'Peace president' Trump has bombed 10 countries. Now he wants a $1.5 TRILLION military budget

'Peace president' Trump has bombed 10 countries. Now he wants a $1.5 TRILLION military budget

Author: Ben Norton January 28, 2026 Duration: 18:58
So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war around the world. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div95RNXX0M Topics 0:00 Donald Trump's promises 0:13 (CLIP) Trump: I'm a "peacemaker" 0:50 Trump promises no new wars 1:14 (CLIP) "I'm going to stop wars" 1:27 Trump bombed 7 countries in 2025 1:50 Map of 10 countries Trump bombed 2:49 US presidents are war criminals 4:06 Post-9/11 US wars: 4.5 million deaths 5:01 Trump the "peace president" 5:51 Joe Biden, war criminal 6:09 Trump, war criminal 6:50 Victims of US attack on Venezuela 8:26 US Department of War 9:06 Pete Hegseth threatens China, Russia 9:36 Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget 10:25 Military spending by top countries 11:09 Share of world defense spending 12:13 US national debt 14:26 Cut taxes on rich, raise on poor 15:41 Elon Musk's DOGE 16:28 Food stamp cuts 16:58 Class war 17:21 Money buys US elections 17:54 (CLIP) Trump praises Big Tech oligarchs 18:17 Imperialism 18:48 Outro

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