Posted on 04/01/2016 6:44:08 AM PDT by McGruff
It’s the totally unthinkable question that Americans find themselves confronting this week: What would President Donald Trump do in a genuine national crisis?
After a series of overseas terror attacks and some startling statements about nuclear weapons and torture, the world’s attention has turned to Trump’s foreign policy—an area where he has few advisers, no experience and a tendency to fire off answers and deal with the fallout later. The reality of a Trump candidacy has begun to set in: If Trump is elected and a major national crisis hits, he’ll be the one with his hands on the button. He’ll be at the head of the table in the Situation Room. His decisions would steer America’s immediate response and could set the course of American policy for years.
What’s hard to project with a normal politician is nearly impossible to guess with Trump. He has no foreign policy or public service experience, which means there’s no official record to consult, and his public statements, while extreme, have been vague. The saber-rattling statements that excite his supporters also suggest he has disregard for linchpins of the global order like NATO, the Geneva Conventions and the hard-won global nuclear-weapons limits
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I’ve always wondered where we’d be if Al Gore was president on 9-11.
Instead of tweeting or giving an interview to people trying to destroy him he would instead consult with his advisery team and then act.
Tadaaaaaa!
He probably would have Tweeted how bad Saudi Arabia is. Then went back to smearing Megyn Kelly.
I’d bet Tora Bora would be a crater now.
He wouldn’t have done anything just like Bill Clinton and we would have had more 911s because according to him, Gorebull warming is a bigger threat than terrorism.
Despite how the media tries to portray Trump as “incompetent”, incompetent he isn’t. Trump has show by his exceptional successes that he is highly capable of making good decisions and in hiring the expertise when needed. I believe if elected, he will display exactly that when it comes to foreign policy decisions. Simply, he’s no dummy. At least he will do SOMETHING to protect this nation and its people which is far more than odumbo and his ilk have done.
My problem isn’t being hissy-fit concerned about what Trump would do. My problem is in what I know what Ryan, Bush, Kasich or any of the other establishment politicians waiting in the wings to steal a nomination have either done by example or in response to similar events or shown by their backbiting conniving actions that show a lack of spine. They all have either gone along with 8 years of Obama inaction to it.
IOW, I KNOW exactly what they’d do and THAT is the problem
Whatever it is, it would be really really really huge and great I guess maybe, but look how big the crowds are at his rallies.
December 7th 1941: What would President Trump do?
They destroyed my beautiful towers!!!
first confirmation on where ANY ONE of them came from, nuke em.
If its a European country, give then notice to deport wholesale or bomb the neighborhoods (terrorist training camps).
Yes, i’m serious.
00/00/00 what would Maggi Trump do?
Look at what he did when it actually happened. He was there. He did react to it.
I suppose he could always blame GWB.
Na, Obama already has that trademarked.
I do believe Donald would play to win and not play to lose like Obama.
Probably what Trump said he would do with ISIS ......... “Bomb the $@%^ out of them.”
Thank you for saving me the trouble. Hehehe. d;^)
This country owes more to Ralph Nader than it will ever know.
Hopefully, he'd announce in his national speech on 9/13 that Baghdad, Damascus, Riyad, Mecca, Teheran, Kabul and Tripoli were now seas of glass.
Very few presidential candidates have any foreign experience whatever. And we see the results.
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