Source: USA Today
by Sara Pequeño
“On the 2024 reelection campaign trail, President Donald Trump consistently heralded himself as the anti-war president. In his 2025 inaugural address, he said the power of the United States ‘will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent and totally unpredictable.’ It’s a wonder that people actually believed him. This is the same man, after all, who ordered the assassination of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani and led missile strikes in Syria during his first term. This is the same man who has said that he would turn Gaza into a Mar-a-Lago-esque resort …. Is it really a surprise then that he has skirted congressional approval and allowed an act of war to take place by essentially kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela so that he can be tried on drug trafficking charges in the United States? No, no, it is not.” (01/06/26)