President Trump’s son Barron Trump is launching a yerba mate drink company called SOLLOS next month. It is branded as a “lifestyle beverage brand.” Do you think it fits my “lifestyle” of paying high taxes to fund nuclear war on innocent people?
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Lead: Deadly Whirlpools
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President Trump says that, yes, gas prices are about to go up but this probably “won’t be that much longer.”
Since peace talks with Iran failed over the weekend and Iran refuses refuses to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, the President’s plan is to make sure that no country can pass through the Strait on a deal negotiated directly with Iran.
It’s giving: If I can’t have you, no one can.
U.S. Central Command says that it will implement “a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation.”
The President said that “other countries” will be involved in enforcing this blockade but U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: Not us, actually! No thanks.
So what does this mean? If China or Russia continues trading with Iran under a privately negotiated deal, the U.S. will impede Chinese and Russian ships? How!?
Iran warned that “any miscalculated move will trap the enemy in the deadly whirlpools” of the Strait and that military vessels approaching the Strait of Hormuz “will be dealt with severely.”
No one really knows how this works so we’ll just have to wait and see if a deadly pirate war begins this week. Or another land war. President Trump indicated that might happen too.
I had kinda hoped it would be an easier week after that whole we’re-going-to-kill-an-entire-civilization thing last week but no such luck.
Religious War
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Does President Trump think he is God?
The President posted this image on Truth Social shortly after he took a jab at Pope Leo.
Is he trolling or is he serious? It’s almost too dumb to consider except that the President is endorsing a religious war, provoking the Muslim world, supporting Israel’s claim to represent all Judaism, and doing nothing while Israel bombs religious sites like Qana, Lebanon, widely known as the place of Jesus’ first miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding.
The President suggested that Pope Leo may have been selected because he “would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.” He said that if he weren’t in the White House, “Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.” He said that the Pope’s leftist politics is “hurting him very badly.”
I’m not sure what that means. The Pope never has to be re-elected. He holds the position for life.
It may be pure paranoia for the President to think that Pope Leo won the conclave just to counter a U.S. politician. But it also betrays a misunderstanding of the church. For Catholics, the papacy is sacred, guided by the Holy Spirit. Treating the selection of a pope as a strategy to counter a U.S. president shows a fundamental, and dare I say offensive, misunderstanding of the Church. Whether the process is divinely guided or not, suggesting otherwise is an attack on the faith of the 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, and growing.
Is there an advantage to that? The Catholic Church is one of the holdouts that rejects both Christian Zionism and President Trump’s war on Iran. Is this simply political messaging, or is it an attempt to frame religious authority itself as an adversary?
Bonus thought question: Vice President Vance is Catholic. What will he have to say about this?
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Redacted will be live today at 4 p.m. Eastern. In the meantime, don’t miss this segment about the peace talks with Iran over the weekend. It seems like it was a fool’s errand for Vice President Vance. Do you agree?
What’s Trending?
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Gout Gout is trending because the Australian runner set a new record for the 200 meter sprint, running it in 19.67 seconds. The time is a new U20 world record, an Australian national record, and makes him the first Australian ever to break 20 seconds. It’s not the overall world record. Usain Bolt still holds that at 19.19, but it puts Gout among the fastest teenagers ever and signals a major new star in sprinting.
Sergio Garcia is trending because the golfer had an emotional outburst during The Masters on Sunday.
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