Let me refer you to this part of what he said to an audience of service members while in Iraq. America shouldn’t be doing the fighting for every nation on Earth not being reimbursed, in many cases, at all. First, the United States is most certainly not “respected again” — in fact, respect for the United States around the world has plummeted since Trump took office. And it may also scale back the United States' military presence overseas. But it’s at least possible he has injected a skepticism about overly ambitious military interventions into the GOP that could outlast his presidency.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 18:56 UTC