Trump and the Saudis

The most recent example of the Trump unorthodox way of dealing with things is the case of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Under past presidents, all of whom recognize the importance of Saudi Arabia as an ally, would have expressed total disgust and immediately denounced this act as not the way Americans do things. After a week or so of various threats and expressions of dismay the case would fade as the next hot news item took center stage. Not Trump. He comes out and says we need this ally to fight against Iran, and we need the big arms deal and we have got to keep gas prices low. We don't like what they have done but we are not dumping them. Trump is easily the most transparent president of my life time. He tweets out his thoughts and the public gets the news as soon as the press gets it and it is unfiltered. The normal response is that this is not presidential.