Snubbing Ukraine's offer ranks as one of the biggest tactical miscalculations by the Trump administration since the bombing of Iran began Feb. 28, two U.S. officials told Axios. On Thursday, the United States formally asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for anti-drone help.
“This fool has ABSOLUTELY no sense of dignity or appreciation for the moment,” Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chair from 2009 to 2011, wrote on X. “It is called the Dignified Transfer for a reason. Take your d--n hat off!!”
A primer on how to trivialize a deadly real-life conflict. The aggressive fiction-meets-reality White House production cuts a wide swath through cultural touchstones that resonate with young men.
Interesting essay on the contrast between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump, who appears to be making it up as he goes along.
On Saturday, Trump asserted the school was hit by Iran without offering any proof. On Monday, he again blamed Iran and posited this highly questionable scenario: “Iran also has some Tomahawks. As you know, numerous other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us.” In fact, Iran has no Tomahawks.
So far, polls have found that most Americans oppose the Iran attacks. Support ranges from 27 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll to 50 percent in a Fox News poll. Historically, support for wars wanes as casualties increase and Americans start to feel the costs of war.
Victims are not faceless. Helene Simon, a German Jew, was stripped of her citizenship and fired from her job as a bank clerk when the Nazis took power. She was deported in 1942 to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
Wake up to Aneta Szoltis-Mencina’s “Morning Dawn" (2023).
Drawing a red line. Editorial cartoonist Daniel Medina notes numerous MAGA supporters say they are starting to move away from Trump because the price of gas is skyrocketing — not because of his grifting or the illegal and unconstitutional actions he and his administration do daily.
Jordanian editorial cartoonist Osama Hajjaj notes that Trump has achieved regime change in Iran: a 56-year-old anti-American Shia hardliner replacing an 86-year-old anti-American Shia hardliner.
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones questions why Trump, who avoided the draft by falsely claiming bone spurs, hasn’t called on his son Barron to serve in the Iran war.
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger questions Trump’s sincerity over U.S. casualties in the Iran war after watching his distracted behavior last week, and his previous depictions of fallen troops as “suckers” and “losers.”
Followed the rules. Filed an asylum application on time. Got work authorization, a Social Security card and a driver’s license. Attended immigration court hearings and check-ins. No criminal record. Arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement anyway.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history. No stupid rules of engagement. No politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don’t waste time or lives.”
In a polarized time, some online critics suggested without evidence that it wasn’t an error — that the network was trying to make Trump look better by not showing him wearing a baseball cap during what is considered one of the most solemn duties of a commander in chief.
While the targets that were struck are not oil production facilities, U.S. officials are concerned the footage of burning depots will spook oil markets and push energy prices even higher. Trump is worried the images will draw unwanted attention to spiking U.S. fuel prices.
Roughly 300 billionaires and their family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024. Before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent.
Chaos. Trump has no plan to repay tariffs. Shipping companies plan to provide details on how to get a refund once they have legal clarity. Shoppers who paid higher prices because firms included tariffs in the cost of goods are out of luck because they did not pay the customs duties themselves.
Regime change? Replace an 86-year-old Shia hardline supreme leader with his son, a 56-year-old Shia hardline supreme leader.
When democracy dies. Mihály Biró’s 1925 salute to International Women’s Day and other depictions of strong women ran afoul of Hitler’s regime. The Jewish artist fled Germany as the Nazis gained power, surviving the war as a prisoner in the Rothschild Hospital in Paris.
Feeling trapped? Valeria Duca’s “Painted into a Corner.”
Stay abreast of the news with photojournalist Ida Wyman’s “Newsboy” (St. Louis) (1948).
Belgian editorial cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker weighs in on surging oil prices, which are taking a sharp toll on world trade and giving a massive financial boost to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war effort.
Editorial cartoonist Dennis Goris believes that after watching Trump attend the transfer of returning remains of U.S. soldiers killed in military action against Iran, white USA baseball caps will soon be available for sale in the grifter in chief’s campaign store.
Dutch editorial cartoonist Jean Gouders calls attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent use of religious justification for the war on Iran.
Any operation to seize the material would require troops on Iranian soil, navigating heavily fortified underground facilities. At a congressional briefing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked whether Iran's enriched uranium would be secured. "People are going to have to go and get it," he said.
Many of America's strongest European allies are shouldering the economic burden as the Trump administration shifts its goals almost hourly in the Iran war. Meanwhile, spiking oil prices give a badly needed financial boost for Russian President Vladimir Putin to carry out his war in Ukraine.
(Free access) “Regime change by jazz improvisation.” An accurate description of the Trump administration’s strategy in the war it has initiated with Iran — a scattered, shifting and uncertain approach that emanates from the White House.
When democracy dies. On International Women's Day, a 1927 image titled the “Neue Frau" (New Woman) of the Weimar Republic. When the Nazis took power, Hitler’s regime declared art depicting assertive or strong women “degenerate” because it ran counter to the Nazis’ belief women must be submissive.
