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President Trump, unlike his predecessor, has no need to bow down to foreign interests. He has as his first priority to protect and expand the interests of America and Americans. Yes, Americans first. How in the world can that be a bad thing for Americans?
Trump certainly doent think much of those Americans that happen to be Democrats ,he calls them horrible horrible people.Those people represent more than half the American population and are viewed with hate venom and vitriol,so when trump says he is for Americans its just empty rhetoric and means only those Americans willing to bow down and worship him.
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President Trump, unlike his predecessor, has no need to bow down to foreign interests. He has as his first priority to protect and expand the interests of America and Americans. Yes, Americans first. How in the world can that be a bad thing for Americans?
Do you honestly believe that the US somehow bows down to other countries.
Each country does have a self interest as well as a common interest in areas such as trade, security, defence etc.
I don't see how blatently upsetting allies is going to help the self interest of the US, in fact quite the opposite it's merely going to damage relationships.
"America First" can easily lead to America alone, and there are around 7 Billion Non-Americans in the world.
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Good.
The leader of a country's job is to look out for the citizens of THAT country.
It's not his job to kiss the ass of foreigners.
That was Obama's big failing. The Chinese laughed at the hapless community agitator. Surprised he would so easily sell out America for the betterment of Chinese citizens. Putin simply ignored Obama's bleating and did as he pleased for HIS people. Obama could only stamp his feet.
Of course Democrats don't understand this. How could they? They hate much of America themselves. They are absolutely intolerant of any view beyond their own.
Yet he went to Helsinki and threw the citizens of HIS country under the bus and proceeded to kiss the ass of a murderous foreign dictator.
IOW, he failed miserably at doing the very job you describe as his.
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Sometimes I wonder at the brainwashing of leftists.
Trump has re-negotiated trade deals in our favor, force Europe to pay more for their own defense, brought Iran to its knees, and is about to end the Korean War. You apparently prefer the Clinton/Obama way, which was to give North Korea reactors to develop nuclear weapons, give truckloads of money to Iran to perpetrate terrorism, and to allow other countries to rob us blind.
When the rest of the world is complaining, it is because we have a robust foreign policy that works for America. That is not hard to understand...unless you are a silly liberal who likes feelings over results.
Grow up.
Then please list specific details of just what he has re-negotiated in our favor and the specific benefits to our country. The generic 'Donny done good' is meaningless.
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The Germans were laughing at Trump just last week in relation to Trump suggesting they would be deopendent on Russian energy. Germany has even publically stated that it will decide on the countries defence expenditure and not Donald Trump.
A new PEW research poll, involving almost 30,000 people across the world, has given a huge thumbs down on the trustworthiness of Trump. That also affects the perception of the USA as a trusted partner, and will for years to come, even after the USA gets rid of this nightmare of a president.
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In terms of Iran, the EU is now going to bypass US Sanctions and growing divisions with the US have led to the EU finding a common cause with Russia and China on issues like the Iran deal and trade tariffs.
The US is increasingly being ignored, and more future trade deals and foreign policy deals may exclude the US.
Populism tends to deal in the short term, in the longer term the US may find itself as a disadvantage as nations move to do new deals on a range of issues without the US.
Short term bullying may win short term concessions but may also push allies to make multilateral deals and to increase trade ties with other nations regardless of the US, and may in the future lead to a much less US-centric trading world than we currently have, and may in the longer term be damaging to the US as a result.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was "disturbed and indeed deeply disappointed" by the EU’s decision to create a “special purpose vehicle” (SPV) designed to allow trade with Iran and bypass U.S. sanctions.
The EU's foreign policy chief said technical details of the SPV, planned in coordination with Russia and China, were yet to be determined, but experts doubt its viability.
Growing divisions between the U.S. and its traditional allies have seen the EU find common cause with Russia and China on issues like the Iran deal and trade tariffs.
Sure, as long as we were forking out billions of taxpayer funds to our "allies"...I personally dont give a rats azz that France doesn't "trust" us..
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