Column | Trump takes 'America First' to its expansionist endpoint

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And Trump has already spent weeks getting his base of millions of supporters to cheer for it.
49% : The president-elect's stated willingness to use military force to seize foreign territory is striking because his 2024 campaign was predicated significantly on the idea that he abhorred foreign entanglements.
43% : It is, instead, part of a much less innocuous pattern, one that has Trump extending his "America First" mantra to suggest that this nation has dominion over territory that it doesn't currently control.
43% : In recent weeks, with increasing frequency, Trump has mused publicly about annexing or assuming power over several geographic areas.
42% : But this isn't a reorienting of geography akin to when Trump, during his first term in office, drew a black line on a map of the southeastern United States.
40% : "No," Trump replied.
37% : It is likely, too, that any legislation establishing the "Gulf of America" would be reversed by another future Congress, in the same way that Trump has announced his intent to reverse the renaming of Mount McKinley to Denali.
34% : Trump said he was only considering "economic force" to do so.
32% : Trump offered a predictable explanation for his desire to seize Greenland and the canal: They are needed "for economic security."
32% : Trump, who has a well-established affection for Putin and Putin's autocratic leadership, has in the past described the Ukraine invasion as smart and explained Putin's interest in annexing its neighbor.
23% : During that Mar-a-Lago news conference, though, Trump made clear that he is not entirely joking.
16% : Trump presented himself on the campaign trail as the only president not to begin new wars, even as he excoriated Biden for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

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