The Tom Woods Show, episode 652.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're going to talk about that Donald Trump speech. I know it's a few

days old at this point, but, you know, ideas are eternal, or I don't know. I don't know how to make up with the fact that we're a few days late on this.

But anyway, it's a speech that Donald Trump gave at the Center for the National Interest, which is the sort of umbrella institution that publishes the National Interest magazine.

And there's been a lot of commentary on it, both ways. People say it's terrible. People say it's great. People say it's in the middle. And I get people saying this is the restoration of an America first foreign policy. And I get people who say it's the restoration of an America first foreign policy, and that's terrible. So we want to get to the heart of what's really being said in this speech.

I read it myself, but I thought, let's bring on the guy I would most want to talk to about the speech.

And that's Scott Horton, host of the Scott Horton show, which you can find at Scott Horton.org.

And he is also the host of Anti-War Radio on KPFK 90.7 in Los Angeles. Scott, welcome back to the show.

Thanks, Tom. Happy to be here. I've had a number of requests to talk about the Trump speech.

And in fact, I specifically had somebody saying bring Scott on to talk about the Trump speech.

So then when I was looking into this, I saw that I think you did an episode of your show on the Trump speech, but, well, I want to do an episode of my show on the Trump speech. So that's why I'm bringing you on.

Great. So I looked at it. I read the whole thing, and I read a few people's commentaries on it. And it seems like it's one of those inkblot tests. You know, it depends on your personality, how you're going to interpret the speech.

It's one of those kinds of speeches.

I've got a bunch of passages that I pulled out that I thought we might want to talk about.

But before we do that, what's your overall impression of this speech?

And by the way, for people listening, like, way in the future, we're talking about a speech that was delivered in the end of April 2016, and it was billed as an extremely important defining foreign policy speech for Donald

Trump. All right, go ahead.

Well, just overall kind of in a word, absolutely horrible.

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