As President Trump was in the middle of a Middle East trip, cultivating financial ties and making arms deals with Arab oil sheiks and funders of Islamist terrorism, the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee released a copy of a “Big, Beautiful Bill” that would add at least $3.8 trillion to the deficit, and perhaps as much as $5.3 trillion.

The tax reduction bill did NOT include a provision eliminating taxes on Social Security – something Trump campaigned on.

In Saudi Arabia, Trump attacked the neo-cons for trying to transform the Middle East, but the idea of leaving the region in the hands of Jihadists of a Sunni or Shiite character will not benefit the United States, or the world. Trump’s billionaire globalist friends at the “Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum” will lose their shirts – and Israel may not survive – if the global Islamic terror network based in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and now Syria is not identified and defeated.

The Saudi Royal Family was implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, and Qatar’s offer of a luxury jet to the president stinks to high heaven, considering the regime’s funding of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups.

Under Trump, some “America First” advocates expected he would withdraw our support for the Qatar regime and close the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East, which is maintained there.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which effectively controls Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television network, gave rise to terrorist organizations such as Hamas, the officially designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that launched the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. However, the Muslim Brotherhood is not an officially designated FTO, even under Trump.

Here at home, Trump has deferred to the Supreme Court, an inferior and unelected branch of government with no military or police power, on matters of national security, including deporting Hamas operatives, foreign gang members, and terrorists.

These recent SCOTUS decisions tell you everything you want to know about who is now running the country:

• "U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump's transgender military ban take effect" (Reuters)

• "Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce trans military ban" (Just the News)

• "Supreme Court Lets Trump Enforce Transgender Troop Ban as Cases Proceed" (New York Times)

• "Supreme Court stays lower court ruling, allowing Trump transgender ban to proceed" (Fox News)

What is amazing is that, whether the media outlet is left or right, they all agree that the Supreme Court somehow has the right to decide military policy. It does not.

It can only enforce its rulings if the other branches accept it. They did so with the unconstitutional Roe v. Wade decision, legalizing abortion on demand, and Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing “gay marriage” nationally. Only the Roe decision was subsequently overturned by the Court itself. The Roe decision led to 60 million dead babies, and there is still no legalized or recognized right to life on the federal level.

We are living under a Supreme Court dictatorship.

Regarding the gay marriage decision, Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the case called the ruling a judicial “Putsch,” an attempt to overthrow a form of government – ours. His dissent, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, was written “to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.”

The threat continues.

Scalia understood the power and meaning of words and he chose the word “putsch” for a specific purpose. One definition of the term means “a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government….” Another definition is “a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.”

As he pleads for more favorable rulings from the Supreme Court, President Trump was in Saudi Arabia and greeted the new president of Syria, a Jihadist by the name of Ahmed Al-Sharaa. The Syrian president created the al-Nusrah Front, an arm of al-Qaeda.

Under Trump’s first term, the al-Nusrah Front was labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Understandably, Trump wants to put an end to the disasters in the Middle East initiated by the Obama administration and which led to the Syrian civil war. But his ending of sanctions on the new Sunni Muslim terrorist government of Syria will not accomplish that. What is more, he seems to be negotiating for the survival of the Shiite terrorist regime in Iran in exchange for certain restrictions on its nuclear program.

Trump’s friendly relationships with Qatar‘s ruling monarchy are also disturbing. Qatar is an undemocratic regime that sponsors al-Qaeda and Jihadist terror groups – including Hamas – throughout the Middle East.

Qatar’s Al-Jazeera network, known as Terror Television, is still in operation and has inspired foreign Muslim fighters to go to places like Iraq and Afghanistan for the specific purpose of killing U.S. service members.

In 2003 testimony to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Mamoun Fandy, an expert on the Arab media, said Al-Jazeera’s reporters and correspondents constitute a “who is who in the rank and file of the [Muslim] brotherhood,” described as “the first Islamic organization with global reach” and has left a “record of destruction” throughout the Middle East.

Regarding Saudi Arabia, the Saudi role in funding the Global Jihad Movement has never been officially investigated in detail. The role of many Saudis in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America should have put Saudi Arabia on the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism.

9/11 was an attack that was foreseeable and preventable. As journalist Peter Lance has documented in his book Triple Cross, there was a spectacular “failure of accountability” for those who could and should have stopped the 9/11 attacks. Lance's book traces the history of some of the perpetrators of these terrorist acts going back to 1981. His book goes into substantial detail about the TWA 800 and Oklahoma City bombing cases and how government officials covered up the nature of these crimes, too, and their Middle East connections.

9/11 was used as justification by various U.S. administrations to go to war in the Middle East. Yet, to this day, details about the Saudi role in 9/11 have been withheld.

Remember that 15 of the 19 terrorist hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks came from Saudi Arabia. 9/11’s so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, speaking from behind federal prison walls, had told attorneys suing Saudi Arabia over its role in 9/11 that major Saudi figures, including members of the Saudi Royal Family, were on a list of donors to al-Qaeda prior to 9/11.

Litigation is still continuing on behalf of the 9/11 families to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its role in the terrorist attacks.

Yet, President Trump was there in Saudi Arabia, on the first leg of his trip, praising Saudi officials and welcoming their financial investments in the United States. He was accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, whose bond trading firm and employees in the World Trade Center's North Tower were victims on 9/11 and whose younger brother, Gary, lost his life in the attack.

Families of 9/11 victims wrote to Lutnick before Trump's trip, asking him to press the Saudi government to extradite a Saudi intelligence officer to the U.S. because of his alleged connected to the 9/11 hijackers.