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Trump on Radical Islam
In his speech on foreign policy on Midweek, Donald J. Trump explained his approach to radical Islam, saying, "Nosotros must cease importing extremism through senseless clearing policies."
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This is a transcript of Donald J. Trump's foreign policy remarks , as transcribed by the Federal News Service.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to y'all, and thank you to the Heart for National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. It truly is a great laurels. I'd like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country, one that replaces randomness with purpose, credo with strategy, and chaos with peace.
It's fourth dimension to milkshake the rust off America's foreign policy. It's time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold, something we have to practise. The direction I will outline today volition besides render us to a timeless principle. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security to a higher place all else. It has to be first. Has to be.
That volition be the foundation of every single decision that I volition make.
America Outset volition be the major and overriding theme of my administration. Only to chart our path forward, nosotros must beginning briefly take a look back. We take a lot to be proud of.
In the 1940s we saved the world. The greatest generation vanquish dorsum the Nazis and Japanese imperialists. Then we saved the world again. This time, from totalitarianism and communism. The Common cold War lasted for decades only, guess what, we won and nosotros won large. Democrats and Republicans working together got Mr. Gorbachev to listen the words of President Reagan, our great president, when he said, tear downward this wall.
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History will non forget what he did. A very special homo and president. Unfortunately, after the Cold War our foreign policy veered badly off grade. We failed to develop a new vision for a new time. In fact, as time went on, our strange policy began to brand less and less sense. Logic was replaced with foolishness and airs, which led to one strange policy disaster after some other.
They just kept coming and coming. Nosotros went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya, to President Obama's line in the sand in Syrian arab republic. Each of these actions take helped to throw the region into chaos and gave ISIS the infinite it needs to grow and prosper. Very bad. It all began with a dangerous idea that we could make western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interests in condign a western democracy.
We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed. Civil state of war, religious fanaticism, thousands of Americans and merely killed be lives, lives, lives wasted. Horribly wasted. Many trillions of dollars were lost as a upshot. The vacuum was created that ISIS would make full. Islamic republic of iran, also, would blitz in and make full that void much to their really unjust enrichment.
They take benefited so much, so sadly, for usa. Our strange policy is a consummate and full disaster. No vision. No purpose. No management. No strategy. Today I want to identify five main weaknesses in our strange policy.
First, our resources are totally over extended. President Obama has weakened our military past weakening our economy. He'southward bedridden us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders. Our manufacturing trade arrears with the world is now approaching $1 trillion a yr.
We're rebuilding other countries while weakening our own. Catastrophe the theft of American jobs volition give us resources we demand to rebuild our military, which has to happen and regain our financial independence and strength. I am the only person running for the presidency who understands this and this is a serious problem.
I'thou the simply i — believe me, I know them all, I'g the only one who knows how to set it.
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Secondly, our allies are non paying their off-white share, and I've been talking about this recently a lot. Our allies must contribute toward their fiscal, political, and human costs, have to do it, of our tremendous security burden. But many of them are simply not doing then.
They look at the Usa equally weak and forgiving and feel no obligation to honor their agreements with usa. In NATO, for instance, only 4 of 28 other member countries likewise America, are spending the minimum required two percent of Gdp on defence. Nosotros accept spent trillions of dollars over time on planes, missiles, ships, equipment, edifice up our armed forces to provide a strong defense force for Europe and Asia.
The countries we are defending must pay for the price of this defense, and if not, the U.Due south. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves. Nosotros have no choice.
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The whole world will be safer if our allies exercise their part to support our common defence force and security. A Trump administration volition lead a gratuitous earth that is properly armed and funded, and funded beautifully.
Thirdly, our friends are start to think they tin can't depend on u.s.. We've had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies, something that nosotros've never seen before in the history of our country. He negotiated a disastrous deal with Iran, and and so we watched them ignore its terms even before the ink was dry out. Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, cannot be immune. Remember that, cannot be allowed to take a nuclear weapon.
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And nether a Trump administration, will never, ever exist immune to accept that nuclear weapon.
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All of this without even mentioning the humiliation of the The states with Iran'due south treatment of our x captured sailors — then vividly I remember that 24-hour interval. In negotiation, you must be willing to walk. The Islamic republic of iran bargain, like and so many of our worst agreements, is the result of not existence willing to leave the table.
When the other side knows you're non going to walk, it becomes admittedly impossible to win — you but can't win. At the same fourth dimension, your friends demand to know that y'all volition stick past the agreements that yous have with them. You've made that agreement, you lot take to stand by it and the world will be a better identify. President Obama gutted our missile defense program and then abandoned our missile defense plans with Poland and the Czech Republic. He supported the ouster of a friendly regime in Egypt that had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel, and then helped bring the Muslim Alliance to power in its place.
Israel, our great friend and the i true commonwealth in the Eye Eastward has been snubbed and criticized past an administration that lacks moral clarity. Only a few days ago, Vice President Biden again criticized State of israel, a force for justice and peace, for acting every bit an impatient peace area in the region.
President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and intendance and fabricated it a great power. Iran has, indeed, go a great, slap-up power in just a very short period of fourth dimension, because of what we've done. All of the expense and all at the expense of Israel, our allies in the region and very importantly, the United states itself.
Nosotros've picked fights with our oldest friends, and now they're starting to look elsewhere for assistance. Remember that. Non good.
Fourth, our rivals no longer respect the states. In fact, they're just as confused every bit our allies, but in an fifty-fifty bigger problem is they don't take us seriously anymore. The truth is they don't respect us. When President Obama landed in Republic of cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him.
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Highlights from Trump'due south Speech
The Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump gave a foreign policy speech on Wed in Washington, shifting his focus to topics including the Islamic Country, terrorism, immigration and the use of military forcefulness.
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Perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Forcefulness One. Then amazingly, the aforementioned thing happened in Saudi arabia. It's called no respect. Absolutely no respect.
Do you lot remember when the president fabricated a long and expensive trip to Copenhagen, Kingdom of denmark, to get the Olympics for our country, and after this unprecedented try, it was appear that the United States came in 4th — fourth identify? The president of the U.s. making this trip — unprecedented — comes in fourth place. He should have known the issue before making such an embarrassing commitment. Nosotros were laughed at all over the world, as we have been many, many times.
The list of humiliations go on and on and on. President Obama watches helplessly as North korea increases its aggression and expands farther and further with its nuclear reach. Our president has allowed China to continue its economic set on on American jobs and wealth, refusing to enforce trade deals and apply leverage on China necessary to rein in North Korea. We have the leverage. We have the ability over Prc, economic power, and people don't sympathize it. And with that economic ability, we can rein in and nosotros tin get them to do what they have to do with Democratic people's republic of korea, which is totally out of command.
He has fifty-fifty immune Prc to steal authorities secrets with cyber attacks and engaged in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies. We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do. They do at will. It always happens. If President Obama'south goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better task.
Finally, America no longer has a articulate understanding of our foreign policy goals. Since the end of the Cold State of war and the breakup of the Soviet Union, we've lacked a coherent foreign policy. One solar day, we're bombing Libya and getting rid of a dictator to foster commonwealth for civilians. The next twenty-four hour period, nosotros're watching the same civilians suffer while that state falls and absolutely falls autonomously. Lives lost, massive moneys lost. The world is a different place.
We're a humanitarian nation, only the legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion and disarray, a mess. We've made the Middle East more unstable and cluttered than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide.
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We have washed nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that, for that lack of action. Our actions in Iraq, Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya and Syria have helped unleash ISIS, and we're in a war against radical Islam, but President Obama won't fifty-fifty name the enemy, and unless you proper noun the enemy, you will never ever solve the trouble.
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Hillary Clinton too refuses to say the words radical Islam, even as she pushes for a massive increase in refugees coming into our country. Later Secretary Clinton's failed intervention in Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya, Islamic terrorists in Benghazi took downwards our consulate and killed our ambassador and iii dauntless Americans. Then, instead of taking accuse that dark, Hillary Clinton decided to get dwelling house and sleep. Incredible.
Clinton blames it all on a video, an alibi that was a total lie, proven to exist admittedly a total lie. Our administrator was murdered and our secretarial assistant of country misled the nation. And, by the style, she was not awake to take that call at three o'clock in the morning. And now ISIS is making millions and millions of dollars a calendar week selling Libya oil. And y'all know what? We don't blockade, we don't bomb, nosotros don't exercise anything near information technology. Information technology'southward virtually as if our country doesn't fifty-fifty know what's happening, which could exist a fact and could be true. This volition all change when I go president.
To our friends and allies, I say America is going to be stiff again. America is going to be reliable over again. It's going to be a great and reliable ally again. Information technology's going to exist a friend over again. We're going to finally have a coherent foreign policy based upon American interests and the shared interests of our allies.
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Nosotros're getting out of the nation-building business organisation and instead focusing on creating stability in the world. Our moments of greatest strength came when politics concluded at the water'due south edge. We demand a new rational American strange policy, informed by the best minds and supported past both parties, and it will be by both parties — Democrats, Republicans, independents, everybody, too as by our close allies.
This is how we won the Cold War and it's how we will win our new future struggles, which may be many, which may be complex, just nosotros will win if I become president.
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Trump on Military Spending
The Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump outlined his programme to bolster the might of the American military, which he feels needs heavy investment to exist rebuilt.
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Start, we need a long-term plan to halt the spread and accomplish of radical Islam. Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States and indeed the world. Events may require the use of military strength, but it's also a philosophical struggle, like our long struggle in the Cold War.
In this, we're going to be working very closely with our allies in the Muslim world, all of which are at take a chance from radical Islamic violence, attacks and everything else. Information technology is a dangerous world, more unsafe at present than it has ever been.
We should work — thank y'all.
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We should work together with whatever nation in the region that is threatened past the rise of radical Islam. But this has to be a two-way street. They must also be good to u.s.. Remember that. They have to exist expert to us, no longer one way. It's now two-way. And remember, united states and all we're doing, they take to appreciate what nosotros've done to them. We're going to help, merely they have to appreciate what nosotros've done for them. The struggle against radical Islam besides takes place in our homeland. There are scores of contempo migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism. For every case known to the public, there are dozens and dozens more than. We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies. We have no idea where these people are coming from. In that location's no documentation. There's no paperwork. There'due south nix. We have to be smart. We have to exist vigilant.
A interruption for reassessment will help the states to preclude the next San Bernardino or frankly, much worse. All you have to practice is await at the World Merchandise Center and September 11th, 1 of the great catastrophes, in my opinion, the single greatest military catastrophe in the history of our country; worse than Pearl Harbor because you lot take a look at what'south happened, and citizens were attacked, every bit opposed to the military beingness attacked — ane of the true great catastrophes.
And then there's ISIS. I take a uncomplicated message for them. Their days are numbered. I won't tell them where and I won't tell them how. We must...
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... we must every bit a nation be more unpredictable. Nosotros are totally predictable. Nosotros tell everything. We're sending troops. We tell them. We're sending something else. We have a news conference. We accept to be unpredictable. And nosotros have to exist unpredictable starting now.
But they're going to be gone. ISIS volition be gone if I'g elected president. And they'll be gone quickly. They will be gone very, very quickly.
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Secondly, we take to rebuild our military and our economy. The Russians and Chinese accept chop-chop expanded their armed forces capability, but expect at what's happened to us. Our nuclear weapons arsenal, our ultimate deterrent, has been allowed to cloudburst and is desperately in demand of modernization and renewal. And information technology has to happen immediately. Our active duty military have shrunk from 2 million in 1991 to about i.iii million today. The Navy has shrunk from over 500 ships to 272 ships during this aforementioned menses of time. The Air Force is about i-third smaller than 1991. Pilots flying B-52s in combat missions today. These planes are older than well-nigh everybody in this room.
And what are nosotros doing well-nigh this? President Obama has proposed a 2017 defense upkeep that in real dollars, cuts nearly 25 percent from what we were spending in 2011. Our armed forces is depleted and we're asking our generals and armed services leaders to worry about global warming.
We will spend what we need to rebuild our military machine. It is the cheapest, single investment we can brand. We will develop, build and buy the best equipment known to flesh. Our military dominance must be unquestioned, and I mean unquestioned, past anybody and everybody.
Simply we will look for savings and spend our money wisely. In this time of mounting debt, right now we have so much debt that nobody even knows how to address the trouble. Only I do. No 1 dollar tin be wasted. Not one single dollar can we waste matter. We're also going to have to change our trade, immigration and economical policies to make our economy strong once more. And to put Americans first again.
This will ensure that our own workers, right here in America, become the jobs and higher pay that will abound our tax revenues, increase our economic might as a nation, make u.s. strong financially again. So, so important. We need to think smart about areas where our technological superiority, and nobody comes shut, gives u.s.a. an border.
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Trump on U.S. Employment
During his foreign policy speech communication on Wednesday, Donald J. Trump addressed the depletion of the manufacturing manufacture in the United states of america, vowing that in that location will be consequences for companies that leave the United states of america.
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This includes 3D press, bogus intelligence and cyber warfare. A great country also takes care of its warriors. Our commitment to them is absolute, and I mean absolute. A Trump assistants will give our servicemen and women the all-time equipment and support in the world when they serve and where they serve. And the all-time intendance in the earth when they return as veterans and they come back home to civilian life. Our veterans...
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Our veterans have not been treated fairly or justly. These are our great people and nosotros must treat them fairly. We must even treat them really, really well and that will happen under the Trump administration.
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Finally, nosotros must develop a foreign policy based on American interests. Businesses do not succeed when they lose sight of their core interests and neither do countries. Await at what happened in the 1990s. Our embassies in Republic of kenya and Tanzania — and this was a horrible fourth dimension for us — were attacked. and 17 brave sailors were killed on the U.s.S. Cole.
And what did we do? Information technology seemed nosotros put more than effort into adding Red china into the World Trade organization, which has been a total disaster for the United States. Frankly, we spent more time on that than we did in stopping Al Qaeda. We even had an opportunity to take out Osama bin Laden and we didn't do it
And and then nosotros got hit at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once more, the worst set on on our land in its history. Our strange policy goals must be based on America's cadre national security interests. And the post-obit will exist my priorities.
In the Middle East our goals must be, and I mean must be, to defeat terrorists and promote regional stability, not radical modify. Nosotros need to be clearsighted about the groups that will never be annihilation other than enemies. And believe me, we have groups that no matter what you do, they will be the enemy.: We have to be smart enough to recognize who those groups are, who those people are, and not assistance them. And we must only exist generous to those that evidence they are indeed our friends.
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We desire to alive peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China. Nosotros have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open up eyes, merely nosotros are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek mutual ground based on shared interests.
Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of Islamic terrorism. I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength just is possible, admittedly possible. Common sense says this wheel, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end presently. Good for both countries.
Some say the Russians won't be reasonable. I intend to find out. If nosotros tin can't make a deal nether my administration, a deal that's great — not proficient, great — for America, but also skilful for Russia, and so we volition quickly walk from the table. Information technology's as uncomplicated every bit that. We're going to detect out.
Fixing our relations with Communist china is another important step — and actually toward creating an even more prosperous menstruation of fourth dimension. People's republic of china respects strength and past letting them take advantage of us economically, which they are doing like never earlier, we have lost all of their respect.
We take a massive trade deficit with Cathay, a arrears that we take to observe a way quickly, and I hateful quickly, to balance. A strong and smart America is an America that will find a better friend in Communist china, better than we accept right now. Look at what Red china is doing in the South Cathay Ocean. They're not supposed to exist doing information technology.
No respect for this land or this president. We tin both benefit or we can both go our separate ways. If need be, that'due south what's going to accept to happen.
After I'yard elected president, I will besides call for a summit with our NATO allies and a separate summit with our Asian allies. In these summits, we volition non simply discuss a rebalancing of financial commitments, but take a fresh look at how nosotros can prefer new strategies for tackling our mutual challenges. For example, nosotros will hash out how we tin can upgrade NATO'southward outdated mission and construction, grown out of the Cold State of war to confront our shared challenges, including migration and Islamic terrorism.
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I will non hesitate to deploy military force when in that location is no alternative. But if America fights, it must merely fight to win.
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I volition never sent our finest into battle unless necessary, and I mean absolutely necessary, and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a uppercase V.
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Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction. The all-time way to achieve those goals is through a disciplined, deliberate and consistent foreign policy. With President Obama and Secretarial assistant Clinton we've had the exact opposite — a reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy, ane that has blazed the path of destruction in its wake.
Afterward losing thousands of lives and spending trillions of dollars, nosotros are in far worst shape in the Middle East than always, ever before. I challenge anyone to explain the strategic foreign policy vision of Obama/Clinton. It has been a consummate and full disaster.
I volition also be prepared to deploy America's economic resource. Financial leverage and sanctions tin be very, very persuasive, but we need to use them selectively and with total determination. Our power will exist used if others do not play past the rules. In other words, if they do not treat us fairly. Our friends and enemies must know that if I describe a line in the sand, I will enforce that line in the sand. Believe me.
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However, unlike other candidates for the presidency, war and aggression will not be my first instinct. You lot cannot have a foreign policy without diplomacy. A superpower understands that circumspection and restraint are really truly signs of forcefulness. Although not in government service, I was totally against the war in Iraq, very proudly, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle Due east. Sadly, I was correct, and the biggest casher has been has been Iran, who is systematically taking over Iraq and gaining access to their very rich oil reserves, something it has wanted to exercise for decades.
And now, to pinnacle it off, nosotros have ISIS. My goal is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations. That's why I also expect and have to look for talented experts with approaches and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who take perfect résumés just very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war. We have to look to new people.
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We accept to await to new people considering many of the old people frankly don't know what they're doing, fifty-fifty though they may expect awfully good writing in The New York Times or existence watched on television.
Finally, I will work with our allies to reinvigorate Western values and institutions. Instead of trying to spread universal values that not everybody shares or wants, we should sympathise that strengthening and promoting Western civilization and its accomplishments volition practice more than to inspire positive reforms around the globe than military interventions.
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These are my goals as president. I volition seek a foreign policy that all Americans, any their party, can support, so important, and which our friends and allies will respect and totally welcome. The world must know that we practise not go away in search of enemies, that nosotros are always happy when old enemies go friends and when old friends become allies, that's what we want. We want them to exist our allies.
We want the world to exist — we want to bring peace to the globe. Too much destruction out there, besides many destructive weapons. The power of weaponry is the unmarried biggest problem that we have today in the world.
To achieve these goals, Americans must take confidence in their land and its leadership. Once more, many Americans must wonder why we our politicians seem more interested in defending the borders of foreign countries than in defending their own. Americans.
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Americans must know that we're putting the American people first over again on trade.
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And so true. On merchandise, on immigration, on foreign policy. The jobs, incomes and security of the American worker will always exist my kickoff priority.
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No state has ever prospered that failed to put its ain interests first. Both our friends and our enemies put their countries above ours and nosotros, while being fair to them, must start doing the same. Nosotros will no longer surrender this land or its people to the false song of globalism. The nation-state remains the truthful foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie u.s.a. up and bring America downwards and will never enter.
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And under my administration, we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our ain affairs.
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NAFTA, as an example, has been a total disaster for the United States and has emptied our states — literally emptied our states of our manufacturing and our jobs. And I've just gotten to run across it. I've toured Pennsylvania. I've toured New York. I've toured so many of usa. They have been cleaned out. Their manufacturing is gone.
Never again, only the reverse — and I have to say this strongly — never again; merely the reverse volition happen. We will keep our jobs and bring in new ones. There volition be consequences for the companies that leave the United States just to exploit it later. They burn the people. They have advantage of the The states. There will exist consequences for those companies. Never again.
Under a Trump administration, no American denizen volition ever once more feel that their needs come up 2d to the citizens of a foreign state.
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I will view every bit president the world through the clear lens of American interests. I will be America's greatest defender and most loyal champion. We will not repent for becoming successful again, just will instead embrace the unique heritage that makes united states who we are.
The world is most peaceful and most prosperous when America is strongest. America will continue and go along forever to play the role of peacemaker. We will e'er help save lives and indeed humanity itself, merely to play the role, we must make America stiff once again.
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And always — ever, always, we must make, and we have to wait at it from every bending, and we have no choice, nosotros must make America respected once more. We must make America truly wealthy again. And nosotros must — we accept to and we will make America great once more. And if we do that — and if nosotros do that, perhaps this century can exist the most peaceful and prosperous the earth has ever, ever known. Thanks very much, everybody. I capeesh it. Thank you.
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Cheers very much.
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Thank you.
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/transcript-trump-foreign-policy.html
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