Recent U.S. actions under President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda echo the aggressive anti-corruption drive led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) from 2017 to 2019, signaling a global shift away from multilateralism toward unilateral power plays.
The X account Clandestine has been drawing parallels to these events and the relationship between Trump and MBS and Trump’s recent comments about invoking the Insurrection Act. The Saudi purge, which saw hundreds of elites, princes, and public officials detained at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton and over $106 billion recovered in assets, was framed as anti-corruption but criticized as a consolidation of MBS’s authority. Through those reforms came the formation and implementation of the Abraham Accords that forged alliances in the Middle East that was thought could never be done.
On January 3, 2026, the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—dubbed “Operation Absolute Resolve”—targeted him on narco-terrorism charges, with Trump hailing it as a strike against drug flows threatening American security. The June 2025 joint U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites, like Natanz and Fordow, aimed to halt enrichment programs, drawing parallels to preventive nationalist interventions.
These events share themes of challenging entrenched threats—corruption, bureaucratic regimes, and terror proliferation—while prioritizing national sovereignty over global institutions. Parallels between MBS and Trump include power consolidation through reforms as can be seen with the State Department under Secretary Rubio. Economic nationalism via investments and tariffs, and aggressive alliances against foes like Iran and Venezuela are strengthening America’s position in the Western Hemisphere. “America first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration,” Trump declared in a 2016 speech.
This trajectory undermines the Obama-Biden legacy of diplomacy, such as the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), and erodes globalist frameworks like the UN. The scale of fraud is just beginning to be revealed across all sectors. States like Minnesota are under direct scrutiny from the American people with California and Illinois in the crosshairs too.
Based on the results achieved thus far, the Trump administration is implementing the America First agenda with swift precision. If there was ever a time for a massive Saudi-type purge within the US, the Trump Administration has proved that they are serious and will take action to protect the American people. The Insurrection Act being one of the final tools in the arsenal that may be needed for accountability on a massive scale on the homeland.
