Trump spent three days issuing a barrage of public assurances, calmly delivered threats, contradictory signals and eventually a curse-filled damnation of Israeli and Iranian leaders.

President Donald Trump compared the American airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities to the only use of atomic weapons in warfare during the 20th century.

A bipartisan contingent is pushing for a war powers vote to reassert Congress' power to declare war, but House Speaker Mike Johnson says a reported Israel-Iran ceasefire makes the idea irrelevant.