Tuesday Afternoon News Updates: Trump's Wobbly NATO Arrival - 7/7/26

Your Tuesday midday update is here

Hi all, Ben here. It’s Tuesday, July 7th. I hope you had a chance to catch up with this morning’s episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast with me and my brothers. We covered a whole lot! Now, to the news we are tracking today:

• Trump’s shaky, confused arrival in Ankara for the NATO summit, where Erdogan had to physically guide him around

• Trump reviving his attacks on Greenland

• Trump’s bizarre non-answer on his “restraining order” post about Italian PM Giorgia Meloni

• Trump trashing NATO allies and hinting at further troop drawdowns from Europe

• Trump announcing he’s lifting sanctions on Turkiye, contradicting his own Secretary of State’s sworn congressional testimony

• A growing bipartisan revolt in Congress over a potential F-35 sale to Turkiye

• Five tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz as the Iran situation escalates again

• Massive crowds continue for the Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral in Iran

• New DOJ litigation and a letter from over 1,200 former Justice Department officials opposing Todd Blanche’s confirmation

• The Graham Platner situation in Maine, which is getting worse by the hour

• NATO snubbing Boeing and picking Sweden’s Saab for a massive new surveillance aircraft contract

• The US getting bounced from the World Cup, and Trump going silent following his intervention

Okay, let’s dig in. And as always, I’ll bring you the receipts, including video and images from on-the-ground that tell quite the story.