I find the peace through strength arguments pretty weird, because Trump wanted to pull out of Syria, Afghanistan (and ultimately did, signing the Doha Agreement in early 2020) and NATO, while also repeatedly stating he wants to cut a deal with Putin on Ukraine as well as famously hosting a peace conference with North Korea in the first half of his term. Rather than someone in the Theodore Roosevelt mindset of "Big Stick", he was more of a Realist/Isolationist than many are suggesting here.
I mean, we didn't go to war with Iran when they gave us 110 WIA in 2020, for example: