Trump’s Big Trip Abroad

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🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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What does Donald Trump's trip abroad reveal about his emerging foreign policy? Is there any chance for the U.S. to back away from regional conflicts on the other side of the globe? Emma Ashford comments.

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0:00.0	This is a key to daily podcast for Tuesday, May 30th, 2017.
0:06.7	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:07.8	President Trump's recent trip to Saudi Arabia, the Vatican, Israel, and meetings with other
0:12.2	world leaders
0:13.0	reveals a foreign policy driven by personality
0:16.0	rather than a deep regard for U.S. security interests.
0:19.0	Emma Ashford, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, explains.
0:25.6	What did President Trump have to say to the Saudis,
0:28.0	and how did it differ from his earlier statements
0:31.7	about Islam and about the US relationship with Saudi Arabia.
0:36.0	During the campaign, Trump was actually quite critical of the Saudis. He said that they, you know,
0:41.6	weren't paying for the protection the US was providing them.
0:45.0	He made obviously lots of comments about a Muslim ban and other derogatory comments about Islam.
0:50.0	But when he actually went to Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip, he really seemed to just do a complete about face on that.
0:59.0	He basically gave Saudi leaders everything they could possibly have wanted from this trip.
1:04.0	He gave them a huge arms deal.
1:05.8	He told them that the US would stand with them against regional aggressors, by which he obviously
1:10.3	means Iran.
1:11.9	And just in general, that trip,
1:13.6	that part of the trip to Saudi Arabia
1:15.7	went really, really well for the Saudis
1:18.2	and Trump himself obviously feels
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