Marauding Nation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Under Trump, America will act more proudly, yet have less to be proud of.
63% : Trump seems to have his eye on other payments too; in his first term, he collected benefits for himself and members of his family.
59% : In 2019, Trump delivered a Fourth of July address on the National Mall.
56% : The Biden administration maintained most of the protectionist measures it inherited from Trump, then added more of its own.
52% : But Trump wants direct cash payments.
52% : Those who invest in Trump -- be they foreign agents or mercurial billionaires -- may, over the next four years, annex U.S. power to reshape the world to their liking and their profit.
50% : Trump has never accepted that the United States is strengthened by its values and principles, by a reputation for trustworthiness and fair dealing.
43% : But Trump uniquely accelerated America's retreat from world markets, and will continue to do so.
36% : The speech exulted in the fearsome lethality of the U.S. military, but Trump had little to say about American ideals or democratic institutions.
32% : "You think our country's so innocent?" Open trade and defensive alliances were already bumping into domestic resistance even before Trump first declared himself a candidate for the presidency.
28% : Trump was no more successful than his predecessors at stopping China from converting atolls and sandbars in the South China Sea into military bases.
27% : Read: A good country's bad choice In a midsummer interview, Trump demanded that Taiwan pay the United States directly for defense.
26% : Trump owes more than half a billion dollars in civil penalties for defamation and fraud.
22% : When his friend Bill O'Reilly asked him in a 2017 interview about Vladimir Putin, Trump scoffed at the idea that there might be any moral difference between the U.S. and Russia.
21% : Trump regularly disparages U.S. allies, and threatens to abandon them.
16% : When the podcaster Joe Rogan asked Trump in October about protecting Taiwan, Trump answered in a more revealing way: "They want us to protect, and they want protection.

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