Trump's war on Canada is going about like his other wars

 

But MAGA!

 

Iran is cleaning Trump's (our) clock

 

More like the Iranian States of America, asshat.

Trump world running like a well-oiled machine

 

Yeah, soldiers don't need training.  Especially pilots.

Republicans are good for the economy, right?

 

The truth will set you free

President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

  NBC

No, not Spain. Well, yes Spain, but more impactful...definitely more shocking...

Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.

A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, the two U.S. officials said, forcing the president to pause Project Freedom in order to restore U.S. military access to the critical airspace.

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The source said Saudi Arabia was “very supportive of the diplomatic efforts” by Pakistan to broker a deal between Iran and the U.S. to end the war.

[...]

A Middle Eastern diplomat said the U.S. did not coordinate Project Freedom with the Omanis until after Trump made the announcement.

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Trump had announced the operation over the weekend as a way to break Iran’s blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, and his top national security leaders spent much of Tuesday talking up the effort in public briefings at the Pentagon and White House, only to have the president suddenly halt the operation roughly 36 hours after it began.

The U.S. military had been lining up a number of additional ships in the Gulf for transit through the strait when the operation was stopped, a U.S. official said. U.S. Central Command had earlier announced that two U.S. flagged ships had made it through the strait as part of Project Freedom.

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Military aircraft were critical to protect ships during Project Freedom, essentially providing a defensive umbrella.

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Saudi Arabia and Jordan are critical for allowing aircraft to base there, Kuwait is critical for overflight, and Oman for both overflight and naval logistics.

Trump thinks he can just command the world, and the world is letting him know he's delusional.

But what did he tell us was his reason for pausing Project Freedom?

Trump said Project Freedom would be “paused for a short period of time to see whether or not” an agreement to resolve the war “can be finalized and signed.”

No mention of Saudi Arabia cockblocking him.

Nice work, Donald

 

Another Trump failure

 

Turning tide traumatizes tyrant

 

UPDATE 01:01 pm:

What Trump hath wrought

 He didn't think they'd get hit because they're really rich?  Delusional Don.

We're not the ones who have control over the strait.

LOL.

UPDATE 01:12 pm:

Once again, FFS

 Oh, snap...

We didn't win???

No, they agreed to terms, and then "we" decided to change them.

He's instructed our navy to interdict every vessel in international waters...  Pretty sure that's going to be problematic.

Also, gonna be hard to destroy mines we don't have a location for.

Isn't everyone tired of this BS by now?

Also...

Also...  

He's obsessed with men's looks.

These guys are not serious.  They're making money, and that's all they care about.  Fiddling while Rome burns.

Also, Trump can't get over the fact that Bruce Springsteen doesn't like him.

This is what he's doing while mired in an Iranian mess that he started, and Melania is shoving Epstein files back to front and center.

UPDATE 06:13 pm:

UPDATE 04/13/2026:

How's it going MAGA?

 

Since COVID, that is.

Iran shot down American fighter jet UPDATE: **second jet down**

Trump and Hegseth have been puffing their chests and proclaiming America has totally dominated Iran and "obliterated" all their military capabilities. Iran begs to differ.

Thoughts and prayers.

Apparently this is the fourth F-15E to be shot down, but the previous three were due to friendly fire.  

Also, Trump and Hegseth don't care.  Only insofar as their popularity is concerned, that is.

UPDATE 08:50 pm:

According to The New York Times, citing anonymous sources familiar with the situation, an Air Force combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf, and the sole pilot was rescued. The A-10 Warthog attack went down near the Strait of Hormuz around the same time a previously reported F-15 fighter jet over Iran went down.

NBC News reported, soon after, that the A-10 had been involved in the rescue mission of the F-15 crew and after being hit “made it to Kuwaiti air space, where the pilot ejected and the aircraft crashed, the official said. The pilot is safe and the A-10 is down in Kuwait, according to the official.”

  Yahoo

UPDATE 04/04/2026:

 

UPDATE 04/05/2026:

Sometimes you have to wonder if humanity is worth saving anyway.

More ketchup!

 

Trump is Vincenzo Pentangeli

On Wednesday, Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend Supreme Court arguments in person. It must have been a brutal morning for him. The justices heard Trump v. Barbara, a challenge to the executive order purporting to strip birthright citizenship from the children of many immigrants—and it quickly shaped up to be a blowout against the administration. Seven justices expressed profound skepticism toward the government’s revisionist history of the 14th Amendment, with most sounding downright hostile toward the pseudo-originalist theory cooked up to legitimize the policy. Only Justices Clarence Thomas and Sanuel Alito asked questions friendly to the administration, and none of their colleagues sounded persuaded by their strained defenses.

  Slate

Nobody tell Trump. Just because he was there doesn't mean he understood what was happening. He only thought his presence would be enough to intimidate the justices.  After a couple of recent rejections from SCOTUS in cases and his public berating of them, I guess he thought they'd get with the program if he showed up in person.

In the Godfather movies, there was a scene in a trial where one of the mafia members was about to rat on the stand, and Michael Corleone had the guy's brother - Vincenzo Pentangeli - flown in from Italy to sit in the audience and remind his brother Frank of his oath to the brotherhood.  It worked.  Trump is Vincenzo Pentangeli.

UPDATE 02:55 pm:  Somebody told him.

All he wanted to do was show himself to "his" judges.  He did not intend to stay.

Reminding us that this very question has already been asked and answered at the Supreme Court.

Seems kind of fitting that the defense is argued by an Asian American.

Check out the CNN chyron...

UPDATE 04/02/2026:

Well, that should help.

I expect there are a lot of Republicans who fit this bill.  The Supreme Court will not mess with birthright citizenship.  They will reconfirm it for the umpteenth time.  Can we please put this to rest once and for all?