The “Trump Phone” is coming this fall.

President Trump’s son Eric Trump went on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria to discuss how the new phone can be used to “correct” a political sphere they think is unfairly targeting them.

“More and more we’re using technology as a company to correct the problems. Obviously Truth Social was to correct freedom of speech, right? I mean, he lost his throughout the political process. Obviously crypto—we’ve got the biggest projects in crypto—was to correct another problem, the fact that they were debanking all conservatives. I was the most cancelled person probably in the country,” the president’s second son said. “And now we’ve got Trump Mobile, and Trump Mobile is going to revolutionize, kind of, cell phones, mobile calling.”

“We’re going to do it better, we’re going to do it safer, we’re going to have more functionality, more features. And the coolest thing about all these ventures is that we’re doing it right here in the United States. You’re not calling up call centers in Bangladesh, you’re doing it right out of St. Louis, Missouri. You’re gonna have phones that are made right here in the United States of America.… It’s gonna be cheaper, 47 bucks a month, you’re gonna have more international dialing for free, hundreds of countries.… It is the biggest bang for the buck, and we’re really excited to get into this space.… Obviously real estate’s always been our bread and butter but … I really believe we’re gonna have one of the great kind of tech platforms as part of the Trump organization.”

The phone drops in September for $499 (preorder for $100 down) and we still don’t even know what it really looks like, if it’s waterproof, or if it will actually be made in America, as no notable smartphone is. All we know it that it’s Trump’s, and that will very well be enough for some people. The Verge’s David Pierce noted that it would be “utterly unfathomable” for the Trump Organization to produce a good, working phone at that price, with multiple contradictory specs, in the next three months.

This family just cannot stop coming up with these modern snake oil salesmen side hustles that likely work on a good chunk of their base. From the Trump Gold Card, to pawning his influence to the highest crypto buyer, to even the sneakers—these guys will stop at nothing to make a buck. All while we’re forced to take them at their word over questions about conflicts of interest with the Trump Organization and President Trump.

The possibilities are endless here. Will the phones be some kind of Google Pixel or Samsung dupe? Will they have spyware? Will they actually carry out any of the features Eric Trump described above? Only time will tell.

The president is mulling over the possibility of throwing the United States into war with Iran.

Speaking with ABC News Sunday, Donald Trump refused to answer whether the U.S. would wade into the conflict. He said that American forces were not currently involved in the conflict but that they “could get involved.” Trump also mentioned that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli officials about the boiling situation.

“We’re not involved in it. It’s possible we could get involved,” Trump said. “But we are not at this moment involved.”

Israel and Iran traded missiles for the third straight day Sunday in an escalating conflict that has so far killed 224 people in Iran and 14 people in Israel. Some of the Iranian casualties were military targets: Two regional sources told Reuters that 20 senior commanders had been killed, as well as six of the country’s top nuclear scientists.

On Thursday, Iranian officials announced their intentions to expand their nuclear program, despite facing censure from a U.N. nuclear watchdog for failing to uphold nonproliferation obligations. Iran has argued that it is seeking uranium for peaceful purposes. But the nation walked back plans of a weekend discussion to negotiate their nuclear program in the wake of Israel’s attack.

Speaking with ABC, Trump downplayed concerns that the nuclear talks—which were in the sixth round—had collapsed.

“There’s no deadline,” Trump said. “But they are talking. They’d like to make a deal. They continue to talk.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly asked Trump to consider a strike on Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility. Israeli missiles hit Iran’s Natanz fuel enrichment plant site Friday, but satellite imagery indicates only minor damage at the Fordo facility.

As the two Middle Eastern nations traded missiles late last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted that the U.S. was “not involved in strikes against Iran.” But that information was immediately contradicted by Israeli and senior U.S. officials, who all confirmed America’s involvement in the emerging conflict.

But why the U.S. is embedded in a new global conflict is unclear. Trump earned national support in part due to his isolationist campaign promises and his pledge to swiftly end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Six months into his second term, he has not only failed to do either but has seemingly embroiled the U.S. in a dire situation in the Middle East.

In a phone call with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl Friday morning, the president referred to the Israeli attacks as “excellent,” remarking that Iran “got hit hard, very hard,” and that there was “a lot more” to come.

Senator Rand Paul slammed Donald Trump’s pathetic military birthday parade as un-American.

During an appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press Sunday, the Kentucky Republican revealed that he was “not a big fan” of Trump’s outrageous military parade.

“I’ve just never liked the idea of the parade, because I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s, and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades for the most part, or North Korean parades.”

Rand explained that, historically, American parades haven’t been about demonstrating military might, but about celebrating peace, safety, and victory.

“We were rejoicing the end of war, we were rejoicing our soldiers coming home, and that absolutely ought to be commemorated, discussed every year—Memorial Day, Veterans Day—but just, we never glorified weapons so much,” he said.

“I know [Trump] means well, I don’t think he means for any of this to be depicted in another fashion, but I’m just not a big fan,” Paul continued.

Paul also noted the cost seemed especially inappropriate while the country was “two trillion in the hole.” The........

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