Donald Trump's deranged foreign policy

It's not realist. It's just crazy.

Up next: world domination?
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Donald Trump's signature characteristics of total ignorance and total arrogance make for a dangerous combination when it comes to anything having to do with the American presidency. But foreign policy is undoubtedly where the danger is biggest.

One could imagine Trump failing to even notice, say, the National Park Service, and it thereby escaping disaster. But no president could possibly miss the American military. And that does not bode well for foreign policy under a Trump presidency.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.