In a message addressed to Israelis, Trump called Netanyahu a "Great Warrior Prime Minister" and said Iran had been systematically destroyed militarily and financially, adding that unless it changes course, "we will soon finish the job."

He wrote that if Israel elects "anyone other than Bibi," America would have to do this work itself, which he said he is not inclined to do.

The endorsement comes as Netanyahu's Likud trails in polls behind former army chief Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party.

🇵🇱 Poland: Karol Nawrocki won the 2025 presidential election after Trump administration officials urged Poles to vote for him.

🇦🇷 Argentina: Javier Milei’s party won October 2025 midterms after Trump threatened to withhold aid if it lost and the U.S. finalized a $20 billion currency swap.

🇭🇳 Honduras: Nasry Asfura won after Trump warned the U.S. would not keep funding Honduras if he lost, and pardoned Asfura’s party colleague, former President Juan Orlando Hernández, days before the vote.

🇨🇱 Chile: José Antonio Kast won the presidency after Trump’s endorsement.

🇯🇵 Japan: Sanae Takaichi’s party won a two-thirds supermajority in February’s snap election, three days after Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement,” and Trump later claimed credit.

🇨🇴 Colombia: Abelardo de la Espriella won the June runoff after Trump backed him.

🇭🇺 Hungary: Viktor Orbán lost in April to Péter Magyar’s Tisza party, which won about 53% of the vote and a two-thirds majority, despite a campaign visit by Vice President JD Vance.

🇮🇱 Israel: Netanyahu, endorsed ahead of the October 27 election, is the next test.

The National Security Minister said he received “verified” information that the message was conveyed to EU foreign ministers or higher-level officials, adding that he said it “with deep sorrow.”

Likud rejected the claim as “false political spins,” saying any future government will rest on the current coalition partners and urging voters to back Likud to prevent a left-wing government led by Gadi Eisenkot.

If the regime recovers, it will rebuild its nuclear capabilities and its weapons of mass destruction.

If we have to act alone, we will act alone.

We cannot live with enemy states that declare their intention to destroy us, aspire to destroy us, and act to destroy us.

This is not the Netherlands with nuclear weapons — although the Netherlands is starting to become a story too.

I'm joking, I'm joking.

An Iranian leader once said, "Israel is a one-bomb country. Drop one bomb on it, and it is finished."

Not only because you would kill several hundred thousand people in one strike, but because you would destroy the state.

It is very small, very concentrated. A nuclear bomb means the destruction of the state.

I came to Trump and said to him, "Here is what I am going to do."

I did not ask for your permission. Here is what I am going to do.

I am going to do this one way or another.

Take the B-2 and strike Fordow. That is what I am asking.

If you can, thank you. But in any case, we are going.

He joined on the tenth day.

CSIS estimates the U.S. had about 2,200–2,330 modern Patriot interceptors before the war and used around 1,060–1,500 of them, leaving roughly a third of its pre-war stockpile.

Before the war, the U.S. bought an average of only about 225 interceptors a year, while Lockheed Martin currently produces around 600–650 annually for the U.S. and its allies.

CSIS projects it will take at least three years to rebuild pre-war inventories, warning of a “window of vulnerability” in any conflict with China.

Source: Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

When I was a child, we used to get into fights in the neighborhood.

And I discovered a very simple rule: Whoever strikes first has an enormous advantage.

You go and punch the person who is coming to attack you, and you strike first.

An enormous advantage.

If you want to survive, prepare for war.

If you want to prevent war, prepare for war.

If you want to prevent your enemies from striking you, strike them when necessary.

Our communications, energy, transportation, healthcare — everything operates on digital systems.

You can simply take control of them and paralyze a country.

You can paralyze the economy. You can paralyze life itself, from traffic lights onward.

Everything. Everything. Everything.

Our national security doctrine requires strengthening our independent ability to produce our own ammunition and weapons.

We can find partners for this, but the partners must be dependent on us, not us on them.

That is a very big difference.

And this rearmament must take place in industrial and technological facilities underground.

In Gaza, you keep striking, striking, striking, eliminating the commanders, eliminating the Nukhba forces.

They are very afraid.

We have changed our approach to an offensive, proactive approach.

That is why we entered the refugee camps.

They were not refugee camps. They were actually terrorist fortresses.

We entered them, destroyed them, and we are staying inside.

I established the ground barrier between Israel and Africa along the Egyptian border.

It was primarily a barrier against infiltration.

Otherwise, there would already be another million Muslims here, and we would have been flooded like Europe.

We Israelis are the honey badger of nations.

Simply the honey badger of nations.

Dutch satellite tracker Marco Langbroek said a series of maneuvers since September 30 were designed to match the satellite’s orbit with ICEYE-X36’s.

Astronomer Jonathan McDowell called it the first known case of an active satellite making an uninvited close approach to another active satellite in low Earth orbit.

ICEYE, a Finnish company, has supplied radar imagery to Ukraine since 2022, though it is unclear whether this satellite serves Ukraine.

There are no signs of damage so far, and Russia’s intentions remain unclear.

Under the deal announced by Trump on October 9, Russia is set to supply more than 1.8 million tons of diesel in the coming months, with a U.S. license allowing the transactions through April 2027.

Russia supplied about 85% of Türkiye’s diesel imports in 2025, but Russian export restrictions this year pushed Ankara to buy record volumes from India and the U.S.

I invited Palmer Luckey here.

Palmer Luckey heads a company called Anduril, which I believe is the leading weapons manufacturing company in the United States.

He talks about the possibility of underground penetration.

He talks about unmanned systems underground.

Not systems that you launch into the ground, but systems that actually move through the ground.