Video Reemerges of Assad Calling Trump Nothing More Than a Deep-State Puppet
Former Syrian leader says U.S. presidents are just executive directors — they don’t make policy
Social media users shared a 2017 video of Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad discussing then-President Donald Trump and essentially calling his U.S. counterpart a puppet of the Deep State with no real power.
“The problem in the United States is about the whole political system, it's not about one person, he told India’s WION. “Trump's election has proven again for us, again and again, that the president is only a performer. He is not a decision-maker. He's part of different lobbies and the Deep States or the Deep Regime, as you can call it, who” tell the president the approach he should take.
He said Trump went back on his campaign promises “because the deep state would not allow him to go in certain directions.”
He said world leaders need to deal with the U.S.’s Deep State, not the president, and the Modus Operandi in Washington is that it will not accept any “partners,” only puppets.
Assad said as recently as March 2024 that he believed Trump would win the presidency but, again, he said “U.S. presidents are just executive directors — they don’t make policy. The real policymakers are lobbies, media, banks, weapons and oil industries. They win in any case.”
David Icke posted on X: “Whatever you may think of Assad — he had Trump sussed in 2017 and the same will play out again. It already is and he's not even in office.”
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Assad is not the first leader to call Trump an establishment insider.
Earlier this year, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, downplayed the chances of improved relations between the U.S. and Moscow if Donald Trump was elected and said despite the billionaire’s bluster, he is nothing more than an insider.
“For all his apparent bravado as an ‘outsider,’ Trump is ultimately an establishment insider. Yes, he is an eccentric narcissist but he is also a pragmatist. As a businessman, Trump understands that sanctions harm the dollar's dominance in the world. However, that's insufficient reason to stage a revolution in the United States and go against the anti-Russian line of the notorious Deep State, which is much stronger than any Trump.”
He's not wrong.
One must not speak unkindly of the Jews!