Overview

• Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven, in remarks tied to questions about past comments linking peacemaking to personal salvation.
• The White House shared audio of the interaction, and clips of the exchange spread widely on social media platforms including X.
• Officials and reports describe the first phase of the Israel-Hamas agreement as covering the release of the remaining 48 hostages, large prisoner exchanges, a surge of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and a partial Israeli pullback.
• Trump declared that “the war is over,” a characterization not echoed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• The president’s itinerary includes meetings with Israeli hostage families, an address to the Knesset, and a regional summit in Egypt, and he also repeated his claim that the 2020 election was rigged while arguing he could have averted the Russia-Ukraine war.