Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump as unqualified to be president in a foreign policy speech accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of “dangerously incoherent” views based on “outright lies.”
“I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job,” Clinton said in San Diego, Calif. “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different. They are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas. Just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”
The former secretary of state explained that Trump does not have the experience, temperament or judgment to protect the United States, citing his comments that other countries should get nuclear weapons.
“He is not just unprepared. He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility. This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin,” Clinton said.
Citing Trump’s past comments that he would order the military to carry out torture of civilians related to suspected terrorists, comments that he knows more about ISIS then “then generals and praise of dictators such as Vladimir Putin, Clinton explained that Trump “doesn’t understand America or the world.”
“Making Donald Trump commander in chief would be a historic mistake,” Clinton said, explaining that voting the business mogul president would “set back our standing in the world more than anything in recent memory.”
On the campaign trail Clinton has laid out a detailed plan about how she plans to go about defeating ISIS, whereas Trump has only revealed snippets of his plan. She said that Trump’s few proposals, such as making Syria a “safe zone” for the terrorist group, made no sense.
“A Trump presidency would embolden ISIS,” she said. “We cannot take that risk. This is not reality television this is actual reality.”
The former secretary of state touted her parternship-building accomplishments during her speech, saying that the U.S. needs to stick with allies who “deliver for us every day.”
Specifically, she talked about work she did with Japan and South Korea to create a missile defense system to protect against the threat from North Korea.
“The technology is ours, key parts of it are located on Japanese ships, all three countries contributed to it and this month, all three militaries will run a joint drill to test it. That’s the power of allies,” Clinton said.
The good relationship the U.S. has with many countries around the world, which leads to forward basing military equipment and intelligence sharing, make Moscow and Beijing “deeply envious.”
If Trump is elected, much of that global cooperation will cause alliances to crumble and weaken the country’s security, Clinton argued, explaining, “If Donald gets his way, they’ll be celebrating in the Kremlin. We cannot let that happen.”
Saying that Trump has offered praise for brutal dictators, Clinton added, “I don’t understand Donald’s fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America…I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants but I just wonder how anybody could be so wrong about who’s America’s friends are.”
She also noted that Trump’s foreign policy and national security proposals would add $30 trillion dollars to the national debt as it weakened America both on the home front and overseas.
“These are the words of someone who doesn’t understand America or the world and they are the words of someone who would lead us in the wrong direction,” Clinton said. “You don’t know America and you certainly don’t deserve to lead it.”
