Both the House and the Senate have voted on a resolution to end United States support for Saudi Arabia as they continue to pummel Yemen with air strikes, causing what the United Nations has declared will be the worst humanitarian crisis in 2019.
Being the monster that he is, Donald Trump vetoed the resolution claiming that the resolution is a "dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities." I would say someone should tell him the most basic role of Congress, but we know how Trump feel's about the rule of law.
Rule of law aside, this debate is more about morality, and Trump's decision to continue aiding Saudi Arabia's genocide of Yemen is a disgrace and will continue to have America on the wrong side of history.
People have aired their righteous disgust of Trump's decision:
"Donald Trump is a servant of Saudi interests, willing to support a genocide against the Yemeni people so that a stunted crown prince can look tough," tweeted former Senator of Arkansas, Mike Gravel. "We need a much tougher War Powers Act - one that sets much tougher rules surrounding when America can support a war."
"President Donald Trump is an active participant in this genocide," issued Gravel in a statement. "With this veto, he makes it clear that the influence of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince outweighs the legal powers of the United States Congress and international law to support what the UN calls 'the worst humanitarian crisis.'"
Senator Gravel is correct in his assessment that by issuing this veto, Donald Trump is in fact a participant in genocide, and this is just the beginning. The continuation of aiding Saudi Arabia's genocide, and giving Saudi Arabia nuclear capabilities, Donald Trump is making the United States and the world a far more dangerous place.
"The most dangerous foreign policy decision of the Trump administration—and I know this is saying a lot—is its decision to share sensitive nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia and authorize U.S. companies to build nuclear reactors in that country," writes journalist Chris Hedges.
Hedges explains further the threat this decision poses:
I spent seven years in the Middle East. I covered the despotic, repressive kingdom as the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. And I, along with most Arabists in the United States, have little doubt that giving a nuclear capability to Saudi Arabia under the leadership of the ruthless and amoral Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would see it embark on a nuclear weapons program and eventually share weaponized technology with Saudi allies and proxies that include an array of radical jihadists and mortal enemies of America. A nuclearized Saudi Arabia is a grave existential threat to the Middle East and ultimately the United States.
Donald Trump's relationship is not only one of corruption and immoralities, it's sadistic, and it's diabolical. Whoever is next as president, they have their hands full with a world made far more dangerous thanks to Donald Trump.
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