CNN’s Ward: Trump Is Possibly Even More Popular in Israel than He Is in the U.S.

BLITZER: “I want to bring in Clarissa Ward. She‘s over at hostages square for us. I don‘t know if they‘re watching. I know there are big screens there at hostages square,Clarissa. Are they seeing the president of the United States at the Ben Gurion airport and his motorcade beginning to leave to head here to Jerusalem to address the Knesset? Are folks there watching all of this?”
WARD: “They are. They certainly are, Wolf. And they have been cheering like crazy from the moment that Air Force One was first spotted making its descent over Tel Aviv, landing at Ben Gurion airport, to the moment where the door of Air Force One opened and President Trump then began to make his way down the steps of the aircraft. You heard the whole crowd here started to erupt into cheers of ‘Thank you, Trump. Thank you, Trump.’ And I have to say, everywhere you go here, there are posters of Trump, we have seen people who have made artifacts dedicated to Trump. Fair to say that President Trump is possibly even more popular here than he is in the United States. There is just a huge amount of good will in this crowd because they believe and feel, as everyone has already been articulating, that it was really down to Trump that he was able to push this deal across the finish line. And as you have all been discussing, there are so many moving parts that have yet to fall into place and so many things that can go wrong. But for the people here in this square, those are tomorrow‘s problems, Wolf. The people here are watching. They are rapt. Every movement that they‘re seeing of those convoys taking the hostages to Re’im Air Base, of these incredible video phone calls between some of the hostages and their loved ones — they are cheering again now. What are they saying, Mike? Speaking again to one of the hostage families.”