I just caught (on CNN) part Donald Trump’s speech at his rally this afternoon in Fletcher, North Carolina. The highlights:
He proposed to create an “American desk” in the Commerce Department to oversee trade in order to “protect the American worker and the national interest of the United States.”
He sounded like a cold warrior in bemoaning the “loss” of the Philippines, a country he called a “really important strategic ally.” “And what happens? China and Russia are probably going to take it.”
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