America Might Be the Real Loser‼️
A new way to look at the ever-promised Iran deal
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Decaying Power 🚨
‼️Today laid bare President Trump’s problem with Iran — every day, his hand gets weaker.
🗳️Every day, we get closer to the midterms.
⛽Every day, America strains under high gas prices that raise the price of everything else.
💣Every day, Iran’s military rearms and rebuilds.
❗Every day, the threat of resuming the war seems less real.
💰Every day, under the new agreement and the Strait of Hormuz open, Iran gets stronger financially.
⚠️This isn’t a problem just for Trump — it’s a problem for America.
❗Team Trump spinning an agreement to keep talking for 60 days is a win, shows how weak we are.
Look back🔙: Seven weeks ago, Vice President JD Vance celebrated America talking to the Iranians — now, we are supposed to celebrate it again.
😬If opening the strait and agreeing to keep talking is a win for the president — that shows just how weak he is.
👀When will Trump realize he’s getting played?
America first1️⃣: We should all want America to win — for our president to win.
‼️Most importantly for the world — Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.
Reality🤷: Now that we are here, the only way to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is force.
💣BOTH military and economic force.
💸Every day Trump waits to use the full military and economic force of America to force Iran’s surrender, the price gets higher.
Watch tonight📺: Republican strategist Kristin Davison, Semafor’s Shelby Talcott and Jennifer Gavito on how Trump regains the upper hand.
CIA Gold Bars 🪙
🚓A former CIA senior official with the highest secret-level clearance got caught stealing $40 million in gold bars from the government and keeping them in his house.
Why it matters‼️: One of the ways this guy got into the CIA is by lying —
Reports say he tried to apply three times
He kept inflating his resume
He said he was a Navy fighter pilot, but he never was
What I’m thinking💭: A serial con man conned the CIA — that’s pretty embarrassing.
Then again, the CIA missed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
👀Let’s put this into perspective —
⚖️The 300 gold bars found in the ex-CIA official’s home weigh around 660 pounds.
⬆️Since there’s no picture of what the FBI agents found, we asked our friends at Google Gemini what this might’ve looked like … look above
Watch tonight📺: Former CIA officer Tracy Walder on why there must be so much more to this story.
Wall Street — We Have a Problem🚨
‼️By every available measure besides the stock market, we have problems.
💳Credit card delinquency
💲Lack of savings
⛽Coming inflation from high gas prices
❗Massive margin trading in the stock market
👎Consumer sentiment
📉Economic polling
💲Early 401(k) withdrawls
🤕The American people are hurting.
🤦Team Trump’s happy stock market talk is not helping the administration’s case — in fact, it’s making a lot of their voters downright angry.
🤷Nobody wants to be reminded that the rich are getting richer while they tell their kids there won’t be a summer vacation.
Alarm bells🚨: This is why Trump’s Latino vote is disappearing — a group that helped him win in 2024
😬Republican totals in Texas’s Starr County didn’t hit 100 in this week’s special election
Look back🔙: Trump flipped Starr County in 2024
‼️It’s not because of his immigration policies but because of the economy
Look back🔙: Trump won 48% of Latino voters in 2024
Today📅: Recent polling shows 67% of Latino voters disapprove of Trump
44% say it’s due to the cost of living and inflation
33% say immigration enforcement
26% say jobs and wages
25% the war in Iran
Biggest problem‼️: There is very little the administration can do to affect prices and affordability — interest rates are high and gas prices are high — they don’t have a lot of options.
📅Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held the White House press briefing —
🤦Having a billionaire try to show the American people that he understands their pain is a real problem for this administration
Look back🔙: Bessent advised parents to not buy their children as many gifts
Watch tonight📺: Steve Cortes, former Trump adviser and hardcore Republican populist who first warned of this last year.
Trump Derangement Diagnosis‼️
🗣️The riots outside ICE facilities.
📱The DNC’s official X account calling the deputy White House chief of staff an “ugly f*ck.”
🗣️Democratic Californian Katie Porter’s campaign built around yelling “f*ck Trump.”
‼️Shows a near cult-like devotion to hating the man.
Be honest🤷: For many, it’s about money and power — Trump threatens their worldview in ways few do.
Fair question❓: What does the cult do when Trump is gone?
📈Funny you should ask — a new poll shows Pete Buttigieg, an objectively nonmember of the Trump derangement crew, leading the Democratic primary.
Watch tonight📺: Our friend Jonathan Alpert is out with a new book, “Therapy Nation”, and tells us why the vocal TDS types are not the path to victory inside the Democratic Party.
Is Ebola the “Perfect Storm”? 🚨
⚠️The Ebola outbreak in the Congo is spreading faster than officials seem to be able to contain it.
😬Does that mean it’s airborne? Easier to spread than past strains — yikes!
📈So far, there have been 1,077 suspected cases in the DRC and 246 suspected deaths.
The outbreak is from the Bundibugyo strain — with a mortality rate of 25-50%
❓The unanswered question about the outbreak this time around is: Is this strain different?
❓Has this strain mutated and spread more easily?
Sound the alarms🚨: Health experts warn this outbreak may be tougher to control than past Ebola outbreaks.
🤦The Trump administration plans to send Americans exposed to Ebola to Kenya — now you are creating an incentive for people to lie and cover up possible exposure to get back to America — that seems counterproductive
Look back🔙: In the past, the reason Ebola was not feared because it only spread through bodily fluids — and we don’t have that problem in America
Today📅: But we don’t know if this strain is different
Must read📰: The Hill headlines, “I just got back from Uganda. No one checked me for Ebola”
Tonight📺: Former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, who says this is a “perfect storm”
As Oliver Hardy said to Stan Laurel as they both sat in a jail cell, “This is another fine mess you got me into!”
Another excellent post! As to Trump, he is clearly being played by the Iranians. He looks worse as each day goes by. He shy have listened to John Bolton in the beginning stages of the war. I am reading John Bolton's book now. It is an excellent read.