‘Completely obliterated': Trump commends Iran strikes mission pilots
'We have days like we just had in Iran … complete obliteration, think of these guys flying way up in the air, no moon, no nothing, and they hit every single target,' Mr Trump said.
'We have the great equipment anywhere in the world, we have the greatest people anywhere in the world, and we have the military anywhere in the world.'
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- News.com.au
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Sky News AU
41 minutes ago
- Sky News AU
Donald Trump announces there will be a UFC event at the White House when the United States celebrates its 250th birthday
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AU Financial Review
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- AU Financial Review
Trump has dropped a big, beautiful bomb on America's economy
China's leaders must be wondering whether they are hallucinating or whether America's political class really has lost its mind, committing economic and geopolitical self-harm on a breathtaking scale. US President Donald Trump's 'big beautiful bill' marks a wholesale retreat from swaths of advanced manufacturing and energy technology. It abandons a central front of the Sino-American superpower contest without a fight.
