Scott Detrow

Consider this. Trump has promised a new approach to American foreign policy. Is there a Trump doctrine? What is it? From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow.

It's Consider This from NPR. A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach. America first, isolationist, transactional, imperialist, protectionist. I'm a nationalist and a globalist, he told the Wall Street Journal during his first term. To help sort this all through, I am joined by Emma Ashford. She's a senior fellow with the Reimagining U.S.

It's Consider This from NPR. A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach. America first, isolationist, transactional, imperialist, protectionist. I'm a nationalist and a globalist, he told the Wall Street Journal during his first term. To help sort this all through, I am joined by Emma Ashford. She's a senior fellow with the Reimagining U.S.

It's Consider This from NPR. A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach. America first, isolationist, transactional, imperialist, protectionist. I'm a nationalist and a globalist, he told the Wall Street Journal during his first term. To help sort this all through, I am joined by Emma Ashford. She's a senior fellow with the Reimagining U.S.

Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, a foreign affairs think tank. Welcome.

Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, a foreign affairs think tank. Welcome.

Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, a foreign affairs think tank. Welcome.

All right. So let's try to sort all of this out. And let's start with this. Trump has talked throughout his political career about the end of nation building. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said the U.S. should not try to solve every problem in the world.

All right. So let's try to sort all of this out. And let's start with this. Trump has talked throughout his political career about the end of nation building. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said the U.S. should not try to solve every problem in the world.

All right. So let's try to sort all of this out. And let's start with this. Trump has talked throughout his political career about the end of nation building. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said the U.S. should not try to solve every problem in the world.

And that point of view would seem like a really big break from the hawkish neoconservative foreign policy that has defined the Republican Party for decades. But then at the same time, you've got Trump saying he wants to take over the Gaza Strip. How do you make sense of that disparity?

And that point of view would seem like a really big break from the hawkish neoconservative foreign policy that has defined the Republican Party for decades. But then at the same time, you've got Trump saying he wants to take over the Gaza Strip. How do you make sense of that disparity?

And that point of view would seem like a really big break from the hawkish neoconservative foreign policy that has defined the Republican Party for decades. But then at the same time, you've got Trump saying he wants to take over the Gaza Strip. How do you make sense of that disparity?

Do you see, like, how would you define in a couple of sentences what the Trump foreign policy approach is right now?

Do you see, like, how would you define in a couple of sentences what the Trump foreign policy approach is right now?

Do you see, like, how would you define in a couple of sentences what the Trump foreign policy approach is right now?

Is transactional dealmaking a key through line then, like this extreme premise setting that might lead to something different?

Is transactional dealmaking a key through line then, like this extreme premise setting that might lead to something different?

Is transactional dealmaking a key through line then, like this extreme premise setting that might lead to something different?

And that was very much the Biden foreign policy, democracy versus autocracy. That's how we frame just about everything. This is very different.