Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - May 3, 2026 Trump is reviewing Iran’s proposed plan in between posting about how low IQ Bill Maher is and comparing him to a less funny Jimmy Kimmel. The IRGC says Trump “must choose between an impossible military operation or a bad deal” Israel has approved a deal to buy F35 and F15 fighter jets from Lockheed and Boeing which equates to an approximately $118B deal Russian drone s...

Kitchen Briefs - May 2, 2026 In Lebanon, the death toll after 2 months is now 2,659, with 8,183 people injured, another 41 in the last 24 hours. Israeli forces also killed 7 in Gaza in the last 24 hours with their current death toll since October 7, 2023 to 72,608. Since their so-called ceasefire in October, 828 people have been killed. Israel has also just carried out further air attacks in Leban...

Kitchen Briefs - May 1, 2026 PM Federal Appeals Court has rejected access to abortion pills via mail Trump is not happy with the new proposal from Iran and said we might just not be able to get to a deal Trump also said today that the US has already won the war but he wants to win by a bigger margin Israeli attacks have killed 12 more in Lebanon Trump said he’s hiking tariffs on cars from the EU f...

Kitchen Briefs - May 1, 2026 AM - Republicans have said Trump can decide on whether he needs to ask for permission from Congress to extend the war - Israel is intensifying their strikes against Lebanon. They have demolished a monastery and a nuns’ school. This after blowing up homes, shops, roads and various landmarks in the town Iran has sent over a new proposal - The Dept of Defense has signed a...

Kitchen Briefs - April 30, 2026 PM The House has passed a budget to fund DHS and end the partial government shutdown did not include funding for ICE Donnie Jr and his finance have decided it wouldn’t able appropriate to have a big White House wedding with a war raging This afternoon Trump says he has not ruled out resuming attacks on Iran. This morning I said 14 people in Lebanon were killed and t...

Kitchen Briefs - April 29, 2026 PM Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan didn’t mince his words to Hegseth when he called for his resignation today over the death of 6 service members Trump and his top advisors want to continue with US blockades of the Strait of Hormuz and laying the groundwork for a longer term closure of it Trump is claiming that the timetables of the wars in Iran and Ukraine could en...

Kitchen Briefs - April 29, 2026 AM Congress is hearing from Secretary Hegseth who is defending his $1.5T budget 5 more people have been killed in Lebanon from Israeli attacks Iran has been trying to get around sanctions by using Crypto and now Trump has frozen $344M in crypto assets The Supreme Court has tossed out Louisiana’s contested congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymandering Calif...

Kitchen Briefs - April 28, 2026 PM Earlier today I mentioned that today is day 60 of the war in Iran. Under the War Powers Act of 1973, the President must terminate the use of Armed Forces in hostilities within 60 days of notifying Congress of military action unless Congress declares war, authorizes the use of military force, or grants a 30-day extension. Senator Adam Schiff of California is intro...

Kitchen Briefs - April 28, 2026 AM Iran has opened 6 airports amid the ceasefire yet Trump posted that they called him and said they’re in a state of collapse UAE has left OPEC Two more people have been killed in Gaza city after Israeli attacks Kid Rock and Secretary Hegseth went on some Apache helicopter joy rides The DOJ has filed a motion overnight against the National Trust, the lawsuit trying...

Kitchen Briefs - April 27, 2026 PM Katie Phang, who is an independent journalist, legal analyst and trial lawyer and whom I call friend is the first journalist to sue the DOJ for violating the Epstein files transparency act. The suit claims the DOJ missed deadlines, did excessive or improper redactions without explanation and withheld key documents. The suit calls for all documents released and al...

Kitchen Briefs - April 27, 2026 AM Iran’s Foreign Minister has left Pakistan and is now in Russia visiting with Putin Iran has offered to open the Strait if the US lifts the blockade and ends the war Lebanon’s death toll due to Israeli attacks now stands at 2,521 Melania Trump is now mad at Jimmy Kimmel and is urging ABC to take a stand after he made a joke about her being an "expectant widow" Sho...

Kitchen Briefs - April 26, 2026 Last night at the White House Correspondentss dinner, there was a shooter. The suspect arrested is Cole Thomas Allen. Iran’s top diplomat has returned to Pakistan and Israel continues to strike Lebanon with Netanyahu ordering the Israeli army to "vigorously attack" Hezbollah in Lebanon Republican Thom Tillis says he’ll approve the nomination on Kevin Warsh despite l...

Kitchen Briefs - April 25, 2026 The A team is heading back home per Trump’s orders. He said it’s too much traveling and too much work At least a dozen people, many children and women, have been wounded in south Lebanon due to Israeli strikes Technically Trump has until May 1st before he has to get approval from Congress to go past his 60 days of deployment under the 1973 War Powers Act yet there’s...

Kitchen Briefs - April 24, 2026 PM The A team is enroute back to Pakistan A US Circuit of Appeals Court has blocked Trumps executive order which suspended asylum access at the southern border of the US. The court said that immigrants have the right to apply for aslyum at the border The DOJ has announced that they are bringing back federal execution methods that include firing squads, electrocution...

Kitchen Briefs - April 24, 2026 AM Overnight Trump was posting from after midnight until 3am calling for the arrests of Obama and Clinton for treason, reposting AI images and demanding Chuck Schumer resign Trump attended a dinner hosted by David Ellison Secretary Hegseth said that the War In Iran is a gift to the world Israeli strikes have killed 3 more people in Gaza and yet the ceasefire has bee...

Kitchen Briefs - April 23, 2026 PM Breaking News - Soldier arrested in Nicholas Maduro capture Trump claims to have total control over the Strait of Hormuz and rambles on about Iran The Gold Card visa program where you pay $1M you to become a citizen of the US has had one person do it At least 10 people have been injured during a shootout at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana mall Iranian media has released...

Kitchen Briefs - April 23, 2026 AM Warner Brothers shareholders approves the Paramount merger Lebanon says no deal without Israeli withdrawal while US and Iran talks stall. Trump has ordered the US Navy to fire on any Iranian boats placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz while the US has boarded a ship carrying Iranian oil Navy Secretary John Phelan has been fired The DOJ has reclassified state-lice...

Kitchen Briefs - April 22, 2026 PM Israel has killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry had earlier said Israel “pursued” journalists Khailil and Zeinab Faraj by “targeting” the house where they took shelter after an Israeli attack in a southern Lebanese town. Israel is intensifying their attacks on Lebanon The HHS rejects a new study that showed Covid 19 vacci...

Kitchen Briefs - April 22, 2026 AM Iran has fired on 3 ships and captured 2 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were flagged as from Panama and Liberia Lufthansa has cut more than 20,000 summer flights due to fuel prices Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is warning that emergency funds will be exhausted within the next couple of weeks and once again TSA workers will go unpaid Tru...

Kitchen Briefs - April 21, 2026 PM Trump has said he’s going to extend the ceasefire until negotiations conclude The US used up nearly half of its Patriot missiles during this current war. It’ll take 3-5 years to replenish them Interim AG Todd Blanchard announced the indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center over all egged use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist...

Kitchen Briefs - April 21, 2026 AM Trump says he’s ready to back to war with Iran yet he’s also saying he thinks a deal will be reached The Guardian is reporting that Israeli soldiers are sexual assault violence and pressure to for Palestinians out of their homes President Zelensky says the A team has been traveling to Moscow on a number of times but hasn’t stopped in Kyiv and feels it’s disrespec...

Kitchen Briefs - April 20, 2026 PM Trump says a deal with Iran is going to come quickly while Iran says they’re not going to accept negotiations under the shadow of threats. The current ceasefire ends Wednesday evening and Trump says it’s highly unlikely that he’ll extend it. 6 people have been wounded in an Israeli air strike in Lebabnon Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down Apple...

Kitchen Briefs - April 20, 2026 AM The A team is enroute to Pakistan for peace talks, Iran says there are no such talks planned, this after the US struck an Iranian ship yesterday and seized it Trump says Israel didn’t talk him into this war The families of over 100 children who the US killed during strikes on an Iranian school sent a thank you letter to Pope Leo for speaking out A photo emerged t...

Kitchen Briefs - April 19, 2026 Trump says a peace deal will happen one way or another, the nice way or the hard way even if he has to blow up the entire country. Representative Jamie Raskin and Senator Jon Osoff are wanting to investigate Kushner’s involvement as it seems to be a direct conflict of interest with his business investments in the Middle East On Saturday night a Woodland Hills, CA re...

Kitchen Briefs - April 18, 2026 Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will never close and it’s not only closed but two ships have been fired at. The IRGC has said that “due to the violation of the ceasefire conditions, the American enemy did not lift the naval blockade of Iranian vessels and ports” Trump signed off on further investments to research psychedelic treatments Kash Patel is hitting the bott...