It’s been a whirlwind day already for President Donald Trump as he signed the Israel-Hamas peace deal he helped negotiate, watched as the terror group released the last 20 living hostages, spoke in front of the Israeli Knesset, and was nominated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Israel Prize, Israel’s highest civilian honor.
Then he headed to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where he just wrapped up remarks in front of world leaders. “Nobody thought this could happen," Trump said:
This is the day that people across the region and around the world have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. They have done things over the last month that I think were really unthinkable. Nobody thought this could happen.
With the historic agreement we've just signed, those prayers of millions, have finally been answered. As you know, the hostages have been returned, and further work goes on, having to do with the, sadly to say, bodies.
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Peace is finally here, he told the crowd. We achieved the impossible:
Together, we have achieved what everybody said was impossible. At long last, we have peace in the Middle East, and it's very simple expression in peace in the Middle East, and we've heard it for many years, but nobody thought it could ever get there.
Now we're there.
He also lavished praise on the other leaders, saying they were instrumental in making it all happen:
I want to congratulate everybody sitting in these first few rows and standing behind me. I don't know why they chose to stand, but I promise I'll make it short, okay? We are not going to keep you standing for long. These are great leaders. After years of suffering and bloodshed, the war in Gaza is over. Humanitarian aid is now pouring in, including hundreds of truckloads of food, and medical equipment, and other supplies, much of it paid for by people in this room.
Civilians are returning to their homes, the hostages are reuniting. I mean, you of them just watching it backstage. The level of love and sorrow, I've never seen anything like it.
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In celebration of the day and the historic achievement, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi awarded Donald Trump the Order of the Nile, Egypt’s highest state honor. Trump thanked him:
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