Trump Cuts More Deals in the Middle East, Calls for Peace

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- While speaking from Riyadh, President Donald Trump announced that Saudi Arabia will be investing $600 billion in the United States economy—focusing on technology development and including a $142 billion defense sales agreement. During one address, Trump stated of previous administration policies regarding the Middle East: "In the end, the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they didn’t understand themselves." 4:15pm- During an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, President Donald Trump implored Iran to abandon their quest to develop nuclear weapons—noting that during his first administration, strict sanctions on Iran prevented them from funding terror efforts throughout the Middle East. 4:20pm- Should President Trump accept a $400 million plane from Qatar? According to reports, it would replace the current Air Force One—which is nearly 40 years old—and would eventually be gifted to the Trump Presidential Library after Trump leaves office in 2029. Appearing on Fox News, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said accepting the gift would be a violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution and is not worth even “the appearance of impropriety.” 4:40pm- Should Rich let Mama Zeoli produce one segment of the show every Friday—where she’ll get to select topics? Plus, is Phil Murphy the worst governor in modern New Jersey history. And Rich keeps missing his break times…turns out his clock is broken.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.9	Busy show, busy days. We've got a lot going on. The president's in Qatar. Signing deals, bringing money back to the United States of America, big foreign investments in the United States. And Boeing is loving this.
0:27.8	Boeing, they're buying a ton of planes. Everybody's happy. It's good stuff. You know, the president also addressed nation building. And this is very, very near and dear to my heart. This whole concept of nation building and ending nation building. And this is very near and dear to my heart.
0:39.4	This whole concept of nation building and ending nation building and this nonsense idea
0:43.3	that we're going to go in and we're going to build these democracies and build these.
0:46.6	It's a joke.
0:48.2	And the president talked about that as he was in Saudi Arabia, the nation builders.
0:53.4	And what really came about from that?
0:55.8	And I think it's the same thing when America would try to intervene in various different ways, too.
1:00.6	It's the same kind of thing that would happen.
1:02.6	We would wind up creating problems.
1:05.0	Always unintended consequences with these things, always.
1:08.4	So here's the president in Saudi Arabia. Cut number two.
1:11.5	And it's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come
1:17.1	from Western interventionalists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures
1:25.6	on how to live and how to govern your own
1:28.3	affairs.
1:29.3	No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadhoud and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called
1:35.3	nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions
1:41.3	of dollars failing to develop, Kabul, Baghdad, so many other
1:48.9	cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region
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