Posted on 04/28/2016 6:01:29 AM PDT by RayofHope
If Donald Trump has begun to refer to himself as the “presumptive” Republican nominee, the positive reaction Wednesday by some party leaders and strategists to his foreign policy address seemed to affirm that notion.
Speaking from prepared remarks in Washington, D.C. — an unusual format and setting for the bombastic outsider candidate — Trump described U.S. foreign policy under President Obama and, by extension, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as “a complete and total disaster.”
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But certain happy Senators disagree, one in particular, and I don’t mean Cruz
Watch these RINO stooges turn tail and start to claim they were solidly in Trump’s corner all along.
Would that be a Senator who some refer to as being ‘light in the loafers’?
Some insiders want the horror show of a stagnant economy and a weak and sold-out America to go on and on.
I understand Trump was invited to give the speech. Now will the other candidates also be invited to give a foreign policy speech? I want to hear Clintons . Gag.
Clinton already gave her foreign policy speech.
....to Goldman Sachs and you’re not allowed to hear it.
Trump as a guy who doesn’t understand the role of America, that doesn’t understand the benefit of these alliances,” Graham said.
"What people need to get a grip on in the Washington establishment is their job is to understand Trump. His job isn't to understand them." - Newt Gingrich
To anyone who follows Trump’s speeches there was absolutely nothing new in this one. Amazes me to see “experts” on tv saying this speech was substantively different.
Already happening with the media slugs!!
Yes. Just like in his speech the night of the NY primary when he referred to Cruz as “Senator Cruz” instead of “Lyin’ Ted” and the media all saw this as some kind of turning point. We’d seen this face of Trump before, and I, for one, wasn’t at all surprised when he went back to calling him “Lyin’ Ted” at the next day’s rally.
Newt’s seen the light and has been solidly for Trump for a while now.
Yesterday, Wednesday April 27th, 2016, a date that will live in history, America was suddenly and deliberately astounded by a presidential candidate who sounded like he knew what was what and what to do about it.. (Apologies to FDR)
I totally agree. The difference was the delivery. Much more presidential.
I think he has been for a while. Personally, I'd like to see Newt as Sec'y of State in the Trump administration.
He’s angling for a job in the Trump Administration.
It is not hard to understand why. As he has made very clear, he puts America first. He is not one of those confused politicians who feels as need to apologize for our heritage; not one who likes to pretend that all people are interchangeable.
Hopefully, the campaign will arrange some television rebroadcasts of the speech in Indiana this weekend. It could help clinch the State.
“To anyone who follows Trump’s speeches there was absolutely nothing new in this one. Amazes me to see “experts” on tv saying this speech was substantively different.”
You are right! From his announcement speech, he had the same ideas.
It is very telling to go back to the announcement speeches of Cruz and Trump to see what issues were important to them at the time.
Terrorism, ISIS, Islam, middle east refugees.
Cruz March 2015
Imagine a president who says “We will stand up and defeat radical Islamic terrorism...” “... and we will call it by its name.”
THAT’s it! But he mentioned CUBA FIVE times.
TRUMP June, 2015
Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They’ve become rich.
They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don’t have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should’ve taken.
So now ISIS has the oil, and what they don’t have, Iran has. And in 19 — and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said — and I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we’ve ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, “Don’t hit Iraq,” because you’re going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.
We get Bergdahl, they get five killer terrorists that everybody wanted over there. We get Bergdahl. We get a traitor.
Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody. I will find — within our military, I will find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur, I will find the right guy. I will find the guy that’s going to take that military and make it really work. Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around.
Newt would make a good VP IMO.
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