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The Trump administration reached two weeks of renewed strikes on Iranian military targets this week, with tensions in the region remaining high heading into Sunday.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched missiles and drone attacks at Saudi Arabia on Saturday, in an apparent retaliation for Saudi attacks on a coastal city in Yemen. It was the latest in a string of attacks threatening critical oil infrastructure and targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
The Houthis also launched attacks on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, causing crude oil prices to spike to $101 a barrel.
Following the Thursday attack, President Trump warned that he would hold Iran responsible for any future Houthi attacks, arguing the military group acts as a proxy for Tehran.
“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with in that they have, until now, acted very professionally and smart,” he wrote on Truth Social.
The administration on Wednesday signed a long-anticipated civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, touting it as a major step toward strengthening ties between Washington and Riyadh.
But the deal faced a swift backlash from lawmakers of both parties and, less than 24 hours later, Trump added a new condition according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in which the agreement would only move forward if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords.
Leavitt told reporters at a White House press briefing that if the Saudis do not join the Abraham Accords, “the deal is off.”
The Energy Department unveiled the deal without mentioning the requirement, to which Leavitt said is because Trump “is always the final dealmaker.”
On trade, Trump’s latest tariffs on imports from 60 countries took effect Friday after the administration argued it was necessary to end forced labor in the supply chain.
Foreign trading partners, including China, Australia and Japan ripped the new tariffs as “completely unjustified,” pushing back on the levies that range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent.
Two small businesses filed a lawsuit challenging the new surcharge, arguing the administration went beyond its authority under Section 301 of the Trade Act.
“It is not a freestanding authorization to tax substantially all imports from substantially all trading partners,” the lawsuit reads.
The lawsuit came months after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s previous tariffs. The two small businesses are being represented by the same legal team that toppled Trump’s tariffs at the Supreme Court.
The political conversation on the Sunday talk shows will likely include Trump’s appearance Friday night at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The dinner was rescheduled after a shooting took place at the original dinner in April, forcing the evacuation of Trump, first lady Melania Trump and causing disruptions in a crowd of government officials and journalists.
In his speech at the rescheduled dinner, Trump mocked former President Biden, various members of the press and joked about his own Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Trump threw shots at CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collin, repeating his criticism that she “never smiles,” which was first mentioned when Collins pressed him about victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“She never smiles,” he said during his Friday evening speech. “I said, ‘Kaitlin, do you ever smile?’ Smile. You have a nice position. You’re at CNN fake news. You should be a happy person. So smile, Kaitlan. Just smile.”
Trump also compared her appearance to transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who appeared on a controversial Bud Light commercial that cost the company billions of dollars after conservatives began boycotting the company’s products over the commercial.
“I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship,” Trump said. “But then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.”
See the full list of guests on the Sunday morning news shows below:
Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures”: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday”: UN Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday”: Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute.
ABC’s “This Week”: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio).
CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), UN Ambassador Mike Waltz.
CNN’s “State of the Union”: Border czar Tom Homan, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).
NBC’s “Meet the Press”: UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
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