Since Christmas, the Trump administration has bombed Nigeria and boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, kidnapped the president of Venezuela and bombed the country, threatened to bomb Iran for the second time in less than a year, threatened to annex Greenland and formed a so-called Board of Peace to rival the United Nations.President Donald Trump has long promised to put America first and avoid the “stupid wars” and extensive foreign entanglements of his predecessors. His supporters thought that meant he would focus on the bread-and-butter challenges facing millions of Americans: soaring healthcare costs, home affordability, persistent inflation, and the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. But after returning to office, the president seems fixated on foreign adventurism at the expense of dealing with these domestic challenges.
In his first year back in office, Trump bombed Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. According to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, an independent conflict monitor, Trump launched more overseas airstrikes in his first year in office than former President Joe Biden did during his entire four-year term.
Trump has also interfered in the domestic politics of countries like Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Argentina and Honduras. This is to say nothing of the uncertainty and volatility the administration has injected into global trade with its on-again, off-again tariffs, which are really just a tax hike on Americans.
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