President Trump breaks Twitter silence on Syria by congratulating the U.S. military

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Although President Donald Trump reacted Thursday night from Mar-a-Lago after news that the U.S. had launched Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield in response to a chemical weapons attack, he’d been unusually silent on his personal Twitter account.

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Here’s what the president said Thursday night after the strikes:

My fellow Americans, on Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of beautiful men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.

Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council. Years of previous attempts at changing Assad’s behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically.

As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God’s wisdom as we face the challenges of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed and we hope that as long as America stands for justice then peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail.

Goodnight and God bless America and the entire world. Thank you.

Besides a Friday retweet of his daughter Ivanka Trump, the president himself had not tweeted since early Thursday afternoon, before the strikes were launched.

Since then, there’s been much murmuring in Congress and abroad about the Trump Administration’s decision to attack Syria.

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Early Saturday morning, the president congratulated the U.S. military for “representing the United States, and the world, so well in the Syria attack.”

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