On October 28, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed a Business Leaders Dinner in Tokyo, reminding his audience of a forgotten chapter in history. “A lot of people don’t know that about General Douglas MacArthur!” he said. “At the time the peace was signed 80 years ago … he actually wrote the Constitution here, and he did it all by himself. He was an intellect.” Critics suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome scoffed at the comment, but Trump was essentially right. After Japan’s devastating defeat in World War II—marked by the U.S. atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—MacArthur, inspired by America’s Founding Fathers, defied Washington’s bureaucracy and ordered his staff to draft a new Japanese constitution in just one week.
Completed in February 1946, the ‘MacArthur Constitution’ enshrined natural rights, equality and checks and balances, becoming the world’s oldest unaltered constitution and the basis for Japan’s rise from ruin to a free, prosperous democracy. MacArthur was deeply admired and received more than 500,000 letters from grateful Japanese who saw him as a liberator and trusted him – and not their own leaders – to lead their country out of war, poverty and despair.
Although “regime change” and “nation building” are among the most unpopular terms in Washington these days, American foreign policy has always been rooted in both. Since the country’s founding, helping others experience freedom and democracy has been central to America’s mission. On December 25, 1780, Thomas Jefferson—who later became the first Secretary of State and built the State Department from scratch—wrote to George Rogers Clark, using the phrase “Empire of liberty” to describe the United States’ responsibility to spread freedom throughout the world, even through intervention abroad.
Nearly three decades later, on April 27, 1809, Jefferson, then recently retired as president, wrote to James Madison, his friend and successor, reaffirming the idea of ”an empire for liberty such as it has never been explored since its founding: and I am convinced that no Constitution has ever been so well calculated as ours for an extended empire and self-government.” This enduring doctrine of the Empire of Liberty has long inspired America’s role in promoting freedom and helping other countries build democratic systems modeled on its own Constitution.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits next to a senior military official in Iran. (Getty Images)
Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio face regime change and nation-building challenges in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Venezuela and Cuba — and those are just the pressing issues on their desks. The list is much longer. Many Americans — especially Trump voters — are understandably wary, as they remember the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan compared to Japan’s postwar success under MacArthur.
After the highly successful B-2 bombers Operation Midnight Hammer, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “It is not politically correct to use the term ‘Regime Change’, but if the current Iranian regime fails to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why shouldn’t there be regime change???” On June 25, at the NATO summit, Trump compared the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites to the bombing of Japan, saying, “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing.”
Even Charlie Kirk, who deeply admired Trump, initially disagreed. He quickly posted to
He later called Vice President J.D. Vance, who recalled that “he was crazy,” adding, “The American people are fed up with American troops dying in unnecessary foreign conflicts.” However, after the Iranian nuclear sites were destroyed without any American casualties, Kirk changed his tune and said he was glad the mission was completed safely.
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If the Islamic regime in Iran survives Trump’s leadership and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resolve, the mullahs will rebuild the terrorist networks that were nearly destroyed by the IDF and the US military, threatening America and its allies once again. The same danger looms in Venezuela, Syria and beyond.
In Iran, a large, deeply pro-American nation is already fighting for its freedom. During the twelve-day US-Israel onslaught, the Iranian people trusted almost no one – except Trump and Netanyahu. When the late Shah’s son called for demonstrations, hardly anyone showed up; hours later, after Trump urged Tehran residents to leave the capital for their own safety. News media reported widespread traffic jams, huge queues for petrol and “nearly nine million people left by car from major cities, especially Tehran”, according to Al Jazeera.
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US troops are not needed in Iran; instead, President Trump should support a constitutional assembly within the Iranian opposition to craft a unifying draft constitution – so that when a credible US-endorsed alternative emerges, the Iranians themselves can peacefully implement regime change.
As America celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding in 2026, there is no greater calling than to help those who share our ideals rebuild their country. The answer does not lie in the failed “nation-building” models of left-wing bureaucrats and Harvard globalists who once allowed Tehran’s influence to shape postwar constitutions in the Middle East. It lies instead in Jefferson’s vision and MacArthur’s determination – to help free nations rise on the foundations of American values: freedom, equality and self-government.
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