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President Donald Trump recently outlined the endgame for Iran. How does it end? There are three scenarios:

👉 Bomb the mullahs back to the Stone Age, hoping a popular uprising takes root and overthrows the regime.

👉 The Venezuela solution: Install a current, more moderate member of the regime as a transitional figure until elections can be held.

👉 Bomb the infrastructure and leave.Donald Trump recently outlined the end game for Iran.

We’ve been there about a month, and he was saying in week five it would take two or three weeks, so maybe seven weeks total or two months. That got people very angry and said it’s an endless war.

And the people on the left, remember, don’t want the war to work because they want to win the midterms. And they’re not, they haven’t been successful so far in hurting Trump, but they feel that if they can create a narrative that this is an Afghanistan-like withdrawal, which they oversaw that was a disaster, or a Vietnam or an Afghanistan or Iraq, maybe they can bring him down.

(00:00) Trump’s Iran Endgame
(00:58) Endless War Narrative
(02:21) Casualties vs. Costs
(04:03) Size, Scale, and Military Impact
(06:12) Denuclearization and Strategic Results
(08:10) Closing Takeaways

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Within the first 30 days of the conflict in Iran, the United States and Israel have achieved military successes not previously seen in modern warfare: a country, with the population of Texas, has had its entire navy and air force decimated within a month.

Battlefield wins mean nothing if you can’t sell the war back home.

Here’s how President Donald Trump can make the political reality equal to the military reality, which is a near success.

00:00 30-Day Air Supremacy

02:32 Iran Under Pressure

03:47 Cutting Off Resupply

04:31 Counting the True Cost

06:04 Messaging the War

08:23 Regime Change and No Ground War

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Like the Wild West hero who rides back into town just as the community is in peril, former Gov. George Allen has rejoined a fight he helped win in 2020, establishing a nonpartisan way to draw Virginia’s congressional districts.

Now critics want to undo all that effort, and Allen sits down with Joe Thomas—whom he calls “Set ’Em Up Joe,” after the Vern Gosdin song—to take us inside the story.

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Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the media hysteria over Iran, anti-Trump protests, and the stakes for 2026. After everything Donald Trump has taken on, will division hand Democrats the win?

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President Donald Trump endured years of the most vicious, coordinated lawfare this nation has ever seen.  We overcame that unprecedented assault together in one of the greatest political comebacks in American history.



But right now,  a lot of people in MAGA are losing perspective. Frustrations bubble up over pace or one decision that we find disagreeable, and suddenly we are nitpicking the man who stood in the arena while most people just watched.Are our temporary disagreements worth handing victory to the very people who weaponize the government against him?

No, argues Drew Allen, Daily Signal California correspondent, on this week’s video commentary.



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00:00: INTRO

00:27 MAGA Infighting Warning

03:36 Why We Reelected Trump

06:14 Second Term Wins, So Far

08:25 What Division Costs Us

09:47 Unity Call To Win Midterms
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