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@ziegler2u @realDonaldTrump - Well done , President Trump!

Another Russian drone downed over Romania today. We condemn Russia’s systematic violations of Romanian airspace — NATO and EU airspace. We commend the skill and courage of Romania’s Air Force. Romania’s security is Moldova’s security. We stand with Romania.

@RavneetBittu @narendramodi @RavneetBittu - Wish you the best. We hope to make progress in Panjab under your leadership.

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Sarah, 34, and her nine-year-old Cattle Dog, River, were on a cross-country road trip in June 2024 when River disappeared at a rest stop in Wyoming. Sarah searched for three days with no trace - then made a decision. She quit her job and started walking, following the routes she thought River might have taken, checking every shelter, vet, and town within walking distance. Four months. 1,800 miles on foot. Last week, a Montana shelter scanned River's microchip and she got a match. Sarah was 60 miles away walked for two days to get there. At first, River just stared, processing, disbelieving. Then the whimpering started sounds staff had never heard from him. When he tackled Sarah to the floor, both of them collapsed and stayed there, River checking her hands and face over and over, like confirming she was real. Sometimes you walk 1,800 miles over four months across three American states to tell your best friend: "I never stopped looking. I would have walked forever."

Today I designated Vasile Tofan as candidate for Prime Minister, following consultations with parliamentary factions. Our priorities stay clear: reforms, EU accession, and better lives for our people.

In 1968, my dad landed in Wisconsin with $1,000 borrowed from his uncle and a full scholarship to Marquette University for his Masters in Mechanical Engineering. That was the whole plan. Borrow the money. Show up. Figure it out. In 1972, he had an arranged marriage to my mom, and she joined him in Wisconsin — two strangers building a life together in a place neither of them had ever seen. (Pictured below: the day he became a U.S. citizen.) They moved to Iowa for John Deere. My sister and I were born there. And on the side, they started their own business — one I got to watch grow from a front-row seat. That business is the reason I became a founder. Five times over. Today I get to back founders for a living at @EniacVC. My wife spends hers fighting for millions of women and girls through @MomsFirstUS and @GirlsWhoCode. None of that happens without $1,000, a scholarship, and two people willing to bet on a strange land. 250 years in, the American Dream isn't a nostalgia trip. It's still the operating system for people like my parents, and millions of families just like them. Thank you, and happy 250th birthday, America. 🇺🇸❤️

I have taken note of @AlexMunteanuMD’s resignation and thank him for his service and for initiating difficult but needed reforms. On Monday, I begin consultations with parliamentary factions on designating a new PM. Moldova’s path remains unchanged: reforms and EU accession.

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school. 1. Starting early is the single biggest advantage you have. If you save $10,000 at age 22, never add another penny, and earn 10% a year, you have $600,000 by retirement. wait until 32 to start, and the same money only grows to $232,000. The decade you lose at the beginning costs you more than any decade later because compounding does its heaviest lifting at the end. 2. The return rate matters even more than most people grasp. That same $10,000 at 22 earning 10% becomes $600,000. At 15% it becomes over 4 million. At 20%, the rate Warren Buffett has achieved, it becomes 25 million. Einstein called compound interest the most powerful force in the universe. Ackman's lecture is essentially a demonstration of why. 3. Avoiding losses matters as much as chasing returns. if you reach for a 20% return but lose half your money every 12 years from bad decisions or a rough patch, your 25 million collapses to 1.8 million. Buffett's rule one is never lose money. Rule two is never forget rule one. the math of recovery is brutal, so protecting the downside is not caution, it is strategy. 4. Debt is safer, but the upside is capped. Equity is riskier, but the upside is unlimited. In the lemonade stand example, the lender who put up $250 earns a steady 10% and gets paid back first if the business fails. the equity investor who put up $500 earns over 100% if it succeeds but gets wiped out if it fails. The equity holder earns more precisely because they took the risk the lender refused. 5. The risk that matters is permanent loss, not price movement. most people think risk is the stock price bouncing up and down every day. Ackman says ignore that. the real risk is whether you will permanently lose your money. Short-term volatility is noise. the question that matters is whether you get your capital back with a return over the long run. 6. Avoid startups and complicated businesses. You do not need 100% a year to build a fortune. you need 10 to 15% over a long period. so skip the lemonade stands and unknown ventures. Invest in public companies that are established, liquid, and have to clear real hurdles before going public. If you cannot understand how a business makes money, avoid it no matter how good its track record. Ackman cites Enron, a business almost nobody actually understood. 7. Invest in a business you could own forever. if the stock market closed for 10 years, you should not be unhappy holding it. Coca-Cola is his example. easy to understand, sells a syrup and earns a profit on every drink, the population keeps growing, and it is nearly impossible to disrupt with new technology. McDonald's is another. People have to eat, the food is cheap, and they keep growing. find a business you would be comfortable holding through anything. 8. You want products people are loyal to and will pay a premium for. People buy generic flour and sugar without caring about the brand. but they want the Hershey bar, the Cadbury bar, the see's candy specifically. you do not want to sell a commodity that anyone can sell cheaper. You want something unique that customers refuse to substitute even at a 20% discount. 9. Low debt is a safety feature. In the lemonade stand example, $250 of debt was manageable. But if it had been $1,000 and the business hit a rough patch, it could have gone under and wiped out the shareholders. Find companies with little debt or so much profit relative to their interest payments that a bad year cannot sink them. 10. Barriers to entry protect your returns. You want a business that is hard for someone to compete with tomorrow. Coca-Cola's market presence is so strong that you expect to get a Coke at any restaurant. Pepsi has coexisted with it for decades, but neither can put the other out of business. If a competitor can show up next year with a better version and steal the customers, the business is not worth owning long term. 11. The best businesses are immune to outside factors you cannot control. Coca-Cola has survived 120 years through world wars, nuclear weapons, and every kind of crisis, and each year it makes slightly more money. You want companies that do not depend on commodity prices, interest rates, or currency moves. A business that keeps earning regardless of what is happening in the world is the kind you hold forever. 12. Low capital intensity is one of the most underrated qualities. The worst businesses require massive reinvestment to grow. The auto industry has to build enormous factories and buy machine tools before selling a single car, and those tools wear out. GM's stock barely moved over 40 to 50 years for exactly this reason. Coca-Cola, by contrast, sells a formula and collects a royalty. American Express takes a few percent of every dollar spent on its card. a business that earns a royalty on other people's capital is one of the best things you can own. 13. Pay down debt and build a cushion before you invest. If you have high-interest credit card debt, paying it off is a guaranteed return equal to the interest rate. same logic, to a lesser degree, with student loans at 6 or 7%. and you want 6 to 12 months of expenses in the bank so that losing your job tomorrow does not force you to sell. You can only handle market volatility if you do not need the money. 14. Be a buyer when everyone is selling and a seller when everyone is buying. The natural human tendency is the opposite, a lemming-like instinct to sell in a crash and buy in a bubble. people sold into the 1987 crash when they should have been buying. The only way to resist this is to be financially secure enough that the money at risk does not affect your life, so you can withstand the swings without panicking. 15. The stock market is a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term. Ben Graham's idea, which Ackman repeats. short-term prices reflect the whims and emotions of investors. long term, prices reflect the actual value of the underlying businesses. If you buy good businesses at reasonable prices and hold them while they grow, you make money over time as long as you are never forced to sell at the wrong moment. 16. A stock is just a bond where you do not know the coupon. Flip a price-to-earnings ratio over, and you get an earnings yield. A stock at 10 times earnings is a 10% earnings yield, which you can compare directly to a 3% treasury. the difference is the bond's coupon is fixed and the stock's coupon, its earnings, moves up and down. Ackman wants an earnings yield higher than a treasury that will also grow over time, so he does not need to be right about explosive growth to earn a good return.

She is Ananya Birla, daughter of billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla and the owner of RCB. During an event, an elderly man fell down, and instead of walking away, she went up to him and asked if he was okay. This shows that she comes from a well-cultured family. ❤️🙏

@sandumaiamd @eucopresident @vonderleyen 💯💯💯

Good call with @eucopresident António Costa. I welcome the decision to open the first cluster of accession negotiations on Monday. Moldova is ready to open all of them — we’ve done the work, and we’ll keep delivering reforms. Looking forward to the EU–Moldova summit on 22 June.

@TulsiGabbard @TulsiGabbard - We pray for the speedy and complete recovery of Abraham. May God give you strength in these tough times.

@VStrutinski @sandumaiamd @sandumaiamd - Happy birthday Madam President. Wish you long, Happy and Healthy life! God bless you.

Honoured to receive the European Order of Merit today. But the merit belongs to the Moldovan people — who chose Europe at the ballot box, defended that choice under pressure, and do the hard, daily work of reform. My plea to the EU: reward this merit. Help us move forward.

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Always a joy to be here, dear @RobertaMetsola. You have been such a true and devoted friend of Moldova — and this Parliament has been home to so many friends of our country. We feel that friendship deeply, and we are grateful.

@KatePorpora87 I love my Porsche . Absolutely phenomenal car ! #porsche

@sandumaiamd @Christodulides @sandumaiamd - Congratulations

In Yerevan, with @NicusorDanRO, @EmmanuelMacron, @Keir_Starmer, @vonderleyen, @eucopresident, @kajakallas as well as @Christodulides @MichealMartinTD representing the EU presidencies — we discussed Moldova’s European future and regional security.

Europe is at its strongest when it stands together.