‘This Is A Big Day!’ Trump Celebrates Hostage Deal In Friday Night Oval Office Statement

Tommy ChristopherOct 4th, 2025, 8:30 am

President Donald Trump celebrated a “very special day” with a brief Oval Office statement on the deal to release hostages and move toward peace in Gaza.

News broke Friday afternoon that Hamas had agreed to release all the remaining Israelis taken hostage during the October 7 terrorist attacks, with conditions.

Trump first responded to the statement by writing on Truth Social, “Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE. Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly! Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that. We are already in discussions on details to be worked out. This is not about Gaza alone, this is about long sought PEACE in the Middle East.”

Later Friday evening, Trump gave a direct-to-camera statement thanking those who helped with the deal and expressing hope that the hostages will soon be reunited with their loved ones:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I want to thank the countries that helped me put this together. Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and so many others. So many people fought so hard.

This is a big day! We’ll see how it all turns out. We have to get the final word down in concrete. Very importantly, I look forward to having the hostages come home to their parents and having some of the hostages, unfortunately, you know the condition they’re in, come home likewise to their parents. Because their parents wanted them just as much as though that young man or young woman were alive.

So I just want to let you know that this is a very special day! Maybe unprecedented, in many ways it is unprecedented.

But thank you all and thank you all to those great countries that helped. We were given a tremendous amount of help.

Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East. And we’re very close to achieving that.

Thank you all and everybody will be treated fairly.

Watch above via The White House.