Trump can never fail. Only his incompetent sycophants can fail him.

Oil Prices Spike and Stocks Tumble After Trump Vows More Iran Strikes President Trump claimed in a White House address that the war on Iran was “nearing completion” but made no new announcements about the conflict.

Breaking News: The S&P 500 opened sharply lower and oil prices surged by more than 10% after President Trump pledged to hit Iran “extremely hard.”

Trump: "Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election, including the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America. Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our Country was DEAD, and now we have the 'hottest' Country, by far, anywhere in the World. MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!! President DJT"

Trump: "Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had an incurable case of TDS. The guy is a total loser. MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK."

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted ... CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."

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Takeaways from Trump's address: No end date for Iran war and few details on strategy ahead President Donald Trump sought to explain his rationale for the war against Iran in a primetime address Wednesday.

This AP assessment of his speech is devastating.

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Crude Oil WTI (NYM $/bbl) Front Month CRUDE OIL - ELECTRONIC 09:41 AM EDT 04/02/26 113.17 USD 13.05 13.03% 1 Day Range 52 Week Range 12/16/25 - 03/09/26 97.50 - 113.97 54.98 - 119.48

If your idea of a good morning is a day when crude oil jumps 13% before 10 am, well, good morning!

Trump Is Doing Structural Damage to American Intelligence The issue isn’t just his disregard for facts. It’s that he’s reshaping the government in his image.

Trump is neutering and dismantling the US intelligence community, writes John Sipher. In particular, he is stopping counterintelligence work involving Russia, China and Iran. There is no explanation for or public discussion of these measures, which heighten US vulnerability in war time.

We don’t really GAF that Kristi Noem’s husband is a closeted cross-dresser, do we?

We care about the absolutely off-the-charts hypocrisy from Noem and so many other Republicans. There’s a reason why Grindr crashes during CPAC.

If we arrest all the undocumented immigrants, the entire food service industry, from farm to table, will collapse.

From a civilizational standpoint, that seems like a really bad idea.

Ann Telnaes

Trump Spirals into Rage as Brutal Poll Hits and Legal Losses Pile Up As Trump’s anger worsens amid a spate of bad news, an expert on the presidency digs into the bigger story here: Trump is learning there are serious limits on his power, and he’s beside himself over it...

Profound from @democracyprof.bsky.social: When institutions like lower courts resist Trump, it lets the people know that they're not alone, further encouraging displays like the No Kings rallies. On the pod, we dig deep into Trump's fury over encountering resistance:
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Patrick Chappatte, Boston Globe

DOJ payout to Mike Flynn has J6-ers lining up at the trough The stage is set for the looting of federal coffers.

New in PN: DOJ payout to Mike Flynn has J6-ers lining up at the trough

"Maybe the plan is to normalize theft, getting the public used to watching the president dole out taxpayer money to his supporters so that we’ll hardly notice when he hands himself almost a quarter billion dollars."

EGAN-JONES: “.. Iran possesses over 1,100 miles of southern coastline along the Persian Gulf .. Any U.S. forces stationed on or near Kharg Island would represent a concentrated, stationary target well within range of Iran’s arsenal, which can be resupplied in short order with cheap drones.”

Striking schools, gymnasiums, churches, hospitals can always be dismissed as collateral damage in war. In this case, however, it seems to be the result of precision targeting for which no explanation or excuse is offered. These strikes are war crimes for which accountability is needed.

PIERS: “Israel has gone way too far in Gaza. The initial defense I made of 🇮🇱’s right to defend itself has been desecrated. They won’t even let journalists in.”

Also: “How can Trump claim they’ve stopped 🇮🇷 from developing nukes when those tools remain exactly where they were?”

E Street Nation has a message for the aspiring dictator, the orange autocrat, the wannabe king:

NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

European leaders, like Polish PM Tusk, read the writing on the wall. Indeed, it's unmistakable. But US media intently look the other way.

ZOHRAN: “It’s a war that should be opposed on every single ground… That money could transform the working class.”

Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief Exclusive: Pressure intensifies for Gabbard after president’s displeasure with Iran war testimony

Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief. Trump has privately asked cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should replace DNI Gabbard, venting frustration that she shielded a former deputy who undercut his rationale for war with Iran.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

Those who can are leaving. "Americans are Leaving the U.S. in record numbers. More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. "'I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.'" www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.

Screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar quoting Sen. Josh Hawley saying, “What I can say for sure is Donald Trump is not gonna take ‘no’ for an answer.” The embedded image shows Hawley appearing on Fox News across from a host, with the U.S. Capitol visible in the background and a chyron reading, “Soon: Trump’s State of the Union Address.”

What a thing to say about a sexual assaulter and predator.

Trump Puts Fate of World’s Top Conflicts in the Hands of Two Men President Donald Trump put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and longtime friend Steve Witkoff in charge of resolving the war in Ukraine and a standoff with Iran. On Thursday, they juggled those momentous issues within hours of each other.

President Donald Trump put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and longtime friend Steve Witkoff in charge of resolving the war in Ukraine and a standoff with Iran

The Trump ‘Affordability’ Pivot That Never Came In his record-breakingly-long SOTU, the president spent more time talking about Venezuela than prices.

Trump's pivot to affordability, after previously calling it a Democrat hoax, consists of...very little to nothing that would make anything more affordable.

UPDATE: Zohran Mamdani announces he has secured her release after meeting with Donald Trump.

Megan Rapinoe: Trump's using you to do something, he's always going to co-opt your moment. We had this opportunity after 2019. I said that we're not going to the White House. Trump was trying to backchannel and invite us and we were like, no. Let's not pretend like we don't know who this person is

Sen. @gallegoforarizona.com: Princes, CEOs, the most powerful men in the world are being held accountable everywhere except for the US. What Republicans are proving right now, with the help of Trump, is that if you are part of the Epstein class, you can get away with terrible things