Foreign policy: what they said and what the record shows
What right-wing public figures said about foreign policy, set against what happened and the record. 29 claims.
- “You know, Obama got the Nobel Prize about two weeks after he got into office, and he had no idea why he got it.”
- “I settled eight wars. No other president settled a war.”
- “Denmark was so great. They gave us Greenland.”
- “I want to express my gratitude to the United Nations Security Council for their unanimous endorsement of our 20-point Gaza peace plan, and for officially…”
- “We cut the UN budget for the first time ever”
- “The United States spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far, to protect them, without getting any benefit from so doing: U.S. 999 Billion…”
- “It gave them the right to have top-of-the-line nuclear weapon.”
- “Well, they asked me to speak at the Knesset, and, you know, I've agreed to—if they would like me to, I will do it. It's the first time a President has ever…”
- “They didn't pay the 2 percent because they knew we were there to pay it, and now they paid the 5 percent.”
- “I ended seven wars. And in all cases, they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand; Kosovo and…”
- “We gave $60 million 2 weeks ago for food for Gaza. And nobody acknowledged it. Nobody talks about it. And it makes you feel a little bad when you do that and…”
- “Please understand that these Tariffs are necessary to correct the many years of Brazil's Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers, causing these…”
- “I will say, until we came along, the Biden administration didn't speak to Russia whatsoever. They didn't speak to anybody.”
- “They're a BRICS nation, Spain.”
- “She wouldn't even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress to make a very important speech.”
- “Iran was broke under Donald Trump. Now Iran has $300 billion because they took off all the sanctions that I had.”
- “And Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He is still the head of the Taliban.”
- “Because Iran was broke with me. I wouldn't let anybody do business with them. They ran out of money. They were broke. They had no money for Hamas. They had no…”
- “And Europe should be paying their fair share. They're not. They're paying a tiny fraction. We're in for $200 billion. They're in for $22 billion and it affects…”
- “And they had plenty of oil. They're getting it from Iran. They didn't buy it from Iran when I was president. I said, "If you do that, we're not going to deal…”
- “Our NATO partners, as an example, were very far behind in their defense payments. But at my strong urging, they agreed to pay $130 billion more a year the…”
- “But my complaint has always been—and I'd withhold again, and I'll continue to withhold until such time as Europe and other nations contribute to Ukraine…”
- “There have been no nuclear tests. The missile tests have all been short range. No ballistic missile tests. No long-range missiles.”
- “We've picked up over a hundred billion dollars just in NATO over the last 2 years. A hundred billion dollars more has come in.”
- “They agreed, at my request—and working with Secretary Pompeo and John Bolton—they agreed to pay, yesterday, $500 million more toward their defense…”
- “On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1 percent, whereas the United States, in actual numbers, is paying 4.2 percent of a much larger GDP.”
- “We got back our great fallen heroes, the remains. In fact, today already 200 have been sent back.”
- “The real story is that President Obama did NOTHING after being informed in August about Russian meddling.”
- “Nevertheless, Germany owes.....vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to…”