Rod Martin: Trump's New World Re-Order

Well, the book is called Trump's new world reorder.

And to start with, uh, the obvious, I mean, part of the reason I wrote it is because everybody thinks Donald Trump is a chaos monster and all this stuff is just disconnected.

And it's the exact opposite.

It is, it is in some ways, the most transformative presidency since FDR in other ways, maybe Reagan.

And there are a lot of deep Reagan connections.

on how the strategy all fits together.

But FDR gave us long-term one-party rule in a very real sense, because by creating this unelected, unaccountable, unfireable bureaucracy, what we call the deep state, that has existed now for 90 years and is nearly the whole government He created a situation in which he got to hire all the first people and then they've been hiring their successors ever since.

So when sometimes elections don't seem to change much, that's a big part of why most of the government doesn't change.

So Donald Trump is going straight at the form of government that we have had for 90 years at the same time.

That he is rebalancing our trade and defense policy in a way that actually serves American interests and not just all of our overseas friends.

We set up a world after World War II that accounted for the fact that they had all been flattened and we needed to keep them from falling to communism.

And then the Cold War ended and we never changed course.

So you've got these crazy lopsided trade deals where Germany charges us four times our auto tariff.

Or Canada, 280% on dairy.

We don't do that to them.

That's ridiculous.

And at the same time, Germany shows up at NATO exercises with broomsticks because they didn't buy enough rifles.

I mean, that's just absurd.

England now has twice as many admirals as warships.

So Donald Trump is expecting these guys to act like partners, not dependents.

They are functioning like teenagers in our basement, and he's kicking them out and telling them to get a job.

And it's not to abandon our alliances.

It's to make our alliances real and not just a drain on the American taxpayer.

So from stem to stern, when he said America first, he wasn't kidding.

And it is a really fundamental transformation that if...