It began with 900 strikes before breakfast. It ended with a phone call from Islamabad and 126 words on Truth Social. Between those two moments: 38 days, 1,497 deaths, $144 oil, a closed strait, and the most consequential geopolitical crisis of the 21st century. Here is the complete story. WASHINGTON / TEHRAN / ISLAMABAD —…
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He handpicked them. He fought Senate battles to confirm them. He called them his greatest legacy. Now Donald Trump is calling two of his own Supreme Court justices “a disgrace to our nation” and saying they “sicken” him. Welcome to the most extraordinary judicial soap opera in American political history. The story of Trump versus…
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For 47 years, the United States dictated the terms to Iran. On April 7, 2026, Iran submitted a 10-point peace plan — and the President of the United States said it was a reasonable starting point. Read that again slowly. ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON — Something historically extraordinary happened inside the April 7 ceasefire announcement —…
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Thirty-eight days of war. 1,497 dead. Oil at $144. The Strait of Hormuz closed for the first time in history. Then one Truth Social post — and it was gone. Not resolved. Not won. Just paused. And the clock is already running on the most consequential 14 days in modern Middle East history. ISLAMABAD /…
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At 6:32 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Donald Trump tapped out a post on Truth Social. He announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran and said Tehran’s 10-point peace proposal was a “workable basis on which to negotiate.” The Strait of Hormuz — the 21-mile chokepoint through which 20% of the world’s daily oil supply…
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For 47 years, Iran held the only keys to the world’s most critical oil chokepoint. One war, one ceasefire, and one Truth Social post later — Trump has a copy. The question is what he does with them. WASHINGTON — The Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point. Through it flows…
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On the morning of April 5, 2026, Donald Trump posted a characteristically blunt warning on Truth Social: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.” Forty-eight hours later, the war paused.…
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At 8 a.m. on April 7, 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his self-imposed deadline. By 6:32 p.m. — ninety minutes before that deadline — Iran blinked. A two-week ceasefire was announced,…
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He calls them ultimatums. He posts them in capital letters. Markets move. Foreign governments scramble. And then — the deadline passes. Extended. Repackaged. Or quietly forgotten. This is not a bug in Trump’s strategy. Critics say it may be the strategy itself. WASHINGTON — Donald Trump speaks in deadlines the way other presidents speak in…
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It has happened with China. With North Korea. With the Taliban. With Canada and Mexico. With tariffs. Now with Iran. Donald Trump runs the same four-step playbook every time — and every time, the world acts surprised when it works. WASHINGTON — Watch it long enough and the pattern becomes impossible to miss. Step one:…