My colleague Ward Clark overviewed President Donald Trump's Tuesday EO signing to mitigate mail-in voting fraud. According to a fact sheet, the Secretary of Homeland Security, with the Social Security Administration's help, will create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state. The executive order will create enhanced control and tracking for mail-in ballots by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Ballots will now have specific secure envelopes, with unique barcodes for tracking.
As the president took questions, much of this EO was glossed over. After this morning's Pentagon briefing by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, most of the questions from journalists surrounded Operation Epic Fury and the state of Iran's ability to retaliate. When asked whether an end was in sight, President Trump responded:
I would say, within two weeks... maybe. Two weeks, maybe three. We're hitting them very hard. Last time we wiped out a tremendous amounts of missile-making facilties as you probably read, or wrote. We knocked out...
The reporter interrupted him in mid-speech and asked for confirmation on that timeline. Trump affirmed, "I think within two or three weeks."
Another journalist asked what America will do after that.
Trump said simply:
We'll leave. Because there's no reason to do this. Look, a guy can take a mine, drop it in the water, and say, "Oh, it's unsafe." It's not like you're taking out an army, or you're taking out a country. Or you can take a machine gun from the shore and shoot a few bullets at a ship. Or maybe, an over-the-shoulder missile, small missiles.
That's not for us. That'll be for France. That'll be for whoever is using the Strait. But I think when we leave, probably that's all cleared up. Today, I heard tremendous numbers of ships were sailing through. We're negotiating with them right now. They've been.. again, we have had regime change.
Now regime change was not one of the things I had as a goal. I had one goal: they will have no nuclear weapons. And that goal has been attained, they will not have nuclear weapons.
But, we're finishing the job, and I think within, maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job. But we want to knock out every, single thing that they have. Now it's possible we'll make a deal before that, 'cause we'll hit bridges, and we've hit some, but and we'll hit some bridges, we have a couple of nice bridges in mind. But if they come to the table, that'll be good. But, it doesn't matter whether they'll come or not, we've set them back.... it'll take 15-20 years to rebuild what we've done to them. They have no Navy. They have no military. They have no Air Force. They have no telecommunications, they have no anti-aircraft systems. They have no leaders, their leaders are all gone. That's why you have regime change.
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.@POTUS on concluding Operation Epic Fury: I would say that within two or three weeks... but we want to knock out every single thing they have. Now, it's possible that we'll make a deal before that. pic.twitter.com/tL72kmJxpf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 31, 2026
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Hegseth, Caine Lay Out How Iran Is Being Crushed, Coming Days 'Will Be Decisive' in Operation
Despite the definitive reports of the damage done to Iran's infrastructure and defense on Tuesday morning from SecWar Pete Hegseth, and from the president at this EO signing, Reuters journalist Jeff Mason needed to massage the legacy media narrative that Iran was still dangerous and could mount an aggressive counterattack any time they felt like it.
Mason asked, "The Iranian government threatened a bunch of U.S. companies today in the region, including Google, Apple..."
Trump didn't even let him finish his question, but pushed back.
TRUMP: With what? What did they threaten them with? BB Guns? Or...
MASON: Well... that's ...
TRUMP: They don't have much left to threaten.
And had Mason been listening, he would have phrased his question differently. Instead, he had driven into a ditch, but insisted on pumping the gas and spinning his wheels.
MASON: My question for you is how are you helping...
TRUMP: I don't know. You made a statement. What did they threaten them with, I don't know? Clearly, tell me, how did they threaten them?
MASON: All I know is that they threatened them, sir.
TRUMP: What does that mean? Did they say something nasty?
MASON: Has the government talked to these companies are you helping to backstop them...
TRUMP: You don't even know what the threat was. What was the threat? I haven't heard it. What was the threat?
The exchange was the equivalent of Mason bringing a water gun to a Super Soaker fight. Mason tried to back off, saying, "I'll get back to you," but Trump was now like a dog with a juicy bone.
TRUMP: Did they say they're going to blow them up, they're gonna hit 'em — you know what they're not going to do? They're not going to hit 'em with a nuclear weapon.
Boom. Mason then tried to frame it as though Trump did not care that American companies were being threatened. Mason asked, "Is this something you're concerned about, sir?"
Trump calmly responded, "No."
A female reporter who had actually done her homework read what the specific threat made by the IRCG was about.
She said, "The IRCG threatened 18 U.S. technology companies if the U.S. continues targeted assassinations of Iranian leaders beginning on April 1. The companies listed are NVIDIA..."
Trump's comeback was comedy gold: "Most of those people are dead already."
After that exchange, we're Dead.
WATCH:
Next time third-rate loser @jeffmason1 comes into the Oval Office to ask the President of the United States a question, he should come prepared.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 31, 2026
Humiliating. pic.twitter.com/ntzofjIJ6R
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