President Donald Trump was asked during Thursday’s cabinet meeting if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal may result in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu losing power. Trump conceded it was certainly a possibility before quipping that Netanyahu should be far more popular after the deal than he was previously.

“Mr. President, given that there are some tough provisions for Israel in this agreement, are you at all concerned that Bibi Netanyahu may not continue in his post and be deposed?” a reporter asked Trump.

“Bibi may go a little bit out of whack,” Trump replied as the reporter pressed, “But he may no longer be Prime Minister when this is over?”

“Look, that’s politics. It could be. I don’t know. I think he’s very popular right now. He’s much more popular today than he was five days ago,” Trump said to laughter in the room. The president added:

Right now, maybe people shouldn’t run against him. Five days, it might not have been a bad idea. No, Bibi’s become—this has been a very good thing. I don’t think he did it for that reason, okay? But I think just looking as an analyst would look at this, I think it’s been—I think Bibi should be very popular right now. Yeah, please.

“What will happen if Hamas says that it cannot locate or was not able to find all the deceased hostages’ bodies within the time frame?” asked another reporter.

“Well, we’ll have to see. I think that’s going to be—it’s largely been answered. Most of them are there. Actually, the bodies are a bigger problem because some of the bodies are going to be a little bit hard to find. It’s a terrible thing to discuss even, but you understand we’re all people. We’re grown-ups. We understand life. Nobody can understand this stuff because this should have never taken place, but we have the hostages for the most part,” Trump replied.

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