Chamath Palihapitiya, of the “All In Podcast,” said during a show segment last week following the deadly Hamas sneak attack on Israel that it’s become painfully obvious how good then-President Donald Trump’s first-term policies were regarding the Middle East and other issues like the border wall.
Palihapitiya, a Canadian-American entrepreneur, said now is a good time to reevaluate those policies nearly three years after U.S. voters went to the polls and essentially said that since they “didn’t like the messenger, so, we killed the message.”
“As a Democrat, who has been left homeless, who is now definitely in the center, but probably leaning increasingly right, I’m left yet again with an appreciation, despite the messenger of the message, of the Trump administration, because what those guys did, was pretty incredible, in hindsight,” Palihapitiya said.
“These Abraham Accords, the accords with Israel and the GCC, the almost accord between Israel and Saudi, to really be able to, like, find a long-lasting peace is just a real example for the world. And those guys did a lot of really great work,” he added.
Jason Calacanis, an American entrepreneur and angel investor, agreed.
“It’s a miracle when you look at it. Listen, I’m no fan of Trump, but if you objectively look at what they did, it was great work,” he said.
“You have to, it was great work,” Palihapitiya responded. “This is a moment when you have to start to re-underwrite, is one’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ causing more damage than anything President Trump could have done? And I think the answer is yes, because it is now causing us to not see that good work, and then embrace and extend it. So much of the work that happened in that administration turned out to have been right, and that is what is so frustrating for me.
“The work on the border wall, we didn’t like the messenger, so, we killed the message. Turned out it was right,” he continued. “Issuing long-term debt to refinance when rates were at zero. We didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message.
“A structural peace deal in the Middle East. We didn’t like the messenger, so we killed the message,” he added.
“When are we going to stop shooting ourselves in the foot? When are we going to actually take the time to look past who was saying things and actually listen to them word for word?”
