"'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?' he asked the crowd for a second time.

Again, he was met with cheers.

;NOOO!' Schlapp responded with a chuckle. He dropped the question and hastily moved on…."

#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/3

"Attendees at the 2026 Conservation Political Action Conference seem to be dazed and confused after a disastrously chaotic month for President Donald Trump. In the last 30 days, he has started a war in the Middle East, deployed federal agents to airports, and refused to end the partial government shutdown."

~ Marin Scotten

#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/1

https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trump-impeachment

"While speaking from the CPAC stage Friday in Grapevine, Texas, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp asked a question he apparently thought would hype up the crowd.

'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?'

The crowd erupted in cheers.

'No,' Schlapp responded, shaking his head. 'That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again.'"

#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/2

"Our top journalists continue to fundamentally cover up Trump’s derangement and incoherence. The man is lying almost constantly, gaslighting at full throttle, but the news coverage sanewashes his nonsense with euphemisms like “freestyle diplomacy.”

They cover this war largely as a political story, with most of the news coming out of the (lying) White House.

In their brief moments of access, they ask lame questions that get useless answers."

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/2

"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."

As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump

"Monday was a window into the world dictators want to see, with a public intimidated by armed men in airports and too demoralized to fight blatant corruption, amid a race to extract every last dime as America becomes just another failing Trump casino."

#Trump #LaGuardia #AirTravel #airports #ICE #ClimateChange #InsiderTrading #Iran #war #oil #gas #corruption #authoritarianism
/5

"If any one day could define the hazy transition from slow to rapid decay — 24 hours that truly defined the decline of the American empire from its pedestal as a global superpower — it would have to be March 23."

~ Will Bunch

#Trump #LaGuardia #AirTravel #airports #ICE #ClimateChange #InsiderTrading #Iran #war #oil #gas #corruption #authoritarianism
/1

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/laguardia-crash-tsa-ice-trump-20260326.html?id=taRayQvhWMZCK&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

"Iran simultaneously hardened its Hormuz position from a case-by-case toll system to an explicit blanket ban on allied shipping, turning back three container ships. Iranian drones and missiles also struck Kuwait’s port, set off sirens in Bahrain and Qatar. This happened on the same night the G7 was meeting in France to discuss how to end the war."

#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #Israel #StraitofHormuz
/2

"Israel struck Tehran’s ballistic missile factories overnight. Iran responded by firing missiles at Israeli cities at dawn — hitting Netanya, landing a missile in Tiberias, wounding eight people in Zarzir."

~ Rudy Martinez

#Trump #Iran #Tehran #war #Israel #StraitofHormuz
/1

https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-friday-192

"Let me tell you something. Watching the president of the United States fall asleep in his chair at a meeting of his cabinet in the White House while the U.S. military is at war in Iran seven thousand miles away was an out of body experience I won’t soon forget."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war
/6

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/another-day-another-zombie-apocalypse

"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'

Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/9

"Our top journalists continue to fundamentally cover up Trump’s derangement and incoherence. The man is lying almost constantly, gaslighting at full throttle, but the news coverage sanewashes his nonsense with euphemisms like “freestyle diplomacy.”

They cover this war largely as a political story, with most of the news coming out of the (lying) White House.

In their brief moments of access, they ask lame questions that get useless answers."

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/2

"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."

As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump

"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/13

(continued from /11)

"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/12

"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...

On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026

"'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?' he asked the crowd for a second time.

Again, he was met with cheers.

;NOOO!' Schlapp responded with a chuckle. He dropped the question and hastily moved on…."

#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/3

"While speaking from the CPAC stage Friday in Grapevine, Texas, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp asked a question he apparently thought would hype up the crowd.

'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?'

The crowd erupted in cheers.

'No,' Schlapp responded, shaking his head. 'That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again.'"

#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/2

"Attendees at the 2026 Conservation Political Action Conference seem to be dazed and confused after a disastrously chaotic month for President Donald Trump. In the last 30 days, he has started a war in the Middle East, deployed federal agents to airports, and refused to end the partial government shutdown."

~ Marin Scotten

#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/1

https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trump-impeachment

"U.S. and global markets fell sharply as optimism faded over a possible U.S.-Iran ceasefire, with the Nasdaq entering correction territory and major indexes posting significant losses. Oil prices surged—U.S. crude nearing $95 and Brent above $109—driving higher inflation expectations and raising concerns about long-term energy costs."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/20

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-adds-signature-to-all