Trump at home takes up his adjacent side on the Middle East tour

At home, President Trump orders investigations into his political opponents and finds creative ways to use his executive power to ruin the life of some of his milder critics.

Abroad, Mr. Trump sent a different message: leave the past past. Even if this past deal with murdering it or working with Al -Qaida.

In a number of speeches and remarks outside the shovel during the first major trip abroad of his second term, Mr. Trump informed the audience in the Middle East that he is ready to put the past aside in the interest of peace and profit.

“I never believed in having permanent enemies,” said Mr. Trump on Tuesday in the Saudi US investment forum in Riad. “I'm different from many people.”

His statement about constant enemies in connection with his public relations work on Iran – whose government is accused of murdering him after leaving the office. (Iran denies this.) But a little later, in the same speech, Mr. Trump offered a more surprising olive branch.

He announced that he would raise US sanctions against Syria and to a country that was devastated by decades of repression, civil war, terrorism and poverty, an economic lifeline that was tightened by international isolation.