Saturday, May 24, 2025

D.L. Gardner: Trump Seeks Peace

All President Trump knows is how to win. That's good for America and ultimately good for the world. But it's infuriating for those with Trump-Derangement-Syndrome.

In the first foreign trip of his second term President Trump began his deal-making odyssey in Riyadh Saudi Arabia Tuesday, May 13. Four days later Trump returned home with more than $2 trillion in investment deals secured from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

Trump himself announced Saudi Arabia's $600 billion commitment to invest in the U.S. In Qatar Trump "signed an an agreement for an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion," including more than $243.5 billion in commercial deals with Boeing and GE Aerospace. Finally Trump brought home more than $200 billion in deals with the United Arab Emirates for a combined total of more than $2 trillion in deals.

Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich commented, “Trade will be fair and abundant. Peace will be realized and celebrated. Terror will be confronted and eradicated. And the golden future of America will be enjoyed by our people and those who seek our partnership!”

MXM news reported, "The White House has signaled that the trip represents just the beginning of a renewed focus on foreign policy centered around economic strength, national security, and bold dealmaking—with Trump leading the charge."

Victor Davis Hanson summarized Trump's plan and actions in a column in PJ Media, May 16, 2025, writing, Trump's opponents characterize the first hundred days as "either directionless chaos or a Hitlerian nightmare or both."

To which Hanson replies, "[Trump's] answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain."

"His right and left opponents call such pushback chaotic, disruptive, and out of control. But the counterrevolution appears disorderly and upsetting, mostly to those who originally birthed the chaos; it certainly does not to the majority of Americans who finally wanted an end to the madness."

President Trump has assembled the best team of any president in my lifetime. As a team they're taking on challenges across America and around the world. Multi-talented Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled with the president in the Middle East, then turned toward Turkey to meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Ukrainian Presidential Administration Head Andriy Yermak.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had traveled to Turkey earlier hoping President Putin would meet with him. Putin declined. On Thursday night, May 15, Rubio explained the Russian-Ukraine situation to Sean Hannity on Fox News. Rubio said, "given everything we know, after months of working on this, nothing is going to happen until President Trump sits across the table from Vladimir Putin and puts it on the line and puts it on the table. I think that’s the only chance we have at peace at this point given everything we’ve seen over the last few weeks."

Rubio continued, "I still don’t understand why some would be critical of the President – they should be happy that the President of the most powerful nation on earth is a peacemaker who seeks to prevent wars, seeks to end wars, and seeks to stop existing wars. I think this is something we should be very proud of, that we have a President that seeks peace."

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

This makes me gag. Trump has Harvard Derangement Syndrome, Ukraine Derangement Syndrome and a tariff fetish. Midterm elections cannot come soon enough.

Anonymous said...

"We will have peace.....When we have destroyed all our enemies"
Attila the Hun.

Anonymous said...

I am so sorry to have to bring this to light, but President Donald Trump lies constantly. If you don’t believe me, you are choosing to not believe the truth. And, I believe there are 2 Air Force One jets, and two in the making. Now he accepts a jet to be refurbished as another Air Force One. Can’t he just have 2 Air Force Ones instead of five (2-3 dolls instead of 30)

Kingfish said...

What you leave out is Boeing incompetence is what created this conundrum. The two you mention were built in the early 80's and are past end of life. Trump ordered two in 2018. They were supposed to be delivered by 2024. However, Boeing being Boeing, it informed the government the planes would not be ready until 2029. The company is so incompetent. It can't bring its astronauts home, builds dangerous aircraft, and can't seem to do anything right.

As for Qatar, I'm not crazy about accepting the plane from Qatar. Qatar funds Hamas, it allows Hamas to operate in its country, and Trump said in his first term is was the second funder of terrorism after Iran. I would prefer we purchase the plane at a fair price. It is also not a good look that Bondi lobbied for them at $100K a month when she was in private practice.

Anonymous said...

Did somebody give Fish some truth serum.

Anonymous said...

Selling out our country to Hamas is as low as it gets

KF Runs Somebody Under The Porch With Tail Between Legs said...

I'm glad 4:39 got his ass popped. Nothing like disinformation, lack of context and outlandish claims all under the guise of, "I am so sorry to have to bring this to light, but President Donald Trump lies constantly."

Anonymous said...

KF, Boeing built the Qatar gift jet.
The aviation industry lost billions due to Covid and Boeing due 737 MAX crashes, production issues and a strike yet Boeing executives still did quite well.

Anonymous said...

D.L., any government in the control of one man and one party whose members must be loyal to that man and party.
To be a democracy or a republic, citizens must have free and fair elections. The rule of law must apply to everyone. Laws cannot contain language that favor a few or allow gifts and emoluments.
Congress has made laws that give tax credits and deductions to to the wealthy that the rest of us don't enjoy. A tax write- off for your "dwelling" ( some of which are lavish and "gifted" with retirement or " depreciated" in entirety), all insurance paid and free autos. Those are "perks" and " business expenses", not taxable income.
Lawmakers others we "elect", at every level, are given all expense paid trips for speeches and a token " fee" is the only taxable " income". Candidates' and politicians' books are bought by the crate and given away by rich party members.

Everyone should put " who pays for a Presidential Library and it's contents?" in their search engine.
Gerrymandering and propaganda and the end of The Fairness Doctrine as well as successful lobbying by special interest have eroded our freedom. We voted for a party, not a man or woman. Dumb us.

Anonymous said...

I just threw up in my mouth. Gross article.

Anonymous said...

He sure runs a hell of a crypto scam. Way to go Donna!

Anonymous said...

You are so right, why did sleepy Joe do that?

Anonymous said...

Qatar? Supports Hamas? Well, why in Hell’s name isn’t the US of A bombing this place called Qatar? Putin, no doubt, told Trump to lay off of this Qatar, which ain’t even got sense enough to put the u behind the Q.

Anonymous said...

All these so called “commitments” are about as useful as a fart in the wind. They’ll all be gone when the felon is, with nothing ever actually built or invested outside of the press releases announcing the “commitments.”

Anonymous said...

The whole part about being donated to his presidential library is the extra slimy part. He takes a $400 million dollar bribe, then uses a couple billion from the taxpayers to pimp it out to his liking, then he’s just going to donate it to himself for his private use. When someone as corrupt as this gets ahold of your bank account, watch out cause you’re about to be broke.

Anonymous said...

This is insanity! Publicly threatening Putin! Taking a plane from terrorists! Wanting to develop the Gaza strip and our national parks! Making enemies of our allies! On and on and on! Where will it stop? When will people wake up? The "Trump-Derangement-Syndrome" is for those who cannot see him for what he is! God help us.


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