If Trump gets re-elected what does the world do?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
David Aaronovitch and guests talk about what a second Trump presidency might mean for America's relationship with the world and discuss what countries are doing to prepare.
Guests:
Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America correspondent Inu Manak, fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London Elizabeth Saunders, Professor and Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies
Production: Ben Carter, Claire Bowes and Sally Abrahams Production co-ordinator: Sophie Hill and Jacqui Johnson Sound: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:08.1 | He might be admired in legal cases, but Donald Trump is way ahead in the polling for who'll be |
| 0:14.6 | the Republican candidate in the next US presidential election to be held 13 months from now. |
| 0:23.3 | And in both the last two elections, |
| 0:28.0 | whatever might have been the result of the popular vote, the outcome has been decided by mere tens of thousands of votes in a handful of states. In other words, Trump too is a real |
| 0:35.2 | possibility. It matters to Americans if he's re-elected or not, |
| 0:39.9 | but it may matter even more to some of America's allies and adversaries |
| 0:43.6 | to NATO, Taiwan and Ukraine, and to China and Russia. |
| 0:48.5 | So what might a Trump presidency, |
| 0:51.2 | commencing in January 2025, mean for the rest of us. |
| 0:55.2 | And what can we do to prepare for this eventuality? |
| 0:58.2 | Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 1:03.8 | Let's remind ourselves of what happened the first time round. |
| 1:07.6 | To take us on a tour of Trump's foreign policy during his presidency, I'm joined from |
| 1:12.2 | Virginia by Anthony Zirke, the BBC's North America correspondent. Anthony Zerker, can you remind us how |
| 1:18.4 | Trump pitched his foreign policy in the lead-up to the 2016 election? You know, I was covering |
| 1:24.5 | Donald Trump and his campaign in 2015 and 2016 when he first started running, |
| 1:29.5 | and I was at one of his, what was billed as a key foreign policy speech here in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:35.3 | And one of the things he repeatedly highlighted in that speech was that he wanted to have an unpredictable foreign policy, |
| 1:43.8 | that he didn't want to foreign adversaries |
| 1:46.9 | and even allies to be able to necessarily know what direction he was coming from and be |
| 1:53.0 | able to adjust to it, that he wanted to be able to be flexible, that he wanted to be able |
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