> It was a reaction to the previous administration's foreign policy strategy, which was to position America as less of a world leader and more of a partner.
Happen to know of any direct discussion of this being the intent behind that slogan from the Trump administration? Especially from Trump himself?
“I felt that jobs were hurting,” he said. “I looked at the many types of illness our country had, and whether it’s at the border, whether it’s security, whether it’s law and order or lack of law and order. Then, of course, you get to trade, and I said to myself, ‘What would be good?’ I was sitting at my desk, where I am right now, and I said, ‘Make America Great Again.’ ”
Security and trade would be the foreign policy bits that he felt we were far too weak on.
Happen to know of any direct discussion of this being the intent behind that slogan from the Trump administration? Especially from Trump himself?