Former President Ronald Reagan had “Star Wars.” Former President Donald Trump wants an “Iron Dome.”
Trump, in an op-ed that appeared in Newsweek on Tuesday, promised that if elected, he would “immediately begin the process of building a state-of-the-art Missile Defense shield in America.”
“Americans deserve an Iron Dome as well,” wrote Trump, referring to the mobile anti-missile rocket defense system Israel has had in place since 2011.
Trump penned the piece to provide a lengthy take on both how President Joe Biden has failed on foreign policy, and how he would restore America’s strength and national security if elected.
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“The barbaric and evil terrorist attacks on Israel are a horrific reminder that the world is safe when America is strong — but when we have a weak president in the White House, the costs can be greater than our worst nightmares,” Trump wrote.
“If we hope to prevent further shedding of innocent blood, the United States must learn the painful lessons of these savage atrocities. As we pray for the Israeli people in this hour of anguish and give them our complete and total support, we must also confront the absolute failure of the Biden administration, whose incompetence and ignorance invited this heinous and deadly assault on civilization itself.”
“The only thing Biden is good at is the weaponization of the justice system against his political opponents,” Trump said.
Trump argued that “every step of the way, Joe Biden has empowered and emboldened America’s enemies the world over—and clearly none more so than the terrorist group Hamas, and their bloodthirsty sponsor, the villainous regime in Iran.”
Trump recounted how Biden eased his sanctions on Iran in May 2021, and shortly afterward, Hamas fired more than 4,000 missiles at Israeli communities.
Biden last month “unfroze $6 billion of Iranian money in exchange for hostages—a ransom payment that set a terrible precedent and put a bounty on the heads of innocent people all over the globe,” Trump added. The result was the terrorism Hamas unleashed on Israel on Oct. 7, the result of “three years of breathtaking weakness and appeasement.”
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“What a difference a president makes,” Trump argued.
He contrasted Biden’s record with his own.
He noted how he “obliterated” ISIS, “devastated” the senior leadership of al-Qaeda, withdrew from the “horrendous” Iran Nuclear Deal and “eliminated” Iran’s terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani, and slashed funding for “Palestinian terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.”
As for Israel, Trump wrote, “I was proud to be the best friend Israel ever had in the White House.”
He pointed out how he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and negotiated the “historic” Abraham Accords, or peace deals several Arab countries cut Israel.
“When I return to the White House, I will once again stand with Israel 100 percent. The United States will fully support Israel in defeating, dismantling, and permanently destroying the terror group Hamas. And we will once again cut off money for UNRWA, the corrupt U.N. agency that has been helping fuel this conflict for decades,” Trump wrote.
A new Trump administration, in addition to pursuing an Iron Dome-like missile-defense system, would “turn on” American oil, restore the “Trump Travel Ban, end refugee resettlement to include “Gaza or Syria or Somalia or Yemen, or Libya, or anywhere else that threatens our security,” he wrote.
He also would create a strong ideological screening program for all immigrants to America. “No longer will we allow dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots, and maniacs to get residency in our country. If you empathize with Radical Islamic terrorists and extremists, you’re disqualified.”
But under Trump 2.0, America would also “aggressively deport resident aliens with jihadist sympathies.”
“Under my administration, we will proactively send ICE to pro-jihadist demonstrations to enforce our immigration laws and remove the violators from our country,” said Trump.
Lastly, Trump would “hunt down and remove all Iranian spies, agents, or suspected agents from the United States government.”
“This is how I will begin to undo the terrible damage Joe Biden has done and end the Biden betrayal of Israel,” Trump wrote. “Under a Trump administration, Iran will once again be weak, Israel will once again be safe, and the United States of America will be stronger and more powerful than ever before.”
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