28 posts from Thursday, October 9, 2025

As you know, last night we reached a momentous breakthrough in the Middle East, something that people said was never going to be done. We ended the war in Gaza and really, on a much bigger basis, created peace, and I think it's going to be a lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace. Peace in the Middle East, we secured the release of all of the remaining hostages, and they should be released on Monday or Tuesday. Getting them is a complicated process, and rather than I tell you what they have to do to get them, there are places you don't want to be, but we are getting the hostages back on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, and that'll be a day of joy.

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We made a big announcement, Dr. Carson's joining this administration, President Trump's vision on making America healthy again. We just swore in about a couple hours ago, Dr. Carson's going to be our national nutrition advisor. So as we continue the work to make America healthy again in the intersection of agriculture and HHS with Secretary Kennedy, as we were talking and we partnered together for a long time, last administration, even before, it really occurred to us that there's no greater American who has lived the American dream in just such a remarkable way than Ben Carson. So, for me personally, it's been a long time.

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It's a great honor to be involved in it. We had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner and Marco, and we had everybody. JD, the whole group was just amazing. And the military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done. We have a great military with great leadership. The whole world came together, to be honest, so many countries that you wouldn't have even thought of it. They came together. The world has come together around this deal. And that's something I would say that without that, wouldn't happen. So many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have wired their best wishes and their commitment to do whatever is necessary. The country's surrounding have all signed. I mean, they're all signed up. And it's been really an amazing period of time and so great for Israel, so great for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great for this country, for the United States of America, and that we could be involved in, you know, making a deal like this happen. 'Cause it was, you know, many years, they talked about peace in the Middle East. This is more than Gaza, this is peace in the Middle East, and it's an incredible thing.

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