the speech. i loved it. the thing that s trump has been able to demonstrate with his joint address to congress, nato, today, when he stays on script, he can be a very powerful messenger. i love some of the themes. one of the themes he called out russia on the ukrainian aggression. he said essentially we re standing with poland. i think it s really important that he went to poland. you have a nato poland up to pace on its dues. he s calling on russia on polish soil. i thought that was very important. he also made a call for people to understand the west has to make choices. again, regardless of radical islam, it is a clash of civilizations. will the west have the political courage to address these threats? when donald trump stays on message, he can be a very powerful messenger. i thought he knocked it out of the park. shannon: there are plenty of
and stand clear with ukraine. i wonder if vladimir putin saw that as a political defeat headed into the meeting tomorrow or if he s confident he can regain that ground once he s face-to-face with the american president? again, it s all because of the low bar that we have for president trump that we judge him differently. i mean, compare this speech to any speech, democrats or republicans, who have given in that part of the world where they talk about liberalism, democracy, human rights and most certainly in those speeches, including the last one that obama gave in estonia in 2014, russia is the enemy of democracy. not somebody on the same side. and to whoever said i think i heard hamburg in the back so i can t quite sorry about that. who said it, but his speech was not about liberal democracy. but about a clash of civilizations. it s a it s not a speech about the liberal democracies need to get together.
wonky and economic, but if the united states pulls back, says we ll reconsider every one of our trade agreements and angela merkel said you can t look at u.s./germany trade, we re a part of the european union and thinks trump doesn t get it but chine chine china is stepping in, japan. and redefining the relationships, does the base suffer? america first is not america alone. dynamics suggest as american leadership pulls back, you re right. other countries are filling the vacuum. the speech was interesting for me in a couple ways. constant emphasis on individual nations and peoples. in poland, whose government is euro skeptic. doesn t like the eu very much. no way merkel misses the symbolism of that. also the notion of a clash of civilizations. the west is fighting air original as if it is a different civilization of itself.
their religious faith is wrong and totally unacceptable. so it s important that that be the response if that s what the facts are if this is an attack targeting muslims. if this is what it looks like, it s worrying. it suggests there is sectarian violence going on in the u.k. again, that s a hypothetical. yes, a hypothetical but, you know, this is exactly what isis wants. this is what al qaeda tried to do and inspire. they want this sort of view that this is some kind of conflict, clash of civilizations, conflict between islam and the west or islam and christianity and if this was carried out by, you know, people who are non-muslims and they think this is somehow going to intimidate, you know, islamic radicals or slow down attacks, it s not. it s going to fuel more attacks. whoever did this is playing into their hands, and this is why the rule of law and these basic
which donald trump doesn t. trump is totally situational. right. he can blast muslims and then two it s all fine by him. bannon realizes he s within the enemy camp there and probably wasn t his wrd to run off to saudi arabia on the first trip. he does believe as we saw in the vatican clip that there is a clash of civilizations and he takes it very seriously. while wanting to also disrupt the elites here in the united states whether it s cultural elites, media elites, political elites. the one thing i thought the documentary played down, which i thought was a good film, was that it didn t really get into the fact that he turned breitbart, a conservative outlet, into an outlet for the alt-right. we know from watching the show, white nationalist. i m proud at mother jones, question quoted him saying it s a platform for the alt-right. they played that down. a lot going on with steve bannon. also played down the extent to which the entity he took