While fielding questions during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll Monday, President Donald Trump again threatened to commit war crimes in Iran and suggested he'd like to steal the country’s oil — all with the Easter bunny and first lady Melania Trump awkwardly looking on nearby.

"We are obliterating their country… and they just don’t want to say ‘uncle.’ They don’t want to cry, as the expression goes, ‘uncle.’ But they will. And if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges, they’ll have no power plants, they’ll have no anything,” Trump said.

The president then darkly alluded to “other things that are worse” that he’s apparently mulling over, and criticized the American public for not being more supportive of his preemptive war.

“If I had my choice, [I would like to] take the oil. Because it’s there for the taking. There’s not a thing they can do about it,” he said. “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.”

Asked if Melania Trump had anything to say about the children in Iran, the camera awkwardly panned to the left where she claimed we're at war for the kids themselves.

“All of this is happening for their future,” Melania said, standing next to an expressionless Easter bunny. “They will be safe in the years to come.”

Melania Trump: All of this is happening for their future. They will be safe in the years to come. Trump: We are fighting for the children who are in a war zone. pic.twitter.com/2GHTqA5nWM

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that military strikes from over the weekend narrowly missed an Iranian nuclear plant, warning on Monday that such activity could have severe consequences for the region's people and environment.

Independent analysis of satellite imagery taken Sunday reveals that multiple recent strikes hit close to Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant – including one impact less than 250 feet from the site's perimeter, according to the nuclear watchdog.

While the plant itself was not damaged, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi warned that continued military activity near the BNPP "could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond."

The statement comes as President Donald Trump threatens to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure – a war crime under international law – including the country's power plants. IAEA did not say who specifically launched the strikes near BNPP.

President Donald Trump kicked off the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday by lauding egg supplies, Jesus, and the military’s accomplishments in the ongoing Iranian war.

"Today is a very special day. It's a day where we celebrate Jesus. It's a day where we celebrate religion,” he said, while standing beside the first lady and someone dressed as the Easter Bunny.

Trump, while launching the children’s event, boasted that the U.S. is doing better than ever before.

“I just want to say we have a great military, we’ve the greatest military, most powerful military of anyplace in the world,” he said, after commending the rescue of two U.S. pilots from Iran, which he said he will further discuss at a press conference later today.

He went on to brag about securing more than 40,000 eggs for the event, which he noted faced a shortage earlier in his presidency. He then praised the country’s claimed resurrection under his leadership.

“One year ago, a little bit more, our country was dead. We had a dead country. We had an administration that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. Today we have the hottest country of anywhere in the world, respected by everybody, and that’s the way we’re going to keep it,” he said.

Years before he had an affair with a staffer who died by setting herself on fire, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) reportedly pestered another aide for sex.

A former staffer for his 2020 campaign shared text messages with the San Antonio Express-News in which Gonzales made sexual overtures and repeatedly demanded revealing photos.“I know what I want and won’t stop until I get it,” Gonzales wrote in one message that June. The staffer said Gonzales visited her apartment but that she rebuffed his advances.

Gonzales dropped his reelection bid last month under pressure from his Republicans colleagues, many of whom were disgusted by his affair with another staffer — a young woman who wound up killing herself by self-immolation in 2024.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress.

Prodded by the Trump administration, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol.

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Iran has reportedly rejected a proposed temporary ceasefire with the U.S. and Israel as part of an agreement that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

A break in the violence would only allow Iran’s adversaries to prepare for the continuation of the war, CNN reported an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson as saying Monday.

“We are calling for an end to the war and for preventing its recurrence,” spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.

Baghaei also called the U.S.’s demands — such as a 15-point plan — too excessive, Reuters reported.

“Iran does not hesitate to clearly express what it considers its legitimate demands and doing so should not be interpreted as a sign of compromise, but rather as a reflection of its confidence in defending its positions," Baghaei said at a press conference.

President Donald Trump on Sunday gave Tehran a deadline of Tuesday night, Washington time, to reopen the strait. This end date follows him threatening to bomb the country “back to the stone ages.”

Savannah Guthrie returned to her NBC “Today” co-hosting duties on Monday, more than two months after her mother’s disappearance.

“Good morning and welcome to ‘Today’ on this Monday morning. We are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good to be home,” she said while sitting alongside Craig Melvin.

“Yes, it is good to have you back at home,” Melvin responded.

“Well, here we go, ready or not, let’s do the news,” she said.

Wearing a bright yellow dress, Guthrie did not mention her mother’s disappearance and instead went straight into the day’s headlines.

The AP reports:

The United States pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction of the second service member who hid deep in the mountains as Tehran called for Iranians to help capture him.

The CIA looked to throw off Iran’s government before the crew member was found, launching a deception campaign to spread word inside the Islamic Republic that it had already located him.

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