Trump He is back on his game in light of the failure to reach a peace agreement with IranDonald Trump was angry. Here he was working tirelessly to make America great again and prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb. And there were all these judges and other curious people putting the speaker at the wheel.However, in the midst of tortuous peace talks with Iran, the US president scored a major victory, not against Tehran, but in a Republican civil war of his own making with a Trump-backed Republican defeating the four-term senator in a primary runoff in Texas.Besides Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who defeated Sen. John Cornyn, at least eight other Trump-backed challengers have unseated Republican lawmakers who have long opposed him.The results indicate that he remains the leader of the Republican Party, even as poll numbers continue to decline among the broader electorate, making Trump swagger. Calling the opposing Democrats “Democrats,” he declared, “I’m going to do some nice, big, beautiful rallies for Ken. Texas, this is going to be fun!”As for the peace agreement, with Iranian hardliners acting tough, Trump postponed the “final decision” after a two-hour meeting with his senior aides in the Situation Room.
The proposed agreement would extend the ceasefire for another 60 days while the United States and Iran seek to negotiate a plan to remove Iranian enriched uranium.Earlier, Trump drew his red lines, demanding that “Iran must agree that it will never possess a nuclear weapon or bomb. The Strait of Hormuz must be opened immediately, without fees, to unrestricted shipping movement, in both directions.”And while declaring his indifference to the fallout from the Iran war, rising gas prices or political pressures ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump has remained laser-focused on the things that matter to him — like a big, beautiful ballroom.
He criticized Congress and judges for obstructing his court after a judge blocked above-ground construction on the project until Congress authorized it and Senate Republicans rejected a plan to fund its security.In a legal filing posted on Truth Social, he said that “the President cannot safely conduct the business of the United States” without the dance floor.Meanwhile, House Democrats announced a bill to block Trump’s proposed 250-foot Arc of Triumph, nicknamed the “Trump Arch,” near Arlington National Cemetery.A federal judge in Virginia also temporarily blocked a $1.776 billion Justice Department “arms control” fund to compensate supporters who were supposedly targeted by previous administrations.Trump’s decision to repaint the reflecting pool “American flag” blue has also faced a legal challenge. But there is no challenge yet regarding construction work underway on the White House lawn for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) arena that will host a cage match on June 14 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Uncle Sam and Trump’s 80th birthday.The attractive closet is always ready to cater to his whims and fancies. Treasury Secretary Scott Besent announced that his department had prepared the design for a $250 bill bearing Trump’s image, anticipating the stalled legislation would pass Congress.If passed and signed into law by Trump, it would be an unusual recognition of a sitting American leader, since such an honor is usually reserved for the dead and departed.Meanwhile, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into E. Gene Carroll, the writer who won a $5 million civil judgment after accusing Trump of sexual assault and defamation.Trump himself has refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged affairs with Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge rejected an earlier version due to legal shortcomings.But Bruce Springsteen, the American singer, songwriter and musician nicknamed “The Boss,” used a concert in Washington to speak out against Trump.
At one point, he led the crowd in a chant of “Ace Out,” and encouraged the crowd to make their voices heard all the way to the White House.Springsteen, whom Trump has called a “total hate-mongering loser” and called for a boycott of his shows, also announced a star-studded protest festival in the Washington, D.C., area a month before the midterm elections.However, Trump reacted angrily when a federal judge ordered his name removed from the John F. Kennedy list.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.In protest of the judge’s ruling, an angry Trump threatened to withdraw his leadership of the institution he took over after becoming president.And unless he was “free to do what I do better than anyone else,” he “had no interest in continuing what would just be a hopeless journey to ‘never land,’” he posted.In a 580-word tirade, Trump criticized Justice-appointed Barack Hussein Obama as reckless.
He also painted the Performing Arts Center as a dilapidated structure that only he could restore.“Unfortunately, Judge Cooper and the radical left would rather see death than President Trump turn it into something everyone can be proud of,” Trump wrote, referring to himself in the third person.“So, based on the fact that radical left Democrats care more about opposing your favorite president, me, than they do about saving a dying performing arts center, … we will work with Congress to bring this failed institution back to them.”“There has never been a president of the United States who has been treated so unfairly by the courts as I have been,” he complained, “but that’s okay, I will continue to do what is a great job for the wonderful people of our country.”Earlier, after his third scheduled medical examination in the 13 months before his 80th birthday, during which “everything was checked out perfectly,” he posted a photo of himself examining a White House column and declared “the only president who knows how to fix the White House.”If that was the case, he might as well have threatened to walk away from everything. Critics said this would have worked really “perfectly!”(In order with American Bazaar)