Originally Posted by
rym
I object to the content of his speech, which is nothing but repeating his populism from the campign. He showed up with a war declaration against the establishment (which is hypocrisy, considering the fact he hires bank managers and billionaires), globalisation and talked about how "american people made industries of other countries rich", which just means he does not want americans to participate on the global trade anymore. He wants "to buy american and to hire american", which will lead to america leaving the international trade, lead to nationalist economy based on the coalition of corporations and government.
Trump is trying a risky experiment, which will not lead to a better world, but just focus entirely on america alone, which will surely not help to make americans economy to prosper even more, but instead will suffer from trade wars with upcoming powers like china and existing powers as like the european union. In return, every country trump tries to abuse for his goals, will tend to coalate with other players.
My government currently is thinking about trade agreements with china, when trump is going to build a coalition with russias dictator putin, whom he thinks could be a "friend" for america.
He questions the "Pax americana", the Nato and the american military presence outside of america, he wants to make deals with countries if they want to have american presense just leading to selling american military to those who offer most. At the end, making deals will not help to make the world more safe, but just destablize it up to a degree that america will suffer as well.
If you listen to trump, you get the idea he is not talking about a world power, but about a 3rd world country. If you listen to trump, you have the impression he thinks other countries want to plunder his "fellow americans". Which just isnt true, and never happened. Trade agreements always were meant to be win-win situations, trump only wants a win-situation for america and doesnt care about the other party.. which will lead to the problem no other party would be willing to agree, until they are being forced.
Trump did a nationalist radical speech. He wants to only care about america, and gives a shit about the world surrounding it. While america is, and you hopefully agree, part of the world. Trump will be the leader of the biggest economic and military force in the world, but it sounds he talks about venezuela.