But we’re “making America great!” by dragging it, kicking and screaming, back to the good old days of Smoot-Hawley.
It will not take 20 years for the history to be written, in 5 years the stupidity of the United States and no longer so Great Brittan in destroying their world leadership will be clear. Europe really has to make common cause with reasonable Asian nations on trade and other issues as a counter weight to Trump’s efforts to try to hand world leadership to Putin, MBS, and Xi.
“Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policy.”
Trump doesn’t have – and never has had – an “America First” policy.
It’s a “Trump First” policy, plain and simple.
As any American can tell you…
Trump’s and the Republican party’s anti-globalist, pro-nationalist policies are extraordinarily dangerous for both the United States and the world at large. Whether they like it or not, the nations of the world are tremendously interdependent on each other. The vast majority of world leaders understand this. Tragically, this concept is beyond Trump’s ability to comprehend. Trade wars, isolationist policies, and sabre-rattling can ultimately only lead in one direction, toward war, and its horrible consequences.
Americans need to wake up and realize that huffing and puffing about “America First” will only contribute to a breakdown in the world order and any chances for world peace. We learned this lesson in the aftermath of World War I, but our failure to heed it led to a second world wide conflagration. We cannot afford to repeat that error.
Once we can come to our own aid, I hope our former friends will return and do the same.
Vote!
More like “those who paid Trump First” policy.
The Saudis and Russians don’t get special service because it is necessarily in Trump’s long or short term interest, they get it because they bought it. The contrast between the treatment of Qatar - which refused to give little Kusner a loan - and the Saudis who funneled lots of money to Trump is very telling.
This is why Trump is so scared to release his taxes, and why either Maxine Waters or Richard Neal or Nita Lawrey will do so within about 10 minutes of the D’s taking over the majority.
The bottom line to Trump’s finances is that he is in debt, is only at best running Ponzi Schemes his entire life, and has committed untold numbers of fraud and outright financial crimes, worldwide. Yes, let’s analyze Trump’s tax reports asap after Nov. 6.