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Things The President Said Today: August 27, 2026

"He's not going to be attacking a NATO territory." "I don't want to comment on that, but they're not going to attack." "Lake America was something I've been thinking about for a long time." "Now all we need is an ocean." "Maybe we'll change them both." Source: Euronews, Fox News, NOTUS (August 27, 2026)
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Things The President Said Today: June 16, 2026

  • "has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon" (on Netanyahu)
  • Israel had been fighting Hezbollah "too long and too many people are being killed."
  • "You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody because there's a lot of people in those apartment houses – and they're not all Hezbollah."
  • "I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you, I think they'd do a better job of doing it."
  • "I didn't like that, not at all."
  • "I let them know that."
  • "It can."
  • "I consider that the minor war. Iran's the big one, but we have that little pinprick out there that constantly rears its head and that's Hezbollah."
  • "all hell will rain down" if Iran tries to get a nuclear weapon
  • "This deal is a wall to a nuclear weapon."
  • "The only thing that really matters to me is Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and it says it loud and clear."
  • Iran "has rational leadership now," officials who were "totally irrational" are "now gone"
  • "be actually easier" (on the second phase of negotiations)

Sources: Al Jazeera ("Trump tells Netanyahu to be 'more responsible with respect to Lebanon'"), June 16, 2026.

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