President Trump on Monday made a surprise announcement from the Oval Office.
The President took questions from reporters amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.
Trump had McDonald’s delivered to the Oval Office amid his surprise remarks.
President Trump invited DoorDash driver Sharon Simmons, AKA, “DoorDash Grandma” to celebrate her tax refund because of the “no tax on tips” from Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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Trump invited delivery worker Sharon Simmons to the White House to celebrate her getting $11,000 in her tax refund all thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill.
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President Trump vowed to never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
“Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and we’re going to get the dust back. We’ll get it back. We’ll get it back from them, or we’ll take it,” Trump said.
President Trump addressed the US Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
“We’ve been called this morning by the right people, the appropriate people, and they want to work a deal. They would like to work a deal,” Trump told reporters.
The reporter asked Trump if other countries will assist in the blockade.
“Yeah, other countries are going to also. We don’t need other countries, frankly, but they’ve offered the services. We’ll let it be known probably tomorrow,” Trump said.
Trump defended his Truth Social post criticizing Pope Leo.
“I think he’s very weak on crime and other things,” Trump said.
“You could not have a nuclear Iran. And Pope Leo would not be happy with the end result. You have hundreds of millions of people dead,” Trump said.
The president also warned Iran to strike a deal or else.
“It won’t be pleasant for them. Let me put it that way,” Trump said.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal.
Florida-based US District Judge Darrin Gayles, an Obama appointee, gave President Trump a chance to refile the lawsuit.
Trump’s legal team told Fox News that it will refile the lawsuit.
“President Trump will follow Judge Gayles’ ruling and guidance to refile this powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants. The President will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in fake news to mislead the American people,” a spokesman for Trump’s legal team told Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a story on his ties to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed by a federal judge on Monday.
Trump filed the lawsuit last year after The Wall Street Journal published a July article claiming Trump signed a sexually suggestive letter that was included in a 2003 album compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The letter was subsequently released publicly by Congress, which subpoenaed the records from Epstein’s estate.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious, but he gave the president a chance to file an amended complaint.
Last July, President Trump filed a libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters after the Wall Street Journal dropped a Jeffrey Epstein hit piece.
The case was filed in a Miami federal court.
The Wall Street Journal dropped a ‘hit piece’ on President Trump last summer.
According to the hit piece published by The Wall Street Journal, President Trump wrote Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for his 50th birthday depicting a naked woman.
President Trump denied he wrote the letter.
Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly prepared a ‘special gift’ and collected letters written from Trump and other people.
President Trump on Monday issued a statement on Truth Social.
“Our powerful case against The Wall Street Journal, and other defendants, was asked to be re-filed by the Judge. It is not a termination, it is a suggested re-filing, and we will be, as per the Order, re-filing an updated lawsuit on or before April 27th. President DONALD J. TRUMP” Trump said on Truth Social.
But on the Orion spacecraft, which carried Artemis II astronauts around the moon, at least one Christian song was playing inside the capsule.
Christian singer-songwriter TobyMac revealed on Facebook that “Good Morning,” a song he wrote with the late singer Mandisa, woke up the astronauts on the sixth day of their mission.
The chorus of the song says, “You give me strength, you give me just what I need, and I can feel the hope that’s rising in me, it’s a good morning.”
TobyMac said that it was “an honor” that the song was played in the heavens — and that his deceased friend in the highest heaven would be honored as well.
He said of Mandisa, who passed away in 2024, “I know she’s smiling up there right now!”
Also on day six, the four Artemis II astronauts heard the voice of the late Jim Lovell, who piloted the Apollo 8 mission which orbited the moon in 1968.
He recorded the message last year before passing away from cancer at 97 years old.
“Hello Artemis II! this is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell,” he said in the message, per a report from CBS News.
“Welcome to my old neighborhood. When Frank Borman and Bill Andrews and I orbited the moon on Apollo 8, we got humanity’s first up close look at the moon and got a view of the home planet that inspired and united people around the world,” he added.
“I’m proud to pass that torch on to you as you swing around the moon and lay the groundwork for missions to Mars, for the benefit of all. It’s a historic day, and I know how busy you’ll be, but don’t forget to enjoy the view.”
But TobyMac and Mandisa were not the only Christian artists to cross paths with the astronauts amid their journey.
The Christian Post reported that the National Anthem was sung at the launch ceremony by Christian singer Anne Wilson.
Wilson likewise reflected on the moment via social media.
“What an incredible honor it was to sing the National Anthem at the Artemis II launch!!! This moment feels so full circle for me,” the 24-year-old wrote.
“There was a time in my life when I dreamed of becoming an astronaut,” she continued. “After walking through deep loss in my family, my path changed in ways I never expected. And yet, standing here now, getting to be a small part of something so historic, I’m just overwhelmed by God’s goodness.”
“He writes stories far greater than we could ever imagine, and I’m so grateful to be living in His,” she concluded.
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If you could flip a switch and feel like a 30-year-old again, you would’ve done it yesterday.
You’ve choked down caffeine like it’s rocket fuel. You’ve done the 10-step morning routines, cutting carbs, the 5 a.m. miracles, the keto crusades, the ice-bath insanity. Still dragging by lunch.
Face it: if sheer grit and Google searches were enough, you’d be a walking dynamo right now. You’re not. The reason? Your mitochondria are on life support.
Modern life is a cellular mugging—stress, bad food, blue light, all stealing what your mitochondria are screaming for. Ignore the screams long enough and you become a walking zombie.
The truth is brutal: our mitochondria are starving.
Methylene Blue—the same stuff Navy SEAL docs and Nobel winners have geeked out over for a century—flips your mitochondria into overdrive and floods your brain with oxygen. Without it, you’re thinking with a wet blanket over your skull.
NAD? Your levels tanked the day you blew out 30 candles. That’s why food turns to sludge instead of jet fuel. Top it off or stay stuck.
PQQ? This bad boy grows brand-new mitochondria like a mad scientist on payday. You can’t eat enough blueberries on God’s green earth to move the needle.
One of the more common criticisms you’ll hear about the modern American left is that the group truly has no meaningful or tangible direction outside of opposing all things President Donald Trump.
It’s beating a dead horse at this point, but the whole joke that the Democratic platform can be summed up by “Orange Man Bad” gets proven more true by the day.
In fact, a viral video has been making the rounds of late, highlighting just how much CNN stands for nothing apart from opposition to Trump.
And the video’s creator only needed 44 seconds to prove their point:
CNN right before we hit Iran’s nuclear facilities last year: There is no need for this. Iran isn’t close to having a nuclear weapon.
CNN immediately after last year’s strike: The mission failed, Iran is closer than ever to having a nuclear weapon.
The video, which has over 32,000 likes and nearly a million views since being posted Tuesday, shows the network’s Erin Burnett offering her punditry on the frosty relationship between the Trump administration and Iran.
Without skipping a beat, the 44-second video showed Burnett from various broadcasts, offering a rather contradictory view on the military conflict between the United States and Tehran.
First, Burnett is shown claiming that the military strikes of last summer were basically unnecessary, and that Iran wasn’t close to having a militarily viable nuclear weapon.
Fast forward a bit, and Burnett was shown saying that those strikes actually failed, and that experts were concerned Iran had the capabilities to arm multiple nuclear bombs.
Fast forward to the current military campaign, and Burnett was again saying this operation was unneeded because Iran wasn’t close to having nuclear capabilities.
So… which is it? Is Iran a pending threat capable of imminent mass destruction, or are they a bunch of backwater dullards?
We all know the real answer to that rhetorical question: it depends entirely on who’s sitting in the Oval Office.
When the facts themselves seem to bend depending on whether Donald Trump pulled the trigger, you’re looking at deeply ingrained reflex masquerading as some sort of intellectualism. The conclusion comes first, the reasoning gets reverse-engineered later, and consistency becomes collateral damage.
That’s the deeper problem here. It’s not that commentators occasionally get things wrong — to be totally fair, that’s inevitable in fast-moving geopolitical conflicts. It’s that the through-line increasingly appears to be opposition first, coherence second.
If a policy can be framed as reckless under Trump, it will be. If the same outcome can later be framed as insufficient or dangerously ineffective, it will be that too. It’s nothing more than posturing and positioning.
And that’s where the broader progressive platform starts to look less like a roadmap and more like a weather vane. Positions shift, emphasis changes, and urgency fluctuates based less on underlying facts and far, far more on political convenience.
The result is a kind of rhetorical whiplash where the audience is expected not to notice the contradiction, only the target. And if CNN’s ratings are anything to go by, the audience has, in fact, been noticing.
That viral 44-second clip clearly highlighted a pattern. When opposition becomes the organizing principle, clarity suffers and credibility follows. You can only argue both sides of the same threat for so long before people start asking whether you believe any of it at all.
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Jackson Warne, the son of legendary Australian cricketer Shane Warne, joined 2WorldsPodcast to discuss his father’s untimely death at just 52 years old. Jackson claims that the fatal heart attack that killed his father in 2022 is likely linked to the COVID-19 vaccinations he says were mandatory for sports professionals.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Australian cricket legend, Shane Warne, died of a heart attack last March 4th, 2022, while on a ‘boys holiday’ at Koh Samui, Thailand.
Warne, 52, was found unresponsive in his hotel room by one of his friends, who tried to wake him up for dinner, and performed CPR for 20 minutes to revive Warne before the ambulance arrived, according to
Warne was rushed to Thai International Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:56 pm.
Jackson shared during the podcast, “I definitely think that it was involved. I don’t even think saying that is controversial anymore. Even if dad had underlying health issues, I think this brought it straight to the surface.”
“My first impression, as soon as I hung up the phone, I instantly blamed the government. I instantly blamed Covid and the vaccine.’
He continued, “He was forced to get them like everybody else. Dad wasn’t the only person.”
“When dad passed, he was probably the most famous Australian that people could go, ‘yep, that’s Covid,’ but I try not to think about it too much because all that does is fester into anger. That anger is not good for anybody.”
“If something comes out like this again, at least we’re more awake, at least we’re more aware. If dad had underlying health issues, maybe he was going to have a heart attack at 65, 70, but I think this just brought it all to the surface.”
Following Warne’s death, distinguished cardiologists Dr. Aseem Malhotra from the UK and Dr. Chris Neil (President, Australian Medical Professional Society) stepped forward to shed some light on the situation, asserting that his death was likely precipitated due to the Covid mRNA vaccine he had received around nine months prior to his death, Daily Sceptic reported.
Upon examining the post-mortem report of Warne, Dr. Malhotra and Dr. Neil discovered that the cricket legend suffered from coronary atherosclerosis, a form of heart disease. This finding paved the way for the doctors’ further investigation, which revealed a concerning link between the Covid mRNA vaccine and the rapid progression of coronary disease.
Consultant Cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra said via Daily Sceptic:
It’s quite unusual for former international sportsmen to suffer a sudden cardiac death at such a young age, 52. At the same time we also know Shane didn’t have the healthiest lifestyle in recent years, being both overweight and a smoker. It’s likely that some mild underlying furring of his arteries (as I’ve seen with my own patients and how my father died) rapidly progressed in the months after he received two doses of the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine.
Published research already reveals the plausible biological mechanism of this occurring through increasing coronary inflammation that can last for months after the vaccine has been administered.
Other data on adverse cardiac effects including heart attack is extensive, derived from randomised controlled trials, high qualityobservational data, pharmacovigilance reports, clinical data and autopsy data. The evidence for common and serious adverse cardiac effects from these jabs is overwhelming and I have no doubt that a major contributor to the excess deaths we are seeing around the world including in Australia is because of the Covid mRNA vaccines.
There needs to be an immediate suspension of their use worldwide pending an investigation to stop further people being harmed and dying unnecessarily.
Cardiologist and President of the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society, Dr. Christopher Neil said:
Having critically appraised the evidence, including adverse event data administered by our own Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), it is clear to me that the Covid vaccines can adversely affect the cardiovascular system in more ways than just myocarditis and pericarditis, as serious as they can be. Looking at the data, 20% of all notifications of heart attacks as suspected drug reactions ever reported to the TGA over 52 years have nominated a Covid vaccine as the suspected medicine. Most of these reports were made by doctors, so we know that many – including cardiologists – are concerned. Most were also mRNA vaccines, not AstraZeneca. Interestingly, the number of heart attacks reported in association with Covid vaccines in the past two years well exceeds the number for Vioxx, a drug previous removed internationally because of excess heart attack risk. These signals are a call for critical attention and we will be releasing a series of pharmacovigilance reports, starting with one on cardiovascular adverse events.
After unleashing police and military on protesters, Ireland government starts to partially agree to protesters’ demands.
Today it’s ‘day 7’ of the mass protests in Ireland over the cost of fuel.
While the rise of prices is primarily caused by the war in Iran, the suicidal energy policies of the Globalist Irish government are also to blame.
Protesters are demanding the suspension or removal of the carbon tax on fuels — especially agricultural diesel.
They are also calling for resuming domestic oil exploration instead of the current policies restricting fossil fuel development in favor of ‘rapid decarbonization’.
Last week, the Irish government set the army on small groups of workers.
This week, the people are shutting down the whole country, supported by the world.
After the police and military crackdown backfired, now the Irish government is trying to bargain: more than €500 million in tax cuts on motor fuel has been announced, ‘in an attempt to placate protesters snarling key ports and roadways’.
“Prime Minister Micheál Martin announced the cuts hours after police successfully cleared protesters from the ports of Galway and Foynes in western Ireland as well as on Dublin’s central boulevard, O’Connell Street, which tractors and trucks had blocked since Tuesday. The clearances came a day after police backed by soldiers broke a similar blockade of the country’s only oil refinery at Whitegate in County Cork.”
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The Premier denied that tax cuts were a reward for the protesters, and added that he would not speak directly to ‘unelected’ protest leaders.
“‘It’s beyond comprehension that we were on the precipice of losing oil refining capacity in the country in the middle of an unprecedented global supply shortage of energy’, Martin said. “It makes absolutely no sense what was going on.”
BREAKING: Entire towns and cities are now out on the streets in Ireland opposing their far-left government
Lefty casino and timeshare mogul Stephen Cloobeck, who once called Swalwell his “little brother” and poured over $1 million into his flailing campaign for California governor, has dramatically cut all ties and kicked the serial liar out of his luxurious $26 million Beverly Hills mansion.
Cloobeck is now demanding every penny of his cash back after explosive new allegations that Swalwell sexually assaulted multiple women, including a former staffer who claims the Democrat raped her while she was too drunk to consent, the New York Post reported.
The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Swalwell has been missing votes in Congress while running for California governor, spending his time hanging out at a multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills mansion owned by one of his top campaign donors.
Swalwell has visited the lavish 9,700-square-foot estate on Roxbury Drive on at least 10 different days since September.
The property, owned by Las Vegas timeshare mogul Stephen Cloobeck, features six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a tennis court, double gates, and luxury artwork that Swalwell has used as a backdrop for social media videos and TV interviews.
Congressional records show Swalwell missed House floor votes on at least three days when he posted content from the mansion.
Swalwell missed more votes in 2025 than any other active member of Congress, more than even the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March.
Cloobeck has been a major backer of Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign. He contributed $1 million to a supporting committee, provided resources from his own short-lived 2025 governor bid, and previously spent $31,000 on a trip flying Swalwell to Nice, France, according to congressional gift reports. Cloobeck has publicly referred to Swalwell as his “Little Brother” and confirmed the use of his home for campaign work, saying of one televised hit, “That’s my backdrop. Mi casa, su casa.”
The visits occurred during key moments in Swalwell’s campaign, including the October government shutdown, his November campaign rollout, a December campaign stop, and multiple days in January.
Now, according to an explosive New York Post report, Cloobeck confronted the congressman and told him to get the hell out.
The billionaire is done with the entire corrupt Democrat Party, stating, “F— the Democratic Party… I’m a libertarian now.”
He added, “I’m going to change my god d— party affiliation, because I cannot stand this Democratic Party at all… I am done. Finito.”
This comes just hours before Swalwell was forced to suspend his pathetic bid for California governor amid a growing pile of sexual misconduct claims from at least four women.
President Donald Trump unleashed a scathing attack on Pope Leo XIV after the first American-born pontiff condemned the United States war effort in Iran, declaring he does not want a pope who criticizes the commander-in-chief.
Presidential Rebuke Goes Viral
Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to blast the Catholic leader, stating he was elected in a landslide to execute exactly the policies Pope Leo now opposes. The president linked the pope’s 2026 election to his own return to office, calling Leo a shocking surprise who was only elevated because the Church wanted an American to deal with Trump. The president declared that without him in the White House, Leo would not be in the Vatican.
The president escalated his criticism by attacking Pope Leo’s positions on crime and nuclear weapons, calling him weak on both issues. Trump also took aim at a recent meeting between the pontiff and David Axelrod, a former political aide to President Barack Obama, labeling Axelrod a loser from the left who wanted arrests of churchgoers and clergy. The sharp rebuke represents an extraordinary public conflict between an American president and the leader of the Catholic Church.
Pope Refuses to Back Down
Pope Leo XIV, who hails from Chicago and became the first United States-born pope, responded Monday by vowing to continue speaking out loudly against the war with Iran. The pontiff has previously condemned the military conflict, positioning himself as a moral voice against American military action in the Middle East. The pope’s stance puts him at direct odds with Trump’s foreign policy agenda and appears to signal no intention of moderating his criticism despite presidential pressure.
Growing Divide Over Iran Conflict
The clash comes as the Trump administration pursues an aggressive military strategy against Iran following failed peace negotiations. The president recently announced plans to blockade the Strait of Hormuz after diplomatic talks broke down, escalating tensions in the region. Vice President Vance has been actively involved in attempting to broker peace deals but returned to the United States after negotiations stalled. The conflict between Trump and Pope Leo highlights deep divisions over American foreign policy, with the religious leader taking an unprecedented public stand against a sitting president’s military decisions. The dramatic confrontation raises questions about the relationship between church and state at a time when both leaders command significant global influence and loyal followings.
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