Iran said on Friday that it has rejected &#8220;several&#8221; calls for negotiations from the United States after President Donald Trump gave a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-decide-on-iran-strike-before-july-4?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+To+Decide+On+Iran+Strike+Before+July+4">two-week deadline</a> for his decision on possibly striking the Islamic Republic, leaving the door open for talks with Tehran.
Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in an address on state television, “Americans want to negotiate and have sent messages several times, but we clearly said that as long as this aggression doesn’t stop, there’s no place for talk of dialogue,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/20/world-news/iran-rejects-us-talks-after-trump-gives-two-week-deadline-to-allow-for-negotiations/">reported</a>. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-missile-attacks-nuclear-news-tehran-trump-06-18-2025-c6c90028dc340e2716724412fcec2cf0">rejected</a> Trump&#8217;s call for the country to surrender on Wednesday as Israel continues to pound Iranian nuclear facilities and missile launchers from the sky and take out the regime&#8217;s military leaders.
“Wise individuals who know Iran, its people and its history never speak to this nation with the language of threats, because the Iranian nation is not one to surrender,” Khamenei said.
“Americans should know that any military involvement by the U.S. will undoubtedly result in irreparable damage to them,” he added.
Iran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crossing-of-a-red-line-iran-hits-major-israeli-hospital-with-direct-strike">escalated</a> the conflict with Israel on Thursday morning, striking a major Israeli hospital. President Trump said on Thursday that he would decide whether to attack Iran “within the next two weeks.”
“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” the president said in a statement shared by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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While Trump gave a two-week timeline for a decision on Iran, an Israeli official <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-israel-will-hit-all-nuclear-facilities-has-destroyed-half-of-irans-launchers/">told</a> The Times of Israel that the U.S. ally expects Trump to decide on striking Iran within 24 to 48 hours. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, said that it&#8217;s &#8220;entirely&#8221; up to Trump to decide if the United States &#8220;wants to join or not,&#8221; adding that he speaks to Trump &#8220;almost daily.&#8221;
“He’ll do what’s good for the United States, and I’ll do what’s good for the State of Israel,” Netanyahu continued.
If the United States joins Israel in direct strikes on Iran, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/06/18/bunker-buster-bomb-israel-iran-conflict/84257733007/">reports</a> suggest that it could be to drop the massive &#8220;bunker buster&#8221; bomb, which can only be carried by America&#8217;s B-2 Bombers. The &#8220;bunker buster&#8221; would likely target Iran&#8217;s Fordow nuclear site, which is built approximately 300 feet underground.
Trump also said earlier this week that the United States knows &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-is-an-easy-target-trump-says-he-knows-exactly-where-the-ayatollah-is-hiding">exactly</a>&#8221; where Ayatollah Khamenei is hiding, adding, “He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.&#8221;

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Too many non-working holidays are costing the United States “BILLIONS OF DOLLARS” and hindering the country from success, President Donald Trump exclaimed on Thursday.
Trump posted to his Truth Social account against non-working holidays, suggesting that neither employers nor employees liked them and that the United States was on track to make every day a non-working holiday. The president posted the message on Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114712523496772999">posted</a>.
Former President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday on June 18, 2021. Biden conducted a signing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJW_J4o_1s">ceremony</a> at the White House in which he pushed for greater racial equity and bemoaned new laws on election integrity that were working their way through state legislatures.
“Folks, the promise of equality is not going to be fulfilled until we become real — it becomes real in our schools and on our Main Streets and in our neighborhoods — our health care system and ensuring that equity is at the heart of our fight against the pandemic; in the water that comes out of our faucets and the air that we breathe in our communities; in our justice system — so that we can fulfill the promise of America for all people. All of our people,” Biden <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/17/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-the-juneteenth-national-independence-day-act/">said</a>.
The bill received widespread bipartisan support in Congress. It passed the Senate unanimously. In the House, just 14 Republican lawmakers voted against it.
Biden’s signing ceremony marked the first time a new national holiday had been established since Martin Luther King Day, commemorating the civil rights leader’s birthday, became a national holiday in 1983.

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The Trump administration will study the long-term effects on people of chemicals released after the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Vice President JD Vance, who is from Ohio, joined Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Battacharya to announce the new initiative in a video posted to social media.
“I&#8217;ve been to East Palestine a number of times, and they&#8217;re very worried about, what are the long-term impacts of these chemicals in the water, in the air? What effect does it have on their kids and grandkids after 5 years, 10 years, 15 years of exposure?” said Vance.
“The crazy thing is, number one, we didn&#8217;t have a good answer to that question. Science had never actually tried to understand what the long-term exposure of these trace chemicals would do to people,” he continued. “And the second crazy thing is that as much as I tried as a United States senator to work with the Biden administration, they refused to do anything to actually study the effects of these long-term exposures on the people of East Palestine.”
After a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and dumped its cargo, residents, officials, and investigators who resided or worked close to the spill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/half-of-u-s-investigators-fell-ill-while-studying-east-palestine-train-derailment-report">reported</a> having symptoms such as headaches, nausea, and dizziness. A controlled burn of the spill sent plumes of black smoke into the air, causing further concerns of what the smoke could do to nearby residents.
“The National Institutes of Health under my direction has launched a 5-year, $10 million research initiative to address health outcomes stemming from this calamity. This is the first large-scale, coordinated, multi-year federal study focused specifically on the long-term health impacts of the East Palestine disaster,” Kennedy said.
Bhattacharya added: “The purpose and goal of the NIH, the mission is to advance the health and well-being of the American people, and this is a concrete way that we&#8217;re going to do that. The NIH is working to ensure that the people of East Palestine and the surrounding communities are listened to, cared for, and they get the answers they deserve.”
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I&#39;m proud to announce with <a href="https://twitter.com/SecKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecKennedy</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NIHDirector_Jay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NIHDirector_Jay</a> that the Trump Administration is launching a program to study long-term health effects of the chemical spill in East Palestine, OH and help residents access the care they need.
East Palestine, we will never forget you. <a href="https://t.co/zjJOnXZgoc">pic.twitter.com/zjJOnXZgoc</a>
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The East Palestine spill was a calamity for the roughly 5,000- strong community and exploded into national news. The accident inspired rancor against the Biden administration and then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Former President Joe Biden notably stayed away from East Palestine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-visit-east-palestine-one-year-after-train-derailment-disaster">until</a> the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
President Donald Trump, who was campaigning for president at the time, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wednesday-afternoon-update-snow-storm-causes-travel-chaos-trump-brings-supplies-and-morale-to-ohio-vivek-ramaswamy-announces-presidential-run">visited</a> East Palestine within weeks of the disaster, bringing supplies to the reeling community.

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President Donald Trump relayed a message on the Middle East conflict through White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday, saying that he would decide whether to strike Iran &#8220;within the next two weeks.&#8221;
Trump has backed Israel&#8217;s airstrikes on Iran that have taken out some of the radical Islamic regime&#8217;s nuclear facilities and military leaders, while urging the Ayatollah to come to the negotiating table. The president has not ruled out direct U.S. military action against Iran, and even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-is-an-easy-target-trump-says-he-knows-exactly-where-the-ayatollah-is-hiding">said</a> that the United States knows &#8220;exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding.&#8221; Leavitt addressed the speculation surrounding the president&#8217;s thinking on conflict, reading a statement from Trump in the Briefing Room.
&#8220;Based on the fact that there&#8217;s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,&#8221; the president stated in his message.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> shares a message from President Trump: &quot;Based on the fact that there&#39;s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/r3yVnbZHAC">pic.twitter.com/r3yVnbZHAC</a>
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Trump told reporters on Wednesday that &#8220;nobody knows&#8221; what his thinking is on a potential U.S. strike on Iran, adding, &#8220;I may do it, I may not do it.&#8221; The president later said that Iran was only “a few weeks away” from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“I’m not looking to fight, but if it’s a choice between fighting and having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to do,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Maybe we won’t have to fight. Maybe it will end very quickly.”
The president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-says-tehran-wants-to-talk-about-ceasefire-after-pummeling-from-israel?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Tehran+Wants+To+%E2%80%98Talk%E2%80%99+About+Ceasefire+After+Pummeling+From+Israel">said</a> earlier this week that Iran made a mistake by refusing to make a deal with the United States.
&#8220;I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late,” he said on Monday.
Leavitt added on Thursday that the Trump administration has continued &#8220;correspondence&#8221; with Iran.
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White House confirms that the United States has continued to be in correspondence with the Iranian regime. <a href="https://t.co/KUgj46Q2Af">pic.twitter.com/KUgj46Q2Af</a>
&mdash; Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1935761933187400165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Iran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crossing-of-a-red-line-iran-hits-major-israeli-hospital-with-direct-strike?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News+and+Analysis&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Crossing+Of+A+Red+Line%E2%80%99%3A+Iran+Hits+Major+Israeli+Hospital+With+Direct+Strike">escalated</a> the conflict on Thursday with a direct airstrike on an Israeli hospital, a move that Israel Health Minister Uriel Buso called an &#8220;act of terrorism and a crossing of a red line.&#8221;
Some <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/06/18/bunker-buster-bomb-israel-iran-conflict/84257733007/">reports</a> suggest that Israel wants the United States to get directly involved in the conflict, so that the U.S. military can take out Iran&#8217;s Fordow nuclear site, which is built nearly 300 feet underground. Only America&#8217;s B-2 Bombers have the ability to drop a &#8220;bunker buster&#8221; bomb that could take out the Fordow plant in a single strike.

Trump To Decide On Iran Strike Before July 4

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt roasted Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) from the briefing room on Thursday, mocking her over her recent suggestion that President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters suffered from mental illness.
Leavitt laid into the Texas Democrat in response to a question from The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Mary Margaret Olohan, who mentioned Crockett&#8217;s comments: &#8220;She said Trump supporters are &#8216;mentally ill&#8217; before calling for bipartisan support against the president. Can you respond to that, especially since she&#8217;s a rising star in the Democratic Party right now?&#8221;
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Karoline Leavitt and <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a> rip into Jasmine Crockett:
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s incredibly derogatory to accuse nearly 80 million Americans of mental illness. Last time I checked, Jasmine Crockett couldn&#8217;t dream of winning such a majority of the public.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mJCftlHdDh">pic.twitter.com/mJCftlHdDh</a>
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&#8220;She is a rising star,&#8221; Leavitt responded with a smile. &#8220;It&#8217;s quite something to behold, actually. I hope that she continues to be a rising star, for the Republican Party at least.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s incredibly derogatory to accuse nearly 80 million Americans of mental illness. Last time I checked, Jasmine Crockett couldn&#8217;t dream of winning such a majority of the public as President Trump did,&#8221; Leavitt continued. &#8220;And the America First movement, which President Trump has built, is filled with hard-working patriots, forgotten men and women, business owners, law enforcement officers, nurses, and teachers, and middle America, as we all know, from where you all grew up outside of this beltway.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s who makes up this president&#8217;s movement, and Jasmine Crockett should go to a Trump call sometime and she can see it for herself,&#8221; Leavitt added.
Crockett raised eyebrows when she told Katie Couric, on her &#8220;Next Question&#8221; podcast, that widespread support for President Trump was essentially proof positive that the United States was dealing with a &#8220;mental health crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone — no matter how you affiliate yourself — should be against Trump. Period. This is not partisan for me. Like, I would give anything to have — sad to say — George Bush. Like, give me any regular Republican nowadays, and I would be happy,&#8221; Crockett said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how far he has to go before we can come together and just say, &#8216;Enough is enough.&#8217; Like, this should not be partisanship.&#8221;

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Karoline Leavitt Roasts Jasmine Crockett In Press Room: ‘I Hope She Continues To Be A Rising Star’

Karoline Leavitt Roasts Jasmine Crockett In Press Room: 'I Hope She Continues To Be A Rising Star'

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Pressed by a reporter to publicly reveal his plans regarding a possible American strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump cracked up people around him on Wednesday morning with a response lacerating the media’s self-absorbed attitude toward matters of national security.
“You haven’t answered questions about whether you are moving closer or you believe the U.S. is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities. Where is your mindset on that?” a reporter asked.
“I can’t say that, right? You don’t seriously think I’m going to answer that question,” Trump fired back. He turned to the men behind him who were at the White House to install new flagpoles, asking rhetorically, “Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component and what time exactly, sir? Sir, when you strike it, will you please inform us so we can be there and watch?” Trump&#8217;s sarcastic response evoked laughter.
He turned back to the reporter. “I mean, you don’t know that I’m even gonna do it,” he declared. “You don’t know; I may do it; I may not do it. Nobody knows what I&#8217;m going to do.” Then he adopted. more serious tone, saying, “I can tell you this: Iran&#8217;s got a lot of trouble, and they want to negotiate. And I said, ‘Why didn’t you negotiate with me before?’ All this death and destruction. I said to people, ‘Why didn’t you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine. You could have had a country.’”
“It&#8217;s very sad to watch this; I’ve never seen anything like it,” he remarked. “You know, everyone thought it was going to be the reverse. I didn’t think so. And I was telling them, you gotta do something; you gotta negotiate. And at the end, last minute, they said, ‘No, we’re not gonna do that.’ And then they got hit.”
“Remember 60 days?” he recalled of his ultimatum that Iran had 60 days to negotiate a deal with the U.S. “And then came — 61’s going to become a very famous number. That was one hell of a hit, that first hit. That was one hell of a hit.”
He spoke of the Iranian regime’s intransigence, saying, “Not sustainable, to be honest,” adding, “It ended on the first night.”
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Q: Is the US moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities?
TRUMP: I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I&#39;m going to do. Iran&#39;s got a lot of trouble. <a href="https://t.co/33jiLd3eSf">pic.twitter.com/33jiLd3eSf</a>
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President Donald Trump will give TikTok’s owner more time to comply with a federal law mandating that it cannot be owned by a Chinese company because of national security concerns. 
The extension will give ByteDance, the Chinese-based company that owns TikTok, another 90 days to find an American buyer. TikTok was first set to go dark in January 2025, but Trump has extended that deadline multiple times. 
&#8220;As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. &#8220;This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure.”
Trump has previously expanded the deadline twice, once in January and then again in an April <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/extending-the-tiktok-enforcement-delay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> that directed the Justice Department not to enforce the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” until June 19. 
TikTok will now have until September to facilitate a deal with an American company or investor. 
During his first term in office, Trump first moved to ban TikTok via executive order, a move that was later blocked. Several years later, President Joe Biden signed a bill mandating the sale of TikTok into law in April 2024 after broad Congressional support. 
Days before Trump took office in January, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-allows-tiktok-ban-to-take-effect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that Congress was justified in passing the ban because of concerns about the Chinese government using TikTok to harvest the private data of millions of Americans. 
“There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source of community,” the court wrote. “But Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary.”
The court was unconvinced that the ban amounted to restrictions on free speech. 
“It is not clear that the Act itself directly regulates protected expressive activity, or conduct with an expressive component. Indeed, the Act does not regulate the creator petitioners at all. And it directly regulates ByteDance Ltd. and TikTok Inc. only through the divestiture requirement,” the court wrote.

Chinese Social Media App TikTok To Be Banned Unless Sold To US Company

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was rushed to a hospital on Tuesday after suffering an allergic reaction, a department spokeswoman said.
“Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction today. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and recovering,” Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/kristi-noem-hostpital">CNN</a>.
Noem is being treated at a hospital in Washington, D.C., where she was rushed by ambulance Tuesday afternoon. It is unclear what triggered Noem’s reaction.
Noem was one of President Donald Trump’s first nominees, being appointed just days after the president took office in January. Since then, Noem has been one of the chief apologists for Trump’s immigration and deportation agenda to the public, as well as responsible for its implementation.
Immigration has been Trump’s key issue since he first ran for office in 2016, and his handling of it is currently his strongest issue with Americans. According to the results of an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/poll-americans-disapprove-trumps-performance-republicans-manage-splits-rcna212585?taid=684f0a494f8e5800013ab5b8&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">NBC News Decision Desk</a> poll released on Sunday, Americans view Trump’s handling of border security and immigration 51% positively to 49% negatively.
Trump’s immigration agenda has proven the most popular among immigrants to the United States. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legal-immigrants-have-swung-40-points-right-on-immigration-favor-gop-polling-expert">said</a> last week that immigrant voters in the United States have swung more toward Trump on immigration than any other demographic.
“Foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020,” said Enten. “You go back to 2020, Democrats, get this, held a 32-point lead on this issue. Immigrant voters were in the Democratic camp. Jump forward to 2024, 2025. Look at that shift. A 40-point shift to the Right among immigrant voters.”
“Republicans now lead on this issue by eight points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could find,” he added.

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Kristi Noem Hospitalized After Allergic Reaction

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114698784693311065">posted</a> a personal text message about the Israel-Iran conflict from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fierce-israel-supporter-mike-huckabee-confirmed-as-ambassador-to-israel">Mike Huckabee</a>, who is serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel. 
Huckabee, a former Christian pastor, told Trump that he believes God saved his life during an assassination attempt last year so he could serve in this moment, listen to God&#8217;s voice, and act accordingly in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Israel+Eliminates+More+Iranian+Commanders+As+Trump+Weighs+In">high-stakes conflict between Israel and Iran</a>.
&#8220;Mr. President, God spared you in Butler, PA, to be the most consequential president in a century &#8212; maybe ever,&#8221; Huckabee wrote. &#8220;The decisions on your shoulders, I would not want to be made by anybody else.&#8221;
&#8220;You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters,&#8221; the former Arkansas governor told Trump. &#8220;HIS voice.&#8221;
Huckabee noted that Trump appointed him as ambassador to Israel, emphasizing that he trusts Trump&#8217;s &#8220;instincts.&#8221;
&#8220;No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else&#8217;s.&#8221;
&#8220;You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave. I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down!&#8221;
&#8220;You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!&#8221; Huckabee concluded. &#8220;It is my honor to serve you!&#8221;
Former Trump administration White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany posted a screenshot of Huckabee&#8217;s note to Trump on X. &#8220;Huckabee&#8217;s message is so WISE and divinely inspired,&#8221; she captioned the image. 
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President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> just posted this message from <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovMikeHuckabee</a> on Truth Social.
Huckabee&#8217;s message is so WISE and divinely inspired:
&#8220;God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century&#8211;maybe ever&#8230; You have many voices speaking to… <a href="https://t.co/sqCs4J3NVm">pic.twitter.com/sqCs4J3NVm</a>
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) <a href="https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1934969500660551883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump captioned the message from Huckabee on Truth Social: &#8220;From Mike Huckabee, a Pastor, Politician, Ambassador, and Great Person!&#8221; 
On June 13, Israel started targeting nuclear facilities, military leaders, and state media in Iran in what it called &#8220;preemptive strikes.&#8221; The nation is continuing its efforts, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the conflict <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-killing-irans-supreme-leader-would-end-the-conflict?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Netanyahu%3A+Killing+Iran%E2%80%99s+Supreme+Leader+Would+%E2%80%98End+The+Conflict%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would end</a> if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were killed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-ceasefire-trump-reveals-what-hes-looking-for-with-israel-iran-conflict?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=‘Not+A+Ceasefire’%3A+Trump+Reveals+What+He’s+‘Looking+For’+With+Israel-Iran+Conflict">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-ceasefire-trump-reveals-what-hes-looking-for-with-israel-iran-conflict?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=‘Not+A+Ceasefire’%3A+Trump+Reveals+What+He’s+‘Looking+For’+With+Israel-Iran+Conflict">said</a> on Tuesday that he wants “a real end” to the conflict between Israel and Iran, adding that a mere ceasefire isn’t enough.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Israel+Eliminates+More+Iranian+Commanders+As+Trump+Weighs+In">LIVE UPDATES: Israel Eliminates More Iranian Commanders As Trump Weighs In</a>

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he won&#8217;t &#8220;waste time&#8221; with a phone call to &#8220;whacked out&#8221; Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz following the assassinations of a state representative, her husband, and the near-assassination of a state senator and his wife over the weekend.
Sources close to Walz said that the governor spoke to Vice President JD Vance after the Saturday morning shootings, but added that he had not heard from the president. Asked if he would reach out to Walz, the Democrats&#8217; 2024 vice presidential nominee, Trump <a href="https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1934918294508638209">said</a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m not calling him.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. Why would I call him?&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1934953237678899354">added</a>. &#8220;I could call and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’ The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess. I could be nice and call, but why waste time?”
After the suspected Minnesota assassin killed Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, Trump addressed the deadly shootings.
&#8220;Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place,&#8221; the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114682713948931541">posted</a> on social media.
Trump was also <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/trump-call-walz-after-minnesota-shootings-calls-grossly-122870353">asked</a> about reaching out to Walz during an interview with ABC News on Sunday.
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a terrible thing. I think he&#8217;s a terrible governor. I think he&#8217;s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too,&#8221; Trump said.
Authorities arrested 57-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-minnesota-assassin-went-to-homes-of-two-other-elected-officials-prosecutor">Vance Boelter</a> on Sunday, just over 24 hours after the assassination of Hortman and the near-killing of Hoffman. The suspect is accused of impersonating a police officer and visiting the houses of at least four elected Democrats in Minnesota. At the Hoffmans&#8217; home, Boelter barged in after being confronted by the state senator and his wife. Boelter opened fire, wounding both of them. He later shot and killed Hortman and her husband at their home before engaging in a shootout with police and getting away.
Police said they found a potential &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-hit-list-found-in-minnesota-gunmans-vehicle">hit list</a>&#8221; in Boelter&#8217;s vehicle that contained the names of numerous Democrats, including Gov. Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Angie Craig, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
Boelter, who was appointed to Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz’s Workforce Development Council in 2019, was “very conservative,” his roommate <a href="https://x.com/lilialuciano/status/1934315979687010680">told</a> CBS News. The roommate added that Boelter “would be offended if people thought he was a Democrat,” referring to rumors spreading on social media that Boelter was a leftist. The suspect rented a room <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYQPRPe1M3I">part-time</a> in a house in north Minneapolis, but he also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7c5cDL2ryU">lived</a> in a home about an hour southwest of the Twin Cities with his wife and five children.
Boelter faces federal charges, including stalking, murder, and multiple firearms-related offenses. The federal murder charge makes Boelter eligible for the death penalty.

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President Donald Trump said early Tuesday morning that he wants &#8220;a real end&#8221; to the conflict between Israel and Iran, adding that a mere ceasefire isn&#8217;t enough.
Trump was asked about the ongoing fight in the Middle East on Air Force One as he returned to Washington, D.C., from the G7 Conference in Canada. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-leave-g7-early-over-whats-going-on-in-the-middle-east-white-house-says?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Leaves+G7+Early+Over+%E2%80%98What%E2%80%99s+Going+On+In+The+Middle+East%2C%E2%80%99+White+House+Says">left</a> the conference early on Monday over developments in the conflict as Israel continued to defend its citizens from Iranian missile barrages.
&#8220;What specifically is better than a ceasefire? What are you looking for here?&#8221; a reporter asked Trump.
&#8220;A real end, not a ceasefire,&#8221; the president replied. &#8220;An end.&#8221;
&#8220;So something that will be permanent?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, or giving up entirely. That&#8217;s okay too,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;A complete give-up. That&#8217;s possible.&#8221;
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REPORTER: &quot;What are you looking for here?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;An end. A real end. Not a ceasefire — an end.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/EESQ7zzhw1">pic.twitter.com/EESQ7zzhw1</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1934917749391687794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The president continued to urge Iran to seek out a deal on Monday and told people to &#8220;immediately evacuate Tehran!&#8221;
“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” said Trump on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-says-tehran-wants-to-talk-about-ceasefire-after-pummeling-from-israel">suggested</a> earlier on Monday that Iran had reached out to negotiate an end to the conflict. Trump had imposed a 60-day deadline for Iran to negotiate a nuclear agreement with the United States that had elapsed before Israel launched its attack last week.
“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” the president told reporters at the G7 summit. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.”
Israel continues to exert air dominance over Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, military leaders, and Iranian state media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the conflict <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-killing-irans-supreme-leader-would-end-the-conflict?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Netanyahu%3A+Killing+Iran%E2%80%99s+Supreme+Leader+Would+%E2%80%98End+The+Conflict%E2%80%99">would end</a> if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were killed.
“We’ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere,” Netanyahu said in an interview with ABC News. “The ‘forever war’ is what Iran wants, and they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression, and we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.”

‘Not A Ceasefire’: Trump Reveals What He’s ‘Looking For’ With Israel-Iran Conflict

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that he has not reached out to Iran for peace talks, denying earlier reports. 
Trump made the comments on Truth Social after it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-leave-g7-early-over-whats-going-on-in-the-middle-east-white-house-says?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Leaves+G7+Early+Over+‘What’s+Going+On+In+The+Middle+East%2C’+White+House+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he was leaving the Group of Seven Summit in Canada early to return to the White House because of the conflict in the Middle East. In an earlier post, Trump said he was not working on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, but something “much bigger.” 
“I have not reached out to Iran for ‘Peace Talks’ in any way, shape, or form. This is just more HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS! If they want to talk, they know how to reach me,” Trump posted. “They should have taken the deal that was on the table — Would have saved a lot of lives!!!”
Trump had imposed a 60-day deadline for Iran to negotiate a nuclear agreement with the United States that had elapsed before Israel launched its attack last week. 
Trump went on to criticize French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday morning for suggesting that he was returning to Washington, D.C., to work out a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. 
“Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran,” Trump wrote. “Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!”
When asked on board Air Force One what he meant by promising something more than a ceasefire, Trump said he wanted, &#8220;An end. A real end. Not a ceasefire.” He added that “giving up entirely” would also be an option. 
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REPORTER: &#8220;What are you looking for here?&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;An end. A real end. Not a ceasefire — an end.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/EESQ7zzhw1">pic.twitter.com/EESQ7zzhw1</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1934917749391687794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I told them to do the deal. They should&#8217;ve done the deal. Their cities have been blown to pieces and they&#8217;ve lost a lot of people. They should&#8217;ve done the deal,” Trump told reporters. 
On Monday night, Trump administration spokespeople denied reports that the United States was directly attacking Iran amid widespread speculation online. 
“This is not true. American forces are maintaining their defensive posture, and that has not changed. We will defend American interests,” Principal Deputy Communications Director Alex Pfeiffer said. 
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This is not true. American forces are maintaining their defensive posture, and that has not changed. We will defend American interests. <a href="https://t.co/XqWbDvzif0">https://t.co/XqWbDvzif0</a>
— Alex Pfeiffer (@Pfeiffer47) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pfeiffer47/status/1934767323333714181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell <a href="https://x.com/SeanParnellATSD/status/1934768120549286184" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> a similar statement. 
“American Forces are maintaining their defensive posture &amp; that has not changed,” he said. “We will protect American troops &amp; our interests.”

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