The U.S. air base in Niger was first established in 2016, and continued to get built up all through the Trump administration. Trump could have killed it; he didn’t.
Sometimes I think Trump does not fully comprehend what “draining the swamp” ought to mean. It has to mean questioning every single program being run by every single federal agency, and making a budget that defunds billions in appropriations and thousands of operations throughout the federal government.
Fair point—you can’t drain the swamp if you delegate the task to Swamp Creatures.