“Foreign policy” is a phrase most of us remember learning when we memorized the definition for middle school history quizzes. It is interesting to me that middle schoolers know the meaning of the phrase, but our president does not.
This administration has been reckless and careless with its foreign policy strategy. President Donald Trump is quicker to tweet about the investigation in Saudi Arabia and defend guilty men than he is to tweet condolences to the McCain family upon the death of Sen. John McCain in August.
Perhaps Trump knows what foreign policy means, but he doesn’t understand how it works. His dealings with other countries have been horrible thus far, whether it’s a wall on the border of Mexico, or offensive name-calling to Haiti and African nations.
Remember when he told his cult followers that America was the laughing stock of the world? We weren’t. We were leading the world in climate change awareness, changing our health care system to benefit middle and lower-class citizens and working on criminal justice reform. Now that a majority of the Obama-era legislation is being reversed, the United Nations is literally laughing at us. Trump is quicker to listen to foreign dictators, despots and murderers than listen to his own intelligence agencies. He tweets nonsense for the world to see before his security forces can separate fact from fiction for him.
Hypocrisy is alive and well in the United States. During his presidency, many people were upset with former President Barack Obama for not dealing with Russia in a tougher manner. Those same people were quick to turn their heads when Trump went on worldwide television and said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own people regarding Russia’s alleged 2016 election interference.
People were mad at Obama for the Iran Nuclear Deal, saying it would not keep us safe. Those same people were quick to turn their heads when Trump left the process unchecked in protest of the deal itself.
People cheered Trump for his strong opposition toward Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un. Those same people were quick to turn their heads when the President decided to invite Kim to the White House.
We’re taking the side of the rhetoric of North Korea, Russia and Saudi-Arabia, all while being rude to our German allies, pulling out of the Paris Agreement and criticizing NATO.
Somebody in the Trump Administration needs to get wise and inform the leader of the free world that his foreign policy is laughable. The history books will remember this time and its rhetoric harshly.
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