President Donald Trump said negotiations to end the war with Iran are going “very well” – but if they suddenly go sideways, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ready to pummel the country.

Trump shared an update on the deal talks on Wednesday during a televised cabinet meeting. When a reporter asked the president if he could estimate what “yard line” the deal was on in football terms, Trump opted against channeling his inner Bill Belichick.

“They are starting to give us the things that they have to give us, and if they do, that’s great,” Trump said. “And if they won’t, then the man on my left is going to finish ’em off.”

He was referring to Hegseth, who was sitting to his immediate left.

The reporter then asked if Trump could offer a time frame on when the war would end. Trump said it would happen “quickly,” but that he doesn’t like talking about timing too much.

“The problem is, every time I mention a time frame —  for instance… we’ve been doing this for a few months,” Trump said. “Vietnam lasted 19 years. Korea lasted eight years. Afghanistan lasted many years. They were all many, many years. And we’re into it for a few months. And I read about you, people like you, [saying] ‘What’s taking so long?'”

He then talked about the American troops who were killed during Operation Epic Fury.

“We lost 13 souls, 13 great people. [I] met the parents, great people. Uh, and it’s a terrible thing. But 13. If you look at the war casualties and the deaths and wars for Vietnam and all that, they lost hundreds of thousands of people in numerous of these wars,” Trump said. “We’re very cognizant of that. We want to lose very few, we want very few to be injured. We’re very, uh, we’re very careful. But war is war. War is dangerous.”

Trump’s comments come a few days after he said a deal would be announced “shortly.” The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Iranian state TV said the country had received a draft of a preliminary deal, but the Trump administration “quickly dismissed” the report.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters earlier in the meeting that the U.S. was not budging on its position that Iran can never develop a nuclear weapon, among other points the U.S. is working to hammer out.

Watch above via CNN.

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MS NOW’s Dr. Vin Gupta accused the White House of putting out “very questionable” information on Donald Trump’s health as the president wraps up his third visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in the past year.

“We know the president had a CT scan at his last visit in October, although they didn’t disclose that immediately,” said host Ana Cabrera. “He was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency last summer. And in a colonoscopy in July, Trump had a diverticulosis and a benign polyp diagnosis. Is there any of this that would be cause for major concern?”

“From what you just said, no, none of those conditions in and of itself,” Gupta said. “But I think the broader concern here are two-fold. One, will his doctors be honest, Ana, or will they continue to editorialize?”

Gupta continued:

You know, we didn’t know — they didn’t even know — that he had a CT scan. They claimed initially, and they even put out a memo saying he had an MRI. And the president on Air Force One had to say, no, he got a CT scan. How does a physician, especially the physician to the president, not know what advanced imaging their patient is getting? So that, number one.

Number two, they last time back in October, they they put out a highly skeptical readout of his physique, claiming that he had an “NFL linebacker’s physique: six-three, about 220.” You know, hard to believe — not credible. And then also sweeping statements on his lab values and his imaging saying that they’re quote unquote, “astonishingly good,” in the past. These are not normal descriptors or readouts of what a physician typically would use when describing their patient’s health. So will they stop editorializing and just be honest and provide real data? We’ll see. But right now it’s been very questionable what they put out.

Gupta mentioned the Montreal cognitive assessment tool Trump talks about at his political rallies.

“He says he aces those tests,” Cabrera said.

“Exactly. And that is not a marker. That’s not what we utilize to assess one’s executive functioning. Are they able to plan, think under pressure, make decisions under pressure? Do they have impulse control? These are what we analyze with finer tools, neurologic tools, to assess executive functioning. Not this scrappy tool that he keeps citing,” Gupta said.

“So there’s a lot of inconsistencies here, but I am not confident we’re going to get honest, non-editorialized medical information today, because that’s not been in keeping with the pattern of his physicians,” Gupta added.

Watch the clip above via MS NOW.

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The network that broadcasts Boston Red Sox games has pulled a campaign ad from U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, who bashes team ownership in the spot.

Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee, released a 15-second ad that features lettering that is the same font and color as the Red Sox logo. The team is owned by Fenway Sports Group, a conglomerate that also owns the Pittsburgh Penguins and Liverpool F.C. FSG, which is run by John W. Henry, also owns New England Sports Network, which airs Red Sox games.

In the ad, Platner accuses FSG of having ruined the Red Sox and says he misses superstar Mookie Betts, whom the team traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020.

“Private equity has destroyed our favorite baseball team, stripping them for parts,” Platner says in the spot. “Private equity is buying up our homes, our sports, and our lives. I will reverse the private equity curse. I’m Graham Platner and I approved this message because I miss Mookie Betts.”

“Yesterday we started running this ad during the Red Sox game,” Platner posted on social media. “Midway through the game the ad was taken down by the station.”

NESN aired the ad during Saturday’s game, but the network stopped airing it partway through the telecast. On Saturday, NESN confirmed to The New York Times that it had yanked the ad.

“NESN removes advertisements when credible concerns arise regarding the use of intellectual property,” the statement said. “The advertisement in question was removed because the creative included unauthorized use of third-party intellectual property and did not comply with NESN’s advertising standards.”

The network did not specify what the alleged intellectual property issue was.

Henry bought the Red Sox in 2001, and since then the team has captured four World Series titles, more than any other team since that time. However, in recent years, ownership has been heavily criticized for trading Betts in 2020, third/first baseman Rafael Devers in 2025, and for not spending enough in free agency to shore up the offense. The team is currently in last place in the American League East.

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President Donald Trump joked that few service members named Donald were buried at the historic military cemetery where he delivered a Memorial Day address.

Trump spoke at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to honor fallen U.S. military members, including those laid to rest at the site of his speech. After praising the family members of deceased veterans who attended the address, the president noted the names of some of the military personnel buried at the cemetery, chuckling when his own name came up in the list.

“Four hundred thousand souls rest on these grounds, these beautiful grounds,” Trump said.

He continued:

In this sacred soil, which is first consecrated in the hours of America’s greatest division to be eternal symbol, national unity. It cannot be by chance alone that the very first service laid to rest here in this place of supreme sacrifice was a Union soldier by the name of Private Christman. Private William Henry Christman of Pennsylvania, who died, 19 years old. He was a great young man, they say.

Beside him are more than eighteen thousand other young men named William, over twenty thousand named John, over thirteen thousand named James—joined over time by Isaacs, Elijahs, Earls, Hanks, Helens, Juans, Margarets, Marius, Donalds—not too many– and others whose names tell the true story of American greatness.

The president’s words ring true to his own personal history of consistent draft deferments during the Vietnam War. The move sparked controversy during his first term and was recently reignited due to Trump’s war with Iran and his frequent comments about Vietnam while discussing his latest military conflict.

“I would’ve won Vietnam very quickly,” the president told CNBC’s Squawk Box in April.

Trump deferred the draft four times while attending college, and an additional time after graduation, due to a diagnosis of “bone spurs” given to him by a family doctor. That medical claim has since been called into question by that doctor’s daughter, who told press in 2018 the diagnosis was “a favor.”

Watch above via C-SPAN.

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced on Monday that he has filed to run for Congress in 2028.

Massie lost Tuesday’s Republican primary for Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District to Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL officer. President Donald Trump endorsed Gallrein after Massie had become a thorn in the president’s side. Last year, the congressman co-sponsored a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release its files relating to deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Trump’s. The president denies knowledge of Epstein’s illegal activities. Massie also opposes Trump’s war on Iran.

“I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race,” Massie announced on X on Monday. “This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office. I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.”

Earlier in the day, the president posted a Memorial Day message on Truth Social, where he singled out Massie, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who also lost to a Trump-backed GOP primary challenger, and Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is retiring.

“I laugh at all of the Dumocrats, RINOS, and Fools who know nothing about the potential deal I am making with Iran, things that haven’t even been negotiated yet, weak and ineffective people like failed Senator Thom Tillis (Soon out of office!), Bill Cassidy, who just suffered a massive Primary loss, really bad Congressman Thomas Massie, a major sleazebag who lost in a landslide to a great American Patriot (Endorsed by “TRUMP”) after showing tremendous disloyalty to his Party,” the president wrote.

In an interview with Meet the Press on Sunday, Massie said he planned to release the names of more individuals who appear in the Epstein files. He also accused acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of not releasing all of the files in compliance with federal law.

“Todd Blanche is violating the law,” Massie said. “There’s still millions of files they haven’t released. We know from talking to the victims’ lawyers that their own 302 forms haven’t been released. We know that files have been over-redacted. I have released at least three names of billionaires who are implicated in this.”

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UFC boss Dana White said critics who brand President Donald Trump a racist don’t know what the hell they’re talking about because Trump had a great relationship with one of the most famous Black men in history — Michael Jackson.

White defended his old pal during a podcast interview with The New Yorker editor David Remnick on May 22.

“These things that he’s a racist and he’s a Nazi and he’s this and that — I mean, Donald Trump, all this stuff’s coming out now,” White said. “You know, the Michael movie just came out, and you see all these videos now popping up of Trump defending Michael Jackson and the type of person that he was and that Michael Jackson was around his children and around his family a lot.”

Remnick raised his hands in disbelief at that example.

“But wait a minute, Dana! Michael Jackson — as talented as he was, as brilliant as he was — was a deeply, deeply flawed human being, to say the least,” Remnick said. “And was abusive [from] everything we know about him.”

White said there was “no doubt” the “King of Pop” was flawed, before asking “he was abusive?”

“To kids, yes. It’s terrible,” Remnick said.

He was obviously referring to Jackson being accused of sexually abusing multiple children, including claims made against the “Beat It” singer in 1993 and a criminal trial against him a decade later. Jackson was acquitted on all counts in 2005.

“I don’t know if that’s true, but I can tell you the president had a very good relationship with Michael Jackson and had Michael Jackson around his kids all the time,” White responded. “And you know, defended him when that stuff was going down. So to call the guy a racist is crazy. He’s not a racist.”

Remnick said he didn’t want to push the topic too much more, but he asked White if he got “the willies” from Trump posting a video depictinng ex-President Barack Obama as an ape earlier this year.

“If he was that type of person, I never would associate with that type of a person, no matter who he was,” White said.

” But if he does that, how is he not that kind of person?” Remnick followed up.

“He’s not,” White told him.

Watch above via YouTube.

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