Trump says only he will 'prevent World War III,' but his record suggests the opposite | Trudy Rubin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : All because the British Labour Party, now in power and anathema to Trump, sent over some of its staff to observe the run-up to the U.S. vote.
50% : When asked by the Journal if he would use military force against a blockade on Taiwan, Trump replied, "I wouldn't have to, because he [Xi] respects me and he knows I'm f -- crazy."
45% : Yet, Trump keeps touting it as his main weapon, along with force of personality, against countries that refuse his demands.
42% : Trump bragged of his "love letters" and summits with North Korea's Kim Jong Un -- but the dictator refused to halt his nuclear program, and has continued to expand his nuclear arsenal and test intercontinental missiles.
37% : Yet, at the moment when Western/Asian alliances are key, Trump wants to undermine them.
34% : But had Trump remained in the deal, Oran would be a year away from having several bombs' worth of enriched uranium rather than two to three weeks away.
34% : "Trump continued, "I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I'm going to tax you" -- meaning impose tariffs -- "at 150% to 200%."
33% : Yet, Trump still praises his pal Putin, who is clearly playing him for a fool.
26% : A week ago, a Wall Street Journal editor asked Trump how he would persuade China's Xi Jinping to stand down from a blockade of Taiwan.
26% : These days, Trump is still regarded as erratic and reckless with rhetoric.
26% : Like a character out of a Saturday Night Live sketch, Trump not only refuses to recognize Putin's propaganda attacks on the U.S. election, but he now accuses the United Kingdom -- our closest Western ally -- of election interference.
24% : Trump further told the Journal he might shut down trade with China altogether.
22% : They also see that Trump has no clue about the global challenges America now faces.
21% : The early image of Trump as a madman who had to be treated carefully by adversaries lest he explode has long since lost traction abroad.
21% : "The list of damning evaluations by dozens of former top Trump security appointees all points in one direction: Trump is a narcissistic dictator wannabe whose determined ignorance of global realities will enmesh this country in violence at home and abroad.
19% : And the Chinese know that even the questionable economic "experts" Trump might appoint to his team would recognize that such threats are absurd.
18% : That may be true, but these days, it hurts Trump more than it helps.
17% : Trump failed to get Iran's supreme leader to agree to a dialogue, so instead canceled U.S. participation in the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by President Barack Obama.
17% : And let us not forget that it was Trump who signed the surrender deal with the Taliban that made Kabul's fall inevitable (although that is no excuse for the Biden administration's botched pullout).
14% : It was also Trump who abandoned the Paris climate accord and still insists, despite the massive evidence all around him, that climate science is fake.
11% : It's no wonder so many of Trump's former national security appointees fear he would blindly accelerate America's slide into violence and war without any strategy in mind.To cite just three of the many top officials who quit or were fired as if they were on the former president's TV show, The Apprentice:Trump's former chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, rightly says Trump prefers the "dictator approach" and fits the definition of "fascist."His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper says: "I think he's unfit for office.

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