Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

HOLY SMOKES: Trump takes a blow torch to the neocons and interventionists while speaking to the Saudis. This is a VICTORY speech over globalism.

"It's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs."

"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."

"No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called 'nation builders,' neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad, so many other cities."

"Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way."

"They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. 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."

"You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way."

No wonder they respect him so much.

Video below.

I didn't bother covering the fake media nontroversy about Qatar giving Trump a personal gift of a 747 because it seemed so obviously fake.

PJ Media's Matt Margolis explains:
It's not a gift to Trump, it's being loaned to the US Department of Defense because Boeing is moving too slow in building a replacement Air Force One.

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In the wake of media hysteria over the offer from Qatar to provide the United States with an aircraft, Buzz Patterson, a retired Air Force pilot, White House military aide, and carrier of the nuclear football, has stepped in to inject a dose of reality--and firsthand experience--into the conversation. While critics scramble to paint the move as some kind of scandal involving President Trump, Patterson makes clear this is nothing new or scandalous, and absolutely nothing that warrants the breathless outrage.

"I'm going to try one last time," Patterson began in a post on X. "The Qatar B-747 was built in the US by Boeing. They are offering a newer 747 to replace one of the two current AF-1s that have been flying for 40 years. Which are tired and need to be replaced."

That last point is key. The current Air Force One planes are aging relics that first entered service when Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Replacing them has been a long, slow, and--thanks to bureaucratic delays--frustrating process. Patterson, who served as a military aide during the Clinton administration and has flown on Air Force One over a hundred times, says the Qatar aircraft would simply help fill the gap until Boeing completes new replacements--something that won't happen for years.
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"This AF-1 will serve the sitting president, whether they be Republican or Democrat until Boeing gets their s--t together to complete the new, upcoming improved 747s that started under Obama, was renegotiated under Trump, and was completely ignored by the Biden administration," he explained. "It's looking like 2029 to 2030 for delivery at the soonest."

Critics have tried to turn this into a personal gift to Trump, but that's not even remotely accurate. "Qatar is offering the jet to the US military, not Donald Trump," Patterson explained.

The current Air Force One planes (I think they trade off which is called "Air Force One" according to which is flying the president) were built under Reagan. That is too old for a plane, especially one flying the leader of the free world.

I know the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) would love if the president died in a plane crash they engineered, but the rest of us object to this scheme.

Bonus: The liberal media copes and seethes over the fall in inflation... after insisting that Trump would blow inflation up.

Obligatory link to "Cope-a-Cabana."