coinciding with President Trump's current Middle
East trip that he's been going on. Obviously,
everybody's heard about the big, beautiful plane,
the beautiful plane that they've given us that
the Qatari government has given officially. The
Defense Department is now going to own this plane
for the next few years, and then it will go to
the Trump presidential library, which is maintained
by the National Archives after he leaves office.
But yes, the Qatari government gifted the United
States or Donald Trump with a plane worth $400
million that they're going to use as Air Force
One for the next few years. Okay? A lot of this
stuff's been going on. None of this is surprising
or in any way kind of new, right? But as I was
going through all the news articles and all the
stuff that's been going on the last couple of
weeks Not just with this Qatari plane, but kind
of all the stuff that's been going on around
the Middle East a a Surprising and kind of disturbing
thought came into my mind Okay And it's it's
this okay and and anybody who has watched this
show for any period of time knows that Jay and
I are not fans of the Trump administration writ
large okay we're not okay we have been exceedingly
critical of the Trump administration on this
channel but I do feel the need to be honest And
as I was looking at a lot of stories that have
not been reported heavily, unless you know where
you're looking. Right. A thought popped into
my head. And it disturbs me. And that is. Orange
man might be the guy to accomplish something
we've been trying to get to for 70 years. He
actually may be able to broker a Middle East
piece. And that disturbs me a little bit, both
by the means and the fact that this is how this
is going to go down. And that is this, okay?
I do not believe that Donald Trump holds any
deep religious or faith -based anything. This
guy is greedy. He loves money. And the only people
he respects more than himself is people that
have more money than him. Right of which there's
no short list right Elon Jeff Bezos da da da
da but if you pay tribute to the orange man,
he will listen to you and he will do what you
say because you have more money than him and
he wants more of your money, right and The other
thing that a lot of these Countries have Namely
Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates in Qatar
is they've got a lot of money and They're not
afraid to spend it Hence the 400 million dollar
plane hence Riyadh very quietly doing stuff hence
Trump Tower Abu Dhabi, right and Again one of
those little stories that didn't get didn't get
a lot of play Qatar has been at the forefront
of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians
and things like that And Qatar is on the side
of the Palestinians. And then very quietly, a
couple weeks ago, the Trump administration agreed
to a ceasefire with the Houthis. And they stopped
bombing the Houthis. They just stopped. They
just stopped bombing the Houthis. And then the
Houthis shot a missile at Ben Gurion Airport
in Israel. And then the Trump administration
went, eh, okay. And they didn't do anything.
And now Trump's over there. And he said something
that I feel was one of the most honest motherfucking
things he's ever said. He said, in Riyadh. Transcending
the age of conflicts of tired divisions of the
past and forging a future where the Middle East
is defined by commerce, not chaos. And I said
that right there. that that that that is his
honest opinion right look at all this nice place
let let's let's make some money over here people
and uh yesterday the republican party writ large
200 republicans sent him a letter to the president
And 200 Republicans in Congress are not very
happy with the president right now because Steve
Wittkopf, his chief Middle East advisor, is about
to negotiate a new deal with Iran where we will
drop the sanctions against Iran in exchange for
a new deal on their new program. And the the
Republican Party is not happy with this because
they want war with Iran. And he also spent time
in that Trump spent time in that fight. his speech
in Riyadh criticizing the neocons who keep dragging
us into wars. And as I sat and looked at all
these little tiny things, right, the Iranians
coming out publicly and saying, yeah, we're close
to a deal. The Houthis firing at Israel and the
Trump administration going, eh, and signing a
ceasefire with the Houthis. Him going to Riyadh
and by the way, he's doing a full Middle East
tour and isn't going to Israel Which by the way
in the Israeli press is being played as a huge
snub against Netanyahu Trump's spending all this
time in the Middle East and he's not going to
Israel and he's dealing with the Qataris and
the Iranians who are allied with Hamas and Hezbollah
And he's He's he's doing something here So the
question that I posed to the audience and the
question that I posed to Jay is let's let's take
all this a little bit at face value. If the cost
of peace in that region is that orange man gets
to fucking walk out of office and him and his
family walk out richer than they've ever been
in their entire lives. Because of his graft and
his greed But if the end result of his graft
and greed because these people have the money
to bribe him To do things that no other president
would do right? Namely just be like yeah sure
why not because he doesn't have that faith base
that thing that that that feeling about Israel
Would it be worth it Is it Worth it. If he could
do it. If he signs a peace deal with the Iranians,
the Qataris, Saudi, UAE, and Qatar, right? Normalization
with movement toward a Palestinian state because
that's what Qatar is going to want. That's what
the UAE is going to want. That's what Saudi is
going to want. Is it worth it? Going to say.
No. Why do you say no? Oh, gosh. So for one.
This. I am. No longer Christian, but. This gives
me very like Antichrist vibes. Yeah, like the
golden child that's gonna bring no, huh? I'm
not saying that he is not saying that I believe
that I am but I Don't like this because one this
is to me. This is kind of like a deal with the
devil I'm gonna give you peace in the Middle
East and at the same time I'm going to like gut
American values here at home. Like I'm going
to cause so much chaos and havoc for the U .S.
citizens. But we're going to have peace in the
Middle East. I don't like that. So here's the
I think he's going to do that anyway. Peace in
the Middle East or not. That's our internal.
That's domestic politics. And that's going to
get handled domestically. We talk about that
a second because they were at the Supreme Court
today arguing about who's got the power there.
Think he's gonna do that either way right Really
he's gonna do that domestic bull crap either
way and I don't agree with that. We're never
gonna agree with that but I'm asking fuck it
if if bribing this motherfucker with 20 billion
dollars worth of crap Brings us Normalization
and a peace accord in that region. Is it worth
letting him take the money? No, I. Because I
think nothing good can come from greed and. To
me. OK, let's put this in simple terms of the
night. Superman, Superman. I'm. I think we have
like a Lex Luthor. I mean, he's not as cool as
Lex Luthor, but he probably wishes he was. I
have seen some animated movies and some comics
where like Lex Luthor. He's like the bad guy,
but he's not really the bad guy. Like, he's actually
working with, like, the Justice League to help,
like, bring peace because, like, they have a
common enemy and they need a band to get blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. I kind of feel like that's
what this is. I don't know. You. When your intentions
are agreed, there's a time, I believe, when.
You're just gonna become greedier and greeter
a greedier and more greedy or I don't know if
that made sense it does like a word salad, but
um, I Don't think anything can come good from
this. I think it would be like good for a few
years and then It's gonna fall apart I I don't
know. I think we need our Superman to come down
now take a side and just bring peace which I
also kind of. Oddly, didn't really agree with
in the comics, but anyways. I don't think anything
good can come from this, like not long term,
short term. Sure. Yeah. Five years, 10 years,
I don't know. 50, 60 years, completely not. 50,
60 is hard for me to to kind of put into a context,
right? And obviously, I've spent a lot of my
life both in this region and studying this region
and the conflicts that happen there. Maybe there's
a part of it that's like, at least this motherfucker
will sit down with her boss, right? Like, I generally
want to agree with you that nothing good comes
from greed. I guess I'm so tired. Maybe this
also comes from a perspective of I've had to
sit in that area and see those conflicts firsthand
that I won't almost take anything over that.
Like if we get a good 10 or 15 years where that
whole region wasn't a raging dumpster fire I
would feel better Because because to be clear
everything that's happening there is our fault
Right. It was the US and Britain and France and
all of us after World War two. We just we We
screwed that up royally. It's our fault that
it's that screwed up. I don't know if it's a
situation where we're like, we need to be out
of this completely and just say, screw it. Like,
we're just not going to interfere or get involved
in any way, shape or form, or whether it's our
responsibility to try and fix what we screwed
up so bad. You know what I mean Does that make
sense am I making sense at all It makes sense,
yes And like okay, so take a step back apply
the scientific method I'm heavily biased against
Trump. Like, honestly, I'm going to be skeptical
of every single thing this guy does. I'm skeptical.
Believe me, I'm skeptical. I. Yeah, but that's
that's again where. Where I come into this place
of. I'm skeptical, right? But. Again, the one
thing I believe in is his greed. The one thing
I'm not skeptical about is his greed. And if
his greed led the United States to normalized
relations with Iran, where we had an embassy
in Tehran again, right? Would I take that? That's
my that's that's the part where I struggle. Right
Where I go I might take it I Might take it Yeah,
I know he wants to go in there and and and him
and his rich buddies want to to to to to take
as much cash as they can get But if we had an
embassy in Tehran again and normalized relationships
with those countries would I take it and And
that's the question that I'm having a hard time
answering I think I think it's right to be skeptical,
but that's kind of the foundation of the question.
I think. It's difficult. It is. It's a very complex
problem because. No matter how I look at it,
right I simply do not understand the culture
over there and I probably never will because
I could read about it you have to go you have
to Feel it and that's again where having been
there Right and And having been there and here's
the thing. I met so many wonderful people. Right.
In that portion of the world, people who I absolutely
adored. And it wasn't until I got older and I
remember I remember talking about this when I
went through all my VA stuff. Right. And I remember
talking to the. In this case, the shrink was
evaluating me for my post -traumatic stress disorder.
And she was like, you know, how is this impacted?
I was like, here's the thing. At 21, 22, I didn't
have the words to understand what I was feeling,
right? It wasn't until I got into my 30s that
I really understood what, how that impacted me.
And really it just, it made me sad, you know,
and I've taught you just about that. Like I would
love to go back to Baghdad. I would love to go
back to Iraq with without a gun in my hand because
I would love to see that place. Because there
are really some beautiful places there. There
are some really cool things in that country.
And what we did and what what, you know, various
regimes and everything that's happened there,
I'm just like. It just makes me sad. I'm just
like, can we just not for a little while? Can
this place just go back to being? Because it's
nice it it's generally kind of a nice place,
you know and the people that are wonderful And
I just it I'm just like how do we and I guess
that's why I asked the question is I'm like man
if we could just get 15 20 years of just Let's
calm it down You know Would it be worth it It's
hard. I. Yeah, I. I don't know. I. I don't think
I would take it. I. I want peace. I do. I guess
we've tried so many other solutions. What now?
Like, take a different approach. Try to speak.
Their language like what motivates them what
motivates Trump I like I totally get it It does
make sense the It's like the How can you trust
or I don't Yeah, and I mean that's the issue
is like you can't you can't trust like I don't
know That's my only problem. Now, I want to I
want to push back against something in the chat
right now. Oh, gosh. Nothing is where Trump can.
Here's the thing. If that motherfucker got bonked
on the head tomorrow. And used his political
instincts and his willpower to bring about universal
health care in America, I'm sorry, I'm going
to give him credit. I'm not going to cut off
our nose to spider face. Right. Because the problem
that we've had on the on the left as somebody
on the left is that we have done a lot of cutting
off our nose to spider face, right? We do this
a lot on the left where it's like Biden did as
much as he could to forgive students. Could he
do everything he wanted to do? Right? No, he
couldn't. But can we give him credit for the
good things that he did? And there's a lot of
people on our side who are like, no, it doesn't
matter. He still didn't do it. And this is why
we lose is because we won't give credit where
credit is due. Right. Do I think that he's going
to necessarily accomplish this? No, I don't.
I think he's fighting an uphill battle. Right.
But I think it's an interesting thing. And again,
I'm seeing some weird things again. That. Under
any other administration. I'm like I'd be like
what the hell You know, and here it's just as
simple as oh, no, he just wants money Didn't
care about any of that stuff, right? You know,
and so that's that's where I go I'm gonna push
Back Right on we can't give him credit for again.
Look if he does something Oh, no, and I don't
believe again in chat I don't believe he deserves
to be forgiven and I think when the historians
write the history book of Donald Trump no matter
what he does Right. Let's say he accomplishes
Middle East peace. It will always be tinged with
the other crap that he did Right. He will never
be on Mount Rushmore Okay But You know again
got it got to give credit where it's due he's
not do it yet, but I thought it was an interesting
question So Yeah, all right, I that's enough
of that one Let us know what you think down in
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