Hey Patriots! | President Trump is escalating rhetoric toward Cuba as pressure mounts on the island's collapsing regime. | Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said he believes the U.S. will have the "honor" of "taking Cuba in some form," adding bluntly, "I can do anything I want with it." The remarks come as Cuba faces a deepening economic crisis, worsened by U.S. energy pressure and a nationwide power grid collapse. | At the same time, negotiations between Washington and Havana are quietly underway, with Trump signaling a deal could happen — or stronger action if it doesn't. | The situation is rapidly evolving, with Cuba's leadership rejecting outside interference even as internal pressure builds.
Keep scrolling below to get the rest of today's top Trump headlines! | - Nick | In today's email: | 🔔 Trump Intel Leaders Face Senate Hearing
🗳 Trump Calls Mail-In Voting Corrupt
🔥 Trump Reacts to Joe Kent's Resignation
✈️ Trump Delays China Trip
✈️ Former Trump Official Predicts Cuba Freedom Soon | | | | | ✅TRACKING TRUMP✅ | Curated by Mike Luso | Joe Kent, a former special operations soldier Trump tapped to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, stepped down Tuesday over his opposition to the U.S. war against Iran, saying the totalitarian Islamic regime poses no national security threat to the country. In his resignation letter, Kent said he could not in good conscience support the ongoing conflict, though he also called it an "honor" to have served under President Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. | The White House pushed back hard, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt pointing to strong intelligence evidence that Iran represented an imminent threat, a conclusion Trump reached after reviewing all available information. Now, the Senate is getting its first public crack at Trump's top intelligence leaders, with Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, and senior military intelligence officials all set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Check out all the latest developments and more below!
| | | | | 🗳 Trump Calls Mail-In Voting Corrupt
President Trump blasted mail-in voting as "corrupt as hell" during the Shamrock Bowl presentation with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, calling the SAVE America Act the biggest legislative priority currently before the Senate. The bill requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and mandates voter identification at the polls, while also addressing issues including bans on men in women's sports and restrictions on transgender procedures for minors. Senate Republicans moved to begin formal debate on the measure, with lawmakers voting 51-48 to advance it, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski being the only Republican to vote against proceeding and Sen. Thom Tillis not voting at all. Democrats remained unified in opposition, and the bill ultimately needs 60 votes to clear a filibuster, a threshold Republicans cannot currently reach on their own. Trump framed the issue in stark terms, saying the only people who would oppose voter ID and proof of citizenship are "people that want to cheat." | 🔥 Trump Reacts to Joe Kent's Resignation
After National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent resigned in protest of the Iran war, President Trump fired back by resurfacing a years-old post in which Kent had urged Trump to "wipe Iran's ballistic capability out" following the killing of Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. In that post, Kent wrote that the U.S. should "not sit and wait for the next attack" and that no American casualties was a tribute to U.S. military professionalism, "not Iranian restraint." In his resignation letter, Kent reversed course entirely, claiming Iran posed no imminent threat and asserting that the war was launched due to pressure from Israel and its American lobby. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard pushed back directly, stating that Trump concluded the Iranian regime represented an imminent threat after reviewing all available intelligence and took action based on that conclusion. Trump had previously said it was "a good thing" that Kent was out. | ✈️ Trump Delays China Trip
President Trump announced he would delay his previously scheduled trip to Beijing, telling reporters he wanted to remain in the United States given the ongoing military operation against Iran. Trump had hinted earlier that the delay might be connected to China's refusal to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, telling the Financial Times that it was "only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there." The Chinese Foreign Ministry denied any link between the delay and the Strait of Hormuz issue, and both sides said communication on rescheduling the visit was continuing. Trump said he was looking at a delay of "five or six weeks" and stressed he had a "very good relationship" with China. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held productive trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Paris, with both sides reporting progress on tariff arrangements and bilateral investment. | ✈️ Former Trump Official Predicts Cuba Freedom Soon
Former White House NSC chief of staff Alex Gray said the Cuban people could experience freedom for the first time in 70 years within weeks, crediting Trump's "maximum pressure" approach to the island's communist regime. Gray contrasted Trump's strategy with past administrations, specifically singling out Barack Obama's decision to open a U.S. Embassy in Cuba as a move that "actually strengthened the regime and kept it on life support for another decade." Cuba's total power grid has failed, plunging the island into a nationwide blackout as the regime faces mounting economic collapse, with Trump describing it as a "failed nation" with "no money, no oil, no nothing." Trump told reporters he believed he would have "the honor of taking Cuba" and said the country was currently in talks with the United States. Developments including the removal of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from power and the ongoing strikes against Iran have fueled speculation that Cuba could be next in the administration's foreign policy playbook. |
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| | | | | | 🔔 Trump Intel Leaders Face Senate Hearing 🔔 | Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday, citing his opposition to the ongoing war against Iran and his belief that the Iranian regime posed no imminent threat to the United States. In his resignation letter, Kent claimed the conflict was launched due to pressure from Israel and its American lobby, a charge the White House and intelligence community pushed back against firmly. | Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard responded on X, stating that after reviewing all available intelligence, President Trump concluded the Iranian regime posed an imminent threat and took action based on that conclusion. The White House said Trump had "strong evidence" Iran was planning to attack American interests and that the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury was fully justified. | Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, NSA chief Lt. Gen. William Hartman, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams are all set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the first public congressional hearing on the Iran war. The hearing is being led by Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who has been among the administration's most vocal defenders of the operation, and ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who has argued that Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S. when the strikes began. | Warner contended earlier this month that the decision to put American service members in harm's way was "entirely based upon the president's decision, not an imminent threat to America." Cotton, by contrast, said every single day of the operation brings hundreds if not thousands of strikes into Iran that "steadily and methodically degrade their military." He expressed confidence the conflict would be resolved in a matter of weeks, not days, and that the end state would be a country stripped of the offensive capabilities to continue threatening the United States, Israel, and American allies. | Trump, for his part, surfaced a years-old post from Kent himself in which the former official urged the president to "wipe Iran's ballistic capability out" following the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, calling Kent's reversal a clear contradiction of his prior position. Trump said it was "a good thing" that Kent was out, and the White House made no effort to soften the departure. Democrats have been pressing for public hearings on the war for weeks, with some threatening to grind Senate business to a halt unless administration officials testified openly before Congress. | The resignation of Kent, a decorated special operations veteran, gave those demands fresh urgency and handed the opposition a high-profile figure to rally around in their criticism of the conflict. With polling showing overwhelming support for the operation among Republicans and a majority of likely voters, the administration entered the hearing from a position of public strength even as it navigated a rare and very public break within its own national security ranks. | | | | | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 💬 Democratic strategist James Carville released a video predicting that President Trump will resign from office by this time next year, claiming he will walk away out of frustration after Democrats take control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The White House fired back, calling Carville a "stone-cold loser" who "clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome," and pointed to a long list of administration wins including border security, tax cuts, new trade deals, and drug pricing agreements. Carville has a track record of dramatic predictions that have not panned out, including a pre-election claim that Trump would jail journalists and political commentators upon returning to the White House. | 🗳 Trump posted on Truth Social warning that he will refuse to endorse any lawmaker, Republican or Democrat, who votes against the SAVE America Act, calling it one of the most important and consequential pieces of legislation in the history of Congress. The bill, which requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, passed the GOP-led House in February along largely party lines before heading to a Senate where Republicans need 60 votes to clear a filibuster, a threshold they currently cannot reach. Cracks within the GOP remain visible, with Sens. Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski both opposing the bill, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune acknowledged the challenge plainly, saying the fight comes down to the math. | 📊 Multiple polls taken throughout Operation Epic Fury show near-unanimous support for Trump's military action against Iran among his MAGA base, with a new Rasmussen Reports survey finding that 61 percent of likely voters overall say the operation has been successful so far. Among Republicans, that figure rises to 81 percent, while 83 percent of voters who backed Trump in 2024 said the operation was succeeding. A CNN data analyst reviewing the numbers noted that roughly 89 percent of the MAGA GOP base approves of the military action, calling it "tremendously popular" among Republican voters despite a small number of high-profile dissenting voices. | 🚨 The World Anti-Doping Agency is pushing a proposed rule change that would ban Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending international sporting events held on American soil, a move that comes as the U.S. is set to host this year's World Cup, the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, and the 2034 Winter Olympics. The dispute has been building for years, rooted in the agency's handling of a doping case involving China's Olympic swimming team, whose members were allowed to compete at the Paris Games despite testing positive for banned substances. The U.S. has withheld its WADA membership dues since 2024, with back payments now totaling $7.3 million, and even former Biden drug czar Rahul Gupta called the proposed rule "ludicrous." | God bless,
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