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.

Brooke Baldwin is standing up to Megyn Kelly, alleging the former Fox News host spread false information about Baldwin's sex life

The former CNN anchor, 47, wrote in the July 26 edition of her Unraveling, with Brooke Baldwin Substack that Kelly, 55, "got the story completely wrong" in offering commentary that incorrectly characterized Baldwin as having sex with four men in a month. Kelly spoke about the matter on the July 21 episode of "The Megyn Kelly Show," whose original YouTube video is now private.

Kelly's remarks are not included in the version of the episode that is now public. The episode's original title, Baldwin said, was "'Therapized' Former CNN Host Brooke Baldwin Says She Slept with Four Guys Last Month." She wrote that it was later changed to "Former CNN Host Brooke Baldwin is Oversharing About Her Sex Life," but the title no longer references Baldwin.

Kelly was referencing a July 19 Substack post, titled "CASUAL SEX. Let's discuss.🔥🔥🔥," in which Baldwin opened up about re-downloading a dating app for five days and having" had the opportunity to sleep with four different men" over the past month. She clarified later in the post, in a portion that was behind a paywall, that she "turned them all down."

"My last Substack was not about me having casual sex. It was about me choosing not to," Baldwin wrote in her July 26 post denouncing Kelly's commentary. "It was about heartbreak. Discipline. Discernment. Protecting my energy while I build something bigger than myself. And yet, for nearly nine minutes, Megyn framed an entire discussion around a false account of my sex life and my bodily choices, alongside three men who cackled, laughed, and berated me."

"No one from the show contacted me for comment," Baldwin alleged. "They did not seem to care that the premise of the segment was not at all factual before broadcasting it to an enormous audience.

She expressed concern about how Kelly's comments reflect broader journalistic integrity, writing, "Integrity requires honesty, accuracy, and the humility to correct the record when the facts demand it. Without that, there is no trust."

USA TODAY has reached out to Kelly's team for comment.

In a subsequent July 23 episode, Kelly mocked Baldwin's "casual sex" newsletter, saying, "This is getting more pathetic by the day."

"As it turns out, we should have paid to read the rest of her stupid Substack, which we didn't," Kelly said. "In the paid piece of the article, she confessed she actually did not have casual sex with these men. It's all just a teaser to get you to pay to listen to her lame recitations of her life."

What Brooke Baldwin said about casual sex

In a July 25 Instagram post, Baldwin wrote that her lawyer "has contacted [Kelly] directly to demand that she take down those videos."

As the majority of her original July 19 newsletter is behind a paywall, she included the text in its entirety in her social media post.

"If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know I signed up for my very first dating app a few months ago and lasted approximately three minutes before deleting it," she wrote. "Very recently, I gave it another shot. Why? Maybe I wanted a distraction. Maybe I like to kiss. Maybe I’m a grown-ass woman who can do whatever the hell she wants. This time I made it… five whole days."

After revealing she had been propositioned by four men, she wrote, "Bottom line? I am flattered. Hang on. Am I??? That’s so old-school-Brooke-I-just-want-to-be-Chosen talking. No. I’m not flattered. I’m… unsurprised. There. There’s the truth."

In the next part of the post, which is behind a paywall, Baldwin continued, "What did I do? Turned them all down. Every. Single. One.”

"It could be empowering. It would almost certainly be pleasurable," she added. "I also am in a hard-fought, hard-earned position where I don't need a man to take care of me financially. I don't need someone to rescue me from loneliness, either. I'm blessed with extraordinary friendships. I am girlfriend-rich. And I genuinely love my own company. My life already feels full."

She hasn't been single since 2015, Baldwin said, adding that she'd discovered a decade ago that "If you can't tickle my brain, you just can't tickle… anything else." She is "not looking for a serious relationship right now" due to a relationship that ended earlier this year.

"Six months ago, I thought I was going to marry someone this year (and I was excited about it). Heartbreak has its own timeline," she wrote. "In this particular season of my life, I care too much about what I’m building to let my energy scatter in a dozen directions."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Brooke Baldwin accuses Megyn Kelly of spreading lies about CNN alum's sex life