#Political Rhetoric

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Kerry: Trump Iran posts sound like 'prelude to becoming one of the greatest war criminals in history' — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday denounced President Trump's threatening posts about Iran as sounding like the "prelude to becoming one of the greatest war criminals in history." Kerry t...

  Related: #US-Iran Relations, #Election Campaign
• 🇺🇸 Trump rips Wall Street Journal: 'One of the worst' — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  President Trump on Thursday slammed The Wall Street Journal, panning the editorial board for claiming his declaration of victory amid the Iran conflict was “premature." “The Wall Street Journal, one o...

  Related: #Media Relations, #Conservative Politics
• 🇺🇸 Van Hollen: Trump 'genocide' post shows Republican Party is 'bankrupt' — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday went after the Republican response to President Trump’s recent post threatening Iran in which he stated that “a whole civilization will die." “It says someth...

  Related: #US Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump issues new threats as Iran accuses U.S. and Israel of violating ceasefire — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  President Trump posted new threats on social media as questions linger about the fragile ceasefire with Iran. This comes as Israeli strikes in Lebanon threaten the negotiated 2-week lapse in the confl...

  Related: #Geopolitical Tension, #Ceasefire Fragility
• 🇺🇸 White House defends Trump's 'very tough rhetoric' on Iran — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez questions White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about President Trump’s Truth Social post threatening to wipe out “a whole civilization” on Tuesday.

  Related: #Foreign Policy, #Diplomacy
• 🇺🇸 To Trump, America’s judges are either minions or traitors — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Trump again made it clear that he thinks the courts should function as one more weapon in his authoritarian political arsenal.

  Related: #Judicial Independence
• 🇺🇸 Anti-Muslim Comments by G.O.P. Congressman Reflect a Rising Trend — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  On Capitol Hill and in Nashville, comments by Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee have sown division and underscored a growing tolerance on the right for Islamophobia.

  Related: #Islamophobia, #Religious Freedom, #Conservative Politics
• 🇺🇸 Trump wants to 'take' Cuba, but we've done that repeatedly before — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  The U.S. began its relationship with the free Cuban people not by inviting them to the negotiation table but by dictating terms.

  Related: #U.S.-Cuba Relations
• 🇺🇸 New Old Rules: White House Says Bill Maher Getting Mark Twain Prize Is “Literally Fake News” — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration insists Bill Maher will not be receiving the prestigious Mark Twain Award for American Humor. “This is fake news,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Friday as repor...

  Related: #Media Relations
• 🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth's Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the U.S. goes to war with Iran — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.

  Related: #Religion and Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Admin touts TrumpRX success: it's a quick fix, not real progress! — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  A new analysis from The New York Times, along with German outlets NDR and WDR, took a closer look at the administration’s new drug pricing platform, TrumpRx. What they found is that while some prices ...

  Related: #Healthcare Policy
• 🇺🇸 Rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric by GOP sparks uproar on Capitol Hill — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  House lawmakers returned to Washington this week after a long break to face a war of theologies in the Middle East — and another brewing in the Capitol. President Trump’s war against Iran’s Islamic re...

  Related: #Religious Discrimination
• 🇺🇸 Trump says he can do ’anything I want’ with Cuba — 17/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇬🇧 Trump predicts US will have ‘honour of taking Cuba’ amid power blackout — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>US president declares he can do ‘anything I want’ after oil blockade plunges country into darkness</p><p>Donald Trump expects to have “the honour of taking Cuba”, he declared, after a US-imposed oi...

  Related: #US-Cuba Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump says he thinks he will have the &apos;honor&apos; of &apos;taking Cuba&apos; — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The president recently launched a war in Iran after topping Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro by force.

  Related: #U.S.-Cuba Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump on ‘taking’ Cuba: 'I can do anything I want with it' — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump on Monday said he believes he will have the “honor” of taking over Cuba, coming as the administration is choking the communist regime in Havana with a fuel blockade. Trump, speaking to...

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump Says U.S. Doesn’t Need Allies’ Help … After He Demanded It — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The president is lashing out at the media over poor coverage while continuing to offer nonsensical justifications for attacking Iran

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  A president who calls journalists the “enemy of the people” has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose.

  Related: #Media Pressure
• 🇺🇸 Trump Softens Call for Protesters to Take Over Iran — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump said protesters risk getting shot “right through the head,” a change in tone from his earlier comments that Iranians must seize the chance to take over their government.

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇬🇧 Trump issues fresh Iran warning, calling regime ‘deranged scumbags’ – US politics live — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <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-fo...

  Related: #US-Iran Relations
• 🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth’s Rhetoric of Violence — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  We examine the defense secretary’s view of war.

  Related: #Violence
• 🇬🇧 Farage delivers energy sermon at the pump – just don’t mention the war — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Reform leader’s Derbyshire petrol station stunt grinds to halt when questions on Iran leave him short-tempered</p><p>Let’s try to look on the bright side. At least Nigel Farage wasn’t personally ou...

  Related: #Energy Policy
• 🇺🇸 Trump calls Iran war 'excursion' that will be done 'very soon' — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump on Monday described the war against Iran as an “excursion” that would be over soon, as the president faces off against spiking oil prices, troop casualties, allies under attack and low...

  Related: #International Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims &apos;don&apos;t belong in American society&apos; — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Rep. Andy Ogles&apos; social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans.

  Related: #Islamophobia
• 🇺🇸 American women don't need Democrats to protect them from election integrity — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The SAVE America Act, which requires proof of citizenship and a valid photo ID to vote, was passed by the House to protect the integrity of elections and honor every legal vote, despite Democrats' fea...

  Related: #Election Integrity
• 🇺🇸 Trump on If Americans Should Be Worried About Retaliatory Attacks at Home: ‘I Guess’ — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  "Like I said, some people will die," the president told Time . "When you go to war, some people will die."

  Related: #National Security
• 🇺🇸 Iran calls for 'Trump's blood,' warning US will 'bitterly regret' sinking warship — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Iranian leaders are calling for President Trump’s “blood” after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Tehran over the weekend, vowing to take action over the "atrocity." Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi ...

  Related: #Iran-US Relations, #Military Tensions
• 🇺🇸 Sec. Noem dodges questions about calling Renee Good, Alex Pretti ‘domestic terrorists’ — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified at a public hearing over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation. NBC News’ Julia Ainsley details some heated moments from the he...

  Related: #Immigration Policy, #Government Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Trump’s 2-hour diatribe doesn’t address America’s true status — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  The speech was too long, too garish, too exploitative, too vulgar and mostly uninformative.

  Related: #US Politics, #Media Criticism, #Campaign Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Live updates: Trump, GOP celebrate wins; surgeon general pick faces Senate — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  President Trump delivered a record-setting State of the Union address Tuesday night, when he zeroed in on his signature economic and foreign policies, while laying criticism on the Supreme Court and D...

  Related: #Executive-Legislative Relations, #Policy Priorities