After complimenting other officials, US President Donald Trump praises his Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio, predicting he will go down as the greatest secretary of state in US history.
“He was always smart and sharp and people respect him,” says Trump.
Trump also recognizes Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, saying that the US military is stronger than it has ever been. “We’ve now settled eight wars in eight months,” he says, including the Gaza war.
He says “it feels so good to say” that the hostages are back.
Trump stresses that “his personality is all about stopping wars, and it seems to work.”
If America does go to war, he says, “we’re going to win that war like nobody has ever won a war before. We will not be politically correct.”
“Peace through strength, that’s what it’s all about,” he says, repeating what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address.
Trump says the US has the best weapons, and “we’ve given a lot of them to Israel, frankly.”
He says “Bibi would call me so many times – can you get me this weapon, that weapon, and some of them I’d never heard of.”
“But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we,” he says, adding this “Israel knew how to use them well.”
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