Badlands Media Special Coverage: 8/3/26 - Trump Launches Military Spouse Commission, Talks Iran

Trump signs an executive order creating the first ever Presidential Military Spouse Commission, chaired by Jennifer Hegseth, and the ceremony turns into a genuinely touching series of stories from spouses who've spent decades supporting the military through moves, deployments, and everything in between. Then the press conference pivots hard, covering active back channel talks with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz and denuclearization, a candid take on record breaking oil company profits, and a lengthy, fairly heated defense of the National Mall's reflecting pool restoration after vandalism accusations landed on Jeanine Pirro's desk. There's also a proud rundown of Washington D.C.'s transformation, from crime statistics to monument restorations, a jab at European energy policy and windmills, and a scattering of questions on baseball trades, the NCAA, and a Congressman's resignation controversy. It's equal parts ceremony, geopolitics, and free wheeling press Q&A, with Trump covering an unusually wide spread of topics even for him.