The opposite of peace through strength is war through weakness.

Wokeness, weakness and war, all specialties of Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin.

I was recently tempted when the discussion went out about hitting drug boats to use the phrase, "Righteous strike."

But then my team counseled me against it and said, "Sir, that was the phrase used by Mark Milley when a family of Afghans was struck."

Weakness, wokeness, war.

The Department of War will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing, and feckless nation building.

We will deter war. We will advance our interests. We will defend our people.

Peace is our goal.

That is why we are prioritizing our fight over cartels.

You can just look at the news — not all of the news.

These narco-terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we're hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted Al-Qaeda.

Under Trump’s leadership, relations between the U.S. and China are better and stronger than they have been for years.

The War Department is committed to the same approach — opening a wider range of military communications with the People's Liberation Army.

Allies that step up like Israel, South Korea, Poland, increasingly Germany, the Baltics, and others will receive our special favor.

Allies that still fail to do their part for collective defense will face consequences.

We appeal to Almighty God, just as our forefathers did.

George Washington, the founder of the War Department, appealed to God's providence during every step of our improbable revolution, in prayer, on bended knee, on the battlefield.

Ronald Reagan did the same, appealing to heaven as the world hung in the balance.

We do the same today with Jesus Christ as our guide. May he grant us the wisdom to see what is right and the courage to do it.

I stayed for probably five minutes or so after, but at that point it was a tactical operation, and I moved on to other things.

A couple of hours later, I was told there had to be a re-attack because there were a couple of folks who could still be in the fight, access to radios…

I said, Roger, sounds good. From what I understood then and what I understand now, I fully support that strike. I would have made the same call myself.

We never had a president hosting the awards before. This is the first.

I'm sure they'll give me great reviews — they'll say, "He was horrible. He was terrible. It was a horrible situation." No, we'll do fine.

I've watched some of the people that host—Jimmy Kimmel was horrible.

If I can't beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don't think I should be president.