Iran is publicly pouring cold water on reports of a major negotiating breakthrough with the U.S. A top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader says its conditions are not changing, must be implemented “all at once,” and the U.S. has been given only four or five days before Iran determines its next move.

@meiselasb “Donald Trump can think it's funny to show Xi Jinping a copy of an autopen on the Walk of Fame and mock the former president. But under the former president, China was buying double the amount of soybeans. And we didn't have to think about soybeans. We didn't have to think about Belarusian potash."

Re-upping

I guess they were telling on themselves when they called him Beijing Biden

Shout out to Ben Meiselas of MeidasTouch. He had a live breaking news segment today and at the end he went off…talking about how for the most part people want happiness, togetherness, love and acceptance. Doesn’t matter if you live in Iran, Nigeria, America or anywhere else…there’s a hunger right now for peace and love and happiness and acceptance. We’re starving for it. And we’re being starved of it. It’s a blessing we have somebody like Ben who tells the truth and can articulate it so well He’s right. I think we’re turning a leaf here. Turning a page in history. This big rebound might be the way we start moving toward a more worldly peace and acceptance mentality…and that should be the ultimate goal.

Xi Jinping invoked the “Thucydides Trap” right to Trump’s face, a reference to the clash between a rising power and a declining one. The message Xi was sending was unmistakable: China is the ascending power. America is declining. This is at least the second time Xi has raised this premise in front of Trump.

He’s an actual lunatic

Trump winces in pain during the loud military flyover as Xi shows no reaction

Utterly humiliating

RT @RonFilipkowski: Our people on their hands and knees wiping off the red carpet for the Chinese. A perfect metaphor for where we are with…

Chinese officials look on as some final adjustments to the red carpet are made for President Xi.

He entered the Fat Elvis phase quite fast

Because, as we’ve all seen, it’s not as if the international order impacts the interests of the United States.

This sums up Trump. They wait 5 hours before blaming AMTRAK for “accidentally” cutting a cable as the reason for flight cancellations. Then AMTRAK waits an hour before blaming NJ Transit. Zero accountability.

He basically says we all know in Yemen that Trump is stupid and Hegseth is stupid, but do you not have any other generals or admirals who can execute a war plan… Is no one else speaking up… That’s what the Houthi’s think about us right now…

Hussain Albukhaiti: Trump should have known as well where Iran was going to retaliate. They do have missiles. I mean, a child would know that they would retaliate against your bases.

How would we react if any world leader behaved like this? The fact is there are no comparable historical examples of this level of psychotic behavior. This isn’t funny. This isn’t trolling. This is sick behavior. It’s really sick stuff. And it’s really hurting a lot of people.

If you want to see how the Saudi oil facilities are destroyed like our military bases, all you have to do is ask the State Dept to “send me.”