Trump says Russia has released American ex-Marine Robert Gilman after talks with Putin

President Donald Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social in the last hour: Mehmet Oz announced that Medicaid will NO LONGER fund gender transition surgeries and hormones for minors. We are not going to pay for our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies.

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Thanks to our strong position and pressure on this issue over the past year and a half, dozens of U. S. hospitals have already ended this so-called "gender-affirming care, " and we expect many more to follow.

Just think about all of the young, innocent, and perhaps confused children who will be spared! While the Dumocrat Party wants your kids to be able to chop off their reproductive organs before they are old enough to vote, President Donald J.

Trump (ME!) and the Republican Party say that is ABSURD, and we will protect America's children. Please remember this when you are casting your vote in the Midterm Elections in November.

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Thank you for your attention to this very important matter!" - "I am proud to announce that American Citizen Robert Gilman, a former United States Marine, is coming HOME! In a well known Media story, Robert was imprisoned in Russia in 2022, during the Biden Administration.

After my discussions with President Vladimir Putin, Russia has agreed to release him, very much on a Humanitarian Basis. We appreciate this decision, and the fact that Russia asked for no one in return, No exchange took place.

Robert will land at Andrews Air Force Base, in Washington, D. C., tonight, where my Representatives, some of whom are on the plane with him, will welcome Robert back to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

I just spoke to him, and he had one request, A GREAT cheeseburger when he lands. During my Administration, we have prioritized bringing home Americans Detained Abroad, and have done so at a level never seen before, returning hundreds of people to their families.

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We have also freed many non Americans who were under capture in different countries throughout the World. Robert Gilman has been reunited with his wonderful mother, Nancy, who is also on the plane with him, and will soon get to see all of his loved ones.

Thank you to my incredible Team, including Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Hostage Response, Adam Boehler, Senior Director for Counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, Jared Kushner, and the many others who made this possible. - "The NYC Pied-a-Terre Tax is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to to the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return. Florida, Texas, and numerous other States, are making an absolute fortune!

This dangerous political "experiment" in New York will destroy what was once a great City and State. It is pure Amateur Hour, and it's hard, as President of the United States of America, to sit back and watch it happen, especially to a place I once loved.

Financial, and then Social, RUIN, is a 100% certainty - And then the Radical Left Jihadists charge Congestion Pricing on top of everything else. This doesn't work in America, and must be stopped, NOW!

I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late, for the millions of people who cherish New York and want to see it thrive, as opposed to becoming a filthy, crime ridden, decrepit place of mockery and scorn.

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President Donald Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social in the last hour: Mehmet Oz announced that Medicaid will NO LONGER fund gender transition surgeries and hormones for minors.

We are not going to pay for our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies. Thanks to our strong position and pressure on this issue over the past year and a half, dozens of U.

S. hospitals have already ended this so-called "gender-affirming care, " and we expect many more to follow. Just think about all of the young, innocent, and perhaps confused children who will be spared!

While the Dumocrat Party wants your kids to be able to chop off their reproductive organs before they are old enough to vote, President Donald J. Trump (ME!) and the Republican Party say that is ABSURD, and we will protect America's children.

Please remember this when you are casting your vote in the Midterm Elections in November. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter!" - "I am proud to announce that American Citizen Robert Gilman, a former United States Marine, is coming HOME!

In a well known Media story, Robert was imprisoned in Russia in 2022, during the Biden Administration. After my discussions with President Vladimir Putin, Russia has agreed to release him, very much on a Humanitarian Basis.

We appreciate this decision, and the fact that Russia asked for no one in return, No exchange took place. Robert will land at Andrews Air Force Base, in Washington, D.

C., tonight, where my Representatives, some of whom are on the plane with him, will welcome Robert back to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! I just spoke to him, and he had one request, A GREAT cheeseburger when he lands.

During my Administration, we have prioritized bringing home Americans Detained Abroad, and have done so at a level never seen before, returning hundreds of people to their families. We have also freed many non Americans who were under capture in different countries throughout the World.

Robert Gilman has been reunited with his wonderful mother, Nancy, who is also on the plane with him, and will soon get to see all of his loved ones. Thank you to my incredible Team, including Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Hostage Response, Adam Boehler, Senior Director for Counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, Jared Kushner, and the many others who made this possible. - "The NYC Pied-a-Terre Tax is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to to the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return.

Florida, Texas, and numerous other States, are making an absolute fortune! This dangerous political "experiment" in New York will destroy what was once a great City and State.

It is pure Amateur Hour, and it's hard, as President of the United States of America, to sit back and watch it happen, especially to a place I once loved. Financial, and then Social, RUIN, is a 100% certainty - And then the Radical Left Jihadists charge Congestion Pricing on top of everything else.

This doesn't work in America, and must be stopped, NOW! I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late, for the millions of people who cherish New York and want to see it thrive, as opposed to becoming a filthy, crime ridden, decrepit place of mockery and scorn.

The most geopolitically significant signal is the Russia-related release of Robert Gilman. Trump is publicly saying he spoke with Vladimir Putin and secured a humanitarian release with no exchange, which signals an active direct channel between Washington and Moscow even as broader U.S.-Russia tensions remain high.

The post also reinforces Trump's pattern of using bilateral leader-level engagement and personalized negotiation for detainee issues, a tactic seen in prior prisoner releases involving Russia and other adversaries. The likely impact is limited but meaningful, it improves the atmosphere around detainee diplomacy and suggests continued willingness by Moscow to make selective gestures when useful.

It does not by itself indicate movement on the war in Ukraine or sanctions, but it does show that Trump is emphasizing results-driven contact with Putin and using public messaging to frame the administration as aggressively repatriating Americans. Historically, U.S.-Russia prisoner releases have often served as narrow confidence-building measures rather than broader strategic thaw, so the market and security significance is modest unless followed by additional talks or larger concessions.

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