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Donald Trump as President would make the world look like the Wild West
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Donald Trump as President would make the world look like the Wild West

Ken Gude discusses why Donald Trump's message to U.S. allies will cause those countries to question his commitment to American global leadership.

Donald Trump’s ideal world, laid out in a foreign policy speech in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, appears to favor a model in which every nation would be out to grab whatever it can for itself. His explicit call for more unpredictability in American global leadership will terrify our allies and embolden our enemies.

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 cannot be trusted to have his finger on the nuclear trigger.

 

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Authors

Ken Gude

Senior Fellow