On Tuesday’s Greg Kelly Reports, Greg Kelly praised President Donald Trump’s bold push to end the Russia-Ukraine war, calling the president the kind of dealmaker the world has been starving for after years of feckless diplomacy. Kelly argued that strength and direct negotiation, not endless sanctions and endless funding, are the real path to peace — a point too few in Washington have the backbone to admit.
President Trump has been blunt about his belief that he alone can bring the warring parties to the table, insisting the administration is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia” and publicly criticizing Ukrainian leadership he says prolonged the conflict. Those remarks — and the push for talks brokered in the Middle East — have infuriated the usual chorus in the media, but they also show a willingness to do what previous administrations only talked about.
Conservatives who have watched the endless bleed of American resources into an unwinnable proxy war should welcome a president willing to lean in and stop the carnage. Greg Kelly and other Newsmax voices rightly point out that America needs a commander-in-chief who puts peace through strength ahead of partisan virtue signaling, and Trump’s push for direct talks with Putin and Zelensky is precisely the pragmatic audacity the left ridicules but the country desperately needs.
Make no mistake — this is political theater to Democrats and smug foreign-policy elites who prefer moral posturing over negotiated outcomes, but ordinary Americans want their sons and daughters brought home and an end to endless spending overseas. The Biden years showed what happens when weakness and indecision define American foreign policy; Trump’s approach, for all its rough edges, is rooted in results and leverage, not endless tweetstorms about moral purity.
Critics will scream betrayal when any path to peace requires compromise, but the true betrayal is letting war grind on while our own country languishes. If negotiations now on the table can spare lives and restore stability, the American interest is clear: back the president who actually shows up at the bargaining table and pressures adversaries from a position of strength.
The establishment’s reflexive scolding — calling Trump reckless for even attempting what others refused to try — is predictably self-righteous and painfully out of touch with everyday Americans who want results, not moral theater. Greg Kelly’s praise is more than cable punditry; it reflects a growing conservative conviction that America should stop subsidizing endless wars and instead force real, enforceable agreements that protect our interests.
At the end of the day, patriotism means putting America first, and that means pursuing peace when it is achievable and power when it is required. If President Trump can bring warring leaders together and end bloodshed while safeguarding American security, conservatives should stand with him — not because he is popular in every capital, but because bringing our troops home and ending costly, protracted conflicts is the right thing for hardworking Americans.
