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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Trump would have negotiated a better trade deal with Japan & WW2 would never have happened!
“December 7th 1941: What would President Trump do?”
He would make sure December 8th was the worst day in Japan’s history.
Who the hell is the one who boldly and accurately proclaimed that we should ban Muslims?
The rest ran!
Gee, I remember hearing these same arguments against Reagan in 1980 leading up to his first election.
What would politico do? . . Oh... We already know. We have Hussein Obama
Maybe he’d go to war with Iraq, spend hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives just to create the mess that Iraq is today.
“Trump would experience a large terrorist event as an ‘enormous narcissistic injury ‘… and his rage would be white-hot”....
Personalities don’t have an off switch, not even for dire emergencies.... such a huge perceived injury to Trump’s sense of self-worth would compel him to focus utterly on the source of that injury. ...Trump would exhibit the same bombast, rage and impulsivity that he has shown in the campaign trail .....With an unapologetically self-involved and rage-prone commander-in-chief—which is what we evidently would be getting with a President Trump—nothing would be off the table.” (Martha Stout.. psychologist and author of The Sociopath Next Door.)
He probably would, depending on what way his Tweeter followers lean.
>>>He would have immediately halted all immigration from Muslim countries.
Exactly. And about 90% of Americans would have supported that at that time.
OK what did Trump do?
I wasn’t aware that Trump makes decisions based on what tweets he receives.
What I also just thought of -is that the Trump campaign could put the details/ bottom line -of my #32 - - into an ad. An ad that shows how electing a Strong President -can and will- prevent attacks of any sort. A country, or ISIS for example -would flat out fear a limited nuclear strike from this 'new' President if they 'acted up.' An ad presenting this idea --might just stop all this cr** about Trump being to quick on the draw / and not knowing anything about foreign affairs.
10 kilotons on the Kaa’ba would be appropriate.
What would Hitlary do?
Well, Benghazi tells us what she would do.
He’s completely malleable. You should know that by now.
Ahhh no. You didn't comprehend my #32. Trump will have no need to go to war. No one will do a damn thing to us....for fear of what a Reagan like President will do i.e.. President Trump....might do! Again, Case Closed. No Rebutal.
Like Beirut?
I don’t know that. Yes Trump probably doesn’t have rock solid beliefs on every single political issue but on some issues (really important ones) he does.
I don’t hate Cruz, I just prefer Trump.
BTW, what is Cruz’s position of legal and illegal immigration?
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