President Trump used a Halloween-party question at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night to describe his conversation with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele about Haiti. "I did speak to him," the president said. Bukele told him Haiti is a big problem because, in Trump's words, "they killed some of his people" — and Trump's answer was not an offer of American troops or money: "You're running your country. You have to do what you have to do." The president added that Bukele "doesn't need help" and is "in pretty good shape."
Bukele confirmed the conversation himself. Quote-posting the clip of Trump's remarks, the Salvadoran president wrote two words: "Can confirm."
The exchange puts Trump's foreign-policy method in one short scene: Haiti's gang crisis is real, a partner who has crushed gangs at home is dealing with its fallout, and Washington's role, as the president framed it, is to back the man running his own country rather than take the problem over. The same live broadcast carried the full party gaggle as the president worked through the night's questions.
For Americans, the benefit is the one the president keeps promising: problems abroad handled by partners who can handle them, without new American deployments or open-ended American bills — and a Haiti policy that runs through a regional leader who has already shown he can beat gangs, instead of through another failed international mission.
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