I had NOTHING to do with it!
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Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars, a First for a Sitting President
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And he is mentally debilitated
Money is all it is to him. In this war, in the presidency, in life. Money. He's not the absolute worst person on Earth, but he is in the bottom one-tenth of 1%.
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Trump tells Iran to ‘get serious soon’ on negotiations after Tehran dismisses ceasefire plan
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Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies
During a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports, rising oil prices and skittish stock markets, the president interjected by holding up a custom-made black and gold Sharpie and offering a long story about how his preferred marker came to be a White House fixture.
“See this pen right here?” Trump said at the start of a roughly five-minute, on-and-off diatribe on the Sharpie. “This pen is an interesting example.”
It was one of several lengthy asides the president made during the meeting that sometimes felt especially jarring given how many more important things his top advisers could have been discussing.
The Sharpie monologue came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered sobering comments about missile strikes, Tehran’s uranium enrichment efforts and the U.S. troops that remain in harm’s way.
The president offered the winding tale as an example of how his business sense can lead to better, cheaper outcomes in federal spending. He was also seeking to drive home his broader, long-standing criticism that renovations to the Federal Reserve building in Washington are too expensive.
“We’ve gotta get our priorities straight,” Trump said.
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Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies
Trump delays Strait of Hormuz deadline as Wall Street has biggest loss of war
APMoney is all it is to him. In this war, in the presidency, in life. Money. He's not the absolute worst person on Earth, but he is in the bottom one-tenth of 1%.
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Iran and the US harden their positions as Tehran tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz
Using Pakistan as an intermediary, Washington has delivered to Iran a 15-point ceasefire proposal, which includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
A day after saying Iran wants to cut a deal, Trump posted on social media Thursday that Tehran needs to “get serious soon” on negotiating an end to the war “before it is too late, because once that happens there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”
He did not elaborate, but said Iran should be negotiating because “they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview on state TV that his government has not engaged in talks to end the war and does not plan to.
Araghchi said the U.S. had tried to send messages to Iran through other nations, “but that is not a conversation nor a negotiation.”
Press TV, the English-language broadcaster on Iranian state television, said Iran has its own five-point proposal, which included reparations and recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
