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In Donald Trump’s Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays
nytimes.com ^ | MARCH 26, 2016 | DAVID E. SANGER and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Posted on 03/26/2016 6:22:25 PM PDT by Trumpinator

In Donald Trump’s Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays

By DAVID E. SANGER and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 26, 2016

Mr. Trump’s views, as he explained them, fit nowhere into the recent history of the Republican Party: He is not in the internationalist camp of President George Bush, nor does he favor President George W. Bush’s call to make it the United States’ mission to spread democracy around the world. He agreed with a suggestion that his ideas might be summed up as “America First.”

“Not isolationist, but I am America First,” he said. “I like the expression.” He said he was willing to reconsider traditional American alliances if partners were not willing to pay, in cash or troop commitments, for the presence of American forces around the world. “We will not be ripped off anymore,” he said.

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To: Trumpinator

Einstein defined “insanity” as doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
Have WE become insane to think that electing MORE lawyers, politicians and theoretical academics to clean up the mess created by OTHER lawyers, politicians and theoretical academics will work?
The Presidency is called the EXECUTIVE BRANCH for a reason. While there MAY still be time to save what’s left of America – the IDEA – perhaps we should consider electing an ACTUAL EXECUTIVE who has built and run a successful BUSINESS ENTERPRISE?
THINK ABOUT IT!
(If you came out of the government school system, you may need some help with the process!)


81 posted on 03/26/2016 7:50:21 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Trumpinator

the New York Times has been the Paper of Liberals for years.

Of course, they want Trump because they know Hillary can beat him.


82 posted on 03/26/2016 7:50:31 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Trumpinator

Ronald Reagan on his foreign policy re: the Soviets.

“We win. They lose”


83 posted on 03/26/2016 7:52:20 PM PDT by Strac6 (Hillary's Goin' Down! ... and this time, it won't be on Huma.)
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To: Trumpinator

I think this is a good thing, but I think the NYT is framing that to their guilty liberal readers as a bad thing.


84 posted on 03/26/2016 7:55:50 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Thumper1960

He probably has, the condensed version! Trump is such a man of action I cannot imagine him sitting quietly with a book for very long :-)


85 posted on 03/26/2016 8:03:39 PM PDT by opus1 (google is not the font of all wisdom)
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To: Trumpinator

GO TRUMP!!!!!

sorry for yelling


86 posted on 03/26/2016 8:06:26 PM PDT by stockpirate (We must burn down the republican party, to save it for “We the People” (Palin Trump is the 1st wav)
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To: opus1
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Sun Tzu

87 posted on 03/26/2016 8:06:40 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: opus1

Do we have any true friends left? We’ve pretty much screwed all of of our friends,specially under obama.


88 posted on 03/26/2016 8:19:28 PM PDT by PrairieLady2 (When you Cruz, you looze. Lyin' Cruz.)
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To: PrairieLady2

I started thinking about your question, and my goodness, I really can’t name any country with complete confidence! You’re right, many now have reason to distrust us thanks to Obama. There is Turkey, we are shoveling cash in there like crazy and strongly backing them for EU membership, which is a mistake!


89 posted on 03/26/2016 8:22:03 PM PDT by opus1 (google is not the font of all wisdom)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

That’s what they seem to be trying for, that the headline will make all the “right” people gasp and declare what a bully Trump is, so they can tut tut at the Illuminati/NWO dinner parties.


90 posted on 03/26/2016 8:22:07 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

“Everyone else, in both parties, is selling out our very own country. Every one of them.”

But, they went to the right schools and are ‘intellectuals’..
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And they go to the right church and worship the right God and some are even the proper shade of Conservative !!


91 posted on 03/26/2016 8:31:55 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Trumpinator

It works for me - go Trump!


92 posted on 03/26/2016 8:33:19 PM PDT by SelmaLee (Will crawl over broken, burning glass.)
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To: Trumpinator
In Obama’s Worldview, America Comes Last, and the U. S. Pays for Everything
93 posted on 03/26/2016 8:38:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Trumpinator

Cruz really is not that different. He just isn’t as blunt about it and most likely will owe some debts to the GOPe if he wins. And yes, that is a problem, but the GOPe hates him almost as much as they hate Trump.

It is a testament to what Trump has done that the GOPe is looking to Cruz as their savior! LOL

GO TRUMP. If not Trump, GO CRUZ.


94 posted on 03/26/2016 8:45:03 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullete)
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To: altura

You first problem is with ascribing anything liberals believe as being factual or absolute.

Trump beats Clinton and it wont be close.


95 posted on 03/26/2016 8:50:27 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: Trumpinator

And THIS would make me VERY happy!

THIS is why I am all for TRUMP.


96 posted on 03/26/2016 8:51:45 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: captain_dave

50? How about 80? We have been paying since the 40s. We have paid for almost everything globally and spent ourselves into the dirt doing it.


97 posted on 03/26/2016 8:52:47 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Trumpinator

We’re not the Easter Bunny to the world.


98 posted on 03/26/2016 8:58:08 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money." - Trump)
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To: Ciexyz

How many times can we vote?


99 posted on 03/26/2016 9:00:38 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Trumpinator

so in other words...

it will be America’s fault that the EU collapses

not it’s run amok socialist policies

I read what they are setting up here


100 posted on 03/26/2016 9:02:11 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (if God wanted Cruz to be president, he'd have been born in America)
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