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Trump said 'any and all ships' in the Strait; CENTCOM said 'Iranian ports only' and promised not to impede other traffic — and no one in the chain of command has explained the gap.
Vance flew to Budapest to stump for Orban, who then lost 138-55 in a record-turnout landslide that Politico called a Trump humiliation.
A naval blockade, a sanctions waiver, a ceasefire expiration, and a War Powers clock now all converge inside sixteen days.
Carlson called Trump a slave to the forces pushing the Iran war, then suggested he might be the antichrist — the deepest MAGA fracture yet.
Vance led 21 hours of talks in Islamabad with no deal, while BBC called it his major 2028 audition.
Trump sat cageside at UFC 327 with Rubio while Vance ground through 21 hours of war talks.
Congress reconvenes Tuesday on Day 44 of the War Powers clock with Schumer pushing a floor vote and three Democratic holdouts wobbling.