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And recruiting for every branch has been record setting, ever since President Trump won in November of 2024. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, National Guard, Reserves, Pilots, Special Forces, all setting decades-long recruiting records. You see, Americans want to serve when they are led by strong patriots, not by weak weirdos. Makes sense. And all this matters because you know why it matters, because it translates to the battlefield. Our enemies know we will act decisively. Our allies know that it's time for them to step up. Drug cartels, the terrorist organizations of our hemisphere, who've previously run our hemisphere, are now on the run in our hemisphere, courtesy of our new counter cartel coalition, the ACCC.

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This is a political meme/comparison image titled "COLUMBUS CIRCLE" with two side-by-side photos labeled "Biden" (left) and "Trump" (right). The left photo shows a marble monument (a memorial statue base with kneeling/seated figures) covered in red and black spray-painted graffiti, including phrases like "HAMAS IS COMING," "FREE GAZA," "LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE," and other slogans, with a Palestinian-flag-patterned cloth draped over one of the statue's heads. The right photo shows the same style of white marble monument, clean and ungraffitied, with several National Park Service rangers (in gray uniforms and flat-brimmed hats) standing in front of it under a clear blue sky, with an American flag visible at top right.

Text in image: COLUMBUS CIRCLE Biden Trump HAMAS IS COMING AZAB FREE GAZA FR ALL ZIONISTS ARE BASTARDS PALESTINE PUTO LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE REE ALE STO?

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Obama cut the nuclear deal and then delivered to Iran an enormous amount of cash and turned a blind eye basically to the proxies and the missiles and drones. So if you think of Iran's defense posture as being a triad of the nuclear program proxies and disruptive military capabilities, we got in one leg of the triad we got temporary and reversible restrictions and then a complete green light to the Iranians to develop everything else. So that was I think a huge mistake in American strategy and Donald Trump has reversed that and he has returned deterrence and the credible threat of military force to the equation. And for that alone I give him an A. I give him an A+ for that. It's absolutely necessary. You can hear a lot of arguments especially when talking to our European friends, they say that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war, now it's closed, the problem hasn't been solved, it's just been worsened and so on. And my answer to that very simply is what was your plan to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon? What was your plan from stopping Iran from putting its nuclear program behind a wall of missiles and drones that was going to exact that if allowed to continue to develop was going to exact such a high price from the United States if it attacked them that we would never be able to use them, we wouldn't have the military option. So I think that what Donald Trump did was absolutely necessary if he hadn't done it, what the Americans and the Israelis together did was absolutely necessary, if he hadn't done it then every American base in the region was under threat and we were going to have a nuclear armed Iran in very short order, the price of doing anything about it was going to become prohibitive and we also had an Iran that could be the proxy of China in the event that we were to go, that China was to make a play for Taiwan, it would be able to close the Strait of Hormuz and the Baba Mandeb and so on. So I think we need to also see it in that global level. So I give him very very high marks for taking this on and expending the political capital that it took to do it.

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A photographed or screenshotted newspaper opinion column from The Washington Times, headlined "The grand strategy behind the Trump-Vance Iran deal" by Alexander B. Gray, with subheading "The president has displayed uncommon vision." The article argues that the Trump administration's Iran deal (following "Operation Epic Fury") achieved Trump's long-stated goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, credits Trump for reorienting U.S. grand strategy away from the Middle East and toward great-power rivalry with China, and praises his handling of Iran policy since 2015 as strategically sound. Below the article is the Washington Times masthead listing publisher and editorial staff.

Text in image: The grand strategy behind the Trump-Vance Iran deal The president has displayed uncommon vision By Alexander B. Gray The Trump administration's deal with Iran accomplishes the objectives set by the president at the outset of Operation Epic Fury, and it represents the culmination of his continuous strategic policy focus to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Most important, though, it begins the process of reorienting American grand strategy away from the Middle Eastern conflicts that have characterized the first quarter of the 21st century and toward the great power rivalries that will likely define the next. Essentially, President Trump obliged to use decisive military force against Iran to disengage from a region of peripheral concern to long-term U.S. interests. Since announcing his first campaign for president in 2015, Mr. Trump has been unequivocal that Iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon. In 2018, he withdrew from the fatally flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by President Obama — a deal that paid Iran large sums of cash in exchange for flimsy promises not to acquire nuclear weapons. Instead, the first Trump administration imposed substantial economic pain on Tehran and maintained that pressure until Mr. Trump's last day in office. The Biden administration almost immediately proposed further negotiations with Iran. Mr. Trump, returning to office in 2025, addressed the threat posed by the mullahs' unrepentant march toward nuclear weapons. He launched Operation Midnight Hammer in June 2025. Iran's weapons program was largely destroyed. Operation Epic Fury achieved the limited goals set by Mr. Trump. Tehran's leadership was destroyed, its missile program was degraded, and its economy and supply chains were profoundly disrupted by the U.S. Navy's successful blockade. The Iranian regime is at its weakest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Although Mr. Trump has expressed hope that the Iranian people will ultimately choose a different future, regime change was never a goal of Epic Fury. Rather, Mr. Trump has clearly understood the core American interest at stake with Iran: preventing a fanatical regime from gaining a nuclear weapon and preventing the disruption of a region that still supplies substantial global energy resources. In the process, Iran's myopic decision to militarily target U.S. Gulf Arab allies will solidify those states' efforts to increase their own defense while demonstrating the fallacy of the entreaties by China that proliferated during the Biden years. The United States will emerge from the Iran deal having met (and in some cases exceeded) its modest strategic goals for the region. Epic Fury's success will ultimately rest on America's ability to execute Mr. Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy, which prioritizes the defense of the U.S. homeland and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the projection of American power into the Indo-Pacific to deter China's attempt at hegemony. Although every administration since Mr. Obama's has promised some form of "pivot" or "rebalance" to the Indo-Pacific, only the Trump administration has done the difficult statecraft needed to position the U.S. for that strategic shift. Unlike every previous post-Cold War president, Mr. Trump has been honest about the trade-offs required to meet a challenge as formidable as that posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Mr. Trump's National Security Strategy identifies regions of greatest U.S. interest and directs resources accordingly. His conduct of Epic Fury and the accompanying peace deal reflect the realization of this strategy. By recognizing that, without American leadership, Iran will continue to divert U.S. attention and resources away from our most significant priorities, and acting accordingly, Mr. Trump displayed uncommon vision. His willingness to wage war for limited ends and to conclude a peace that serves core U.S. national interests will satisfy neither hawks nor doves, but it will place the U.S. in a better strategic position. The Trump-Vance administration approaches its second half with enviable strategic flexibility. The proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget would begin to reverse the steady erosion of the military balance between the United States and China that has threatened deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Continued investments in American energy dominance at home make de-prioritizing the Middle East a realistic possibility. The president's agenda for American reindustrialization is bearing fruit, reviving the U.S. defense industrial base and encouraging the U.S. private sector to dominate the frontier technologies of the future, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing and fusion energy. America is on track to emerge from Operation Epic Fury in a far stronger position to win the competition that will define the remainder of the 21st century. Alexander B. Gray, a nonresident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council, served as deputy assistant to the president and chief of staff of the White House National Security Council from 2019 to 2021. The Washington Times Published by The Washington Times LLC THOMAS P. McDEVITT, Chairman CHRISTOPHER DOLAN, President & Executive Editor NEWS CATHY GARDNER, Managing Editor ANN WOG, Managing Editor Digital JOHN BOURANTAS, Assistant Managing Editor STEPHEN DINAN, Assistant Managing Editor S.A. MILLER, Assistant Managing Editor MARIA STAINER, Assistant Managing Editor JOSEPH SZADKOWSKI, Assistant Managing Editor BUSINESS RAYNARD BOLDING, Chief Financial Officer TORY HILL, Advertising Director DESHONDA MURRAY, Director of Human Resources and Building Operations JORGE CARRASQUILLA, Information Technology Director

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A political comparison meme titled "COLUMBUS CIRCLE" with two side-by-side photos of the Columbus Memorial Fountain (a marble monument with statues) near Union Station in Washington, D.C. The left photo, labeled "Biden," shows the fountain empty/drained of water, with a chipped, peeling white basin, some staining, and a bird standing in the dry basin; surrounding grass and street are visible in the background. The right photo, labeled "Trump," shows the same fountain from a closer angle against a clear blue sky, appearing clean and well-maintained, with an American flag visible in the upper right corner. The image implies a contrast in the monument's upkeep/condition under the two presidencies.

Text in image: COLUMBUS CIRCLE Biden Trump

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A political meme/comparison image titled "COLUMBUS CIRCLE" with two side-by-side photos labeled "Biden" and "Trump." The left photo (Biden) shows a stone monument covered in red and black spray-painted graffiti, including phrases like "HAMAS IS COMING," "FREE GAZA," "ALL ZIONISTS ARE BASTARDS," "AZAB," "LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE," and inverted red triangle symbols, with a Palestinian flag/scarf draped over one of the statue's carved figures; the sky is overcast. The right photo (Trump) shows the same or a similar monument, clean and free of graffiti, under a clear blue sky with an American flag flying, and several people in tan uniforms and wide-brimmed hats (resembling park police or similar law enforcement) standing in the foreground.

Text in image: COLUMBUS CIRCLE Biden Trump HAMAS IS COMING AZAB FREE GAZA ALL ZIONISTS ARE BASTARDS PUTO LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE

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A political meme/comparison image titled "COLUMBUS CIRCLE" with two side-by-side photos of the Columbus Memorial Fountain in Washington, D.C., labeled "Biden" (left) and "Trump" (right). The left photo shows the fountain basin empty, dry, and stained/discolored, with no water. The right photo shows the same fountain area clean, white marble, under a clear blue sky with an American flag visible, appearing well-maintained (though the water level/fountain operation itself is not clearly visible in this crop). The image implies the fountain's condition differed between the two presidential administrations, with the "Biden" photo depicting neglect and the "Trump" photo depicting upkeep.

Text in image: COLUMBUS CIRCLE Biden Trump

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A screenshot of a social media post from the verified "Fox News" account (@FoxNews). It contains only text, formatted as a quote followed by explanatory summary text and a second quote — no photograph or graphic imagery.

Text in image: Fox News ✓ @FoxNews NOW: "The average price of gasoline nationwide is down $0.60 a gallon just from a short while ago... but remember that our oil in the middle of this conflict was less than it was for Sleepy Joe Biden." President Trump touts falling oil prices while calling out his predecessors for how they handled Iran and its nuclear program. "None of them did anything."

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Today, I'm pleased to announce that my administration is launching a brand new official White House app giving front row access to all news from your favorite president, Donald J. Trump. That's me. It's available today on the Apple and Android app stores. You can watch all White House events, read all my executive orders, and keep track of all of our promises made, promises kept. That was a phrase that I used during the campaign, and it's very true. In fact, I actually kept more promises than I even talked about. We did much more than I said we were going to do. Every American should expect their government to have transparency, and the Trump administration is the most transparent in history. That is for sure. No one knew that sleepy Joe Biden was doing. We had no idea what that guy was doing. The good news is he had no idea either, but my administration is inviting all Americans to join us on this mission to make America great again. I believe it has to be the most important, powerful phrase in the history of politics. Make America great again. We have made America great again. Now we want to keep it great. So download the new White House app today. Thank you very much. You have done a great job. We appreciate it. Thank you.

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