The Peace President Who Bombed the World: A Reckoning With Hypocrisy

Donald Trump’s self-styled image as a “peace president”—a leader who would end America’s foreign entanglements and bring its soldiers home—was always more illusion than ideology. While his rhetoric painted him as a non-interventionist, his record reveals a very different reality: escalated drone strikes, military interventions in Yemen and Syria, threats of war with Iran, and unwavering support for Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. The gap between word and deed is not just hypocrisy—it is a moral wound. Trump's foreign policy legacy is steeped in contradiction. Despite campaigning on the promise of restraint, he authorized the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, pushed billions in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and continued America’s involvement in the catastrophic war in Yemen—a conflict that has left tens of thousands dead and millions starving. Now, as renewed violence erupts across the Middle East, including Israeli strikes on Yemen and ongoing threats toward Iran, we are forced to confront the truth: peace was never the agenda. Power was. This is the price of American amnesia. Endless war has not made us safer—it has bankrupted our economy, destabilized entire regions, and slaughtered millions of human beings, most of them civilians, most of them forgotten. If there is any justice left in our collective memory, we must hold our leaders accountable—not just for the wars they start, but for the lies they tell in the name of peace.