As the war raged on between Israel and Iran on Monday, President Donald Trump issued a grave threat against Iran on social media.

The president has previously warned against Iran continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, but he ended his post with a five-word warning that alarmed many.

‘I do a lot, and never get credit for anything, but that’s OK, the PEOPLE understand. MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST GREAT AGAIN!’

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again!” the president wrote on Truth Social.

“Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” he added.

Many marveled at the proclamation, since the capital city of Iran includes 9 million residents. Very soon after, CNN reported that Trump was leaving the G7 economic forum in Canada early and returning to the White House.

On Thursday evening, Israel launched a devastating attack meant to cripple Iran’s nuclear weapons development capabilities in addition to killing as many military leaders as possible. The strike was named Operation Rising Lion.

Prior to the attack, the U.S. had evacuated personnel from the region after Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh issued a threat to U.S. bases that were within the reach of Iranian missiles.

Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have stalled over whether Iran will be allowed to refine nuclear material for nonmilitary energy production.

The president had indicated that he was working behind the scenes to negotiate a peace deal between Iran and Israel.

“We will have PEACE, soon, between Israel and Iran! Many calls and meetings now taking place,” he wrote. “I do a lot, and never get credit for anything, but that’s OK, the PEOPLE understand. MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST GREAT AGAIN!

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The White House has said they knew about the attack beforehand but denied that the U.S. had any part in the planning.

“We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the United States to help finish what he’s started: an all-out campaign to cripple Iran’s nuclear program. What he’s really asking for is access to America’s deepest-penetrating weapon — the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP.

Netanyahu doesn’t necessarily need U.S. pilots or bombers. But he does need our bunker-busters.

With enough GBU-57s and a little creativity, Israel could take out Iran’s deepest nuclear infrastructure without dragging America into another open conflict.

The target list is no mystery: Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant near Qom. The Natanz complex. And an even deeper site tunneled beneath Mount Kolang Gaz La. These are not standard bomb runs. They require a weapon that can punch through hundreds of feet of reinforced concrete, steel, and rock.

The Israeli Air Force lacks that kind of firepower — or so it seems.

Israel claims it doesn’t have an aircraft capable of carrying the 15-ton GBU-57 into a strike zone over Iran. But that’s not quite true. Israeli forces already hold air superiority over parts of Iranian territory, including Tehran. With Iran’s air defenses heavily degraded, the IAF doesn’t necessarily need to deploy a fighter jet to carry the payload. It needs a flying dump truck.

That opens the door to unconventional delivery options.

From cargo planes to commercial jets

The U.S. used C-130s to drop 15,000-pound “Daisy Cutter” bombs in Vietnam and Iraq. The Israeli Air Force could do the same. A C-130 can carry a GBU-57 and yeet it out the rear ramp via parachute.

But if altitude and airspeed prove insufficient for terminal velocity — the speed the bomb needs to maximize its penetration — Israel has another option: retrofitting a civilian airliner.

Specifically, the Israeli national carrier El Al operates six Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. With a coat of paint, Israeli military insignia, and some hardware borrowed from the U.S. Air Force’s B-52H — external pylons and multiple ejector racks — those jets could carry two MOPs apiece.

This isn’t theoretical. It’s just engineering.

Accuracy by adaptation

To ensure pinpoint accuracy, Israel would need to integrate the bomb’s GPS/INS (inertial navigation system) with the aircraft’s onboard navigation. The bomb must “know” where it is and where it’s going. Once released, it would guide itself to the coordinates with extreme precision.

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The MOP’s advanced fuse would count the layers — soil, rock, empty space, concrete — and detonate in the core target zone. A second bomb dropped on the same location would guarantee complete destruction.

The bottom line

Israel doesn’t need U.S. wings in the air to finish the job in Iran. It just needs the hardware.

With enough GBU-57s and a little creativity, Israel could take out Iran’s deepest nuclear infrastructure without dragging America into another open conflict.

The only question: Will Trump’s rightful aversion to engaging in endless wars prevent him from supplying Netanyahu with the one tool he needs to finish the job quickly?

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A federal judge accused the Trump administration of racial and LGBTQ discrimination and ordered the president to reissue grants that had been shut down at the National Institutes of Health.

President Donald Trump shut down grants at NIH and other agencies that he found were supporting policies related to far-left ideologies and movements.

‘Have we fallen so low?’ he asked. ‘Have we no shame?’

On Monday, District of Massachusetts Judge William Young said that ending the grants based on opposition to gender ideology or diversity, equity, and inclusion was likely illegal.

“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,” said the judge, according to Axios. “I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.”

Young ordered the NIH to fund 367 grants that had been ended under the new policies of the Trump administration.

“I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it, that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” said the judge.

Attorneys had argued that the cuts to billions of dollars’ worth of grants were “arbitrary” and harmed racial groups as well as LGBTQ members.

The order only renews funding for the grants named in the lawsuit and only while the case continues through the legal process.

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Young had said that the Supreme Court had struck down affirmative action in a recent ruling but that this did not mean the government had the right to outright discrimination.

“Have we fallen so low?” he asked. “Have we no shame?”

Young was appointed to the court by former President Ronald Reagan.

Trump has made cutting out “woke” federal spending a goal of his second term in office.

“The use of federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” reads a memo issued by the Office of Management and Budget in January.

“This memorandum requires federal agencies to identify and review all federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the president’s policies and requirements,” the memo reads.

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Louisiana police said a man committed a “deliberate and cowardly” attack on an officer on Monday that left him in extremely critical condition at a Baton Rouge hospital.

Gad Black, 41, allegedly drove his Ford F-150 truck into Sgt. Caleb Eisworth as the officer was on his way home from work on his police motorcycle. Black knocked Eisworth off his vehicle and then dragged him for 500 feet.

‘We are outraged by this senseless act of violence and fully committed to ensuring the individual responsible is held accountable.’

Investigators believe Eisworth was struck at about 11 a.m. near Greenwell Springs Road and Joor Road, according to WAFB-TV.

Police found that Black had allegedly bragged about the attack on social media and named one of the roads.

“Check Him Out on Joor Rd. Stretched One,” read the alleged post on Facebook.

Eisworth, who is a 23-year veteran of the force, suffered two broken legs, a broken arm, and various other injuries.

Black was charged with attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, but authorities said there will likely be other charges filed against him.

The suspect had been previously hit with a slew of charges in 2014 after he led police on a chase and put many lives in danger, including that of his 9-year-old son, who was riding in the passenger seat. Police used a spike strip to disable his vehicle, and when Black abandoned the car, he assaulted both an officer and a dog while trying to escape.

However, prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that dropped all of the charges except aggravated flight from an officer, and a judge sentenced him to only three years of probation.

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“This was a deliberate and cowardly attack on an officer — one of our community’s protectors — and it strikes at the very heart of public safety,” said East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux about the Monday attack.

“We are outraged by this senseless act of violence and fully committed to ensuring the individual responsible is held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” he added. “I want Sgt. Eisworth’s family, his BRPD family, and all of East Baton Rouge Parish to know that we are standing with and praying for you.”

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On June 9, the New York Senate passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which allows terminally ill, mentally competent adults with six months or less to live to request and self-administer life-ending medication. If signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul (D), New York will become the 11th state to legalize medical aid in dying.

This is more evidence that the left is championing a “culture of death” in America, says Glenn Beck. “The more ‘enlightened’ they become … the more barbaric [policy] actually becomes.”

Ironically, the left’s death-centric policies, whether it’s abortion, gender affirming care, or fighting for the rights of violent illegal alien criminals, are always wrapped in platitudes of “compassion.”

Equally ironic is the left’s response when it’s met with resistance: proving how “compassionate and loving [they] are through mob violence and arson and theft and assaulting federal officers,” most recently evidenced by the fiery anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles.

Passing a bill that makes it “easier to kill yourself,” when “the U.S. Surgeon General’s office calls loneliness and isolation in America an epidemic,” is the opposite of compassion, says Glenn, noting that suicide has continued to steadily increase over the last several decades.

“This bill is assisted suicide, and it is dressed up — as always — as compassion, but it’s not mercy; it is absolute madness,” he insists.

Unlike many other states’ laws, New York’s bill does not require a mandatory waiting period after a patient’s request for life-ending medication, meaning that a patient can potentially elect to die on the same day he receives a terminal diagnosis, so long as he fulfills the requirements of a written request, confirmation of a six-month or less terminal prognosis by two physicians, verification of mental competency, and signatures from two impartial witnesses.

“Despair and depression clouds everything! You don’t make a decision when you’re like that,” condemns Glenn, who knows from experience that severe depression is often akin to “insanity.”

On top of expediting the process, the bill also “prohibits referring to this practice as suicide,” insisting that the procedure be called “a medical practice” and the lethal poison a “medication.”

“The lies are disgusting,” says Glenn, who is horrified yet not totally surprised considering Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor, “was killing people in nursing homes” during the COVID pandemic.

Perhaps most disturbing, however, is the bill’s policy when it comes to death certificates.

“When you write out the death certificate of a person who dies through assisted suicide, you are only allowed to list the person’s underlying illness or condition as the official cause of death. You cannot say it had anything to do with suicide or any medical aid in dying,” Glenn explains. The only reason for such a policy is to “[hide] the actual stats” so that they can “memory hole suicide.”

Glenn, citing a New York Times op-ed by Columbia University physician and ethicist Dr. Lydia Dugdale, reads, “Instead of investing in the infrastructure of support for the lonely, the depressed, the disabled, and the poor, we offer them a prescription for death. We call it autonomy, but it’s abandonment.”

“The art of dying well cannot be severed from the art of living well, and that includes caring for one another, especially when it is hard, inconvenient, or costly. It is not enough to offer the dying control. We must offer them dignity — not by affirming their despair but by affirming their worth,” Dugdale said.

To the brave New Yorkers who have managed to keep their ethics and common sense, Glenn beseeches: “You are not without hope — as long as you’re still in the fight. … Call your governor’s office; urge her to veto this evil bill of death. Choose life!”

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Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking on incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn (R) in the 2026 U.S. Senate primary, the attorney general’s office might have some big shoes to fill next year.

Given Cornyn’s low approval ratings, there’s a good chance Texas will need a new “top cop,” says BlazeTV host Jill Savage.

Thankfully, there is “someone that has experience fighting alongside Donald Trump at the Justice Department … someone that Trump has called a true MAGA attorney and warrior for the Constitution” who has risen to the challenge. His name is Aaron Reitz, and he’s Paxton’s former senior Department of Justice official and deputy.

On a recent episode of “Blaze News | The Mandate,” Reitz joined Jill and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson to share what motivated him to take on this challenge and how he plans to ensure Texas stays tough on crime while holding rogue, Soros-backed DAs accountable.

“I know that if the president doesn’t get a true MAGA attorney or a warrior for the Constitution in that Texas AG spot … all kinds of dominoes are going to fall, and it’s going to be very bad, not only for Texas but really for the nation,” says Reitz. “I can’t accept that scenario.”

“What we need out of a Texas AG is somebody who first and foremost understands the civilizational crisis that we’re in. It’s not an exaggeration to say that we are in the midst of a war for the soul and the heart of our country,” he continues. “Texas in particular, just out of its sheer size, influence, scope, and power, is really always going to be where the heart of that fight is, and it’s why Democrats are always competing to try to take Texas.”

It would be a mistake, says Reitz, if Texas falls into what he calls “red-state complacency” — a phenomenon where red states forget that we are currently in the throes of a “civilizational and frankly even a spiritual cold war for our state and for our nation.” These states mistakenly figure that “tinkering on the margins” will “preserve liberty, preserve justice, and advance law and order.”

But it’s not enough — not since Soros-funded district attorneys began “undermining law and order in Texas.” Texas counties, Reitz explains, “have massive amounts of autonomy and discretion,” meaning “ideological Democrats get governmental capture over their city and their county political apparatuses, and they just start advancing an aggressive left-wing agenda.”

“The Texas AG, though, as a statewide elected official representing the interests of the whole state and robed with immense constitutional powers, plays a critical part in suppressing the extent of the damage that these blue Soros-funded DAs do,” says Reitz, noting that this calculated suppression requires the AG “to get creative with the exercise of the weapons that are in statute.”

One creative legal strategy he plans to employ is called a “quo warranto memo” — a common-law mechanism allowing a state to challenge the authority of a public official or entity, such as a district attorney, if they are repeatedly and flagrantly violating the law.

“I want to seek affirmative measures for the state of Texas — state versus Soros-funded DA — because if that Soros-funded DA is making our streets unsafe, releasing criminals, making families paranoid … and they are abusing their prosecutorial discretion to the extent that the cities are rotting, I want to be the kind of Texas AG that comes directly for you,” says Reitz. “You’ve got a state attorney general who is going to come and hold you accountable and ideally get you out of office.”

To hear more of Reitz’s plans to keep Texas tough, watch the episode above.

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