September 09, 2026
Getting uglier by the hour.
Trump lays out next moves after Canada’s retaliatory tariffs take effect
By Elisabeth Buchwald
The trade war between the United States and Canada has entered a new chapter — and it’s getting uglier by the hour.
Early Tuesday morning, Canada made good on its promise to impose tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods in retaliation for the Canadian goods President Donald Trump began taxing last month.
Less than 24 hours after those levies went into effect, Trump unveiled his next move to exert more pressure on Ottawa.
Now, tariffs are no longer the only weapon of choice: Trump is prepared to enact outright bans on a slew of Canadian goods. He also threatened to prevent the US government from buying Canadian-made products through a major federal purchasing program unless Canada gives American companies and farmers greater access to its markets.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously vowed “dollar-for-dollar” retaliation and is all but certain to respond to Trump if he moves forward with his threats.
That includes effectively barring Americans from importing a wide range of Canadian-made alcoholic beverages, motorcycles and whey. The ban will take effect on September 29 at 12:01 a.m. ET, according to materials published by the White House on Tuesday evening. Until then, many of the products will be subject to 50% duties.
Trump also expanded the list of products subject to those levies, including golf carts, drawing paper and more steel and aluminum parts.
Trade talks between the two neighbors, which have been top trading partners for close to half a century, broke down last month at the 11th hour. Trump had initially pushed back his self-imposed deadline for the tariffs, touting a deal that was within reach. But the two sides failed to bridge their remaining differences as negotiators haggled over the final details.
Since then, Trump and Carney have traded increasingly pointed jabs. Trump went as far as renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” a move that Canadians and even some Republicans oppose. He also threatened to double auto tariffs to 50% starting next year and plans to ban one of Canada’s top aircraft companies, Bombardier, from selling in the US unless it manufactures them there.
In a response to CNN, the Montreal-based company said it maintains a significant manufacturing presence in the US and has continued to expand in the country. “The American aerospace industry is a clear winner on trade and exports. Bombardier is a strong contributor to the sector, creating tens of thousands of jobs across the United States,” it said.
Throughout the trade talks, Carney has accused the Americans of not negotiating seriously.
“When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions — we can have those discussions,” Carney said last week.
The intensifying trade war between the two neighbors is unfolding just two months before the US midterm elections, putting Republicans in competitive races in the position of explaining their views on tariffs imposed by the president. That includes Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who faces a tough reelection fight and has criticized Trump’s tariffs.
Canadian Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly said the government is specifically tailoring its countermeasures to “put political pressure” on the Trump administration to reconsider its actions. Ottawa, however, exempted American seafood from the 25% duties — a move that spared industries in key states such as Alaska and Maine from a potentially significant hit.
For Americans, this next tit-for-tat could hit closer to home.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said that his province could put restrictions on electricity exports to the border states it supplies, such as New York and Michigan.
Why talks broke down
Canadian officials said their American counterparts pressed Canada to change rules governing how prominently Canadian and French-language content is displayed on streaming platforms, as well as product labeling requirements for English and French. Carney has defended those protections as fundamental to Canadian culture.
“For the Americans, questions about the French language, Quebec culture, francophone culture and Canadian culture are irritants. Here in Quebec, here in Canada, they are rights, fundamental rights,” Carney said last month.
Trump, meanwhile, said, “I would never interfere with Canadians speaking French!” He added in a Truth Social post that he viewed Carney’s stance toward the US as an attempt to strengthen his political base.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has denied that discussions over French-language requirements were the cause of the collapsed talks.
Carney portrayed that as a reversal from the discussions that took place. “All of a sudden, they don’t care about Canadian language or culture and those elements. Well, if they didn’t care, they shouldn’t have kept them in the deal,” Carney said last week.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the deal fell apart because of last-minute requests Canadian trade officials made, including tariff relief for trucks. The US currently imposes a 25% duty on those vehicles, with exemptions for the portion of each vehicle that complies with the trilateral trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico that Trump brokered during his first term. The same 25% duties apply to cars and car parts.
As part of the preliminary deal, the US had agreed to lower auto tariffs to 15%, “with the possibility of going down to 7%,” Greer said in an August interview with CBC News. He also said that they agreed to halve levies on steel and aluminum to 25%.
Who has the upper hand?
On the sidelines of the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers last week, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested America has the upper hand in the trade war. “I don’t think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who’s 13 times larger than you are,” he said in a CNBC interview on August 31.
While it’s true that the US economy is 13 times the size of Canada’s in terms of gross domestic product last year, that doesn’t mean the US can walk away unscathed.
However, Trump on Friday said the US would save money by cutting off trade with Canada. “If we don’t do any trading with Canada, we just end all trade with Canada, we’d save ourselves $90 billion.”
That’s not exactly true: The US-Canadian trade relationship is such that both sides rely on each other for goods that can’t easily be substituted from other trading partners, multiplying the pain both sides feel, irrespective of the size of their economies.
In general, when a trade war breaks out, the smaller economy has more to lose compared to the larger one, said Ari Van Assche, a professor of international business at HEC Montréal who specializes in international trade. That’s because bigger economies tend to rely less on trade to access goods and services compared to smaller economies.
Take, for instance, Ford’s automotive factory in Windsor, Canada, which produces specialized engines for some of the American manufacturer’s biggest trucks.
“It’s difficult for (Ford) to say, ‘Ah, no problem. We’re going to import it now from Mexico,’ because the components made in Mexico are very different,” Van Assche told CNN.
Since businesses often negotiate pricing contracts well in advance of when goods reach ports, consumers on both sides of the border are unlikely to see immediate effects of the new duties, said Gordon Hanson, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School who studies trade and immigration.
But, by next summer, they could see markedly higher prices.
Losing deportation protections
Another group of immigrants may be on the verge of losing deportation protections
By Catherine E. Shoichet, Ione Molinares
Soledad Miranda’s eyes fill with tears as she packs boxes for a move she’s hoping she won’t have to make.
“I feel defeated,” she says.
For 25 years, the program known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has allowed Miranda and around 170,000 other Salvadorans to work legally in the United States and protected them from deportation. Now many are on edge awaiting the Trump administration’s decision on their futures.
“All of us are just holding our breath,” says Abel Nuñez, executive director of the Central American Resource Center in Washington.
Some Salvadorans had hoped the rapport between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and US President Donald Trump could pave the way for a reprieve, even as administration officials have revoked deportation protections for many other nationalities.
But the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t yet made an announcement on TPS for El Salvador. And on Wednesday, which had been the scheduled ending date for Salvadorans’ protections, a written statement from a DHS spokesperson provided few answers.
“An announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time,” the spokesperson said. “Until such announcement is made, Salvadoran individuals present in the U.S. under TPS retain protection.”
How long those protections will last, and what will happen to those Salvadorans’ work permits in the meantime, remains unclear. The most recent guidance from US Citizenship and Immigration Services, issued earlier this month, says those permits expire September 9.
Miranda, 52, came to the US in 1997 and built a life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter, who is a US citizen. Working as a cleaner in a government building, she saved enough money for an apartment she says she can no longer afford if her work authorization expires. So she’s started packing treasured mementos from more than 30 years of her life.
“Now all of that is in this box,” Miranda tells CNN en Español as she gestures at an empty wall in her apartment. “It’s over.”
Still, even as she fears the worst, she’s among a group of advocates pushing for a solution at protests and vigils in Washington, where Salvadorans make up the capital region’s largest foreign-born population.
But she says time is running out – and so is hope.
Some Salvadorans hoped their president would step in
A June Supreme Court decision cleared the way for the Trump administration to end TPS for hundreds of thousands of people.
Administration officials have consistently criticized TPS and touted their efforts to strip the deportation protections they argue had become a de facto amnesty program for undocumented immigrants that was never intended by Congress. So far, under the second Trump administration, officials have revoked TPS for most immigrants who had it, terminating protections for 13 countries. As of mid-August, the protections remained in place for just four countries, including El Salvador, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis.
Recently, the end of TPS has left hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the US vulnerable to deportation – and advocates say fears are growing amid reports of intensifying enforcement.
Like Haitians, Salvadoran TPS holders were first granted protections after a devastating earthquake hit their country. And like Haitians, Salvadoran TPS holders also have a sizeable presence in the US, with the number of beneficiaries estimated at around 170,000 people, many of whom now have US citizen children.
Some Salvadorans have speculated that the positive relationship between Trump and Bukele, who’s made other border security and immigration deals with the US, could be an opening for authorities to take a different approach this time around.
“Some of them still feel that the relationship between…Bukele and Trump will save the day,” Nuñez says.
“I think that’s wishful thinking. But hope is the last thing we lose,” says Jaime Contreras. He’s executive vice president of the Service Employee International Union’s 32BJ Capital Area District, which represents property maintenance workers, doormen, security officers and other workers. He estimates that hundreds of union members in the DC area, and thousands nationally, would be among the many that will lose their jobs if TPS ends for Salvadorans — a move he argues would be cruel to them and economically devastating for the country.
“It doesn’t make any economic sense to take away legal status from people who are documented and can work and are part of our workforce,” he says.
Ending TPS could have an even greater economic impact in El Salvador, where remittances, the money immigrants send home, make up more than 25% of the GDP, according to the World Bank.
And during the first Trump administration, Bukele was outspoken about his discussions with US officials to find ways for Salvadorans on TPS to remain in the US. But he hasn’t made a public push for the extension of TPS for Salvadorans under the second Trump administration.
CNN has reached out to the Salvadoran Embassy in Washington and the Central American country’s immigration office for comment.
Waiting for word on what happens next
Asked by reporters Tuesday about the administration’s plans for Salvadorans with TPS, White House border czar Tom Homan shrugged.
“Well, we’ll have to see what happens. That’s a secretary (of Homeland Security) judgement,” he said. “TPS, Temporary Protected Status, means temporary. And let’s face it, El Salvador is a much safer country than it’s ever been now with the new president over there.”
With no clear announcement from US officials about what’s next, uncertainty has been weighing on many Salvadorans, Nuñez says.
In the meantime, he says, his organization has been advising Salvadorans to consult with trusted advisers or immigration attorneys to see if they have any legal immigration pathways.
“Right now, it’s the quiet before the storm,” he says.
As she waits for word, Miranda says she’s most worried about her daughter’s future. She’s a standout student who’s just beginning her junior year of high school.
“I already had my life planned out — that I would leave of my own free will, not by force,” she says, “and now I won’t be able to see my daughter achieve her dreams, the way I achieved mine.”
But we totally destroyed it????? Oh yea, a fucking lie by dummy donnie...
‘Surge in construction’ at suspected Iranian nuclear site, analysts say, as US considers ways to strike deep underground
By Davis Winkie, Zachary Cohen, Thomas Bordeaux
A suspected Iranian nuclear site buried under granite has seen a flurry of construction work this year as the war with the US has transpired, according to a group of analysts who reviewed six years of satellite imagery.
The Pickaxe Mountain site, located near the Natanz nuclear complex roughly 140 miles south of Tehran, has been the subject of steady discussion by intelligence agencies which view it as a likely location for Iran to protect future nuclear program efforts.
According to a new satellite imagery analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, shared exclusively with CNN ahead of its publication, there has been “a clear surge in construction activity” this year.
The underground facility is “likely” designed to be a safe haven for Iran’s nuclear program, according to the CSIS analysts.
Israeli intelligence has suggested that Iran may be seeking to move centrifuges to the location as part of uranium enrichment efforts, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike the site.
“We may hit Pickaxe very soon,” Trump told reporters last week, adding that “we know everybody that’s moving” at the site.
The granite mountain, however, presents a difficult target to even the Pentagon’s “heaviest non-nuclear” bombs, the CSIS team reported. And It’s not the only Iranian nuclear facility feared to be out of reach for current-generation weapons.
But there are signs the US is working to devise some means of striking those sites, even as US forces have largely focused on other types of targets during the six-month conflict with Iran.
Four days before the US launched Operation Epic Fury, a program manager at an obscure Pentagon agency charged with combating weapons of mass destruction signed an emergency $1.2 million contract justification to repair a “unique subterranean test facility at White Sands Missile Range” in New Mexico for a “live-fire test designed to validate classified capabilities against rapidly emerging threats.”
The document from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was uploaded to a federal database on February 27 — the day before the war started.
The memo said the “rapid test prep,” as another database labeled the contract awarded to Pate Construction, needed to be complete within two-to-three weeks due to “a time-sensitive national security directive.”
The plans for the test were connected to the Iran war, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and the need to develop a way to target Iran’s deepest-buried underground facilities and, likely, simulate US strikes against specific nuclear facilities.
The US previously struck nuclear sites in June 2025 as part of what the military called Operation Midnight Hammer. While the strikes successfully destroyed some key locations linked to Tehran’s nuclear program, a top US general told lawmakers last year that the deeply buried Isfahan nuclear site only had its entrances buried because the Pentagon believed its bunker-busting bombs — known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator — could not knock it out.
The military is working to develop a “next generation penetrator” bomb to succeed the current MOP and potentially hit targets even more deeply buried. A contract to begin work on a prototype was awarded in September 2025, and the Air Force solicited defense industry sources for the new weapon in June.
Satellite imagery reviewed by CNN shows that between February 16 and February 18, excavation work began at a remote DTRA and US Strategic Command-operated site at White Sands intended to test the effects of weapons on deeply buried targets. The timing aligns with that of the emergency contract: Pate Construction provided an estimate for the test work on February 17 and received the deal the next day, according to federal contracting records.
Work at the remote location, known as the Alternate Seismic Hardrock in Situ Test Site, continued into mid-March as a pile of excavation dirt gradually grew. The round of activity appeared to halt then, according to the imagery.
CNN could not independently verify whether the test occurred, nor could CNN confirm the purpose of the work at the DTRA test site observed via satellite imagery. The Pentagon did not immediately reply to questions from CNN. Pate Construction did not return calls from a CNN reporter.
The US military maintains operational plans for strikes against Pickaxe, and it was part of a target package that was under consideration earlier this summer when Trump was threatening to escalate the conflict with Iran, according to a source familiar with the matter. The strike plan for Pickaxe involved using some of the largest bombs in the US arsenal, though it remains unclear if those munitions can penetrate deep enough underground to destroy whatever Iran may have moved there, the source added.
Efforts to develop plans for decisive strikes against underground facilities continue; a source familiar with the matter told CNN that elements within the Defense Department recently held a “planning sprint” on the topic.
The facility at Pickaxe Mountain is “likely” designed for one of three purposes, all related to Iran’s nuclear program, according to the CSIS analysis. It could be a centrifuge assembly facility, an enrichment facility, or a safe haven for other “nuclear weapons-relevant” work such as uranium metal conversion.
In their report, the CSIS analysts argued the construction at the site “has shifted from active excavation toward probably internal construction and continued exterior reinforcement.” Pickaxe Mountain in 2026 has seen “more road activity” than ever before, and additional work has included “raising and hardening of the (tunnel) portal accesses, paving of the internal road network, reinforcement around access areas, and the flattening and removal” of dirt excavated while building its tunnels, the report said.
The CSIS analysts cautioned that the “continuous construction” they’ve observed at Pickaxe Mountain, among other factors, suggests the site “is not yet capable of enrichment work, if that is the intended purpose.”
Witness XZ Andromedae Wink
Is this star winking at us? The central object in today’s animation is not one but two stars. XZ Andromedae, indicated by the bold lines, is an Algol-type eclipsing binary with a nearly edge-on orbit from Earth’s perspective. The bottom light curve shows the amount of light from the system dim and brighten as the cooler star eclipses its hotter, brighter companion. Analysis of several XZ Andromedae light curves indicates there may be two other stars orbiting the system. This particular light curve was created with Citizen Astronomy, an open-source software for differential photometry. The software takes the difference in brightness between a target and comparison star and traces its behavior over time. This technique reduces most variations from the instrument and Earth’s atmosphere. In addition to eclipsing binaries, this analysis is useful for studying transiting exoplanets, accreting black holes, supernovae, and many more time-varying astronomical phenomena. Astrophotographers: try it out on your own data!
Look. He is fucking insane......
Trump Falsely Suggest He Was Pulled from Ground Zero on 9/11
Sam Van Pykeren
Where was Donald Trump on 9/11? Getting pulled from Ground Zero by firefighters, he seemed to claim on Tuesday.
Nup.
“We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big strong guys… they grabbed me under the arms, said, ‘got to get out of here!’ and they literally lifted me up… and they started running with me,” the president said in a rambling speech at a memorial ceremony near the White House on Tuesday morning.
But calling into a local television station a few hours after the attacks in 2001, the real estate developer recounted watching an explosion out of his Trump Tower window more than four miles from the Twin Towers. True to form, he found a way to make the moment about himself, adding that his building, 40 Wall Street, was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan.
The president has landed himself in several 9/11-related controversies in the last 25 years. During the 2016 presidential race, he ignored pleas to help 9/11 first responders pass the reauthorization of the law that set up a health care fund for the police, firefighters, and other rescue workers. In 2015, he falsely said “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City cheered the destruction of the Twin Towers. And after the attacks, he “ignored the federal definition of a small business” to collect economic recovery aid meant to go to small businesses for his building at 40 Wall Street.
This year, Trump will be the only living president not in attendance at the Ground Zero memorial ceremony in New York City for the 25th anniversary of the attacks, in part because the ceremony’s organizers wouldn’t let him deliver a speech, according to a New York Times report. Trump responded by saying the story was made up and calling Times reporter Maggie Haberman, one of the four reporters bylined on the story, “Maggot.”
Handling of Anniversary Data
Dems Ask for Probe Into Trump Team’s Handling of Anniversary Data
Lawmakers want answers about links between Freedom 250 and the president’s political operation.
Dan Friedman
This summer, the Trump administration celebrated the country’s 250th anniversary with a series of splashy events that it insisted were nonpartisan. Tens of thousands of Americans signed up online to grab free tickets for gatherings like the Great American State Fair, the July 4 fireworks show in Washington, and the Patriot Games in Ohio. When they registered to attend those festivities, online forms requested their phone numbers, email address and ZIP codes.
But few attendees likely realized that they were handing over their personal information to a private vendor that also works for Trump-linked political organizations. Campaign Nucleus—one of several firms owned by former Trump campaign official Brad Parscale—provided the forms used to register for high-profile semiquincentennial events this year.
Campaign Nucleus is one of various vendors with close ties to Trump’s campaign apparatus that was hired by Freedom 250, the group set up last year to help Trump control planning for the anniversary. Rushing to stage the kinds of high-profile events Trump wanted, the operatives running Freedom 250, who are themselves veterans of Trump campaigns, doled out large contracts to fellow MAGA insiders for event planning, public relations, and digital support. As Mother Jones has detailed, much of this was on American taxpayers’ dime.
Citing the cozy ties between annivesarry planners and GOP campaign efforts, House Democrats in a letter Tuesday asked the Government Accountability Office—the investigative arm of Congress—to examine whether pro-Trump political operatives have used data generated from the anniversary events to help Republicans in November.
“President Trump and his allies are in a position to use information on American voters, harvested with taxpayer money and government resources, in an attempt to tip the scales in the upcoming midterm elections,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Joseph Morelle (D.-N.Y.), the top Democrats on the House Natural Resources and House Adminstration committees, respectively, wrote in a letter Tuesday asking the GAO to investigate.
USA Today reported in July that Americans seeking tickets to the Great American State Fair had to fill out forms that required them to submit their emails and phone numbers. Registrants also encountered a link to 45.donaldjtrump.com, a site that solicited donations to the pro-Trump political action committee Never Surrender.
Freedom250 has said this link was included in error. But the Democrats’ letter said the committee found that an account used to sign up for the fair continued to receive emails seeking donations for Never Surrender for weeks.
Huffman and Morelle said these solicitations represent “a stunning misuse of Freedom 250 resources.” Freedom 250 has received at least $86 million in federal funds intended for nonpartisan anniversary celebrations.
The emails mean “that either Freedom 250 is so closely tied to the Trump campaign that it is using the campaign PAC’s email for its own regular business purposes, or that Freedom 250’s mailing list has already been shared with the Trump campaign and the campaign is utilizing it for outreach,” the Democrats argued. “In either scenario, it is clear that Freedom 250 and the Trump campaign are co-mingling their activities and using Freedom 250’s collected data to point registrants to a campaign PAC’s website.”
“A national contact list assembled at taxpayer expense, enriched with geolocation and behavioral data and scored for persuadability, is an asset of extraordinary value to a party heading into a midterm election,” the lawmakers said.
Freedom 250 is a limited liability company set up under the National Park Foundation, a nonprofit that is itself run by the Interior Department. This unusual structure has so far enabled the group to mostly avoid congressional scrutiny, including over its data policies. “It is unclear what safeguards exist to prevent data collected by Freedom 250 from migrating to Freedom 250’s political allies,” the lawmakers wrote.
Parscale’s companies did not respond to inquiries from Mother Jones about how they handle personal information provided by Americans who signed up for Freedom 250 events. A Freedom 250 spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Freedom 250 also sells anniversary-themed merchandise through an online store operated by another Trump campaign-linked vendor, Ace Specialties. Ace touts itself as a former official merchandise site for Trump’s campaigns and as a premier provider of apparel “for Republicans.” Through its online storefront on Freedom 250’s site, Ace “collects billing and mailing addresses” when orders are placed, information that “could easily be offered as a product” to the Republican National Committee or pro-Trump PACS, the Democratic members of Congress wrote. The lawmakers did not provide evidence indicating ACE had actually provided consumer information to any Republican-aligned entities.
Ace also sells Freedom 250 pins. As Mother Jones has reported, National Park Service officials ordered many agency employees to wear those pins at public events this summer and encouraged federal employees to buy them in bulk from the Louisiana-based company. Ace’s CEO did not respond to an inquiry.
Maybe she feels cheated, Stormy got $130,000....
Trump’s Mysterious $45,000 Cash Gift to Natalie Harp
The president’s eerily devoted aide received quite the generous Christmas bonus.
Inae Oh
The national gossip over Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump’s most devoted aide and “human printer,” has now reached the natural stage to which most stories closely associated with the president land: a glaring, potentially illegal ethics violation.
According to financial disclosures released by the Trump administration, Trump gave Harp and two other White House staffers, Margo Martin and Chamberlain Harris, $45,000 as “Cash Gift for Holidays,” a highly unusual practice that appears to violate federal law prohibiting outside sources from offering supplemental income to federal employees.
“The President has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private sector,” the White House said in a statement posted to social media. “The gifts at issue here have nothing to do with any of these individuals’ official government duties, and therefore are entirely permissible under relevant legal and ethical standards.”
Trump indeed has a habit of dropping random wads of cash onto unsuspecting beneficiaries, from DoorDash drivers delivering his McDonald’s to undocumented workers at his golf resorts. It’s the kind of showy generosity that has a helluva lot more to do with the instant satisfaction the benefactor gets from looking like the big guy in the room than any actual magnanimity.
But if gifting $45,000 to Harp feels like something else entirely, that’s because Harp is eerily, if not freakishly, close to the president. And we all know this now after MAGA freaked out over a small line Sen. Jon Ossoff tucked into a recent campaign speech:
“While [Trump] fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”
The subtext—that Harp’s near-constant presence around the president is the stuff of cult-like devotion—only works, of course, because of the slew of anecdotes demonstrating exactly that: a fierce, unrelenting love for Donald Trump. That includes Harp crediting him with saving her life after a cancer diagnosis, living in the locker room of his Bedminster golf course just to be closer to Trump, and stuffing herself into the trunk of an SUV to accompany the president after initially being denied a normal human seat.
Which is to say, all behavior that not even $45,000 could get this writer to replicate, ever.
Blowing up slow moving defenseless ships is not good...
CENTCOM says it destroyed 5 Iranian oil tankers in new round of strikes
The U.S. destroyed three Iranian tankers three days earlier.
By Jalen Beckford
U.S. Central Command said Tuesday it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the second round of retaliatory strikes in recent days.
The U.S. launched the latest strikes after Iran twice targeted an American Navy ship with ballistic missiles, Central Command said in a statement.
The U.S. ship, which was not identified, evaded the attack and continued its mission to enforce a blockade of Iranian oil shipments aimed at forcing an end to a 6-month war that has eroded support for President Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms.
U.S. forces directed the crews of the Iranian vessels to abandon their ships before striking them in the Gulf of Oman and near Iran’s Kharg Island, CENTCOM said.
CENTCOM said the tankers belonged to a multi-billion-dollar network used to fund the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its regional allies.
The strikes came three days after the U.S. destroyed three other Iranian tankers following attempted attacks on an aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer.
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