Opinion | Former Trump Officials Are Whitewashing His Foreign Policy Record. It Won't Work.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Pompeo takes a different approach, stating, like O'Brien, that Trump "could reestablish peace through strength."
51% : At the end of his four years in office, Trump had frayed both America's alliances and the international rules-based order that was still largely in place when he took office.
46% : He wants to "revitalize NATO" -- which the less said about the better, given the undermining of the alliance under Trump.
42% : Trump did have some successes on a number of fronts: burden-sharing improved in alliances, our involvement in the conflicts of the Middle East was significantly reduced, and the Doha agreement with the Taliban provided an exit strategy for the U.S. from Afghanistan.
2% : O'Brien tries to argue that Russia did not invade Ukraine because of Trump; that Iran did not attack Israel because of Trump; that North Korea did not test nuclear weapons because of Trump.
1% : In this context, to speak of Trump in the same vein as George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, as O'Brien does, seems absurd.

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