I wish media would call them what they are. Taxes. Trump wants to tax the American people. He is pro taxes, he wants more and more and more of them. But he wants to make sure they hit the lower and middle class, so he gives tax breaks to the rich, and then passes the cost down.
Congress holds the checkbook. Nothing any part of the federal government does is funded by anyone unless they write the metaphorical check.
News about the world is important to have without it coming from private money, just as news from private money is important to have so it isn’t all coming from the governments money.
Other instances of money being used in this way is PBS. So, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Arthur, The Magic School Bus, Wishbone… all aired on TV for the American populous because Congress wrote a check.
He never was okay with it. He has been calling for peace since it started. People just are using the fact that he’s calling for peace talks over 2 years later as a sign he’s okay with them having done what they’ve done, when he was calling for peace last year, the year before, months after it happened and condemned the actions of the government/ political figures who led to the war.
Overall he has just been anti war. People would say that is avoiding nuisance or not casting responsibility on a specific group maybe, but unless you are looking for the Pope to call for holy wars, that’s all you can really ask for. It’s a religion. It will make money before and after the war, and no one should really care what he thinks in my opinion, because God has never stopped war in history, and never will. So why anyone assumes the someone who represents the word of God would stop war, is a strange concept.
No one is saying “God is fine with genocide in ____”. Because honestly, that would make just about as much sense to say the Pope is fine with it.