WHY A “REALITY TV CELEBRITY” CANNOT BE A U.S. PRESIDENT

…The wrong man that Trump seems to respect his authoritarian power.

 

Trump doesn’t realize that Putin might seriously make good use of a future President Trump

 

In Trump’s reality TV world, winners don’t have to worry about international alliances, nuclear proliferation or any human rights issues, they just need to not get rejected “off the island”!

 

A truthful assessment of Trump’s amoral approach to US interests around the world is that his way would alienate our long-standing allies and potentially endanger all American’s security.

 

Trump’s dislike for traditional foreign-policy positions was clear in his positive comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Even after US intelligence agencies accused Russia of hacking American political parties to destabilize the election, Trump questioned their hacking and still had good things to say about the current Kremlin leader.

 

Trump seems convinced that he and Putin could achieve a kind of personal relationship. “He said nice things about me,” Trump said on debate night. “If we got along well, that would be good. If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.” It’s hard to argue against having better Russian-American cooperation, but Trump seems oblivious that he might be seriously used by the belligerent, autocratic Kremlin leader.

 

As in the past, Trump took Putin’s side against President Obama and Hillary Clinton. He suggested that Putin’s military success which was achieved through aggressive tactics in the Crimea, Ukraine and Syria just shows that he’s a strong leader who’s able to push a weak United States around.

 

“”Putin has no respect for her [Clinton]. He has no respect for our president,” Trump said. “Putin has outsmarted her and Obama at every single step of the way. Whether it’s Syria, you name it.”

 

An example of Putin’s supposed outsmarting of the United States was the collapse of a Sept. 12 cease-fire in Syria, which led Secretary of State John Kerry to suspend bilateral negotiations: “During the cease-fire, Russia took over vast swatches of land, and then they said we don’t want the cease-fire anymore.”

 

Trump said the United States had been “outplayed.” Rather than condemning Russian and Syrian military strikes that devastated Aleppo and led the United States to suspend talks, Trump said civilians there were dying “because of bad decisions” by the United States. Of course, there were no examples from Trump of those “bad decisions”.

 

You must remember that early on, Trump encouraged the Kremlin leader to “spy on the US”.  But Trump’s most astonishing comment about tough guys was his praise of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  Assad has waged a vicious civil war and used chemical weapons against his own people. “He’s just much tougher and much smarter than her [Clinton],” Trump said, adding that if the Syrian opposition should prevail, “you may very well end up with worse than Assad.”

 

Debate moderator, Chris Wallace eventually got Trump to “condemn” Russia’s hacking of US political parties.

 

This must be the first time in our political history that a US presidential candidate has encouraged a foreign adversary to spy on the United States.

 

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