Trump seeks peace

by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette

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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.” Page A2 Thursday, May 22, 2025 MAGNOLIA GAZETTE