At least two Iranian embassies have publicly mocked President Donald Trump for his ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein moments after he announced a two-week ceasefire in Iran.

Less than two hours before Trump's chilling deadline for Iran to strike a deal or face the ominous threat that "a whole civilization will die," the president announced on Truth Social that the two warring nations reached a two-week ceasefire deal that he indicated would lead to the reopening of the Hormuz Strait.

Almost immediately after the announcement on Tuesday evening, Trump faced ridicule online for TACOing—meaning Trump Always Chickens Out—on his threats to devastate Iran.

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Both the Iranian Embassies of Bulgaria and Tajikistan made digs at the president, insinuating the war was designed to distract from the Epstein files.

"I am trying to hide myself Thank you DONALD J.TRUMP, the Iranian Embassy in Tajikistan wrote on X, sharing an Epstein meme.

Similarly, the Iranian Embassy of Bulgaria wrote on X, "Pray to Epstein!", attaching an Epstein meme that depicts top Cabinet officials—including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, State Secretary Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and President Trump—all praying around the late sex offender, who is sitting in the Oval Office chair.

The ceasefire comes more than a month after the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Feb. 28, leading to a closure of the Strait of Hormuz and a subsequent gas price hike.

In the weeks leading up to the war, millions of documents connected to the late sex offender had been released by the Department of Justice.

Top figures across the globe, including Trump, were named in the files, in which the president was accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Trump has always denied any wrongdoing relating to the Epstein case, has not been accused of any crimes by law enforcement and has never been identified as the subject of any investigation.

Several European leaders have either stepped down or, in some cases, been arrested after being named in the files.

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, a handful of experts and world leaders argued that the war was meant to distract the public from the disturbing worldwide web of elites being exposed for their connections to Epstein. Trump officials have maintained that their military goals in Iran are to dismantle the regime and prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons.

In one heated exchange, University of Tehran Professor Mohammad Marandi sparred with Piers Morgan over the Iran war.

"My country is under airstrikes from your criminal Epstein regime," Marandi told Morgan last month. "Your problem [with Iran] is that we are independent, and we do not accept the Epstein class that rapes and murders little kids. We will not allow your regime to kill our kids and get away with it."

University of Tehran Professor Foad Izadi similarly connected the Iran war to Epstein.

"Iran's ability to endure pain is greater than the other side. Iranian soldiers are fighting for Iran and the civilized world. American soldiers are fighting for Israel and the Epstein class. It makes a difference," Izadi told Drop Site News on March 17.

Canadian politician Wab Kinew, who serves as the premier of Manitoba, also drew a line to the Iran war and Epstein, declaring in late March, "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein war."

Key Points

• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has legally changed her surname from Cruise to Noelle, according to voter registration records.

• Noelle is the Dawson’s Creek star’s middle name.

• The 20-year-old is about to begin her junior year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri is the latest celebrity kid to drop their famous last name.

The 20-year-old college student legally changed her surname from Cruise to Noelle, her mother’s middle name, according to voter registration records viewed by Entertainment Weekly.

Suri, who is about to begin her junior year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is registered to vote in the state of Pennsylvania. 

Suri did not file a name change request in the Keystone State, where she’s lived since 2024, suggesting she may have done so in New York, where she grew up after being born in Los Angeles, according to Page Six, which was first to report the news.

Representatives for Cruise and Holmes did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment on Suri’s reported name change.

Suri Noelle debuted her new moniker two years ago in the ceremony pamphlet at her graduation from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan.

While Holmes was photographed celebrating the milestone with her daughter, Cruise reportedly did not attend. The Mission: Impossible star has not been publicly seen with Suri since he and Holmes divorced in 2012.

The musical theater major certainly takes after both of her parents.

Suri, who portrayed Morticia Addams in a high school play, has reportedly been cast in Midsummer!, a modern take on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that is a 90-minute stage production put on by Carnegie Mellon students. Following its two-show run on July 31 and Aug. 1 in Pittsburgh, the cast and crew of  Midsummer! will head to Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

“I’m proud of my daughter,” Holmes gushed to Town & Country in 2024, as Suri set off for college. “Of course, I will miss the close proximity, but I’m really proud of her and I’m happy. I remember being this age, this time of beginnings. It’s exciting to learn about yourself, and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think about it like that.”

With her name change, Suri joins the likes of the former Jolie-Pitt kids.

Last week, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s youngest daughter Vivienne made a formal request in Los Angeles County Superior Court to drop her father’s surname. She filed the paperwork on her 18th birthday to make her legal name Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.

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Vivienne’s sisters Zahara and Shiloh and eldest brother Maddox have all previously dropped Pitt from their name as well. Two of the former couple’s children, Vivienne’s twin brother Knox and second-eldest son Pax, have yet to make any legal moves to follow suit.

“If people knew the whole truth, they would have more sympathy for the children and respect them,” a source close to Jolie told PEOPLE. “The fact they aren’t speaking ill or sharing things publicly only shows their decency... Angie hasn’t been fighting and isn’t angry. She just wants everyone to heal.”

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President Donald Trump kicked off his work week Monday morning by continuing to browbeat Senate Majority Leader John Thune over the restrictive voting bill he considers to be his party’s best chance of retaining control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump called on Thune to ditch the Senate’s annual August recess unless Republicans pass the SAVE America Act — which currently lacks enough support to overcome the Senate’s 60-vote supermajority requirement for most legislation — or change Senate rules to allow Republicans to pass any legislation with a simple majority.

“John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to “leave town” until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of,” he said, rattling off a list of possible bills to pass without Democratic support such as “a full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster.”

“The Dumocrats will do it on day one, and can’t believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership. Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH,” he added.

The Senate’s filibuster rule, which in theory permits unlimited debate on legislation but in recent years has meant any bill that lacks wide bipartisan support cannot pass the upper chamber, has long been used by the chamber’s minority to frustrate the legislative agenda of the majority.

A significant number of Democrats called for a similar change to the rules when their party held a narrow majority in both chambers, but the filibuster had — and still has — enough support from a critical mass of senators to render Trump’s demand for its’ end a dead letter.

Thune has repeatedly said there aren’t enough votes — even among Republicans — to enact Trump’s desired rule change, and he has also stressed that the SAVE America Act lacks enough support to make it through the chamber with or without the filibuster.

But Trump has continued to bang the drum for a rule change and has spent months bullying Thune over his demands.

Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Trump’s “patience [was] running out” over the Senate’s failure to enact his partisan anti-voting bill and demanded that the Senate “do its’ job.”

When pressed on her remarks, Thune replied that Leavitt “or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes” needed to pass the bill.

“Instead of pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats. And if there are Republicans that they think are gettable, get on the phone,” he said. “Let’s get them to yes.”

But even if Trump were to successfully prevail on Thune to alter the Senate’s rules, it’s unclear whether the SAVE America Act would have sufficient GOP support to pass.

A number of Republicans have indicated their opposition to the bill, with North Carolina’s Thom Tillis calling it “fundamentally flawed” and taking credit for its’ lack of progress in the Senate.

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Trans influencer and actress Dylan Mulvaney hit back at President Donald Trump on Sunday after he mocked both her and CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins during his speech at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Trump used part of his address at Friday’s event, which was postponed from April after a gunman opened fire as the original dinner was underway, to congratulate Collins on an award for her White House coverage before questioning its merit.

“I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award,” Trump said. “It was all about me. It’s a fake. She shouldn’t get the award. It was a fake. But I didn’t mind. I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was fake, there’s no question about it.”

After joking Collins should “smile”, Trump compared her to Mulvaney, claiming he confused the two during Mulvaney’s 2023 promotional partnership with Bud Light.

“I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney,” Trump said. “Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan any time soon.”

On Sunday, Trump shared an edited image on social media showing Collins’ face superimposed onto Mulvaney’s body from the Bud Light campaign, as part of a flurry of AI-generated posts and memes.

Mulvaney responded on TikTok with a nearly four-minute video, opening by congratulating Collins on her journalism award before rounding on the president.

Of Collins, Mulvaney said: “I would like to tell her that I’m incredibly honored to be compared to her in any way, and I hope that she keeps doing all the great work.”

She noted that Trump had mentioned her four times during Friday’s event despite her keeping what she described as a relatively low public profile in recent years.

“And yet I am still his topic of conversation all these years later,” Mulvaney said. “And it seems to me that I might be like the one that got away for these men. Like, I am permanently burned into their retinas. I am microchipped into their minds.”

Mulvaney continued to say that she wouldn’t “want to be professionally supported by an administration that doesn’t personally support me or so many others in this country” but later asked: “Why is it so important to them that I don’t find success?”

She added: “Maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all. Because it puts me in the company of some of the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today.”

“And lastly, to the president, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew,” she concluded. “And to quote my favorite recording artist, Shea Diamond, ‘I am America.’”

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