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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Italy's deputy PM and foreign minister Antonio Tajani just CANCELLED his planned diplomatic trip to Washington on monday, declaring that Trump's "serious and offensive words" directed at the prime minister "offend all of Italy."

This comes after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni TORCHED Donald Trump after he claimed she “begged” him for a photo at the G7 and that he only took it because he “felt sorry for her.”

The Italian PM was wondering.
"I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies; it’s not the first time this happens."

She went on saying, "I can only say that I’m sorry he doesn’t show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, whose leaders he instead shows himself to be much more accommodating towards."

Italy's prime minister is a boss lady.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Good fucking gawd! Trump has fucked-up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool far beyond the algae infestation. The paint is now beginning to peel off.

The hydrogen peroxide used by Trump's incompetent pool dudes to combat the algae is removing the paint and creating a toxic chemical stew of green sludge.

Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Shocking concessions with no conditions.

For a self-glorified deal maker, this is one of the worst deals ever made.

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

President Obama masterfully negotiated an agreement that prevented Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Trump tore it up and went to war—only to lose the lives of 13 brave Americans, raise prices at the pump, and sign a failure of a “deal” that costs taxpayers billions.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Now where do I know that signature from? 🤔

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Leader Jeffries has had enough of you "wrongdoers," and is putting y'all on notice that "the statute of limitations is 5 years... be ready to testify" about your corrupt pay-to-play schemes.

LET'S. FUCKING. GO.🔥🔥🔥

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: A massive flu outbreak has left 160 troops ill at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. This comes just weeks after Pete Hegseth made flu shots optional, scrapping a military vaccine requirement that had stood since 1945.

Is this what they meant by battle readiness?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Michelle Obama to Barack Obama: You were doing the people's work. Rescuing our economy. Expanding healthcare. Ending a war. Ordering the Bin Laden raid. Saving the auto industry. Winning a peace prize. Keeping us safe from Ebola. Regulating the banks. Standing up for marriage equality. Listening to science. And comforting an entire nation. And you did it all with such grace, and class, and cool.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Q: Are you going to be able to control Israel from attacking Lebanon?

Trump: Yeah. They have a lot of respect for me, and they do as I say

(No one in the world respects Trump)

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Donald Trump is the worst president we’ve ever had.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Even loyal Fox News knows Trump got NOTHING from his pathetic surrender to Iran as analysts rip him apart – “HE LOST!”

Donald Trump’s much-hyped ceasefire agreement with Iran has finally been released, and it confirms what everyone with a brain already knew: Trump got totally rolled.

Zero meaningful wins. Iran walked away stronger, with upfront sanctions relief, access to frozen funds, a reopened Strait of Hormuz, and a promise of up to $300 billion (!) in reconstruction aid – all while the nuclear issues get kicked down the road for 60 days of more negotiations.

It’s too much even for Trump’s MAGA allies, and Fox News hosts and regulars are freaking out and throwing shade. Mark Levin said he’s “very skeptical.” Brian Kilmeade called the nuclear settlement “not acceptable” and suggested it might have “let the president down,” (not-so-subtly throwing JD Vance under the bus).

Pundit Ben Domenech admitted bluntly: “This doesn’t feel like a victory,” and Trey Gowdy complained that “Iran is better off than before hostilities began.”

The closer you look at it, the more . . . Jeez Louise.

Finally from the Fox stable, Iran expert Sina Toossi from the Center for International Policy explained this isn’t even a “real” nuclear deal. Iran reaffirmed it won’t build nukes (they’ve said this for years), agreed to dilute some enriched uranium inside the country, but kept its program intact. No shipping stockpiles abroad like in Obama’s deal.

The big “wins” for Trump? Basically undoing the economic damage from his own ill-planned, disastrous war that he started in the first place.

Toossi pointed out we were close to a deal before Trump launched his reckless bombing campaign. Iran withstood 13,000 U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, kept most of its missiles and drones, and proved it could shut down the global oil supply.

Trump’s “maximum pressure” credo combined with his Netanyahu-inspired hubris backfired spectacularly, strengthening Iran’s hand and leaving America demonstrably weaker.

Now Trump is out there revisiting Obama’s 2015 deal like it happened yesterday, calling it horrible and claiming it was HE who stopped Iran from getting a nuke.

Meanwhile, his own agreement may be ultimately judged as weaker than the hated Obama’s agreement he tore up, after blowing up the region, spending at least $60 billion from the U.S. treasury, draining the strategic oil reserves, and tanking the economy.

Other than that, good work!

Analysts like Toosi say the upcoming negotiations are going to be even rougher for Trump now that Iran knows it can crash the global economy and force America’s hand by flipping the switch on the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump’s only leverage is to turn on the bombs again, but with the midterms coming, the last thing Republicans want is Trump restarting and extending his losing war.

Ah, Trump. Let’s start an illegal, pointless war based on tough-guy fantasies, spend hundreds of billions, kill people, destabilize everything, then sign a weak surrender that even your own propaganda machine hates.

Right-wing hawks who cheered this disaster at the start are now turning on him because the battlefield proved their imperial fantasies wrong.

Back in the business world, Trump couldn’t be sacked for incompetence because he owned the company. That is not the case now.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Today's the day!

Congratulations to @BarackObama and @MichelleObama on the grand opening of the new Obama Presidential Center—right here, in the city where their story began, Chicago.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

The Obama Presidential Center is a reflection close to perfection.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

They’re really hanging this whole f’ng disaster on the smoky eyed couch fucker, aren’t they?

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Trump started a reckless war with Iran, created a global economic crisis—and for what?

A WORSE deal than Obama made without dropping a single bomb.

Apparently, the "Art of the Deal" is to launch pointless wars that end in total surrender and make life more expensive at home.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy shit. After being 50 minutes late, Trump literally RUNS AWAY from the media to avoid answering questions about his surrender deal with Iran.

This is a man who knows he lost. What a coward.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Funny how every Trump "solution" to Social Security defunding asks MORE from workers and seniors:

Raise the retirement age.
Cut benefits.
Means-test retirees.

But ask billionaires to pay more?

Suddenly that's impossible.

#HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

President Trump has been saying the quiet part out loud: he wants to undermine our elections any way he can, and he refuses to rule out sending uniformed military to the polls or to collect ballots and voting machines.

That's why today I am introducing the Protect our Polls Act. Our legislation prevents President Trump from weaponizing our military and armed federal officers to interfere in our elections.

I am glad to be joined by Senators from across the country, especially states like Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota and Wisconsin which, along with Michigan, the president has targeted. All states that may very well decide who controls the House and Senate.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Loathed and isolated

vs

Loved and respected