Trump, President of Peace
Kevin McCullough
It’s almost too perfect. For years, the political class mocked Donald J. Trump as a wrecking ball in foreign affairs—too brash, too blunt, too reckless to ever bring peace to a world stage. Yet here we are: the war in Ukraine, one of the deadliest conflicts in modern Europe, may actually be brought to a conclusion not by endless U.N. chatter or NATO bureaucrats, but by Trump himself.
And the cherry on top? None other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, his eternal political foil, felt compelled last week to snidely quip that she’d nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he somehow ended the war without Ukraine losing territory. Let’s be crystal clear: she didn’t say it out of respect, admiration, or genuine belief. She said it because she thought it was impossible. She said it in the same spirit as every late-night comedian who’s spent a decade misjudging him. But here’s the problem for Hillary—Trump has a track record of pulling off the “impossible.”
Think about it. He stared down North Korea when no one else would and brought Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table. He brokered the historic Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states after decades of stalemate. He began winding down our “forever wars,” refusing to accept the blood-for-sand bargain that D.C.’s war machine thrives on. And at home, in just one week of his federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., the capital of the free world went from an unsafe urban jungle to a city that once again felt secure for its people.
more
https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/08/18/trump-president-of-peace-n2661970
