00:00President-elect Donald Trump has said he will reevaluate the country's role in NATO, end
00:05the war in Ukraine, and restore travel bans from majority Muslim countries, among other
00:10priorities in a return to office.
00:13Here are the America First foreign policy promises he's made for his second term.
00:19The president-elect has said he will reject the advice of generals, bureaucrats, diplomats,
00:24lobbyists, and defense contractors who have pushed for war and replaced the, quote, war-mongers
00:30and frauds and failures in the government with, quote, competent national security officials
00:35who believe in defending America's vital interests above all.
00:39Trump, who offered broad support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his
00:44first term, has also vowed to bring peace in the Middle East, where tensions have been
00:49rapidly escalating since the start of Israel's war with Hamas more than one year ago, but
00:55has said little about how other than urging Israel to, quote, finish the job.
01:01In September, Trump said he would reinstate the, quote, famous travel ban that stopped
01:06people from some predominantly Muslim countries from visiting the U.S. and expanded to include
01:11refugees from, quote, terror-infested areas like the Gaza Strip.
01:16The president-elect has promised to take a hard stance on China by pressuring the country
01:20to sell off, quote, any current holdings that threaten the country's national and economic
01:25security and impose new restrictions on Chinese-owned infrastructure in the U.S.
01:31Trump has proposed imposing baseline tariffs on most foreign goods, tariffs as high as
01:3660 percent on all Chinese imports and 100 percent on Mexican goods in hopes of spurring
01:41American manufacturing, quote, as tariffs on foreign countries go up, taxes on American
01:47workers, families, and businesses can come down, his policy plan says.
01:52President Joe Biden re-entered the Paris Climate Agreement after Trump withdrew in his first
01:56term, but Trump has said he plans to again back out, calling the accords a, quote, rip-off
02:02because the United States pays more than other countries.
02:06Trump's first term was defined by what he called an America First foreign policy, which
02:11he has promised to return to in his second term.
02:14For more on this story, check out Mary Whitfield Raffles' article in the link in the description.
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