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On Tuesday, our time, President Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia.

And despite the jet lag in the early round of meetings on very little sleep, he gave a speech that is not getting enough attention.

He said he wanted to bring commerce, not chaos, to the Middle East. That's clever wordplay,

but he's such a powerful statement.

But I went back and listened to his speech, and then I got a transcript of it,

and I wanted to share a couple of lines with you that I pulled out.

He said, my greatest hope is to be a peacemaker and be a unifier.

Now, Saudi Arabia has been embroiled in a, on the precipice of war, direct war with Iran,

for decades.

And a proxy war through the Houthis in Yemen

that is a hot war at present.

Iran would wipe Saudi Arabia off the map if they could,

if they could get away with it.

Saudi Arabia has been, oddly enough, at one time, at a single time, one of our most important

allies in the Middle East and the source of many of our problems.

I'll remind you that Osama bin Laden was based in Saudi Arabia.

I do not think they are perfect.

I think that they have been the source of a number of problems that we have suffered,

both through terrorism and abroad. But they're an important person, and Trump is trying, has been trying, to manage that relationship to the betterment of America.

He said, as I said in my inaugural address, my greatest hope is to be a peacemaker or a unifier, I don't like war.

He talked about brokering a historic ceasefire between India and Pakistan and using trade to do it.

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