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 Says Large-Scale Combat will Continue in Iran
🏛 Trump Honors Three Heroes with Medal of Honor
💬 Trump Accepts White House Correspondents' Dinner Invitation
📊 Republicans Surge in Midterm Polls
🚨 White House Doctor Addresses Trump Rash | | | | | ✅TRACKING TRUMP✅ | Curated by Mike Luso | President Trump confirmed that the United States is actively carrying out large-scale combat operations against Iran, with the overall mission projected to run four to five weeks. He delivered that update during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, making clear that the decision to strike came after Iran repeatedly ignored warnings to abandon its nuclear weapons pursuit following the June strikes on Natanz, Fordow, and Esfahan. | Trump said the U.S. has a virtually unlimited supply of mid-grade munitions and possesses the capability to sustain the fight as long as necessary. He did acknowledge, however, that America is not yet where it needs to be on the highest-end weapons - placing the blame squarely on Joe Biden for shipping those top-tier systems overseas to Ukraine and other countries without ever replenishing the stockpile. The contrast was sharp: a president who invested in strength versus a predecessor who quietly drew it down.
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| | | | | 🏛 Trump Honors Three Army Heroes with Medal of Honor
President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to three U.S. Army soldiers at a White House ceremony, two posthumously. recognizing acts of extraordinary valor from World War II, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds received the honor for ordering all 1,200 American prisoners, shoulder to shoulder, to stand at roll call in a Nazi POW camp, refusing to allow the German commandant to separate more than 200 Jewish American soldiers who would have faced near-certain death. Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis was honored posthumously for absorbing a suicide bomber's blast in Afghanistan, shielding a Polish ally with his own body just weeks before his 25th birthday - that Polish soldier, Karol Cierpica, attended the ceremony with his family, including a son named Michael in Ollis' memory. Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Terry Richardson was recognized for repeatedly charging uphill through enemy fire during the 1968 Vietnam War, dragging three wounded soldiers to safety before spending eight hours alone atop a hill calling in airstrikes that saved 82 men - even after a sniper's bullet tore through his right leg. "There's no ceremony that can be more important than this," Trump said, calling bravery the ultimate test of character that you never know a person possesses until the moment demands it. | 📊 Republicans Surge in Midterm Polls
A new Harvard Harris poll found that the generic congressional ballot has swung eight points toward Republicans since January, with likely midterm voters now evenly split between the two parties after Democrats previously held a 54-46 advantage. Only twice in American history has a party with a sitting president retained both chambers of Congress in a midterm election - Democrats under FDR in 1934 during the Great Depression, and Republicans under George W. Bush after 9/11 - making a potential Republican hold in November a historically rare outcome. White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair argued Republicans have a clear contrast to run on, pointing to mortgage rates falling from 8% to under 6%, average gas prices dropping from $5 to under $2.50, and real wages rising after years of inflation-driven declines under Biden. The survey, conducted among 1,999 registered voters, was conducted just before Operation Epic Fury launched, meaning the political impact of the Iran operation has not yet been fully captured in polling. Republicans head into the midterm cycle with a strong economic record to campaign on and a fired-up base, though whether the Iran conflict shifts the political landscape remains the central variable going forward. | 💬 Trump Accepts White House Correspondents' Dinner Invitation
President Trump announced Monday that he will attend the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 25, the first time he will appear at the event as president after boycotting every edition during his first term and the opening year of his second. Trump posted the announcement on Truth Social, citing the nation's 250th birthday as a motivating factor and declaring he would make it "the greatest, hottest, and most spectacular dinner, of any kind, ever." He explained that he had avoided the event during his first term because of what he called "extraordinarily bad" and dishonest press coverage, but said he now looks forward to attending because, in his words, the correspondents "now admit I am truly one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country." WHCA president Weijia Jiang, a CBS News correspondent, welcomed the news, saying the association was happy the president accepted and looked forward to hosting him at an event that has been held annually since 1924. The 2026 dinner will feature mentalist Oz Pearlman as the headline entertainer, a departure from the roast-style comedian format the event has used since 1983. | 🚨 White House Doctor Addresses Trump Rash
A reddish patch of skin on the right side of President Trump's neck drew widespread attention after photographers captured close-up images during the Medal of Honor ceremony, with the irritation extending above his shirt collar toward his ear. Trump's personal physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, responded quickly with a statement saying the president is using a common cream as a preventative skin treatment prescribed by the White House doctor, adding that the redness is expected to persist for a few weeks after one week of treatment. Barbabella did not specify the exact cream being used or the underlying reason for the treatment, though similar markings had also been visible during Trump's State of the Union address the previous week. The White House has attributed separate bruising on Trump's hands to frequent handshaking and his daily use of a higher-than-standard aspirin dose, which White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described as part of a "standard cardiovascular prevention regimen." Trump, who will turn 80 in June, was declared in "excellent overall health" following two evaluations at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last year. |
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| | | | | | 🔔 Trump Says Large-Scale Combat will Continue in Iran 🔔 | President Trump declared that Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, is running substantially ahead of its projected four-to-five-week timeline and that the United States will "easily prevail" over the Iranian regime. The operation, launched Saturday in coordination with Israel, targeted Iranian leadership and key military installations across the country, striking more than 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours alone, according to Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. American B-2 bombers flew 37-hour round-trip missions from the continental United States, delivering penetrating munitions against underground facilities that had long been considered hardened against conventional attack. | Trump noted that the projected four-week timeline to neutralize Iran's military leadership was completed in roughly one hour, a benchmark he called dramatically ahead of schedule. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among five to ten top Iranian officials killed in the opening phase of the operation, a fact confirmed by both U.S. officials and Iranian state media. Trump sent a formal notification to Congress stating that no U.S. ground forces were used and that the mission was "planned and executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties, deter future attacks, and neutralize Iran's malign activities." | In the letter, Trump cited Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons even after the June strikes and its expanding ballistic missile program, which he said posed a direct threat to U.S. forces, allies, and commercial vessels, as the primary justifications for military action. House Speaker Mike Johnson, following a classified briefing, revealed that the Trump administration had warned lawmakers prior to the operation that Israel was "determined to act with or without us," viewing Iran's capabilities as an existential threat. Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed that assessment, telling reporters the administration knew an Israeli strike was imminent and that failing to act preemptively would have resulted in higher American casualties. | Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker said he believed there was "more than adequate justification" for the operation, while top Senate Democrat Mark Warner claimed he saw no evidence of an imminent threat to the United States specifically. War Secretary Pete Hegseth outlined a clear three-part mission at the Pentagon, destroying Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, eliminating its naval power, and ensuring the regime can never obtain a nuclear weapon, flatly rejecting comparisons to past Middle Eastern conflicts and stating the war "is not endless." | A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of the strikes showed only 27% of Americans approving of the action, with 43% disapproving, though Republicans backed the strikes 55% to 32% and Trump dismissed the numbers outright. "I don't care about polling. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done a long time ago," Trump said in an interview, adding that a nuclear-armed Iran run by what he called "crazy people" was simply not an option. | Six U.S. service members have been killed in Iranian counterattacks, and Trump has vowed to avenge every fallen American. With U.S. forces surging into the region and the administration warning that its largest strikes are still ahead, the message from the White House is unmistakable: the operation is moving fast, the objectives are defined, and America intends to finish what it started. | | | | | 🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 | 🥊 UFC CEO Dana White appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning and brushed aside questions about whether his open support for President Trump was making the UFC too political, telling the interviewer his answer was simple: "Just be authentic." White credited his longstanding friendship with Trump - dating back to when Trump's casino hosted UFC events as the sport was being condemned as "human cockfighting" - with helping introduce younger audiences to the president during the 2024 campaign. The UFC is now preparing for a historic fight card on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14 to celebrate America's 250th birthday, with White saying he plans to cover all costs and use zero taxpayer money. | 💰 U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer released a report crediting Trump's tariff strategy with a significant reduction in the American trade deficit with China, noting that factory activity expanded for the first time in over two years, manufacturing productivity improved steadily throughout the year, and real personal disposable income grew 1.6 percent. For the first time since 1999, the United States surpassed Japan in crude steel production, becoming the world's third-largest steel producer behind only China and India. Private sector average earnings are estimated to have increased by over $2,700 in Trump's first twelve months in office, with real wages rising and expected to continue climbing through the year. | ⛽ Gas prices could climb between 25 and 50 cents per gallon in the near term as Operation Epic Fury roils global oil markets, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping more than 6 percent and Brent crude surging nearly 9 percent following the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. The spike is tied directly to disruptions near the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow shipping corridor that carries approximately 20 percent of the world's daily oil supply, with shipping giant Maersk announcing a full suspension of vessel crossings through the strait until further notice. Economists warn that if the conflict stretches into the projected four-to-five-week timeline, prices of $5 per gallon are not out of the question. | 💻 A boycott campaign called "QuitGPT" has claimed more than 1.5 million participants after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal to deploy the company's AI models on the U.S. Department of War's classified military networks. The contract came hours after the Trump administration labeled rival AI company Anthropic a "supply chain risk" for refusing to grant unrestricted access to its technology over concerns about mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Altman defended the agreement by saying the Department of War had shown "a deep respect for safety" and that the contract contains red lines prohibiting domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons use, though critics argued the Pentagon retains authority to reinterpret those constraints at will. | God bless,
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