Backstabber Mike Pence trashes Trump’s Saudi triumph and slams president for not visiting Israel

Former Vice President Mike Pence had some choice words for recent decisions made by his former boss, President Donald Trump. 

During an appearance on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker Sunday morning, Pence said that he has ‘never been a fan of American presidents criticizing America on foreign soil.’

‘To have the president in Saudi Arabia questioning America’s global war on terror, and describing it as nation-building and interventionist, I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform and who took the fight to our enemy, you know, in Afghanistan and in Iraq.’

‘And particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers hailed from, not including Osama bin Laden, I thought was unfortunate,’ Pence continued.

Missing from the list of Trump’s stops this past week was the nation of Israel, which the Administration has been closely working with, most recently to secure the release of the last American hostage in Gaza, Edan Alexander, earlier this week. 

The former Vice President also expressed his disapproval at Trump’s acceptance of a $400 million plane from Qatar, another one of the Gulf nations visited by the President this past week.

‘I think first we’ve got to remember who Qatar is. We’ve got a military base there. I have members of our immediate family that have deployed to the region. But Qatar has a long history of playing both sides. They support Hamas. They supported Al Qaeda,’ Pence noted.

Bringing the conversation closer to home, the former Vice President added that ‘Qatar has actually financed pro-Hamas protests on American campuses across the United States. So, the very idea that we would accept an Air Force One from Qatar I think is inconsistent with our security, with our intelligence needs.’

Overall, Pence suggested that the president ‘reconsiders’ the gift.

‘I think if Qatar wants to make a gift to the United States, they ought to take that $400 million and plow it into infrastructure on our military base,’ Pence concluded.

Trump skipped out this past week on visiting the Middle Eastern country arguably most aligned with the United States, Israel.

Commenting on the omission from the president’s schedule, Pence added that he ‘thought it was a missed opportunity not to also travel to Israel as President Trump did eight years ago.’

‘I think sending the message to the Arab world that we’re prepared to engage, we’re prepared to support, we want economic commerce, we want strategic and security engagement. But in that trip eight years ago, he also made a point to fly to Israel and make it clear that if the world knows nothing else, the world knows this, that America stands with Israel.’ 

‘Now there were people that said that our efforts and the president’s decision to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, to recognize the Golan Heights, would be disruptive, that it would create and foment violence in the region.’

‘But there we were, seated on the South Lawn of the White House in the fall of 2020, signing the first peace agreement between Israel and two Arab nations in 25 years– in the Abraham Accords.’

‘So for me, not only the president’s decision to not travel to Israel on this trip was a missed opportunity, but also I have concerns about excluding Israel from the ceasefire with the Houthis. And also, I have concerns about what I hear about negotiations and discussions with Iran,’ Pence concluded.