- I literally made this joke throughout Trump’s first term: that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi could have avoided being killed by the US if he’d offered to build a Trump Tower in Raqqa. I was joking. And yet:
- Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is reportedly planning to offer Donald Trump a deal that includes building a Trump Tower in Damascus. Autocrats around the world have figured out the price of Trump’s attention.
