Trump’s 1st Question To NatSec Team: What Do We Want To Do?

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks during the CBS News Republican presidential debate at the Peace Center, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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During the Saturday night Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump listed the first three questions he would ask his national security advisers when elected president, and the real estate mogul focused largely on how hard he would want to hit America’s enemies.

CBS moderator John Dickerson asked Trump, “It’s your first day in the situation room. What three questions do you ask your national security experts about the world?”

“What we want to do, when we want to do it, and how hard do we want to hit?” Trump replied. “Because we are going to have to hit very, very hard to knock out ISIS.”

“We’re also going to have to learn who our allies are,” he continued. “We have allies, so-called allies, We’re spending billions and billions of dollars supporting people we have no idea who they are in Syria.”

Trump then bashed the Iran nuclear deal.

“The Iran deal is one of the worst deals I have ever seen negotiated in my entire life. It’s a disgrace that this country negotiated that deal,” he said. “It’s a disgrace and an embarrassment.”

He also noted that he believes that the U.S. should go after the Islamic State by attacking their oil.

“Take the wealth away. Attack the oil and keep the oil,” Trump said.

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  1. Attack the oil and keep the oil," Trump said.
    

    For some reason this reminds me of the scene in “Raising Arizona” where the citizen in the bank asks Lithgow whether he wants him to lie down on the floor or put his hands up cause he can’t do both.

    He’s seriously stupid.

  2. Trumpf can in tune in to the Sunday morning shows, particularly MTP because he’s said that’s where he gets his information.

    TRUMP: Well, I watch the shows. I mean, I really see a lot of great… you know, when you watch your show, and all of the other shows, and you have the generals, and you have certain people you like.

    Do you like someone in particular?

    TRUMP: Probably there are two or three. I mean, I like Bolton. I think he’s a tough cookie, knows what he’s talking about. Jacobs is a good guy.

  3. You hear that, members of the armed services? You haven’t been doing anything at all about ISIS.

  4. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    Seriously stupid is the correct term. He probably thinks he’ll have the world problems all worked put by his SOU address. And his SOU address will probably last 15 minutes. I mean, what else is there to say?

  5. Avatar for drf55 drf55 says:

    I’m waiting for someone to call Trump’s bluff and ask him exactly what about the Iran deal does he object to. I’m convinced that he has no idea what’s in the deal or any of its important details. When he made a similar comment about the TPP deal in one of the earlier debates and, upon being asked what was wrong with the deal, he said that it didn’t require China to cease currency manipulation. Rand Paul called him on this by stating that China wasn’t a party to the deal!

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