Trump on Hamas and Hezbollah:

They’ve made an agreement that they are going to disarm so we are going to have to assume they are going to but, you know, it’s not their nature to disarm, it’s not exactly their nature.

Sean Hannity: Have you read that the Ayatollah now has a Plan B to go to Russia?

Trump: He’s looking to go someplace.

NEW: Russia confirms it used an Oreshnik missile in Ukraine.

Russia claims it was retaliation for Kyiv attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence (which didn't happen).

Moscow says drone production and energy facilities tied to Ukraine’s defense industry were hit and warns further attacks will be answered.

The ballistic missile (Oreshnik) Russia used to strike Lviv overnight traveled at 13,000 km/h, according to the Air Force's West Command.

U.S. oil investor to Financial Times on Venezuela:

“No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy.”

Trump on Iran:

The crowds are massive. There have been people killed, but it’s more from death by stomping. It’s people running in a certain direction. They know it’s a stampede, I guess the best word.

You talk about stampede for cattle — the people are stampeding, and you are losing a lot of people with a stampede. The enthusiasm to overturn that regime is incredible. Nobody has ever seen anything like what’s happening right now.

These people are totally unarmed people. They love their country. I have put Iran on notice. If they do anything bad to these people, we are going to hit them very hard.

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A new poll shows Germans now distrust the U.S. almost as much as Russia.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on backlash from Republicans for cursing at ICE:

I'm so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears.

Trump on Operation Eagle Claw:

We had the helicopters crashing, the sandstorms. If you had sandstorms you should come back, but they tried to blast through the sandstorm.

Nature always wins. Helicopters don’t have that kind of an engine, they have a lot of moving parts, they don’t like sand blowing into their gears.

They decided to go forward. Should have come back.

Trump on Venezuela:

We have taken over a whole country, we are going to make the country strong and good.

The oil that we have taken, $4 billion worth of oil in one day and that will increase.

We are going to have it rebuilt, all the big oil companies are coming in, they will make a lot of money and Venezuela is going to get some of that money and we are going to get some of that money.

Trump: We have great people from Cuba. Marco Rubio is great.

Hannity: Somebody told me today it was Marco’s revenge.

Trump: Maybe it was...

Hannity: You did take out this Russian-flagged tanker along with Great Britain. Tough decision.

Trump: I don’t think it was a tough decision.

Hannity: Did Putin call you after the tanker was seized?

Trump: I don’t want to say that, but the fact is that the Russian ships — there was a submarine and a destroyer — they both left very quickly when we arrived.

Trump:

We are going to start now hitting land with regard to the cartels.

The cartels are running Mexico. It’s very sad to watch what happened to that country.

Ukraine Air Force report:

Russian forces launched 278 air attack assets, including around 150 attack drones.

Ukraine’s air defenses shot down or suppressed 244 targets, including:
226 enemy UAVs
8 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles
10 Kalibr cruise missiles.

- 1 medium-range ballistic missile (Oreshnik, fired from the Kapustin Yar test site, Astrakhan Oblast).

Trump on Venezuela:

To have people going into an army fort with thousands of soldiers, land a helicopter right in the middle of it, break down a steel door because it was a fortified house, run through the hallway shooting and come out ten minutes later with a guy — who was not quite able to get into his safe house.

Trump on María Corina Machado:

I understand she’s coming in next week sometime and I look forward to saying hello to her.

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Trump on the Nobel Peace Prize:

I think it’s been a major embarrassment to Norway. I don’t know what Norway has to do with it, but that’s where the committee is located. A lot of Norwegian people.

And it’s been a very big embarrassment to the country of Norway. Whether they have anything to do with it or not, I think they do. They say they don’t.

Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez:

I speak to the people of the United States. Venezuela did not deserve this aggressive act by a nuclear power. This is a stain on our shared history.

Our response will not be revenge, but vindication—through example. We will show Bolivarian diplomacy in action, guided by the legacy of our Liberator.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the India–U.S. trade deal collapsed because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call President Trump.

“I set the deal up. But Modi had to call President Trump. They were uncomfortable with it, so Modi didn’t call.”