President Trump on AI: We're beating China in what I called "super intelligence," not artificial intelligence. You know, I changed the name officially. It was called artificial intelligence for a long time, but it was an infant, and now it's becoming big. Artificial is fake, like the press is artificial.

President Trump: I get along great with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. When people have 112 nuclear missiles, it's nice to get along. But here's the difference: Iran will never have a nuclear missile.

President Trump: President Xi got off the plane, and he said, "Boy, have you done a job. Wow!" They can't believe it. I don't know that he's happy about it, but you know what? We live, and we get along great.

President Trump: China is great. Somebody said, "Why is he being nice to Xi?" Isn't it nice to get along with the leaders of massive nuclear nations?

President Trump: We have almost no inflation, by the way.

President Trump: We have a country that's emulated, everybody is looking at us. Europe wants to copy us. Everybody wants to copy us.

President Trump: It's too much winning. We're winning too much. I can't take it anymore.

President Trump: I didn't even know what the hell a vegan was. A vegan is vegetables. A vegan is eating a piece of lettuce all day long.

President Trump on the midterms: Just get out and vote. If you do that, we're going to win, and we're going to win big. And we're going to shove it up their ass, okay?

President Trump on the midterms: What I'm gonna do is ask you to just pretend that I'm running. We're gonna win big.

President Trump: They've tried to spear us, slander us, persecute us, demoralize us. They've attacked me. They've impeached me. They've arrested me, and they even tried to kill me, I guess.

President Trump: People don't want to change their clocks. Changing clocks discombobulates everybody.

President Trump on Iran: By the way, Iran, as you know, has virtually given up any plans of a nuclear weapon.

President Trump on Iran: We have a decision that I’ll make about Iran. We’ll have it the easy or the hard way.

Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reports that the UAE has released a number of Iranian prisoners following efforts by an Iranian diplomatic and security delegation, with the group expected to return to Iran within hours. A significant number of those released are women. The delegation are continuing efforts to secure the release and repatriation of the remaining Iranian prisoners held in the UAE.

Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state is building a large-scale drone detection network along its Baltic Sea coast, with around 150 passive radio sensors providing real-time tracking of drones, SZ reports. The network will focus on ports, energy infrastructure, and military sites, including areas around the Lubmin nuclear storage facility, Sassnitz LNG terminal, and Baltic 1 offshore wind farm, which have previously experienced drone overflights. Authorities expect the system to detect around 90% of drones, with real-time data available by spring. The sensors will be used solely for detection rather than actively disabling drones.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev: The U.S. and China are the two superpowers in the world. There is no third.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to Iran: The message is very simple: Iran will never, ever, ever have a nuclear weapon. President Trump is hell-bent and determined to ensure that they do not. They will not. If they want to blink and think that he doesn't mean it, it would be to their detriment. Now is the moment where they can decide to give it up the way that they should, without any leverage that they have, or it may have to happen the hard way.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: We are at war with the drug cartels, with DTOs; President Trump has been clear about that. We're going to posture and base as necessary to ensure that we have our foot on the pedal and are taking the fight to those ISIS and Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: We're definitely expanding our presence and our footprint in Central and South America with partners, and because of the bold move the President made in Venezuela, we have a whole new suite of options economically and militarily with partnerships. Almost the entirety of the hemisphere has changed.