Finally a Speech‼️
It's about time...
Programming alert 🚨: President Trump addresses the nation tonight on the war in Iran at 9 p.m. ET — we will have special coverage following the address until 11 p.m. See you tonight!
Quick thought💭: Most Americans root for America — the president needs to give Americans something to be proud of and root for.
I am old fashioned — a primetime White House address in wartime is what the country is used to. That’s been missing with Iran.
Must-read📰: My friend Rick Berman warns of the “Biggest threat to U.S. success in Iran”
🎤NewsNation’s Mick Mulvaney, retired Brig. Gen. John Teichert and Marc Short, former chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, will join me.
➕Plus retired General Mark Kimmet and retired Admiral John W. “Fozzie” Miller
‼️Then, Tom Dupree on Trump’s historical visit to the Supreme Court for birthright citizenship arguments.
Dumbest take 😂: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the 14th Amendment’s meaning
Jackson: “If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws..... in a sense, it’s allegiance.”
“Born Lucky”📚: Today starts Autism Awareness Month, and I say thank you.
🙏Thank you to all the parents and grandparents struggling to help kids just like me.
#1 fan‼️: My dad reads “War Notes” every day — thank you to him for the sacrifices, long days and lonely nights as he fought to adapt me to the world rather than the world to me.
✏️The best part of writing “Born Lucky” about growing up with autism is hearing from so many parents who no longer feel alone and who no longer feel hopeless.
‼️I’ll have more to say tomorrow.
Free book!📗: Tomorrow, for Autism Awareness Day, my friends at Beau Ties Ltd are giving away a free copy of “Born Lucky” with a $100 purchase.
💸I buy a lot of my ties from Greg at Beau Ties —
👍They are exceptionally well-made in America —
Vermont, to be exact.
‼️Make sure you check out their site tomorrow for a letter about what “Born Lucky” means to Greg and some of his friends with an autistic son.
News from the Holy Land📰: Ambassador Mike Huckabee posted on X:
✏️“Wow. Tucker Carlson just called-wants to come to Jerusalem to share Easter Sunday with me. Said he’s been wrong about Israel, Jews, Iran, criticizing @realDonaldTrump & wants to publicly renounce stuff he’s been saying and do it right in heart of Israel!”
😂 I texted Huckabee (a good friend since my Arkansas days) that I would be happy to host a joint interview and air it next April Fools Day!
Not April Fools🤦: Rep Susie Lee, D-Nev., had some choice of words for Trump’s visit to SCOTUS today to watch arguments in the birthright case
🎤Lee: “So f--king f--ked up. I’ll pray they f--k him to his face.”
What I am thinking💭: This is a far deeper problem. Read Lydia Polgreen’s New York Times piece: “It’s not Trump. It’s America.”
BIG BET💸: Unusual Whales highlights an $800,000 polymarket bet on U.S. ground troops in Iran from an account that also correctly bet big on the timing of the attack
Unusual Whales is one of the better prediction market sites.
Remember: Polymarket and Kalshi may be encouraging insider trading
Did the Unusual Whale see a copy of the speech?
BUT BUT BUT‼️: Politico says Trump will announce winding down the war and tell others to deal with the Strait of Hormuz
Quicky💥: We told you at the start, this war is and was a struggle of political will because Iran only needs to outlast Trump.
🤷Political will is (somewhat) a function of political capital, and Trump has precious little with independents in America
Thought bubble💭: What will Israel say about this — they are awfully quiet right now.
Watch tonight📺: A former Israeli special ops unit commander and an Iranian, once imprisoned in the notorious Evin prison, tells us how the Middle East will view Trump’s speech.
Wow😮: The United Arab Emirates reportedly wants to join forces with the U.S. and thus Israel to reopen the strait by force — and we are going to turn our back on them?
Yikes😬: I never thought I would write that sentence.
Our friends❓: The British, French, Italians and Spaniards will rue the day they chose their Muslim populations over their American friends
Britain fight‼️: There are serious questions about whether Britain could fight if it needed to.
It has fewer than 50 Storm Shadow cruise missiles left
Its army is 10,000 soldiers below their target.
Its warships “suffer chronic propulsion failures requiring six to twelve months of repair.”
View from Tehran✉️: The president of Tehran just wrote a dystopian open letter to the American people.
✏️“To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life”
“Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination”
“The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries…a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness—not a temporary political stance.”
Good read 📰: PressTV “Iran’s president to Americans: Look beyond war propaganda fog, reject ‘manufactured threat’”
What I am thinking🤷: What about all those “death to America” chants and dead marines — and and and.