Donald Trump will reportedly meet with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in New York City on Wednesday, according to a report Monday evening that cited three unnamed sources close to Trump.
The move is sure to boost the businessman’s foreign policy credibility. The report says the presumptive GOP presidential nominee had already been talking over the phone with the 92-year-old Kissinger for weeks.
Kissinger served as national security adviser and secretary of state to both President Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the late 1960s and 1970s. He previously provided counsel to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin when she was chosen as John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
Kissinger’s advice may come particularly in handy when it comes to China, a country with which he helped facilitate U.S. relations. Trump has made it one of his major campaign platforms to negotiate trade reforms with China, a country he repeatedly says is stealing jobs from the U.S.
Trump also reportedly visited with James Baker last week, who served as secretary of state under George H.W. Bush.
In January, Kissinger remarked that Trump’s “totally unprecedented” candidacy was evoking “an enormous response.”
