Critics, including Democrats and even some conservative influencers, complained about everything and anything they didn’t like. Most media platforms discovered projects that various Trump companies have in the Middle East, hinting (without saying) at some dark quid pro quo. Of course, those same complainers were silent about Burisma, so.
No evidence!
Next, other people groused that the President was kissing the butts of jihadis wearing business suits.
But Trump didn’t
just talk olive branches and trade deals. He also spoke the language of strength, delivering a muscular warning in polite language. “We have the greatest military in the history of the world,” Trump told them. “There will be
no mercy for any foe who tries to do us or our allies harm.” After emphasizing that we don’t
want to use our weapons, Trump starkly informed his audience that, “We have weapons you don’t even know about… and if you did, you’d say
wow.”
What seems to have most bothered complainers was the Qatari Royal Family’s generous offer to
gift Trump a $400 million super-luxury jumbo jet to replace one of the two 40-year-old planes currently used as Air Force One. Boeing, down with a bad case of DEI, has so far been unable to deliver a new model, having repeatedly missed deadlines and blown past billion-dollar budgets.
If accepted, Qatar’s 747-8 would be accepted by
the U.S. government, not by Trump personally. The President clapped back against yesterday’s fake news:
Headline from this morning’s Newsmax: “
DNC Plans to Fly 'Qatar-a-Lago' Banner over Mar-a-Lago.”
Still more critics correctly noted that Qatar is connected with the terror group Hamas, which led the barbaric October 7th attacks and is currently at war with Israel. These critics find it dishonorable that Trump is even
talking to Qatar, much less considering accepting their flying sky palace.
It is fair to debate how to best disconnect Qatar from Hamas. Trump is trying to do it using economic alliances and America First principles. The alternatives are sanctions, soft power, or military intervention— but none of those tools have so far shown any success in the Middle East. But the Abraham Accords
have worked where nothing else has. (Tellingly, Israeli media seems much less concerned about plane-gate than Trump’s American critics, and you’d think they would know best.)
But Trump is selling non-interventionism. He cannot argue for America First and declare that the neocons’ meddlesome model has failed, but then in the same breath complain about Qatar’s regional alliances. His obvious goal is to try to create a climate in the Middle East where terror cannot fester.
That’s his approach. Folks who can’t manage their own lives are not well-positioned to offer criticism, especially not people who couldn’t be bothered to complain about the Biden Crime Family.
The trip’s historic nature was lost in deliberate media disinterest, the hot takes, and all the noisy complaints. Nobody denies that the Middle East has become a key global player, both for its vast oil resources, its burgeoning international financial capitals, and its critical role in either furthering war or facilitating peace. His critics just don’t like how Trump is doing it, and that’s probably really just because they don’t want the globalism gravy train sidelined.
The fact that Trump’s first trip wasn’t to Europe is equally telling. Indeed, Trump has been extremely critical of Europe lately. Two days ago, President Trump described the EU as “nastier than China.” And you know how much he hates Chyna.
It is shaping up to be another record-shattering week. So stay tuned.
CNN anchor drops book exposing Biden brain coverup; Dems lied until polling turned; WI judge indicted for ICE dodge; WEF crumbles; Trump ends the progressive era with Mideast tour de force.
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