Is Donald Trump a foreign policy dove? If only | Mehdi Hasan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Trump wants Elise Stefanik to be the new US ambassador to the United Nations.
62% : Trump is sending former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to Israel as his ambassador.
59% : Consider who Trump now plans to nominate as his secretary of state: Marco Rubio.
55% : This time Trump meant it.
53% : Fast forward almost a decade and Rubio has happily bent the knee to Trump in order to become fourth in line for the presidency and to take charge of US diplomacy.
53% : Trump is appointing Florida congressman Mike Waltz as his national security adviser.
47% : Trump is surrounding himself with hawks so you can be assured that his will be a very hawkish administration.
45% : Few are even aware that Trump launched more drone strikes in his first two years in office than Obama, dubbed "the drone president", did across eight years in office.
35% : Trump is surrounding himself with hawks so you can be assured that his will be a very hawkish administration"If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars," declaimed Donald Trump at a rally in Michigan, on the Friday before the election.
27% : Trump spent his four years in the White House escalating every single conflict that he inherited from Barack Obama.
26% : In a typically ridiculous rhetorical flourish, Trump added: "I am peace."Nevertheless, despite the ridiculousness, the president-elect in recent weeks succeeded in connecting with plenty of of anti-war voters tired of the United States' "forever wars".
26% : Whether it is on domestic policy or foreign policy, Trump remains a con man.
23% : In fact, I have lost count of the number of leftists who have told me in recent months: "Trump didn't start any new wars."
21% : Dubbed 'Trump's War Whisperer,' Hegseth called for the US to disregard the "rigged" rules of war in order to attack Iranian religious and cultural sites in 2020, and also helped persuade Trump to pardon three soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes in 2019.
10% : Many have forgotten that Trump bombed the Assad government in Syria twice; dropped the "mother of all bombs" on Afghanistan; illegally assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Iraqi soil; armed Saudi Arabia's genocide in Yemen; and made John Bolton his national security adviser.
9% : Trump spent the last few weeks of his presidential campaign attacking Dick and Liz Cheney, suggesting the latter should be forced to face "nine barrels" on the battlefield, and then just days after winning the election tapped the elder Cheney's former counterterroism adviser to be his own national security adviser.

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