{"id":2328615,"date":"2024-08-21T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-television-generals-in-foreign-policy-speech-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:16:40","slug":"trump-blasts-television-generals-in-foreign-policy-speech-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-television-generals-in-foreign-policy-speech-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blasts \u2018television generals\u2019 in foreign policy speech &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftrump-blasts-television-generals-in-foreign-policy-speech-washington-examiner%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=2328615&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>In his first outdoor rally following an assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump criticized what he termed \u201ctelevision\u2063 generals\u201d\u200c during a speech focused on foreign policy and national security. Trump responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-will-keep-bussing-illegal-immigrants-out-of-state-until-biden-administration-wakes-up-lt-gov\/\" title=\"Texas Will Keep Bussing Illegal Immigrants Out of State Until Biden Administration \u2018Wakes Up\u2019: Lt. Gov.\">recent claims made<\/a> by his former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-sullivan-defends-sending-of-cluster-munitions-not-going-to-leave-ukraine-defenseless\/\" title=\"Jake Sullivan justifies sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, stating that it is necessary to ensure their defense.\">national security \u200dadviser<\/a>, H.R. McMaster, suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin exploited his ego while in office. He accused \u200dformer subordinates of writing negative books after being fired, claiming they were incentivized by the media to fabricate stories about him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s speech addressed \u200dvarious topics, including heavily revised job statistics, which he described as\u200c fraudulent manipulation \u200cby the current administration. He criticized Vice President Kamala Harris, \u200dbranding her as the &#8220;most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harriss-senate-tiebreakers-offer-road-map-for-gop-attacks-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris&#039;s Senate tiebreakers offer road map for GOP attacks - Washington Examiner\">radical left person<\/a>&#8221; to run for office and claimed the Biden administration had severely mishandled the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He expressed confidence that he could prevent war with a simple phone \u200dcall, contrasting his leadership approach \u200bwith Biden and Harris&#8217;s actions, which he portrayed as reckless.<\/p>\n<p>The rally featured humor and personal \u200cjabs, with Trump mockingly polling the crowd on whether he should focus on policy or personal attacks, ultimately leaning toward\u2064 the latter, much to their approval. He \u2064concluded by \u200breiterating his belief in restoring American security and criticized current leadership for leading the country toward\u2062 international conflict. His running mate, J.D. Vance, echoed similar sentiments, \u200bwarning of\u2064 the potential for nuclear war\u2063 under Harris&#8217;s leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump blasts &lsquo;television generals&rsquo; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-board-dismisses-union-misconduct-complaints-following-biden-purge\/\" title=\"Labor Board Dismisses Union Misconduct Complaints Following Biden Purge\">foreign policy speech<\/a><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1734710\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>In his first outdoor rally since surviving an assassination attempt, former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> spoke about the &ldquo;television generals&rdquo; who have disparaged his four years in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, surrounded by protective glass, appeared to be responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/putin-exploited-trump-s-ego-and-insecurities-writes-former-nat-sec-adviser\/ar-AA1pcdm5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"claims\">claims<\/a> from his former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, that Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Vladimir-Putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Vladimir Putin<\/a> exploited his ego and insecurities. He released a book this week making such claims, while Trump has previously feuded with his former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, for accusing him of calling fallen soldiers &ldquo;suckers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, I fire a lot of people when they don&rsquo;t do a good job, then they come back and write books,&rdquo; Trump said in Asheboro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/North-Carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>North Carolina<\/a>. &ldquo;When you fire them, they always come back with something. &hellip; They get offered all sorts of money from the fake news and everything else, fame. &lsquo;We&rsquo;re going to make you famous. All you have to do is make up some stories about Trump.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McMaster was a national security adviser to Trump in 2017 and 2018, and in a new book writes that &ldquo;Putin, a ruthless former KGB operator, played to Trump&rsquo;s ego and insecurities with flattery.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the speech, Trump told the crowd that &ldquo;television generals are no good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for roughly 68 minutes, Trump addressed job numbers that were revised down heavily this week at the top of his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t really a revision; it&rsquo;s a total lie,&rdquo; he said of the numbers, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3129087\/job-growth-set-to-be-revised-down-by-818000-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"lowered by more than 800,000\">lowered by more than 800,000<\/a> in a new government report. &ldquo;The Harris-Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics to hide the true extent of the economic ruin that they&rsquo;ve inflicted on America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Repeating his new &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3126220\/trump-leans-comrade-kamala-label-harris-pivots-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Comrade Kamala\">Comrade Kamala<\/a>&rdquo; nickname, Trump described Vice President Kamala Harris as the &ldquo;most radical left person ever to run for high political office&rdquo; in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>The speech was billed as focusing on national security, but Trump, as is typical, veered off script to offer asides on a number of other topics, including how President Joe Biden looks in a bathing suit and whether or not he should only talk about policy in his public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Did you see Barack Hussein Obama last night take little shots?&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3129057\/biden-catches-strays-from-obamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"taking shots\">taking shots<\/a> at your president, and so was Michelle [Obama]. You know they always say, &lsquo;Sir, please stick to policy. Don&rsquo;t get personal.&rsquo; And yet they&rsquo;re getting personal all night long.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump even did a mock poll asking the crowd if he should get personal or not.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My advisers are fired,&rdquo; he joked after the attendees cheered for the &ldquo;get personal&rdquo; option.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the topic at hand, Trump spent considerable time on the 2021 withdrawal from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Afghanistan<\/a>, blaming it on both Biden and Harris.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one will ever forget the horrifying images of their catastrophic retreat from Afghanistan,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Desperate Afghans fell to their deaths from the wheels of U.S. cargo planes that were 3,000 feet up in the air. Bloodthirsty terrorists poured out of the prisons after Biden and Harris surrendered Bagram, one of the largest air military bases anywhere in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He pledged to ask for the resignation of every &ldquo;senior military official&rdquo; involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal if elected. <\/p>\n<p>Trump bragged about having good relationships with the leaders of Russia and China, but said he kept them at bay, whereas Biden caved to their demands.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The world is on fire, and Kamala and Biden have marched us to the brink of World War III,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why this November, Americans are going to tell Kamala Harris that we&rsquo;ve had enough. We can&rsquo;t take it anymore. You&rsquo;re doing a terrible job. Comrade Harris, you&rsquo;re fired! Get out of here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Trump claimed that he himself could stop a war &ldquo;with a telephone call.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>His running mate, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH), spoke roughly an hour before Trump and delivered a similar message, warning that &ldquo;if we&rsquo;re not careful, Kamala Harris is going to walk us right into nuclear war.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump ventured into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory\/\" title=\"The Media Has Entered the \u2018Republicans Pounce\u2019 Stage Of Critical Race Theory\">culture war issues<\/a> through the lens of the military, promising to eliminate &ldquo;woke generals&rdquo; from the military and to &ldquo;get critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our U.S. armed forces.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you want to have a sex change or a social justice seminar, then you can do it somewhere else, but you won&rsquo;t do it in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force, or the United States Marines,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Sorry, you&rsquo;re not going to do it there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump turned to his signature issue of immigration as well, saying that Harris, who has recently taken a rightward turn on illegal crossings, wants open borders that have allowed thousands of terrorists into the country. He joked that &ldquo;we probably have a few here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to win this election,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>this election<\/a>, we are in such trouble as a country. We&rsquo;re in trouble right now, but you have the right guy to straighten out. I&rsquo;ll get it straightened out. I&rsquo;ll get it straightened out fast.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1734710\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1734710\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump criticizes &#8216;television generals&#8217; during foreign policy address<\/p>\n<p>In his first outdoor rally following an assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump targeted the &#8220;television generals&#8221; who have criticized his presidency. Speaking in Asheboro, North Carolina, and shielded by protective glass, Trump seemed to be addressing remarks made by his former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of Trump&#8217;s ego and insecurities in a recently released book. Trump has also had public disputes with other former officials like retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly over accusations regarding fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fire a lot of people when they don\u2019t do a good job; then they come back and write books,&#8221; Trump remarked during the rally. He accused these individuals of fabricating stories for money from the media to gain fame.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster served as Trump&#8217;s national security adviser from 2017 to 2018 and claims in his new book that Putin used flattery to manipulate Trump\u2019s ego.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his speech, Trump dismissed &#8220;television generals&#8221; as ineffective and spoke for about 68 minutes on various topics including revised job numbers which he labeled as fraudulent manipulation by the Biden administration to obscure economic damage caused under their leadership.<\/p>\n<p>He referred to Vice President Kamala Harris with the nickname \u201cComrade Kamala,\u201d calling her the most extreme leftist ever to run for high office in America. Although billed as a discussion on national security, Trump&#8217;s speech frequently deviated into personal commentary about other political figures.<\/p>\n<p>Trump criticized Biden&#8217;s withdrawal from Afghanistan while vowing that if elected again he would demand resignations from senior military officials involved in that decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>He boasted about maintaining strong relationships with leaders like those of Russia and China but claimed Biden has capitulated to them instead of standing firm.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing cultural issues within the military, he promised to remove &#8220;woke generals&#8221; and eliminate critical race theory along with transgender policies from U.S. armed forces training programs.<\/p>\n<p>On immigration matters, he accused Harris of supporting open borders which have allowed terrorists into America while emphasizing the importance of winning upcoming elections for restoring order in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2328616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AP24198114420765-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4551,4554,38849,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2328615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-foreign-policy","tag-speech","tag-television-generals","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AP24198114420765-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328615","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\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}