Trump’s Global Strategy: Tensions with Zelensky, Middle East Solutions

Trump’s inter­na­tion­al rela­tions strat­e­gy remains focused on secur­ing U.S. inter­ests, par­tic­u­lar­ly with North Korea and Rus­sia, where his lead­er­ship is praised by allies. Reflect­ing on the past four years, Trump argues that the 2020 elec­tion’s results have had glob­al con­se­quences, from the esca­la­tion of Hamas attacks to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. As ten­sions rise, Trump remains cau­tious of Zelen­sky, who is try­ing to make amends with Trump by offer­ing access to Ukraine’s min­er­al deposits. Trump is active­ly work­ing on a solu­tion with Putin while attempt­ing to pres­sure Mid­dle East­ern lead­ers like King Abdul­lah of Jor­dan to take in dis­placed Pales­tini­ans. His stance on Gaza rejects the tra­di­tion­al two-state solu­tion, propos­ing an alter­na­tive to address the cri­sis. At home, Trump’s bor­der czar accus­es the FBI of endan­ger­ing lives through leaks, while his admin­is­tra­tion can­cels $180M in gov­ern­ment con­tracts and cuts edu­ca­tion fund­ing, includ­ing con­tro­ver­sial DEI train­ing pro­grams.

• We have to have rela­tions around the world. And we have to have con­cerns around the world. 
• Trump had every­thing sim­mered with our Asian allies. North Korea would not have been in a tight rela­tion­ship with Rus­sia. The Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion did absolute­ly noth­ing with North Korea. Fri­day Trump had some kind words about Xi with the PM of Japan. Our allies are hap­py that Trump is back in there and he will have a con­ver­sa­tion with North Korea. 
• Trump says If the elec­tion wasn’t rigged noth­ing would be hap­pen­ing on the world stage. If there wasn’t a rigged elec­tion, think about the lives that have been lost and the back­wards direc­tion we have gone in the last 4 years. Hamas would not have attacked on Oct 7. Trump was not in office with Joe Biden and allowed Rus­sia to cross into Ukraine. Trump has to clean up the mess. Trump knows what Zelen­sky has done. Zelen­sky is try­ing to make amends with Trump offer­ing min­er­al deposits in a deal. This is not a deal after all the mon­ey and equip­ment we have sent. Trump makes the deal. We don’t trust Zelen­sky. Trump is work­ing on a plan with Putin, and Zelen­sky is ner­vous. 
• The King of Jor­dan is com­ing to the White House today. King Abdul­lah. Arab states reject Trump’s plan for Gaza. Egypt FM tells Rubio. Egypt will find out that this is a dif­fer­ent kind of plan and this is Trump’s plan. Trump wants to build very nice places for the Pales­tini­ans to live. Right now it is com­plete­ly dec­i­mat­ed before Trump became pres­i­dent. Trump is try­ing to tell Egypt and Jor­dan to take these peo­ple. Jordan’s pop­u­la­tion is pri­mar­i­ly pales­tin­ian. This is the pres­sure Trump will pro­pose today. The two state solu­tion is nev­er going to hap­pen because of the cor­rup­tion involved. There needs to be a dif­fer­ent solu­tion and Trump is the first to not say a two state solu­tion. 
• Trump’s bor­der czar HOman accus­es the FBI of putting lives at risk for leak­ing details of ICE raids. 
• DOGE can­cels more than $180M in gov­ern­ment con­tracts includ­ing $170K for Fau­ci muse­um. DOGE announces $881M in cuts for edu­ca­tion depart­ments. The depart­ment ter­mi­nat­ed 89 con­tracts. One con­trac­tor was 1.5M to observe mail­ing and cler­i­cal oper­a­tions at the mail cen­ter. The Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion ter­mi­nat­ed 29 DEI train­ing grants total­ing $101M to train teach­ers to help stu­dents under­stand, inter­ro­gate the com­plex his­to­ries involved in oppres­sion and help stu­dents rec­og­nize areas of priv­i­lege and pow­er on an indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive basis.