Donald Trump’s MAGA Approach to U.S. Foreign Policy | Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What is the MAGA approach to U.S. foreign policy? Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s critics call him an “isolationist.” Moving America away from “endless wars” was a staple of his 2024 presidential campaign. However, during his first term, Trump did not shy away from flexing America’s military muscles, especially regarding Syria and Iran. In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson, Hoover Institute Senior Fellow and the author of, “The Case for Trump,” argues that the MAGA foreign agenda is neither isolationist, nor interventionist but something else entirely. Watch to find out more: The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://www.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Is the MAGA agenda and Donald Trump in particular isolationist?
0:34.6	That's what the accusation is, that under no circumstances will we
0:38.4	slave dragons abroad looking for them? Or is he a neo-conservative and he wants to
0:44.4	intervene everywhere? And I think the answer of course is neither. Hi, I'm Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. Have you noticed recently that Donald Trump has both
1:06.8	issued threats to our existential enemies abroad, and yet he's called for peace as well.
1:13.6	In other words, he's told Hamas, you better let the hostages go by the time that I'm president or else.
1:20.6	And yet he's also said at the same time, we don't want these 2,000 Americans in Syria. It's a mess. The country is destroyed.
1:29.5	Get them out before they get killed. This brings up kind of a dichotomy that's been discussed.
1:35.2	Is the MAGA agenda and Donald Trump in particular isolationist? That's what the accusation is,
1:41.8	that under no circumstances will we slave dragons abroad looking for them?
1:47.0	Or is he a neo-conservative and he wants to intervene everywhere?
1:51.0	And I think the answer, of course, is neither.
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