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“In the end, the so -called nation of Builders built far more nations than they built,” Trump said on Tuesday during a comprehensive speech at an investment conference in the Saudi capital Riad. “And the interventionalists intervened in complex companies that they didn't even understand.”

He asked the people in the region to “draw their own fate in their own way”.

The reactions to his speech quickly spread to mobile phone screens in a Middle East, in which the American invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan – and recently the US support for Israel, if it intensified his war in Gaza, which is on the verge of hunger – are moved to public awareness and criticized by monarchists and Alike Dissiders.

Sultan Alamer, A Saudi academics joked that Mr. Trump's statements sounded as if they were from Frantz Fanon, a Marxist thinker from the 20th century, who wrote about the dynamics of colonial oppression. Syrians have published solemn memes when Mr. Trump announced that he would end American sanctions in their war country “to give them a chance of size”.

And in Yemen – another country that was in war and is subject to American sanctions – implied abdullatif Mohammed implicit agreement with Mr. Trump's concept of conflict, also when he expressed frustration on US intervention.

“When will the countries recognize us and let us live how the rest of the world?” Mr. Mohammed, a 31-year-old restaurant manager in the capital, said Sana when he was asked about the speech. American air strikes have contested his city under the former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and under Mr. Trump on the Houthi militia supported by Iran until Mr. Trump abruptly explained an ceasefire this month.

“Who is Trump to grant forgives, to raise sanctions against a country or to impose them?” Said Mr. Mohammed. “But that's how the world works.”

The statements of Mr. Trump came at the beginning of a four-day excursion through three wealthy Arabic Gulf States: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He was largely focused on business transactions, including more than 1 Billion US dollars in the United States, which were promised by the three golf regulations.

But his speech in Riad made it clear that he had broader diplomatic ambitions for his trip. He expressed a “fully fuel wish” that Saudi Arabia follows two neighbors, the Emirates and Bahrain, to recognize the state of Israel. (Saudi officials said that this will only happen after a Palestinian state was founded.) He said that he had the strong wish to achieve a deal with Iran through his nuclear program, and added that he “never believed in having constant enemies”.

And on Wednesday, he learned the new leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara-Kennen-Einen former jihadist, who led a rebel alliance that replaced the brutal, strong Bashar al-Assad. Mr. Trump posed for a photo with Mr. Al-Shara and the Saudi crown prince in a picture that left the pines in the region and beyond.

“Age what happened is really incredible,” said Mr. Mohammed, the Yemeni restaurant manager.

Mr. Trump's speech was sometimes a permanent speech that lasted more than 40 minutes.

In Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, he failed to mention that he previously said that “Islam hates us” and that the Koran teaches “a very negative mood”. Instead, he praised the inheritance of the kingdom.

In contrast to Mr. Biden's more chillen approach to the crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman, his friendliness in front of the Saudi crowd, the De -Facto -Saudi -Herrscher, who led a long -standing bomb campaign in Yemen and supervised a widespread procedure against Dissen, while loosening up drastically social restrictions. When Mr. Biden visited Saudi Arabia, he told the Crown Prince that he was responsible for the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi for the murder and disassembly of Jamal Khashoggi, a Columnist of the Washington Post, who criticizes the rule of the royal family.

Instead, Mr. Trump was praised on the Arabian Peninsula and Prince Mohammed and called him an “incredible man”.

“In recent years, far too many American presidents have been affected by the idea that it is our job to examine the souls of foreign guides and use the US policy to sell justice for their sins,” said Trump.

His remarks made some Arabicists worried about what could mean the potential evaporation of American pressure on human rights violations for their countries.

Ibrahim Almadi is the son of a 75-year-old American, Saudi national, who was arrested in the kingdom for critical social media contributions. His father was released, Saudi Arabia is not allowed to leave. In an interview, Almadi said that he was hoping that Mr. Trump was talking to Saudi officials during his visit to his father's case – and he had tried to blend without success. He sees it as the kind of human rights violation that had pushed Saudi officials in Saudi.

“They normalize my father's case, which is not normal,” he said about the Trump government.

A spokeswoman for the White House did not answer any questions whether the president or his adjutants had raised questions of human rights with Saudi officials. When asked about the response to his address, spokeswoman Anna Kelly said: “The president received a widespread praise for his speech.”

Abdullah Alaoudh, member of a Saudi opposition party in exile and son of a prominent clergy detained in the Kingdom, described the speech as public relations for the benefit of Prince Mohammed.

He added that he found it ironically that Mr. Trump praised a Middle East that was built “by the people in the region” when he spoke to an audience that was littered with foreign billionaires, and “in front of an authoritarian leader who brutally silenced all dissent”.

In the ballroom in Riad, Mr. Trump received standing ovations.

“The president's speech was actually quite consistent,” said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan at a press conference on Wednesday and described them as “Mutual respect”.

Mr. Alamer, a high -ranking scholarship holder of the New Line Institute, a research group in Washington, said in an interview that the words of the President reflect topics that are normally connected to left and anti -imperialist intellectuals.

“This is surprising in the sense that we, as an Arab, were the topic of American lecture and interventionism in the past, but it is also not surprising that new right-wing populist movements in the Golf as well as in the USA-one part of this rhetoric of left and socialists have been lending, and it has resumed to drive a conservative world,” said Mr. Alam.

Negad el-Boraie, a prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer, said he hesitated to read a lot about Mr. Trump's speech, since he was mainly about investments in Saudi Arabia.

But for Mr. El-Boraie, Mr. Trump was only honest about what the US presidents had always really looked after-regardless of how many previous presidents had related to human rights and democracy in comments.

“The United States prioritized its own interests,” he said. “Trump honestly expresses his opinion, and that is clear in all his speeches.”

Shuaib Almosawa Contribution to reporting from Sana, Yemen; Rania Khaled from Cairo; Ismaeeliar from Dubai; Hwaida Saad And Jacob Roubai by Beirut; And Muhammad Haj Kadour From Damascus.