💬 "Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year," he added.

💬 "Please join me in praying for the two National Guardsmen who were just shot moments ago in Washington D.C. DHSgov is working with local law enforcement to gather more information," US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on X.

💬 “President [Donald] Trump has asked me, and I will ask the Secretary of the Army, to the National Guard, to add 500 additional troops — National Guardsmen — to Washington, D.C.,” Hegseth said on Wednesday.

💬 “If you're a narco-terrorist who wants to bring drugs to the United States of America, we will find you, we will fix you, and we will finish you because we have all the rights in the world. We've got lots of attorneys and lots of intel analysts. We know exactly who we're targeting and why,” Hegseth said.

💬 “We have reviewed video from the area. It appears, like I said, to be a lone gunman that raised a firearm and ambushed these members of the National Guard,” DC Metropolitan Police Executive Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll said.

💬 “How many innocent people dying does it take to reform our broken system?” tech tycoon Elon Musk asked on X, following the attack on two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC.