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Asharq Al-Awsat
a day ago
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Trump Says He Is Less Confident about Iran Deal
US President Donald Trump said he was less confident that Iran will agree to stop uranium enrichment in a nuclear deal with Washington, according to an interview released on Wednesday. "I don't know," Trump told the "Pod Force One" podcast on Monday when asked if he thought he could get Iran to agree to shut down its nuclear program. "I don't know. I did think so, and I'm getting more and more — less confident about it."
Al Arabiya
a day ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Trump says ‘less confident' about Iran deal
US President Donald Trump said he was less confident that Iran will agree to stop uranium enrichment in a nuclear deal with Washington, according to an interview released on Wednesday. 'I don't know,' Trump told the 'Pod Force One' podcast on Monday when asked if he thought he could get Iran to agree to shut down its nuclear program. 'I don't know. I did think so, and I'm getting more and more — less confident about it.' Read more:
Daily Mail
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Insider reveals backstage plot by TV networks to humiliate Trump at infamous black journalist showdown
Fox News host Harris Faulkner revealed there was a backstage plot to humiliate Donald Trump during his infamous interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Faulkner, ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba interviewed Trump during a panel on July 31 in Chicago. Trump tangled with Scott throughout the interview, which started more than 30 minutes behind schedule, and accused her of asking 'nasty' questions. Faulkner revealed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that she witnessed executives plotting how to handle Trump backstage during the delay. 'What I saw backstage were executives from, from some of the, and former executives, from some of the networks and they were working on what they were going to do with Trump, and it did not look positive. And I got to see that firsthand,' Faulkner said. 'If those people wanted to keep it under wraps, they couldn't, and they were shouting. And I remember Rachel Scott was part of that whole, you know, melee of people around, I don't know, it felt like the inner workings of going after Trump.' The Faulkner Focus host shared that after they finally took the stage, she was bombarded with a new script she had not seen before. 'I thought, "Okay, you know what? I'm probably wrong." We get on that stage. I wasn't wrong. What I saw was real, and suddenly a script that, you know, appeared in a prompter in front of the stage that I did not remember anybody talking about,' she said. Faulkner said she tried to redirect the conversation and asked Trump about picking JD Vance as his running mate to get him out of 'ambush lane.' 'That's why you saw me ask that question at the NABJ, as I kind of rerouted that conversation that was so unfair and said, "Can we just get back to journalism here? Can we get out of the ambush lane with Trump?"' Faulkner said. Trump battled with Scott after she asked him a multi-part question that brought up several of his comments attacking African-American journalists and black Fulton County DA Fani Willis. The ABC journalist said a lot of people didn't think it was appropriate for him to be in Chicago for the interview – pointing to remarks calling a black journalist a 'loser,' tearing into an African American congresswoman, and alluding to his meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. 'First of all I don't think I've ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner,' Trump told Scott, who asked the lead-off question. 'You don't even say hello how are you?' Trump lectured, calling ABC a 'fake news network.' 'I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of this country,' he said. 'I think it's a very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you would do something like that,' he said. Then Trump complained about the faulty equipment for the interview, and blaming the NASB for holding him up for an interview that started more than 30 minutes behind schedule. 'I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln,' Trump said. He called the initial questions 'hostile' and a 'disgrace.' Trump kept coming back to complaints about the AV equipment, saying the 'mics are really in lousy shape.' In his quotes on Harris, the presumed Democratic nominee, Trump said Harris 'was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage.' 'I didn't now she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black,' Trump said. 'So I don't know, is she Indian or is she black? And you know what I respect either one but she obviously doesn't,' Trump said. 'Because she was Indian all the way and all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a black person. I think somebody should look into that.' Trump refused to say Harris was not a DEI hire – a statement that some Republican lawmakers have made about the former San Francisco prosecutor and U.S. Senator from California. 'I really don't know. I mean, I really don't know. There are some,' Trump said. Nearly 30 minutes into the interview, Trump was still complaining about 'being treated so rudely as this woman treated me.'
The Independent
14-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
‘Why wouldn't I accept a gift?' stumped Trump asks amid Qatari jet furor
President Donald Trump apparently has no idea what could possibly be concerning about accepting a $400 million gift of an Air Force One replacement from Qatar, the bankroller of Hamas who might look for a favor in the future in return. 'Why wouldn't I accept a gift?' the perplexed president asked Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that aired Tuesday night of the hugely controversial offer and the president's delight at accepting it. Trump also complained how 'small' Air Force One looked next to the state jets parked nearby during his ongoing Middle East tour. Air Force One, where Trump sat for his interview with Hannity on the way to Saudi Arabia, looked 'much smaller' and 'much less impressive' compared to the other aircraft, Trump complained. 'The plane that you are on right now is almost 40 years old,' Trump groused again. 'When you land and you see Saudi Arabia, and you see [United Arab Emirates], and you see Qatar, and you see all these — they have these brand new Boeing 747s mostly,' he swooned. 'And you see ours next to it. This is like a totally different plane. It's much smaller, it's much less impressive ... We're the United States of America — I believe we should have the most impressive plane,' he declared. The Qatari aircraft – so luxurious it reportedly has been called a 'flying palace' – would be the most expensive gift ever given an American president. After Trump's term ended, it would reportedly go to his presidential library – though the president insisted in a Truth Social post Tuesday that it would be given to the Department of Defense, not him. Trump's own Department of Justice lawyers have unsurprisingly determined it would break no laws to accept the Qatari gift. Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres wrote to the Government Accountability Office on Sunday, blasting the deal as a "flying grift.' He argued that it violates the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which "explicitly prohibits any person holding public office from accepting 'any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.'" Richard Briffault, a Columbia Law School professor who specializes in government ethics, told NPR that if the plane goes to Trump's presidential library after he leaves office, "then it's not really a gift to the United States at all' and is a " pretty textbook case of a violation of the Emoluments Clause." He also pointed out the troubling problem with gifts to a president, especially such an extravagant gift is that it leaves the recipient beholden to the gift giver. Such gifts are 'designed to create good feelings for the recipient and to get some kind of reciprocity," Briffault noted. The kind of thing Trump 'can give, of course, is public policy — weapons deals or whatever,' he added. It also becomes an 'incentive to other countries to give similar gifts as another way of influencing presidential decision-making,' said Briffault. The bottom line is that it could take years and could cost American taxpayers 'billions' of dollars to upgrade the Qatari plane to meet Air Force One specifications, including things like creating secure communications and electromagnetic shielding.
