President Donald Trump is facing ridicule ahead of his prime-time White House address after posting a conflicting message to social media.

Trump told Reuters on Wednesday that the U.S. will be “out of Iran pretty quickly,” but in a Truth Social message he made a different declaration.

“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE!” Trump wrote. “We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”

The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote: “Yesterday: We are fine leaving the Strait of Hormuz closed. Europe can deal with it. Today: We have a ceasefire deal but we won’t take it until the Strait of Hormuz is open.”

Former Obama official Jon Favreau noted, “Trump is basing this on a misinterpreted, out-of-context quote that Pezeshkian, who is not the ‘new regime president,’ said two days ago.”

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Former Biden and Obama official Jesse Lee responded: “It’s a shame that Trump has done nothing but lie about this war all day everyday, and the safe bet on any given statement is that it, too, is a lie.”

Bloomberg TV chief political correspondent Annmarie Hordern noted that Iran does not have a new president.

MS NOW national security contributor Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA officer, added, “Who is Trump taking about? There is no new president. There’s the old one who is irrelevant.”

Some social media users noted that Trump’s post came shortly before the markets were set to open, others noted that today is April Fool’s Day.

Some commenters instead focused on Trump’s upcoming White House address.

“I assume that tonight Trump will head for the exits in Iran,” wrote The Bulwark’s Bill Kristol. “He may try to disguise the retreat by announcing the U.S. is leaving NATO, which Trump will present as a liberation from ungrateful allies and a victory for America First. So he’ll make a bad outcome far worse.”

Political scientist Ian Bremmer wrote, “last night: war over soon, don’t need to open strait,” adding, “this morning: war continues until strait open,” and, “this evening: equivalent incoherence.”

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President Donald Trump on Sunday told the Financial Times he wants to take Iran’s oil. On Monday, he posted a video of him saying exactly that — in 1987.

“To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the U.S. say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” Trump told FT.

In the resurfaced 1987 clip posted to Truth Social, Trump says, “Why couldn’t we go in and take over some of their oil, which is along the sea?”

Asked by Barbara Walters how he would do it, Trump appeared to have few answers.

“You take their oil,” he said.

“How?” a frustrated Walters pressed.

“You’re gonna have a war by being weak,” Trump retorted.

“How do we go in? What do we do?” Walters, now exasperated, continued to ask.

“You’re going to have a war. And it’s going to start in the Middle East,” was Trump’s response. “The next time Iran attacks this country, go in and grab one of their big oil installations, and I mean, grab it and keep it, and get back your losses, because this country has lost plenty because of Iran.”

Trump reportedly is sending more troops to the Middle East, and preparing for a possible weeks-long ground invasion, The Washington Post reported.

Earlier on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was blasted after declaring that the U.S. has just four goals in the thirty-one day war in Iran — and three of them Trump has insisted are complete. As critics noted, they did not include securing Iran’s nuclear stockpile or opening the Strait of Hormuz.

Mediaite reported that the clip Trump posted had already gone viral on social media Sunday evening.

That’s it. I give up.. Donald Trump is a time traveler.

20/20 interview 1987. Wtf. pic.twitter.com/Q44GaCjIsI

— Whiplash347 (@Whiplash437) March 30, 2026

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The Trump administration is turning to Civil War-era white supremacists in its challenge to a more than one century-old ruling, based on the 14th Amendment, that states that most children born in the United States are U.S. citizens.

Over a century ago, Confederate officer and Louisiana attorney Alexander Porter Morse “was among a trio of thinkers who spearheaded a failed effort — steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism — to erase birthright citizenship,” The Washington Post reported. “The Trump administration is reviving their arguments to make its case today, some legal scholars say.”

University of New Hampshire history professor Lucy Salyer told the Post “she was struck that the Trump administration had chosen to elevate those figures and their ideas.”

“If you know the history and the broader context of what they were trying to achieve,” Salyer said, “it does ring alarm bells.”

The Post adds that “Trump administration attorneys cite Morse in their Supreme Court brief to argue the disputed idea that commentators in the 19th century widely agreed that the Constitution ‘exclude[s] the children of foreigners transiently within the United States’ from qualifying for citizenship.”

President Trump is making clear exactly where he stands on the issue of birthright citizenship. On his first day back in office Trump signed an executive order attempting to limit birthright citizenship for certain U.S.-born children of undocumented or temporary-status parents.

On Monday, the president went even further.

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“Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!”

“Look at the dates of this long ago legislation – THE EXACT END OF THE CIVIL WAR!” he continued. “The World is getting rich selling citizenships to our Country, while at the same time laughing at how STUPID our U.S. Court System has become (TARIFFS!). ‘Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!'”

The Post notes that the ACLU calls the administration’s argument “nothing less than a remaking of our Nation’s constitutional foundations.” They say it would apply to tens of thousands of children born in the U.S. every month, and would be “devastating” to families around the country.

“But worse yet, the government’s baseless arguments — if accepted — would cast a shadow over the citizenship of millions upon millions of Americans, going back generations.”

According to the Post, the 1800s campaign against birthright citizenship also relied on prominent legal scholar Francis Wharton, who posited the idea that citizenship be granted to children of European immigrants but not to children of Chinese immigrants.

“Like Wharton, the Trump administration says in its brief a child’s citizenship is dependent on the parents’ nationality, not birth in the United States.”

The Trump administration, also like Wharton, “highlights the 14th Amendment phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof ,’ saying it disqualifies children of illegal migrants and temporary visitors from becoming citizens because they can’t demonstrate the necessary political allegiance to the United States the phrase evokes.”

The case, which will consider the legality of Trump’s executive order, will be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

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