Anthony Zurcher
@awzurcher
BBC North America correspondent. Texan who explains US politics to Brits, UK politics to Americans & Canadian politics to all. I'm http://zurch.bsky.social.
Next week is going to make this week look like last week.
Hulk Hogan and the art of the heel (turn). bbc.com/news/live/cwyq…
Telling supporters he thinks some of them are stupid is a bold strategy. We'll see if it works out for Trump. bbc.com/news/articles/…
John Kerry, former US secretary of state under Obama and the Democratic Party's 2004 presidential nominee, thinks immigration policy cost his party dearly in recent years. bbc.com/news/articles/…
The Washington Post should be, first and foremost, the newspaper of record for those who live in the Washington metro area. That they no longer consider what happens here worthy of a section to itself is tragic.
A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.
Oil futures haven't gone up appreciably since Saturday's attack - but over the last month they've moved back up to the levels when Trump took office. He had been citing lower oil prices as the way he was controlling inflation - which might explain his concern.
EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING! YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON'T DO IT!
EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING! YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON'T DO IT!
Standard Donald Trump "I'm just asking questions" construction.
VANCE: "Our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change." HEGSETH: "This mission was not and has not been about regime change." RUBIO: Regime change is "certainly not the goal of what we're working on here." TRUMP:
This is how wars start - and how they can expand beyond the control, and imaginations, of those involved. bbc.com/news/articles/…
“Now is the time for peace,” is an interesting thing to write after launching an airstrike on a sovereign nation.
President Trump announces the U.S. has bombed Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan in Iran. He calls it successful and says U.S. planes are outside Iran airspace. “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE,” he writes.
For Trump, the big deadlines are always two weeks away … bbc.com/news/live/c994…
🚨 NEW from WH Briefing: @PressSec reads message from POTUS "Based on the fact that there isa substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place in the near future, I will make my decision of whether or not to go within the next two weeks."
🚨 NEW from WH Briefing: @PressSec reads message from POTUS "Based on the fact that there isa substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place in the near future, I will make my decision of whether or not to go within the next two weeks."
Great details and an amazing use of Google Earth to show the surroundings of the Iranian nuclear enrichment site buried beneath a mountain bbc.co.uk/news/resources…
History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as ... well, I guess we'll find out. bbc.com/news/articles/…
My mic cover. True story.
President Trump with the very cat-like fuzzy boom mic a Secret Service dog chomped earlier on tarmac during our security checks ahead of the rushed middle-of-night Air Force One trip home from Canada. @awzurcher @SecretService