Trump, the 'America First' Candidate, Has a New Preoccupation: Imperialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : "Every decision President Trump makes is in the best interest of the United States and the American people.
65% : Donald Trump ran on a return to his "America First" foreign policy platform.
51% : Gerald Butts, outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former top adviser and a longtime close friend, said Trump seems more emboldened than when he first took office in 2017.
49% : You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for national security," Trump said of the world's longest international border and the U.S.'s second-largest trade partner.
43% : "If I'm Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, this is music to my ears," said John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser-turned-critic, who also served as ambassador to the United Nations.
43% : "President Trump is about to take over at one of the most dangerous times in American history," he said.
31% : "He said Trump has never liked Trudeau, and was clearly enjoying trolling the Canadian leader as he railed against the nations' trade imbalance.
30% : That's why President Trump has called attention to legitimate national security and economic concerns regarding Canada, Greenland and Panama," said Trump-Vance Transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.
17% : While Trump boasted that he had a bigger and more powerful "nuclear button" than North Korea and bombed Iranian general Qassim Soleimani during his first term, he also cast himself during the campaign as a president who had started no new wars and who would be able to prevent World War III.
12% : "Bolton has long criticized Trump for lacking a coherent policy strategy, saying his approach is "transactional, ad hoc, episodic and really viewed from the prism of how it helps Donald Trump.

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