Mitch McConnel slams Trump's plot to pull USA out of NATO

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Mitch McConnell Appears to Swing at Trump—US 'Will Not Be Made Great Again'​


utgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to criticize President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policies during a speech on Saturday.

The Kentucky senator spoke out against "isolationism" and praised the "power of alliances" while accepting an honorary "Peace Through Strength" award at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Around the same time, in an interview with NBC News' Meet the Press over the weekend, Trump said he was open to pulling the U.S. out of NATO.

McConnell referenced the late President Ronald Reagan's "peace through strength" mantra in his speech. He also emphasized the need for the U.S. to demonstrate greater commitment to alliances such as NATO and bolster its "military capability" to counter rising threats from nations like China, Russia and Iran.

"Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America's place," McConnell said at the event held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

"But let's be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline," he added, seemingly paraphrasing Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. "Let's Make America Great Again" was also a slogan used by Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign.

McConnell received a standing ovation after his speech, according to Politico.


 
serendipity said:
Trump has no real intention to pull out of NATO, yet you fools buy that shit every time.
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So you claim Trump is lying his fat ass off about desiring to abandon NATO.
Are you just nervously counting on Democrats and Rinos to keep us in NATO, against Trump's intentions and desires?

I wouldn't hire somebody who hates football to be an NFL head football coach.
Why would you want to hire someone who hates NATO to be the leader of the western alliance?
 
Cypress said:
So you claim Trump is lying his fat ass off about desiring to abandon NATO.
Are you just nervously counting on Democrats and Rinos to keep us in NATO, against Trump's intentions and desires?

I wouldn't hire somebody who hates football to be an NFL head football coach.
Why would you want to hire someone who hates NATO to be the leader of the western alliance?
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No, I am saying he's bluffing, a concept you seem hard to get your head around. If he was going to do that then he'd have done it in his first term.
 
serendipity said:
No, I am saying he's bluffing, a concept you seem hard to get your head around. If he was going to do that then he'd have done it in his first term.
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Wishful thinking. Trump doesn't like NATO.
You're not American and your wishful thinking won't change the facts in America. Most of Trump's fan boys on this forum support abandoning Ukraine and don't want to be tied to European alliances. A substantial number of MAGA are pro-Russia. Even the MAGA who were ostensibly pro-Ukraine like Express lane have changed their tune and adopted a Trumpian attitude that we should wind down our support for Ukraine
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am pretty sure I know that Presidents dont have the authority to take America out of NATO.
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Presidents as commander-in-chief have the authority to downscale or terminate direct miliary cooperation with allies. No one in the Senate or House can force Trump to cooperate with traditional European allies, even if NATO exists on paper.
 
martin said:
You know nothing of Trump's intentions. But you're committed to buying Trump's shit so if he did "try to pull us out of NATO", just like Trump's little ones everywhere, you would be all for it.
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It sure seems like these MAGA morons don't actually support what Trump believes, even though they voted for him. I have triggered them into howling in protest that Trump is supposedly a vigorous supporter of NATO, and Trump is a passional defender of the social welfare state - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
 
Cypress said:
Presidents as commander-in-chief have the authority to downscale or terminate direct miliary cooperation with allies. No one in the Senate or House can force Trump to cooperate with traditional European allies, even if NATO exists on paper.
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A President that did not honor a longstanding major treaty would likely find himself impeached and out of office lickity-split.
 
serendipity said:
No, I am saying he's bluffing, a concept you seem hard to get your head around. If he was going to do that then he'd have done it in his first term.
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Presidents need two thirds of the Senate to withdraw from NATO which he didn't have his first term and won't have this term. Maybe he doesn't know that yet.
 
Cypress said:
It sure seems like these MAGA morons don't actually support what Trump believes, even though they voted for him. I have triggered them into howling in protest that Trump is supposedly a vigorous supporter of NATO, and Trump is a passional defender of the social welfare state - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
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You're a gibbering idiot that just spouts cliches and claptrap.

martin said:
Presidents need two thirds of the Senate to withdraw from NATO which he didn't have his first term and won't have this term. Maybe he doesn't know that yet.
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Well we both know that, are you seriously telling me that his advisors don't know that?
 
Cypress said:
It sure seems like these MAGA morons don't actually support what Trump believes, even though they voted for him. I have triggered them into howling in protest that Trump is supposedly a vigorous supporter of NATO, and Trump is a passional defender of the social welfare state - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
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You started this thread, you have only triggered yourself.
 
Cypress said:

Mitch McConnell Appears to Swing at Trump—US 'Will Not Be Made Great Again'​


utgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to criticize President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policies during a speech on Saturday.

The Kentucky senator spoke out against "isolationism" and praised the "power of alliances" while accepting an honorary "Peace Through Strength" award at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Around the same time, in an interview with NBC News' Meet the Press over the weekend, Trump said he was open to pulling the U.S. out of NATO.

McConnell referenced the late President Ronald Reagan's "peace through strength" mantra in his speech. He also emphasized the need for the U.S. to demonstrate greater commitment to alliances such as NATO and bolster its "military capability" to counter rising threats from nations like China, Russia and Iran.

"Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America's place," McConnell said at the event held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

"But let's be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline," he added, seemingly paraphrasing Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. "Let's Make America Great Again" was also a slogan used by Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign.

McConnell received a standing ovation after his speech, according to Politico.


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Forget Mitch McConnell, no politician, even Trump, has done so much damage to America as Mitch has, from his screwing up the legal system to his empowering Trump, time will judge his legacy as one of delusory
 
Cypress said:

Mitch McConnell Appears to Swing at Trump—US 'Will Not Be Made Great Again'​


Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to criticize President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policies during a speech on Saturday.

The Kentucky senator spoke out against "isolationism" and praised the "power of alliances" while accepting an honorary "Peace Through Strength" award at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Around the same time, in an interview with NBC News' Meet the Press over the weekend, Trump said he was open to pulling the U.S. out of NATO.

McConnell referenced the late President Ronald Reagan's "peace through strength" mantra in his speech. He also emphasized the need for the U.S. to demonstrate greater commitment to alliances such as NATO and bolster its "military capability" to counter rising threats from nations like China, Russia and Iran.

"Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America's place," McConnell said at the event held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

"But let's be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline," he added, seemingly paraphrasing Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. "Let's Make America Great Again" was also a slogan used by Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign.

McConnell received a standing ovation after his speech, according to Politico.
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These N4Ts don't give a shit about McConnell or anyone else in congress who doesn't kowtow to trump.

If they're not part of the MAGA lunatic fringe, their opinions don't matter.
 
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