🚨 Trump: "The other day a senator I knew got a text from his wife. She said, 'When you get home, I want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me.'
And he said, 'I can't do both.' You know? Haha. In other words, you can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that?…Too old. You know?”
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran isn't able to win this war, but it can try to make the war too expensive to keep fighting
Gas at $4, dead U.S. troops, a strait nobody can fully reopen. That's a strategy.
The U.S. has the airpower to hit anything in Iran. It has proven this many times. What Iran has proven is its ability to absorb these hits and strike back.
That's the actual story of this war, not any single weapon system.
Wars often end when one side runs out of options. This one might end when one side's public runs out of patience first. And right now that clock is ticking faster in DC than in Tehran.
So what actually ends this?
A deal Tehran can sell at home. A price Washington decides is too high. Or an escalation that makes both irrelevant.
🇾🇪🇸🇦 Saudi jets are likely hitting Houthi positions again.
The Royal Saudi Air Force has reportedly carried out more airstrikes on the group’s military sites as the fighting between Riyadh and the Iran backed rebels heats back up.
Missile launchers and weapons depots are among the reported targets.
🚨 LMAO! CNN is now melting down after President Trump absolutely savaged Kaitlan Collins at the White House Correspondents Dinner
BRIAN STELTER: "Trump did flop! He tried joking his way out of how bad it was going, that failed too. Not surprising...it's probably embarrassing for the president...the more resentful it got...the more the audience tuned it out."
🚨 UPDATE: A Trump-appointed judge has just declared discounted tuition for illegal aliens UNCONSTITUTIONAL in Illinois, striking down Democrats' program giving in-state tuition to illegals
BIG WIN! JB Pritzker is furious! 🔥
ZERO states should be allowed to discriminate against citizens for illegals. Americans first, ALWAYS
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Israel expected Trump to bomb Iran last night, then he let Tehran off the hook.
Israel spent yesterday braced for the big American strike, expecting it overnight. Then Jerusalem realized Trump was pulling back and giving Tehran one more chance.
Qatar and Oman had leaned on Iran hard to bend before an almost-certain attack. For the first time in 13 nights, the U.S. reported no strikes.
One Israeli source described it this way: Trump doesn't want to attack, he's edging toward it only because he feels out of options.
Israel's read hasn't moved: the chance of a real deal is zero, and all Tehran did was buy itself more time.
🇮🇱🇸🇾 The Syrian Foreign Minister on Israel's ongoing expansion into Syrian territory:
"The continued Israeli military operations and the illegal occupation of our territory, extending beyond the 1974 disengagement line, constitute a direct threat to the security of the region.
Therefore, we value the United Nations' commitment to international law, and we renew our call for a firm United Nations position that will lead to an immediate and unconditional withdrawal, while reaffirming our support for the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in carrying out its full mandate without any restrictions."
🇮🇷 The IRGC says it stopped 4 ships in Hormuz over 24 hours with warning shots, forcing them to alter course.
The vessels were using the southern corridor Iran calls an "unsafe route"; only Tehran-designated lanes are permitted.
Strip the language and the mechanism is the new checkpoint. Iran has been hitting tankers that hug the Omani coast to push traffic into its own waters, where "safe passage" is available, the unstated price being a fee the MOU never provided for.
Not a single drop passes without permission, the IRGC says. Permission is the whole business model.
🇾🇪🇸🇦 Houthis claim attack on Saudi oil facilities:
"Persisting in its blockade of the Yemeni people and committing a new violation of the sovereignty of the Republic of Yemen, the Saudi enemy regime launched a criminal, unjust aggression last night, conducting a series of airstrikes against the city of Hodeidah, its port, and Kamaran Island.
These raids caused material and other forms of damage.
Air defenses engaged a formation of enemy aircraft after they breached the airspace, preventing them from committing further crimes against this great people.
In response to this criminal aggression, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two specialized military operations.
The first targeted sensitive facilities belonging to Aramco in Jazan using dozens of ballistic missiles and drones, while the second targeted sensitive Aramco facilities in Yanbu using a number of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones.
Both operations successfully achieved their objectives by the grace of Allah Almighty, resulting in precise and direct hits.
This escalation of aggression underscores the Saudi enemy's determination to continue its blockade of our people and violate our country's sovereignty, actions that cannot be tolerated and which our free, faithful, and steadfast people will confront with utmost firmness and strength.
We, the Yemeni Armed Forces, placing our trust in Allah, remain committed to fulfilling our duty of honorable and responsible defense."
For context, the Houthis always claim their attacks cause precise and direct hits. There's no official confirmation from Saudi yet about what was hit.
Saudi Arabia built its escape from Iranian leverage on one assumption: if Hormuz closes, pump the oil west across the peninsula and ship it out of Yanbu on the Red Sea.
That plan worked. It carried millions of barrels a day while the strait strangled.
Then the Houthis started hitting Saudi tankers near Bab el-Mandeb and declaring the waterway theirs to authorize.
That changes the arithmetic completely.
One threatened chokepoint is a regional problem with a workaround.
Two threatened chokepoints on opposite coasts leaves the world's biggest exporter with no clean way out at all, and the bypass infrastructure the Gulf spent billions on becomes a pipeline to a second blockade.
The market read it instantly.
Brent jumped nearly six dollars in a single session and crossed $100 for the first time since May, while American gas sits above $4.
Iran never needed to close the Middle East.
It needed both of its doors watched, and now they are.
🇺🇸Trump: "50% more tariffs on Canada. Cars, booze, dairy, wine, hockey sticks, cement. Pay up."
🇨🇦Carney: "We’re ready. We don’t care about Trump. Illegal tariffs won’t stop us. We’re doubling exports outside the US. Time to move on. We’ll protect our workers." 🔥🔥
Basically, Canada is DITCHING Trump 💪
Canada PM Mark Carney is now become most popular leader in Canada due to his spine 💪
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is on Fire 🔥
🇮🇷Araghchi: "Iran will not submit to Trump’s bullying. We don’t fear your idiotic threats. We don’t bow to pressure. Protecting Iranians is non-negotiable.🔥🔥
Do whatever you want. You’ll get the same lesson again." 👏🔥
Abbas Araghchi has no fear. He is a man of steel. 💪
🇺🇸Trump: "We’re seizing Iranian money held in the U.S. It’s fair."
🇮🇷Araghchi: "Are you calling this Fair? Taking another country’s assets for unrelated claims is dangerous. If governments start doing this, no assets are safe. What comes next won’t be peaceful.
It's now clear to everyone who's behind the illegal actions." 🔥🔥