{"id":92191,"date":"2016-04-01T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92191"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:15:52","slug":"how-would-donald-trump-react-to-a-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92191","title":{"rendered":"How Would Donald Trump React To A 9\/11?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe invites President Vladimir Putin to the White House \u2026 announces that America is withdrawing from NATO and \u2026 visits Tehran to open up a new American embassy.\u201d
\nJacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest.
\nDonald Trump has already made it clear that he regards much of the global order that was established by Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson after World War II as impotent and obsolete. Almost as soon as he\u2019s sworn the oath to serve as commander-in-chief, Trump will go to work to create a new one based on the exercise of American military power and cooperation with Washington\u2019s traditional adversaries such as Russia. So the real question may be this: How would a 9\/11 event accelerate his already existing efforts to upend the American national security establishment?
\nFollowing the attack, President Trump builds upon his initial attempts to restore relations with Russia, which included nuclear arms-control negotiations. He now invites President Vladimir Putin to the White House\u2014complete with a state dinner in his honor. Trump, the consummate dealmaker, says that it\u2019s imperative to let bygones be bygones in the interest of a united front with Russia to defeat the Islamic peril. At the same time, Trump announces that America is withdrawing from NATO and concedes Russia\u2019s sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. England, which has already withdrawn from the European Union, joins the U.S-Russia alliance. In following this course, Trump invokes World War II to declare that he\u2019s simply following in Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s footsteps.
\nAll of this is music to the Kremlin\u2019s ears, which has consistently bemoaned the fact that the Obama administration has spurned its offers of cooperation. British, Russian and American warplanes bomb targets in Syria and Iraq that served as staging grounds for the Islamic State\u2019s assault on America. In addition, Trump pivots from America\u2019s traditional alliance with Saudi Arabia to working with Iran; to general astonishment, he visits Tehran to open up a new American embassy. Trump says that the only predictable thing about his presidency is that he will always seek to be unpredictable.
\nDomestically, Trump takes a hard line, arguing that it\u2019s time to take the handcuffs off the FBI and CIA. He embarks upon a program to place American Muslims in camps, a program overseen by the Justice Department as it was during the Roosevelt administration in World War II, when Japanese-Americans were interned. The Washington Post and New York Times editorial pages denounce Trump\u2019s new policy, but it meets with general approbation among the American population, a number of Democratic Senators and Congressmen in swing states sign off on the measure, and the Supreme Court upholds it in an 8-1 decision. With his decisive moves, Trump enrages liberal and conservative elites but his approval ratings soar to over 80 percent in numerous polls. The era of Trump has begun.<\/p>\n

* \u201cTweet after tweet congratulating himself on foreseeing the attack and ridiculing the terrorists\u2019 masculinity, their intelligence, their family members, their ethnic identity and\/or religion\u201d
\nGwenda Blair is author of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire.
\nTwitter would be Trump\u2019s front-line counter-attack. Tweet after tweet congratulating himself on foreseeing the attack and ridiculing the terrorists\u2019 masculinity, their intelligence, their family members, their ethnic identity and\/or religion\u2014along with any civil libertarian or moderate voices asking for caution, consultation with allies, or more operational and regional intelligence before initiating counter-offensives against targets either inside or outside the United States.
\nNext would be live streamed appearances on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. in which Trump denounced the terrorists, their supporters, and any opposition to the use of any and all tactics against captured terrorist suspects.
\nThen he would change into Donald Trump Menswear 100% silk PJs with gold-embroidered POTUS seal on front pocket, stretch out on a super-luxury top-grain leather Trump Home Furnishings chaise, chow down on a prime-cut Trump steak, and turn on WWE.
\nIn the event the attacks continued, he might be moved to more action. Potential steps might include curfews, quarantines and\/or internment in certain communities, required loyalty oaths for government employees, teachers, uniformed services, etc., civil defense drills in schools, factories, offices, and other large installations such as airports, train stations, subway systems, and the adoption and frequent testing of alerts through texts and loudspeakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Politico: \u201cHe invites President Vladimir Putin to the White House \u2026 announces that America is withdrawing from NATO and \u2026 visits Tehran to open up a new American embassy.\u201d Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest. Donald Trump … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92193,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92191\/revisions\/92193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}