Once again, Trump sold out the Kurds to please business partners

Once again, President Trump sold out the Kurds to please his business partners — US president Donald Trump, January 29, 2026. Photo: The White House

Rauf Naqishbendi | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Once again, the United States has sold out the Kurds to their main enemies, brutal, fanatic Islamist jihadists, and the chauvinistic Turkish state. Given the mentality and brutalities of these Kurds’ enemies, should Kurds not be able to defend themselves, genocide attempt against Kurds by these enemies is imminent.

This betrayal of Kurds by the US is a result of the US’s sudden troop withdrawal from Kurdistan of Syria, and allowing Kurds’ enemies to beset defenseless Kurds. This is the second betrayal of the Kurds by President Donald Trump. This latest US withdrawal was unexpected, but given Trump’s unpredictability, anything and everything is possible.

Obviously, Trump didn’t betray Kurds to avenge Kurds but rather to please Turks and his Saudi Royal Family, Qatar, and the UAE’s business partners. First, let us dissect Saudi’s and their influence on Trump. According to MSN.com, “Foreign money is pouring into President Donald Trump’s meme coin, $TRUMP, and the list of buyers includes powerful governments and secretive companies tied to them that have almost no public track record.”. Accordingly, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE were the major buyers of Trump’s fake coin, which has no intrinsic value. Trump benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in this fraudulent transaction.

The question is why Saudi’s, and others, buy fake products that have no value, or their only value is to enrich Trump and his family. The answer is that these entities purchased such a crappy thing to enrich Trump’s family. They purchased junk, but they earn favor from Trump. Here is an example of that favor, according to Firstpost.com, “Trump Shakes Hands with Ex-Al-Qaeda Leader in Saudi Arabia. Six months ago, he was on the FBI’s terror list. Today, he’s shaking hands with Donald Trump. Meet Muhammad al-Jolani — ex-Al-Qaeda commander turned President of Syria. In a stunning geopolitical twist, Trump is lifting sanctions on Syria, brokering billion-dollar deals in Saudi Arabia, dangling peace with Iran, and rewriting decades of U.S. foreign policy on the fly. What’s driving this chaos? Power? Oil”.

Furthermore, according to BBC News, on February 2025, Donald Trump shocked the world by suggesting that the US could “take over” and “own” Gaza, resettling its population in the process.”.

Then, after he met Saudi Arabia’s, UAE, and Qatar leader he went the opposite direction and embarked on the current peace process. From the first day of Trump’s reign as the President of the United States, the white house has become Trump’s Business Enterprise, and all his Middle East policy has been framed by his family business.

As explained by NBC, in 2015 Trump acknowledged having a potential “conflict” when it came to issues involving Turkey. The fact that Trump made his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria shortly after a phone call with Erdogan has raised alarm bells among policymakers and government ethics watchdog groups, who have long viewed Trump’s extensive business interests as a potential source of conflicts of interest. “I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul.”

The Washington Post has reported that the organization was paid up to $10 million to put the Trump name on the two buildings.

Since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, tensions have been simmering between al-Sharaa’s forces and the SDF, with al-Shara pressing the Kurdish YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia, to be integrated into the Syrian Defense Ministry. The Kurds have been challenging al-Sharaa, saying that he will not be able to control the interim government. They argue that the Syrian new Islamic law will not be a fit for Kurds. To this end, SDF negotiated with Damascus, with no avail.

Finally, the government forces began their military offensive in January, capturing districts in Aleppo and heading east, reaching Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa, and parts of Hasaka province with help from Turkey. As al-Sharaa’s fighters advanced, they were taking control of agricultural regions, gas and oil fields, and camps containing ISIS-linked civilians and prisons.

Syrian government Islamist militant abuses a Kurdish female fighter in Aleppo, Syria, January 2026. Photo: iKurd.net/screengrab/video/X

The Hill Barrack, who is also the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, said Tuesday that “Washington has no interest in a long-term military presence in Syria and is offering citizenship rights, cultural protections, and political participation to Kurds in Syria.”. The problem is that Kurds cannot trust the Syrian government, for their leaders and their troops have been Islamic fanatics and are responsible for murdering thousands of Kurds, and they consider Kurds to be infidels; therefore, according to their fanatic faith, they are to be rooted out and massacred, and it’s their religious responsibilities to be wiped out.

Kurdish YPJ fighters in Syrian Kurdistan — Kurdish YPJ female fighters in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), 2015. Photo: sm

The YPG’s fighters were instrumental in defeating ISIS; if it wasn’t for them, ISIS would have taken over Syria and beyond. They sacrificed 21,000 fighters. After all what they had done to rescue the world from Islamic wrath, after 2015’s Trump agreement with his business partner Turkish prime minister Erdogan to allow Turks establish their safe zone which caused tens of thousands of Kurds to be devastated, and flee their homes to save their lives from Turks wrath, Donald Trump had this to say to Kurds “the Kurds know how to fight and, as I said, they’re not angels.”.

From the preceding, one concludes that the US’s sudden withdrawal from Syria was not the US’s foreign policy issue, but rather Trump’s action to please his Arab and Turkish business partners. It’s all about money to enrich Trump’s family. Unfortunately, Kurds are left out because they are struggling for their survival, and they don’t have enough money to knock on Trump’s door to attract his attention. After all, Trump had a handshake with Ex-Al-Qaeda Leader. For sure, the Victims of 9-11 will not take it as a condolence.

Rauf Naqishbendi is a retired software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. A long-time senior contributing writer for iKurd.net. His memoirs entitled “The Garden Of The Poets”, recently published. It reads as a novel depicting his experience and the subsequent 1988 bombing of his hometown with chemical and biological weapons by Saddam Hussein. It is the story of his people´s suffering, and a sneak preview of their culture and history.

The opinions are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of iKurd.net or its editors.