Trade Over Aid: Trump’s Next Foreign Policy Reset

First Trump blew up the Deep State's foreign-aid racket. Now he’s replacing permanent aid dependency with a doctrine built on growth, trade, and self-sustaining prosperity.

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by Rod D. Martin
April 21, 2026

Iran is certainly the topic du jour, but it’s only one piece of a much larger puzzle. It’s also serving as a useful distraction while the President engineers a separate, though connected, revolution. His latest target is America’s abominable foreign aid regime, and the socialist mindset that drives it.

The blowback would be intense under normal circumstances. But who can keep up with Trump?

As I’ve been describing over the last year, Donald Trump is carrying out a comprehensive reset of American foreign policy, the broadest since the end of World War II. Some of the smartest geopolitical analysts I know believe he’s intent on withdrawing from the world. They’re wrong. Trump is simply rejecting the liberal internationalist and neoconservative approaches to American engagement.