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The Documentary Podcast

Three Pillars of Trump: The State Department

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What is happening to American diplomacy? It is the job of the State Department to explain to the world what America stands for, and manage the nuts and bolts of its international relations. But President Trump is uninterested in the diplomatic arts; he has proposed drastic cuts to the department and tweets foreign policy pronouncements seemingly on a whim. What does this mean for the way US foreign policy is run, and for American influence in the world?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the

0:05.0

documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our

0:09.8

presenters and reporters across the world.

0:13.0

If you have the time, please rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave us a comment.

0:18.1

Let us know what you think.

0:21.6

From this day forward a new vision will govern our land.

0:27.0

From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.

0:35.0

America first.

0:37.0

President Donald Trump came to office with a clear goal of making America great again.

0:45.0

So now one year on, what has he actually achieved?

0:48.0

And this special series will be assessing what has really changed in three of the major pillars of government, defense, health care,

0:55.2

and in this program, Foreign Affairs. Most people outside the United States when they look at the White House and look at the State Department

1:08.0

they see disarray, they see turmoil.

1:11.0

I mean why negotiate with Tillerson if he can't deliver? If he can't change American

1:14.7

policy, if he can't keep the threat level down?

1:17.8

What we've seen so far in this administration is a greater degree of uncertainty about

1:22.4

what American policy is and what America thinks.

1:26.2

How Trump handles those real crises, not how he tweets about them, but how he actually handles

1:31.8

them is the real test.

1:33.5

They get all upset because he called Kim Jong-un Rocketman,

1:37.1

and that's Endangering World Peace.

1:38.8

Come on. This is the State Department America's Foreign Ministry. I've covered two Secretaries of State.

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