Happy Birthday, @POTUS.
As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of freedom, strength, and exceptionalism, your America First leadership is exactly what this moment demands.
Here's to another year of Making America Great Again.
While I hope and pray that a diplomatic solution to end the Iranian conflict and deny Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon and stop their reign of terror on the region may be at hand, we still must understand who we are dealing with.
Since the latest ceasefire, Hezbollah has been unrelenting in their attacks against Israel to the point there are areas in northern Israel that have been evacuated because of the constant attacks. What would America do in a similar situation?
Hezbollah is financed and controlled by Iran, with a lot of American blood on its hands. It is clear to me that no matter what deal we sign with Iran, Hezbollah’s stated ambitions of destroying Israel and making Lebanon a caliphate have not fundamentally changed.
May God protect the United States and may God protect the State of Israel.
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U.S. naval personnel comprised of an MH-60 crew from the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and a P-8A 'Poseidon' responded to a distress call in the northern Arabian Sea around 2am EST today. After arriving on scene, the P-8 dropped a search and rescue kit containing a life raft that 14 mariners then climbed into. Another vessel in the area, the Jabali Ali 9, assisted and picked up the 14 Indian mariners in the life raft. The US Navy MH-60 responded and rescued 3 additional mariners whose life raft capsized in the rough weather and delivered them to Jabali Ali 9.
🇮🇷 Some Iranians have gathered outside the foreign ministry chanting ‘Death to Araqchi,Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, the dishonorable compromiser’
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that Iran has launched several one-way attack drones at ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz earlier this evening, adding that U.S. forces have downed all of them and traffic continues to flow unimpeded.
Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. forces have downed all of them in recent hours as traffic flow through the strait continues unimpeded. The international trade corridor remains open for transit.
More rockets in the hangar at LC-1 than we’ve ever had before. We’re lining up a busy few weeks of back-to-back-to-back-to-back launches from the world’s first private orbital launch site 🚀🚀🚀🚀
I had the opportunity to visit @NASALangley today and spent time with the extraordinary workforce helping shape the future of American aerospace and space exploration.
Their work helps support Artemis, future lunar operations, advanced flight system materials and hypersonics, and nuclear technologies in space. America's leadership in space depends on people willing to solve hard problems, and Langley is full of them.
Saudi Arabia is leading the charge.
Its East-West Petroline (1,200 km from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea) now runs at full ~7 million bpd capacity. In crises, it redirects millions of barrels for export without ever touching Hormuz.
Built decades ago, expanded when needed. Strategic masterstroke.
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🚨Iran is slitting its own geopolitical throat at Hormuz
By repeatedly threatening the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran has forced Gulf producers to build pipelines and pursue other alternatives that will soon make its leverage obsolete.
Once complete, the Mullahs lose their strongest card.
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Proud to have been selected for the @USNavy Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) Marketplace at-sea demonstration.
As the Navy advances towards realizing the vision of a Golden Fleet, autonomous systems will be critical to extending reach, increasing capacity, and delivering maritime capability at scale.
Our Marauder MUSV has already begun on-water trials, and we look forward to showcasing the mission-ready capabilities that autonomous systems can deliver to the fleet.
Learn more: https://t.co/Oyt32jLAhA
To adopt the future of warfare, SASC's new NDA proposal permits establishing a Robotic & Autonomous Systems Combatant Command. This COCOM will integrate tech, speed up acquisition & scale unmanned systems across all domains.
https://t.co/alvN4prwWb
Earlier this week, the @DeptofWar — in full collaboration with Venezuelan security forces — conducted a kinetic strike on a Tren de Aragua (TdA) compound in Venezuela. TdA founder & leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka “Niño Guerrero,” was confirmed killed during the strike.
The operation underscores the shared U.S. and Venezuelan commitment to take the fight to narco-terrorists and deny them any safe haven in our hemisphere. We will continue to work closely with security partners, like Venezuela — and counties in the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) partners — to take the fight to our enemies.
Congratulations to SpaceX on today’s $75B IPO, the largest ever brought to market.
Goldman Sachs is honored to have served as lead left bookrunner on this transaction, but more than that, we are proud of the strong partnership our people have built with the SpaceX team over the long term. I’ve known Elon for more than 15 years, as have several of my colleagues, and it’s been incredible to see his vision come to life and to work with Gwynne, Bret, and the entire team.
We are excited as SpaceX enters this new chapter of its journey as a public company, and we look forward to supporting their mission of advancing the frontier of human space exploration.