Out of Donald Trump’s radical and provocative rhetoric comes a vague sense of a foreign policy platform.
Earlier this summer, Trump proposed his plan for our nation’s trade interactions. Specifically citing a skewed sense of nationalism, he promised to eliminate international trade deals and begin attacks on China’s economic practices.
In Pennsylvania, Trump addressed critics of his non-existent foreign policy by laying out what seems like a plan to bring the nation back to the Dark Ages. He promised to remove the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that helped quadruple trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico from $297 billion to $1.14 trillion between 1993–2015.
Alongside this disastrous promise came Trump’s plan to impose excessive tariffs on goods imported from China. Ignoring the irony between Trump’s rhetoric and his China-based businesses, his policy would place a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods and could potentially start trade wars.
In his usual mudslinging campaign, Trump challenged Hillary Clinton on her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, warning that “she will betray you again.” This rhetoric was further exacerbated by his description of the Partnership as the “rape of our country.”
Trump took a stand against against globalization by saying that it benefits the financial elite while imposing “nothing but poverty and heartache” on the workers. In stark contrast to the economic policies of the Republican Party, Trump’s policy focuses on limiting trade whenever possible.
As a true newcomer to the political scene, Trump’s policies show both a lack of experience and the naivety that make him unfit to be the leader of the free world.
These policies spurred criticism from both established Republican leaning interests and the Clinton campaign. “Even under the best case scenario, Trump’s tariffs would strip of us at least 3.5 million jobs,” the usually conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce said.
With that statement there is much doubt about Trump’s loyalty to the GOP. His foreign policy plan includes a wall at the Mexican border, military intervention in Syria and seemingly questionable support for Russian President Vladimir Putin have driven away some important Republicans.
Brent Scowcroft, former NSA adviser, and 121 other national GOP security leaders announced their opposition to the Republican nominee. “We commit ourselves to working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office,” they said in an open letter.
Trump’s foreign policy relies heavily on simplistic and blunt language. Likening the Islamic State to Nazism during the Holocaust, Trump proposed extreme and somewhat radical means to ensure safety.
His plan to counter radical Islamic terrorists called for extreme vetting of immigrants. It would also limit visas to people from the Middle East, temporarily or permanently. And it promised to keep Guantanamo Bay open.
“Trump obviously views millions of ordinary American Muslims not as fellow citizens who contribute to this great nation, but as foreign intruders who must be treated with suspicion and whose constitutional rights may be curtailed,” said Robert McCaw, the government affairs director of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Trump is ultimately a danger to both the minority groups whose rights he vows to infringe and the millions (if not billions) of lives that would suffer from the mogul’s violent rhetoric and calls for war.
In this life-changing election, it is imperative that we as a nation look to the interests of our country and not our party.
If any of Trump’s policies are enacted, we will surely fail to continue to be the most powerful nation in the world.
Columnist Praneeth Kambhampati is a biomedical sciences freshman and can be reached at [email protected].
The UNiversity of Houston proves they hate America. They punished the student body vice president over a Twitter post.
Prany … you need to ween yourself off the Progressive Kool-Aid dude. You might have been big-time at DeBakey High, but you are now a NOBODY at UH. And I highly doubt that you had an ORIGINAL THOUGHT in the scribbling of your tripe today.
Look dude … you were in elementary school or a madrasa when Obama took office … you were a freshman in high school when Hillary Clinton’s debacle in Benghazi happened. And you’ve probably never heard an opposing voice with reason without heckling at it or closing your ears.
The supposition you penned of trying to paint a picture of a troubled America under Trump is childish and laughable, and has about as much gusto as saying that the economy under Obama has never been better in 30 years. Are they still trying to blame Bush for the past 7 years of Obama’s record BTW?
Obviously, living in Texas and previously Guntar … Prany, you have been shielded from the rest of the nation. 95 million people are out of work. Our national debt has more than doubled to 20 trillion dollars, all on Obama’s watch. Our foreign policy is a disaster Prany … from Hillary Clinton selling access to her SecState office paid through her Crime Family Foundation (half the people she met as SecState paid her for access), to running guns to ISIS in Syria thru Benghazi, which got four Americans killed without any action to try and save the American compounds.
Foreign policy since her leaving SecState has been even poor. We’ve given nuclear capabilities and $150 billion to a … TERRORIST STATE .. and coupled with a recent $400 million ransom payment.
Imagine if a Republican had given the Iranians nukes … Progressives would be crying that the World is less safer due to GOP ineptitude. But the Progressives get a pass in all things bad Democrat … CNN has recently stated as such.
No matter what you write against Trump Prany … you will not change any minds to Clinton. Heck, many Liberals have stated they will never vote Clinton. And Clinton has enough political baggage from all her previous scandals (from Whitewater to Travelgate to emails to Benghazi to selling access to her SecState office) … she has tons more scandals than anything you can claim as an accomplishment.
Trump supporters are very entrenched in his camp … why? Because they can see that a Clinton presidency will be a 3rd Obama Administration. I know that you have some reverence for ISIS because of the way you presented it on the page. And Trump was right in stating that the “Islamic States” massacring of Christians is similar to what the Nazi’s did to the Jews … the Nazi’s just didn’t publicize it.
Trump’s plan for vetting Islamic refugees is sound, and had been the normal practice prior to Obama. Clinton wants to immigrant 65,000 unvetted Syrians … now if 1% of 1% are radical Islamists its equals to multiple bad days for the U.S.
It is obvious that Obama and Clinton have been giving terrorists an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY to kill us. The relaxing of laws or policies by Progressives designed to spot potential terrorist have allowed more people wishing to harm Americans to do so … all under the guise of political correctness.
In fact, unvetted Islamic immigration is probably the number one reason why you support Clinton. Some stupid CNN info babe said that ISIS wants Trump to be elected, which everyone knows is nonsense. Strong American leadership against terrorism (which is not being displayed by Obama) scares Progressives and ISIS, or ISIL Prany, if that makes you feel better since ISIL calls for the destruction of Israel … hence Obama says ISIL.
It is quite interesting that you and so many others never tout Hillary’s accomplishments. Fact is that Hillary has no real accomplishments, except supporting her husband in his times of adultery during their marriage as First Lady of Arkansas and the U.S.
Every time Clinton speaks her polls fall … her health is suspect, and her crowd sizes are minuscule compared to Trumps. GOP registrations outnumber Democrats in battleground states. Pollsters still are unable to poll the hidden Trump voter … Americans who have never voted before are mad. They can detect a morally corrupt nation bent on giving transgenders and unvetted Islamic immigrants more rights than an average American.
Unfortunately this isn’t an opinion piece. You condensed one NY Times article, and a New Yorker article and threw in a line about how bad things will be if Trump wins the election. Is there any of your own thoughts ABOUT his policies?