Showing posts with label America First. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America First. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

‘A disaster for America First’: Trump allies fear Netanyahu meeting will pull US deeper into war with Iran - POLITICO

“I think all of President Trump’s most ardent non-‘Israel First’ supporters are furious,” said former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. “Netanyahu has had twice as many visits to the White House in 18 months as Churchill had in all of World War II — with every one of them a disaster for America First.”… 

“Netanyahu is going to argue for the essential logic of escalation, which — if Trump is not willing to give the [memorandum of understanding] a chance and if Trump is not willing to walk away from the conflict entirely without a resolution — then I think we probably will escalate, and that’s what we’ve been seeing these last couple of weeks,” Mills said…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-netanyahu-allies-worry-iran-01013125 


Sunday, July 27, 2025

Trump’s New World (Dis)order (Reveal podcast)

The Trump administration’s America First approach to foreign policy is perplexing and even destabilizing some longtime US allies.

During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military operations abroad.

Once in office, he started talking about the idea of Manifest Destiny…that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable. In some cases that’s meant turning the tables on America’s friends and allies.

For this week’s show, Reveal reporter Nate Halverson and Panamanian journalist Andrea Salcedo investigate how the Trump administration’s threats to reclaim the Panama Canal are fueling protests and destabilizing a longtime ally. Trump has said military force may be necessary to retake control of the canal from China.

“China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back,” Trump said in January.

But the administration’s allegations about China’s control over the canal perplex many Panamanians.

“We just said wow, how many people can be wrong about the Chinese having a lot of influence over the Panama Canal?” says Jorge Luis Quijano, the canal’s top administrator from 2012 to 2019.

The Trump administration’s threats against Panama are also reviving painful memories of the 1989 US invasion that claimed the lives of an estimated 500 Panamanians.

For wider context, host Al Letson speaks with Mother Jones reporter David Corn, who wrote about the Panama Canal in his book American Psychosis. Corn talks about how reclaiming the canal has been used as a political cudgel by conservatives in the US, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. Letson also speaks with Emma Ashford, a foreign policy expert at the Stimson Center, about how Panama fits into the Trump administration’s other moves on the international front.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025

China expands global influence with $500 million WHO donation - The Washington Post

"The world is now facing the impacts of unilateralism and power politics, bringing major challenges to global health security," Liu said Tuesday in Geneva. "China strongly believes that only with solidarity and mutual assistance can we create a healthy world together." 

China's pledge of $500 million, which Liu said would be given over the next five years, is one of the clearest examples of Beijing's efforts to step into a global leadership void left by Trump as he pursues his "America First" foreign policy...


 

Monday, June 10, 2024

She was in Trump’s Maga ‘cult’ – now she’s fighting far-right extremism

"She was kind of brainwashed," said Gail McClanahan, a Hillsdale [Michigan] county resident who led a successful recall campaign to unseat Stephanie Scott, an election-denying township clerk 2023. "Not now. Penny, she's not scared," said McClanahan. "She's keeping us informed of the truth here in Hillsdale." 

Swan's split from the America First group, she says, was like leaving a "cult". After she left and began criticizing the group online, her relationships with former friends in the group grew bitter. Swan says she even faced harassment and threats over her new political alignment.


Sunday, December 3, 2023

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Opinion | Antisemitism Cracks Open on the New Right - The New York Times

… the term "America First," popular with the New Right and the older, Lindbergh right, has always been misleading. It actually means some Americans first or "real" Americans first, and "real" Americans do not include the ideological or religious enemies of the New Right...

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Trump’s Allies Want a New Breed of Lawyer if He Returns to Power - The New York Times

People close to the former president say they are seeking out a different type of lawyer committed to his "America First" ideology and willing to endure the personal and professional risks of association with Mr. Trump. They want lawyers in federal agencies and in the White House who are willing to use theories that more establishment lawyers would reject to advance his cause. This new mind-set matches Mr. Trump's declaration that he is waging a "final battle" against demonic "enemies" populating a "deep state" within the government that is bent on destroying America...

Monday, August 1, 2022

America First is laying plans to perpetuate Trumpism beyond Trump

…But Galston, a former policy adviser to President Bill Clinton, also noted the Axios report about Trump acolytes' plans to purge disloyal civil servants. "A second Trump term would be even more dangerous than the first because they now realise how unprepared they were to assume power," he added. 
"I don't think they're going to make that same mistake again, and they now have a much clearer idea of what to do to institutionalise their power should they regain it. The next two and a half years will be a game for very high stakes in the United States."…


Sunday, July 31, 2022

Trump’s America First Speech Revealed a Plan for Power - The Atlantic

…Trump sketched out a vision that a new Republican Congress could enact sweeping new emergency powers for the next Republican president. The president would be empowered to disregard state jurisdiction over criminal law. The president would be allowed to push aside a "weak, foolish, and stupid governor," and to fire "radical and racist prosecutors"—racist here meaning "anti-white." The president could federalize state National Guards for law-enforcement duties, stop and frisk suspects for illegal weapons, and impose death sentences on drug dealers after expedited trials...


Saturday, July 23, 2022

Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term

Former President Trump's top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his "America First" ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios…


Wednesday, March 10, 2021








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