Victor Davis Hanson: "I Told Him What Was Coming... He Didn’t Listen!"

Victor Davis Hanson lays out the chaotic reality behind Trump's current foreign policy — and why no one, not even Trump's own team, can quite define it. Is it Jacksonian restraint or selective deterrence? Nobody’s sure — not Rubio, not J.D. Vance, and certainly not the media. But as Hanson makes clear, Trump is walking a razor’s edge, surrounded by pressure from the left, the global elite, and even the Wall Street Journal — all while trying to land a trade deal that could change everything.

The clock is ticking. Trump has 30 to 40 days to score a major diplomatic win with countries like Japan or Germany to settle markets and calm the global frenzy. Meanwhile, European leaders are stalling, the Chinese are hedging, and Democrats are warning foreign powers not to make deals with him. And inside the U.S., the Federal Reserve sits on its hands — the same Fed that dropped rates to help Biden but now won’t budge, even as inflation cools and investment pours in.

Hanson doesn’t sugarcoat it: Trump is in the fight of his life, balancing global negotiations, domestic sabotage, and a media machine ready to pounce at the slightest misstep. And yet, despite the chaos, the MAGA base still sees a leader trying to outmaneuver a system that’s clearly rigged against him. Whether he succeeds or not, Hanson says, will depend on his ability to move quickly, speak clearly — and ignore the noise.