You might be scratching your head right now, wondering—why the heck should Americans care about foreign policy? After all, Trump’s mantra and his top priority is America First. That’s right—America and Americans first. We need to worry about U.S. foreign policy because the Washington establishment’s approach—specifically the Biden-Harris administration’s approach and those before them—has made America more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, more vulnerable to attacks from U.S. top four adversaries who are now actually cooperating with one another against our country.

These bureaucrats have also impoverished America and Americans by doling out billions and billions of dollars to all sorts of foreign countries, including dictatorships—$200 billion dollars to Ukraine and Zelensky and his oligarchs, who have been basically milking the United States. Others have also been on this gravy train, courtesy of the American taxpayer—such as the Taliban. NATO countries have been taking us as suckers by not paying for their own security. Americans have been putting up their lion’s share of the money needed to secure not only the United States, but also countries like Germany—which is the richest country in Europe— countries like France, you name it, even Turkey, which sometimes acts against U.S. interests.

So, this nonsense must be stopped, and President Trump will stop it. In fact, he has already begun. Here’s how he will do things differently: Before Trump, what was driving U.S. policy was ideology. That was the key driver. The Washington bureaucrats wanted to democratize every nook and cranny of the world and have gotten us into all sorts of endless foreign wars, trying to actually turn countries—who have nothing in their history even suggesting the possibility that democracy is a viable form of government—into democracies.

We are talking about Afghanistan, we’re talking about Ukraine, we are talking about all sorts of countries that some of you have never even heard of. Well, Trump doesn’t care how Putin runs Russia, how Zelensky runs Ukraine, how Xi runs China. All President Trump cares about is— America and Americans first.

To understand how Trump is going to do this, I invite you to take a look at President Trump’s own book, The Art of the Deal. I’m going to give you a quote from this book that pretty much summarizes Trump’s transactional approach.

What is a transactional approach? A transactional approach is exactly that—a transaction. You conduct a transaction between the United States and another country, and you want to ensure that anything you do makes America stronger, makes America more wealthy, and makes America safer. And if the answer to these questions—Will this make us stronger? Will this make us more wealthy? Will this make us safer?—is no, then we ought not to be doing it.

Here comes the quote by President Trump:

“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I will ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my artform. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.”

And we already see what President Trump has been doing. He has made some major, major announcements. His approach also ensures that we act from a position of strength. How do you do that? Well, first, he establishes dominance in his negotiating posture.

A lot of people don’t understand why Trump decided to taunt the Canadian Prime Minister, Trudeau, by saying, Oh, Canada must become just part of the United States.

Why is that? Because we’re paying for their security. And Trudeau himself admitted that if we were not to continue paying for Canadian security, Canada would cease to exist. So, Trump made this bold move. He has also offered to buy Greenland—and there is a lot of rationale behind his madness that we don’t have time to get into right now, but I’m going to have an op-ed running on Fox News about those reasons.

He also banned Chinese TikTok, which is essentially an intelligence collection platform. All of that is to beef up his negotiating posture, and then he is going to deal directly with dictators like Putin, like President Xi—from a position of strength—making sure that we’re getting the best deal.

Now, all of this is great, right? You know, Trump is going to do excellent, excellent work—but he is not a magician, right? He is not a magician. What do I mean by that? President Trump announced, even before he became president, that he wants to conclude a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine—to stop the killing. And we know that about a million men, including Russians and Ukrainians, are either dead or gravely wounded.

He wants to stop that. Ukraine has been obliterated—effectively, 50% of its infrastructure is destroyed. President Trump also wants to stop sending billions of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars to Zelensky for this unwinnable war. But in the situation we’re in, you cannot ignore reality. The Biden administration and Joe himself—Sleepy Joe—launched his parting shot that upset the strategic environment on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine by authorizing the long- range missiles that the United States provides to Ukraine—to strike Russia.

He authorized Zelensky to use those weapons, by which he basically demonstrated to Putin that Putin was correct to invade Ukraine—because Putin wants to eliminate that threat. So right now, President Trump has zero leverage with Putin—nearly zero. Why is that? Because Putin can continue destroying Ukraine by throwing his men into the meat grinder—and he has three times more troops to throw into the meat grinder than the Ukrainians.

Putin, who is an attorney by training, has stated that Zelensky knows the Ukrainian constitution as well as the Russian constitution. Zelensky is illegitimate. Putin refuses to negotiate with him because his term expired around the March-May timeframe. So, President Trump is going to have a very, very hard time on this one—because of the position he inherited from the Biden administration.

So, we need to be patient with that. This is just a preview of how Trump is going to act. He is going to be realistic. He is not going to base his foreign policy on wishful thinking. Yes, we want everybody to live in democracy—but is that even real? Is that even possible?

He is going to unleash energy dominance, which he will use as a foreign policy instrument. And I have another op-ed coming up in The UK Telegraph exactly on that—how it will help foreign policy, how he may help settle the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and more.