Donald Trump
March 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson
According to media reports, President Trump has submitted a 15-point set of demands on someone or other in Iran — let us postulate Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Araghchi, who have been removed our target list — to resolve the current conflict. Citing unnamed sources, Israeli media specify 14 of the 15 demands conveyed to Iran as follows: 1. Iran must dismantle its existing nuclear capabilities. 2. Iran
»
March 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
According to the New York Times and others, President Trump has submitted a 15-point plan to the surviving authorities in Iran for a resolution of the conflict. However, the Times is ludicrously vague on the terms: “The New York Times did not see a copy of the plan, but the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details, shared some of its broad outlines, saying that it
»
March 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
President Trump has just posted on Truth Social: I AM PLEASE[D] TO REPORT THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE COUNTRY OF IRAN, HAVE HAD, OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS, VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. BASED ON THE TENOR AND TONE OF THESE IN DEPTH, DETAILED, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, WITCH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, I
»
March 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon publishes a companion story for its “Beastmode” video of President Trump contrasting Winston Churchill with Keir Starmer in the Oval Office yesterday. Trump was hosting Ireland prime minister Micheál Martin for St. Patrick’s Day at the time. I wonder what Martin was thinking. Warming to his task, Trump contrasted his treatment of the Churchill bust on display in the Oval Office with its treatment by “Barack
»
March 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
This past weekend on Life, Liberty & Levin, Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior advisor Richard Goldberg discussed the operational expertise displayed by the U.S. and Israeli militaries in carrying out the mission in Iran. After taking in Levin’s Saturday show, President Trump commented: “Rich Goldberg was GREAT on Mark Levin tonight. Two guys who really get it! Thank you both. President DJT” Thank you, POTUS pic.twitter.com/ejG6zJC96t — Mark R.
»
March 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you are famliar with the Chabad branch of Judaism and know any members of Chabad, you might be mystified by the new front Tucker Carlson has opened in his war on Jews. It would be wrong to ignore him. This particular front may get some people killed. Opening X this morning, I see that Gad Saad addresses it in a (too) sympathetic post that omits the context of Carlson’s
»
March 5, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Mark Levin invited Steve Witkoff to report on his experience negotiating on behalf of President Trump with the emissaries of the Iranian regime in Geneva and Oman before the current hostilities. It is posted with this written introduction on YouTube: Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff calls in to break down his stunning negotiations with the Iranian regime before President Trump made his decision to attack. These meetings
»
March 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Iranian regime has chosen to expand the war by attacking every Arab country in the vicinity. It seems like a desperate gamble. If the regime survives, the new boss is going to have to learn to share the neighborhood. That’s a phrase President Obama himself applied to Israel for some reason. When the offensive was intiated this past weekend, I wanted to say that Obama was hardest hit. Former
»
March 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In “Why did Trump pull the trigger?” I observed this morning that George W. Bush chose to ignore the death and mangling of American soldiers facilitated by the Iranian regime on American soldiers serving in Iraq. The Hudson Institute’s Michael Doran subsequently drew on his own personal experience as the Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs on the National Security Council serving George W. Bush to recall:
»
March 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Hudson Institute’s Michael Doran elaborates on the joint aspect of the operation against the Iranian regime. It is the fruition of a beautiful friendship that President Trump has embraced: * * * * * The Israeli press is stressing a key difference between the June 2025 war and the present campaign: the United States and Israel are functioning as closely integrated allies from the outset. In June they operated
»
March 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
ABC News Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl somehow thought that this was the moment we needed to hear from Tucker Carlson. In an interview Saturday morning, Karl elicited Carlson’s condemnation of the joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran. Carlson said the attack on Iran is “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Well said, in a sense. A purer case of projection you will never find. I can think of many reasons why Trump might
»
February 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The recognition of American heroes constituted perhaps the most telling highlight of President Trump’s State of the Union Address last night. Among them was Royce Williams and the award of a long overdue Medal of Honor for his display of valor during the Korean War. Kate Odell notes it in the Wall Street Journal column “A Medal of Honor for Royce Williams.” Earlier today Tom West of Hutchinson, Minnesota wrote
»
February 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I want to add a few thoughts to Scott’s post on the State of the Union, with which I agree. I don’t know whether last night’s speech was the longest SOTU ever, but it had to be the most combative. The fact that President Trump can keep it up for nearly two hours is impressive, but I have to think most viewers had turned in by the time he finished.
»
February 25, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Last night President Trump gave the second State of the Union address of his second term. It ran nearly 11,000 words and two hours. I have cued the PBS video below to begin with Speaker Mike Johnson’s introduction of the president. NPR has posted a transcript of the speech. No offense — the speech is too damn long. I would like to note a few themes and observations in bullet
»
February 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
One last item on today’s hockey game: President Trump called the US team in the locker room, on Kash Patel’s phone, to congratulate them–and to invite them to the State of the Union on Tuesday. Listen in: You can hear the genuine pride in Donald Trumps voice when he called the Team USA Hockey Team pic.twitter.com/ch6GbXShwh — Harrison Krank (@HarrisonKrank) February 23, 2026
»
February 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In today’s edition of the New York Post Week In Whoppers feature, the editors honor CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe’s risible question of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt this past Wednesday: “When does the president believe he has been falsely called a racist?” The Post editors write: We say: What was O’Keefe thinking? Democrats hurl “racist” at Trump just for sneezing. O’Keefe himself was implying the prez is a
»
February 7, 2026 — John Hinderaker
According to the New York Times, the number one news story of the last couple of days was a post that President Trump did on Truth Social. This has led their mass email no fewer than three times in the last 30 hours: Trump posts video portraying the Obamas as apes The blatantly racist clip is the latest in Trump’s pattern of promoting offensive stereotypes about Black Americans and others.
»
