A speech by the president last week featured many inaccuracies. The post Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About Iran A speech by the president last week featured many inaccuracies. Last week President Donald Trump delivered an address on the Iran war to the American people. In only 19 minutes, he presented Americans with at least eight fabrications. Since I’ve been hearing war-supporting commentators repeating those false claims this week, I’ve decided to provide a helpful dissection of them below. #1. Operation Epic Fury targeted “the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.” Trump has frequently repeated this misleading claim before, most recently in his February 28 video…Open
The president’s threat to annihilate Iranian civilization took America to a dark place. The post We Are the Barbarians appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs We Are the Barbarians The president’s threat to annihilate Iranian civilization took America to a dark place. On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare that “a civilization will die tonight.” By 8 p.m., the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran had begun. Whether the ceasefire holds (or even takes hold) is already in question—Iran and the U.S. appear to be offering contradictory accounts of what the 10-point plan they allegedly agreed to actually says. The best hope that it might stick comes from Israel, where TV presenters who spent Monday salivating over a clock…Open
On Thursday’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Mark Morgan, former Acting CBP Commissioner, broke down the 'Dignity Act' and its potential impact on President Trump’s deportation agenda. In July 2025, the late Charlie Kirk warned Republicans about a group of lawmakers pushing mass amnesty for illegal aliens.
On Thursday’s “Finnerty,” Jay Town and Luke Ball reacted to Decarlos Brown Jr., accused of stabbing Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, deemed “incapable to proceed” to trial.
