ork hard so that somebody will say, "Oh, I'm really glad you did that thing, whatever that thing was." So yeah, the prediction is that people like Trump are going to get a lot done.

Happy Columbus Day. Let's talk about those hostages freed. You already know the news. All 20 living hostages have been released. There's hope that bodies will be returned, but that might be a little more complicated. Two thousand or so Hamas people, I guess, are getting released in return. We won't talk about them too much because today is more about happiness.

Trump flew over to Israel, which turned out to be a brilliant move. He didn't have to, but he did. And wow, did he get a hero's welcome like I've never seen before. Netanyahu praised him like I've never seen anybody praise Trump at all, and all deserved. He said, "No one moved the world so decisively as Trump." He said, "I believe that the close cooperation between our two nations, combining Israel's military pressure and Trump's unmatched global leadership, achieved this historic moment."

Well, here's something that Israel figured out, and Netanyahu certainly figured out. There's no such thing as praising Trump too much. I think you've all figured that out, too, right? It's not like he says, "Oh, that's enough. Really, you can tone it down a little bit. Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate it, but you don't have to do all that." The more you do, the better it is. You can lay it on as thick as you want, and he'll just think, "Is there any more of that? Can I get a little more of that?" I do like that about him.

Anyway, he was hailed as a colossus and a giant of Jewish history by the Israeli Parliament. So here are just some things in no particular order. Number one, does anybody think that any other president could have gotten this done? No. No, you don't.

But poor little Biden and Biden's little dingleberries that are still hanging around him, they're trying to claim that all Trump did was finalize the deal that Biden got working. Can you believe the gall, the fact that they would even try that, they would even try to give Biden credit for this? Oh my goodness.

So meanwhile, while the so-called Hitler is finding peace for Israel, the Democrats are still whining about him being an authoritarian Hitler while we're all watching the authoritarian Hitler bring peace to the entire world. The Democrats could not be losing harder than they are today. Today is peak losing for Democrats. They just got to shut up at this point. Just let it go, right? Just let it go. There's nothing you should say right now except thank you, Mr. President.

Some people asked reasonably, why are all 20 of the people released male? I think it's two factors. One is the women, all the remaining women are dead. That would be a fact, unfortunately. I don't know if they were killed in particular or killed because they didn't want them talking. That's the thing I worry about the most. Were they killed because they were abused and they didn't want them to go public? Maybe. But it could also be because the earlier rounds of releases focused on women and children and elderly, and they just leave the healthy male military-age people for last. So it's probably a combination of bad things happen to women but also that they negotiated the women out earlier. Probably both.

Anyway, so Trump gets a standing ovation, but when he mentioned Biden, the people laughed. They actually laughed at even the mention of Biden. And then when he mentioned Obama being the worst or second-worst president after Biden, they clapped. They actually clapped, the Israeli Knesset. They clapped for Obama being a terrible president, and they laughed. They literally laughed at a mention of Biden being the president. And they stood and gave a standing ovation, and now Netanyahu wants to nominate Trump for the highest award in Israel. So maybe this whole authoritarian thing is working out. Seems to be working out pretty well.

Anyway, here's what Trump said in his speech, which was hilarious, by the way. So his speech, he talked about, he kind of teased Netanyahu for running on too long because he's trying to get to this other big meeting in Egypt where all the big Middle East countries will meet and decide the fate of the Middle East. So I guess he's terribly late for that, but he's late because they're praising him, so it's not the worst thing in the world.

But when he got to speak after he made fun of Bibi talking too long and said some fun things, he said, "Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change." Like the USA right now, it will be the golden age of Israel and the golden age of the Middle East. Well, here we are. It's the golden age.

And he says everybody's loving Israel again. He said things were getting tough the last several months because of course Israel was taking brutal criticism for the way they were executing the war. But now it's looking like it just looks like a victory. You know, winning solves a lot of problems. Winning does.

And then Trump started selling the Abraham Accords hard because he's the salesman in chief. If he can get that done, oh my goodness. So I guess there are four Middle East countries that are part of that Abraham Accords, and then there are a bunch that could be but aren't but would like to be maybe. And this probably opens the door for that. So Trump's trying to sell it hard. You know, get in, get in on that Abraham Accords as soon as you can.

And Trump is actually even promising that he thinks he can make a deal with Iran, not part of the Abraham Accords, but separately. And he thinks Iran's ready to do a deal, mostly because they've been so weakened by recent events that they would get flexible. But I don't know about that, but maybe.

All right. Here are some of the highlights of his speech as well. The part I like best is you might know that Netanyahu has got some legal problems. He's being accused of I don't know, bribery or corruption or something, and that's on hold because of the war. So Trump's up there absorbing like the maximum amount of praise, and he's praising Netanyahu, and then he turns to the president, which is different than the prime minister of course, turns to the president of Israel who was on the dais, and he says that he thinks that Netanyahu should get a pardon, and that's the guy that decides to pardon. And I thought he was going to get the president of Israel to agree to a pardon right in front of us, but he didn't take the bait. He might, but watching Trump make that play to see if he can get the pardon for Netanyahu was one of the strongest leadership things I've ever seen in my life. That was so impressive, even if he doesn't get it. That was so impressive.

How many times have I told you that one of the magic tricks that Trump does for persuasion is that if you're his enemy, you're really his enemy. Like he's really going to take you down. You're going to get lawfared. You know, your country might get attacked. You might get a bad nickname. If you're on his bad side, you're really on his bad side. But as I often tell you, if you get on his good side, he won't just say you're a good person. He will change your life.

And this is one of the things he could have done and maybe he still will do for Netanyahu. So Netanyahu became flexible. I'm not sure that he was always flexible in this process, but Netanyahu did decide to conform to what Trump wanted him to do, and that worked out. So now they're best friends.

And what does Trump do? Does he just say, you know, I'll give you some award? That's what Netanyahu is doing for Trump, right? Give you an award. Well, that's great. I love it. Awards are good. But what would be more valuable to Netanyahu than a pardon? And who would have more influence and who would be more in the moment to read the room and know that this is the moment to insert that idea? Only Trump. There's not another president in the entire world who would have read that moment and said, "Wow, this is something I could do that's beyond what Netanyahu would ever expect me to do, and I might be able to pull it off."

I would love to know what was going on in the mind of the Israeli president. I wonder if he thought to himself, I should just do it. Because obviously he doesn't want to do it or he would have done it already. But I wonder if he just thought to himself, this would be such a moment. I mean, the moment would have been extraordinary. Yeah. Imagine if the president had just turned and said, "Mr. President, I have not fully considered this, but in recognition of the day, in recognition of what you've done for us, I'm going to give you that." That could have happened. That would have been amazing. Boy, Trump knows how to create a moment or get close to a moment.

All right, but here's what I feel and I hope that the rest of you feel it, too. As I posted on X cryptically, but I only wanted the people who understood to understand it. I don't want everybody to understand it. And my post on X was just this: This is why. That's it. This is why. What I mean, of course, for the few of you who don't know exactly what that means, is that in 2016 when I decided to, I didn't know I was doing it at the time, but quickly I figured it out, when I decided I would throw away my entire social life to back Trump and when I eventually threw away my entire career, which even before I was cancelled, my licensing business and book sales went to almost nothing because I was supporting Trump. I sacrificed everything. I sacrificed my social life. I sacrificed my career. I sacrificed my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. And I did that because I believed it was worth it.

Today's the day. Today's the day. All right. And I'm really happy I lived long enough to see it. It was worth it. It was worth it. Not just for this, you know, but it was worth it. It was worth it to be right. It's worth it to be right.

All right. So as you know, Trump doesn't become president without a hundred things going the right way. I like to think I might have been one of the hundred things that went the right way so that he could get elected and we could get something done, save the country, maybe save the world. But it wasn't free. It wasn't cheap. It wasn't easy. But every one of you who's watching right now probably shared a little bit in that pain. Probably every one of you said, "You know what? You're not going to tell me who to vote for. You know what? You're not going to manipulate me. You know what? I'm going to do what I think is right, and I'm going to follow this all the way."

All the MAGA supporters, you all took a personal and professional risk for the benefit of the country, and you knew that it was going to cost you dearly. You lost family members. A lot of you lost family members, you lost friends, you lost jobs, it cost you money. And you were right in the end. In the end, you were right. You bet the right way.

So you know, even though you could say, Scott, this is more about Israel than it is about the United States, and it is, but it seems to be an emotional touch point that seems to touch everything. It seems to touch the world, including the United States most heavily. And what it does is it just puts Trump in a whole different category where now he can do even more things that were impossible because people are going to look at him and say, "Okay, you did the impossible one time after another. What else can you do?" And we're probably going to find out. Maybe it means we get better trade deals with China. Maybe you can wrap something up with Russia. That's going to be a tough one.

But you know that I've been all in since 2016. All in. I bet it all. I just spent everything. I bet everything to get to this point. The golden age. So here we are. Here we are.

So I don't even know if I want to talk about the news today. It just feels so good to be on the right side of history. Because you never know. You never know if you're going to be on the right side of history. But boy, are we on the right side of history right now. So unless there are aliens in that comet, maybe things are going to look good.

Anyway, we have some background on why Hamas finally caved. I guess Egypt and Qatar were going hard at them, saying it was the last chance. Turkey was going hard at Hamas, telling them you better get this done, and they were getting a lot of pressure from their own people. So basically it got to the point where everybody outside of Hamas was telling Hamas, you got to end this. There was essentially nobody left on their side. So it got done.

So being in the right place at the right time helps, but it still had to be Trump. Only Trump could have gotten it done. And then the last person to agree was Netanyahu, and Trump bullied him into saying yes. And I'm sure Netanyahu was happy about it.

Now, here's what Charlemagne tha God said about it. He said, "Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible." Now, remember, Charlemagne tha God is a Democrat. He said, "Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible. Trump shows me what presidents can do if they want to do it." And he says it's not about what can't be done. It's about who has the political will to do it.

So that seems to be the frame that some Democrats are starting to enter. The okay, this is true that Trump can do things that other people can't do. That is the number one thing I wanted to sell the country. The number one thing, he can do things that other people can't do, and if you ever need those things to get done, there's only one person to do it as far as I know. So Charlemagne sees it too. He sees, oh my goodness, who you pick really makes a difference. It did this time.

Don't you wonder what the Democrats are going to have to protest? So they're left to protest the government closing, which is their fault. Just think about this. The biggest complaint that they have now is that Trump is too strong a leader. He's like a strongman dictator type. But that's why this got done. Even the people who don'