Just recovered the last Hostage body in GAZA.

Thus, got back ALL 20 of the living Hostages, and ALL of the Dead! AMAZING JOB!

Most thought of it as an impossible thing to do. Congratulations to my great team of Champions!!!

President Trump is doing a lot of good stuff, I believe.

The 2% reached by all NATO members would never, ever have happened without Trump.

I think Trump is very important to NATO. He is totally committed to NATO.

When President Trump is doing good stuff, I will praise him.

And I don't mind him publishing text messages.

If anyone thinks that the EU or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming.

You can’t. We can’t. We need each other.

The U.S. needs NATO... They need a secure Arctic. They need to secure your Atlantic. And they also need to secure Europe.

I really feel Trump deserves some defense; he was the one during Trump 45 who said there was an issue with Arctic security.

And he said it again when he came back into office in January.

I think he is right; there is an issue with security.

I know that America greatly appreciates all the efforts being made in Afghanistan and acknowledges the fact that many casualties were there, not only Americans, but also from allies and NATO partners.

As President Trump has said, "We're watching Iran very closely."

And President Trump is a President of action.

But in the end, what we agreed on is, I think, two work streams going forward:

One work stream is for NATO collectively to take more responsibility for the defense of the Arctic. So one work stream will be to see how best collectively we can prevent the Russians and the Chinese from getting more access to the Arctic region, becoming also more of a military adversary there.

The second work stream is that what was agreed upon a week before I met with the President on Wednesday was the meeting in Washington with Denmark and Greenland.

They agreed to continue their discussions in this trilateral setting. Now it is up to the Danes, Greenland, and the U.S. to do that. I will not be involved in that work stream.

Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota.

It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession.

The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!

We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!

Washington has transferred defense systems to the Middle East to protect its allies and facilities from Iranian counterattacks.

Some equipment has arrived in the region, and more is expected to arrive within a week or two.

The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran do not only monitor enemy movements at the action stage but also closely observe the formation and early signs of any threat against the country's national security, and based on field assessments, appropriate decisions will be made at the right time.

The idea of carrying out an operation called "quick and clean limited" against Iran stems from incorrect assessments and an incomplete understanding of the defensive and offensive capabilities of the Islamic Republic.

Any scenario designed based on surprise or controlling the scope of conflict will get out of the designers' control at the very early stages.

The presence of U.S. aircraft carriers and military equipment in the region has been exaggerated.

The maritime environment surrounding Iran is a known native environment and is fully under the surveillance of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic.

The concentration and accumulation of extra-regional forces and equipment in such an environment will not be a deterrent factor but will increase vulnerability and turn them into accessible targets.

Iran has shaped military equations in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman in such a way that no invading force can consider the security of its forces and bases guaranteed.

Past experiences have shown that attempts to influence internal affairs or strike the political structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, whether through political and economic pressure or military threats and psychological operations, have always failed, and this wrong path will not yield results for its designers in the future either.

Iran will not initiate any war but will not allow any threat against the country's national security, even in the early stages of formation, to reach the action stage.

Full responsibility for any unintended consequences lies directly with the parties who, either through provocative and interventionist presence or through direct and indirect support and backing, endanger the stability of the entire region.