Trump's Impact on US Foreign Policy

This assignment delves into the profound impact of Donald Trump's presidency on US foreign policy. It analyzes diverse scholarly articles that explore Trump's vision for national security, his approach to international relations, and the implications of his policies for global stability. The readings cover topics such as the Iran Nuclear Deal, US alliances, immigration policies, and the administration's stance towards the Middle East. By examining these perspectives, the assignment aims to shed light on the complexities and consequences of Trump's foreign policy agenda.

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The United States of America has been at the forefront in ensuring that it maintains healthy
regional, national and international relationships that seem beneficial to its economic dominance.
In fact, if there would come a time when America feels like abrogating international cohesion,
much of the blame would be laid on itself for backward movement of its activities. Since time
immemorial, United States of America has been enhancing peaceful and joint trade for the
benefit of every citizen in a bid to improve his or her living standards. As can be expected, it is
the mandate of every American president to uphold all upright moves that do not deprive the
nation of its glory and prosperity. However, the election of Donald trump as the current president
of United States of America seems to have evoked a variety of opinions regarding his leadership
moves. In fact, during his campaign, Donald trump spoke of making America great again.
Conversely, his leadership strategies raise a substantial wind of doubts. Evaluating if President
Donald trump is a realist will be helpful in giving credits his ideologies as far as American
prosperity is concerned.
President trump took hold of the introduction of new tariffs on the foreign sound in an attempt to
improve domestic trading. One of the compound ideas regarding offsetting the different
advantages in regards with tariffs is the actual time by which America will enjoy the economic
boost before trade wars emerge to prove the practice unworthy (Banerjee, 2017, 3). Apparently,
the introduction of tariffs to take care the internal business affairs of the particular nation tends to
put the stakeholders at a position of retaliation, a moment that can be rectified by well coming to
the external trade elements. Another important consideration that president trump failed to take
caution on regarded their manufacturers. A close look at the value chain contributing to the
success of America's trading affairs illustrates that American manufactured goods are
underpinned by foreign countries. The implication is that any attempt by America to declare it

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independent by abandoning the efforts of international relations would do a lot of harm to
American manufacturers. Besides, president trump firmly believes that North Atlantic Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has nothing to do with the current glory of America and that wiping
it out of the system, could help stabilize the functions of the country. One thing that trump seems
to forget is that abrogating NAFTA will harm American trading grips since Mexico contributes a
lot to strengthen the value chain (Bourne et al.,2017,50). Of course, president trump is a dreamer
in his thinking hence collectively leaving thinker within America in a shivering mood concerning
certain mutual trade benefits.
President trump has worked towards bringing to a halt all donations to continents such as Africa
and Asia. Most of those donations are medical aids such as the provision of antiretroviral and
family planning drugs (Spalding, 2017, 80). Curtailing such subsidies from reaching the needy is
a clear implication that birth control system will be affected therefore putting the barrier to
demographic control. Besides spread of aids will move to great heights since there will be no
provision of protective gears such as condoms. Failure to provide ARVs will attract more deaths,
a situation that a real realist would work on to better the lives of every person. Inability to
present medical aid by America to the developing countries will pave the way for poor relations
among the members hence preventing America from tasting a share of the national resources
(Mares, 2017, 160). Similarly, African and some Asian countries will divert their attention to
developed nations in the east such as China and Japan for assistance and entrust them with their
resources. Embracing greediness would foresee America wreathing as they seek to mend their
deteriorating economy whereby no one will be willing to listen to them. As solid as it is, falsely
thinking that America can sustain itself is a mere fiction that lacked quality evidence (Harris,
2017, 22). If at all Americans need to realize high economic goals there is a need to pick from

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where Obama left without changing important elements in the system for quality national and
international benefit.
Without any doubt, President Donald trump is far away from being called a realist. His views
regarding the well-being of the Americans are blurred and cannot be condoned (Cha, 2016, 85).
From the personal perspective, President Trump claims to have the objective of making
"America first." One of the strategies to be employees toward foreseeing his objectives attained
is by disjoining his nation from other countries. Although the United States of America is
endowed with many precious resources, the idea that they can sustain themselves is a mere
fiction (Coffee, 2017, 81). President trump declared that for a long he has been observing
America being in a position to be misused by other weaker states hence promising to seal the
gap. In addition, trumps in his public speech highlighted that America has been sacrificing its
interests for the sake of other nations; a habit that should be contained if at all America wishes to
retain its glory.
Crane and Maguire (2017, 27) posit that President Trump alongside his newly appointed advisors
has a strong belief that dealing with trade issues is an aspect of domestic concern. For that
matter, without hesitating trump showed lack of interest in the transpacific partnership and
posting that America would rely on another basis for trading purposes. In fact, trump failed to
understand are the specification of TPP among them being the abolishment of illegal business
undertaking such as employment of child labor (Engle, 2016, 94). Having neglected the
provision of TPP was an apparent show that the United States of America would continue
exploiting child labor, a factor that would foresee the nation reaps less than expected benefits
from such a platform. Another backlash of abandoning the TPP was that China could utilize the
opportunity to join the transpacific partnership hence standing a chance to outdo the United

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States of America concerning economic well-being and overall performance of the nation
(Frühling & O’Neil, 2017, 51). Precisely, the undertakings of United States of America would be
frozen, hence, conferring all its glory to the ever-rising China hence exposing America to
unnecessary competition for survival.
President trump emphasized opposing the operation Iraq freedom. It has been noted that ever
since 2003, America has been taking an interest in Iraq in the name of security concerns. It does
not make sense for the American government to take full control of Iraq for such a long time
(Gordon, 2017, 57). In fact, the time has come for the Iraq citizens to fight for their country since
they stand a chance to operate their own country concerning active leaders at the disposal to
make the nation shine once more. In his declaration, Donald trump argues that if at all America
could leave Iraq to depend on its own, it would serve as a clear pathway for Taliban and Iran to
take over Iraq (Gordon, 2017, 13). On the contrary that postulation, there has been growing a
strong relationship between Iraq and the neighboring countries who stand on the same ground to
condemn America for its prolonged stay in Iraq. President trump fails to speak the truth to the
public regarding their stay in Iraq a move that seems to have veered off from security concerns.
The fact is that America enjoys full control of the Iraq resources among them being mining and
stealing of oils, an itching fear that drives Iraq toward claiming their lost independence (Grevi,
2016, 74). Sources illustrate that America has oil reserves that have the potential of sustaining
the world for four good years. Precisely, trump is not a realist because he could have opted to
leave Iraq resources in peace instead of giving vague excuses that have no factual basis.
President trump unrealistic nature stems from the fact that he has been discontented by the
dependency of the other nation on American security. To some extent, we cannot oppose the
trumps proposition as far as security matters are concerned (Harris, 2017, 19). As can be

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expected, most of the allies spend less than America in fixing security issues hence using United
States of America as their protective cover. However, although America spends a lot on behalf of
its allies, trump does not consider the indirect benefits that underlie America emanating from
those pinpointed allies. There are contributions that collaborates have made, enabling America to
achieve sound monetary value (Kahan, 2017, 113). Another input of the partners stems from the
fact that they collectively support and maintain overseas bases. Therefore, it would be unfair for
trump to come up with such awful suggestion since all saving originating from pre-stocking is
contributed by all security member countries. For instance, most of the important allies in the
mix include Japan, South Korea, and Israel among others who lend a hand in ensuring United
States military succeeds in its undertakings.
President trump goes on to condemn the matters pertaining international organizations. In his
view, it is true that trump does not regard the importance of United Nations. In a broad
perspective, it is okay that America can thrive without any assistance from UN although it might
be proven weak if it extends the ignorance to curtail access to services provided by World Bank
and international monetary fund (Lanoszka, 2017, 45). In that case, Donald did not seem to have
incorporated second thought in his proposition whereby he highlighted the greedy nature of some
states about the international monetary funds. It is true that the United States of America solely
controls most of the undertakings underlying IMF. Therefore, any move by the America to leave
World Bank and the IMF would probably work in favor of China that could immediately fill the
vacuum. In fact, as per now, China has already come up with Asia infrastructure investment bank
to stiffen the competition with the World Bank (Mares, 2017, 159). The result of leaving IMF
and World Bank would therefore, bring many setbacks to the interests of the United States of

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America hence conferring Beijing the freedom to dominate and out-compete the weakening
America.
President trump talked of his mission to disband the NATO. Although the fact remains that the
origin of NATO is merely traced from Washington, that is not an apparent cover up that member
countries do not contribute to the well being of the organization. Factually, America has the
potential to distract and soil up to the harmony existing between member countries of NATO
(Mayda & Peri, 2017, 70). However, abandoning NATO by the America has many negative
consequences that would befall their security aspect. Firstly, none of its members would be
willing to respond to the initiatives laid by America hence ignoring it even in pressing matters
worth attention. The United States of America fails by greater percentage to recognize the unique
advantages NATO as an organization brings in to bring balance to the security system. NATO
has been on the leading line in facilitating deployment of the military forces in whichever way
possible in a bid to contain aggression raised by the overseas allies (Mettler, 2017, 114). Another
issue is that America alone cannot withstand forces and the ever-increasing nuclear conflicts
without the help of NATO as a team. Therefore opting to disregard the efforts of NATO would
imply that America will continue struggling to achieve their misinterpreted slogan “Putting
America first."
Payne (2017, 12) postulates that it does not make sense at all when president trump condemns
and introduces harsh immigration rules. Much of his support of the immigration tends to have
assumed new direction towards curtailing terrorism in the United States of America. However,
his approach is confusing the realists since the country cannot proceed in the absence of
immigrants. Trumps move towards tightening his grips on abolishing and putting strict measures
in the migration sector is doing more harm to America rather than mending it for good (Pillar,

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2017,56). To shed light on the postulation, trump had gone further to sign the migration
abolishment to become law. The latter would be that most of the non-indigenous Americans
could be evacuated to their original countries in the mission to make America great again. That is
contrary to the likes of former presidents George Bush and Barrack Obama, who during their
time enhanced international cohesion for continued realization of countries goals and objectives.
President trump accuses the immigrants of continued suffering and lack of employment to the
Native Americans (Rasmussen, 2017, 176). From a realist point of view, Trump's way of
thinking is shallow enough to raise doubt. The truth of the matter is that immigrants contribute
heavily to the success of United States of America in many ways. To begin, immigrants
contribute to the overall performance of Americas GDP. One of the reasons by which the gross
domestic product of America has been performing well is that immigrants put a lot of quality
labor into the system. In the education sector, for example, there are significant numbers of
trainers who originate from outside countries (Rudd, 2017, 105). That is, curtailing immigration
would mean that services provided by such experts would be no more and that America will
experience a moment of lagging behind hence standing a chance to be overtaken by its rival
nations.
President trump portrays his unrealistic way of approaching matters of national concern by
dictating that the only country he would like to work with is Russia. The public in collaboration
with some of the senior government official has come out to oppose this move since the motive
for holding on to Russia interest by trump administration have not been established (Sabl,
2017,157). The United States of America is the nation that depends on almost all nations for its
survival. In particular, matters regarding trade and other related affairs make it worthy to put
other countries in consideration. Concisely there might be an outstanding deal between America

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and Russia. Besides, America might be targeting to reap benefits and exploit Russia regarding
national glory. Whichever way America attempts to take advantage from Russia, trump must
consider the strength of reciprocal concession (Spalding, 2017, 78). That is, Russia is an already
developed country, and however much America attempts to exploit them, they have to retaliate at
the end to bring balance to the equation. The latter is that if the deal backfires, no outside nation
will come to rescue the ailing America hence urge trump to preach international cohesion with as
many nations as possible without devaluing their little but significant efforts.
President trump in his leaderships seems to have engaged personal interest and a show of might
concerning military upbringing. One of his deals was to declare independence among European
and Asian countries that previously had a well thriving agreement regarding nuclear war. The
agreement strictly restrained the member nations from engaging in the production of the nuclear
weapon that broadly affects generations after generations. President trump declaration regarding
America as a free nation puts it in a position of doing weird things out of self-will (Swers, 2017,
61). America under the leadership of president trump has continued displaying the show of might
in regards to weaponry superiority hence bringing a lot of tension to the public not only from
America alone but also internationally. The dictates preventing the manufacture of nuclear
weapons also greatly condemn chemical attacks by the member nation. However, trump showed
lack of respect to the said provisions of the law by attacking Syrian military base using deadly
chemical weapons. Discontentment among idealists continued to grow to the extent of
formulating a strategy meant to help America avert from such harmful practices (Weber, 2017,
138). Another repercussion of trumps war oriented ideology was handing North Korea the
freedom to express their military strengths by beginning nuclear testing at designated places to
provoke their counterparts, united states of America. One thing incognizant president trump fails

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to apprehend is that nuclear show does not work to stabilize the forward movement of the nation
but rather triggering a third world war.
President trump can be said to have run out of ideas as he forces things to work in his thinking
far below reality. Trump's vision regarding the budget critically attracts a wind of confusion to
the economists as they attempt to think broadly on the issue taking care of other situations at
hand (Banerjee, 2017, 7). President trump highlighted that he expects this year’s budget to
increase by 3%v as America works hard to become first in the attainment of the lost glory. An
economist from all corners of the country has aired their views regarding meeting annual
economic growth of 3 % illustrating that aiming such a high economic achievement is unlikely to
take place. The only way by which America can attain fast economic growth is by introducing
the new taxing system that stimulates higher domestic spending. Other researchers claim that if
at all America wants to see strong economic growth; they must be ready to repeat some of the
fastest productivity growth realized for the last seven decades. Others question the mindset,
propelling trump to such reach claiming that no way such growth can be possible without taking
into account all facets of economic growth. Far from that, trump proposes immigration
abolishment, implying that labor force will be at risk with the continued industrial growth
witnessed in the country (Cha, 2016, 96). The greater percentage of America’s population is
quickly aging. Surprisingly, parents do not believe in raising more children to take care of the
labor force later. From that point, condemning immigration and resigning from NAFTA and TPP
by the United States of America will trigger a massive down fall that could see the nation attain
unreasonable budget.
A realist never tolerates hatred and unnecessary disagreements. Trump is an ambassador of hate
who is at the forefront in championing enmity in Israel driven by egocentric mindset

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(Rasmussen, 2017, 178). It came as a big blow for economists after learning of the evil plans of
president trump aiming to move US embassy to Jerusalem contrary to where it used to be, Tel
Aviv. For a long time, US embassy in Israel has not faced the challenge 0of movement from one
place to the other due to a proper way of understanding between former American presidents and
the government of Israel. Trump comes up with such a strategy targeting to disrupt peace
coherence between Palestinians and Israel. The Israel prime minister declared that allowing the
construction of US embassy in Jerusalem would create a lot of tension to the extent of attracting
serious tag of wars that would enable America to exploit Israel in the name of peacekeeping
(Payne,2017, 13. Netanyahu argued that encouraging the trump idea would predict and
discomfort among the Israelites thus assuming him for the well-being of the citizens.
In conclusion, president trump is not a realist but an ill-motivated leader whose dreams are far
away from being valid. A realism-oriented person would not dwell on curtailing immigration.
Instead, he would preach harmony for mutual benefits. Seeking to be eliminated from prominent
trade organizations is a method of lagging the economic affairs of America behind. Weaponry
show of might will attract third world war. Briefly, President Trump should work on bringing
togetherness without discrimination as well as sticking to provisions of international relations for
social, political and economic benefits.

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