordan, continuing a pattern Tehran has increasingly described as a new targeting doctrine.
We say reportedly because although footage is being shared of the launches, Axios and Channel 12 report they are unaware of an attack at the moment.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Strait of Hormuz is turning into a pretty strange experiment in how you keep oil moving through a war zone.
The numbers are all over the place. The Trump administration puts it at 9 million barrels a day, Iran puts it close to zero, while independent Western trackers cited here estimate around 3 to 5 million, down from 20 to 22 million before the war.
And the way some of that oil is apparently getting out is pretty wild.
Gulf countries are using their own tankers, switching off their transponders and moving through the southern side of Hormuz under U.S. protection, as far from Iran as possible.
Once they're out, the oil can be transferred ship-to-ship and sent to buyers like India or China.
Basically, something similar to the Russian and Iranian shadow-fleet playbook, except this time it’s Gulf oil moving under American protection.
Even with bypass pipelines running at full capacity, the estimate here is that the world is still short somewhere between 4 and 10 million barrels a day.
And keeping this going isn't cheap. The U.S. is potentially spending tens of millions of dollars a day while tying up a carrier-centered force around one chokepoint.
There are eight major chokepoints around the world, and the argument is that even the U.S. could realistically cover only two or three before using up basically all of its deployable assets.
And you can already see that problem at Bab el-Mandeb. While the U.S. focuses on Hormuz, ships there are facing attacks and even Somali pirates are back in the picture.
That’s the bigger problem here. Protecting global shipping takes a huge amount of ships, money and manpower.
Messing with those same shipping lanes is a whole lot easier.
🇷🇺 RUSSIA’S “HYBRID WAR” IS STARTING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE WAR
Europe keeps calling Russia’s campaign a “hybrid war.” The problem is that the hybrid part is becoming increasingly difficult to spot.
Germany now formally blames Russia for the explosive-laden drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport. Poland is investigating possible foreign intelligence involvement in a fire at a factory supplying Ukrainian drone components. Meanwhile, Russian drones and aircraft are increasingly crossing NATO airspace.
The pattern has moved from cyberattacks and GPS interference to sabotage, explosive drones and repeated incursions into NATO territory.
Former NATO Assistant Secretary General Camille Grand:
“We’re indeed in a hybrid war, which is no longer all that hybrid anymore.”
And that may be Europe’s real problem.
Each incident remains just below the threshold that would demand a military response. But stack enough incidents together and the distinction between “hybrid warfare” and warfare starts looking increasingly semantic.
🇺🇸 TRUMP THREATENS TO STOP TRADING WITH DEFICIT COUNTRIES IF THE FED WON’T CUT RATES
Trump says that unless the Fed cuts rates, he may “stop trading with countries with which we have a deficit.”
China. Mexico. Germany. Japan. South Korea. Canada. India. Taiwan. Just a modest chunk of the global economy.
There is, naturally, a small constitutional hangover.
Trump says the Supreme Court recognized his “absolute right” to do this. Its February ruling said IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs. Not quite the blank check he’s describing.
Then there’s Kevin Warsh.
Trump appointed him expecting lower rates. Warsh has since gone increasingly hawkish on inflation, and markets are now taking seriously the possibility that he raises rates on September 16 instead.
So Trump wants a cut.
His Fed chair may give him a hike.
And Trump’s response is essentially: nice global trading system you’ve got there. Shame if something happened to it.
🇺🇸 Trump: “The Radical Left Lunatics, Dumocrats, and Communists would rather have us LOSE the War in Iran, than have President Donald J. Trump WIN the War for America.”
He blamed it on “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME” and called his critics “very sick people.”
Even winning a war now comes with a partisan approval rating.
🇺🇸 BREAKING: LINDSAY CLANCY JURY DEADLOCKED YET AGAIN
The Lindsay Clancy jury has reportedly told the judge once again that it cannot reach a unanimous verdict, after nearly 40 hours of deliberations.
“It is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.”
The extraordinary deadlock appears to center on one male juror. The foreperson previously reported that the juror had acknowledged doubt but was refusing to apply it to the verdict, prompting Clancy’s defense to seek his removal. Judge William Sullivan refused, saying there was insufficient basis to remove or further question him.
After 7 days of deliberations, this jury looks about as stuck as a jury can get.
🚨🇺🇸 Trump just turned a STRONG jobs report into a direct threat against the Fed...
He celebrated the 162,000 new jobs in August, then demanded lower interest rates, calling the U.S. a much stronger credit risk than before.
If the Fed doesn’t cut, he warned he could stop trading with countries that run up big trade surpluses with America, and claimed SCOTUS already gave him the power to do it.
Trump is rewriting the rules of economic policy, and the Fed is DIRECTLY in his crosshairs...