Donald Trump says he probably won’t travel overseas before the November election, despite concerns about his lack of foreign policy expertise.
Unlike former GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who embarked on a three-country tour shortly after securing the nomination in 2012, Trump says a foreign policy trip is unlikely to benefit him in the general election.
“I don’t think it registers with the voters to be honest with you,” he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. “What I really want to do is focus on our country and the election.
“But I might,” Trump added. “I’ve been invited by numerous countries to go.”
Indeed, foreign leaders such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the newly-elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, have extended invitations to the Manhattan billionaire.
Some say an overseas trip would enhance Trump’s credibility on foreign affairs, considering he recently told the New York Times he thinks Oakland, Calif., and Ferguson, Mo., are among the “most dangerous” places in the world.
But Trump previously canceled a trip to Israel that had been scheduled for earlier this year and his campaign recently dismissed a report about a major foreign policy trip to Europe and the Middle East.
“There is no trip planned,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Washington Examiner in early May, when rumors of a trip to Russia, Germany and Israel were swirling.
