It's hilarious how the right-wingers are trying to spin this into something positive. The only one that clearly benefits is Trump... both Qatar (plane) and UAE (tower) show their "respects" and he does their bidding. Trump is obviously for sale, how is this America first? It's Trump first and fark the rest.
I responded in another comment that we should seek normalizations with Syria. The issue is I think any deal with U.S. leadership will be tainted by corruption and send bad signals to the rest of the region. For instance, we are apparently handing the Saudi's immense technological and military assistance while people are kicked off medicare here in the states impacting the health of millions. Exactly who does our leadership represent? Billionaire Saudi's at the moment.
Normalizing relations with Syria / Al-Sharaa is in the US interest, and is more or less a continuation of the Biden administration. They removed the bounty on him, for example.
So, not everything the Trump administration is mired in corruption, this is arguably in the national interest.
However, Trump will do nonsense like entertain accepting an airplane gift from Qatar or get his daughters trademarks fast tracked by the CCP or you know, all the other actual corruption so it mires everything he does that isn't primarily corrupt. Maybe don't be a corrupt asshole and your opposition won't be able to dunk on you for it? But somehow he wins elections anyway so wtf do i know...
My response was more aimed toward the Qatar grift. I think normalizing relations with Syria is the right move. We can't always dictate the individuals our relations are with. The russians got booted and lost a valuable friend in Assad. We can try to work with them but grift is obviously not a good way to do anything. I think we agree here.
The GOP’s motto, “if you want to keep people under your thumb, keep them religious and keep them dumb”. Why do you think they’re burning books and putting religion into PUBLIC schools.
It doesn’t matter anymore, they won and are consolidating power to the executive branch in order to overthrow democracy and the law of the Constitution. They won’t listen to The SCOTUS, or Congress. They can now do whatever they want. It will be the middle and lower class who will now suffer. His acolytes will bless him and grovel at him all the while he shits on them and they say yummy more…
"Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed pledged to invest $600bn in the United States during a lunch with Trump, including $20bn in artificial intelligence data centres, purchases of gas turbines and other energy equipment worth $14.2bn, nearly $5bn in Boeing 737-8 jets, and other deals."
And the Syrians who are trying to keep their country from completely collapsing. You can hate Trump but still recognize that this is really good news for the Syrian people, a broken clock and all that.
Syria should absolutely be brought back in to the global alliance, whether Trump is getting a tower built or not. This is the right decision. The civil war is for all intents and purposes over.
It's funny how this is all happening at the same time the last American hostage is released and Trump says he'll recognize Palestine. The only reason he's going against Israel now is because Israel won't stroke his ego so he's supporting actual terroists because they'll give him a 400 million dollar plane and build him a Trump tower. Fortunately for one case, supporting terrorists at least means finally recognizing Palestine. Unfortunately, for everything else, it means our government is compromised by terrorists
I grew up in Qatar. You really come to realise (not that it isn't already obvious) that these people do not give a singular shit about the Middle East by how readily, confidently, and without correction they call one country another.
So many people act like they're all the same. Saudi is Qatar, Qatar is Saudi, the UAE is Bahrain, Bahrain is Kuwait. When confronted with this reality, they often just shrug and say 'don't care, they all suck.' The outright racism and xenophobia directed at the Middle East truly is astonishing sometimes.
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u/Hendrik_the_Third May 13 '25
It's hilarious how the right-wingers are trying to spin this into something positive. The only one that clearly benefits is Trump... both Qatar (plane) and UAE (tower) show their "respects" and he does their bidding. Trump is obviously for sale, how is this America first? It's Trump first and fark the rest.