Presidents are often judged on their foreign policy, and I think we can all agree that Joe Biden was a disaster on that front.
President Donald Trump, however, is moving at the speed of light this week in the Middle East, so much so, in fact, that even Biden officials are envious.
On the list of Biden-era foreign policy disasters, first and foremost, there was his decision to leave Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, something that the administration and the media completely whitewashed.
To this day, Biden has never been held fully accountable for his actions in terms of the media going after him because we all know what would have happened had any Republican done that in office.
Second, I cannot help but think back to Biden fist-bumping Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a man he railed about regarding the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan, top figure at the very outlet for which Khashoggi worked, was furious, stating at the time, “The fist bump between President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman was worse than a handshake -- it was shameful. It projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to MBS the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking.”
Trump arguably accomplished more in just a few days than Biden accomplished in four years in the Middle East.
It is now to the point that even Democrats are quietly expressing their approval.
One Democrat aide told the media, “It’s amazing what can be accomplished when the president isn’t f–king brain dead.”
Another former Biden White House official stated, “This whole Middle East trip shows [that] for a lot of these negotiations, you do really need somebody who has that energy and level-headedness.”
Disgraced former Iran Special Envoy, Rob Malley commented on what is happening, stating, "It's hard not to be simultaneously terrified at the thought of the damage he can cause with such power, and awed by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos.”
Ned Price, former State Department spokesperson, added, "He does all this, and it's kind of silence, it's met with a shrug. He has the ability to do things politically that previous presidents did not, because he has complete unquestioned authority over the Republican caucus."
One of the bigger moves that Trump made during the trip was to drop sanctions against Syria, with former Obama administration officials Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes stating, "It's a very big deal. So I think Trump deserves a lot of credit for this decision. It was politically difficult… but it's unequivocally the right thing to do."
Trump has been in office for four months, and Democrats are now heaping praise on him over this Middle East trip. And while I agree that Trump should not take the plane from Qatar, that is all Democrats in Congress can concentrate on, when this trip is clearly a major win for the United States.
