Trump jokes:

I signed the GENIUS Act. I named it after myself.

I didn't want to use my name, so I just called it the GENIUS Act.

U.S. forces have quietly opened a protected shipping corridor through the southern Strait of Hormuz, allowing 15–20 tankers to transit nightly.

Officials say the operation is now moving nearly 10 million barrels of oil per day—about half pre-war levels—helping ease global supply disruptions.

The military coordinates tanker movements with Gulf partners while U.S. fighter jets protect ships from Iranian drones and cruise missiles.

Officials say recent U.S. strikes degraded Iran’s surveillance capabilities, giving Tehran limited visibility into the corridor.

Source: Axios

Trump on AI:

It’s gonna create a lot of jobs. It’s gonna create success, tremendous innovation medically.

They came up with something having to do with a pretty unstoppable disease, and all of a sudden, they are coming up with answers they never thought were possible.

Trump:

If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of the state, and I had the chance to get a big AI plant or a data center in, I would absolutely want it.

The jobs are enormous, and the taxes are enormous.

If you don’t take it, you are gonna be left behind.

Trump on Iran:

A lot of pipelines are being built. I think the Hormuz Strait is not going to be quite as important as it was in the past.

Trump on Iran:

Right now, the strait is open. A lot of boats are coming through. People aren't reporting that.

Trump:

I didn’t like the fact that we are doing these massive military exercises against North Korea.

We were doing a massive war exercise. I thought it was very insulting to somebody that, frankly, has been very well behaved.

Trump on Switzerland:

If you take our business away from Switzerland, they have problems.

Why are they paying half a point, and we’re paying much more than that?

Trump on Switzerland:

I have the absolute right to cut off all business with a country like Switzerland.

There’s 60 countries like that. They live off the United States.

Why are we paying higher interest rates than them?

Trump on Iran:

We have things that we could sanction on Iran. We have very draconian sanctions, and we’ll see what happens.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

I think that Türkiye, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia believe it will be helpful to them to band together for security purposes.

So, I don't see it having a destabilizing impact. They don't seem to have a desire to start any conflict.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Iran:

The Iranians have been kicked in the butt twice. You would think that after that they might begin to learn that President Trump is serious when it comes to taking military action when he thinks it's the only option.

He has expressed to them that if they're unwilling to give up their nuclear weapons ambitions and their enrichment ambitions and if they're unwilling to open up the Strait of Hormuz, then major combat is on the table.

Is that what he's going to do? I can't answer that because he is the only person elected and the only person who's authorized to make the decision and then to carry it out.

But I trust his instincts. He's had good instincts on this issue.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Türkiye:

Now, is Türkiye giving an imminent threat to Israel? Maybe not. Probably not.

But this is a tense region. Everybody is quite nervous, and so if anyone sees actions that they feel like could be a threat to them, there are reactions.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

There will be a deconfliction cell that will be created, and Ambassador Barrack and I talked about this yesterday.

We're working on it now so that all of the various parties—Syria, Türkiye, Israel—would be able to have a mechanism through which they can communicate and make sure that any intentions are clearly understood.

Nobody wants to see an escalation of the tension, an escalation of violence. So, every effort is being made to try to temper down any of the activity.

U.S. federal debt hit $40 trillion.

NOW: Massive Russian missile attack on Kyiv overnight with multiple waves of ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

Residents describe "endless" explosions among the loudest of the war.

At least 15-16 missiles tracked toward Kyiv in the first 20 minutes, including Iskander-M, North Korean KN-23, and 5-8 Zircon hypersonic missiles launched from multiple Russian regions simultaneously.

The attack exploits Ukraine's depleted Patriot interceptor stocks.

Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak called Netanyahu's escalation with Türkiye over the Syria airbase strike "reckless and stupid" with "a strong political smell of manufacturing security anxieties ahead of elections."

"Türkiye is not Iran or Assad's Syria.

There is no strategic problem with Türkiye that cannot be resolved through discreet contacts coordinated with the United States.

Netanyahu has completely gone off the rails."

Barak argued the issue should be postponed until after elections, saying Netanyahu is focused on survival maneuvers rather than Israel's security.

China Has Created a Man-Made Island for Its Largest Military Base

China has completed the construction of a massive man-made island on Antelope Reef, which will serve as the foundation for Beijing's largest military outpost in the South China Sea.

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Trump:

No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it.

Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.

Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless, and their country is hanging by a thread.

Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are.

This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat.

These maniacs are on the ropes, and these HISTORIC MEASURES will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.