Here's the facts as I currently understand them.
The plane is given to the US Air Force, NOT Trump as has lyingly been averred.
When Boeing finally gets around to meeting its contractual obligations (ten years later?!?) to provide the new AF-1, the one gifted by the Qataris goes into the Trump library (not for him to go flying around in), just like the one that sits in the Reagan Library.
Yes?
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Yesterday’s most important story was, predictably, the one least covered by corporate media. The AP ran its quiet version under the bland headline, “Trump lays out Mideast vision as he looks to revamp US approach in Iran, Syria and beyond.” Trump laid out much more than a Mideast vision. He described the controlled demolition of globalism itself. It was not just a blockbuster business trip. He practically eulogized the entire NGO-industrial complex, right at ground zero on foreign soil.
The trip was especially significant because it was President Trump’s first sojourn abroad. His first stop was Saudi Arabia, where he was personally greeted by the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS). The contrast with Biden’s 2023 visit could not possibly have been more stark. For Trump, the Saudis rolled out the purple carpet —a royal designation— and MBS met the President personally at the bottom of the jetway.
But hapless Biden got no carpet, and was greeted at the airport by some flunkie. And don’t get me started about his feeble fist bump when the Cabbage in Chief finally did meet MBS.
Roll Call published the transcript of Trump’s Riyadh speech. In the address, without explicitly naming it, the President crushed the deep state. First, read this excerpt in Trump’s own words:
Before our eyes a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence.
This great transformation has not come from Western intervention, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits, like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, and so many other cities.
In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.
In recent years, far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice for their sins.
Peace, prosperity and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly. And it's something only you could do. You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way.
I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment, and my job is to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace.
In other words, Trump declared nothing less than the end of America’s “soft power” regime. When he mentioned “so-called nation builders,” “liberal non-profits,” “Western intervention” and “lectures on how to govern your affairs,” he was speaking specifically about the deep state’s USAID-funded NGO complex and CIA-fueled color revolutions.
In effect, he announced that we’re pulling our rainbow-colored propaganda out of your hair.
No more feminist theory workshops in rural Afghan villages. No more state-funded LGBT influencer campaigns on Saudi TikTok channels. No more Ethiopian trans operas. No more drag shows at embassies and academic lectures on inclusive urban planning in Bedouin villages. No more “development grants” leveraged for ideological compliance.
The Saudis’ purple carpet led directly to a new global alliance based on mutual respect, economic cooperation, and —critically— non-interference.
The President put his finger on the main problem with the whole soft-power enterprise: globalists are morons. We’re from Geneva, and we’re here to help! Trump correctly said, “They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.” He offered receipts: Kabul, Bahgdad, “and so many other cities.” He flatly declared that the deep state interventionists were tinkering with “complex societies they did not even understand themselves.”
The era of a progressive “rules-based international order” with “universal liberal values” is over. The progressive experiment of exporting liberalism to literally every other country on Earth is coming to its inglorious end. Put simply, Trump said, we’re done telling you how to live. Just don’t mess with us, and let’s get rich together.
Media completely missed the moment. Make no mistake— this speech will age like Reagan’s famous “Tear down this wall” address. It wasn’t historic because it was dramatic. It made history because it marked a pivot point. Trump’s foreign policy isn’t isolationist. It is post-missionary. By ending Syrian sanctions and offering to deal with Iran, Trump declared the end of permanent enemies and endless wars. He prioritized trade over intervention, strength over sanctimony, and peace through respect and reciprocity.
🔥 It was also a significant trip because Trump brought the whole team: JD Vance, most of his key Cabinet members —Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth— and America’s tech leaders like Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Sam Altman, Apple’s president, and others. You don’t bring that kind of political and economic firepower unless you mean business. It was classic Trump— partly stump speech, but mainly dealmaking.
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Late yesterday, the White House announced that Saudi Arabia agreed to invest $600 billion in the U.S., mostly related to tech and AI. Trump also pressed Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords peace treaty that he successfully started in his first term. He also announced the U.S. would lift years-long sanctions on Syria, and he even offered Iran a deal, which he called an “olive branch.”
The next stops on Trump’s Middle East tour were Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, where the President said he expects more commitments for American investment.
🔥 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.”
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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:
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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.
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