Mid-Day Update: March 19, 2026

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1:11No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you, but I'm not putting troops, and we will do whatever is necessary to keep the price. I actually thought, when I did this, the Dow just hit 50,000 a couple of weeks ago. They said that couldn't happen for four years. It wouldn't happen in my term, but such an outrageous thing, because I said it would happen. I didn't know it was going to happen that fast, but just hit 50,000, and we did that in one year, not four. The S&P had just hit 7,000. They said that was even more impossible than the Dow hitting 50, and we did that in one year, so it was all done. Everything was going great. The economy was great. Oil prices were very low. Gasoline was dropping to, I mean, we had $1.99, $1.85. We had great everything. And I saw always happening in Iran, and I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it.

2:12And I actually thought the numbers would be worse. I thought that it would go up more than it did, but we're doing its excursion, and when it's completed, we're going to have a much safer world. And the Prime Minister agrees with me, and then she considers it to be terrible what they're in it. I think every country does, just about every country does. Iran is the serious threat to the world, to the Middle East and to the world, and everybody agrees with me. I think virtually every country agrees with me on that. President Trump then gave the opportunity to a Japanese reporter, who was there with the Prime Minister, to ask a question or two. And the question was brilliant. The reporter wanted to know why President Trump didn't let U.S. allies know that they were bombing Iran. Take a listen to President Trump's brilliant response. Why didn't you tell US allies in Europe and the Asia like Japan about the war before attacking Iran? So we are very confused about it. One thing you don't want to signal too much, when we go in, we went in very hard.

3:15We didn't tell anybody about it, because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Right? He says, could be. Do you believe in surprise? I think much more so than us. And we had a surprise, and we did. And because of that surprise, we knocked out the first two days. We probably knocked out 50% of what we, and much more than we anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise. Folks, sometimes the most obvious answers aren't so obvious, especially to the folks who work and live and breathe inside the mainstream media. Not the wittiest people, not the smartest people by any stretch of the imagination or any stretch of the mind. So a brilliant, brilliant response by President Trump. You will remember during New York Attorney General, the Tisha James, 2023 civil fraud

4:16and political persecution of President Trump, one of the most ridiculous assertions and the radical freak of a judge, Judge Arthur Angeron. You remember they, they were positive. They guaranteed us that Mar-a-Lago was only worth $18 million. Yeah, they said that would astray face. That's what they told us. Well, if we didn't already know that Tisha James and Angeron were frauds, we've got some bad news for them now. The forms just put out their 2026 billionaires list coverage. And the outlet updated their evaluation of Mar-a-Lago to about $560 million and up from the previous $370 million, a far cry from what Tisha James and Arthur Angeron told us. Those were the fraudsters, folks. The judge in the case, the crooked attorney general, who sought to frame President Trump. I mean, a total joke, but you folks all remember it very well. Funny, funny, funny stuff. Now that we're looking at an hindsight, please be sure to join us tonight, folks, in each and every night,

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