If Foreign Policy Matters, This Story Should Disqualify Trump

With just a few months to go until the nation chooses its next president, if foreign policy matters, a new story about Donald Trump should be disqualifying.

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Donald Trump Wanted To Bomb A Parade

HR McMaster was Donald Trump’s national security advisor in the White House, and in his new book, he describes something that every voter should be informed about before they vote.

According to CNN, McMaster described:

In his blistering, insightful account of his time in the Trump White House, McMaster describes meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” during which Trump’s advisers would flatter the president by saying stuff like, “Your instincts are always right” or, “No one has ever been treated so badly by the press.” Meanwhile, Trump would say “outlandish” things like, “Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?” in Mexico or, “Why don’t we take out the whole North Korean Army during one of their parades?”

Because the media has done its best to normalize Trump while the nation has been hit with such an onslaught of insane statements and behavior that there has been some collective desensitization, it is easy to overlook a story like this as Trump being Trump or to think that you have heard this sort of thing before and it is nothing new.

That sort of thinking would be a mistake because circumstances have changed.

Trump’s plans in Project 2025 tell the country that one of the first orders of business will be to get rid of all of the national security people who acted as guardrails to protect the nation so that Trump could not bomb the North Korean military or bomb the drugs.

Since Trump surrounds himself with sycophantic yes people, there will not be anyone there to tell him no, and there won’t be government infrastructure in place to stop him.

The result is that Trump could bomb Mexico or North Korea because no one would have the ability or desire to stop him.

When Trump talks about America being on the verge of World War III, it might be because he would start it.

Does The Commander-in-Chief Test Still Matter?

America had already made this mistake once before with Trump when they decided that Hillary Clinton, because she was a woman, could not be Commander In Chief. Instead, less than 100,000 voters in three swing states chose a dangerous crackpot because he was a man.