Susan Glasser

It seems to me that that's a form of rot and corruption policy.

that anyone can be against.

Because I just don't think it's wrong to do the right thing.

I think there are many people who have shown you can succeed in business, even in the Trump environment, without engaging in these things.

It means that these companies...

pay zero price for our entire, you know, kind of public space, right?

They think that the rest of us should fund the democracy part of the democracy, and they should reap its benefits and be willing to do things that are antithetical to the public commons.

Oh, sorry.

That was just somebody honking.

Well, I think the F-35 sales and that greeting, I'm sure a lot of people saw Trump coming to the portico of the White House to greet MBS in a fanfare-laden ceremony, not only rolling out the red carpet, according in the full honors, essentially, of a state visit, even though he's not the head of state.

His father, technically speaking, still is.

And this flyover of the F-35s, which the U.S.

government, which Trump has agreed to sell, that's something that previous senators

administrations had, including Trump's own previous administration, have resisted.

Saudi Arabia already has a military cooperation channel with China.

And one of the concerns is, you know, possible proliferation of sensitive defense technology that the U.S.

has.

And

You know, this goes back to what we mentioned with Trump and Israel and Gaza, which is that Donald Trump wants to be seen as a dealmaker, seen as a peacemaker, especially in the Middle East, but is often really not a very strong negotiator, not a strong dealmaker.

So