Asked whether he will order the landing
the podium · Press gaggle, the South Portico · 21 February 2026, 09:00
Q: Mr President, the Phase III report is due on Tuesday. Are you going to invade Britain?
A: I'm going to read the report on Tuesday.
Q: Your own Strategic Command puts the chance of nuclear retaliation at ninety-five percent.
A: Where did you get that number?
Q: Is it wrong?
A: I get a lot of numbers. Everybody in that building has a number. In 1944 somebody had a number too and if we'd listened to him we'd all be speaking German.
Q: Fifty days ago you said the line stopped at Iceland.
A: It did stop at Iceland. They're the ones who moved.
Q: Will you rule out a landing?
A: I don't rule things out. That's the whole job. You people have never understood that.
closed channel
The Phase III staging report — amphibious readiness, sealift convoy assembly, minefield interdiction, and the lodgment timetable — is due at 18:00 on 24 February. It has not been written. The record ends here.
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@HardhatHank · civilian
21 Feb 2026 07:30
Full hours again this week. Overtime Saturday. My wife asked me last night if I was going to feel bad about the money. I said I did not know. She said "I do", and we sat there. Anyway. Overtime Saturday.
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@grandma_wifi · civilian
21 Feb 2026 08:00
Fifty-two days. I have watched all of it on this little screen my grandson set up. I have learned what a GIUK gap is. I am 74 and I did not need to learn that. Two goldfinches this morning. I am telling you because somebody should say something ordinary today.…
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@H_Mairead · reporter
21 Feb 2026 09:00
Fifty days ago I was writing about a procurement dispute. Since then I have watched an alliance walk out of its own chamber, stood on a ramp where nobody could buy fuel, and reported from an airfield where nine people were killed by an ally. And the strange pa…
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@POTUS · state
21 Feb 2026 09:00
I don't rule things out. That's the whole job.
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@momof3_indy · civilian
21 Feb 2026 10:00
"I don't rule things out. That's the whole job." Sir. My son is nineteen. He is at Bragg. XVIII Airborne Corps is in that plan and so is he. Rule it out. That is also the job. That is the part of the job where you tell a mother in Indiana that her boy is not g…
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europe
21 Feb 2026 11:00
No jargon. No takes. Just the sequence. 10 Jan — The US switched off the data service that allied F-35s need. Half of Europe's stealth fleet stopped flying in three days. 17 Jan — The officials who said the money for this was illegal were f…
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@grandma_wifi · civilian
21 Feb 2026 11:20
Tanya, I am 74 and I have nothing useful to offer you except that I am thinking about your boy tonight, and I will again tomorrow. That is not much. I am sending it anyway.
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@memelord_atlantic · civilian
21 Feb 2026 13:00
not to be dramatic but I have checked this app 200 times today and the only thing I actually want to see is a post that says "it stopped" that's it. that's the whole ask. six words and I'll log off forever