America UnCanceled: President Trump is the Leader America Needed

President Trump’s trip to the Middle East is demonstrating that he commands respect and is able to complete profitable deals for the United States. This earned respect towards President Trump is in stark contrast to the Biden Administration, which spread instability across the world. Mercedes Schlapp and KT McFarland, Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States under President Donald Trump and CPAC board member, had a conversation on America UnCanceled about President Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

The trip, says McFarland, is a culmination of an ongoing effort from the early days of his first term. There was a question from the very first week of his first term of determining who the United States would support in the generational struggle for succession. President Trump had a decision to support the traditionalist older factions or the younger “forward-thinking” faction who support an “open society, diversified economy, and rights for women.” 

President Trump took the risk of supporting the younger generation in the dispute over succession. More particularly, the president supported the rule of Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman al Saud. The new Prime Minister, says McFarland, revolutionized the Saudi economy: 

“He [Mohammed bin Salman al Saud] really delivered on everything he promised to President Trump. Not only did he open up his society, not just for a petroleum-based society, but they looked to the future, they looked to technology, they looked to infrastructure development. And more importantly, he took a stand with the world against Islamic extremism.”