Lily Becker - In an offhand remark about Iran at the White House on Tuesday, President Donald Trump showed how much his approach to foreign policy differs from his predecessors’. “We killed all their leadership,” he said. “And then they met to choose new leaders, and we killed all of them. And now we have a new group and we can easily do that. But let’s see how they turn out.”
Independent UK - President Donald Trump has falsely claimed to have won “the gay vote” during the 2024 presidential election, despite only picking up 12 percent of support from the LGBT+ community. In a lengthy phone interview on Fox News’s panel show The Five on Thursday, the president said: “Now I think I did very well with the gay vote, OK? I even played the gay national anthem as my walk-off, OK? And I think it probably helped me. But I did great. No Republican’s ever gotten the gay vote like I did and I’m very proud of it, I think it’s great. Perhaps it’s because I’m from New York City, I don’t know…”
Bloomberg - Cracks are emerging in Trump’s MAGA base as the Iran war drags into its fifth week, turning the typically unified Conservative Political Action Conference into a debate over foreign policy and rising costs.
- Some Trump loyalists and conservative media figures are openly opposing the war, citing broken promises and blaming Israel, even as most Republicans still back the president’s actions.
- The administration has said it started the war because of threats posed by Iran, but there are signs of disagreement between the US and Israel over its aims.
- The worry for Republicans is that surging oil and gas prices, plus uncertainty over the war’s end, risk political fallout for Trump and the GOP going into November’s midterm elections.
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