Ambassador Robert Blackwill

When I was in the Serengeti recently, I had a guide say in the Serengeti,

is over the long run detrimental to American national interests.

every night animals eat and animals are eaten.

If you look at the population trends, if you look at where the minerals are and so forth, and to just talk about the third world as if it was only a swamp

Well, I think that's Mr. Miller's view of current civilization, and it's not shared by the American people.

And I think if Mr. Vance were to campaign

that can never be rescued the way the president does is just bad strategy.

on that gangsterism, which incidentally has some loyalties at least, that would be a mistake.

So anyway, whoever's the next president will have the opportunity to build that trust.

If it's Mr. Vance and he keeps denigrating our democratically elected allies, then trust will not be reestablished.

Well, that is what he did.

And I want to say, I don't want to end, we're getting near the end on a negative note, but the one thing I would say, two last things.

And in life, we know it can be reestablished unless the perforation of the trust goes on.

America remains the most powerful country on earth, militarily, economically, and diplomatically.

And so if the next president says, I know trust in America has weakened to the Europeans, but just watch me and you're going to see a consistency of our policies.

So we have vast instruments to help shape world order to our benefit and to the benefit of our values.

That's number one.

And that will be true at the end of the Trump administration.

And I hope we'll build trust over time.

It won't happen automatically.