Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:
Donald Trump insisted to reporters that the war on Iran he launched from his Florida beach club is going so well that “most people” on the cable news channels he turns to for information, “say it’s already been won”.
At a political rally in Kentucky, the president urged voters to get rid of Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who co-wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which compelled the justice department to release investigative files of Jeffrey Epstein, the late child sex offender Trump socialized with for nearly two decades.
The United States bombed an Iranian girls’ elementary school, killing at least 175 people, many of them girls between the ages of 7 and 12, according to the New York Times.
Trump pressed the Republican Senate majority leader, John Thune, to pass the Save America Act, which would restrict voting and help the party avoid sweeping losses in the upcoming midterm elections.
Joe Rogan, the podcaster who hosted and endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, said that the US military attacks on Venezuela and Iran ordered by Trump were a betrayal of voters won over by his claim to be against regime change wars.
As video circulating online showed oil tankers filled with Iraqi oil in flames in the Persian Gulf after reported attacks by Iran, Trump assured his supporters in Hebron, Kentucky, that the war on Iran is already over and “we won”.
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War on Iran is costing US taxpayers about $2bn per day, Pentagon says
Pentagon officials estimate that the first six days of the war on Iran cost the United States at least $11.3bn, both Reuters and the Associated Press report.
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