A National Security Expert Warns Trump's Foreign Policy Approach Could Backfire
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The president is setting out to rewrite the world order, creating the conditions for more uncertainty at home and abroad.
Since his first term in office, President Donald Trump has been pushing his “America First” agenda, pledging to undo what he has described as U.S. allies taking advantage of the U.S.
“We’ve been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on Earth, and we will not let that happen any longer,” Trump said before a joint session of Congress last week.
Trump’s embrace of this ideology is nothing new.
Back in September 1987, when he was a real estate developer in New York City, he reportedly spent about $100,000 to buy full-page ads in three major newspapers, featuring an open letter he penned headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”
In that letter, Trump claimed Japan and other countries had been taking advantage of the U.S. for years.
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