Ben Rhodes
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It's meant to be kind of a combination.
It's like everything with Trump.
It's like part threat, part troll of the U.N.
Then don't go along with it.
You don't need to.
It's not the answer to Gaza.
It's certainly not going to get them to phase two of Gaza.
And I swear to God, this is not about like us.
It's about how to deal with Trump.
If there was any other president, not just Barack Obama, like George Bush, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama.
If any other U.S.
president had gone out and declared there's a ceasefire.
And I'm staking my whole presidency on it.
And oh, by the way, I won the Nobel Peace Prize for it.
And then there's like a day, like you described, where there are 45 airstrikes.
People would have been like, there's no ceasefire.
There's this thing with Trump where it's like we all are adjusting to the fiction that he's presenting.