{"id":1109543,"date":"2021-12-11T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1109543"},"modified":"2021-12-11T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:59:01","slug":"exclusive-former-president-donald-trump-u-s-much-weaker-now-under-joe-biden-were-not-respected-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-former-president-donald-trump-u-s-much-weaker-now-under-joe-biden-were-not-respected-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Former President Donald Trump: U.S. \u2018Much Weaker Now\u2019 Under Joe Biden; \u2018We\u2019re Not Respected Anymore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-former-president-donald-trump-u-s-much-weaker-now-under-joe-biden-were-not-respected-anymore%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1109543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that the United States of America is \u201cmuch weaker now\u201d under Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s leadership and that the world does not \u201crespect\u201d America anymore, thanks to that weakness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not respected anymore,\u201d Trump said in an exclusive interview on <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI really think if you look at the border, it\u2019s really terrible and a terrible thing to watch. I look at it from other countries with millions of people pouring into our country totally unchecked, unvetted,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cMillions of people, they\u2019re dumping their prisons\u2014other countries\u2014into our country. They\u2019re just coming in at will. We had the strongest border in history. Now, we have the weakest by far in history. But I think that the Afghanistan pullout or surrender or whatever you want to call it has totally weakened us in the eyes of our nations. It has totally weakened our country. Our military is great. Our generals are great, except for our television generals; they don\u2019t know what the hell they\u2019re doing. But I\u2019ll tell you, I really believe that that whole Afghanistan disaster was, nobody really believes it. It\u2019s so hard. Our country feels so low right now. It\u2019s never been so embarrassed. When they see that, China, you know, is watching that very closely. So is Russia and North Korea and Iran. Iran looks at that, and they say, \u2018You know, what do we have to deal with these people for?\u2019 They won\u2019t even talk to us. They were ready to sign a deal. They would have signed a deal with me within one week after the election\u2014which turned out to be rigged. It was a rigged election. And that\u2019s what we get for it. So it\u2019s one of those things. It\u2019s a terrible thing. I don\u2019t think our country has ever been thought of more badly than it is right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump hammered the Biden economy as well, noting that Americans are being forced to spend much more this holiday season for presents and travel to see family\u2014all of which is Biden\u2019s and the Democrats\u2019 fault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re spending a lot more also because they can\u2019t get anything,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey can\u2019t buy the things that are being shipped from other countries. They can\u2019t buy presents. They can\u2019t do anything. I\u2019m hearing stories that are horror shows where department stores are half empty and they don\u2019t have product. Nobody has ever had anything like this. I\u2019ve never seen anything like what\u2019s going on with the shipping of goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He also noted that he and Chinese Communist Party dictator Xi Jinping never had to discuss supply chain shortages and other serious issues because such matters were simply unthinkable just a short time ago before Biden messed things up for America. He also noted a similar dynamic with other world leaders such as Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and the Iranians as well, where America\u2019s adversaries now seem emboldened by that Biden weakness he described earlier in the interview.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12406952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-665458294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12406952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-665458294.jpg\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump (R) welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) to the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Donald Trump (R) welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) to the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida ( JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe [Xi Jinping and I] never talked about that, and by the way, we never talked about Taiwan because he understood he couldn\u2019t do that, and we had a very good relationship until COVID came in, and then I said, \u2018That\u2019s enough of that,\u2019\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe made a great trade deal with China for our farmers and our manufacturers and made them rich and took billions and billions\u2014hundreds of billions of dollars\u2014from China. Nobody else ever took in anything. We never talked about Taiwan. We never had a problem with Ukraine in terms of a problem like you have now where there very well could be an invasion. That stuff was not on the table. I got along very great with Putin and with President Xi and all of them. I got along great with Kim Jong-un, but they understand they couldn\u2019t do any of this stuff. Now, they\u2019re doing things that are unthinkable. You look at bombers flying over Taiwan all the time, and I mean constantly major bombers\u2014big numbers of bombers\u2014flying over Taiwan. That didn\u2019t happen with us. They understood they couldn\u2019t do anything about that. And they wouldn\u2019t have, out of respect for me and out of respect for the country. Now, they\u2019re doing it like it\u2019s like on a daily basis. If you look at Ukraine and what\u2019s going on there and you look at Iran\u2014we ended the Iran deal but they would have made a deal with me. Within one week after the election, we would have had a deal with Iran. Now, it\u2019s just terrible. They\u2019re heading toward a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the interview, Trump also said he would not engage in a full boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because he said that would hurt the athletes\u2014but also said that Biden\u2019s \u201cdiplomatic boycott,\u201d where he is not sending any diplomats who were not invited anyway to the games, is not strong enough to hold China accountable, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr go and do a lot of things that are much more severe,\u201d Trump said when asked if he would withdraw the U.S. entirely from the Beijing games. \u201cYou know, you hurt the athletes. Jimmy Carter tried a bigger version of that, and it was a big failure. I think that there are many things we can do that are much more powerful than that. That sends a double signal. It also sends a very negative vibe. No, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d do it. I think it\u2019s unfair to the athletes, and I think it\u2019s unfair in many ways to a lot of other countries. I would not do that. I would do other things that are more powerful than that. But it was done before, and it didn\u2019t work. That was under Jimmy Carter, who now goes down as the second-worst president.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump appeared on the show for the interview, recorded on Wednesday afternoon, to promote his new book <em>Our Journey Together<\/em>, available at <a href=\"https:\/\/45books.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">45books.com<\/a>, a collection of photographs from his four years as president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s mostly beautiful pictures of our time. We had four great years. We did a lot despite the witch hunts and the scams that were going on, the fake impeachments,\u201d Trump said of the book. \u201cWe did a lot. We rebuilt our military. We cut taxes at a level that has never been done before. We cut regulations, Space Force, just so many different things. We had a great economy. We had no inflation. We had low energy prices. We were energy independent. So with all of that, we had an amazing time and a lot of other things beyond that. If you think about from a medicine standpoint, Right to Try, people who are terminally ill were not allowed to get medicine that was under development, and now, they can get medicine, and it\u2019s really saved a lot of lives already. So many different things, so we thought we\u2019d put it in pictures, and we did. We put it in pictures. It\u2019s really a photo album more than anything else, and we have comments to many of the photos. But it\u2019s a photo album, and we did it for the reason that people are very unhappy right now, and the country has never been so embarrassed. They\u2019re embarrassed like never before by that Afghanistan pullout, which was such a tragedy the way they got out. Not getting out\u2014I got them down to 2,500 soldiers and we were getting out with strength and dignity, but the way they surrendered and gave all of that equipment and $35 billion and thirteen young soldiers, beautiful soldiers, killed, and leaving American hostages behind. It\u2019s just incredible. I don\u2019t think our country has ever been lower in terms of world esteem than it is right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Asked what his favorite photograph in the book is, Trump named a few, including some family pictures and some with world leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of family pictures and pictures with Melania and pictures with the kids and pictures with a lot\u2014I think some of the very important ones are with the heads of China and many of the heads of Russia or France,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut the one with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, that was very historic because nobody had been there before. We got along great, and we had a good relationship. Frankly, Obama thought we were going to go to war with North Korea, and we never did. We saved that. We had a very good relationship. That was nuclear stuff; that was dangerous. That was very historic. A lot of the pictures I think are really very historic. We had an amazing four years despite the Democrats trying to make it as difficult as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he will continue to be active in endorsing future Republican leaders and described, too, what he is looking for in candidates\u2014in a phrase, \u201cAmerica First,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_14544112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Trump-America-First-Healthcare-Plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Trump-America-First-Healthcare-Plan.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Blanco\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re winning with almost all of them. We\u2019re 158 and 2,\u201d Trump said when asked about his endorsement process for candidates; \u201c158 wins and two losses. The two losses, they were more Trump than\u2014they were tougher in terms of Trump than the two people I endorsed. We\u2019re 158-2. I would say this: it\u2019s very simple, America First. We want great schools. We want to do, as an example, choice\u2014which is very important. We want great education. We want great military. We want great Second Amendment protections. We want all of the things you would think. We want low taxes. We want low regulations. But we want to put America First, America before these other countries who were eating our lunch. I then turned that around, and now, they\u2019re going crazy what they\u2019re doing to this country. That includes Europe. That includes China. That includes everybody. Look at what\u2019s happening with Russia. I ended their pipeline, the biggest thing they\u2019ve ever done. Biden approved it right away. We want people who are going to be strong, tough, and smart, and America First.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump just hired Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as the new CEO of Truth Social, his effort to take on the Big Tech oligarchy, and told Breitbart News he considers Nunes a \u201cfighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11531072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Devin-Nunes-Points-the-Finger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11531072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Devin-Nunes-Points-the-Finger.jpg\" alt=\"Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., questions Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (AP Photo\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a fighter,\u201d Trump said when asked about Nunes. \u201cHe was a fighter right from the beginning. When I first met him, he was looking under the White House into deep files for all of the different things on the Russia hoax. He knew it was a hoax, and he understood it earlier than anybody. He\u2019s tough. He fights like nobody fights. I just thought it would be a great idea. He loved it. He\u2019s giving up a very important position because I think the Republicans are going to do very well in 2022 and very well in 2024. But I think Devin is going to be a very important person in this country when he takes on the Big Tech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the interview, too, Trump did not explicitly say he was running for president again in 2024, but he strongly hinted toward a comeback bid in the next presidential contest. In those comments, too, Trump lambasted leftists for attacking Breitbart News advertisers in an effort to silence and cancel this publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you well, and Breitbart is terrific, and we have to stop them from doing what they\u2019re doing with your advertisers, and all of these people play tough,\u201d Trump said when asked about his future plans and if he is any closer to announcing his decision about running for president again. \u201cThey are a disgrace to our nation. But I\u2019ll tell you what: I\u2019ve known you and Breitbart right from the beginning, and you\u2019ve been fantastic. I really believe you will be extremely happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN TO FORMER PRESIDENT&nbsp;<\/strong><b>DONALD TRUMP ON&nbsp;<em>BREITBART NEWS SATURDAY<\/em>:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that the United States of America is \u201cmuch weaker now\u201d under Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s leadership and that the world does not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}