Donald Trump Foreign Policy Address

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave his first major foreign policy address on April 27, 2016. Vowing to put "America First," Trump criticized the foreign policy record of President Obama and probable Democratic nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as misguided on some issues and ineffective on others. Here are 23 words from the speech. The entire text can be found here.
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  1. reassessment
    a new appraisal or evaluation
    A pause for reassessment will help us to prevent the next San Bernardino or frankly, much worse.
  2. leverage
    strategic advantage; power to act effectively
    Our president has allowed China to continue its economic assault on American jobs and wealth, refusing to enforce trade deals and apply leverage on China necessary to rein in North Korea.
  3. destabilize
    make unsturdy, insecure, or less able to function smoothly
    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 East.
  4. ouster
    the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
    He supported the ouster of a friendly regime in Egypt that had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel, and then helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in its place.
  5. disarray
    a mental state characterized by a lack of clear thought
    We’re a humanitarian nation, but the legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion and disarray, a mess.
  6. atrophy
    any weakening or degeneration
    Our nuclear weapons arsenal, our ultimate deterrent, has been allowed to atrophy and is desperately in need of modernization and renewal.
  7. genocide
    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
    We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide.
  8. superpower
    a country that can influence events throughout the world
    A superpower understands that caution and restraint are really truly signs of strength.
  9. depleted
    no longer sufficient
    Our military is depleted and we’re asking our generals and military leaders to worry about global warming.
  10. enrichment
    act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding
    Iran, too, would rush in and fill that void much to their really unjust enrichment.
  11. deterrent
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
    Our nuclear weapons arsenal, our ultimate deterrent, has been allowed to atrophy and is desperately in need of modernization and renewal.
  12. intervention
    the act of putting something between two things
    We’re a humanitarian nation, but the legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion and disarray, a mess.
  13. aggression
    a disposition to behave forcefully and energetically
    President Obama watches helplessly as North Korea increases its aggression and expands further and further with its nuclear reach.
  14. catastrophe
    a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
    All you have to do is look at the World Trade Center and September 11th, one of the great catastrophes, in my opinion, the single greatest military catastrophe in the history of our country; worse than Pearl Harbor because you take a look at what’s happened, and citizens were attacked, as opposed to the military being attacked — one of the true great catastrophes.
  15. beneficiary
    the recipient of funds or other advantages
    Sadly, I was correct, and the biggest beneficiary 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 do for decades.
  16. deficit
    an excess of liabilities over assets
    He’s crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders.
  17. dominance
    the state when one person or group has power over another
    Our military dominance must be unquestioned, and I mean unquestioned, by anybody and everybody.
  18. selective
    characterized by very careful or fastidious choice
    Financial leverage and sanctions can be very, very persuasive, but we need to use them selectively and with total determination.
  19. unprecedented
    novel; having no earlier occurrence
    Do you remember when the president made a long and expensive trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, to get the Olympics for our country, and after this unprecedented effort, it was announced that the United States came in fourth — fourth place?
  20. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
    Since the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, we’ve lacked a coherent foreign policy.
  21. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
    He has even allowed China to steal government secrets with cyber attacks and engaged in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies.
  22. deploy
    place troops or weapons in battle formation
    I will not hesitate to deploy military force when there is no alternative.
  23. clarity
    the quality of being coherent and easily understood
    Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity.
Created on Wed Apr 27 20:14:46 EDT 2016 (updated Thu Apr 28 03:50:04 EDT 2016)

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