Donald Trump’s Clinton attack speech reveals just how little he understands the world
Updated by Zack Beauchamp on June 22, 2016, 1:20 p.m. ET @zackbeauchamp [email protected]
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Donald Trump gave his first major speech of the election attacking Hillary Clinton on Wednesday morning. It mostly focused on labeling Clinton as corrupt, his stock "Crooked Hillary" line expanded to an hour.
But it also tried to label Clinton as incompetent, blaming her personally for a series of events ranging from the decline of manufacturing jobs in the US to the rise of ISIS in Iraq.
These policy arguments are pretty revealing — largely for what they say about Trump. In the speech, he takes a ridiculously narrow view of how the world works, assuming that if something in America or the world has gone wrong recently, it’s because of American policy — specifically, an American policy created by Hillary Clinton. His basic argument is that if a bad thing happened in the world and Hillary Clinton was alive during it, she’s the one who caused it.
This goes beyond normal campaign rhetoric — it reveals a basic ignorance about the way the world works on Trump’s part. This speech is supposed to be the debut of "serious Trump" after the past week’s disasters for his campaign. But it’s clear he still has no clue about the basic way American policy affects the world just months before he might be elected president.
Good rebuttal continued at vox.com
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