'Statements like this are dangerous and unhinged.'
as "very smart" Wednesday night drew a scathing response from both the White House and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis."Statements like this are dangerous and unhinged. It's completely lost on us why any American would ever praise an Iran-backed terrorist organization as 'smart,'" White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement.At a rally in Florida Wednesday night, Trump criticized U.S.
"You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They're all very smart," Trump said, before acknowledging that the media often negatively highlights his praise for authoritarians like Xi. Israel "has a national defense minister or somebody saying, 'I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack us from the north.' So the following morning, they attacked," Trump went on. "If you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north because he said, 'That's our weak spot.'"
"When they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they're vicious and they're smart. And boy, are they vicious because nobody's ever seen the kind of sight that we've seen," Trump said.Trump also said at another point in the speech that he had "a bad experience with Israel as president," criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not participating in the U.S.
"I'll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing. We were very disappointed, but we did the job ourselves, and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job," Trump said.What they're saying:that it's "shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel's fighters and its citizens.
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