In the News: National Security Action Partners Continue to Highlight Trump’s Foreign Policy Failures
Six months into Donald Trump’s term, members of National Security Action’s community are still hard at work to push back against Trump’s chaotic leadership and highlight the impact of his foreign policy failures. Whether it’s Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, implement costly tariffs, slash foreign aid, or conduct foreign policy by group chat, the president’s actions are making Americans less safe and less prosperous each and every day.
As the Administration continues to move forward with these reckless and shortsighted policies, National Security Action’s friends and allies will continue to do what is necessary to hold Donald Trump and his cronies accountable.
Marie Harf with Preston Stewart
“I found that report fascinating. It confirmed what a lot of us suspected and have long said: that Iran’s nuclear program is so diffuse, so deeply buried underground – there’s just so much of it – that a military strike would only be temporary and would not be able to destroy it.”
Emily Horne on ABC News
“The message this is sending to countries around the world, including some of our closest allies and partners is — ‘We need to move away from the United States. We can't rely on the United States. We’ve got to work around the United States.’ So we’re going to do more with each other, and, in some cases, more with China… I’m afraid that we’re heading to a place where instead of America First it’s America Alone.”
Nola Haynes on WURD
“The second Trump Administration differs from the first Trump Administration because there were at least some guardrails. There were some adults in the room, right? But this administration, this is all Trump loyalists.”
Wendy Sherman on CBS News
“We don’t know whether it actually will destroy Fordow and all the enriched uranium that is there. We can’t bomb away knowledge. So we may set back Iran’s program – but it doesn’t mean that they won’t recreate it and try to do it secretly underground.”
Alex Bell in CNN
“A solid, verifiable, legally sound agreement is going to require experts in science, law, negotiation, nuclear policy, and international structures. If you want deals, if you want to find diplomatic solutions, you need diplomats and you need to not be terrorizing them.”
Jon Finer on Brian Tyler Cohen
“What I can’t understand, and what I don’t think they have sufficiently explained is why they had to do this now when the negotiations were still going and they themselves said that they were making progress and a deal was possible.”
Caroline Zier on MSNBC
“There’s a reason we don’t have a tradition of military parades in this country. It’s because countries where those parades happen with troops and capabilities on display are usually hollow forces that are being used to prop up – and in some cases, are going against their own people. It’s anathema to what our Armed Forces is.”
Susan Rice on Meidas Touch
“Just the mere fact of having a principals committee meeting by text on a Signal chain, is incredibly reckless and dangerous. Then you share classified discussions about military plans and operations – and then classified military documents about those plans and operations on this chat. It’s extraordinarily reckless, dangerous, and in my recollection, unprecedented.”