President Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, as part of the first state visit of his second term. After he was greeted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he participated in a coffee ceremony and then signed a series of agreements on energy, defense, and other areas. 

.@POTUS and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sign a series of agreements on energy, defense, and other areas pic.twitter.com/p44J673740

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Trump then proceeded to King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center to deliver remarks at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum. His speech was comprehensive and quite rousing, but one key moment that really stood out was near the end, as he outlined his vision for a peaceful, prosperous Middle East. 

.@POTUS: The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders... who spent trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad... the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves. pic.twitter.com/SluRou2mv6

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"Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence — we don't want that."

This elicited a lively round of applause from the audience. 

Trump then continued...with a well-placed right hook to the establishment that's fought him tooth and nail for years: 

"And it's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western interventionalists, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called 'nation builders,' neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, so many other cities.

"Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way — it's really incredible what you've done.

"In the end, the so-called 'nation builders' wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves."

Perhaps more than any other stance he's taken over the past decade, it is Trump's disregard for the "neocons" and "nationbuilders" — of both parties — that his earned him their undying enmity. That hits them at the core of their profit and power. 

We can expect the legacy media to provide us with countless negative reviews of this speech in 3...2...1..

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