Trump:

Today, I’m pleased to announce that the last American forces are leaving Iraq.

Trump on Iraq:

Iraq's PM Ali al-Zaidi was running for election. He wasn't given even a chance. I endorsed him, and he ended up winning a landslide.

Trump on Iraq:

We're getting the hell out of there.

Trump calls Venezuela's Maduro "the number one state sponsor of terror."

Trump on Iran:

You will see things happening very soon.

Trump on Iran:

We have almost total control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump on Iraq:

They fired everybody in Iraq — the soldiers, the generals, the police.

They had nobody to run Iraq, and ISIS formed.

We do it a lot differently. We learned from the stupidity of what they did in Iraq.

Trump:

I'm the only president that donated his salary.

Trump:

The first thing President Xi said to me was, "Wow, you've done a good job!" He said that in Chinese, by the way.

Trump on Cuba:

Watch what Marco Rubio does with Cuba. Watch what he does with Cuba.

Trump:

They replaced Biden with Kamala Harris. I didn't even know who the hell she was.

Trump on Kamala Harris:

I bet most people in this room don't know her last name. They think of Kamala. Nobody knows her last name.

They said, "Vice President Harris," and everyone was saying, "Who the hell is that?"

Trump:

If I ran Venezuela, I would do exactly the same thing that Maduro did. He emptied his prisons into the United States.

Netanyahu:

My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.

Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.

He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.

I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.

Syria’s electricity company says the Deir Ali, Nasiriyah and Tishreen power plants have gone offline after an explosion on a gas pipeline supplying the Tishreen Thermal Power Plant near the town of al-Otaiba.

The blast cut gas supplies needed to operate the plants, while the resulting fire is still burning and emergency teams are responding.

The shutdown is expected to reduce electricity generation and temporarily increase power cuts across the country, the company said.

Source: SANA

Hegseth:

So yes, 20% reduction across the board. The media calls that a “purge.”

I call it accountability and long overdue, and frankly, the bare minimum.

Hegseth:

Telling someone to get in shape or shave or fix their uniform is not discrimination. That’s leadership.

Hegseth:

We’re no longer the woke department or the weak department.

No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.

Hegseth:

The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.

Hegseth:

Military sexual assaults are down, military suicides are down, Black and female recruitment are up, even though all the quotas are gone.