Michael Weiss

So in other words, Donald Trump takes a bribe by a foreign power, which will cost the US taxpayer $600 million. Wow. It's pretty incredible, like a masterstroke of statecraft. And then you've got Ahmed al-Shara, the jihadi president of Syria, former jihadi, who says, well, why don't you just build a Trump Tower in Damascus? And lo and behold, sanctions are magically lifted. lifted.

And Trump is not only posing with this guy, who is a top operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and then the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lieutenant who was dispatched into Syria to set up the ISIS franchise there, or the ISI franchise there, which became ISIS. But it was on the US terrorism list up until very recently.

And Trump is not only posing with this guy, who is a top operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and then the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lieutenant who was dispatched into Syria to set up the ISIS franchise there, or the ISI franchise there, which became ISIS. But it was on the US terrorism list up until very recently.

And Trump is not only posing with this guy, who is a top operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and then the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lieutenant who was dispatched into Syria to set up the ISIS franchise there, or the ISI franchise there, which became ISIS. But it was on the US terrorism list up until very recently.

And then Trump not only poses smiling with the guy, but says, oh, yeah, he's quite attractive. He's charismatic. He's a real fighter. And You know, like he's just met like Muhammad Ali or something. It's just, you know, it's transactional. It's like so cosmically narcissistic. But I guess this is just the way the world works and everyone's figuring it out.

And then Trump not only poses smiling with the guy, but says, oh, yeah, he's quite attractive. He's charismatic. He's a real fighter. And You know, like he's just met like Muhammad Ali or something. It's just, you know, it's transactional. It's like so cosmically narcissistic. But I guess this is just the way the world works and everyone's figuring it out.

And then Trump not only poses smiling with the guy, but says, oh, yeah, he's quite attractive. He's charismatic. He's a real fighter. And You know, like he's just met like Muhammad Ali or something. It's just, you know, it's transactional. It's like so cosmically narcissistic. But I guess this is just the way the world works and everyone's figuring it out.

Well, first of all, there's no stability or reliability to anything this guy does. So tomorrow he can decide, well, actually, I made a mistake. I'm going to reimpose sanctions on Syria, right? Let's talk about the neocon world order. Who's the biggest loser of this trip to the Gulf? Benjamin Netanyahu, right?

Well, first of all, there's no stability or reliability to anything this guy does. So tomorrow he can decide, well, actually, I made a mistake. I'm going to reimpose sanctions on Syria, right? Let's talk about the neocon world order. Who's the biggest loser of this trip to the Gulf? Benjamin Netanyahu, right?

Well, first of all, there's no stability or reliability to anything this guy does. So tomorrow he can decide, well, actually, I made a mistake. I'm going to reimpose sanctions on Syria, right? Let's talk about the neocon world order. Who's the biggest loser of this trip to the Gulf? Benjamin Netanyahu, right?

Donald Trump's bestie, Israeli prime minister, a man who made no mystery of the fact that he was, I mean, actively campaigning for Trump's reelection and then waiting for Trump's inauguration to do all kinds of deals, finish the war in Gaza. per Netanyahu, which is as soon as the war started, I thought the Israelis are never going to leave. There's not going to be a withdrawal.

Donald Trump's bestie, Israeli prime minister, a man who made no mystery of the fact that he was, I mean, actively campaigning for Trump's reelection and then waiting for Trump's inauguration to do all kinds of deals, finish the war in Gaza. per Netanyahu, which is as soon as the war started, I thought the Israelis are never going to leave. There's not going to be a withdrawal.

Donald Trump's bestie, Israeli prime minister, a man who made no mystery of the fact that he was, I mean, actively campaigning for Trump's reelection and then waiting for Trump's inauguration to do all kinds of deals, finish the war in Gaza. per Netanyahu, which is as soon as the war started, I thought the Israelis are never going to leave. There's not going to be a withdrawal.

They're not going to slot in the Palestinian Authority. This is going to be full on permanent occupation. And it certainly looks like that's the way it's tending. But also, let's get the Americans to now take out Iran's nuclear program by force, which is what's something the Israelis have been begging every administration since George W. Bush to do. Right.

They're not going to slot in the Palestinian Authority. This is going to be full on permanent occupation. And it certainly looks like that's the way it's tending. But also, let's get the Americans to now take out Iran's nuclear program by force, which is what's something the Israelis have been begging every administration since George W. Bush to do. Right.

They're not going to slot in the Palestinian Authority. This is going to be full on permanent occupation. And it certainly looks like that's the way it's tending. But also, let's get the Americans to now take out Iran's nuclear program by force, which is what's something the Israelis have been begging every administration since George W. Bush to do. Right.

Now it looks like both those things are not well, the permanent occupation of Gaza. I think Trump just said again today, let's make it a free zone, an American run free zone, you know, beachfront property for all, et cetera, et cetera. We'll we'll see where that goes.

Now it looks like both those things are not well, the permanent occupation of Gaza. I think Trump just said again today, let's make it a free zone, an American run free zone, you know, beachfront property for all, et cetera, et cetera. We'll we'll see where that goes.

Now it looks like both those things are not well, the permanent occupation of Gaza. I think Trump just said again today, let's make it a free zone, an American run free zone, you know, beachfront property for all, et cetera, et cetera. We'll we'll see where that goes.

But it certainly looks to me and to Middle East watchers like where things are headed with respect to Iran's nuclear file is JCPOA 2.0.