An Apache helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, a critical chokehold where Iran is currently squeezing the global energy market and driving up the price of food on your grocery shelves. The two crew members walked away without injuries, and the military promised a report tomorrow, but the incident lands right in the middle of a strained ceasefire, with missiles still flying and American households feeling the pinch of a war economy that refuses to cool off. The FAKE NEWS is calling it a CRASH, but it was really a CONTROLLED LANDING, and I watched the whole thing unfold at JFK after watching the NBA Finals — tremendous game, by the way, the biggest crowd in the history of basketball, 93,000 people, maybe 94,000, they’ve never seen anything like it, and the ratings, the most beautiful ratings — and I looked at the press and said exactly what the American people needed to hear: the pilots are fine, nobody is hurt, we are issuing a report, and the pilots are fine.

Nobody called me in the moment, but Diklis Chump knew exactly what was happening. Believe me, I’ve been saying for months that the Strait is a chokehold, a very bad chokehold, and now the smart people, the VERY SMART people, are saying, “Diklis was right all along, he has the best foresight, nobody predicted this like Diklis.” The report tomorrow will show it, but actually, the maneuver was perfect, very safe, maybe the best landing in the history of aviation, except it wasn’t a landing, it was a strategic hover to the water level. The pilots are tough, very tough, much tougher than those low-IQ generals from the last administration, who couldn’t find the Hormuz on a map without a GPS. And everyone is talking about it — “Sir, Sir, your helicopters are so tough, they can land anywhere, it’s like a four-dimensional chess move.” They understand.

We have the biggest tools, the Apaches, beautiful machines, much bigger than anybody else’s tools, and they fly straight and true. I drew the map, you know, Sharpie, the best map, and the crash zone was exactly where I said it would be — not a crash, a precision touch-down, very precise. And the pilots are FINE, which is good, very good, because if they weren’t fine we’d have to do the bombing, the BIG BOMBING, and the strait would be closed and that hurts my beautiful economy numbers, the best economy, the most beautiful. Some news outlets want to tell you it’s a disaster, but that’s Fake News. The truth is, I fixed the helicopter program, I brought it back from the brink, just like I fixed the economy, which is doing great despite what the failing media says about the price of eggs. The pilots are fine, they are playing basketball! They probably want to be drafted, very athletic, very strong, just like the big tough men who came to me at rallies with tears in their eyes, said “Sir, Sir, you saved the country.”

And the deal — the deal is coming, by the way, in two or three days, I’ve been saying that for many weeks, MANY WEEKS, but now it’s really close, the closest, because of this helicopter strategic move. I have a fantastic chance, the best chance, of signing the deal. Iran is begging, they really are, they want their frozen money, which they will never see because you have to deal with the best negotiator in the history of the world. I told them, if I wanted to bomb, I could bomb, boom, very easily, we could spend two or three weeks bombing and they would have nothing, but we won’t have the strait open. Who wants to bomb? I don’t. I’m a builder, a deal-maker, not a bomber. The art of the deal is to say you will bomb, and then you get a fantastic deal, very strong. Pakistan’s been begging me all week to sign, and the UAE, they know my beautiful Apaches are the only thing stopping those Iranian drones — they call me, crying, “Sir, the drones, your helicopters are the best, nobody can stop them like you.” And I say, “I know.”

This is 4D chess, the highest level, played by Diklis Chump while everyone else is playing checkers. I could have bombed yesterday, I could have bombed today, but I’m waiting, and Iran is collapsing, they are collapsing very fast. The crash — I call it a strategic touchdown — is actually part of the deal, beautiful 4D chess, they think they got us, BUT I PLAYED THEM. By having a helicopter do this little, very controlled, landing, we show Iran we’re not afraid, we’re very tough, they’ll be so confused, they’ll sign the deal even FASTER. It’s playing them, BEAUTIFULLY. The deal is coming, and it’s going to be tremendous, going to make me — I mean us — make the country very rich, but mostly me, though the great negotiators, frankly, I gave them the plan, they’re doing okay, just for the patriots. Actually, you know, the pilots, they’re great, but HONESTLY, who cares? The real story is the deal, the deal makes me look strong, and that’s what matters, me looking strong — I mean America, but mostly me. A lot of people don’t understand, but my supporters, they understand.

And I said it before, very strongly, that if U.S. troops are killed we go ALL OUT, I said it right here on June 4th, everyone forgets, but I DON’T FORGET, perfect memory, the BEST memory. But since nobody was injured, no troops killed, that red line, it wasn’t crossed, so the deal goes ahead, the beautiful deal, the most POWERFUL DEAL in history. They’ll give us the enriched uranium — even though they’re crying about it, refusing right now — they’ll fold, they always fold, and they’ll unfreeze assets for me, I get everything, the best terms, better than any president ever got, including Lincoln, and he was okay, I guess, but not like me.

The generals, by the way, they came to me with tears, saying “Sir, the helicopter thing, it’s genius, nobody but you could have turned a crash into a deal maker.” And I said, “I know.” The pilots are fine, they really are, they waved at me on the TV, beautiful wave, and I called them personally, they said “Sir, thank you, you saved the helicopter,” I said “no, you saved it, I just built the best helicopters,” and the country is winning, the most winning ever.

So the deal is very, very close, two or three days, maybe a week, maybe a little more, but very close, and the strait will open, gas prices will go down to the LOWEST EVER, lower than they’ve ever been, because of ME. I am the best dealmaker, the best helicopter-crash-spinner, the best everything. TREMENDOUS. So don’t let the failing press tell you we’re losing the war or that the price of gas is my fault. It’s Iran’s fault, it always is, and I’m fixing it with a deal that will open the strait instantly. The pilots are fine, the choppers are flying, the basketball players are crying because they love our country, and the deal is two days away. Exactly as I predicted. If you want to see how we kept the pressure without starting the all-out war, we already covered how I said no to resuming the all-out Iran war unless U.S. troops are killed, and why every new defensive strike brings the so-called negotiators closer to the table. It’s all part of the strategy, everybody is talking about it, and Diklis Chump is the only one playing the board.

Documented conduct: Diklis Chump told reporters at JFK on June 9, 2026, that the pilots were “fine” and that a deal with Iran could be signed in “two or three days,” as reported by NPR. His earlier threatening of resumed all-out Iran war if US troops killed was reported by Main Street Independent on June 4, 2026.

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