Donald Trump: We Must Be ‘Unpredictable’ To Defeat ISIL

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses supporters at a campaign event at Crosby High School in Waterbury, Conn., Saturday, April 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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During his Wednesday foreign policy speech, Donald Trump said that the United States must become less predictable in order to defeat the Islamic State.

“Their days are numbered,” he said, referring to ISIL. “I won’t tell them where, and I won’t tell them how.”

“We must as a nation be more unpredictable. We are totally predictable,” he continued, before lamenting that the U.S. announces certain foreign policy moves, such as plans to send additional troops abroad.

Trump said that ISIL terrorists “are going to be gone” if he is elected president.

“And they’ll be gone quickly. They’ll be gone very, very quickly,” he said.

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  1. “And they’ll be gone quickly. They’ll be gone very, very quickly,” he said. “Don’t ask me how quickly, I don’t want to be predictable.”

  2. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    He sounded like he was on lithium

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Hmm. How many great Presidents have been unpredictable?

    Not for him the steady hand of statesmanship.

  4. Gotta’ go with Lindsey Graham on this one: (the 1st GOP response)

    #I listened carefully…and that speech made NO sense."

  5. “We need a firm, unpredictable hand on the tiller”

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