Trump issues fresh Iran warning, calling regime ‘deranged scumbags’ – US politics live

<p>President posts on Truth Social to ‘watch what happens today’ and says it is an ‘honor’ to be killing regime’s leaders</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/13/iran-war-news-live-updates-us-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest#maincontent">Middle East liveblog – latest updates<br></a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is set to give another morning media briefing, updating on the US war on Iran, alongside general Dan Caine.</strong></p><p>You can follow along at 8am ET via our Middle East live blog, which will have all the news lines here:</p><p>Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.</p><p>Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.</p><p>They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them.</p><p>What a great honor it is to do so!</p><p>The US Senate failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month.</p><p>In a surprising twist, a White House event in honor of Women’s History Month ended with a medal being presented to… <strong>Donald Trump</strong>.</p><p>The US temporarily suspended sanctions on the sale of Russian oil issuing a Treasury Department license to allow the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels through April 11. “Looks like we fought Iran and Russia won,” <strong>Brian Schatz</strong>, a Democratic senator from Hawaii observed.</p><p>Two Democratic senators, <strong>Elizabeth Warren</strong> and <strong>Chris Van Hollen</strong>, called for the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “to be fired immediately” over the killing of dozens of seven to 12-year-old Iranian schoolgirls in a missile attack on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.</p><p>The suspect who killed one person and injured two others at Old Dominion University was identified by authorities as <strong>Mohamed Jalloh</strong>, a former member of the army national guard who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.</p><p>The FBI said it is investigating the ramming of a car<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/temple-israel-synagogue-shooter-police"> into a Michigan synagogue</a> as “a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/13/donald-trump-iran-military-hegseth-caine-immigration-voter-id-latest-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>

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