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A golden toilet mocking President Trump was set up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Monday.The toilet is spray-painted gold and set up on a fake marble pedestal—a jab at the president’s preferred design aesthetic—and directly references his renovation of the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House last year. Plaques on both sides of the commode statue read “A Throne Fit for a King,” along with a brief message [sic]:In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict and economic turmoil, President Trump focused on what really mattered: Remodeling the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. This, his crowning achievement is a bold reminder that the president isn’t just a bussinessman, he’s taking care of business. It stands as a tribute to an unwavering visionary who looked down, saw a problem, and painted it gold.The golden throne was erected by the protest art group Secret Handshake, who put their name on a toilet roll attached to the sculpture. The group has erected at least a dozen statues mocking Trump and his followers on the mall in the past 18 months, according to The Washington Post. These include a giant replica of a birthday card Trump had sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday and a bronze statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands. Earlier this month, the group installed a statue on the mall of Trump and Epstein in the “king of the world” pose from the movie Titanic.The group keeps the identities of its members hidden, using an intermediary to get installation permits from the National Park Service. One of them told the Post in a phone interview Monday that the secrecy is “because it’s not about us. It’s about the kind of fun, intrigue and mystery of these things.”“Things are dark right now and feel hopeless in a lot of ways,” he said. “There’s a lightheartedness to this that could be a respite from the darkness. Of course, there’s a lot of imagery around the idea that this guy is king and a supreme ruler that comes from him directly, so the idea of this throne does play into it.”The Trump administration doesn’t see any humor in it.“President Trump is making the White House and our entire Nation’s Capital more beautiful than ever before. The president will never stop working on behalf of the American people and fulfill the promises that he was overwhelmingly elected to do,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told the news outlet.

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Killing people abroad is apparently more important to Republicans than keeping Americans healthy.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused Monday to say whether or not Donald Trump was considering cutting health care access in order to continue funding the Iran war, suggesting that the administration was unaware of the GOP caucus’s plan to do so.“I don’t want to weigh in definitively because I just haven’t heard that being discussed in the West Wing,” Leavitt said during a White House press briefing.Q: There are reports that Republicans are weighing cuts to health care in order to make way for that $200 billion for the Iran war. Is that a trade-off that Trump supports?Leavitt: I don't want to weigh in definitively pic.twitter.com/rcFypch15Y— FactPost (@factpostnews) March 30, 2026Top Republicans have already floated the idea and are reportedly eyeing federal health care cuts in order to offset the Pentagon’s massive price tag on its latest military offensive.House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington has suggested that Congress should revive cost-sharing reductions, which could save the federal government as much as $30 billion. Doing so, however, would drastically increase out-of-pocket premium costs, a possibility that the Congressional Budget Office estimated could cause some 300,000 people to lose their health insurance by 2034. Arrington is selling the scheme as a method of “fraud prevention.”Cuts presented in Arrington’s budget reconciliation bill include programs aimed at assisting low-income families, such as the earned income tax credit, which helps low-income, working parents recoup their tax dollars by claiming their child as a dependent. Arrington claimed the popular program “loses 30 cents on the dollar.”“You’ve got low-income housing tax credits, for example, another sort of welfare program within the tax code that doesn’t prohibit illegals from siphoning money off that and jeopardizing the sustainability of that program,” he said.The cuts are still in discussion, and are likely to face pushback from moderate Republicans, who are already fretting over their reelection odds—and the party’s trilateral grip on Washington—come November.Meanwhile, the cost of the war is ramping up, hurting Americans at home. The White House has sent more troops to the Middle East, ramping up fears of a ground invasion in Iran, and the Pentagon is readying for “weeks of U.S. ground operations” in the region. Oil prices have soared as a result of the monthlong conflict, which Congress still has yet to authorize.So far, more than 1,937 people have been killed in Iran, including dozens of political leaders, according to Al Jazeera. At least 13 U.S. soldiers have also lost their lives in the war, and more than 300 have been wounded. Leavitt insisted Monday that the conflict would be resolved in the coming weeks, though military officials have indicated that the war could rage for months.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that President Trump is “not afraid” to commit war crimes against innocent Iranian civilians.“The president posted this morning … he [threatened] ‘blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells and Kharg Island, and possibly all desalinization plants.’ Under international law, striking civilian infrastructure like that is generally prohibited,” NBC’s Garret Haake asked Leavitt at her Monday briefing. “Why is the president threatening what would amount to potentially a war crime with the U.S. military, and how do you square that with the administration repeatedly saying that the U.S. does not target civilians?”Q: "Why is the president threatening what would amount to potentially a war crime?"Leavitt: "The president has made it quite clear…as evidenced by the statement that you just read, that their best move is to make a deal, or else the United States Armed Forces has capabilities… pic.twitter.com/x4RreosoRx— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) March 30, 2026“The president has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime at this moment in time—as evidenced by the statement that you just read—that their best move is to make a deal. Or else the United States Armed Forces has capabilities beyond their wildest imagination,” Leavitt replied. “And the president is not afraid to use them.”“Including potential war crimes?” Haake responded.“That’s not what I said, Garrett. And you’re saying the word ‘potential’ for a reason. I’m sure some experts are telling you that in your ear to try to ask me that question. Of course this administration … will always act within the confines of the law,” Leavitt said.That has not been the case. Aside from waging an illegal war in the first place, the Trump administration—along with Israel—has already killed more than 1,500 civilians in Iran. Haake’s question was valid, as Trump very much threatened to bomb access to clean water and electricity on Monday morning. That is illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention.University of Manchester international law professor Yusra Suedi told Al Jazeera that Trump’s post “reinforces the climate of impunity around collective punishment in warfare.”“This is clearly an act of collective punishment, which is prohibited under international humanitarian law. You can’t deliberately harm an entire civilian population to pressure its government,” she said.