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How Donald Trump tried to court the Atlantic – and why the liberal magazine landed an interview
Hell hath frozen over: At the White House the other day, Donald Trump «was launching a charm offensive, directed mainly at Goldberg,» as in Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief. «There was none of the name-calling or hostility he regularly levels at our magazine.»
That’s according to Atlantic reporters Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, who wrote the magazine’s cover story, which was posted yesterday.
For all the insights gleaned from the interview, nothing is more fascinating than how it came about.
They called the president on his cell phone. (Wha? Who do I have to court to get that? The reporters ain’t saying.)
Trump says he did the initial phone interview to see if the liberal magazine could be fair.
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So I’m here to pronounce that the entire, seemingly endless piece is fair. The president hasn’t taken a shot at it on Truth Social, at least so far.
He has, however, ripped new polls from the «Failing New York Times» and «ABC/Washington Post» as «FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS,» saying they should be «investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the Fox News Pollster while you’re at it.» His lowest approval rating, in the Post-ABC survey, was 39 percent.
Meanwhile, we may now look back on Trump’s 2024 victory as inevitable, but after Jan. 6 it was anything but. On the cell call, «The president seemed exhilarated by everything he had managed to do in the first two months of his second term.»
President Trump recently gave an interview to The Atlantic. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
And then came the transaction: «As ever, Trump was on the hunt for a deal. If he liked the story we wrote, he said, he might even speak with us again.»
Goldberg describes the session: «What I found in this particular meeting was a Trump who was low-key, attentive, and eager to convince us that he is good at his job and good for the country. It isn’t easy to escape the tractor beam of his charisma, but somehow we managed, and we asked him what needed to be asked.
«But squaring Trump the Charmer with the Orcish Trump we more frequently see is difficult…Trump posted on the social-media platform he owns that Ashley is a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ (she is not) and that Michael ‘has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES’ (also false). It is our task at the Atlantic not to be bullied by these sorts of attacks.»
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The most interesting Trump sound bite is his comparison of the two terms:
«The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world.»
Parker and Scherer did many other interviews, such as with Steve Bannon. «Our reality is that we won,» and he cited the conspiracy theory that the FBI had incited the crowd on Jan. 6. The reporters said that was simply untrue.
«Now, here’s the interesting thing,» Bannon said. «Who’s won that argument? I think we have…
«This time it’s ‘Hey, f**k you, Greenland’s ours…When you’ve come back from such long odds, you clearly feel, ‘I can do anything.’ »
What about the four criminal investigations, including the conviction on the weakest one – Alvin Bragg’s hush money case? Trump says his numbers kept going up.
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«Shockingly, yes,» Trump said. «Normally, it would knock you out. You wouldn’t even live for the next day. You know, you’d announce your resignation, and you’d go back and ‘fight for your name,’ like everybody says—you know, ‘fight for your name, go back to your family.’ …Yeah, it made me stronger, made me a lot stronger.»
He also said in the phone interview: «I got indicted five different times by five different scumbags, and they’re all looking for jobs now, so it’s one of those things. Who would have thought, right? It’s been pretty amazing.»
After the 2016 election, Trump told oil executives at Mar-a-Lago:
If I’m not president, you’re f***ed. Look at your profit-and-loss statements. You realize what would have happened to you if she was president? What’s wrong with you?») She was Kamala Harris, of course.
Referring to the criminal cases against him – including the charges brought forth by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Trump said «it made [him] stronger.» (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP / Trump-Vance Transition Team)
One turning point: When he went to East Palestine, Ohio after the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals, while Joe Biden didn’t do squat.
On the Kennedy Center: «I didn’t really get to go the first time, because I was always getting impeached or some bulls**t, and I could never enjoy a show.» So he fired the Democrats and made himself chairman.
All right, enough quotes. Wait, one more that captures the tone of the piece:
«I got 38 percent of the male Black vote. Nobody knew that was possible. That’s a lot. I got 56 percent of Hispanics. How about that one? Every county along the Texas border is Hispanic. I won every one of them.» Though every single number he cited was wrong, the general thrust of his observation was correct.»
The reporters chronicled how things have gone south for the president, especially on tariffs and the economy, and how he pressured Hill Republicans into backing his nominees with primary threats.
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After the March phone interview, the reporters tried Trump’s cellphone again. Just got voice mail. But at 1:38 am, he tried them back. No message.
Trump believes he can win over even his worst enemies. In 2015 or 2016, I watched him make a beeline in the New York green room for Karl Rove, who was very rough on him. At worst, he thinks, he can neutralize the person. Or soften him or her up for the next time. He enjoys the challenge.
The mainstream media almost uniformly can’t stand Donald Trump. He does invite some of his own negative headlines, while providing unprecedented access, but much of the press is back in Resistance mode.
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Still, the Atlantic’s original pitch is undeniable, that he’s «The Most Consequential President of the 21st Century.»
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Un ataque misilístico de Irán sobre Dimona, una ciudad en la que funciona un centro nuclear clave para Israel, dejó este sábado por la tarde un saldo de más de 50 personas heridas. La televisión estatal iraní aseguró que se trató de un contraataque por la avanzada israelí-estadounidense sobre las instalaciones nucleares de Natanz, en el centro de Irán, más temprano este sábado.
Aunque en los últimos años el centro nuclear de Dimona ya había sido alcanzado por misiles enemigos, las autoridades israelíes todavía guardan parte de su armamento bélico allí, por lo que se trata de un objetivo de alta importancia. La máxima autoridad nuclear mundial aseguró que aún no se reportaron daños en el centro nuclear, pero volvió a lanzar un fuerte pedido a Irán, Israel y Estados Unidos.
Los reportes en los medios israelíes consignan más de 50 heridos tras el ataque a Dimona, una ciudad del centro de Israel, donde viven alrededor de 40 mil personas y que dista a menos de 14 kilómetros de un área que es mayor que su propia geografía: el Centro de Investigación Nuclear del Néguev Shimon Peres. Ese objetivo estratégico fue el blanco del ataque misilístico iraní y el contexto en que se reportaron los heridos.
La construcción de las instalaciones de Dimona comenzaron en 1958, en el marco del despegue del Programa Nuclear de Israel. Por esos años, los líderes David ben Gurion (el primero de los primeros ministros israelí) y Shimon Peres (quien luego también sería premier) habían recolectado U$S 40 millones, aproximadamente la mitad de lo que costaba un reactor nuclear construido en algún país amigo de Israel. Ese fue el envión del proyecto que configuraría el inicio de ese programa nuclear.
Para Israel se trataba de un objetivo estratégico, por lo que la elección del lugar para emplazar el centro nuclear debía ser concienzudamente elegido. Dimona fue una «ciudad desarrollo» de las que creó Ben Gurion en la década de 1950, aunque su nombre ya figuraba en los pueblos bíblicos compendiados en el Libro de Josué, del Antiguo Testamento. Pero lo de Dimona era más terrenal: está en medio del desierto del Néguev, relativamente aislada.
Podría decirse que Dimona desanduvo los años posteriores como una ciudad industrial de mediano tamaño, mientras la importancia de la zona escalaba a casi 14 kilómetros al sudeste de la ciudad, en el centro nuclear. Desde 1958, entonces, se construyó en secreto y en estricto aislamiento del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OEIA). Paradoja del tiempo: este sábado fue la OEIA la que confirmó públicamente que, a pesar del ataque iraní, el centro no sufrió daños físicos.
«Debe observarse la máxima moderación militar, en particular en las proximidades de las instalaciones nucleares», pidió Rafael Grossi, director general de la OEIA.
Entre 1962 y 1965, el reactor nuclear de Dimona ya no sólo estaba activo, sino también produciendo plutonio para las primeras armas nucleares con que iban contando las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) de cara a la Guerra de los Seis Días. Se estima que actualmente podría albergar entre 80 y 90 ojivas nucleares, según el Instituto de Investigación para la Paz de Estocolmo.
Sin embargo, ese centro nuclear de Israel ya no era secreto para los enemigos, al menos en los últimos años. En enero de 2012, las autoridades israelíes debieron suspender temporalmente la operatividad del reactor por considerar que ya se había convertido en un sitio vulnerable a un ataque de Irán.
Ese mismo año, en octubre y noviembre, las instalaciones fueron atacadas por Hamas, con misiles. El centro, no obstante, no resultó dañado, al igual que este sábado. En abril de 2021, un misil tierra-aire proveniente desde territorio sirio detonó cerca del centro nuclear de Dimona.
En la actualidad, la ciudad tiene una población de casi 40 mil habitantes, por fuera de las 25 más populosas del país. Sin embargo, este sábado quedó en el centro de las miradas.
Este sábado, la televisión estatal iraní no sólo adjudicó a ese país el ataque a Dimona, sino que explicó el porqué: «Una respuesta a un ataque anterior contra su sitio nuclear de Natanz», en el centro de Irán.
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Trump proven right on Iran’s long-range missile capability as regime targets US-UK base, experts say
Iran fires missiles toward US-UK military base
Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on Iran launching missiles toward a joint U.S.-U.K. military base, while Netanyahu advisor Caroline Glick provides analysis on ‘Fox News Live.’
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The Islamic Republic of Iran significantly escalated its war effort against the U.S. with its launch of two intermediate-range ballistic missiles on Friday toward Diego Garcia, a key U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean.
The targeting of Diego Garcia, roughly 2,500 miles from Iran, means Tehran’s missile capabilities appear to have exceeded previously acknowledged limits.
In the period leading up to Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that «We intentionally kept the range of our missiles below 2,000 km so we don’t have that capability. And we don’t want to do that because we do not have hostility against the United States people and all Europeans.»
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Map from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies showing Iran’s missile ranges. (The Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
On Saturday, Israel Defense Forces IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said «Just yesterday, Iran launched a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometers [2,500 miles] toward an American target on the island of Diego Garcia. These missiles were not intended to hit Israel. Their range reaches the capitals of Europe — Berlin, Paris and Rome are all within direct threat range.»
IDF spokesman Nadav Shoshani blasted the alleged Iranian deception on X: «Just 3 days before the war, the Iranian regime said they don’t obtain long-range missiles. Today, their lies were exposed once again, when missiles were fired 4000km away from Iran. They hoped to lie their way into becoming a force that can terrorize the world. We didn’t buy it.»
Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital, «The Trump administration, in citing Iran’s missile threat as a rationale for Operation Epic Fury, was therefore justified in its decision to undertake military action as Iran has consistently refused to negotiate over its missile program. It also shows how dangerous it is to solely rely on Iranian nuclear weapons fatwas and the supreme leader’s public rhetoric in formulating U.S. policy. As long as Iran retains the technical capability beyond public pronouncements, it is a threat.»
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A big banner depicting Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is placed next to a ballistic missile in Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, on September 26, 2024, on the sideline of an exhibition which marks the 44th anniversary of the start of Iran-Iraq war. (Photo by Hossein Beris /Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
According to Brodsky, «I think it’s a message that the IRGC is in charge in Iran after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s death. When Khamenei was alive, he limited the range of Iran’s missile program to 2000 km. Khamenei recounted in 2018 how he had rejected overtures from IRGC commanders seeking to increase the range to as much as 5000 km.»
He continued, «But now that he has died, those voices in the IRGC seeking to increase the range are likely driving the agenda. The launch of the missiles was likely meant as a signal of the IRGC’s capabilities to threaten U.S. allies beyond the Middle East. For example, this threatens Europe.»
The two long-range Iranian missiles did not hit the base, but the attempted attack marked a significant expansion of Iran’s reach beyond the Middle East and toward a major U.S. strategic hub. One missile reportedly failed in flight, while a U.S. warship launched an SM-3 interceptor at the other, officials said. It was not immediately clear whether the interception was successful. The remote base is a critical launch point for U.S. bombers, nuclear submarines and other strategic assets.
Ilan Berman, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital, «The launch hammers home the president’s point about Iran being an imminent threat. It’s easy for casual observers to ignore, but the increasing maturity of Iran’s strategic programs, plural, has been exponentially expanding the threat that the Islamic Republic poses beyond the Middle East. That is what «Epic Fury» is seeking to address. The administration believes, absolutely correctly in my view, that these types of capabilities cannot be left in the hands of a radical, predatory regime.»
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Israeli air defense systems are activated to intercept Iranian missiles over the Israeli city of Tel Aviv amid a fresh barrage of Iranian rockets on June 16, 2025. (Menahem Kahanna/AFP via Getty Images)
He continued that «Despite its public denials, it’s been clear that the Iranian regime has been working on expanding the range of its ballistic missile capabilities for years. The launch toward Diego Garcia confirms that it has made real progress toward that goal, and is already able to put targets in the same range as Central and Eastern Europe at risk. Moreover, it’s clear that the regime is seeking still greater capabilities – and that, if left intact, Iran’s ballistic missiles would attain intercontinental range soon.»
Berman, the author of «Iran’s Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic’s Quest for Global Power,» added, «The parallel development Iran has been carrying out on its space program is significant. The booster used to put payloads into orbit can be married onto a medium-range missile to create intercontinental range capabilities. Before the war, we were seeing a clear convergence of the regime’s strategic programs: its ballistic missile work, its space capabilities and its nuclear program.»
A U.S. B-2 Spirit bomber, part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, stops for refueling at the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia in October 2001, following an airstrike mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Department of Defense/Senior Airman Rebeca M. Luquin)
He warned about the serious Iranian threat to continental Europe. «Europe is absolutely at risk, as the recent launch makes clear. I wouldn’t say that a failure to recognize this to date has been due to a grand deception by Tehran, though. It is more attributable to willful blindness on the part of European elites about the extent of the threat that the Iranian regime poses, as well as undue faith in diplomacy and arms control in containing it,» he said.
On Saturday, the United Kingdom condemned the attack. «Iran’s reckless attacks, lashing out across the region and holding hostage the Strait of Hormuz, are a threat to British interests and British allies,» the U.K. Ministry of Defense said in a statement. «RAF jets and other U.K. military assets are continuing to defend our people and personnel in the region.»
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«This government has given permission to the U.S. to use British bases for specific and limited defensive operations,» it added.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
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Guatemala se prepara para recibir una cifra histórica de turistas salvadoreños durante la Semana Santa de 2026, según las proyecciones del Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo (Inguat). La temporada, que se celebrará del domingo 29 de marzo al domingo 5 de abril, será clave para la reactivación del sector turístico en el país centroamericano, gracias a una nutrida afluencia de visitantes provenientes de El Salvador, el principal país emisor de turistas hacia Guatemala.
El Inguat estima que, durante estos días, arribarán a Guatemala cerca de 150,000 turistas internacionales, de los cuales un 53.3 % serán salvadoreños; es decir, alrededor de 80,000 personas. Esta cifra refleja la relevancia de El Salvador como mercado prioritario para la industria turística guatemalteca, consolidando una tendencia que se ha fortalecido en los últimos años. De hecho, los datos de la Corporación Salvadoreña de Turismo (Corsatur) indican que los salvadoreños que viajaron a Guatemala representaron el 60% del total de salidas internacionales registradas en 2025, lo que evidencia la preferencia por el país vecino como destino vacacional.
La campaña “Semana Santa es pausa”, presentada recientemente por el Inguat, busca atraer a los turistas salvadoreños con una propuesta que combina cultura, tradición y paisajes. Según información oficial difundida por la Agencia de Promoción Turística de Centroamérica (CATA Centroamérica), el lanzamiento de la oferta turística se realizó en un encuentro con prensa y creadores de contenido salvadoreños, a quienes se les informó sobre las rutas, actividades y servicios preparados especialmente para la temporada. Las autoridades guatemaltecas han dispuesto un plan de atención que incluye centros de información en lugares estratégicos como Ciudad Cayalá, el Palacio de la Cultura, Antigua Guatemala, Panajachel, Petén, Quetzaltenango y Esquipulas, así como un sistema de asistencia para los visitantes.
Este movimiento turístico se traduce en un importante impacto económico para Guatemala. El Inguat proyecta que la afluencia de turistas internacionales durante la Semana Santa generará $100 millones para la economía nacional, dinamizando especialmente los sectores de alojamiento, gastronomía, transporte y comercio local. La relevancia de los visitantes salvadoreños queda subrayada por las cifras de cierre de 2025, cuando Guatemala recibió más de 1.5 millones de turistas provenientes de El Salvador, equivalentes al 45.7% del total de llegadas internacionales y un crecimiento del 11.4 % respecto a 2024.
La preferencia de los salvadoreños por Guatemala responde a factores como la cercanía geográfica, la conectividad terrestre y la diversidad de atractivos turísticos. CATA Centroamérica, en sus recientes publicaciones, destaca que el interés de los salvadoreños por descubrir nuevos destinos se ve reforzado por la facilidad de los desplazamientos y la variedad de experiencias que ofrece Guatemala durante la Semana Mayor, desde recorridos por sitios históricos hasta actividades en entornos naturales y festividades religiosas.
Por su parte, la Corporación Salvadoreña de Turismo reportó que, en 2025, más de 2.5 millones de salvadoreños realizaron viajes internacionales por motivos turísticos, 113.792 más que el año anterior. De ese total, seis de cada diez eligieron Guatemala como su destino, consolidando así la histórica relación turística entre ambos países. Las autoridades salvadoreñas también reconocen el valor de esta interacción, que favorece el intercambio cultural y fortalece los lazos económicos en la región.
La campaña “Semana Santa es pausa” no solo busca posicionar a Guatemala como un destino seguro y atractivo para los salvadoreños, sino que también promueve la integración centroamericana a través del turismo. CATA Centroamérica resalta en sus comunicaciones que El Salvador se mantiene como el principal mercado emisor de visitantes hacia Guatemala, lo que refleja el creciente interés por redescubrir la oferta turística regional.
Con un despliegue logístico que incluye puntos de información, rutas recomendadas y asistencia personalizada, Guatemala aspira a ofrecer una experiencia memorable a los turistas salvadoreños y a superar sus propias expectativas en términos de recepción y atención al visitante durante la Semana Santa de 2026.
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