Hey Patriots! | President Trump received a high-level military briefing on Thursday as tensions with Iran reach a critical point. | U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine laid out potential military options, according to officials familiar with the meeting. | It marks the first time CENTCOM's top commander has briefed Trump directly since the current crisis escalated late last year. | The briefing came as a third round of nuclear talks wrapped in Geneva. U.S. officials described the discussions as "positive," but gaps remain. Another round is expected next week. | Inside the administration, many see this as a final window for diplomacy before the President decides whether to shift toward a more forceful path. | Catch up on the rest of today's top Trump news below! | —Nick | In today's email: | 🔔 Trump Announces Full Destruction of Iran Military
✈️ Trump Blasts British Prime Minister Starmer
🏆 Trump Shrugs Off Iran World Cup Concerns
⚖️ Trump Defends War Powers Decision
🗳️ Trump Trolls NYC Mayor Mamdani | | | | | ✅TRACKING TRUMP✅ | Curated by Mike Luso | President Trump gave his most detailed battlefield assessment yet, declaring that American and Israeli strikes have effectively dismantled Iran's military, telling reporters "just about everything's been knocked out." He made the remarks while hosting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office, his first exchange with reporters since Operation Epic Fury launched. | Trump pushed back on the narrative that Israel dragged the United States into the conflict, though he acknowledged the situation was more nuanced: "If anything, I might have forced Israel's hand." He also revealed that the US had launched a substantial new strike on a meeting convened to select Iran's next leadership, and that most of the figures Washington had eyed as potential successors are now dead.
Check out all the latest developments and more below!
| | | | | ✈️ Trump Blasts British Prime Minister Starmer
Trump sharply criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after Starmer initially blocked the United States from using British military bases to conduct strikes against Iran during Operation Epic Fury. "This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with," Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The UK ultimately permitted use of the bases for what Starmer characterized as "defensive strikes," but Trump remained visibly frustrated, saying it took "three, four days" to work out landing rights at the territory and that the delay forced U.S. aircraft to fly many extra hours. Trump added that he loves the UK and has deep personal ties to the country (both his mother and father were born there) but made clear that the lack of immediate cooperation was unacceptable. Starmer defended his position to Parliament, saying it was his duty to judge Britain's national interest and that he stands by the decision not to join offensive action. | 🏆 Trump Shrugs Off Iran World Cup Concerns
Iran's football federation president cast serious doubt on the country's ability to participate in the summer's FIFA World Cup, which is being hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada, saying the U.S. regime had attacked their homeland and that anticipating the tournament with hope was no longer realistic. Trump dismissed those concerns entirely when asked about it, saying "I really don't care" and calling Iran "a very badly defeated country" running on fumes. Iran was the first nation to qualify for the tournament and had been scheduled to open Group G play in Los Angeles in June, with subsequent matches against Belgium and Egypt. Trump had previously indicated that athletes from countries on restricted entry lists would receive exemptions to participate, though officials signaled the escalating conflict could change that calculus. While the men's team's World Cup future remains uncertain, Iran's women's soccer team made international headlines by standing stoic and silent as their national anthem played during their opening Women's Asian Cup match against South Korea. | ⚖️ Trump Defends War Powers Decision
Trump pushed back firmly against Democratic criticism of his decision to launch strikes on Iran without a congressional vote, arguing that he notified the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" intelligence leaders ahead of the operation and that the U.S. was facing an imminent threat from the regime. Explaining the decision to act without waiting for a formal congressional authorization, Trump said he believed Iran was preparing to strike first.. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated the U.S. was not going to "sit there and absorb a blow," and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth emphasized the operation was not an open-ended conflict like Iraq, nor a "so-called regime change war." Trump argued the Democratic criticism was politically motivated, saying that if he had not acted, the same critics would have demanded he do exactly that - adding that he had "never had more compliments" on any presidential action he had taken. | 🗳️ Trump Trolls NYC Mayor Mamdani
Trump posted on Truth Social that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made "big progress" embracing the Declaration of Independence after a photo of the mayor standing in front of the founding document inside the Oval Office circulated online. The post came days after Mamdani visited the White House for a previously unscheduled meeting where the two discussed immigration and housing issues, and where Trump told him that a Columbia University student detained by ICE that morning would be released. Despite the cordiality, Mamdani publicly condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, calling them a "catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression" and stating that Americans want relief from the affordability crisis, not another war. Conservatives on social media criticized Mamdani's response as sympathetic to the Iranian regime, with many pointing out that he had said nothing publicly about Iranians killed during the regime's domestic crackdowns in recent years. The post added an unexpected dose of political theater to what had become one of the more unusual dynamics in American politics. |
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| | | | | | 🔔 Trump Announces Full Destruction of Iran Military 🔔 | President Trump declared that Operation Epic Fury has effectively neutralized Iran's military capacity, telling reporters that the regime's navy, air force, radar network, and air detection systems have all been destroyed. He made those remarks while meeting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office, his first direct exchange with the press since the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign began. | U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Brad Cooper confirmed the scale of the operation, stating that 17 Iranian ships, including a submarine, had been sunk, and that nearly 2,000 targets across Iran had been struck in the opening phase of the campaign. Cooper added that Iran's naval operations have been brought to a complete halt, declaring that "there is not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, or Gulf of Oman." | U.S. forces deployed a wide mix of aircraft, ships, missiles, and drones in the opening days of the campaign, with the target list continuing to expand to include command-and-control nodes, missile and drone infrastructure, and air defense systems. Trump also revealed that the United States launched a substantial new strike targeting a meeting convened to select Iran's next supreme leader, with the president stating that most of the figures Washington had considered as potential successors are now dead. "Now we have another group," Trump said. "They may be dead also, based on reports." T | he president pushed back firmly on the suggestion that Israel had driven the decision to go to war, arguing instead that Iran had been preparing to strike first and that the United States acted preemptively, adding that if anything, it was he who may have accelerated Israel's timeline. Trump acknowledged openly that a post-war Iran remains an unresolved question, saying the worst-case outcome would be a new leader who proves just as dangerous as Khamenei. He told Iranian protesters to hold off on taking to the streets, saying "If you're going to go out and protest, don't do it yet," while continuing to cite the regime's brutal domestic crackdowns as part of the justification for the war. | Iran has widened its retaliation beyond its own borders, with the United States, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates jointly confirming that Tehran launched missile and drone attacks across the region targeting U.S. assets and partner nations. The United States closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait amid the escalating attacks, and an internal State Department alert described structural damage at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh following a drone strike. Germany's Merz voiced support for the American-led operation while urging a swift resolution, warning that soaring oil and gas prices are damaging global economies, to which Trump responded that prices will drop "lower than even before" once the fighting ends. | With nearly 2,000 targets destroyed, Iran's navy eliminated, and retaliatory drone strikes reaching Gulf capitals, the war's trajectory has outpaced every projected timeline, and Trump shows no sign of slowing down. | | |  | The Pentagon on Tuesday identified four of the first American soldiers killed in the war against Iran as the Trump administration warned the intensifying conflict could lead to more American casualties. |
| | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 💰 The Trump administration announced it is escalating its Medicaid fraud crackdown nationwide, with CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz stating the agency is "getting strict" after identifying problems in Minnesota, California, Maine, New York, and Florida. Minnesota has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a decision to freeze $259 million in funding, arguing the move violates congressional spending authority and administrative procedure. Oz also sent a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul giving the state 30 days to respond to fraud detection concerns before CMS takes corrective action. | 🔥 The Department of War identified four of the six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed in a drone strike at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait while supporting Operation Epic Fury: Capt. Cody Khork, 35, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, and Sgt. Declan Coady, 20. All four were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines and were providing logistical and operational support to U.S. forces overseas when the unmanned aircraft struck. Two additional soldiers killed in the attack have not yet been identified, and the incident remains under investigation. | ✈️ Trump is reportedly open to backing militia groups inside Iran, as the administration weighs options for who could realistically take power following U.S. and Israeli strikes that have killed several key Iranian leaders. Trump personally spoke with two leaders of the main Kurdish factions in Iraq, Masoud Barzani and Bafel Talabani, a day after the bombing campaign began, though officials say no final decision has been made on what form of support, arms, intelligence, or other resources, the U.S. might provide. Trump publicly urged the Iranian people to overthrow the regime, saying of the targeted officials, "Most of the people we had in mind are dead - pretty soon we're not going to know anybody." | ⚖️ New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone, one of the city's largest hospital systems, to immediately resume hormone therapies and puberty blockers for transgender youth, arguing the hospital's decision to close its Transgender Youth Health Program violated state anti-discrimination laws. NYU Langone shut down the program following Trump's executive order entitled "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation" and a subsequent federal funding threat from HHS targeting hospitals that provide these treatments to patients under 19. The attorney general's office gave the hospital until March 11 to demonstrate compliance, though it remains unclear what steps would follow if the hospital declines. | God bless,
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