‘Not Playing Games’: Trump Warns Hamas It Better Disarm — Or Else
President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Hamas leadership on Tuesday that he is “not playing games,” saying the terrorist group has to disarm itself or the U.S. will do it for them.
“They’re going to disarm, because they said they were going to disarm,” Trump said. “And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them.”
The reporter who asked him about it followed up and asked, “How will you do that?”
“I don’t have to explain that to you,” Trump fired back. “But if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them. They know I’m not playing games.”
Trump’s comments come a day after his trip to Israel to celebrate the ceasefire agreement he brokered between Israel and Hamas. The terrorist group running Gaza is required to decommission its weapons as part of the agreement, which also included the release of 20 living hostages.
The president, both on his way to Israel aboard Air Force One on Sunday and again on Monday, said that he believed the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas would hold and that peace would sweep the Middle East.
“I think it’s going to hold,” Trump said on Sunday. “I think people are — a lot of reasons why it’s going to hold – but I think people are tired of it. It’s been centuries [of fighting], okay, not just recent. It’s been centuries. I think people are tired of it.”
Trump was hailed by a number of world leaders for the peace deal on Monday, including by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Trump is the “greatest friend” his country has ever had.
“No American president has ever done more for Israel,” Netanyahu said. “It ain’t even close.”
The president’s threat came during a lively Q-and-A session at the White House on Tuesday that also featured Trump bashing “nasty” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and ripping ABC as “fake news.”
You can watch Trump warn Hamas above, via Fox News.