President Trump gave a stirring speech in Saudi Arabia this week which may be termed an outline of the “Trump Doctrine,” a revival of peace through strength, while also recognizing a nation does not always need to be an interventionist.
This from redstate.com.
.@POTUS: The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders… who spent trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad… the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves. pic.twitter.com/SluRou2mv6
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 13, 2025
The president said:
Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and 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—we don’t want that.
He skewered those who failed, having said:
[I]n the end, the so-called ‘nation builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionists 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 that, you can see how ridiculous the “dictator” talk about Trump is. He is the man of the Abraham Accords, who brought peace to the Middle East, and who is trying even now to bring peace to Ukraine. But he is also the guy who will act with strength and take out people who attack us; he will put America first.
How unique was that speech? Even Bill Maher thought it was a radically different take—on HBO’s “Real Time” show on Friday—which included guest Scott Jennings.
President Trump has flipped "war and peace" to "peace and war" — and even people on the left are getting on board.
When even @billmaher's @RealTimers audience is applauding the new Trump doctrine, it's clear a seismic shift is underway. pic.twitter.com/PrjMn8CRCn
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 17, 2025
Jennings then went on to say how we [the Republicans] had always been “war and peace,” that Trump had changed it to “peace and war.”
Jennings said:
He talks about peace more than he talks about war. He’s still hawkish enough to bomb people who need to be bombed like the Houthi rebels.
Further:
He’s Peace through Strength, [like Reagan].
And:
Putting peace ahead of war is pretty popular with the American people.
That earned a huge applause from Maher’s audience, which Jennings termed a seismic shift.
Trump bringing transformative change in policy is not just to foreign policy. He is bringing the U.S. government back to reality and more in touch with We the People. And by moving the FBI out of its ivory tower in D.C. to middle America those who serve We the People will be amongst us and learning about our likes and dislikes.
Jennings spoke about breaking up of the D.C. concentration to put the workers into the middle of the country, so they would have a “better understanding”:
NEW: Scott Jennings says D.C. elites are completely out of touch—and it’s time they get a dose of real America.
When asked about Kash Patel’s plan to relocate FBI employees out of Washington, @ScottJenningsKY endorsed it before torching the Beltway establishment.… pic.twitter.com/wTGDEwwdc5
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) May 17, 2025
That also earned a huge applause.
Peace through strength, and getting more in touch with what Americans want. It is hard to argue with that as a doctrine.
Final thoughts: The Trump-Vance team of All Stars has been thinking and operating outside the box from day one, which is comfortingly refreshing after our beloved country was forced to persevere through first eight years then four more years of the Obama-Biden back-assward intentional destruction of America.
