Alyssa Slotkin

It's not that anyone's missing it.

What is happening and how I think we come out of it, which is, like, I still believe that the American public...

does not want an authoritarian leader.

We don't want a king.

Our whole country is based on that.

And there are certain barometers we have for authoritarianism, and we're going to come out of it.

It's just going to take a bite.

And on the other side of that fight, obviously Trump will not be president forever, even if for some of the people in this room that may feel that way.

In what ways do you think that American stature on the global stage has been permanently damaged?

Because I can tell you

that over the last 12 months, the Europeans really wanted to take a sort of optimistic view of kind of how things could materialize.

Then there was the Greenland episode, and it feels that a sort of moment of trust there has been broken in a severe way.

Yeah, I think, look, I think it takes a long time to build trust and an instant to lose it.

You know, I'm someone who my father came on the beaches of Normandy with the American troops.

Like, I believe deeply that America has a good role to play, that we are in a long-term relationship with Europe, and that's to the benefit of all of us.

But when you start acting erratically, when you act like a madman and no one knows what you're going to do next, they can't trust to make a deal with you, to sign up for something.

You know, when you insult the soldiers of the countries that have been in coalition with us in Iraq and Afghanistan, places that I've served,

You understand why people say, well, wait a minute, what did we do this for?

And the United States needs friends.

This is a globalized world.