{"id":26521,"date":"2026-06-25T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=26521"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:59:53","slug":"shouting-match-at-trumps-lunch-with-senate-gopers-exposes-loathing-frustration-incompetence-and-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/25\/shouting-match-at-trumps-lunch-with-senate-gopers-exposes-loathing-frustration-incompetence-and-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouting Match at Trump&#8217;s Lunch with Senate GOPers Exposes Loathing, Frustration, Incompetence, and Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anger and frustration finally boils over.<\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/24\/us\/politics\/trump-senate-gop-meeting-iran.html\">&#8220;President Trump was angry. &#8216;He was mad as a murder hornet,&#8217; Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said of the president\u2019s mood during a closed-door lunch on Wednesday with G.O.P. senators.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>C&#038;L: <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2026\/06\/gop-sen-told-trump-truth-about-iran-trump\">Yesterday, Louisiana Sen. John Cassidy got into an ugly shouting match with Trump over Iran. The Louisiana Republican had to be physically restrained.<\/a> Cassidy told Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/cltv\/2026\/06\/gop-senator-trump-you-have-not-told\">&#8220;You have not told the American people what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Axios: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/w1KZa#selection-671.1-671.106\">&#8220;Trump&#8217;s lunch with Senate Republicans only seemed to move White House-Senate relations from bad to worse.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-congress-iran-war_n_6a3c9f9be4b0bbe31500d29e\">Naturally, the Senate Republicans folded, and, after being berated by Trump over opposition to his war in Iran, held a late-night vote to try to appease him.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anger and frustration finally boils over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}