President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the war against Iran, delivered Wednesday, April 1, 2026, as transcribed by The Associated Press.

The president will deliver an address on Wednesday evening for an "important update on Iran," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced.

In the State of the Union Address last month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, which aims to prevent electricity bills from rising due to the excessive power demands of data centers powering the new AI ecosystem.

President Donald Trump arrived in the Middle East last spring, making deals that would vault the Gulf into the global race for artificial intelligence.

Tech giants have backed a pledge from President Donald Trump to pay more for electricity to run resource-hungry AI data centers ahead of its signing on Wednesday. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon will join Trump at the White House to ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday gathered executives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI at the White House to sign a "Ratepayer Protection Pledge"—a voluntary commitment that these companies will foot the bill for the ...

The president is in a precarious political moment seven months before the midterm elections, facing some of his lowest approval ratings and presiding over an unpopular war.

A customer watches U.S. President Donald Trump address the nation on the Iran crisis from the White House in Washington, D.C., on screen at Brooklyn Diner in Times Square, New York, U.S.,. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado WASHINGTON,