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Donald Trump rebuked one of his own Cabinet officials on Monday after his top energy chief told CNN that he wasn’t sure when higher gas prices would fall back down and stated that price hikes could potentially persist into 2027.
The president conducted one of his increasingly common early-morning phone interviews, this time from The Hill, on Monday and responded to an interview Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave on CNN’s State of the Union a day earlier.
Though most experts (including Wright) have warned that higher gas prices are the result of a supply shock to the oil market that likely won’t be fully steadied for months, the president instead insisted that prices would plunge once his administration signs a peace agreement to end the war in Iran.
Gas prices will drop “as soon as this ends,” Trump told The Hill. Wright, on Sunday, said that such a price drop “might not happen until next year.”
“No, I think he’s wrong on that. Totally wrong,” the president insisted to The Hill on Mond..

Trump warns ‘no more Mr Nice Guy’ and threatens new strikes on Iran if deal not agreedDonald Trump threatened to strike Iran’s civilian infrastructure again on Sunday in an effort to bring the regime to the table for 11th-hour talks before the ceasefire expires next week.
The US president took to social media to urge Iran to make a deal to end the war as he announced that negotiators would be heading to Islamabad for talks on Monday evening.
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran,” Trump wrote.
“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.”
It was unclear whether Iran was sending its own delegation, after their top negotiator said both sides remaine..

A decorated U.S. military veteran fell victim to an online sextortion scheme after sending compromising nudes to someone he met on a social networking platform for fetishists looking to match with “like-minded kink friends,” according to court documents obtained by The Independent.
In a previously unreported petition filed March 8 in Kings County Supreme Court that aims to unmask the alleged blackmailer, the Brooklyn resident is described as a “highly accomplished” soldier who has been “recognized with several awards” across “multiple deployments.“
“John Doe,” as the victim is being identified in the proceeding, was initially targeted last November while on FetLife, a site for members of the fetish community to connect. Users fall into some 600 different categories, FetLife tells visitors, listing such subsets as “Boot Slut,” “Fallen Angel,” “Rubberist,” and “Pig.”
Since then, several explicit selfies the veteran shared with the person – who posed as a woman but turned out to be a man ..

President Donald Trump cracked a joke about wanting to take a psychedelic for symptoms of anxiety and depression during a White House event touting the benefits of the drugs.
Joe Rogan, who has been fiercely critical of Trump’s war in Iran, was a special guest in the Oval Office Saturday morning to witness the president sign an executive order to “accelerate medical treatments for serious mental illness,” including psychedelic therapies, which Rogan advocates.
Trump touted the success of the psychedelic drug ibogaine—a Schedule I controlled substance—and cited a study in which he said participants experienced an “80 to 90 percent reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within one month.”
“Can I have some, please?” Trump quipped, prompting the room to erupt in laughter. “I’ll do whatever it takes…I don’t have time to be depressed. If you stay busy enough, maybe that’s what works too, that’s what I do.”
Rogan, who endorsed Trump for president in 2024, said the executive order cam..

Eighteen-year-old Lauryn Muller was scrolling through social media when she encountered a video of Donald Trump disparaging California Governor Gavin Newsom over his dyslexia.
The clip deeply affected Ms Muller, stirring memories of her own difficulties learning to read and the persistent feeling that something was amiss with her. Mr Trump had labelled Mr Newsom “stupid,” “low IQ,” “mentally disabled,” and declared him “unfit to become president.”
While Ms Muller recognised the comments as part of a political rivalry – Mr Trump is a Republican and Mr Newsom, a Democrat, is anticipated to contend for the White House in 2028 – the remarks resonated with her on a deeply personal level.
“We’ve had to overcome so many deficits, and for someone to, on a national stage, say, yeah, they will never be like us — that definitely came as an emotional sting to me,” said Muller, an incoming student at Auburn University whose dyslexia was identified as a child.
open image in galleryLauryn Muller, w..