In a wide-ranging speech, Mr Trump also called for more “unpredictability” in United States foreign policy.
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Trump’s most extensive remarks on foreign policy have come not in speeches on the campaign trail, but in interviews, including a pair of lengthy interviews with The New York Times and The Washington Post’s editorial board late last month. He made no reference to forcing Mexico to pay for a wall across the nation’s Southern border. “Ending the theft of American jobs”, he said, “will give us the resources we need to rebuild the American military”. He said on a number of occasions during the 2012 presidential election that the USA should “take” Iraq’s oil to be reimbursed for the money America spent invading and occupying the country. His criticism extended to Republicans, too, assailing President George W. Bush for the Iraq war and mocking a foreign policy establishment of “old people” who have scoffed at his diplomatic and national security credentials. According to Trump, the administration’s reliance on democracy promotion as a tool of USA foreign policy has been nothing short of “a complete and total disaster”.
“He needs to show that he has the substance, the depth of knowledge and the vision to be the American commander in chief”, said Steve Schmidt, who was 2008 Republican nominee John McCain’s campaign manager. “It has to be first”. “And I don’t know about you, but in my political career since 1982, I have never seen anybody win every single county”.
“It will be a speech on foreign policy, some of my ideas on foreign policy”, Trump told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Wednesday on “New Day”.
The U.S. approach to fighting IS will be “strong” under a Trump administration, he vowed, offering no indication of troop levels he might authorize. How will Trump best China?
The speech – riddled with Trump’s typical policy incoherence, intemperance, and insults for friend and foe alike – made clear that Trump is unprepared for the presidency, and that he simply can not be trusted to have his finger on the nuclear trigger. “Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East, has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity”, said Trump. Yet he implored, “We have to be unpredictable and be unpredictable starting now”. “It sounds like isolationism”.
The America First Committee was founded in 1940 to oppose America entering the war. Barring that, she is the ideal choice for a Vice Presidential candidate. “Our military is depleted and we’re asking our generals and military leaders to worry about global warming”, Mr. Trump said. “It is worth reading and thinking about”.
In the speech, he called for trying to improve relations with Russian Federation and China, while repeating his criticism of free trade agreements he said have sent jobs overseas at the expense of American workers.
This was the first time the Republican frontrunner-who won primaries in five states on Tuesday-had talked about his foreign policy in detail. Yet he also assured allies that the United States will have a renewed commitment to its overseas friends if he’s elected president.
So, closer ties to corrupt, Communist regimes, allowing them to become stronger, as the US continues Obama’s policies of leading from behind.
On China, for example, he says it should be taken to task on a number of issues in order to make trade with the USA more equitable.
At the same time, he offered an olive branch of sorts to Muslim allies of the United States in rare remarks pointing to the ways in which the USA can have constructive relations with the Muslim world.
Mr Trump criticised Hillary Clinton for her time spent as Secretary of State, attributing the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, to her negligence and misdirection.
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Echoing much of what he has said on the campaign trail, the NY businessman vowed to put “America First” when it comes to trade deals, immigration, and defeating Islamic State terrorists, and he pledged to pull back efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East and elsewhere.
