Trump’s Many Broken Promises
As the war in Iran, which has spread to some other gulf nations, continues to drag on, the United States’ President Donald Trump has come under heavy criticisms for failing to keep many of the promises he made before wresting the reins of power from his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Trump made these promises during several interviews he granted while the Democratic party held sway in the US. He painted Biden and his co-travellers as a kettle of political hawks who takes delight in forceful engagements and war mongering. He was vociferous about his stance on hustings as his campaign trail moved across the nook and cranny of the US.
Trump did not single out only Biden’s administration, even his predecessor and Biden’s fellow democrat Barack Obama, was not spared of his flaks. Through many of his speeches he claimed that the previous administration wasted the country’s finances to prosecute needless and senseless wars. He kept hammering on this to the American electorate while giving the impression that he was a perfect foil for Biden and by extension, the whole Democratic party.
Here are few of what Trump said, either personally or through some of his many mouthpieces, before and after he became the US president:
1. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars and not start them.
2. You’re not gonna have a war with me. You’re not gonna have a third war with me that I can tell you.
3. Condemning attacks on Iran by his democratic predecessors, Trump said, “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He is weak and ineffective.”
4 Speaking on how difficult it will be to attack Iran, he said, “A war with Iran would make a war with Iraq looks like a cakewalk.”
5 I’m the very President in decades who started no new wars. We don’t need the wars. We don’t need the wars in foreign lands and countries. That’s why you’ve never heard of countries that don’t even want us in their land.
6 I’m the candidate of peace. I’m peace.
7 We’ve spent $8trillion dollars on the Middle East and we’re not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid is it? We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.
8. I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand their concerns. The difference is that back then we had DUMB Presidents.And now we have a President who actually knows how to accomplish America’s national security objectives.
