Good evening. It's Thursday, May 15th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every single Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, the quote, interim president of Syria was known until about five months ago by his war name or his terrorist name of Abu Mohammed Al Jalani.

But now he has undergone a major Western transformation where he traded in his military fatigues and tunic and pants combo for Armani suits and ties.

He has even been given a new, less threatening name, Ahmed, Ahmed Hussein al-Shara, president of Syria.

As recently as December, the Justice Department on its own site branded him a wanted al-Qaeda terrorist and offered a $5 million reward for any information leading to his capture.

Even when he marched into Damascus on December 8th,

after driving out the Assad government, the DOJ reward remained, hey, $5 million for anyone,

information leading to his detention. I know where he is. He's right there. He's ruling over

Syria and Damascus. It was only on December 20th, less than five months

ago that the DOJ removed the bounty on his head and the page on its site where it was announced.

Now, what a difference a few months make? This monstrous Al-Qaeda terrorist is now a respected

world leader because the U.S., Israel, and the EU countries all decided,

for whatever reasons, that they want him ruling Syria.

President Trump met with Joani, or the Syrian president, on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

where he shook his hand, posed for pictures, and then gushed about how handsome and tough he is. Remember, we fought a 20-year

war against al-Qaeda. All that was preceded by a state visit to France where President Macron

welcomed him by standing in front of the storied presidential palace in Paris as Al Jalani pulled up in

his black chauffeur car. How can someone almost literally overnight

go from a wanted al-Qaeda terrorist monster

to someone the West unifies to embrace as a world leader?

All of this leads to many important questions,

starting with, does this very malleable term,

terrorists, have any real or fixed meaning at all, or is it just a propaganda term that gets

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