Iran Threat Forced Trump Off Air Force One -- Then He Erased 4 U.S. Deaths

On tonight’s show, I’ll be discussing the credible Iranian proxy threat that reportedly forced Donald Trump to abandon his new, donated Air Force One and fly home on the older, properly secured plane. Trump initially claimed that he switched aircraft so American service members could tour the new one. But the Secret Service reportedly believed Trump and whichever aircraft he was flying on were being targeted. And after The New York Times exposed the security concerns, Trump’s Justice Department went after the journalists, their phone records and even the records of their relatives.

The Iran disaster is only getting worse. U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is more interested in obtaining a nuclear weapon than his father was. One of Iran’s top commanders is now threatening to send one American service member “to hell” for every Iranian citizen killed. Meanwhile, the Trump administration quietly removed four recently killed American service members from the Pentagon’s Iran-war death count because acknowledging their deaths would undermine Trump’s claim that the war is over.

I’ll also be discussing the Trump administration’s decision to cancel $8 billion in energy projects almost exclusively in areas that voted for Kamala Harris. Out of 284 canceled projects, 283 were in Democratic areas. And Trump’s own lawyers reportedly admitted in court that the voting patterns were the reason. This is the president of the United States using federal tax dollars to punish Americans who didn’t vote for him.

Plus, measles cases reach record levels as vaccination rates fall; my latest visit to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the mysterious worker apparently drilling or testing its damaged surface; the continuing tarp at the Kennedy Center; Laura Loomer’s surprisingly productive interview with Volodymyr Zelensky; Ukraine’s latest attack on Russia’s equivalent of Amazon; a Romanian F-16 shooting down a suspected Russian drone; Russia offering enormous bonuses to recruit drone operators; and the bizarre debate over whether the phrase “bucket list” really began with a 2007 movie.