Trump ‘I like people that like to listen to my success’

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5805705-trump-miami-saudi-investment-summit-joke/?tbref=hp

President Trump on Friday evening joked that he surrounds himself “with losers” because he “like[s] people who listen to my success” in public remarks at a Saudi-backed investment conference.

Trump was responding to a question at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) summit in Miami about leadership skills he believes are missing in the world. 

“Well, it’s winning, you’ve got to win,” the president told the crowd, before adding that there are “mostly losers, fortunately.”

“I always like to hang around losers actually because it makes me feel better,” he continued. “I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.”

Trump added later that he was “only kidding, I want to say that — eh, sort of.”

Saving Neshamos in Eretz Yisroel & Kimcha DePischa:

 Saving Neshamos in Eretz Yisroel & Kimcha DePischa

This is a crucial pre-Pesach appeal (similar to what was just posted here on Thursday: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/03/callousness-towards-bloodshed.html ).

We have massive opportunities - presented by our extremely successful expansion of הצלה work in Eretz Yisroel - rescuing many girls from falling into the exploitative Army milieu, including many girls who literally have no one else to help save them.

At the same time, we're not yet out of the debts recently incurred in serving in the forefront (without exaggeration) of efforts to combat Physician-Assisted murder - aka Assisted-"Suicide" - in NY State.  [This work is far from over, requiring initiatives on multiple fronts to maximize lifesaving damage-control, both in and out of NY State.]

We're not more obligated than the rest of the tzibbur. It's well past time for others to carry more or their own responsibilities on these burning matters.

More Good News:

For the next few days, we're able to offer an opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of Kimcha DePischa as well, in synchronization with our hatzolah work saving girls in Israel.

Anyone able to perform their fair share of this exciting, diverse work for hatzolas nefashos - both spiritual and physical - is asked to reach out:

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TO DONATE TODAY:*

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Cong. Zichron Miriam Necha,

TAX ID: 921830214

Zelle*: zichronmiriamnecha@gmail.com

zichronmiriamnecha@gmail.com

For link*: https://secure.cardknox.com/thekallahfund2

For CC* toll-free master number: 833-434-3354 or 844-422-7356,  PIN #026153

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Specify "GB" (for "Giyus Banos") to support our work rescuing girls from the Israeli military daft.

To designate your donation towards the synchronized Kimcha DePischa project, please write in "KP."

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Reb Aryeh Sussman 

c/t: 917.662.2574

3 Ruth Ct.

Monsey, NY 10952

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100% of donation goes to the needy."

* Credit card donations are not as easily or rapidly processed as Zelle/online donations.

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Thank you all.

Good Shabbos,

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

Help Rescue Our Children

845.642.1679

Direct: 771.215.8892

Israeli Helpline: 03.721.3337

torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com

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Tomim1679@gmail.com

Presentations on New-Age dangers: 605-313-6831 ext. 2

Heard weekly on New Jersey's WSNR Radio 620AM, co-hosting the renowned Levin At Eleven program, every Thursday evening, 11pm to midnight (ET).

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G-d weakens Nature to Make Miracles

 Rabbeinu Bachya (Shemos 17:13) “Joshua weakened, etc.” The word “he weakened,” is testimony that G’d does not totally destroy and make ineffective the forces of the horoscope, and that He does not force nature not to pursue its assigned tasks unless there is an overwhelming and urgent need for this. The reason that He does not destroy the system is simply that he Himself created it. Why should G’d uproot His own handiwork? Nonetheless, G’d from time to time “outwits” the system in order to save someone whom He wants to save; He continues to operate His system of reward and punishment without destroying the system of the laws of nature in the process.

Even Fox News poll shows Trump’s Iran war is unpopular

Pathetic

Trump Floats Renaming the Strait of Hormuz After Himself

 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-middle-east-news-updates/card/trump-floats-renaming-the-strait-of-hormuz-after-himself-OhOnPqHivr5rXNfMKFt9

President Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico and applauded efforts to add his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Could a Middle East waterway be next?

During a speech here Friday, the president said Iranian leaders “have to open up the Strait of Trump,” a reference to the partially closed Strait of Hormuz.

“Excuse me, I’m so sorry. Such a terrible mistake,” he added, jokingly. The media, he said, would report the comment as a verbal slip. “There’s no accidents with me,” he said.

Trump suggests renaming Hormuz - 'Strait of Trump' during speech confirming negotiations with Iran

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891446

US President Donald Trump on Friday said that the US is negotiating with Iran over the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

During a speech at the FII Priority Summit in Miami, Trump said that the US is "negotiating now, and it would be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up."

He then proceeded to joke about renaming the waterway "Strait of Trump" as a condition to end the war.

Israel Is Rationing Its Best Interceptors—and Iran’s Missiles Are Getting Through

 https://www.wsj.com/world/israel-is-rationing-its-best-interceptorsand-irans-missiles-are-getting-through-130cf14d?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_2

Israel has begun rationing its use of high-end missile interceptors, hoping to preserve stocks of its most capable defensive weapons in the face of daily Iranian barrages that haven’t let up through four weeks of war.

A pair of Iranian ballistic missiles recently scored direct hits on the towns of Dimona and Arad after Israel tried and failed to intercept them with modified versions of less advanced munitions.

Iran-backed Houthis enter war with missile strike against Israel

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/28/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump

• Houthis enter war: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they carried out their “first military operation” in support of Iran, after Israel’s military earlier said it detected a missile from Yemen.

US can only confirm about third of Iran's missile arsenal destroyed

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891429

The United States can only determine with certainty that it has destroyed about a third of Iran's vast missile arsenal as the US and Israeli war with the country nears its one-month mark, according to five people familiar with the US intelligence.

The status of around another third is less clear, but bombings likely damaged, destroyed, or buried those missiles in underground tunnels and bunkers, four of the sources said. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity, given the sensitive nature of the information.

One of the sources said the intelligence was similar for Iran's drone capability, saying there was some degree of certainty about a third having been destroyed.

Joining war, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis launch missile attack on southern Israel

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/yemens-iran-backed-houthis-threaten-to-join-war-our-fingers-are-on-the-trigger/

Sirens sound in Beersheba as IDF says ballistic missile was intercepted with no injuries; attack comes hours after terror group warned it was ready to intervene militarily

Yemen’s Houthis launched a ballistic missile attack at southern Israel on Saturday morning, triggering sirens in Beersheba and surrounding areas, in the first offensive from the Iran-aligned group since the start of the war with Iran.

In a statement, the Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they had targeted “sensitive Israeli military sites” with a “barrage of ballistic missiles.”

The IDF said one ballistic missile fired from Yemen was successfully shot down by air defenses.

Can Israel and the U.S. Destroy Iran’s Drones and Missiles Before Running Out of Interceptors?

 https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/picks/can-israel-and-the-us-destroy-irans-drones-and-missiles-before-running-out-of-int

For some time, people thinking about the changing nature of military conflict—especially those examining the recent experiences of Israel and Ukraine and what they might imply for a confrontation between the U.S. and China—have been speaking about the problem of “missile math.” This new form of arithmetic primarily involves two calculations: will one side run out of missiles, rockets, and drones before the other runs out of the interceptors used to shoot them down? Or, more likely, vice versa? And does the high cost of anti-missiles systems, compared with the low cost of drones and rockets, bestow an untenable economic cost on the defenders? 

Trump said Iran’s nuclear program was ‘obliterated.’ So why is he looking to strike again?

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/nuclear-program-iran-trump-strike

In March, the US intelligence community assessed that Iran was “not building a nuclear weapon.”

In June, the Trump administration nevertheless launched airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program.

And today, it might strike Iran again over its nuclear ambitions — this time despite President Donald Trump having assured repeatedly that those June airstrikes had “obliterated” its program.

But if Iran actually is that close to having material to make nuclear bombs, that would represent a truly miraculous recovery — at least, to the extent one believes Trump. After all, it was just eight months ago that Trump declared Iran’s nuclear program to have been “obliterated.”

CNN broke the news that an early US intelligence assessment did not back up Trump’s claims. It had found the strikes did not destroy the core components of Iran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months. (The New York Times reported something similar.)

But Trump has continued to say the nuclear program was obliterated.

Trump: Iran 'running out' of missiles, launch sites, as strikes 'decimate' regime's capacity

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888693

Iran is running out of missile launchers and areas to launch missiles from, United States President Donald Trump claimed in an interview with Politico on Tuesday.

As the US’s Operation Epic Fury and Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion continue to pummel the Iranian regime, Trump stated that the regime is being “decimated.”

While he predicted that Iran would “keep lobbing missiles for a while,” he asserted that “they’re running out and they’re running out of areas to shoot them, because they’re being decimated.”