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America First refers to a
foreign policy in the
United States that emphasizes
American nationalism and
anti-interventionism.
America First has sometimes been used as a slogan by some Republicans in later
periods, notably by
Pat
Buchanan, who praised the anti-WWII
America First Committee and said "the achievements of that organization are
monumental."[5]
Buchanan's "call for an America First foreign policy has been compared with the
America First Committee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_%28policy%29
-- 2016 --
December 26: Trump swears his administration
will only 'buy American and hire American'
What he didn't explain in his Instagram vow, however, is why his businesses
haven't yet followed those rules that he claims to be so "simple." In the last
15 years, Trump's businesses have hired "at least 1,256 foreign guest workers,"
CNN
reported. Since Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, his
companies
have requested "at least 190 foreign visa workers."
Most recently, it was reported that the Trump Winery vineyard is looking to hire
six foreign workers to start just days after Trump is sworn in as president.
Trump also reportedly got approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October to
hire
64 foreign workers to fill temporary jobs over the winter at his Mar-a-Lago
Club in Florida.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/669936/trump-swears-administration-only-buy-american-hire-american
-- 2017 --
Undated:
January 20: "From this day forward, a new
vision will govern... it's going to be only America first, America first", the
US president told the crowd at his inauguration.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38698654/donald-trump-america-first-america-first
April 18: Trump’s ‘Hire American’ overhaul
could damage pro-business agenda
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/trumps-hire-american-overhaul-could-damage-pro-business-agenda.html
June 2: Donald Trump’s
rejection of the Paris climate change treaty is
the most emphatic answer to date on the question the rest of the world has been
asking since January: What does “America first” mean?
“I am elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” the president
declared
With those words,
the US joined Nicaragua and Syria in rejection of an accord signed by 195
states which was voluntary and open to amendment from within.
The UN climate change envoy, Ireland’s former president, Mary Robinson, declared
the decision made the US “a rogue state on the international stage.”
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/abandoning_paris_climate_accord_marks_trumps_return_to_angry_populism/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2eKLp5q41wIVglh-Ch3UEgK9EAMYAyAAEgL6wfD_BwE
June 2: Trump's "America First" is America
the Small
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/06/02/trumps-america-first-is-america-the-small/
November 5: Trump, who urged people to 'hire
American,' secures 70 foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/11/05/trump-who-urged-people-to-hire-american-secures-70-foreign-workers-for-mar-a-lago/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fec484bcda2c
November 11: On his third day in office
[last January], President Trump signed an executive memorandum
withdrawing the United States from a 12-nation Asia-Pacific trade accord
that had been painstakingly negotiated over a decade by two of his White House
predecessors.
“Everyone knows what that means, right?” Trump asked rhetorically in the Oval
Office. It meant, he said, that the country would start winning again in the
face of unchecked globalization that had harmed ordinary Americans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-america-first-looks-more-and-more-like-america-alone/2017/11/11/5cffa150-c666-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.a088c422b36f
November 11: As the president [went] to a
regional summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang, news broke that the 11 nations
that had once looked to U.S. leadership to seal the deal on the Trans-Pacific
Partnership had moved on without the United States and
announced a tentative agreement among themselves.
... It marked a stunning turnabout that foreign-policy analysts warned could
further erode U.S. standing at a time when China is embarked on a major economic
expansion and further undermine global confidence in the United States’ ability
to organize the world around its own liberal values.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-america-first-looks-more-and-more-like-america-alone/2017/11/11/5cffa150-c666-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.a088c422b36f
November 11: "President Trump today stated
that he believed Vladimir Putin is being sincere when he denies Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election and reiterated that he hopes to
cooperate with Russia in Syria," [Senator John] McCain, a strong critic of the
President, said in a statement. "There's nothing 'America First' about taking
the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/john-mccain-donald-trump-russia/index.html
December 19:
Trump’s ‘America First’ Strategy Is Old Hat ... Ignore the furor
over the president’s national security strategy. In focusing on the domestic
economy, he’s on the right track.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/19/trump-national-security-strategy-america-first-216120
-- 2018 --
January 18:
Trump’s “America First”
Policy Could Cripple the U.S. Solar Industry
The president is about to make a decision that could cost more jobs than
the entire coal industry, and Republicans aren't happy about it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/146619/trumps-america-first-policy-cripple-us-solar-industry
January 20: A year of Trump’s ‘America
first’ agenda has radically changed the U.S. role in the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-year-of-trumps-america-first-agenda-has-radically-changed-the-us-role-in-the-world/2018/01/20/c1258aa6-f7cf-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html?utm_term=.a96bd0361ed6
January 21: Europe readies riposte to
Trump's 'America First' push in Davos
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting/europe-readies-riposte-to-trumps-america-first-push-in-davos-idUSKBN1FA098
January 22: Trump’s ‘America First’ Message
Is a Case of Rhetoric vs. Reality—So Far
One year after Trump’s inaugural, the results are far murkier than his blunt
warning to allies suggested.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-america-first-message-is-a-case-of-rhetoric-vs-realityso-far-1516638295
January 22: ‘America First’ Polls Poorly in
Other Countries. Trump Backers Don’t Care.
http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/22/why-america-first-polls-poorly-outside-america/
January 23: How U.S. Allies Are Adapting to
"America First"
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-01-23/how-us-allies-are-adapting-america-first
January 23: Trump’s “America First” policy
on solar panels will likely benefit… China
https://qz.com/1186661/trumps-america-first-policy-on-solar-panels-will-likely-benefit-china/
January 23:
President Trump slaps tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels.
That’s for starters. We’re looking at the risk and reality of his “America
First” trade policy.
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/01/23/trumps-america-first-trade-policy-takes-shape-with-tariffs-on-solar-panels-and-more
January 23: Trump's 'America First' tariffs
are insignificant, Nissan Chairman says
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/trumps-america-first-tariffs-are-insignificant-nissan-chairman-says
January 24:
Trump aides in Davos say 'America First' doesn't mean 'America alone'
http://theweek.com/speedreads/750550/trump-aides-davos-say-america-first-doesnt-mean-america-alone
January 24: US aggressively defends 'America
First' agenda ahead of Trump's visit to Davos ... Senior U.S. officials hit back
on Wednesday against suggestions that President
Donald Trump's "America First"
agenda was hurting globalization and trade, setting an aggressive tone ahead of
the U.S. president's visit to the World Economic Forum.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/us-aggressively-defends-america-first-agenda-ahead-of-trumps-visit-to-davos.html
January 24: President
Trump is arriving at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to
explain his “America First” approach at a moment when the world is
moving ahead with a trade agenda that no longer revolves around the United
States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/us/politics/trump-trade-america-first-davos.html
January 25: Davos Elite Brace for Trump’s
‘America First’ Agenda
https://www.voanews.com/a/davos-elite-brace-for-trump-america-first-agenda/4224266.html
January 26: Donald Trump makes 'America
First but not alone' sales pitch in Davos
"There has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in
the United States.
"America is open for business and we are competitive once again.
https://www.eagleradio.co.uk/news/business-news/2487545/boos-as-donald-trump-attacks-fake-media-during-davos-speech/
January 27: Evaluating Trump's 'America First' Trade Policies
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/27/581269019/evaluating-trumps-america-first-trade-policies
January 27: America First Triumphs in Davos
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/01/donald-trumps-2018-davos-strategy-was-brilliant-stroke/
January 29: North Korea Says Trump's
'America First' Will End U.S. 'Empire of Evils'
http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-says-trump-america-first-end-us-empire-evils-794617
January 29: Trump’s “America First” Message
At Davos Flies In The Face Of Solar Tariffs ... his promise that “America is
open for business” and his intention to put “America first” is undermined by his
recent decision to impose tariffs on solar cells and modules (as well as washing
machines).
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/29/trumps-america-first-message-davos-flies-face-solar-tariffs/
February 13: 3 Trump properties posted 144
openings for seasonal jobs. Only one went to a US worker.
“America First” doesn’t seem to apply to the president’s own businesses.
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/13/16466542/trump-h-2b-guest-workers
February 13: Bill and Melinda Gates' annual
letter blasts Trump's respect for women ... Trump's proposed cuts to foreign aid
would impede the foundation's efforts toward fighting poverty, illness, and
hunger abroad.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-trump-america-first-2018-2
February 14: Bill & Melinda Gates: It's 'Not
Fair' We're So Wealthy; Criticize Trump On America First
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2018/02/14/bill-melinda-gates-its-not-fair-were-so-wealthy-criticize-trump-on-america-first/#7ae38064c9ff
May 5: Trump floats 'closing up the country
for a while' over border security
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/politics/donald-trump-border-wall-close-country-remark/index.html
June 8: Under Trump, “America First” Really
Is Turning Out to Be America Alone
From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest
level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/under-trump-america-first-really-is-turning-out-to-be-america-alone
June 26: “America First” President Threatens
to Destroy American Company
Trump is not handling Harley-Davidson’s post-tariffs
announcement well.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/donald-trump-threatens-to-destroy-harley-davidson
June 27: Harley-Davidson: The oddity of the
‘America First’ president bashing a classic American brand
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
July 5: Chinese company producing Trump 2020
flags despite looming trade war
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/china-trade-trump-2020-flags/index.html
September 7:
The Cost of American Retreat
The world order that the U.S. built after World War II required sacrifice and
commitment, but it brought unprecedented benefits. What happens if it
disappears?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thecost-of-american-retreat-1536330449
-- 2019 --
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