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Europe First Trump blasted foreign steel for years. Now he’s using it at the White House.

Europe First
Trump blasted foreign steel for years. Now he’s using it at the White House. glennkessler.substack.com/p/europe-first

The 10 Things the Bezoses Are Almost Certainly Grateful for Each Morning Never mind. We said “money” yesterday.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos start each day with a gratitude list—@petridishes.bsky.social imagines it goes something like this:

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I guess they haven't heard of payroll taxes either.

Diplomacy Takes Years. Not a Weekend. Why the Vance mission was doomed from the start.

Diplomacy Takes Years. Not a Weekend. glennkessler.substack.com/p/diplomacy-...

The WH just posted this statement by Trump: "I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor, and had to do with Red Cross." Apparently Trump is such a non-Christian that he doesn’t recognize the basic iconography such as angels, beams of light, red/white garments?

One thing worth remembering about Vance is that he has won one (1) election on his own, a 6-point victory in the pretty-red 2022 midterm. His running mate won the state by 11 points two years later.

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

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This Isn’t Yet a Negotiation The U.S. and Iran proposals don’t overlap — despite Trump’s claims.

This Isn’t Yet a Negotiation
The U.S. and Iran proposals don’t overlap — despite Trump’s claims.
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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

This is so on brand for Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Trump says the Iranian 10 point plan is a “workable basis on which to negotiate.” Has he read it? Imagine if Obama or Biden used this as a basis for talks

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NOTUS is terrific. The Washpost is going to have a real fight on its hands. Deservedly.

If Trump takes questions at his news conference today, a reporter needs to ask why bombing civilian infrastructure such energy facilities should not be considered a war crime. Follow up if he defends that: so you support Russia doing that in Ukraine?

Trump’s ‘Zero-Cost’ Myth His White House ballroom isn’t free — it just hides the taxpayer cost.

NEW: Trump’s ‘Zero-Cost’ Myth glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-zer...

Trump’s McCain Moment If Iran captures a U.S. pilot, the president will face the kind of test he once mocked.

Trump's McCain Moment glennkessler.substack.com/p/trumps-mcc...

National Security Two U.S. warplanes shot down; search ongoing in Iran for 1 missing crew member An F-15 fighter jet and an A-10 attack plane were lost to hostile fire. Two Black Hawk helicopters also were hit, injuring the crews, before safely returning to their base, officials said. 53 minutes ago

Trump, March 24: “We literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country; they can’t do a thing about it.”

Iran, April 3:

He Warned It Would Show Weakness Now Trump says his war with Iran is a success.

He Warned It Would Show Weakness. --Now Trump says his war with Iran is a success. glennkessler.substack.com/p/he-warned-...

Four-byline alert: 🚨

“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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The @washingtonpost.com can’t even write accurate headlines over the wire service stories in its fake Sports section. Sad.

Opinion | On Iran, Trump faces a narrative even he can't spin Glenn Kessler: The president casts everything he does as a success. But there's a big reason why he can't "win" this war.

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It’s Always the Best of Times Trump’s rhetoric on oil prices shifts with the moment — but always in his favor.

Trump’s shifting explanations for oil prices always lead to the same conclusion: he was right. glennkessler.substack.com/p/its-always...

The Pentagon said the Iran war cost $11 billion in the first week.

But it's way way way more than that. Hundreds of billions more.

Your family's share is thousands of dollars. And I've got receipts.

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Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts.

State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

How Not to Win Friends and Influence People Donald Trump insults European allies for a year — then demands help with Iran.

How Not to Win Friends and Influence People glennkessler.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

It's my understanding that Washington Post management now regret decimating the Washington Post sports section because they had no idea how much revenue it drove. The clowning is unending. The little men with red plastic noses and flappy shoes just keep piling out of the car.

Yesterday’s report. Today’s news.

Missile debris that Iranian officials claim was recovered from the deadly strikes which hit an elementary school in southern Iran on February 28 appears to be from an American Tomahawk cruise missile, according to CNN analysis. https://cnn.it/4b2jrTE