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Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

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Barring any unexpected surprises, the ideal speech tonight does three important things for the American public: 1) Remind people about the enemy and its threat. Who was this radical regime and how did it threaten the United States. In so doing, make clear the costs we would have faced by not acting. Americans hate terrorists and bad guys with nuclear weapons targeting America. Go back to basics because you can't remind people enough what's at stake. 2) Describe the success of the campaign to date. More details the better. What threats have we neutralized, how far back have set the enemy, what environment have we (with Israel) delivered for the Iranian people to take future steps. Americans like to win - we are winning - facts can overcome disinformation. 3) Set expectations for the next phase of operations. Speak clearly about key threats that remain. Concretely remind people this is not an endless war, we came in with clear objectives and planned phases of the operation. Important for both public support and market management. At least four other audiences merit tailored messaging: 1) The U.S. military and their families. Our Armed Forces are performing masterfully and not without sacrifice. Breathe pride into the Force and comfort to new Gold Star Families. They will all be watching this speech and hanging on every word. If more is to be asked of them before the end, this can be a powerful pep talk from the commander in chief. 2) The people of Israel. Families are spending the fight night of Passover running to shelters throughout the night. Our model ally has performed masterfully by our side, showcasing new technology that will help our warfighters for the next generation, at great cost to the entire civilian population of Israel. Americans should take comfort knowing Israel is our ally. 3) Other allies and partners. Our allies in the Gulf deserve our words of strength, support and respect for their resilience and steadfastness while coming under constant attack. Time is coming for them to step up in other ways. On the other hand, our traditional allies are failing the moment, to be judged harshly by history. Speak to their publics, not their politicians. It's not too late for them. 4) Iran, both the rump regime and the people. Focus on "maximum fracture" of the regime and "maximum support" to the Iranian people. Remind the people their time is coming. An update for them from the opening video message providing expectations and guidance would be important.

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