White House report card: Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs as Iran questions loom
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we’ll be taking stock of Donald Trump’s week, its ups and its down with our two commentators, and we’ll be picking out one of the key moments from his Board of Peace speech …
The holiday meant it was a shortened week for the president, who returned from Mar-a-Lago on Monday evening. Tuesday and Wednesday were both quiet days by the frenetic standards of the Trump White House.
But Thursday was packed with parts from two of the biggest pieces of his presidency. In the morning, he gathered his new Board of Peace to hear plans for rebuilding and stabilizing war-torn Gaza. Although some key allies steered clear, there was no doubting the concrete progress made with promises of billions of dollars from Gulf states.
And he used the occasion to warn Iran that it was running out of time to strike a deal.
In the afternoon, he flew to Georgia, where he visited a restaurant, toured a steel company, and delivered a speech designed to tout economic progress.
He even found time to order the release of government files on UFOs and extraterrestrials, after Barack Obama, his predecessor as president, said in a podcast that he believed aliens were real.
“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One, but he added that he might be helping out his old foe: “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
So what do our two commentators make of it?
Jed Babbin: B plus
This was a week of waiting for Trump to make up his mind on how and whether we will attack Iran. There was big news from the Environmental Protection Agency on emissions from cars, and the sale of arms to Taiwan is also on hold for now.
Are we going to attack Iran? Or are we going to continue appeasing it through negotiations? That’s the biggest question of the week. If we attack, are we going “all in” or just hit parts of their government and infrastructure? As I’ve written before, if we go, we shouldn’t restrain our forces because Iran will try to, and probably succeed in, starting a larger regional war. This won’t be as easy as the Maduro raid. It’ll be a long, tough campaign with a lot of U.S. casualties. Trump should think long and hard about the dangers. China, for one, can’t keep going without Iranian oil. But will they fight for it?
In 2009, under the Obama administration, the EPA determined that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and three other greenhouse gases “endanger the public health and welfare of …
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we’ll be taking stock of Donald Trump’s week, its ups and its down with our two commentators, and we’ll be picking out one of the key moments from his Board of Peace speech …
The holiday meant it was a shortened week for the president, who returned from Mar-a-Lago on Monday evening. Tuesday and Wednesday were both quiet days by the frenetic standards of the Trump White House.
But Thursday was packed with parts from two of the biggest pieces of his presidency. In the morning, he gathered his new Board of Peace to hear plans for rebuilding and stabilizing war-torn Gaza. Although some key allies steered clear, there was no doubting the concrete progress made with promises of billions of dollars from Gulf states.
And he used the occasion to warn Iran that it was running out of time to strike a deal.
In the afternoon, he flew to Georgia, where he visited a restaurant, toured a steel company, and delivered a speech designed to tout economic progress.
He even found time to order the release of government files on UFOs and extraterrestrials, after Barack Obama, his predecessor as president, said in a podcast that he believed aliens were real.
“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One, but he added that he might be helping out his old foe: “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
So what do our two commentators make of it?
Jed Babbin: B plus
This was a week of waiting for Trump to make up his mind on how and whether we will attack Iran. There was big news from the Environmental Protection Agency on emissions from cars, and the sale of arms to Taiwan is also on hold for now.
Are we going to attack Iran? Or are we going to continue appeasing it through negotiations? That’s the biggest question of the week. If we attack, are we going “all in” or just hit parts of their government and infrastructure? As I’ve written before, if we go, we shouldn’t restrain our forces because Iran will try to, and probably succeed in, starting a larger regional war. This won’t be as easy as the Maduro raid. It’ll be a long, tough campaign with a lot of U.S. casualties. Trump should think long and hard about the dangers. China, for one, can’t keep going without Iranian oil. But will they fight for it?
In 2009, under the Obama administration, the EPA determined that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and three other greenhouse gases “endanger the public health and welfare of …
White House report card: Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs as Iran questions loom
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we’ll be taking stock of Donald Trump’s week, its ups and its down with our two commentators, and we’ll be picking out one of the key moments from his Board of Peace speech …
The holiday meant it was a shortened week for the president, who returned from Mar-a-Lago on Monday evening. Tuesday and Wednesday were both quiet days by the frenetic standards of the Trump White House.
But Thursday was packed with parts from two of the biggest pieces of his presidency. In the morning, he gathered his new Board of Peace to hear plans for rebuilding and stabilizing war-torn Gaza. Although some key allies steered clear, there was no doubting the concrete progress made with promises of billions of dollars from Gulf states.
And he used the occasion to warn Iran that it was running out of time to strike a deal.
In the afternoon, he flew to Georgia, where he visited a restaurant, toured a steel company, and delivered a speech designed to tout economic progress.
He even found time to order the release of government files on UFOs and extraterrestrials, after Barack Obama, his predecessor as president, said in a podcast that he believed aliens were real.
“I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One, but he added that he might be helping out his old foe: “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
So what do our two commentators make of it?
Jed Babbin: B plus
This was a week of waiting for Trump to make up his mind on how and whether we will attack Iran. There was big news from the Environmental Protection Agency on emissions from cars, and the sale of arms to Taiwan is also on hold for now.
Are we going to attack Iran? Or are we going to continue appeasing it through negotiations? That’s the biggest question of the week. If we attack, are we going “all in” or just hit parts of their government and infrastructure? As I’ve written before, if we go, we shouldn’t restrain our forces because Iran will try to, and probably succeed in, starting a larger regional war. This won’t be as easy as the Maduro raid. It’ll be a long, tough campaign with a lot of U.S. casualties. Trump should think long and hard about the dangers. China, for one, can’t keep going without Iranian oil. But will they fight for it?
In 2009, under the Obama administration, the EPA determined that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and three other greenhouse gases “endanger the public health and welfare of …
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