Trump, President of Peace
Kevin McCullough > Column
Monday, August 18, 2025

It’s almost too perfect. For years, the political class mocked Donald J. Trump as a wrecking ball in foreign affairs—too brash, too blunt, too reckless to ever bring peace to a world stage. Yet here we are: the war in Ukraine, one of the deadliest conflicts in modern Europe, may actually be brought to a conclusion not by endless U.N. chatter or NATO bureaucrats, but by Trump himself.