Trump’s behavior surrounding the Iran war has changed the priorities of House Democrats.

For the duration of Trump’s first year in office, House Democratic leadership has stressed that dealing with affordability and inflation are the top issues that they have been focused on, but Democrats are getting an overwhelming number of calls from their constituents, and the members themselves are enraged over Trump’s behavior.

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House Democrats can’t invoke the 25th Amendment on their own, but they are exploring their options.

Axios reported:

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gave ground today to his backbenchers, announcing a 25th Amendment briefing to be led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday. … The time it takes for Democratic leadership to yield to riled-up rank-and-file lawmaker demands is getting shorter and shorter.

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A year ago, Dems fumed at Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) for introducing articles of impeachment.

But the taboo around impeaching Trump has been tossed out the window, and rank-and-file calls for the 25th Amendment have returned.

More than 85 Democrats had called for Trump’s removal by last night.

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There is tremendous angst in the country about Trump’s deranged threats to commit war crimes,” Raskin, who has publicly called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, told us.

“The Constitution is not perfectly designed for an emergency like this, but the 25th Amendment is definitely the closest avenue we have for a federal response,” Raskin said.

There are challenges to invoking the 25th Amendment.

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Israel is bombing Lebanon, which was included in the ceasefire. The Trump administration is claiming that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire in spite of written evidence showing that Lebanon is supposed to be included under the ceasefire.

Iran is also alleging that the United States is violating the ceasefire.

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Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf posted on X:

The deep historical distrust we hold toward the United States stems from its repeated violations of all forms of commitments — a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again.

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In such situation, a bilateral ceasefire or negotiations is unreasonable.

Iran says Israel’s attacks on Lebanon are a violation of the agreement. A drone was sent into Iranian airspace, and Iran says the Uranium is not covered under the agreement.

The agreement is teetering on the brink of collapse, and negotiations may need to be held just to save the ceasefire before other negotiations can take place.

The whole situation is turning into a joke.

Trump is trying to flee a war that he started, but it appears Israel is trying to keep him in the war by violating the ceasefire agreement.

The Trump administration has been frantically trying to sell their cave on the war as a win, but the administration is trying to change the terms over control of the Strait of Hormuz, and who will collect the toll on ships passing through.

Ceasefires are always tricky, but there is a strong case to be made that there is no ceasefire in Iran, because the agreement started to fall apart shortly after it was announced.

Trump’s Iran ceasefire may go down in history as the ceasefire that never was.

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After Trump pulled back and caved to Iran at the last moment, which creates doubt that the president’s threats to destroy Iranian civilization were ever serious, the United States is asking itself questions like, "Why was this war fought? What was gained by fighting this war? What happens after the war, both to the Middle East and the United States?

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The most serious question involves the mental state of Donald Trump, because what the Iran war revealed is that the chaos and havoc that Trump has been domestically inflicting through the use of ICE and border patrol has now gone global, with immigration agents being replaced by the US military.

The thinking behind Trump’s war in Iran was not much different from his deployment of armed and masked immigration agents to American cities. The Iran war was larger, more deadly and had global consequences.

Please watch my video below. I discuss the global consequences of Trump’s surrender:

Trump’s behavior is escalating and becoming more dangerous to people both at home and abroad.

The worst outcome from this ceasefire would be that it is treated like business as usual, and everyone moves on.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is warning that Trump must be removed from office.

Ocasio-Cortez posted on X:

This statement changes nothing.

The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat. He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any.

Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world.

AOC goes on to argue that Trump has passed the threshold for impeachment and the 25th Amendment.

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The TACO writing was on the wall, as Trump signaled in a phone interview with Fox News that he was willing to call off the next round of US attacks on Iran.

What did Trump get in return for not “destroying Iranian civilization?”

Watch my video on why it is 25th Amendment time for Trump:

Apparently, not much.

Iran confirms that it has agreed to the ceasefire agreement-Fars Iran adds that the US accepted its 10-point proposal as the basis for negotiations, including Iranian control of Hormuz, full compensation for war damages, and the withdrawal of American forces from the region.

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Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen for two weeks during the ceasefire, but the Strait will remain under Iranian control.

There is no mention in the agreement of Iran’s nuclear program, which means that Trump’s pretense for starting this war of choice has been taken off the table.

None of this has stopped Trump from celebrating his surrender on Truth Social:

Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!

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Stocks are down, oil prices are up. There is concern that airlines are soon going to run out of jet fuel. The United States is just weeks away from a dramatic jump in prices for food and other goods.

Instead of trying to end his war of choice against Iran as quickly as possible, Donald Trump is escalating his rhetoric of destruction.

Trump posted on Truth Social:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

The Iranians, Americans, and everyone know what Donald Trump is trying to do. Trump is trying to scare Iran into surrender.

Middle East experts keep repeating that the Iranian regime won’t surrender, but here is Trump acting like war is an episode of The Apprentice, and demanding that Iran give up because he is losing the war.

It is crazy, and people are beginning to notice.

A reporter asked Trump about his mental health during a Monday press conference. Rachel Maddow brought up how Trump’s decline is breaking the military, and now Marjorie Taylor Greene has weighed in.

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Democrats have been thinking about a different approach to holding the Trump administration accountable. House Democrats learned from Trump’s first administration that impeachment of this president was an ineffective tool.

Impeachment of a president should at minimum be a public shaming that permanently stains a president’s record and legacy, but as the old saying goes, you can’t shame the shameless.

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Donald Trump and his Republican Party have no shame, which means that even if Democrats regain power in the House and impeach Trump for a third time, it is unlikely to have any impact on this president.

Even worse, the public has shown that impeachment doesn’t matter to them because they voted in 2024 to return the twice impeached Trump to the White House, so Democrats have been considering a different strategy that targets members of Trump’s administration that could be much more successful than any third Trump impeachment could be.

Representative Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) announced that she will be filing articles of impeachment next week against Pete Hegseth.

Ansari said:

Donald Trump’s deranged statements – including one on Easter Sunday – are further entrenching our country and our world in another devastating, never-ending war. He’s threatening war crimes that violate U.S. law and the Geneva Convention, on top of illegal actions and atrocities already committed at his direction–including violence that has destroyed schools, hospitals, and critical civilian infrastructure. Republicans must join us in calling on the president to end this suicidal war before it is too late. So much is at stake, and those who continue to follow him blindly will have blood on their hands as well.

The odds of a mass group of Republicans joining with Democrats to denounce this administration’s conduct of the war are slim to none, but Ansari had more to say.

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When the president announced that he would be holding a press conference on Monday to talk about the Iran war, he did so after the second downed US pilot had been rescued from Iran.

The press conference itself featured nearly an hour of propaganda from Trump and administration officials before a single question was taken from the assembled press.

The administration was trying to sell the war as a success, even though Trump’s claims that the US had already won the war were refuted by the shooting down of an American fighter plane.

The president is not living in reality as evidenced by his claim that the Iranian people want to be bombed.

Trump said:

 Yeah, of the regime. Regime. They would be willing to, they would be willing and it’s suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom the Iranians have, and we’ve had numerous intercepts. Please keep bombing bombs that are dropping near their homes. Please keep bombing, do it.

And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, please come back. Come back. Come. These are the people. I don’t know what they do. All I can tell you is they want freedom. They have lived in a world that you know nothing about.

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Donald Trump is torn. On one side is a weak president who seems to have no clue what he is doing with the war in Iran. Trump is also trying to play 1980s action movie hero and be the tough guy while threatening the people that he started a war with.

The President Of The United States usually issues an Easter message to the country, and it is a pretty low-key holiday.

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Trump is spending his Easter Sunday issuing threats that are both impeachable and war crimes if they are acted on.

Trump posted on his social media platform:

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

I thought that Monday was the deadline for Iran to surrender, but now it is Tuesday.

Jake Tapper read Trump’s threat on CNN:

Tapper had to provide viewers with a language warning, in case children were in the room:

 He has just threatened Iran in extraordinary graphic terms, giving the Iranian regime just over a day to either make a deal, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or face hell if your children are watching. Be warned, the president did not use polite language.

It is Easter Sunday, and the United States has a president who can’t be quoted in front of children.

Let’s talk about the issue of war crimes.

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Days after Trump spoke to the nation and proclaimed that the US was militarily dominant over Iran, the Iranians shot down US fighter jet, and one pilot remains missing. Two Blackhawk helicopters that took part in the search and rescue mission that resulted in one pilot being recovered also took fire from the Iranians.

It is clear that the situation in Iran is nothing like the president described, so with a US pilot missing in Iran, the president has some explaining to do to the nation, but even though he is in Washington, D.C. for Easter weekend, Donald Trump has vanished from public view.

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Trump has not appeared before reporters or taken any questions.

The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell posted on X:

The White House has called a travel/photo lid as of 11am ET, meaning we do not expect to see the president for the rest of the day Trump is in Washington this weekend but we are yet to have a formal news briefing on the situation with the missing airman in Iran.

Apparently, even Trump is smart enough to understand that it would look bad for him to jet off to Florida to go golfing while a US pilot is missing in Iran, but I am sure that Trump has plenty of words of support for the troops, the country, and the family of the missing pilot on his social media account.

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Donald Trump’s political career has been built on several myths. When it comes to the economy, Trump perpetuated a myth that he was a president who could grow the economy. The reality is that Trump spent his first term riding on the fumes of the Obama economy, and his second administration has disproven that part of his mythology.

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Trump also has claimed to be motivated to cut waste in government, but his budget proposal is loaded with outdated, wasteful spending for the Pentagon.

Trump has also claimed to be fiscally conservative, but his willingness to add debt and blow up the deficit tells a different story.

The Center For A Responsible Federal Budget took a look at Trump’s proposal and found:

The budget proposes to increase total defense funding to $1.5 trillion in FY 2027 – including $350 billion of funding in a new reconciliation bill and a $251 billion increase in base defense discretionary spending – partially offset by a purported $73 billion (10%) reduction in base nondefense discretionary spending.

The budget includes no official topline budgetary figures, but using its supplemental documents, we estimate that the budget reports to reduce debt to about 94% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2036 – compared to 120% of GDP in the Congressional Budget Office’s most recent baseline – largely by assuming 3% average annual real GDP growth over the decade.

The Trump budget is based on sunny growth projections that aren’t backed up by reality, but that is not the worst of it.

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House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has been an outspoken critic of Pam Bondi and the Trump DOJ, and has attempted to bring accountability to the Department of Justice.

Raskin has sparred with Bondi during hearings, and the constitutional scholar made clear his disgust over what she has done to the Department of Justice at Donald Trump’s direction.

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Rep. Raskin had plenty to say after Bondi was fired by Trump:

Today President Trump has sacked Attorney General Pam Bondi, ending a tenure that will be remembered as a profound betrayal not only of the Department of Justice but of the American people the Department exists to serve. For the record, the DOW was under 50,000.

The Attorney General has the best lawyer’s job in America. The mission is justice, and the clients are the American people. But Pam Bondi abandoned that mission, indeed never accepted it. She never acted as anything but Donald Trump’s personal criminal defense and personal injury attorney, transforming the people’s Department of Justice into the President’s private instrument of vengeance, targeting his critics with a bureaucracy of vendetta while canceling out justice for his favored political friends and allies.

Her legacy of failure begins with the outrageous purge of prosecutors who investigated Trump’s favorite crimes, including the ones committed by the January 6 cop-beaters and insurrectionists and by Trump himself. Career public servants were driven out of DOJ not for failing the law but for upholding it. The purge of real prosecutors has corrupted DOJ and left all Americans less safe.

This shameful legacy is cemented by her grotesque mishandling of the Epstein files. She ran an historic and egregious cover-up right out of the Justice Department. Investigations into co-conspirators were shut down. She withheld three million pages of documents in defiance of the law. The names of abusers, enablers, accomplices and co-conspirators were redacted from public view while the identities of victims were exposed to the world. Under Bondi, perpetrators were coddled and survivors given the back of the hand.

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Pam Bondi has been on the verge of being fired for months. Donald Trump has been very sad that Bondi hasn’t done more to prosecute those whom he views as political enemies.

With Kristi Noem hitting the bricks, Bondi looked to be the next member of the administration to get the axe, and her time was up on Thursday.

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Trump posted on Truth Social:

Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Bondi was one of my top five picks as most likely to depart this administration before the end of the year. My original list included Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Tulis Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth.

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The specifics will be unveiled on Friday, but Donald Trump is about to release a budget document that will be a total disaster for House and Senate Republicans in the midterm election.

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Trump is planning on directing even more taxpayer money toward the military and the American people will pay for it with cuts to healthcare, government agencies, and services.

Bloomberg reported:

President Donald Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame his party’s midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cuts to domestic agencies.

A governing vision that directs tax dollars to the Pentagon amid an unpopular Iran war represents a political risk for the White House, especially against a backdrop of spiking gasoline prices. Trump could also face resistance from within his own party over envisioned cuts to health and science agencies that Congress rejected last year on a bipartisan basis.

Presidents have no budgetary power. Their budgets never become law. The presidential budget document does serve as a statement of policy and funding priorities.

What Trump is proposing would be a complete disaster for his party and the country, but it will be a gift to Democrats in the midterm election.

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To say that Donald Trump is unpopular would be a criminal understatement. Donald Trump remains the only president in the history of polling to never have a sustained period of approval from the majority of the country.

Trump’s high-water mark was when he managed to get into the 40s before he took office for a second time, back when the American people thought that he was going to do something about prices and inflation.

The Trump polling honeymoon lasted for three weeks until it became clear that what he was going to do about prices and inflation was make them worse while ignoring the problem.

Since this collective realization, Trump’s approval has been falling faster than a broken elevator, but the president doesn’t have to face the voters ever again, so he doesn’t care.

However, members of his party still have to win elections, and they should be terrified by the poll numbers.

Trump’s approval rating keeps sinking to new lows. Trump’s approval rating on the economy is worse than that of George W. Bush. Trump’s approval rating on inflation is worse than Joe Biden's and Jimmy Carter's, who are two previous presidents whose presidencies were sabotaged by inflation.

The even worse news for Trump is that his numbers still have more room to fall.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson tried to play the tough guy after the Senate passed a bill to fund DHS without any funding for ICE and border patrol.

Instead, Johnson and House Republicans passed a 60-day continuing resolution after senators had left the Capitol for Easter recess.

Johnson was adamant that the House majority would not pass any bill that did not contain funding for ICE and border patrol.

Then, with Trump apparently unable to continue paying TSA workers, Johnson completely caved.

Less than a week later, here is how Johnson changed his tune in a joint statement with Senate Majority Leader Thune:

We appreciate and share the President’s determination to once and for all bring an end to the Democrat DHS shutdown. In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and House will be following through on the President’s directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process.

We appreciate that Senator Graham and the Senate Budget Committee have already initiated the process of developing a budget resolution that will ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump Administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies. We operated under a belief that while our country is in the midst of an international armed conflict, Democrats might finally come to their senses and understand that defunding our homeland security agencies is beyond reckless and very dangerous.

The problem is that Johnson doesn’t currently have the votes in the House to pass a reconciliation bill.

It remains uncertain how Republicans are going to pass a reconciliation bill, but that didn’t stop Johnson and Thune from blaming Democrats for their cave.

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The East Wing of the White House is gone. Construction was set to begin in two weeks, but then something happened in the lawsuit involving Trump’s construction of a ballroom at the White House.

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The preservationists who are suing Trump won.

Not only did the judge block construction of the ballroom, but he also ruled that Trump lacks the authority to undertake construction projects at the White House without congressional approval.

Judge Richard J. Leon wrote:

The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner! President Trump (”the President”) claims that Congress has given him authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing ballroom project and to do it with private funds. The plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States (”National Trust”), claims the President has no such authority under existing statutes and that a preliminary injunction is necessary to avoid irreparable harm.

I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have. As such, I must therefore GRANT the National Trust’s Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.

The White House sits on a national park that is not owned by any one president, but the key part of this ruling, which I feel is being overlooked, is the required congressional authorization.

Let’s dive into how one judge restored the system of checks and balances below.

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There was a push from the White House on Tuesday to get the rest of the world to open up the Strait of Hormuz, even though Trump is the president who began a war that led to its closure.

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Trump posted on his social media site advocating for the rest of the world to commit piracy:

All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT

Trump then whined about France, because obviously, his war is all France’s fault:

The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory. France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the “Butcher of Iran,” who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!! President DJT

Pete Hegseth held another one of his press conferences, where he complained about the rest of the world not fixing Trump’s mess for him, but none of this came from out of the blue.

Let’s discuss what is really happening.

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Donald Trump has been increasing his threats against Iran because he is losing the war that he started.

Trump’s latest idea is that the United States should commit war crimes to make Iran surrender.

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The president posted on his social media site:

The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran. Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.” This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year “Reign of Terror.”

What Trump is suggesting is a war crime.

Obliterating a civilian population’s infrastructure that is necessary for their survival is a violation of international law and a war crime.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Trump’s potential war crimes by Garrett Haake:

 The president posted this morning about, you know, his threat to that on leaving Iran. He said we might blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plans, oil wells, har Island, and possibly all desalinization plans under international laws. Striking civilian infrastructure like that is generally prohibited.

Why is the president threatening what would amount to potentially a war crime with the US military? And how do you square that with the administration repeatedly saying that the US does not target civilians?

Leavitt’s answer showed that the entire Trump administration is willing to commit war crimes.

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The estimated 9 million people who showed up to protest against Donald Trump last weekend were not outliers. Those protesters represent the views of close to 70% of the country according to a new University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll.

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The poll found:

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 33%, the lowest rating of his second term in office. The poll of 1,000 respondents, conducted March 20-25, finds Trump’s approval down five points from July 2025 and 11 points lower than last April.

Among men, working-class Americans and African Americans, Trump’s approval ratings have dropped by close to 20 points since April 2025. Similar drops in support are also seen among moderates (down 18 points) and independents (down 13 points), key constituencies in Trump’s victory and in the upcoming midterm election.

Inflation And The Economy Are Going To End Trump’s Presidency

Trump is unpopular on every issue across the board, but the heartbeat of the opposition to Trump is the economy.

According to the poll:

Fully 62% of Americans somewhat or strongly disapprove of Trump’s job performance. Seventy-one percent say Trump is not handling inflation well and 61% say he’s not handling the issue of jobs well. Tariffs were supposed to be one of Trump’s signature issues, but they are a public relations disaster with almost two out of three Americans (64%) giving him a negative grade.

Trump’s policies have made the economy worse, and it is the president’s refusal to acknowledge or do anything about inflation that has enraged the American people and turned them fully against him and his presidency.

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Donald Trump is trapped in a quagmire of a war in Iran, and he usual trick of inventing his own reality and trying to sell it to those around him is not working.

Trump has created an economic crisis on top of an international crisis, on top of a country that is teetering on the brink.

In an apparent effort to calm the stock market, Trump has been claiming almost daily that either war that he started with Iran has been won, or would be won soon.

When the financial markets took a dive, Trump claimed that peace negotiations were occurring with Iran, but at the time, there was no evidence that any negotiations with the Iranians who have power were happening.

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On Sunday, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Himes, said that there are no negotiations.

Himes dropped into his answer about funding ICE on CBS’s Face The Nation:

This is not ideological purity. This is basic adherence to the law- yeah, well, okay, so it's all agreed to, let's pass the law which codifies it.

Because you know what, we don't trust the president when he says, okay, no masks any more than we trust him when he says, oh, well, now I'm negotiating with the Iranians when he's not, right?

So if this is so easy, fine, let's codify it into law. But they're not, you know- they're not willing to do that. Now, where Maria's right, and this is important, we have gotten too used to using shutdowns as a mechanism of getting what we want legislatively. And what that implies is that people like TSA agents or folks that work in the federal government for the Department of Agriculture or- don't get paid when one party throws a tantrum, right?

Now, in this case, I happen to believe that the American people- you know are with the Democratic Party and saying you don't get to act like ICE acted in Minneapolis, but we do need to get away from legislating through shutdown that is not consonant with the great country that we are.

Himes just sort of casually dropped in that Trump was lying about negotiating with Iran, but he went into more detail and explained why Trump is lying later in the interview.

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