April 2, 2026
President Trump Addressed The Nation On Operation Epic Fury, Artemis II Liftoff, White House Ballroom Construction Halted, And More
On April 1, 2026, the White House made 2 releases on the same topic: President Trump speaks on Iran. The first release President Trump’s Clear and Unchanging Objectives Drive Decisive Success Against Iranian Regime announced the President would address the nation about Operation Epic Fury at 9pm EDT, April 1, 2026. The release also lists 32 instances when President Trump and his Administration have repeatedly and unambiguously reaffirmed the core objects concerning Iran: obliterate Iran's missiles and production, annihilate Iran's navy, sever Iran's support for terrorist groups, and insure Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon.
After President Trump addressed the nation live, the White House published the release President Trump Delivers Powerful Primetime Address on Operation Epic Fury where President Trump announced that the US Military has decimated Iran's navy, shattered Iran's air force, eliminated Iran's key terrorist leaders, and is systematically dismantling Iran's ability to threaten America, our allies, and the world.
President Trump began his short speech with congratulating the brave men and women who blasted off today from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on their 10-day journey to circle the moon then return to land in the Pacific ocean.
President Trump then continued his speech announcing that it has been one month since the conflict with Iran began. He announced that the Iranian navy is gone. Iran's air force is in ruins. Most of the leaders of the Iranian terrorist regime are now dead. Our military is in the process of decimating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones is curtailed. President Trump said our next targets are the factories, rocket launchers, and weapons facilities.
President Trump thanked our military troops for the masterful job they did in taking the country of Venezuela in just minutes. They were quick, lethal, violent, and now respected the world over. We are now partners with the new leadership in Venezuela in the production and sale of oil and gas. He reminded us that Venezuela has the 2nd largest reserves of oil in the world (the US is first). This means we are totally independent from the Middle East as we don't need their oil (or anything else they have).
President Trump then reminded us that he has been against Iran having a nuclear weapon in his first term (and there are videos of President Trump from over 40 years ago saying the same) especially after the Iranian regime loves to chant "death to America." He claims that Iran was behind the murder of 241 Americans in the Marine barracks during the bombing in Beirut as well as the slaughter of hundreds of our service members using roadside bombs. Iran was also complicit in the attack on the USS Cole as well as countless other heinous acts. President Trump stated that the Iranian regime has murdered 45,000 of their own people who were protesting their government/religious leader.
President Trump went on to say:
For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat. The most violent and thuggish regime on Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion, and conquest, and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield.
President Trump vows he will not allow that to happen. This situation has been going on for 47 years and his predecessors just seem to have made the situation worse over these years. He reminded us that he terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal (identifying this deal as a disaster). Iran took the cash Obama gave them and proceeded to devise a nuclear program.
President Trump reminded us of the strike against Iran's nuclear facilities in June called Operation Midnight Hammer where B52 bombers obliterated Iran's known nuclear sites. Still Iran pursued its nuclear program, just at different sites all the while building stockpiles of conventional ballistic missiles (some of which could reach Europe as well as the US homeland).
President Trump then announced that the core strategic objectives are nearing completion. He reminded us of the 13 American warriors who lost their lives during this conflict. We salute them, and now we honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives. We are going to finish this job.
President Trump then thanked our allies in the Middle East: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. He then promised the would would not allow them to be hurt as a result of this conflict.
President Trump spoke briefly about the rise of gas prices here at home. He assures us this is a short-term increase and is:
entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons.
President Trump then claimed that Iran could never be trusted with nuclear weapons:
They will use them and they will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion, economic pain, and instability worse than we can ever imagine. The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat.
President Trump reminded us that because of his "drill baby drill" stance, we are the number one producer of oil and gas on the planet. We produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The US imports almost ZERO oil through the Straight of Hormuz. He then stated that those countries who receive oil through the Straight of Hormuz need to be the ones to protect the passage, to protect the oil that they need. President Trump said the straight will need to be open for Iran to rebuild from the damage inflicted upon them during this conflict.
President Trump said that although the original members of the Iranian regime are dead, we still need to complete the military objectives set forth prior to this conflict's beginning. We are ready to finish them off over the next 2-3 weeks. Regime change has occurred because the original leaders are now dead; but regime change was never the goal. The goal was, is now, and continues to be decimating Iran's capability for nuclear arms. If the current Iranian leadership will not make a deal, we are ready to destroy key targets such as electric generating plants. We have not included striking oil targets because they will need to sell oil to rebuild their country under whatever deal is negotiated.
President Trump concluded his speech by stating:
Because of the actions we have taken, we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat to America and the world. And I'll tell you, the world is watching. And when we do, when it's all over, the United States will be safer, stronger, more prosperous, and greater than it has ever been before. May God bless the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much and good night.
The House is due back in session April 2, 2026 at 8:30am. Speakers Johnson & Thune say they have ideas on how to get DHS fully funded. We shall see. Talk is cheap and I don't see Speaker Thune working very hard to achieve the Trump agenda. We are sitting at 47 days since DHS employees, like Coast Guard Sailors, FEMA, support workers for TSA, etc. were paid.
LAWFARE lawsuit tracker to date:
- 227 active cases
- 22 suits filed by the Trump Administration
- 17 SCOTUS stays or motions to vacate of lower court orders
- 2 SCOTUS affirmation of lower court order
- 9 suits where judges ruled for the federal government
- 10 suits where judges ruled against the federal government
- 6 criminal prosecutions by the DOJ:
- Representative McIver,
- former FBI Director James Comey, dismissed without prejudice 11/24/2025,
- former National Security Advisor John Bolton,
- (illegal alien) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ordered released 12/11/2025;
- New York AG Letitia A James, dismissed without prejudice 11/24/2025,
- Congressional candidate Katherine Abughazaleh
In the lawsuit National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service (discussed in my January 8, 2026 and March 17, 2026 ANP Articles) docket # 1:25-cv-04316 filed in District Court, District of Columbia on December 12, 2025 about East Wing Demolition where The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States sued the National Park Service over the demolition of the East Wing of the White House and President Trump's Ballroom Project. This is the 2nd amended complaint. March 31, 2026, Judge Richard J Leon has decided that the plaintiff would succeed on merits therefore he grants the plaintiff's motion for a PI, stopping the ballroom construction project and ordered:
ORDERED that Plaintiff's Second Motion for Preliminary Injunction [Dkt. #51] is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the National Park Service; Jessica Bowron, in her official capacity as Acting Director, National Park Service; John Stanwich, in his official capacity as Superintendent, the White House and President's Park; the Department of the Interior; Douglas Burgum, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior; the General Services Administration; Michael J. Rigas, in his official capacity as Acting Administrator, General Services Administration; the Executive Office of the President; Susie Wiles, in her official capacity as White House Chief of Staff; the Office of the Executive Residence; and Robert B. Downing, in his official capacity as White House Chief Usher (together, "Defendants"), and any agents of Defendants or any other persons working at their direction or in active concert therewith, are preliminarily ENJOINED from taking any action in furtherance of the physical development of the proposed ballroom at the former site of the East Wing of the White House, including but not limited to any further demolition, site preparation work, landscape alteration, excavation, foundation work, or other construction or related work, other than actions strictly necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House and its grounds, including the ballroom construction site, and provide for the personal safety of the President and his staff; and it is further
ORDERED that, subject to the safety-and-security exception above, no such work shall proceed absent express authorization from Congress; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants' counsel shall provide written notice of this Order to all officers, agents, successors, servants, employees, and attorneys of Defendants, as well as any other persons working at their direction, in active concert therewith, or subject to Defendants' control; and it is further
ORDERED that this Order shall take effect fourteen (14) days after its issuance; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants shall file a status report apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this Order no later than twenty-one (21) days after the date the Order takes effect; and it is further
ORDERED that the security requirement is hereby waived, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 65( c ); and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants' Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Declarations [Dkt. #55] is GRANTED.
As you might have guessed by now, the defendants immediately filed an appeal in the DC Court of Appeals (notice filed March 31, 2026, appeal filed April 1, 2026).
On April 1, 2026, plaintiffs requested clarification on "other than actions strictly necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House and its grounds, including the ballroom construction site, and provide for the personal safety of the President and his staff" as President Trump interprets this to mean he can continue because various features of the ballroom would meet the criterion for safety and security, such as bulletproof and ballistic proof glass and drone-proof roofing.
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