trump He’s back on his game as the Iran peace deal eludes himDonald Trump got furious. Here he was working tirelessly to make America great again and stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. And there were all these judges and other busy people putting spokes in the wheel.Yet amid tough peace talks with Iran, POTUS claimed a major victory, not against Tehran, but in his Republican civil war with the four-term senator defeated by Trump-backed Republicans in a primary runoff in Texas.In addition to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who defeated Senator John Cornyn, at least eight other Trump-backed challengers have ousted longtime Republican lawmakers who had endorsed him.The results indicated he was still the boss of the Republican Party, even as his poll numbers continued to decline with the broader electorate, much to Trump’s surprise. Calling opposition Democrats “Dumocrats”, he declared, “I’ll have some nice, big, beautiful rallies for Ken. Texas, it’ll be fun!”With Iran hard-liners taking a tough stance as far as the peace deal is concerned, Trump deferred a ‘final decision’ after a two-hour meeting with top aides in the Situation Room. The proposed agreement would extend the ceasefire for another 60 days while the US and Iran negotiate a plan to remove Iran’s enriched uranium.Earlier, Trump drew his own red lines, demanding, “Iran must agree that they will never possess a nuclear weapon or a bomb. The Strait of Hormuz must be immediately open to unrestricted shipping traffic in both directions, with no tolls.”And while expressing indifference to the fallout from the Iran war, rising gas prices or political pressures ahead of the November midterms, Trump remained focused on the things that matter to him — like the big beautiful ballroom.He criticized Congress and judges for obstructing his ballroom, when a judge blocked above-ground construction on the project until Congress authorized it and Senate Republicans rejected a plan to fund its security.In a legal filing posted on Truth Social, he argued that “the President cannot safely conduct the business of the United States without a ballroom”.Meanwhile, House Democrats announced a bill to stop Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch, nicknamed ‘Arc de Trump’, near Arlington National Cemetery.A federal judge in Virginia temporarily blocked the Justice Department’s $1.776 billion ‘anti-weapon’ fund to compensate its supporters allegedly targeted by the previous administration.Trump’s decision to paint the reflecting pool “American flag blue” has also gone under legal challenge. But there are no challenges yet to the construction work underway on the White House lawn for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) arena, which will host a cage match on June 14 to commemorate Uncle Sam’s 250th anniversary and Trump’s 80th birthday.And a flattering cabinet is always ready to satisfy his whims and fancies. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant announced that his department has designed a $250 bill featuring Trump in hopes of passing legislation stalled in Congress.If passed and signed into law by Trump, it would mark an extraordinary recognition for a sitting American leader as such an honor is usually reserved for the dead and departed.Meanwhile, the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into author E. Jean Carroll, who won a $5 million civil judgment after accusing Trump of sexual assault and defamation.Trump himself re-filed his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over reporting on his alleged affair with Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge threw out an earlier version due to legal deficiencies.But Bruce Springsteen, an American singer, songwriter and musician nicknamed “The Boss”, used a concert in Washington to speak out against Trump. At one point, he led the crowd in chanting “ICE OUT”, encouraging the audience to make their voices heard all the way to the White House.Springsteen, whom Trump has labeled a “total loser spewing hate” and called for a boycott of his shows, also announced a star-studded protest festival for the Washington, DC area a month before the midterm elections.However, Trump reacted with fury as a federal judge ordered his name removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Angry against the judge’s decision, Trump threatened to withdraw his leadership from the institution he had headed after becoming President.Until he was “free to do what I do better than anyone else,” he had “no interest in continuing a frustrating journey into ‘Never Never Land,'” he posted.In a sharp satire of 580 words, Trump called the judge appointed by ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ careless. He portrayed the performing arts center as a dilapidated structure that only he could restore.Trump, referring to himself in the third person, wrote, “Unfortunately, Judge Cooper and the radical left would rather see it die than see President Trump turn it into something everyone can be proud of.”“So, based on the fact that radical left Democrats care more about opposing your favorite president, ME, than saving a dying performing arts center, … we are going to work with Congress to transfer this failing institution back to them.”He complained, “There has never been a President of the United States who has been treated more unfairly by the courts than I have been, but that’s OK, I’ll continue to do what’s supposed to be a great job for the wonderful people of our country.”Earlier, after his third scheduled medical checkup in 13 months before his 80th birthday, where “everything checked out perfectly”, he posted a photo of himself examining the White House pillars and declared, “The only president who knows how to fix the White House.”I wish he had even threatened to give it all up. 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