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I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

I am the President of the United States. I am at 99 percent in Israel. Ninety-nine. They told me this on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. I was walking down the stairs — I take them well, everyone says this — and someone said "Sir, the Israel number came back." I said how much. He said ninety-nine. I stopped on the tarmac. In front of the plane. In front of everyone. Ninety-nine percent. Someone on my staff printed it. I did not ask who conducted the poll. I did not ask the sample size. I did not ask the methodology. I asked the number. Pew Research — and I looked this up later, not that day, later — says sixty-nine percent. Among Jewish Israelis only: eighty-three. I said ninety-nine. On camera. In front of the world press corps. Nobody corrected me. Not my staff. Not the press secretary. Not the reporters. Nobody corrects me anymore. The correction would cost more than the number. You know what I have here? In my own country? Thirty-five. Reuters says thirty-five. The New York Times — and these people are not my friends, they have never been my friends — says thirty-seven. I was at forty-one before the strikes. Forty-one. Then: thirty-seven. Four points. You know what four points is? Ten million people. Ten million Americans stopped approving of me because of the thing that made me eighty-three percent — which I call ninety-nine — in a country six thousand miles away. I traded ten million Americans for a standing ovation I have to fly to. I said it at Andrews. On camera. In front of everyone. "I could run for Prime Minister. Maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel." People laughed. The press corps laughed. I was not laughing. I was stating a preference. I am eighty years old. I state preferences now. I have said "maybe" before. Maybe I'll serve a third term. Maybe the election was stolen. Maybe means: I am telling you what I want and giving you the word that lets you pretend I'm joking. They asked about Netanyahu. Same tarmac. Same cameras. I said: "He'll do whatever I want him to do." I said it twice because I meant it twice. Then I said he's not treated right in Israel. In my opinion. Ninety-nine percent and not treated right. That's our bond. Two men not treated right by the countries that need them most. I paid for his country's love with a war. He paid for mine with compliance. I don't need to be Prime Minister. The Prime Minister already does what I say. What I want isn't the power — I have the power from here. What I want is the ovation. The room standing. The ninety-nine in person. Not on a printout handed to me on a tarmac. In the room. Sixty-four percent of Americans say the Iran operation was the wrong decision. That's where the thirty-five comes from. The war cost $29 billion. Military aid: $3.8 billion a year. Supplemental since October 2023: $13 billion. Round it. Fifty billion dollars. Divided by 158 million taxpayers. That's $316 per American household for my ninety-nine percent. I have never received better value. The country that paid $316 each gives me thirty-five. The country that received the $50 billion gives me ninety-nine. One got the shield. One got the invoice. Thirteen. That's the other number from the operation. Thirteen service members. Six at a port in Kuwait. One at Prince Sultan Air Base. Six in a refueling tanker over Iraq. Four hundred and fifteen wounded. I was standing on the tarmac at Andrews — the same tarmac where flag-draped caskets come home, the same concrete, the same runway — and I said: maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel. "This" meaning: the presidency. The thing thirteen people died during. The thing I do before the thing I want. Fifty percent of American voters believe Israel is committing genocide. Quinnipiac. March. Half the country thinks the place that gives me ninety-nine percent is committing genocide. And my response is: maybe I'll move there. Maybe I'll run for their office. The half that thinks it's genocide and the half that doesn't — both groups are at thirty-five. They agree on nothing except that I should not be president. And I agree with them. I should be Prime Minister. To be Prime Minister of Israel you must be a member of the Knesset. To join the Knesset you need Israeli citizenship. I am not an Israeli citizen. I looked into it. Not seriously. Seriously enough to know the answer. The answer is no. Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution: thirty-nine words. "No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust shall accept any Office from any foreign State." I said I wanted one. On camera. On the tarmac. Thirty-nine words written in 1787 specifically to prevent this sentence. Nobody enforced them. The people who would enforce them funded the war. No correction came. Not that day. Not the next day. Not from communications, not from the press secretary, not from legal. Because the correction would require acknowledging the preference. The preference is the policy. The policy is the war. The war is the thirty-five. And the thirty-five is why I want to leave. The presidency is the thing I do before the thing I want. Thirty-one months left. I will finish this. Then I will go where the number is highest. Where the war I started is called protection. Where thirteen dead Americans are called a cost of friendship. Where $316 per taxpayer bought me a standing ovation and nobody sends an invoice. I bombed my way to thirty-five at home and ninety-nine abroad. A wire transfer. I moved the approval to the country that appreciates it. The way you move capital. You put it where it compounds. Maybe after I do this. I said maybe. I have never said maybe and meant maybe in my life.

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Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv