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What Happened Today – June 7, 2026

Donald Trump says he calls all the shots, and hours after he said it, Israel bombed Iran against his wishes.

This is not a lie about crowd sizes. The leader of the world’s strongest military spent Sunday begging Netanyahu to hold fire and believed he had won. Israel bombed Iran anyway.

A president who cannot tell the truth about a war he started has nothing believable to say about ending it. He swears a deal is close and the missiles mean nothing. Believe the missiles.

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Today's Quote
I call the shots. I call all the shots. [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.
Donald Trump speaking on June 7, 2026, to The Financial Times about the Iran War
Yesterday's Most Read

Activists move their "Trump and Epstein Memorial Reading Room," displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released DOJ files, to downtown Washington for the president's birthday.

Today’s GovBrief News


Foreign Relations 1 of 6

Trump weighs buying the British-controlled Chagos Islands and their Indian Ocean military base, months after his Greenland bid collapsed.

Would override the planned Mauritius handover

Source: The Independent

June 7, 2026

War 2 of 6

Israel strikes Iran on the war's 100th day, hours after Trump urged Netanyahu to hold fire.

Houthis ban Israeli Red Sea shipping

Source: CBS News

June 7, 2026

Science 3 of 6

Agriculture Department confirms a second Texas screwworm case, the flesh-eating pest's first U.S. cattle return since 1982.

New $750M plant not ready until 2027

Source: NBC News

June 7, 2026

Courts 4 of 6

Lawsuit seeks to block the UFC fight Trump scheduled on the White House South Lawn for his June 14 birthday.

Private commercial use of public parkland

Source: The Associated Press

June 7, 2026

Immigration 5 of 6

Central African Republic agrees to take U.S. deportees from other countries, the latest African deal that rights groups say sidesteps court protections.

$85M to the U.N. migration agency

Source: Reuters

June 7, 2026

Media 6 of 6

Trump storms out of an NBC interview after Meet the Press host Kristen Welker fact-checks his baseless election-fraud claims.

Trump agreed to do a new interview

Source: Mediaite

June 7, 2026

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