Despite the bluster, Trump is articulating a bold vision of America’s role in the world. And it demands a serious response — not the snickering of D.C. elites.
By Rosa Brooks, FOREIGN POLICY
Oh, Donald, bless your heart! You keep on saying those wild and crazy things, the media keeps on snickering, and you just keep on blustering. A grateful nation thanks you. If you weren’t around, we’d probably have to talk about Ted Cruz instead, and that would be no fun at all.
But my editors here at Foreign Policy have asked me to get serious and write about what U.S. foreign policy would look like if the White House should ever sprout an enormous gold sign reading, “TRUMP.” This has not been a simple assignment, because there is a Trump for every possible policy position.
Where to start?
Well, if Donald Trump becomes president, we might have a nuclear war — or, then again, we might not. On the one hand, Trump tells us, “It’s a very scary nuclear world. Biggest problem, to me, in the world, is nuclear, and proliferation.” On the other hand, if Japan and South Korea decide to develop their own nuclear weapons, that’s probably fine, and we “may very well be better off.” On the third hand, “nuclear should be off the table,” when it comes to a potential U.S. first use of nuclear weapons. On the fourth hand, you never know: We might need to use nukes inside Europe, which would not be so sad because “Europe is a big place” and can easily afford to lose a few small nations to radioactive fallout.
Anyhoo. Let’s discuss NATO, which, admittedly, is not a very interesting subject. Trump “would support NATO,” but because he too feels that it is not interesting, he “would not care that much” whether or not Ukraine joins the alliance. “I don’t mind NATO per se,” he explains; it’s just “obsolete” and full of free-riders “ripping off the United State.” But que sera, sera! If getting rid of freeloaders “breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO.” Still, perhaps the treaty organization can be “reconstituted” and “modernized.” He adds, “We need to either transition into terror, or we need something else, because we have to get countries together.” I don’t think Trump meant that NATO should transition into a terrorist organization — on the “fight fire with fire” principle — but who can say?
Moving right along: Under President Trump, the United States would show the terrorists who’s boss by bringing back waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse.” He would also “bomb the hell out of ISIS,” and if that doesn’t do the trick, he would go after the wives and children of Islamic State fighters, because “with the terrorists, you have to take out their families.” Ordering the U.S. military to use torture or deliberately target civilians would, of course, be illegal, but the military would gladly obey any order coming from President Trump: “I’m a leader. I’ve always been a leader.… If I say do it, they’re going to do it.” On the fifth or sixth hand, maybe not: Trump swears that he’ll be “bound by laws, just like all Americans.”
Regardless, under President Trump, the U.S. military would be very strong, but it would never be used, unless we do use it. Right now, Trump confides, the U.S. military is “a disaster,” decimated and weak. When the White House is rebranded as the smallest of the world’s many Trump Towers, this will no longer be true; after a few waves of the Trumpian magic wand, which can cut budgets and expand programs at the same time, the military will be “so big, so powerful, so strong” that no one will dare mess with it. But the military will have to be satisfied with being big, powerful, and strong right here in the United States, because unless host states such as Japan and South Korea cough up a lot more cash, President Trump will be withdrawing U.S. troops from their overseas bases.
Besides, who cares? According to Trump, more or less every U.S. military intervention from Vietnam on has been a flop. Vietnam? A “disaster,” says his campaign. Iraq War? “Big, fat mistake.” Libya? “Total mess.” As for the Islamic State, Trump says “the generals” tell him it might take “20,000 to 30,000 troops” to “knock the hell out of ISIS,” but they ain’t gonna be American troops: instead, “People from that part of the world” will have to “put up the troops.… I wouldn’t ever put up 20,000 or 30,000.”
All right, enough. I could go on: Trump offers nearly endless fodder for media mockery. But I don’t want to keep poking fun at the Republican front-runner.
For one thing, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s like making fun of George W. Bush’s weird malapropisms: “They have miscalculated me as a leader.” It’s just too damn easy.
For another thing, there’s hardly a global shortage of anti-Trump tiradescoming from the Fourth Estate. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell declares Trump is “completely uneducated about any part of the world.” The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson calls Trump’s “ignorance of government policy … breathtaking.” Tara Setmayer of CNN says Trump is “wholly unqualified” to be president, while the New York Times editorial board finds Trump “disturbing” and “shockingly ignorant.”
None of this does Trump any harm. On the contrary: Every time someone in the Media Elite pokes fun at Donald Trump, it inspires six bad-tempered middle Americans to vote for him.
None of this does Trump any harm. On the contrary: Every time someone in the Media Elite pokes fun at Donald Trump, it inspires six bad-tempered middle Americans to vote for him. And every time someone in the Media Elite utters a pompous condemnation of Trump’s ignorance and folly, 17 more angry Trump voters are created. If Trump becomes president, guys, it’s gonna be your fault.
And finally: Though it pains me to say it, Donald Trump is crazy like a fox. Despite the braggadocio, the bullying, and the bluster — despite the contradictions, misstatements, and near-total absence of actual facts — Trump is, to a great extent, nonetheless articulating a coherent vision of international relations and America’s role in the world.
David Sanger and Maggie Haberman capture it well in a summary of their lengthy New York Times interview with Trump: “In Mr. Trump’s worldview, the United States has become a diluted power, and the main mechanism by which he would re-establish its central role in the world is economic bargaining. He approached almost every current international conflict through the prism of a negotiation, even when he was imprecise about the strategic goals he sought.” The United States, Trump believes, has been “disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher. We were the big bully, but we were not smartly led. And we were … the big stupid bully, and we were systematically ripped off by everybody.”
Trump hasn’t the slightest objection to being perceived as a bully, but he doesn’t want to be ripped off. Thus, he says, he’d be willing to stop buying oil from the Saudis if they don’t get serious about fighting the Islamic State; limit China’s access to U.S. markets if Beijing continues its expansionist policies in the South China Sea; and discard America’s traditional alliance — from NATO to the Pacific — partners if they won’t pull their own weight.
To those who criticize his apparent contradictions, his vagueness about his ultimate strategic objectives, or his willingness to make public threats, he offers a simple and Machiavellian response: “We need unpredictability.” To Trump, an effective negotiator plays his cards close to his chest: He doesn’t let anyone know his true bottom line, and he always preserves his ability to make a credible bluff. (Here it is, from thetranscript of his conversation with the New York Times: “You know, if I win, I don’t want to be in a position where I’ve said I would or I wouldn’t [use force to resolve a particular dispute].… I wouldn’t want to say. I wouldn’t want them to know what my real thinking is.”)
Trump has little time for either neoconservatives or liberal interventionists; he thinks they allow their belief in American virtue to blind them to both America’s core interests and the limits of American power. He has even less time for multilateralist diplomats: They’re too willing to compromise, trading away American interests in exchange for platitudes about friendship and cooperation. And he has no time at all for those who consider long-standing U.S. alliances sacrosanct. To Trump, U.S. alliances, like potential business partners in a real-estate transaction, should always be asked: “What have you done for me lately?”
In his inimitable way, Trump is offering a powerful challenge to many of the core assumptions of Washington’s bipartisan foreign-policy elite. And if mainstream Democrats and Republicans want to counter Trump’s appeal, they need to get serious about explaining why his vision of the world isn’t appropriate — and they need to do so without merely falling back on tired clichés.
The clichés roll easily off the tongue: U.S. alliances and partnerships are vital. NATO is a critical component of U.S. security. Forward-deployed troops in Japan and South Korea are vital to assurance and deterrence. We need to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia. And so on. How do we know these things? Because in Washington, everyone who’s anyone knows these things.
But this is pure intellectual and ideological laziness. Without more specificity, these truisms of the Washington foreign-policy elite are just pablum. Why, exactly, does the United States need to keep troops in Japan, or Germany, or Kuwait? Would the sky really fall if the United States had fewer forward-deployed troops? What contingencies are we preparing for? Who and what are we deterring, and how do we know if it’s working? Who are we trying to reassure? What are the financial and opportunity costs? Do the defense treaties and overseas bases that emerged after World War II still serve U.S. interests? Which interests? How? Does a U.S. alliance with the Saudis truly offer more benefits than costs? What bad things would happen if we shifted course, taking a less compromising stance toward “allies” who don’t offer much in return?
Questions like these are legitimate and important, and it’s reasonable for ordinary Americans to be dissatisfied by politicians and pundits who make no real effort to offer answers.
Trump’s vision of the world — and his conception of statecraft — isn’t one I much like, but it reflects a fairly coherent theory of international relations. It’s realist, transactional, and Machiavellian — and it demands a serious, thoughtful, and non-defensive response.
If those of us in the foreign-policy community can’t be bothered to offer one, a “TRUMP” sign on the White House may, in the end, be no better than we deserve.
Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation. She served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department.
Laura Said:
I read the first 4 paragraphs of the article and now see how you arrive at the most ludicrous and ignorant of conclusions. Only a person completely ignorant of the financial and business world could come up with these ridiculous allegations:
only an idiot would make this comment… OPM is the whole basis of capitalism: investors, loans, tax credits, etc are ALL OPM.
the ravings of an ignorant lunatic: tax credits and tax abatments are what the Cruzes and Rubios vote in congress to entice investors to invest in area they want to see developed by business men. Of course donald uses them, thats why Congress comes up with them… I have also used them in development… they are used to develop low income properties and historical bulding. such a comment is so incredibly DUMB.
DUH???? why quote idiots who are clueless about these matters. When cities, federal gov, etc badly need investors to develop their projects they come up with abatements and tax credits. Folks like Donald are the ones who take risk to develop what others will not in bad times. Making such ridiculous ignorant comments should be embarassing except to other clueless fools.
the author kuzlowski demonstrated that he/she is clueless about economics and capitalism, you should be embarassed to cite this blog.
Rubio, Bush, Cruz, Hillary make the laws which businessmen must observe when they invest. many laws are geared to entice investment, just like the typical cut taxes agenda of the “conservatives” Taxes are cut, putting tax money into the pockets of those the gov hopes to entice… but instead what we saw the past 3 decades was that they shipped all the jobs and production abroad. Walmarts gets property tax breaks whereever it builds but shipped all the production of what they sell out of the US and the jobs they create need welfare in order for the employees to eat.
If you knew anything about finance and economics you would know that tax abatements and tax credits are enticements AND all of the conservative arguments of trickle down are based on tax breaks for corporations so that they might have a couple of drops left to give those on the bottom.
@ bernard ross:
Schmuck, 60% of voters say they will not vote for Trump. Stop listening to trump’s self-serving propaganda and actually read the polls.
@ bernard ross:
“A man’s job”? What fucking century are you in? Now I can see why you are attracted to that vermin trump and his cadre.
I will say it again: Campaign managers have NO RIGHT to manhandle reporters. It is The secret service job to handle potential threats, and quite obviously Michelle was not a threat, which is why they didn’t act. Lyin’ Lewndowski reached between the SS agents and grabbed her. He did so because Trump didn’t want to be asked uncomfortable questions.
Yeah right, Michelle was the real bully, a tiny woman with a pen. You guys are unreal.
@ bernard ross:
Are you sure you want to make this argument?
http://www.jenkuznicki.com/trumps-secret-to-getting-rich-shafting-the-taxpayer
@ honeybee:
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/texas-secession-independence-nationalist-movement-7248746.php
🙂
bernard ross Said:
yawl didn’t know this yankee Boy. Been duing it for yrs.
Of course he is right, crossovers and independents will NEVER vote for Cruz.
Apparently the GOP dont seem to be troubled by any of this, business as usual for them
Looks like Trump was right again in substance when he called to build a wall…… they must be stopped at the border or the cost of processing and deportation is too high. the open border donors to the GOP establishment expect that the prohibitive cost will make folks abandon anti open border policies. I know of no GOP major donors who are NOT for this massive immigration and open borders, they want the cheap labor and are even willing for them to be democrats to get their cheap labor and to fire americans.
hardly a neutral policy.
Every day we see wrt Israel that logic, common sense do not apply in the world media, churches, EU and UN. Trump is common sense logical and unlike the other politicians is unlikely to apply double standards to Israel as most of the Pols, including in the US, apply to Israel. If we could get some basic common sense and logic instead of the double standard lies out of the USA and the world then Israel’s problem would be diminished.
Laura Said:
Actually you are again 100% wrong. In America we beleive in Freedom which includes anyone who wants to may take oaths of allegiance or oaths of truth telling on the witness stand. It is the fascist and the communist who wishes to curtail our freedoms.
Laura Said:
that is my question to you, Teshuvah and Babushka because I cannot understand why you 3 continue to spread the lie that Trump made a Heil Hitler salute. In my view this is a very serious charge to call someone a Hitler and a fascist. Knowing that you 3 base that call on a lie and yet continue to spread the libel makes me think of the BDS crowd and Israel and the complicit lying press. There is no doubt that the Heil Hitler canard is an outright, evil and malicious lie and yet the 3 of you continue to spread it while knowing the difference.
Furhtermore, the video clearly show that it is a humorous banter that resulted in the oath taking which makes the charges even more onerous and evil.
Teshuvah Said:
this is another of the defamation libels spread by the Cruz camp and the GOP establishment. If you are not intentionally dishonest then I advise you to watch the entire interview of Trump and his family on the CNN Anderson Cooper Town Hall. When you see the brilliant, incredibly articulate, strong and impressive Ivanka Trump the fox news bimbos pale into the woodwork as fakes. When you see his daughter Tiffany and Ivanka it becomes clear that no misogynist or hater of women could have raised such brilliant daughters. In fact, the daughters appear to be more empowered than the sons. I suggest you stop repeating the parroted lies of the Cruz camp and the GOP. I was greatly impressed by Ivanka Trump and would love to see her in public office, but alas the truly honest and talented are unlikely to run for public office.
Laura Said:
You are wrong according to secret service agents and the prosecutor. They do have and do perform a right of protection, and the liar Fields would have known that like every other female and male reporter before her.
Laura Said:
even before the prosecutor spoke it was obvious from the video that Fields was a fake and a liar.. and yet you and others keep speaking defamation propaganda intentionally
Laura Said:
the video clearly showed who was the bully when she pushed her way into the security bubble and grabbed his arm AFTER the conference… she did it intentionally.
Laura Said:
see, you are 100% wrong, it is normal for campaign managers and the secret service to protect the candidate.
Laura Said:
There are no females in my family who would take a “man’s” job and then expect to be treated differently from men. All the female reporters have experienced this sort of shoving… did you see the one of Huma knocking one out of the way? If you cant take the heat stay out of the kitchen…. dont clamor for a mans job and then whine like a little girl. the fact is that she is a liar and in my opinion she was bought and paid for by the GOP establishment or the Cruz camp through her boyfriend Jaimie Weinstein of the Daily Caller. All those that left Breitbart were probably pre arranged to bring down Breitbarts coverage of Trump. Cruz is trying the same thing with Drudge.
Laura Said:
much more than that, they thought, and rightly so, that Fields was a fake and a liar:
Perhaps the lying Ms. Fields was paid by the GOP establishment or the Cruz camp to create this incident in order to defame Trump and/or damage his campaign management. Her actions in pushing the security bubble after the press conference is suspect and one witness stated that it appeared fake. Her boyfriend is an editor at the Daily Caller and she apparently has a book coming out.
Laura Said:
What is the relevance of this statement? Are you inferring that there is a political or ideological connection between an investor in a project and the promoter of the project? If you are then you appear to be woefully ignorant of the investing world. Aside from that ludicrous attempt at smearing Trump because someone invested in one of his projects you are also naive in your expectations that a man who never worked on behalf of me and you, never taking a salary from me and you, should be compared with the rest of the dross who have been drawing salaries from me and you for years, and getting nowhere on our cash. It is chutzpah to infer that donald owed us any duty as opposed to those who collected our salary. Rich people of all persuasions usually do not take politics or ideology into account when investing except if it hinders their profits. DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(BTW, you definitely have no problem with the Cruz Tower, the Rubio Tower, the Kasich Tower, the Hillary Tower or the Sanders Tower because unlike Donald none of them ever built anything with their own money. Their expertise is how to play politics, how to tell lies, how to feed at the trough we foolishly provide to them)
@ bernard ross:
We take oaths in a court of law, or oaths of office swearing to uphold the constitution. In America we DO NOT take oaths pledging alliegance to a leader. That’s not Americanism, that’s fascism. Do you not see the difference?
@ bernard ross:
So what? The prosecutor didn’t think it was worthy of criminal prosecution. However, that doesn’t mean what Lewandowski did was not a big deal. Campaign managers have no right to manhandle reporters because they don’t like them asking uncomfortable questions. I’m even more disgusted that trump’s cult keeps excusing the thuggish behavior of his campaign.
What has happened with republican men that they are ok with women being bullied by men and then trashing her reputation when she calls them out? This is what liberals did to Clinton accusers. And BTW, remember at first lyin’ Lewandowski said he didn’t even touch her. But then there was the inconvenient video evidence. Then the narrative became, “well it was no big deal”. That’s not the point, it wasn’t his right to grab Michelle Field’s arm and yank her back. If it was a female in your family, you wouldn’t be so dismissive.
@ bernard ross:
Soros was an invester in Trump Towers.
babushka Said:
we cannot chalk up your serial lying to ignorance because i already posted to you the info on landewski being cleared, which was obvious the moment of seeing the video and comparing to the changing testimony of michelle fields the liar. It appears that lyin Ted’s pathology is going viral and you are doubling down on the lies. You would do better to return to your hobby of posting video selfies of you howling.
I posted in bold this time so you could not pretend to miss it.
@ Teshuvah:
You haven’t seen the video tss, tss, tss…
Teshuvah Said:
I’ll chalk this up to ignorance rather than dishonesty but it does indicate how you like to run with fake stories to smear people…. indicting and convicting folks on the basis of a ludicrous accusation… I saw the video and fields lied about being knocked down
looks like you also missed this:
https://www.israpundit.org/archives/63614255/comment-page-1#comment-63356000169828
https://thehornnews.com/dropped-trumps-campaign-manager-cleared/
just one more proven lie bought and paid for by the GOP establishment and their tea party collaborators to defame trump.
@ Teshuvah:
What?! How do you know that?
And if someone says Vote Cruz, you know they are “of God”?
Care to elaborate?
PS:
* Erick Erickson, hell yeah, a GOPe bought and paid weasel for AGES.
* Glenn Beck, another nutcase who KNOWS what G-d wants (Cruz is the “anointed” I heard)
Gimme a break.
@bernard ross
You’re right. They will change rule 40b before the Convention. If the Cruzbots think the GOPe is letting TC anywhere near the nom, they are as crazy as they sound.
babushka Said:
It was Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who abused the reporter, Michelle Fields, not Cruz’ campaign manager. Abusers and misogynists tend to hire people like themselves.
babushka Said:
relevance? parenthetical to what?
babushka Said:
if irrelevancies are “good to know”
Parenthetically, the campaign manager for Ted Cruz will not be prosecuted.
This really was never in doubt, since he is not a craven thug who assaults women.
But it is still good to know.
Teshuvah Said:
I saw nothing dealing with any of my priorities in your list
@ Teshuvah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg
I agree with this statement:
Statement From Conservatives Against Trump
http://theresurgent.com/second-statement-from-conservatives-against-trump/
Teshuvah Said:
I find all your considerations petty and trivial and distracting from the real and important issues… hardly a single real issue of importance did you mention…..this is the MO of the left but the GOP establishment are adept at taking it up too.
I wager you never hired anyone for a job where you were responsible to actually accomplish something… if you did I would expect you would address more relevant issues beyond his language and narcissism… his language is appropriate to give to liars. Watch the full interview with his family and you will see a different person who hardly talks when his family talks…. that is another measure of accomplishment. His children and wife are not clones of him, they are accomplished folks with values, all hard workers and say the same of him and which I believe.
I am sick and tired of those with the appropriate language who always con us and take us to the cleaners… I prefer Trumps unrehearsed language… and I have hardly found it to be inappropriate even if I would not do the same. He attacks the scum who deserve it. I think he is the most appropriate person to deal with diplomats and the like… a successful international businessman he knows when to be diplomatic but he also knows when to drop the boom on the BS.
Teshuvah Said:
I did not glorify them and we dont know it was trump supporters or a false flag concocted by those adept at false flags: politicians. As for the old white guy socking the black dunce trying to obstruct the meetings of others… the guy deserved it as did the others. for me that is a non issue, a red herring, just another trivial distraction concocted by those hell bent on defamation to achieve their goals… some are paid and some do it for free. Why waste time on all those trivial pursuits. Did you watch the anderson cooper town hall with trumps family…. I bet you didnt. You sound like a person who takes their info second hand but runs with it as if you saw it yourself.
bernard ross Said:
I am neither…. I identify issues, problems and solutions and have found that those with ideologies tend to be weak in real solutions because solutions must first fit their ideology before being evaluated on their efficacy. Another reason why I would not vote a cruz or rubio, they have to have a boss guiding them and telling them what to do.
Teshuvah Said:
I do not follow the cross and it does not inform my choices
Teshuvah Said:
sounds like you are looking for a pastor as opposed to an effective leader proven to actually accomplish something more than claiming a fillibuster as an accomplishment like a bush leaguer.
Teshuvah Said:
I have no interest in that book and do not use it to guide my choices.
Teshuvah Said:
the ones on the attack, always the first are the GOP establishment, ted cruz when he arranged the attack on cruz wife, black lives matter and the other blackshirts of the left. Trump fights back, and will fight dirty with those deserving of it… I would do the same… I turn no cheeks except those on my posterior for smooching.
Teshuvah Said:
Many effective people are narcissistic or egotistical… that is not a consideration of mine as I do not plan to marry him. What is important to me, which I have listed here often, are the very specific positions he holds on matters I consider to be priorities:
1- muslim immigration and infiltration into gov
2- anti TPP and the shipping of jobs to china
3- anti abuse of HB1 visa to fire americans
4- recognition of weakness of NATO
5- recognition that muslims teaching their children hate is the cause of no peace agreement with Israel
6- recognizing that a peace deal is not an overiding priority, not to be forced and can be walked away from.
there are more but I have repeated them many times already
Teshuvah Said:
cruz and rubio are novices, never accomplished anything beyond chatter…. As a person who has been self employed and in businesses almost my entire life I recognize that Trump will have a learning curve but that his intitial positions with little knowledge are already sensible in content if not in every detail which can come later if the starting position is sound. I would never hire those others for anything more than a salaried instructed position… which is what they would be doing with their donors and why their donors would hire them.
Cruz, rubio and kasich clinton and sanders are expected by now to be knowledgeable and detailed as they have been on salary employed by me for many years… as a business man I am aware that any businessman worth his salt is not spending his time learning all the details of the next job he is applying for. Trump may change his mind on some issues, like any businessman encountering problems or further details but at least he understands what it takes to accomplish something, the others are just middle management type folks on a salary.
bernard ross Said:
I don’t know what Glenn said about that. Do note, however, that Cruz means “Cross” in Spanish. Trump’s character is the opposite of Cruz’s.
Americans are being given the choice of the Cross (and Biblical values) or Barabbas and 37% are choosing Barabbas. Mt. 27:215. Bad choice! History shows that people will vote in a tyrant.
Teshuvah Said:
you are either ignorant of what a Heil is OR ignorant of what Trump did… it was not a salute… how many times must I repeat myself on this simple fact? He and the crowd were engaging in a bit of humor and banter and he used the typical oath taking…. equating that with a Heil is extremely dishonest and brings into question the character of those repeating that lie. To equate that with a Heil is to intentionally and severely libel the character of the person… as I am completely clear and informed on what happened i will say that anyone who saw it and equated it with a Heil is an ignoramus or a liar and anything that such a person uttered subsequently would be unworthy of trust.
Teshuvah Said:
Did you see the video yourself or are you repeating the words of others… I saw the salute and it is the same as I already told you: a typical oath taking hand raising used in any court of law in the USA… Anyone calling that a heil is dishonest or ignorant
bernard ross Said:
Millions may be spent to EXPOSE him!
Among the many dreams and visions people have are people being rounded up, imprisoned and beheaded. That is consistent with the Book of Revelation.
Now who would do that? Someone who would incite a mob to violence saying, “Punch them in the face! Get em out of here!” Someone with Mafia ties like Trump.
21 Questions For Donald Trump
http://www.nationalmemo.com/21-questions-for-donald-trump/
bernard ross Said:
After almost 8 years of Obama, aren’t you tired of a novice and a liar in the job?
As for Glenn Beck, he has more things right than most “Christian” sites I have seen and I’m not a Mormon. I’m more like Ted Cruz in background, In fact, I would vote for Ted Cruz.
The biblical concept is if you obey God he will protect you, lead you and guide you. If you don’t obey him, he will turn you over to believe a lie and ultimately destroy you (see Deut. 28). If someone says Vote Trump, I know they are not of God.
bernard ross Said:
Yes, I believe he did that.
Watch when he speaks. Everything is about Me, Myself and I. He is a Narcissist with classic Narcissist Personality Disorder. He isn’t for the country. He is for HIMSELF and he fires anyone he doesn’t like.
bernard ross Said:
A rose is a rose is a rose. A salute is a salute is a salute.
I wouldn’t even pretend to raise an arm in a salute to any one!
I am not leftist. I am as far right as you can get.
bernard ross Said:
I do not support the leftist protestors! It is Trump supporters who are making death threats against delegates and the RNC so don’t glorify them. It was an old white man, a Trump supporter, who socked a black man in the eye.
Trump’s language is inciting violence! That should not be.
Teshuvah Said:
So are you saying you support the “protesters” at his rallies like black lives matter, who use the same tactics as the muslims and leftists use to stop Israelis and Jews from speaking? the inciters are sent in by the dems and the gop establishment. To what brown shirts are you refering as I only see the blackshirts of BLM? It appears that you repeat the same slogans as the left, which is what the GOP establishment has been doing… just like when they got together with Obama to pass the TPP.
sounds like BB netanyahu
Teshuvah Said:
LOLROF,If you still beleive he asked folks to give a Heil Hitler salute you did not actually see the video, you get your info from leftist nuts, you are disingenuous or drinking the Kool Aid. The oath was a joke and the “salute” was the typical everyday hand raising done everytime the US gov or courts ask a witness to swear or take an oath… are you implying the US gov asks folks to give a Heil? This is a perfect example of the frantic lunacy of the defamers… just the same as the Israel defamers.
betcha rule 40b wrt a majority in 8 states will be discarded before the convention… and it was created in the last few years. He knows what the rules are but he also can see what the GOP is up to. remember he is new to this but he is still ahead of every GOP stooge running against him… he knows that they have to rig it because the millions spent on lies to defame him will not work. Everyone knows now what the game will be… the question is how will Trump deal with them, I doubt it will be pleasant, I know if it were me it would not be pleasant.
Teshuvah Said:
I never follow that guy who keeps claiming that Cruz was sent by jesus.
I am curious as to where you get the news which leads you to beleive he called for a heil hitler?
Laura Said:
There are a host of people who have had dreams and visions per Joel 2:28 of the complete destruction of America and the reason given is that America betrays Israel. Look for those who do that and don’t support them. “O” being a Muslim obviously has. People who say they are “flexible” as Trump has aren’t to be trusted.
bernard ross Said:
No one has to pretend to come to that conclusion. His own rallies are blown up as he incites people to riot and his brownshirters are being investigated by authorities.
My measure of who is telling the truth and who is a lunatic is how they stand on Israel. When I find that someone wavers, supports a Two State “Solution” or is against Israel in any way, I conclude they know NOTHING and are either ignorant but also could be a deceiver, lunatic, seducer or charlatan. Women are better than men at this determination, having survived neophyte seducers all their lives. “Jewish Trump supporter” should be an oxymoron.
Trump’s current beef with the RNC about delegates comes down to this: Plato said in The Republic, “The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. . . . This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
Trump getting people to pledge to him with a Heil Hitler salute should be a big freaking flag to his nature!
Plato called Democracy “Mob Rule.” America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. Popular votes befit a Democracy. Delegate Conventions act as a check/balance so “mobs” of low-information voters do not vote in a demagogue or tyrant. The rules have been in place for 156 years and if Trump learned to read he would know what they are. He’s rich enough to hire experts on the subject. His failure to do so is indicative of what kind of poor President he would be.
Election by Numbers: No Donald, We Are Not a Democracy
http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/04/11/election-by-the-numbers-no-donald-we-are-not-a-democracy/
The fact that over 69% of Americans are against him is a good sign.
@ babushka:
I don’t think Pat Buchanan even wants to bomb the shit out of anyone. He’s a total isolationist who believes the only reason we have enemies is because of the Jews who force us to side with Israel.
Teshuvah Said:
I read this article and see a few items with which I am familiar such as the muslims celebrating 911 and I have no doubt it is correct based on all the other muslim celebrations of killing infidels and all the cheering done by muslims when jews are killed in Israel and the same TV reports I saw at 911 of muslims cheering. whether it is thousands or hundred i know that it is in substance correct. The same for Obama seeking to take guns and immigration flooding and muslim immigration… this article pretends that this is not his agenda but all the facts i have read say the opposite.
The same is true over the TIME mag 2 billion budget shortfall where your author seeks to base his assertions on exact phrasing rather than substance. One thing is certain, there is not one other candidate who will deal with Muslim immigration, illegal immigration, TPP and HB1 visa abuse. All this BS knitpicking over phrasing is irrelevant.
babushka Said:
NO, that’s just the false propaganda that you wish to propagate with the rest of the establishment: you wish to pretend that Donald is a mad lunatic who will blow up the world… its just baloney. the fact that the establishment is putting millions of dollars into propagating these falsehoods is of no interest to you…. anyone familiar with the establishment global media campaign of libel and defamation against Israel should notice the same tactics in use here. Do you also beleive that Israel is an apartheid state murdering children?
Teshuvah Said:
I would have had no problem nuking europe when the nazis were slaughtering millions of Jews… today we see the beginning of the same….. hence I can envision the possibility nuking europe in the future. France also said years ago that it would not join NATO becuase it wanted to keep its options open for using nukes against a soviet invasion
This is merely another orchestrated hit piece which is trying to portray donald as a lunatic… which is as big a lie as the admitted lie of the author of the article when he said this:
the author begins his article by admitting that he is willing to print a false headline in order to reap the profits of drawing folks to his article…. not a source worth hearing
BTW, I would also advise nuking iran PRIOR to their getting the nukes to nuke Israel.
here is something much more of a threat than fake lunacy propaganda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAeAbX4RLns&feature=youtu.be
Trump’s foreign policy is the traditional “Let’s Bomb The Shit Out Of Them and Then Come Home And Stop All Foreign Aid” approach of Robert Taft/George Wallace/Patrick Buchanan. It is an historically ignorant visceral appeal to those Americans whose worldview does not extend beyond the end of their noses.
The world is an evil place. In the absence of American participation, the vacuum is filled by fascists who inflict misery upon the innocent. Trump’s approach has been tried repeatedly and has failed repeatedly. It always produces genocide and war.
I haven’t heard anything coherent or articulate coming from donald Trump.
He said he would nuke Europe and the Middle East. See 2 minute video at this link.
Donald Trump: Sure, I Might Use Nuclear Weapons In Europe. Hell, I Might Use Them In Chicago, Too.
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/31/donald-trump-sure-might-use-nuclear/
Trump has it All Wrong, it’s Lying Don
http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/04/12/trump-wrong-lying-don/