Donald Of Arabia

While watching the scenes of President Trump’s arrival in Saudi Arabia this morning, I couldn’t help but remember how Joe Biden was received when he went to Saudi Arabia in 2022. 

Before his summer visit, Biden cut off weapon sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to force them to stop fighting the Houthis, Iran’s terrorist proxy. He called the Saudi crown prince a “pariah.” Both nations were so furious with Biden, they refused to take his phone call. 

By taking the side of Iran and the Houthis, Biden’s action resulted in a shutdown of international shipping in a very important region. Again, everything Donald Trump is doing is cleaning up the mess that Biden’s presidency left. 

Trump dominates the world stage. Biden needed a map to find his way off a stage!

Joe Biden has been wrong about foreign policy his entire life. He is the only man to take the wrong position on every major foreign policy issue for forty years. Then Donald Trump comes along, and the Saudis roll out the red carpet for an American president like they have never done before. 

Multiple CEOs, including Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, flew with Trump to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis and the UAE need help with artificial intelligence (AI) and defense, and we need their vast oil wealth to be invested in the U.S. 

Today, President Trump signed a $600 billion economic deal with Saudi Arabia. Some analysts believe this deal will create 2 million new additional American jobs. 

The sidebar conversations taking place are on another central issue -- Iran. No one in these meetings wants Iran to get a nuclear weapon. Nor does Israel, which is not an attendee.

A day does not go by without President Trump saying, “Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.” In a recent interview about Iran’s nuclear program, Trump said, “There are only two alternatives here, blow them up nicely or blow them up viciously.” 

He also said that if Iran doesn’t agree to a verifiable nuclear deal, “I’ll be leading the pack” in destroying Iran’s nuclear program.

Here’s something else that many people have forgotten: Saudi Arabia and the UAE provided critical intelligence that helped to make Iran’s initial attack on Israel such a dramatic failure. 

That unprecedented cooperation goes back to the first Trump administration’s success in getting several Arab nations to sign the Abraham Accords with Israel. He did it by getting the region to focus on their mutual enemy -- Iran.

Trump is also telling the Saudis that if they invest in America, we will help them with AI and defense, but there’s one requirement -- they have to decrease their ties with communist China, which desperately wants a foothold in the Middle East.

Here’s the bottom line: Big things are happening. But none of this would have happened under Joe Biden.