President Donald Trump shot down AI Czar David Sacks’s suggestion that Israel might use a nuclear weapon against Iran on Monday.

During a Q&A session with reporters, RealClearPolitics’ Philip Wegmann asked the president, “One of your advisors, David Sacks, said the other week that the U.S. should, quote, ‘declare victory and get out of the Iran war.’ He also warned that if the conflict escalates, Israel may contemplate the use of a nuclear weapon. Has he shared that assessment with you?”

Trump replied:

No, he hasn’t. Israel wouldn’t do that. Israel would never do that, and yeah, there’s, no, there’s a theory. You pounded them to hell and you can just leave now and it’ll take 10 years for them to build back not nearly what they have right now. And I guess that’s another theory, but we want to have it ended so that another president doesn’t have-, look, for 47 years, no president was willing to do what I’m doing, and they should have done it a long time ago, it would have been a lot easier. There’s no president that wanted to do it, and yet every president knew. I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like, actually, a past president, former president, he said, “I wish I did it. I wish I did,” but they didn’t do it. I’m doing it.

“Israel could just be destroyed or very large parts of it,” claimed Sacks on his All-In podcast before suggesting the Israelis might contemplate the use of a nuclear weapon.

Watch above via CNN.

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The Apple Watch Ultra 2 was released in September 2023, and after the Ultra 3 dropped two years later, it was inevitable that the Ultra 2 would see a price reduction. The cool thing is, you don't need the latest model to receive the latest WatchOS features, since Apple has a good record of updating its products for many years to come. The Ultra 3 does offer a few features the Ultra 2 lacks, including 5G cellular connectivity and satellite connectivity, but the latter is still an beast of a smartwatch, and a great buy at this price.

The Ultra is the premium Apple Watch model, with the biggest case size, brightest screen (3,000 nits), deepest water resistance (100 meters), and longest battery life (about 55 hours on average depending on your use), and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is packed with fitness-focused features. Even if you aren’t a health nut, it also has a lot of great features for casual users. (People who want a reliable sleep tracker can learn a lot about their sleep habits with the Ultra 2.) You can read more about this watch on PCMag's "excellent" review.

If you want to spend less and still get a good device, the first-generation Apple Watch Ultra can be found for $314.94 refurbished at Amazon. The newer Apple Watch Series 11 is $399 right now.

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Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) called for Tucker Carlson to be prosecuted if federal investigators find out he has been a “traitor” and covertly working with Iran’s theocratic regime.

Miller shared his blunt assessment of Carlson and the situation he’s in on Sunday, one day after Carlson claimed the Justice Department would soon charge him for being an unregistered foreign agent; Carlson said he was being targeted for “talking to people in Iran before the war,” which he said the CIA found out by spying on his text messages.

The congressmen said that if Carlson is telling the truth — and if he really committed “treason” — he has to pay the price.

“Everyone has always known Tucker is in love with himself and happy to sell falsehoods for attention,” Miller posted on X. “The Left excels at this, when Tucker fully joined them it was just sad.”

He continued, “Now? Treason. If Tucker really worked with Iran against’s America’s interests, he is a traitor and should be prosecuted.”

No charges have been made yet.

Carlson on Saturday said he’d learned the CIA had recommended to the DOJ that he be prosecuted for his text messages leading up to the war on Iran, but did not offer details on who he was texting with or what those texts were about. The former cable news star also suggested “some” CIA workers could be targeting him because of his “views about Israel.”

“The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report to the Department of Justice, on the basis of a supposed crime I committed,” Carlson said in his video explanation. “What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts.”

He denied any wrongdoing.

Carlson has since been critical of the joint U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of other leaders. He called the strikes “absolutely disgusting and evil,” and said Operation Epic Fury was being “waged” strictly on behalf of Israel.

President Donald Trump booted Carlson from his Make America Great Again movement in response.

“Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on March 5. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”

Trump has also ripped those who suggested the U.S. attacked Iran because it was “forced” to by Israel. The president told ABC’s Rachel Scott earlier this month, “If anything, I might’ve forced Israel’s hand.”

Carlson on Saturday said the U.S. intelligence community could be aiming to “humiliate and terrify” him with the charges.

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Comedian and pundit Bill Maher mocked President Donald Trump and his top officials as “the gayest” administration ever over issues like Secretary of State Pete Hegseth’s unflattering photo ban and Trump’s attention to foot stuff.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Gov. Josh Shapiro, Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and author of the new book “Where We Keep the Light: Stories From a Life of Service.”

The panel guests were Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director under President Trump and author of the new book “All The Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump”; and Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and author of the book “Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs.” 

Maher devoted part of his monologue to lampooning Trump’s interest in redecorating and men’s shoe sizes, and Hegseth’s wounded vanity:

BILL MAHER: Don’t take that the wrong way. I’m on our side. OK, I’m for us winning, right? I’m not on that page of Trump did it, so I’m with the Ayatollah now.

But I got to say, they are looking a little nervous in our war room. The Pentagon banned photographers this week for the briefings because Pete Hegseth said some of the pictures of him looked unflattering.

Pete wants you to know two things about our military. This is the new alpha male, very masculine, non-woke military. Also, don’t get my bad side.

CHEERS AND LAUGHTER.

And–. So this is the most macho administration we’ve ever had. Also the gayest.

I gotta say. I don’t mean litera–, I just, a lot of redecorating. I’m just saying.

Also, Trump has a new thing. I’m not making this up. He’s guessing other men’s shoe size. Have you seen, am I making this sh*t up? I’m, he has been.

He looks at other men and guesses their shoe size and then they send them a pair. The entire cabinet is wearing shoes. He got them, including Marco Rubio, where they didn’t fit, so he’s in clown shoes.

I’m just saying. It’s a little weird for a man to look at other men and go, “What you got down there, a nine and a half?”

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

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Liberal podcaster Jennifer Welch declared former President Joe Biden “f*cked” Americans by failing to push harder for a prosecution of President Donald Trump.

Welch, host of the I’ve Had It podcast, joined Samantha Bee on Thursday on her Choice Words podcast, and Welch admitted some fairly mixed feelings about Biden despite being “excited” about his 2020 election victory.

While blasting Trump’s administration, she turned her frustrations to Biden and former attorney general Merrick Garland.

“My brain goes to g*ddamnit it, Joe Biden f*cked us,” Welch said. “He f*cked us so hard. Oh my God. Because Merrick Garland should have prosecuted [Trump].”

She argued Biden should have pushed his Department of Justice to focus more on Trump and the January 6 Capitol riot, specifically the “funders” behind it.

“You f*cked us so hard. You f*cked us. And I like Joe Biden. I was so excited when he won. But he had one important appointment, who you appointed to be attorney general. You should have said, ‘Look, you’re going to be independent, but if you’re not interested in putting the people who paid for this in jail,'” Welch said.

Biden should have told Garland to go “full tilt,” she added. She admitted at one point it was “unfathomable” that Trump was reelected to the White House after the Capitol riot and his numerous legal battles.

Welch accused Biden of waiting too long to appoint Jack Smith as a special prosecutor to oversee investigations into Trump related to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

“Did [Biden] do the CHIPS Act? Did he do the Infrastructure Act? Did he do all of those things? Yes,” she said. “And all of those are great. But the biggest threat now is that we had fascism at the door.”

Watch above via Choice Words with Samantha Bee.

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The cameras are excellent, with three lenses (200MP, 50MP, 50MP, and 10MP). The front-facing camera is a 12MP. You'll notice the hardware isn't very different from the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but there are new features. One is the pro video recording feature, which lets you record to external drives and shoot in the APV codec (Samsung's pro video codec); more advanced photographers will enjoy the higher resolution video formats. There's also a new video stabilizer to keep your videos from looking bumpy, new AI processors to bring out details in photos, better night-time shooting features, and more.

You'll notice there is a clear price jump compared to the previous generation, but hopefully the $200 Amazon gift card helps alleviate that pain. You can learn more about the Galaxy S26 Ultra on PCMag's s"excellent" review.

CNN’s Manu Raju pressed Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL) about rising gas prices during a Republican retreat attended by President Donald Trump.

Giménez and others attended a policy conference in Doral, Florida, this week where Trump spoke. Raju was also there, and he spoke to a number of Republican lawmakers, which he reported on Thursday on Inside Politics with Dana Bash. Bash played a clip of a briefly tense moment between Raju and Giménez as Raju pressed about rising gas prices.

“I think this is temporary, and then I think the gas prices will go down,” Giménez said.

“If it doesn’t?” Raju asked.

“I’m saying your premise is wrong. It will, okay? I’m saying that —” the lawmaker said as Raju pressed furhter.

“You’re just hoping,” Raju said.

“And so are you,” Giménez shot back.

“I’m not hoping. I’m positing the question,” Raju said.

“I’m not hoping. I am confident that this is not going to last a long time, okay? And I’m confident of that, and in the end, I guess let’s say about a month from now, we’ll have this conversation again and see who was right,” Giménez said.

The current national average price for gas is approximately $3.60, according to AAA. A month ago, the national average was just below $3. Most of the increase in price has come amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Raju said on Thursday that he heard mixed messages from Republican lawmakers on how to deal with gas prices. Some, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), argue that an uptick in gas prices is better than Iran having a nuclear weapon, while others, like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), told Raju Republicans are losing on their affordability messaging, and it could impact the midterms.

“That’s really what the Republican plan is to deal with gas prices: hope,” Raju said. “Hope that this ends sometime soon, hope that the economy, the crude oil market will stabilize, hope gas prices will come down, and hope that this does not undercut their own affordability message come November, but you talk to other Republicans, and they say, hope is not a plan.”

In a Thursday Truth Social post, Trump tried to give a positive spin to prices going up amid the global conflict.

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” he wrote.

Watch above via CNN.

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