Trump has doubled down on his ultimatum that if Hamas doesn’t return the hostages by Saturday at noon, all hell will break loose.

He also just announced that there’s a 99% chance that America can work with Egypt on relocating the Gazans.

And as I write this sentence, Trump just stated in regards to the annexation of Judea and Samaria, “I believe it will work.”

The king of Jordan has responded to the Trump plan to relocate the Gazans by saying “We must wait for Egypt’s strategy for Gaza.” All I hear is “We are no longer dismissing Trump’s idea nor are we ridiculing it.”

Trump also just said that the US will take control of Gaza and run it, but “We won’t buy it.” Not exactly sure what that means.

Reporter to Trump: "Under what authority is the United States going to take over Gaza?"

Trump: "Under U.S. authority"

Meanwhile, Israeli reserves are being called up and Netanyahu has clearly declared, “If Hamas does not return our hostages by noon on Saturday, the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will resume intense fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated.”

Now to be clear, no one wants more war. We want our hostages back and we don’t want more IDF soldiers to pay the ultimate price but we won’t be extorted by Hamas. Those days are over. Joe is no more. There’s a new sheriff in town and he has made it very clear that Hamas will be no more.

He has repeated over and over that if Hamas doesn’t release ALL the hostages by Saturday, all bets are off and Israel will take off the gloves, or should I say handcuffs that were placed on Israel by Biden.

Meanwhile, the Houthis in Yemen kidnapped 8 UN officials.

Antonio Guterres: “I order all UN humanitarian assistance to Yemen to halt immediately.”

So just so we’re clear, Hamas takes 251 Israeli hostages on October 7?

Antonio Guterres: “The collective must not be punished with humanitarian assistance in Gaza.”

But when 8 UN employees are abducted, all funding to Yemen should stop immediately. Just when you thought the UN couldn’t possibly get any more hypocritical.

Back to Gaza. What we have here is a very dangerous game of chicken.

- Hamas suspended the hostage deal.

- Trump declared that all hostages must be freed.

- Israel demands quicker release of phase 2 hostages.

- IDF is calling up reserve forces to Gaza front.

Now, all sides have a few days to talk.

Of course, the families of the hostages are begging Netanyahu to not blow up the deal. I feel for them. I really do. It’s just terrible what they’re going through. They don’t deserve this suffering.

But Netanyahu has to run a country and protect his citizens as hard as that is to relay to those parents. He can’t put 10 million Israelis in danger.

Like I’ve repeatedly said, this deal is both terrible and beautiful simultaneously.

And no one should lecture me about how horrible the deal is. I’ll remind you that my brother’s murderer is being released in the deal. I get it. Trust me.

And here’s some breaking news for ya. King Abdullah, in his meeting with Trump, agreed to accept 2,000 children from Gaza in Jordan.

That’s big. He’s caving.

This also just happened.

Senator Tom Cotton:

“The UN and Democrats preached how starvation was used in Gaza as a weapon of war— yet Hamas radicals look pretty well fed.

Unlike the hostages they released this weekend who were starved and tortured for 491 days.”

It’s amazing how the rhetoric is all changing thanks to Trump.

Things are also heating up the Iranian front.

“Iran warns that any act of aggression will have severe consequences, holding the U.S. fully responsible.”

Of course, we have the tariff war going on between the US, China, and others.

This second, Trump said, "A bully is the weakest person. And Hamas is bullies."

 Other than the funny grammar, he is 100% right and again, it’s deeply shocking that the previous administration didn’t have the courage to speak this way.

More breaking news.

Amit Segal just reported: “Senior Israeli official: Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Cabinet are sticking to US President Trump's announcement regarding releasing the hostages. *That is, they will ALL be released on Saturday.”

Listen, if I don’t hit publish now on this post, I’ll never hit publish because the news keeps coming, but I thought I’d update you on the events of the past few hours.

The last time I felt that the world is this explosive was two days before 10/7 and I wrote then; “If you don’t think something huge is about to happen, you’re not paying attention.”

I say the same now.

Literally one stray bullet or wrong word can spark WWIII in seconds. That is assuming, of course, that we are not already in WWIII. If you think about how many countries are involved in this war in one way or another, it sure seems like a world war.

Anyway, Times Square now has the hostages plastered across the billboards. It’s wild to see.

Things are about to escalate and fast unless, miraculously Hamas realizes that they are at the end and if they don’t comply with Trump and Netanyahu’s ultimatum, the end of the road is near. But Hamas aren’t great at accepting defeat, so don’t hold your breath.

Take into account that Israel has been collecting intel throughout the ceasefire. Hamas has already instructed its people to not use any mobile phones.

Oh, look.

More breaking news.

President Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has successfully secured the release of American schoolteacher Marc Fogel from Russian detention.

Witkoff has now departed Russian airspace with Fogel after striking a deal with Moscow.

Well, that is an interesting development.

Ok, that’s it. Hitting publish but by the time you make it this far in the post, there will be about 5 new developments.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens next.

Hamas, your move. Tread carefully.