Pollster John McLaughlin said he believes President-elect Donald Trump’s “peace through strength” message will be as prominent as President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress which contained the famous Monroe Doctrine and will come to be known by Americans as the Trump Doctrine.
“As President Trump advances his peace through strength message, I think people will call it the Trump Doctrine,” McLaughlin said on Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Just as the Monroe Doctrine was designed at the time to keep European powers out of the Western Hemisphere, McLaughlin said the Trump Doctrine is similar in nature due to the president-elect’s plan to restore “peace and security” in the U.S. through his economic and foreign policies.
“The American people will be happy with the results because what we want is peace and security. We want peace and prosperity, because if you’re strong, like Reagan understood, and the economy’s growing and people are seeing real wealth, they’re seeing their savings go up, their homes go up, their jobs getting better wages and lower inflation, the economic strength of the 80s gave us the strength to beat the Soviet Union and collapse communism,” McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin pointed to the Trump tax cuts as being a vital part in bringing prosperity to Americans and strength to the nation.
“We need the Trump tax cuts to be made permanent,” McLaughlin said.
With regard to foreign policy, McLaughlin said Trump’s interest in the U.S. acquiring Greenland, taking back the Panama Canal, and negotiating with Canada to become the 51st U.S. state has also resulted in a “renewed optimism” from Americans when it comes to strength on the world stage.
“As far as national security and this renewed optimism, it’s in President Trump’s ratings that he’s got a positive job approval and a positive personal rating. He’s using that political capital to reassert the United States, because what he wants is peace. He ran on a message of peace and prosperity,” McLaughlin explained. “[Russia and China] are encroaching on the whole world. When you look at the hemisphere, China has a base in Cuba, their companies operate on both ends of the Panama Canal. That’s a national security problem because if China decides to take Taiwan by force, we can’t get our military ships through the Panama Canal because China will blow it up.”
“Greenland, Trump wants to buy it, and Canada…now after four years of open borders, the mess that Joe Biden left, you’ve got drugs coming over the border, fentanyl…You’ve got criminals and you’ve got illegal immigrants who are not just from the Southern Hemisphere, you’ve got Chinese coming across the border, you’ve got fentanyl coming across the border, the Northern border in New York and New England and across the plains. President Trump wants to stop that, secure the border. We don’t need criminals coming in from Mexico and Canada,” McLaughlin added.
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