Trump, the Insurgent, Breaks With 70 Years of American Foreign Policy
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[QUOTE]WASHINGTON — President Trump was already revved up when he emerged from his limousine to visit NATO’s new headquarters in Brussels last May. He had just met France’s recently elected president, Emmanuel Macron, whom he greeted with a white-knuckle handshake and a complaint that Europeans do not pay their fair share of the alliance’s costs.
On the long walk through the NATO building’s cathedral-like atrium, the president’s anger grew. He looked at the polished floors and shimmering glass walls with a property developer’s eye. (“It’s all glass,” he said later. “One bomb could take it out.”) By the time he reached an outdoor plaza where he was to [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/world/europe/trump-brussels-nato.html"]speak to the other NATO leaders[/URL], Mr. Trump was fuming, according to two aides who were with him that day.
“I never asked once what the new NATO headquarters cost,” Mr. Trump told the leaders, his voice thick with sarcasm. “I refuse to do that. But it is beautiful.” His visceral reaction to the $1.2 billion building, more than anything else, colored his first encounter with the alliance, aides said.[/QUOTE]
Making us look even fucking dumber
Funny how much of the US's military budget is thrown into a giant furnace :thinking: I think that shows what right the US has to bitch about other countries spending habits.
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;53012640]His Syria policy is literally continuing Obama's (non-)strategies. His NATO rhetoric is hot air. State Department remains skeletal and many ambassadors are not appointed.
Trump's foreign policy is ran like showbiz, but in substance there is very little change. I'd argue that the extreme lack of competence is not a recent phenomenon.[/QUOTE]
And yet for all the lack of substance his supporters lap up every second of it. Obama had a functional government that made the tough calls through rational discussion, deliberation, and weighed options, trump has none of that and does whatever one of the three generals said he might do
i thought the title was written by the op at first. i'm glad an official press organization has the balls to call him that. especially with how synonymous the word has become with 'terrorist'
if anyone has a userscript that replaces "President Donald Trump" and "President of the United States of America" etc with "former reality tv star mogul" i'm sure it'd be popular here on facepunch :v: insurgent seems like a fitting title for him too though
Now my sources of news will be slightly more accurate no matter what they are, as long as they talk about Trump :v:
thank you!
[QUOTE=Quark:;53013560]if anyone has a userscript that replaces "President Donald Trump" and "President of the United States of America" etc with "former reality tv star mogul" i'm sure it'd be popular here on facepunch :v: insurgent seems like a fitting title for him too though[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Trebgarta;53012640]His Syria policy is literally continuing Obama's (non-)strategies. His NATO rhetoric is hot air. State Department remains skeletal and many ambassadors are not appointed.
Trump's foreign policy is ran like showbiz, but in substance there is very little change. I'd argue that the extreme lack of competence is not a recent phenomenon.[/QUOTE]
Remember how the one good thing about him was supposed to be his foreign policy?
I know I've heard people say that about him
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