It's Friday, April 10th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that would never buy yerba mate
from President Donald Trump's youngest son.
That 's despite news that Barron Trump is now one of five directors of a company that will soon
be selling the caffeinated beverage to the people who buy anything else a Trump would sell them.
On today's show, the White House denies reports of a schism between the Trump administration and the Vatican.
And Democrats are letting the F-bombs fly all over Twitter.
They swear it's a good idea.
But let's start with the war in Iran and how some people are making a lot of money betting on it.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the White House has forbidden staffers from betting on the war
in prediction markets, and for good reason.
From the moment the U.S.
And Israel launched strikes in February, quite a few people have been profiting from them.
That 's because they 've been placing extremely well-timed bets on the website Polymarket,
with some winning hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Here's France 24 back in March.
More than a dozen anonymous accounts place bets predicting that the United States
would strike a run by Saturday the 28th of February.
Most of those wages were placed in the hours before the first bombs fell,
and many of the accounts had been created only days earlier.