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.”

Somalia: The SNA announced that an explosives manufacturing facility was destroyed in Saakow, in the Middle Juba region, and that 18 militants were killed.

Trump on Ukraine:

Biden gave them $350 billion, can you imagine? We did not get any of it back, but I did actually — I made a deal for rare earth.

I said, listen, if we go any further, we want rare earth and we want to get our money back, and I made a deal with Ukraine, a very fair deal where we get our money back.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha:

Russia claims it used an intermediate range ballistic missile, so-called “Oreshnik”, against Lviv region.

Such a strike close to EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia’s reckless actions.

We will be initiating international action — an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council, a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council, as well as responses within the EU, Council of Europe, and OSCE.

Buses arrive at Lermon Roundabout in Aleppo ahead of entry into Sheikh Maqsoud to transfer SDF/YPG militia members to east of the Euphrates.

A Verian poll cited by the FT says 85% of Greenlanders oppose becoming Americans, citing Denmark’s much higher standard of living.

Trump to NYT:

Whoever wins the artificial intelligence war is going to be really the leader of the world.

Trump to NYT:

I’ve had cases where I had Putin all done and Zelensky wouldn’t make the deal, which shocked me.

Then I’ve had cases where it was the reverse. I think now they both want to make a deal, but we’ll find out.

Turkish Airlines cancels Friday flights from Istanbul to Tehran.

Source: AFP