Hillary Clinton supporters former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine panned Donald Trump’s foreign speech Wednesday, saying his lack of knowledge is practically “disqualifying.”
“I’ve got to say, I’ve listened to a lot of foreign policy speeches and I’ve given some myself. And I was hoping for something that made sense,” Albright told reporters on Wednesday afternoon. “Donald Trump’s goal today was to convince he’d be presidential. But what we did was underscore the fact that he’s run the most reckless campaign in modern history.”
On the campaign trail Clinton often criticizes Trump’s lack of foreign policy experience and “extreme” foreign policy proposals. Trump’s policy speech in Washington D.C. on Wednesday promoted an “America first” foreign policy plan based on promoting American interests.
Kaine claimed Trump’s use of that phrase without apparent regard for its reference to opponents of U.S entry into World War II shows he is not ready for the presidency.
“If you don’t know enough history to know that America First was the movement to get America out of World War II,” Kaine said. “That’s almost a disqualifier right there.”
Both Clinton surrogates agreed that Trump’s emphasis on “unpredictability” in foreign policy would make America weaker.
“Maybe he never read history or he doesn’t understand it,” Albright said of Trump. “Perhaps unpredictability is the only thing you can count on from Donald trump as commander in chief but do you really want an unpredictable man with his hand on the nuclear probe?”
