🚨 Minding Our Own Business – May 14 2025

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Lead: President Trump’s New Diplomatic Agenda

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President Trump gave a speech at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and it was perhaps one of the most impactful speeches on U.S. foreign policy in our lifetime. So naturally the media is ignoring it.

The gist of the speech was this: The U.S. is done waging wars on foreign soil. We’re done telling other countries how to be. We’re done judging their leaders by our own standards. We are open for business, not war.

He admitted that what the U.S. has done in the name of “democracy” or “freedom” has done far more harm than good. He also paid respect to other cultures and their accomplishments despite Western pressures to tear apart their societies.

This may have been my favorite part:

“It’s crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation does not come from Western interventionists. Flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs, no. The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called ‘nation-builders,’ ‘neo-cons,’ or ‘liberal non-profits,’ like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves … developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies. 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 did not even understand themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came NOT from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.”

He later said that past administrations have “been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice for their sins… I believe it is God’s job to sit in judgment — my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace.”

This speech should be EVERYWHERE but the media has not caught on to its importance. The U.S. President is admitting that it went abroad in search of destruction, imposing its own values on others and that it does not want to do that any more. In the words of the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker, “It’s hugely significant and tragic that it took decades.”

Europe Turns on Israel

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French President Emmanuel Macron says that Europe may need to revisit its cooperation with Israel if Israel does not allow humanitarian aid through to the people of Gaza.

Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip and says that it cannot allow food or other essentials through because the civilian population there is “mixing with” Hamas. The rest of the world is forced to watch in horror as Palestinians starve.

Macron said this about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “What he’s doing is shameful.”

Would Europe go as far as to withdraw money from Israel or cut off business deals? No Western nation has ever done that.

To be fair, some are saying that this is unprecedented for Macron but it’s not. He has spoken on behalf of the people of Gaza many times since October 7 but Israel has been able to ignore him.

Israel is moving forward with its plan to fully take over Gaza. On Tuesday, they bombed a hospital, killing at least 28 people. Also on Tuesday, the government approved a takeover of much of the West Bank too.

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The Media Excuses Itself

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American media is trying to place blame on the Biden White House for hiding President Biden’s decline, as if they did not themselves know. It is a heinous re-writing of their own sins and incredibly frustrating.

CNN’s Jake Tapper is promoting a book called “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” He accuses the White House of hiding the President’s condition from the American people. He reports that people who cared about the President, like George Clooney, missed it because he had good days and bad days.

It’s bullshit and it’s embarrassing. The entire country knew that because we watched it before our very eyes. The media denied what we could all see. Tapper himself denied many times that President Biden was in cognitive decline and is now accusing others of a cover up.

Even more shameful is the New Yorker piece by Tapper showing how the Democrats clearly launched a coup against the President, removing him from office when THEY decided he couldn’t win. It quotes Schumer saying, “If things go south at the debate, me, Barack, Nancy, and Hakeem have a Plan B,” though he denies it.

It wasn’t for kingmakers to have a Plan B! President Biden won the Democratic primary! He was the voters’ choice to face President Trump and that choice was taken from them by elites who decided that they didn’t like their chances. This article shows how the Democratic Party calls the shots, top down for their voters and not the other way around.

“He stole an election from the Democratic Party. He stole it from the American people,” one Democrat says in the piece.

He was the President of the United States. It was his right to run for reelection and it was the voters’ choice to let him. It’s shameful that they’re all admitting that they subverted the will of the people. You don’t hate the media and elites enough.

What’s Trending?

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Pete Rose is trending because Major League Baseball removed him and 16 other deceased players from the ineligible list. Shoeless Joe Jackson was also on that list, which means both will likely be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, which is a big deal for Rose supporters.

Oswaldo Cabrera is trending because he had a nasty injury after sliding into home plate and was carted off in an ambulance. He was placed on a 10-day injured list with a fractured ankle.

UnitedHealth is trending because the CEO who replaced Brian Thompson after his fatal shooting announced he will step down for personal reasons. That job may be like a job at Hogwarts teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts if you know what I mean!

News By The Numbers

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58. That is how old Salma Hayak is. She is trending because of this new Sports Illustrated cover.

50 years. That is the new prison sentence for the Menendez brothers, giving them a chance of parole.

6,000. That is how many people Microsoft will lay off, or 3% of its workforce. They say that their aim is to “reduce management layers.”

Do We Have To Defend Harvard? 

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The Trump administration says that it will cut $450 million in funding to Harvard University because they have failed to address race discrimination by the government’s own standards. This is in addition to the $2.6 billion that was already revoked.

The Trump administration has argued that Harvard has “become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination,” particularly antisemitism. In April, the government sent a list of demands, which requiring Harvard to “shutter all DEI programs, ban masks, overhaul governance, conduct third-party audits of ‘viewpoint diversity’ in each department, immediately report international student conduct violations, and discipline anyone alleged to have stoked campus protests.”

Harvard may very well be a hellish echo chamber that has scored dismally low by free speech advocates but the government should not turn purse strings into puppet strings and set academic agendas. Its demands are clear government overreach and Harvard should be afforded due process to defend its own academic freedom and agenda before any monies are revoked. The government is not affording the school that right.

Alternatively, the government could set standards for accepting grants in advance and Harvard could decide if it wants that money but given that the grants were not predicated on the above conditions, it isn’t right for the administration to set its own agenda and answer censorship with censorship.

Harvard filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in April claiming that the Trump administration’s decision to freeze and terminate federal research funding is an unlawful attempt to exert control over the university’s academic operations.

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